Members ranked in the Upper Echelon and Above (Las Antorchas and up) may greet, welcome, or invite prospective members to join Del Cenere, provided they fall within prerequisites. If a player within those ranks approaches a prospective joiner, or invites a coyote/coyote hybrid to Del Cenere, they should ping Leadership in order for us to reply with the acceptance message and get joiners titled!

→ Within Charmingtown

• Prospective Joiners should seek higher ranked members to express their interesting in joining.
• Prospective Joiners should be able to relay information in regards to their skillsets and worth to the Gang and be willing to submit themselves to interview.

→ At Borders

• Prospective Joiners may not cross the border without permission.
• Prospective Joiners must send up a greeting call and meet a Del Ceneren for assessment.

Only El Faro (Leadership) may greet, welcome, or invite Non-Coyotes to join Del Cenere, provided they fall within prerequisites.

→ Within Charmingtown

• Prospective Joiners must arrange a meeting with El Faro at The Ugly Coyote (with pNPCs, or otherwise OOCly assumed).
• Prospective Joiners should be able to relay information in regards to their skillsets and worth to the Gang and be willing to submit themselves to interview.

→ At Borders

• Prospective Joiners may not cross the border without permission, and may even be expected to keep respectable distance.
• Prospective Joiners must send up a greeting call and await El Faro for assessment.

Please see our Hierarchy page for more information about ranks.

Most information on how to garner promotion for your character are detailed on our Hierarchy page, listed alongside the ranks in question - and while there are minimal exceptions, some may be made in specific instances. There is a loose form of 'reputation' within Del Cenere - ways to positively impact your character's reputation includes: Pursuance of Occupations or additional tiers of occupation, Membership or movement through a Syndicate or participation in a Free Company, Engagement in pack events and volunteering in assistance, or Multiple submissions of tithe in one tithe period. However, this also can have the adverse effect of negative reputation - the loss of occupations (through failure to maintain them), expulsion from syndicates, or failure to engage in the Gang's events and culture may result in demotions, or stagnation of rank.

The highest ranks of Del Cenere require invitation from Leadership - Enkindled titles are custom, and are expected to carry relevant weight to your character (like an epithet!) and are generally restricted to English or Spanish.

There are several instances in which players will submit their threads to Leadership for consideration - in the events of Syndicates, Occupations, Game Points, Event Raffles, Prompt Completions et al. While these threads do not need to be archived to be considered 'complete', Leadership will gauge completion of threads by the player's word count. In order to reach completion, the player's total word count in a thread must reach 1000 words to be accepted. All completion rules follow this guideline unless otherwise stated.

Exceptions to this rule are made in the case of Occupations - if the thread does not hit the 1000 word count (otherwise referred to as WC) limit before the thread goes 'inactive', players may supplement their word count for the prompt via a secondary thread. Please note, however: If the original thread dies, it must be on the part of the other participant, and not the person seeking the Occupation.

Del Cenere hosts all sorts of events for players to participate in! Most notable, of course, is our Lancaster Stockshow, a large population event which draws in players from other packs to compete in fun and games! In order to reward players for interacting with these events, we tend to offer baubles to some degree, including IC prizes. However - it should be noted that we expect participants to, well, participate! As such, we generally implement ways to engage the players outside of methods like names-drawn-from-a-hat.

In order to keep things fair towards players taking part in events, failure to respond ICly to event threads thus forfeits any IC reward! Failure to ICly respond tends to mean players have to assume what has happened/what is going on, after all - and, in order to minimize the fine line of OOC assumptions and keep it to a minimum, we feel that this is the best course of action. We apologize for any inconvenience this could pose.

That's perfectly fine! Whatever your reason may be, players are always welcome to drop their Del Ceneren character to place them on 'aNPC' status. The character in question will remain in DCG in a passive, "paused" status at the rank they were dropped at for about 6 months, before they will be moved to the off-board "Outpost", Palisade. Please note: at this rate, the character, while able to rejoin DCG at whatever time the player chooses to rejoin, will be considered fully inactive - as such, any occupations, residencies, or syndicate positions they held will be Forfeit and will need re-gained from scratch. Any corresponding or linked Adoptables, or NPCs listed on our pages that are relevant to the inactive character will also be removed (so please, keep a record of your information via your character's wiki page!)

