Alright this is what I managed to throw together.
Host responsibilities:
Act like a respectable human being.
Have a forum account. Check it.
Hosts need to commit to be active. A host should have to post in public (so not a dwelling or high level zone) at the very least once every two weeks. If you post in a fighting zone note where in the world you are rping that zone as being. Perhaps even something adding that once a month or two they need to travel outside their country of residence. That’s just an idea of mine to stop getting Jinchuriki posting every 13 days on their village board going, “I go get some lunch and then go home and watch Netflix all night.” Obviously if they are tied up in a public rp and their turn does not come up within that time frame than it is ok, they’re still just as accessible.
Make a challenger list. The list will be chronological in the order that people challenged you. Falsifying the list in anyway, such as changing the order of challengers or failing to record a challenger, will result in the host being stripped of their beast and being barred from challenging for it or any other beast for a period of no less than 6 months, assuming such falsification can be proven (Screen caps of message dates, etc, NOT hearsay). The list will be publically available on the forum. When someone challenges you or their turn to fight you comes up you should acknowledge them within a week or risk being stripped.
No challenger can be declined.
If a host defeats a challenger than that person cannot challenge the host again for any of their bijuu for 3 months. If a challenger is found to be using alts to get around this rule they will immediately be disqualified and be barred from all bijuu challenges for an additional 3 months.
Challenger responsibilities:
Act like a respectable human being.
Have a forum account. Check it.
Be available. If you challenge a Jinchuriki who has no current challengers than expect to quickly begin discussing your challenge and starting the fight. If a Jinchuriki responds to your challenge and you do not get back to them within a week then they have the right to skip you and move on to the next challenger, bumping you down to THE BOTTOM of the challenger list.
How to challenge:
Instead of pm’ing someone on SL make a post on the forum in the bijuu arena board. That way the host and many others are witnesses to when you challenged them, there’s no secret pm’s going on or he said she said junk.
“Challenge to Host of the Whatever-Tailed Beast.”
Just like that. Perhaps people can post all under the hosts preferences page to keep it in one place.
As for the rules of the match all bijuu fights will be OOC by default. So if no one specifies what the match is then it is OOC. It can be IC but only if the host and the challenger agree to it.
No more IC hunt rules. If a Jinchuriki is killed IC while a bijuu challenge is going on than they just die. If the host retains his beast in the challenge than the beast goes to the person who killed them IC (Assuming they’re inclined to take it and aren’t just killing them for some other reason) if they do not want it the beast returns to the hosts village/clan. If the host loses the challenge then his challenger gets the beast and (if the killer is so inclined) then the killer will take the first spot on the new hosts challenger list. Yes I know this isn’t “fair” for the IC hunter but we’ve given that system plenty of time to work and it sucks. So the possibility of killing someone IC for a bijuu is not removed but it is encouraged that you take the OOC route instead. The fact an IC killer can jump the challenger list is concession enough, imho.
The other stuff with preferences and such can stay but it needs to be clear that they are preferences and cannot be enforced like they are rules. Hosts cannot go, “Well if you don’t like my preferences don’t challenge me.” Because that inevitably leads to someone making one of their preferences, “I only fight baked potatoes. So I don’t need to accept your challenge.” We’re all fans of Naruto and everyone should have a fair shot for every beast. I think Madara currently doesn’t accept Yamanaka clan techniques, for instance. Well if a Yamanaka challenges him he’s probably going to have to drop that one. Obviously it cannot go too far in the other direction either, with the challenger being able to force the host to drop all of their preferences. If you need them to drop a void of a specific technique that is important to you then you’ll need to accept another one of their preferences that you might not like in exchange.
The time allowed between posts should always be agreed upon and stated publically before the fight commences, so no one can take advantage of it. If you need more time due to a real emergency you can declare such and have an extra week to post, no questions asked, but this can only be done once per fight. If either the host or the challenger is not going to be able to post in the agreed upon time frame they can make an OOC post in the fight requesting more time, though it falls on the opposing party to allow it or not.
Who may participate in challenge:
It should only ever be the host on their side, the number of challengers could change as I will detail in another section.
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