General

Code Of Conduct

Last Update: 05/18/2025

Astrium expects players behind the screen to be 18+.

Dress Code:

  1. Cover: All genitalia, crotches, and female presenting nipples and areola must be covered unless in one of the exception areas due to LL ToS. This includes things that emphasize the crotch. If you can wear it around children in RL, then it passes. Leave something to the imagination.
  2. Kid Avatars: Must adhere to ToS and have a modesty cover on at all times. Please wear shorts over diapers. We do not allow exposed undergarments. See Youth Characters for more.
  3. Style: All clothing must fit the lore. This means medieval fantasy, Victorian, steampunk, and magic-tech.
  4. No zippers, plastic, or latex. High heels are fine as long as they are fantasy themed.
  5. Sexual Clothing: Slave collars, cuffs, and leashes are allowed on the sim in public areas in a non-sexual context. Clothing must not be sexual.
  6. OOC Clothes: While exploring may be modern or otherwise, but must not be obnoxious or disruptive. If wearing OOC clothing please stay away from RP scenes and RPers..
  7. Fur & Clothes: Body fur, feathers, and scales counts as ‘clothing’. If your privates are not visible and there is fur or scales covering that spot, you do not need clothing. If you have skin and no fur or scales, you must wear clothing. See Furries for more.
  8. Avoid laggy scripts and chat spammers.
  9. No Anime / Cartoons / Canon / Hyper Avies.

Furries & Beastfolk:

  1. Realism: We ask that you please attempt to be more realistic. Furries in our realm are known as beastfolk. No Anime / Cartoons / Canon / Hyper Avies.
  2. Hair: is permitted provided it is the same colour as your fur.
  3. Colouring: Realistic fur colouring only, not flat, and no neon colours.
  4. Eyes: Realistic animal eyes. Not flat or ‘anime’ styled. Mice have black eyes etc.
  5. Fur & Clothes: Body fur, feathers, and scales counts as ‘clothing’. If your privates are not visible and there is fur or scales covering that spot, you do not need clothing. If you have skin and no fur or scales, you must wear clothing.

NSFW:

  1. Where?: There may be no nudity or sex on sim except in private residences, one of the 18+ areas, or private messages.
  2. Not NSFW: Some places though marked 18+ are not intended for NSFW. This simply means that children are not allowed. Please check signage on the building or location to confirm.
  3. Fur & Clothes: Body fur, feathers, and scales counts as ‘clothing’. If your privates are not visible and there is fur or scales covering that spot, you do not need clothing. If you have skin and no fur or scales, you must wear clothing. See Furries for more.

Consent:

