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Anne's Rules

These are the rules set down by the creator of the Pern series, Anne McCaffery. These rules are the ones that all Pern RPGs must abide by. The AIVAS Machine has no control over these rules and will not bend or break them under any circumstances.

1. Gold dragons will only look to women; bronze dragons will only look to men.

2. Dragons must be Impressed as listed.

• Goldriders- heterosexual femalesBronzeriders- heterosexual males
• Brownriders- heterosexual males, some bisexual males, bisexual and homosexual females
• Blueriders- homosexual and bisexual males and females, distinct preferences allowed for
• Greenriders- homosexual males and females, bisexual and heterosexual females open to female partners

3. Gold, bronze, brown, blue, and green are the only allowable dragon colors. You may have a dragon in any shade of these colors but there will be no more sport dragons. Ruth was unique.

4. Ruatha Hold, Benden Weyr, and the Harpercraft Hall exist but these locations are off-limits as settings. While your character can have a background in one of these locations, you cannot write a story set in any of these locations.

5. You can't use any of Anne's characters. You can't be Lessa's ancestor or Sorka's descendent. You cannot have a character by the same name as any of Anne's. That also goes for dragons.*

*The AIVAS Machine is NOT a character in this RP. It is simply the name used by the Site Owner to seperate her/himself from his/her Characters. All Admin have the ability to use The AIVAS Machine at anytime. The AIVAS Machine maybe used during an Admin SL to direct game play.

6. Pern has no religion. Don't thank God, thank Faranth. (see terminology)

7. Pern has no magic, elves, fairies, etc. Dragons are incredible enough.

8. No one on Pern is psychic. Beyond a dragonrider's ability to hear their life mate (or in instances when a dragon who deems you worthy enough to speak to), that's all the extrasensory powers anyone will have.

9. No world crossing. No Cattenti, no Mrdini, no humans from the same timeline are going to encounter Pern.