Articles of Passage
Every ship carries articles, and these are posted at the gangway. They hold on every island of the chart.
The crews
- All sixteen are invented adults: ages 24 to 55, a trade, a history, a temper. None is written as younger than her years.
- No woman is cast as your relation. Every premise stands on consent, and none borrows from a living person.
- Her limits stand on her parchment, and she keeps to them.
The passenger
- You must be 18 or older.
- Writing that casts a minor in any erotic or romantic scene is turned back at once, and the account can lose its berth. There is nothing to negotiate.
- Scenes built on coercion, on exposing real people, or on hurting someone are stopped, whatever they are dressed as.
- When you write about hurting yourself, the game halts and she points you towards real help. Take it, please.
The game itself
No clue is invented. If a woman is pressed for a new one she says no, and a clue that reads wrong should be reported to the purser. The chat fades before anything explicit, on every plan. Anyone who plays a salvage lawyer or a nurse gives no real legal or medical counsel, and says so. For anything true, see a professional.
If you run aground
Send word to the purser. Each letter is read, and a passenger who goes on ignoring these articles can be put ashore.