  1. If you are racist, transphobic, homophobic, or discriminate in any way… Astrium is not for you.
    • We are proud supporters of the LGBTQ+ community and will not discriminate based on skin colour, religion, relationship dynamics, or otherwise.
    • If your profile has such content, or you are caught saying such things, you may be banned.
    • The only racial or religious discrimination we permit are for RP purposes only and do not reflect real world opinions or thoughts. We do not allow racism based on real skin colours or real religions. Drow vs elves or humans vs orcs is fine.
    • We do not permit homophobia, transphobia etc at all.
    • We encourage everyone to check consent and the comfort of those involved before proceeding with such content.
    • In Astrium lore, polyamory and all sexual or gender identities are completely normalized.
  2. Godmoding / Metagaming / Powergaming:
    • Local nobility: To prevent having a bunch of random princesses running about, we have a social rank system. All local noble titles are earned through in-character actions only and the player must be in good standing.Requirements for foreign titles: Must have the title in a current or past public RP sim that is in good standing with Astrium. Must be able to provide proof. You may claim in character to be nobility from a faraway land, but there is potential to be arrested if you do not go through the proper channels.
    • Gods: Only admins may play as gods or demi-gods for the sake of story continuation and no more. Gods do not bestow random blessings or pick random champions.
    • Endless magic: Please remember magic has its limits. There is no such thing as ‘living mana pools.’
    • Dice: When rolling you must state your intentions before the roll either during your post, or in private IMs with consent from both parties. The combat rules are optional between players outside events. The dice and combat rules are provided to prevent problems if wished.
    • Area Spells: If there are spells / negating effects on an area, it should be clearly stated. This may be through a Scene Notice Board, a sign, or a popup text indicator.
  3. IC actions = IC consequences:
    Any attempts OOC to avoid IC consequences will be reprimanded. We are a 99% consent sim. Your character cannot be killed without your consent unless you’ve done something in character to warrant those actions. Actions such as murder, rape, major thefts, insults to royalty, goading a character who is known for violence etc. Certain positions such as royalty must expect death as a possibility. Appropriate consequences for actions do not need your permission.
  4. Consent is important!
    • Privacy: In public areas is not expected, even in designated 18+ areas. You may however find privacy in rentals, the upstairs tavern room in Eilienaxa, IMs, and the Dreamscape. To locate the Dreamscape skybox, please use the HUD teleport system.
    • The Build: We welcome player-made RP, including temporary or permanent changes to the sim build. However, such things should be discussed with either the rental owners (if a rental) or the sim staff before being put into action. If you do a proper RP of it, we might say yes! This does include theft.
    • Bond Information: Those bonded are able to block information from being passed to the other.
    • Bond Breaking: All bonds can be broken. It might be difficult, but your character will not die unless you agree to it.
    • 99% Consent: We are a 99% consent sim. Your character cannot be killed without your consent unless you’ve done something in character to warrant those actions. Actions such as murder, rape, major thefts, insults to royalty, goading a character who is known for violence etc. Certain positions such as royalty must expect death as a possibility. Appropriate consequences for actions do not need your permission.
    • Death: Certain positions such as royalty must expect death as a possibility.
    • Keep Logs: Even if you do not save actively via a notecard, it is a good idea to keep IM conversations and local chat logged and saved on your computer.
  5. Theft & Murder:
    • NPC Owned: Businesses such as the art gallery are free to steal from. Please submit a notecard of your attempt, including all rolls. NPC deaths, or anything that may be important to know. Your NC should be submitted through the business mailbox with your username and date as the title. If other players are involved with this attempt, they should submit their own NC as well as be listed at the top of yours. Please also submit this NC to the jail house.
    • Failure: If you fail a theft attempt and are arrested ICly, submit this information as well and wait in the jail until the guards contact you.
    • Player Owned: To steal from another player or a player owned business, please contact them and retain permission for the attempt. Player businesses may have their own rules for ‘how’ to steal. These rules should be posted clearly and not violate sim rules.
    • Reports: If you stole something, attacked an NPC, or otherwise did crime, post the log and a report to the guards via the jailhouse mailbox. This only qualifies for the surface as Miycester doesn’t care. If it’s important enough to affect things in Miycester send it to the area lead.
  6. Capture and Imprisonment:
    A character may imprisoned for as long as IC as needed but OOCly it would be a maximum of 72 hours. If longer there should be a discussion of how to proceed in such a way that the character may engage in RP. The length of such should be equal to the reason for imprisonment unless there is consent otherwise.

Post Orders:

  1. Postorder / Group Rules:
    • Post In: Wait 1 round of posts before posting in. This includes when an active scene is approaching another active scene. Until someone posts in, they do not exist in character.
    • Post Order: Take care that you watch posting order. To minimize confusion, unless group rules are in effect, it is turn ordered.
    • Individual Scenes: Have their own post orders. If a group indoors can hear a group outdoors but not interact, these are separate scenes.
    • Groups: In groups of four or more, the rules are waiting for three posts before posting again.
    • Bigger Groups: In larger gatherings such as eight or more, wait for four posts before posting again.
    • Combat Events: At combat events where there is a large group, please see the combat rules.
    • Exceptions: The exceptions to post order are staff and storytellers for story only.
    • Skip: If someone is taking more than fifteen minutes in a group to post, you may presume to skip their turn.

