Happy Sunday, Salem’s Point! Just a bit of house cleaning today, we have gone ahead and updated the rules for the roleplay concerning hiatuses. Until now, the admin team was fairly lenient on allowing everyone to take a break from the roleplay as needed without real guidelines in place. Unfortunately it has been brought to our attention that some people might be taking advantage of that generosity. We hate needing to make this adjustment, but we have to be fair to everyone in the roleplay since you all depend on each other for plots and connections. It becomes incredibly hard to maintain those important factors which allow a roleplay to thrive if certain muns are consistently away from the dash. We definitely still encourage all of you to reach out to us when you’re worried about your activity for the coming week due to OOC events, but we will be abiding by these rules for all future requests.
There are two versions of the hiatus, both of which exclude you from the activity check. There are semi-hiatuses which last one week and permit you to occasionally reply to bigger plots as your schedule allows, and full hiatuses during which you will not be active on any characters whatsoever for two weeks.
After returning from a hiatus, you must be consistently active for two weeks before you will be granted another; this is to avoid back to back hiatuses.
Should your character have been on the activity check within the past week, you will not be granted a hiatus unless there are special circumstances at play (family death, major illness, any serious unexpected OOC event).
Having too many characters and not enough time to be on all of them does not qualify for a hiatus, if you are experiencing this issue then we will ask you to drop a character to clear up space for the rest.
If, at any point, we feel that a mun is taking advantage of their hiatuses to hoard characters/faceclaims or simply avoid the activity check, we reserve the right to deny a hiatus of any type.
These are now officially stated on the guidelines page. Please like this post once you have read it!