Content Policy
Haven is fundamentally a non-consent game, other players do not need your permission or your interest to do things in game which have an effect on your character, that could include doing violence to your character, imprisoning them or even killing them. You have no right to control what others do just because it impacts your character and attempts to influence others to alter their character’s behavior is likely to be a violation of the rules.
However there are certain categories of content that are considered especially sensitive or abusable, this content are locked out of the regular game and you will only be able to introduce them into the story if all people in the current scene have opted into them being included via the ‘make warning’ system. All players also have the ability to revoke their consent for this content at any time and that must be respected. Some grace is given if someone suddenly opts-out of something to allow you to smoothly transition out of it.
Content being restricted means it is restricted in all ways and in all venues, it means your character cannot do that thing, but also cannot discuss it or show pictures of it etc.
If your character has been in some RP that involved restricted content and is now in a scene without those warnings active when someone questions them about it it’s up to you to be sufficiently vague to avoid introducing the restricted content.
If you play the game without turning on any warnings at all it is designed to function as the sort of show that could be seen on network television, think Supernatural, or The Vampire Diaries. If in doubt you should consider if what you’re doing likely would show up in the plotline of a story like that.
To reiterate:
You have no right at all to prevent any roleplaying or IC actions that are not restricted and it is likely against the rules for you to try.
You have the absolute right to not encounter any material that is restricted that you do not want to no matter the circumstances.
Environments
When it comes to environments, e.g. room descriptions. You can only include restricted
subjects when they are behind locked doors and not advertised publicly.
Gray Areas:
Often the line between when something trips over into being restricted could be unclear, or somewhat subjective, also sometimes people make mistakes because they get carried away writing etc. How staff judge these cases is based mostly on what it seems like the intent of the person involved in. If the intent seems bad, that is that someone seems to be trying to grief or trigger or upset someone and are just trying to walk as close to the line as possible then we’ll interpret that case in the strictest possible way. If on the other hand it seems like someone was just trying to write and enable others fun and accidentally slipped then we will interpret that in the most generous possible way.
The Restricted content types are:
Sex/Nudity: Exposed genital and/or common, consensual sex acts. Does not include incidental/accidental nudity.
Immoral Sex: Engaging in sex acts that are lower-level criminal offences, e.g. nonconsensual touching. Or things people might find morally objectionable such as large age gaps, sex where consent is questionably obtained, sex with an employer etc.
Illegal Sex: Severe sexual violations and forcible sexual assault, including acts that would constitute serious criminal offences.
Sexualized Insults: Verbal attacks on someone’s sexual behaviour, worth or gender validity. E.g. slut, creep, sissy.
Addiction/Self-Harm: Use of drugs or other addictive substances which is clearly detrimental to the user’s health and other forms of self-harm and/or suicide.
Harming Animals: Killing pets, torturing animals, exposing people to content of animals in pain or distress.
Harming Children: Crimes or other poor treatment of children.
Nauseating: Things people are likely to find gross or nauseating such as bodily fluids, throwing up, spoilt food, bad odors etc.
Body Horror: Mutilations, medical procedures and other physical transformations or modifications that people may find disturbing.
Degradation: Attempts to attack someone’s pride/dignity or others’ respect for them by subjecting them to seriously demeaning or degrading treatment.
Intolerance: Asserting that some IRL groups are worse than others or have some essentialized inferiority/corruption. Use of slurs, i.e. words to describe an IRL group which have no purpose beyond being an insulting alternative to other more normal or technical terms.