Pregnancy

Characters may become pregnant if they have sex. Many factors are
involved, but primarily whether or not sex occurs during the fertility window
surrounding ovulation, when precisely it occurs, and the potency of the male’s
contribution. Contraceptives work against the chance that a character may
become pregnant and are generally effective.

Menstruation is the outward sign of female fertility, but both sexes have
components which render them more or less fertile. For females, this is
mostly the timing at which they have unprotected sex and when they ovulate.
Men, however, have to worry about how many times they have sex, protected or
otherwise, within a certain span of time. A man who has sex every day still
has
the potential to impregnate a woman, however, the chance of it occurring is
substantially lower as are their opportunities to do so.

Neither female nor male vampires are considered fertile according to the code
at this time.

Should a character become pregnant, she will be subject to an extra string of
look information describing her state. This may be obscured during early
phases by wearing concealing clothing, but will always be visible during later
stages.

Prior to showing, a character can test whether they have become pregnant by
using a pregnancy test via the use command. Any object containing the
keywords pregnancy and test can be used in this way and doing so will cause the
character to urinate on the object. This also sets the item’s value to 0. These tests
are generally ineffective before the character misses their next period.

Note: If a shifter becomes pregnant while in their animal form, they will
be unable to revert to human form until they give birth or the pregnancy is
terminated. Shifters in animal form may only be impregnated by other animals
or shifters in animal form.

Characters may be subject to additional effects throughout the duration of the
pregnancy to ensure that players behave and are reminded of the reality of
their situation.

In the event that a character suffers a severe wound or greater, there will be
the possibility of a miscarriage.

Should a character wish to willingly terminate a pregnancy for any reason, she
may use the procedure pregnancy command. This command may also be used in the
event that the character wishes to become pregnant via an NPC donor. The cost
of beginning a pregnancy is substantially higher than the costs of terminating
one though both are prohibitive. The cost of terminating a pregnancy depends
on how long the pregnancy has been allowed to continue prior to the use of the
command. Pregnancies beyond twenty four weeks can’t be terminated as per
Massachusetts law, unless the mother is at risk. Since that isn’t an issue
presented by the code, pregnancies can not be terminated beyond twenty four weeks.

Syntax:/u>/iToggles the character’s pregnancy state. This command requires a medical
facility and has a cost associated with it depending on whether or not the
character is already pregnant. Using this command while pregnant will inflict
a minor wound on the character.