As far as the process of dropping (otherwise referred to as NPCing) your character, please fill out the form found in the Drops thread, and send it to DCG's Pack Account. Please be concise with your form - Any active threads on that character will need archived, after all! Additionally, in the case of picking the character back up, it provides a helpful resource for us to refer back to when re-instating your character's rank.

If you want to fully drop your character, and have them referenced as leaving Del Cenere, you may post the dropping form directly in the thread above, which will then fully de-title your character and remove them from affiliation with Del Cenere. Should you choose to rejoin with that character in the future, it will be considered a 'hard reset' - i.e., they will have to start from scratch!

Del Cenere is not entirely averse to Outsiders, and was among the first packs to allow Outsiders to co-mingle with its denizens in the form of an open-bordered trade hub by the name of Charmingtown! Non-Del Ceneren characters, or even prospective members, may come to visit the town, hock their wares, or otherwise peruse the foundries therein and offer up commerce in exchange for their stays within the Coyote-dominanted Gang. More information about Charmingtown and it rules and regulations can be found on its page.

However - individuals above 50% wolf are subject to higher scrutiny and surveillance from Del Cenere and must adhere to the following:

→ Wolf Guest Stipulations

• May only stay for two days' time
• Must leave for a minimum of two week's time before visiting again

Exceptions to this rule are generally made for trade envoys, large-scale events, or on a case by case basis as approved by Leadership.

Characters are welcome to invite guests to come stay at Del Cenere, though they are still beholden to the same rules that apply to everyone! (Wolves only are permitted two days' stay unless an extension is required by Leadership, etc.)

However:

• Guests are only permitted visitation within Charmingtown
• Guests are allotted quarters via a campsite, or at the Trailside Inn

This is to say that visitors are not allowed beyond Charmingtown. You may not invite Outsiders to private residence - doing so counts as trespassing and is perceived as a security threat towards Del Cenere as a whole! Requests for infractions of this must be cleared on a case by case basis with Leadership, and is only permissible at Leadership discretion.

• Adhere to board-wide pNPC procedures.

If you thread with or make an OOC assumption with a pack NPC it is highly courteous for you to edit that NPC's Wiki page or profile with this information, or post in our Maintenance Thread to let us know. It can tough to remember to update stuff, but please do try!

When using a pNPC, make sure:

• To read over their profile and play information thoroughly and carefully.
• To use them in a way which makes sense for their profile and play information.
• To update their relevant Wiki profile with the thread where they appeared OR let us know about the thread.
• Not to cause extreme injury or death to an NPC without Leadership approval. Minor, treatable injuries are fine!

Remember, our pNPCs tend to operate as individuals all their own, and are not simply props! If you'd like to engage in any sort of plotting with a pNPC more directly and have questions, do not hesitate to reach out to Leadership with ideas and suggestions. We love to encourage their use!

• Adhere to board-wide aNPC procedures.

Members who fall inactive - per board standards - will be placed on an aNPC (absent NPC) status! These characters are ready to be picked back up at the Player's convenience, and will remain in the rank table for a period of time. However, aNPCs are not to be confused with cNPCs - they may not play active roles in threads, and are only allowed to be mentioned passively, if at all. These characters are not available to be in threads, or played out in the least. It is best practice not to reference or make assumptions with these characters - especially without the player's consent.

Characters on an extended aNPC status will be sent to Del Cenere's off-board Outpost, Palisade, in order to keep our rank table from getting excessively cluttered. Characters who are sent off-board will be de-titled, and lose any occupations or placements within Syndicates or Free Companies. Players who have characters in Palisade may pick them back up at any time, or even remove their characters from Palisade.

• Adhere to board-wide yNPC procedures.

Played Characters which utilize pup points will be assigned the respective yNPCs based on points. yNPCs will remain as such until the NPC reaches one year of age, and subsequently, ranks out of the Chispa rank automatically. Unfortunately, upon rank out, the NPC will no longer be eligible for yNPC status, and must either be sent to Palisade until they're able to be picked up, or they will be shifted into an open cNPC slot. Should the player choose to keep the yNPC on as a cNPC, we will discuss, as we do with played characters, where the NPC will be placed post Bautizo (either as Encender or promoted to Las Brasas).