These are the rules of Natural Selection. For other matters, use common sense.

» This is a pkill/psteal mud. You are responsible for knowing what 'help pkill' says.

» NO MULTIPLAYING. EVER. NONE. If we find out you have multiple characters here, we will play 'pick and delete'. This means, no multiple logins, multiple playing, storage characters, or helping your own characters with other characters you own -- by any arrangment. Read this.

» Immortals do not care about such things as clan politics, player killing greivances, lack of equipment due to dying in a stupid place, etc. All greivances should be taken to your clan. Excessive whining to imms is grounds for severe action.

» Sitting around idle to gain hours, with or without a client, afk or not, is hazardous to your health. The first time we catch you doing it, you will lose half your playing time.

» Cheating will not be tolerated. This includes accepting favors from gods and exploiting bugs. If you find a bug, report it, then do not use it.

» Powerleveling is not permitted. Powerleveling is using means to level your character in a manner that is not in the spirit of the role you are playing. If we find anyone powerleveling, or helping someone to powerlevel, you will both lose levels, and possibly your characters.

» Cursing is NOT forbidden, but excessive (spam) cursing is. We understand that the 'F' word may pop out if you die, but we do not need to hear it 10 times in a row. So, show some maturity, and keep the cursing to a mininum.

» On-line harrassment, especially sexual and racial harassment, will NOT be permitted on this mud. You will be instantly deleted and site-banned if a substantiated claim of harrassment is filed with the imms. This is an equal-opportunity mud and all rule-abiding players are welcome here.

» All out-of-character discussions should must take place on either 'gossip' or in 'tells'. The 'declare' channel has been set up for all in-character conversations. Read 'help declare' for further information.

Your presence here is a privilege not a right. Obey any orders from gods, and you will be fine. Deletion does not require a reason, appeals are to be sent to the implementors.

Changes to these rules are at the discretion of the immortals, and may be done without warning, notice, or even evidence of sanity.

MULTIPLAYING IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED ON NATURAL SELECTION.

Please follow these rules:

1) You may have as many characters as you like, but there must be NO INTERACTION between these characters. For example:

* You may NOT use one character to get equipment for another
* You may NOT use one character to do a corpse retrieval for another
* You may NOT use one character to store equipment for another
* You may NOT use one character to settle scores on behalf of another.

This list is NOT exhaustive. In no way must players you own interact in any mud scenario, and that will be interpreted very broadly. A good rule of thumb is to remember that your characters do not know about each other, and should act that way.

2) If you do decide to have more than one character, then ALL your characters will be expected to play NS in the full role-playing spirit of the game. If you make a character simply to stand around and listen to clan gossip in your enemy clan, or make a character to do nothing but sac an enemy clan's equipment - you will be severly punished for multiplaying. (Basically, you are using a char to settle scores on behalf of another).

3) Switching frequently between characters is NOT allowed. You may log on two characters consecutively (for note reading and such), but after that you MUST wait 30 minutes between logging on different characters.

4) Never even think of having more than one character connected simultaneously.

Breaking any of these rules is liable to result in all your characters being deleted and your site (and anyone else from your site) being site-banned.

If you and a friend or relation genuinely connect from the same internet address, inform an immortal, we know this happens.

Lastly, there is code to detect a lot of this, and it informs any immortal on at the time, in addition to writing it to the logs. You may think you can get away with it, but you almost certainly can't, that immortal may well be invis.

Natural Selection is a pkill/psteal mud. There are few restrictions on who can kill or steal from whom. Also, in order to steal from players, you must have the skill to do it, which means you must be a Gypsy or a Shapeshifter.

All players who are level 7, or below, are safe from pkilling, and cannot pkill others.

Heroes cannot kill mortals except in special 'chaos' rooms (including clan rooms). No one, irregardless of level, will receive a killer flag for pkilling in a 'chaos' room.

Beware of the following:

You can pretty much ruthlessly kill or steal from anyone seven levels below or above you without any consequences. This does not apply to Heroes. Heroes can kill each other without consquence.

In order to kill someone outside of this seven-level range, you must MURDER them. Murderers will quite possibly have a meeting with the Master of Discipline, or other policing-type mobs.

Dying will remove your KILLER flag....amongst other things.