Character Death:

  1. Certain positions such as royalty must expect death as a possibility.
  2. Do not choose death lightly. There is no way to ever truly come back… at least, not as you were. When you return from death, major parts of what made you who you were are gone, taken as a tribute to the death gods. A part of your soul will remain there.   
    • An in-character reason for how they return and why is required. Being banished to another plane counts as a death. This includes fae, celestials, and infernals.
  3. No more than one resurrection may be given per character in one real-time month.
  4. We allow undead for a resurrection.
  5. To return, the character must remain dead for two real time weeks.
  6. If someone has replaced your character in their role such as a head of a house, you will not be able to take it back without earning it again.
  7. Once returned, a player must roll a flat roll over 50 to be able to retain memories of their death.

Pantheons:

  1. Homebrew, pre-existing D&D, pre-existing Pathfinder pantheons only.
  2. If it reflects a real-world or popular media one, it is fine, as long as it doesn’t directly reference it. The local pantheon is D&D as we are very loosely based on Forgotten Realms. We are not however strictly D&D.

From the future? Time traveling between worlds? That’s allowed!

  1. You must adhere to dress / avatar code!
  2. Robots etc are considered constructs.
  3. Only refer to your future in vague terms that can pass for the current world. It’s fine if it’s ‘out there’ but ATMs don’t exist here!
  4. Don’t bring new world / futuristic things to Astrium. We’d like to keep our genre the way it is.

Staff

​It is our hope to be as transparent as possible. As such, all our policies are posted below for all.

  1. ​All staff are listed and have tags. No staff will contact a player through an unlisted alt or unofficial means.
  2. If there is a conflict with staff or you feel something is amiss, please feel free to contact another staff member for mediation. We want our people to feel safe and comfortable. 
  3. If there are issues with a staff member, it may be discussed without their involvement and the other members may decide the course of action. No staff member, including sim owner, will be treated as above a player.
  4. Only admins may play as gods or demi-gods for the sake of story continuation and no more.​
  5. Staff are not invincible- any character may be deposed or killed.​
  6. Staff issues should be invisible to the general populace. They are held to the same standards as everyone else. They will not cause drama or air out their issues to the public. We all need someone to vent to and care for us, so we have family and partners. Staff may choose to speak to close trusted friends who do not attend the sim and are trusted to not speak ill. They may not speak of sim issues or staff issues to friends who attend the sim or general players.​​
  7. Lead positions are in character. Council members or Royalty may be deposed. This is not an easy process, so choose wisely. Being a council member or royal etc does not make them staff. Being Storyteller only gives them the ability to host their own event without needing staff watching. One may become a Storyteller through exceptional contribution to the sim or owning a business etc. These positions may be revoked if abused. ​
  8. Staff will share all issues regardless of how small to the staff Discord. Though each of them may handle minor issues as they feel right, larger issues are decided as a team. Sim owners may occasionally have to make a hard call for the greater good of the sim. This, however, does not include silly petty things such as a player not liking another player’s writing style.​
  9. The staff are friendly and approachable! We all have off days, but in general, the staff will greet and show respect to the community as a whole. We welcome each new person with open arms. A genuine loving community as a safe space for RP is our goal!​
  10. All decisions regarding bans and harder choices are not made with personal prejudice, but for the greater good of the community as a whole.
  11. Should a staff member abuse their privileges or conduct as staff, they may be asked to take a suspension for a short while. If the staff member is unable or unwilling to work as a team, they may be asked to step down. Staff will always try to work out problems as a team and communicate honestly with one another. ​
  12. Staff are granted some personal benefits in Astrium for the duration of their tenure. The exception is Ember Manimbo who is granted this privilege regardless of tenure due to her overall standing as a previous co-owner and hard work. This will never be revoked. 
  13. Favouritism is not abided by the staff.
  14. All staff will keep one another informed about plots they have planned so as to not create conflict. This is also to ensure that all staff may be able to answer player queries. ​
  15. Sometimes staff will need to share personal logs with the other staff regarding sim concerns. It does not matter if it was an official report or not. This is for clear transparency of all issues so we may work as a team to make the sim a better and safer place for all. These logs will not be moved outside of the staff ever.