Path of the Vampire forum

PLEASE READ THROUGH ALL THE RULES! Contact Amaranthia with any questions you might have!

*DO NOT POST YOUR CARDS BEFORE THE DESIGNATED TIME! DO NOT BID ON CARDS BEFORE THE DESIGNATED TIME! FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL GET YOU KICKED FROM THE AUCTION!

• Bid retractions are NOT ALLOWED without prior consent from Necropolis Ownership. Think before you bid!
• Contestant may put up to 3 people they refuse to let bid on them. This is character wise. Obviously NIA will be recognized. You may not blanket a family/clan/group or refuse bids from a particular sex. (If, for some reason you have OOC issues with someone, contact Amaranthia)
• No buying Contestants as gifts for someone else, with prior consent from the Contestant. This consent must also be submitted to Amaranthia.
• Bid caps are still in effect! The MAXIMUM raise you can make is 5K
• Bidding starts at 1k
• Auction cards are closed when an 24 hour time period passes from the time of the last bid. I.E. Player X bids at Midnight MST if no one bids by 1800 MST the card is closed.

RULES

Contestants:

• Auction Cards can be posted starting 6/18/16 11AM EST. Your card should be posted and approved no later than 8pm EST June 24th, 2016, The bidding may start at 10pm EST June 24th, 2016.
• If asked what you will or will not do, you MUST answer truthfully.
• Contestants are expected to write at least 2 full pages of RP on the forum with the winner, unless other arrangements are made and both parties notify Amaranthia.
• You may put the following on your card, which must follow the template! Up to 2 images, all others should be linked (linked pictures must also stay PG-13). Displayed images should be under 500 pixels wide.
• You may not put the following up:
  • Any images above PG-13.
  • No images that are overly large - should be no bigger than 500h x 500w, but preferably smaller.
• Keeping them under 200kb file size is advisable. This is to allow people on dial-up to be able to load them.
• No image auction cards. These are defined as images with text that give information about the Contestant, beyond their name.
• Images with just the Contestant's name added will be acceptable.

Bidders:

• Anyone may bid - male and female alike.
• You are free to bid on as many Contestants as you'd like, but try to let others have a chance to purchase a Contestant and keep in mind you'll need to RP with each Contestant you win!
• You may ask the Contestants what they are willing or not willing to do. Contestants are required to answer such questions honestly.!

Bidding Specifics:

• All bids are in coin.
• ALL bids start at 1,000 cash and raise in increments of AT LEAST 100 BUT NOT EXCEEDING 5,000 cash.
• There will be a 24-hour time set. So if you bid someone else has up to 24 hours to counter bid.

Proxy Bids:

• You MAY have someone else bid in your place if you are unable to attend.
• Be sure to PM Amaranthia, with the person who's bidding for you, on whom and up to what amount - Before its posted.

Role Plays:
A role play is expected for each Owner/Contestant pair. Owners winning multiple Contestants may combine role plays, but each Contestant must be equally able to participate.
Those who refuse to RP with their Contestant or owner will be banned from future auctions!
Any complaints about Contestants/owners/roleplays (in relation to the auction) must be sent via PM to Amaranthia. Where upon the issue will try to be resolved.

Distribution of COINS:
All payment will be given at the time of purchase. (ONCE WE HAVE ANNOUNCED YOU HAVE WON)
75% goes to the Contestant.
The other 25% will be given to charity - as chosen by Amaranthia. (OOC Note: The Charity is Auction Prizes)
Anyone who does not pay their Contestant and Amaranthia will not be allowed to role play with their Contestant, and will also be banned from future auctions!

Rights and Responsibilities:

• Contestants are expected to represent what they will or will not do accurately.
• Contestants are expected to role play with their owner, within the confines of the limitations set forth by their auction card/rules.
• Contestants will be expected to repay any fees paid for them, if they do not role play with their owners for the specified or otherwise agreed upon time.
• Contestants are expected to make arrangements with their owner if circumstances interrupt or delay their ability to role play.
• Contestants are not expected to perform ANY in-city actions for their owner, including, but not limited to: Biting, Robbing, Killing, Hitting, or Trading. This is of course applicable based on the services offered on a Contestant's auction card.
• Contestants have the right to deny their owner's request to perform any in-city actions and/or requests for items /coins.
• Contestants have the right to expect their owner to role play with them.
• Contestants have the right to request their owner rewrite portions or entire posts of a roleplay, if they happen to fall outside the Contestant's preset boundaries.
• Contestants have the right to extend their boundaries if they desire, but a owner may not order them too.
• Owners are expected to role play with their Contestants!
• Owners are expected not to pass their Contestants to another Owner without consent of the contestant.
• Owners are expected to respect the boundaries their Contestants have set up.
• Owners are expected to set up, and send their Contestant a link to, a role play within 48 hours of winning the Contestant, unless arrangements have been made otherwise.
• Owners are expected to make arrangements with their Contestants if circumstances interrupt or delay their ability to role play.
• Owners are expected not to ask their Contestant to perform any in-city actions.
• Owners have the right to expect their Contestants to role play with them.
• Owners have the right to expect their Contestants to roleplay within their boundaries.

NOTE:
Failure to adhere to any of these rules will disqualify you from both bidding and entering the next round of auctions.
Any Contestant that does not RP with their new owner will be required to give back the COINS paid for them. Failure to do so will land them on a perma-ban list - for all the player's characters.
Contestants are not whores, so please don't refer to them as such. The auction is not nor has it ever been about buying a Contestant for sexual purposes. It's about buying someone to RP with. It's not an event designed to pimp people out, the Contestants aren't whores/prostitutes/sluts - they're Contestants.
If you're entering and bidding on others, you must be able to fulfill all of your role plays.
Bidders, please do not spread yourself thin. While we have not placed a limit on how many Contestants you can purchase, remember, even the best roleplayer cannot give their best when spread thin!

Auction Card Template

<Main Auction Card Goes Here - should include about the slave - what they're looking for, anything they think/want potential masters to know>

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RP Restrictions


* Character Death (RP-wise):
* Discipline:
* Torture:
* Other:

The following people will have their bids ignored:

And example of an approved card:

This is your chance to spend a 3 day period with Amaranthia, the elusive founder and Owner of The Necropolis. Ask her anything you would like, though do not be surprised if you do not appreciate the answer.


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RP Restrictions


* Character Death (RP-wise): Possibly.
* Discipline: No.
* Torture: Perhaps.
* Other: This is buying 3 sets of graphics for you, RPwise Amaranthia will be doing Design work on your behalf.
The following people will have their bids ignored:
None.

Extra Notes:


The cut-off for auctions is June 30th, 2016 8pm EST.

If an auction reaches 50k or above, then you may bid in up to 10k increments.


If someone breaks the 5k bid raise rule, go ahead and treat it like they made the highest bid they could and follow accordingly.

i.e.
Amara bids 1k
Liz bids 15k
Amara bids 7k, since Liz could only have really bid 6k by the rules.


Bidding is closed until June 24th, 2016 at 10PM EST.

OOC:
This looks like it will likely start June 19th, due to OOC commitments...aka I can't do it until I am finished moving. For those who are asking. :)

This is live folks! You may now post your auction cards.

The cut-off for posting your auction cards is 8pm EST June 24th, 2016.

The auction will begin on Friday 6/24/16 at 10pm EST.

The 24hr bid time-out has been lifted. Instead we are going to try giving a hard close to the auction on July 10th at 8pm EST.

If your auction has closed, you are welcome to open a second card and offer a second participation booth (ooc thread) but you do need to honor the original thread as well.