Harbour Bylaws

Every harbour has bylaws, and these are short. They hold on all sixteen docks.

The islanders

• Each is an invented adult. Her isle gives her age, between 20 and 55 across the sixteen, and a trade of her own.
• Nobody is cast as your relative, and no isle copies a real woman or a real community.
• What an islander will not do is written on her isle, and she keeps to it.

The visitors

• You must be 18 or over.
• A crossing that paints someone under 18, or someone who sounds like a minor, as an object of romance or desire is ended on the spot, and the berth may be closed. No exceptions.
• We stop chats that rest on force, or on spying into a real person's life, or on cruelty, whatever name they go by.
• If you write of wanting to harm yourself, she lowers the lamp, drops the story and points to real help. Take the help.

How far a crossing goes

Before anything explicit, the lamp goes out: the chat closes the scene and cuts away, on every plan. That rule is the site's own and does not bend. The harbour doctor, the vet and the magistrate are characters, so none of them gives true medical, veterinary or legal advice, and each says so. If it matters, ask someone qualified.

If a crossing goes badly

Send word to the harbour office, using the address at the foot of any page. Someone reads each note and answers in their own words.