- During events, try to keep your emotes clean. Don't muddy it up too much with unnecessary info. This applies to the chat as a whole. Characters and DMs cannot ICly act on information your character is thinking, so it's likely best to hold back on comments like:
Billybob Jr. growls to himself. He knew that Handsome James was lying to him, but he couldn't prove it. As he stared into Handsome James' face, he thought about how much he TRULY despised Handsome James...
Functionally, all the emote that can be replied to by the Handsome James RPer would just be the first sentence. The growl. The rest was useless filler, and served very little. Not to say you shouldn't put effort into making your emotes detailed, but make sure every word is important to the overall emote. Simply filling out emotes for the sake of making them longer is bad practice.
-=- - Continuing, during events one should be sure to react appropriately to DM emotes. If a DM says something should be affecting your character, then it should be affecting your character. In the event that you disagree with a DM's ruling, politely PM them and try to explain your reasoning. If the DM dictates that your reasoning isn't sufficient, follow the DM's instructions.
-=- - On a similar note, you should also be making sure that your Character is reacting appropriately to IC stimuli as well. If there's an explosion near them, they'd probably not be just "Oh yeah that happens all the time" (unless...I mean unless it genuinely does). While it can feel like there's always something going down in Toro, do remember that the majority of the IC time spent (not just the time spent RPing) things are mostly pretty quaint. Time persists even when your character is not being RPed, and your character will have had to have gone through some serious trauma for things like Noir attacking to not cause them to panic a bit. You typically remove tension from a situation if you just act like Noir taking over Aurelia is just another Tuesday.
-=- - Do not run ahead during events. Stay with the group unless things ICly cause a split. Running ahead only spoils the event, and forces the DM to split their focus. It's not fair to the DM, and it's not fair to the party. Furthermore, if you should run ahead, anything you see by running ahead is to be kept to yourself. Don't share it in OOC chat and spoil it for others. It's incredibly inconsiderate to the DMs and ETs that worked hard on the event, and to the players who have now been robbed of their genuine first reaction.
-=- - Similarly, please keep "Event Predictions" to yourself, or at least a minimum (preferably in private DMs with consenting individuals and out of public chats) if you simply must share how your hilarious prediction of Mewtwo showing up would be. This applies to characters ICly. We've seen people "predict" things that hit borderline meta-ing of information, and it takes away from the impact of our ET work.
-=- - If you feel a DM is missing your emotes, try coloring your name differently. Failing that, please politely message the DM and ask them if everything is okay. I assure you, we're not ignoring you on purpose. Communication and understanding is key, we're often working with a lot of fires whenever we're DMing and things will slip through the cracks.
-=- - On the subject of rolling, do remember that rolling is not mandatory! But this applies to all parties. We expect RPers to be fair in their rolling, and communicate with other roleplayers. Just because you roll does not mean the DM will, or even has to, honor that roll or roll against it. The same applies in reverse though, as you are not (typically) obligated to roll when a DM asks you to. Typically this exception will come from things in the Pokemon move mechanics that aren’t 100%. Move accuracy checks, or secondary effects are two examples.
-=- - Please try to keep a DM from being overwhelmed. Sending out too many emotes, or too many Pokemon out at once would be overwhelming. Try to stick to ONE Pokemon per person in an event, and ask if the DM would be okay with more. Be considerate, because every time we DM combat it’s like a mess of documents and messages for us.
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Above all, be polite. If there is an issue, snide remarks and being all huffy solves nothing, and simply paints a bad picture for yourself. If there's an issue with something, please message the most appropriate ET. Thank you for your time.