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1 -- Follow all rules in their entirety. If you do not, we will give you a warning and a sufficient amount of time to fix your transgression. If you do not comply within the alotted amount of time, we will take your haken away.
2 -- Do not steal the hakens. Each haken is individually drawn and colored by V-chan and G-muffin, and they retain the copywrites to them. The hakens are V-chan's concept and art. Hakens are NOT free linkware! Stealing includes -- saving a haken drawn for someone else and adopting it out, changing colors of any haken and posting it as your own work or your adopted haken, changing the image in ANY way (including changing its file type from .gif to .jpg or what-have-you), and other no-no's. Do any of these and we catch you and we'll be on you faster than ... umm... something. Please, don't make us do that, and there won't be any trouble.
3 -- Do not use any of the hakens for commercial purposes. This includes using them for mascots on professional websites, putting them on image CDs, putting them as logos for any music CDs you might happen to peddle, selling print-outs, or anything else like that. V-chan retains all copyrights to the hakens, and using them to make money for yourself is copyright infringement, and that is punishable by law.
4 -- Going along with the second and third rules, do not say the hakens were your own work or idea and adopt them out as your own. That, too, is copyright infringement and punishable by law.
The rules -- Basic adoptive jingo
5 -- A premade page is not necessary to sign for a haken egg (however, a page is necessary for the haken to live and grow on), and even if you have one, you may or may not get an egg. Please do not e-mail us directly asking for an egg; like everyone else, you must wait until a clutch is available and sign then. Also, you must have a webpage so you can put your haken there. If you don't have a webpage, get one. There are lots of free servers out there; I'm sure you can find something to suit your fancy.
6 -- The webpage on which you display your haken may not be simply a collection of creatures. Have some respect for the artists; give your haken a page with some thought to it. Also, please do not display your haken in your journal, on a neopets page, or anywhere else that people tend to think the images are 'free to take' graphics.
7 -- On the haken's webpage, there must be a status table, a bondmate, and a link back to Tenkei Yoi. The stat table must include Name, Age, Caste, Color, Power, Mate (if applicable, with a link to the mated haken), and Bondmate. If any of these are missing, we will give you a warning and ask that you fix it. The secret word for this clutch is shibby! Please put this word in the comments section of the form.
8 -- Give the haken's page some character, including a vague description (hopefully better than 'This is a pond.'). Colors and graphics are good, too, but do it tastefully. The artists hate tacky things.
9 -- Your website may be, if you choose, one huge story with various characters and plots, but please have a seperate page for your haken's stats and what so that it is easy to locate for both visitors and the Tenkei Yoi staff. Also, any page that you have your haken's image on must be linked back to the Tenkei Yoi main page.
10 -- You will be e-mailed each stage of your haken personally, so you had best have an e-mail addy. Also, you will be given a significant amount of time to update at least your stats page (and a bit of your story), say, about ten days. If you will be unable to meet this deadline, you will need to e-mail any one of us explaining why not, and we may or may not make an allowance on your behalf. We may look mean, but mostly we're harmless.
The rules -- Basic form jingo
11 -- Please fill out the form in its entirety. Don't leave anything blank. Blankness in forms constitutes their immediate deletion.
12 -- Don't send in a form if there isn't a clutch. It's just a dumb thing to do.
13 -- If you filled in the form and there is a clutch available when you sent it in and were not chosen to get a haken, don't harass any of us about it. There can only be so many eggs in a clutch, and the hakens are given out largely on a first-come, first-serve basis (as we have no webpages to judge off of) or lottery. Please calm your anger and apply next time.
14 -- You may name your prospective haken before or after you get the egg, but keep in mind that hakens are highly offended to 'normal' names. That is, most will disapprove of boring names with strong Anglo-Saxon etymologies. Also, please don't name your haken something stupid like 'Death' or 'Monster.' The hakens are quite sentient and not at all stupid. They'd probably beat the crap out of you for naming one of their noble ranks something so dumb
15 -- This isn't really a rule but it's here anyway. If your man page, or a premade page you just randomly made looks something like this, you won't get a haken. If it has a story and looks something like this or this, then you WILL definately get a haken. That's just to let you know, all right?
16 -- Okay, last one. Please respect the artists and the webmistress at all times. Don't flip if you don't get the caste or colors you wanted, and don't flip if you don't get a haken at all. We're actually all pretty mean when it comes down to it, so I'd watch who you're badmouthing if I were you. Alright. That's it. I'm going to read now... *wanders away* Tchüss!
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