These are the rules of conduct for The Two Towers. By playing The Two Towers, you are implying agreement to follow these rules regardless of whether you agree with them or not. Continuously ignoring and/or breaking these rules is taken as indication that you no longer wish to continue playing The Two Towers and we shall act accordingly.

In general there are three guidelines for acceptable behavior:

• Respect the MUD as a Community.
• Respect the MUD as a computer system.
• Respect the rights of other people to use and enjoy the system.

We expect players to follow the spirit of the rules, not just the letter of the law. If you think you have found a way around the letter, you can be fairly certain you are violating the spirit and will be treated no less harshly.

1. Profanity. Keep foul/abusive language out of public forums.
2. Harassment. Try to keep personal attacks and arguments out of public forums. We will become involved if such things get out of hand. We may also get involved in private instances of harassment.
3. Spam. Do not spam commands, spam on channels, or spam in any other way.
4. Multiplaying. Your characters cannot be online at the same time or aid each other in any way. The same character cannot be shared by more than one player.
5. Bug Abuse. If you find a bug, or think you might have found a bug, report it. The exploitation of a bug will not be tolerated.
6. Triggers. Triggers used to simulate hunt or artificially inflate your character age are not allowed.
7. Botting. Do not use scripts to control your character while you are not at the keyboard.
8. Killstealing. Do not attack a creature which another player is already trying to kill. And if you didn't kill it, don't loot it.
9. Playerkilling. We allow limited player killing, subject to the games internal law system. However we do not allow the killing of new players, nor do we allow repeated killing of the same player as a form of harassment.
10. Playerstealing. We allow players to steal from other players, subject to the games internal law system. However, repeated stealing from the same player as a form of harassment is not allowed.
11. Questinfo. Do not give out quest information using public lines of communication such as comms and boards.
12. Roleplaying. The Two Towers is a roleplaying mud, and some level of roleplaying is required when using certain features.
13. Advertising. Do not advertise other muds or commercial products on The Two Towers.
14. Troublemaking. General trouble making such as public insults, flames, taunts, excessive complaining, and similar disruptive behavior is not tolerated.

Please refer to the specific help file of any of the above rules for more detailed information.

Violation of any of these rules may result in various punishments, from a formal warning to deletion of all of your characters and banishment from the game.

If you observe a violation of our rules, please use the 'law' command to bring it to our attention.