Smart phones are allowed, with some rules:.

• You can NOT text in combat
• You can NOT type War and Peace. There is a ten word limit for a message.
• You can NOT text constantly or text someone in the same room as you.

Camera/Audio-recording Phones

Phones are not portable full audio-visual suites, you can NOT walk around, taking constant pictures or video. You can NOT use a phone cam to see someone in obfuscate.

Using Phones in Combat

To dial a number and get it ringing takes a total of 3 combat rounds. Grab your phone, find a number in it (not a quick dial), and get at least two rings. Took you about 10-15 seconds, didn't it? That translates to roughly 3 combat rounds.

A single combat round allows one or two short sentences to be said, and another two to be received. You cannot recite the Iliad into the phone in a single combat round.

Logging Phone Calls

• No XP is granted for RP time spent OOC in a phone call or texting. If that is all your nightly RP is, that is not counted toward XP.
• Logging in GP channels is not required for phone calls. However, any important IC information passed in a phone call must be immediately reported to the STs in #stchambers. Including plot information.
• Logging is highly encouraged for anyone making important IC phone calls. Without a complete log of a phone call, it is subject to being retconned.
• Phone play is discouraged as your primary form of roleplay or information passing.
• If you wish to call someone who is offline, leave them a message on this board via the private message feature.
• You cannot 'bug' a conversation by reaching into your pocket and turning a cellphone on. Or hiding one nearby, or anything of that nature. Cellphone mics simply not good enough to do this.