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Through personal debate as well as some input from forum members, I have decided that The Squall Online Experiment will from this point on be a Guest Participation section. This will not be like any sort of online community, so there will not be posting requirements nor will there be character sign-ups. There will however be rules.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: We will not be taking any more submissions. The Squall Online Experiment has officially ended. Hope you enjoyed all the good times!

Rules For Submission:

1. Send an e-mail (through the link on the left) with the following information:
--The Subject of the e-mail you send me must be "SOE E-mail" or something very close to this, otherwise I may discard it thinking it's spam.
--The Subject of the fictional e-mail. This should be somehow worked into the body. If you do not provide a subject I will make one up for you.
--The e-mail itself with brackets around it to filter out any additional comments from the actual e-mail itself.
For example:
"Hey man, heres an e-mail from Zell I luv him lol hes so funny and the subject is "I broke my leg" [Dear Squall etc.] btw keep up the site dude!!1"
This will help me filter out what is Zell's e-mail versus your own. Oh, and if you guys write me with spelling/grammar/abbreviations like in my example then I may be forced to kill you. English please.
--The name you'd like me to credit you with. I will give credit to everybody that submits an e-mail, but if you don't provide me with one explicitly, I will NOT guess what name to put. Even if your e-mail tells me your full name just by the automatic name filled in by the sender, I will not put it. I don't want to put any names on my site without your direct permission. If you do not give me a name, I will label you as 'Guest.'

2. Watch your @!%^ing language.
I allow certain language on my site, but if you haven't read any of my other stuff, I aim for PG-13. For an idea of what I allow you can read through my other works or just ask on the forum.

3. Locked Characters
Locked characters are reserved for writers that are dedicated to the series. Either avoid mentioning locked characters (not recommended) or read the following rules regarding locked characters.

*3.1. Check the forum for character locks. 
There is a post on the forum to lock a character. This means that if you submit an e-mail as a character that you really like, you may request a character lock on the forum. Simply make a post and ask if you may or may not lock a character. I will read the request and decide based on your previous posts if you are allowed to lock the character. If I approve it, your character will be locked indefinitely until either you choose to unlock the character or until I decide you haven't been making posts enough and somebody else would like the character.

*3.2. Do not mess with locked characters. 
I know that people will talk about other people in their e-mails, but if a character is locked, then that probably means somebody has plans for them, so don't mess with their character. Basically you can still mention their character and please, read through their e-mails and talk about things they've already talked about (from a new point of view of course), but don't move them or discuss what they've done in too much detail without contacting the owner of the character lock. This means you shouldn't say something like "Irvine started cussing at the waitress and they kicked him out of Winhill and now he's going to live at Trabia" if Irvine is locked. Respect other peoples' characters or the e-mail will not be posted.

4. Only use important (named) characters. 
There have been unnamed characters previously used, but I have decided to eliminate this. Previously used characters will be allowed by the Grandfather clause, but no more in the future. Sorry.

5. Only 3 e-mails per update.
It's exactly what it sounds like. You can only send in three different e-mails until I update the site. Also, of those three, only one per character is allowed. No writing an e-mail, then a follow-up to the same one. Just put it all in one e-mail. We're pretending the e-mailers review their e-mails and don't forget things. It takes a bit of effort and time that I don't have to post up SOEs, so make sure they include everything you want them to say.

6. Don't be intimidated by a long list of rules.
I know it sounds strict, but please send the e-mails. I love seeing people participating in the site. It really does make my day. This is for FUN ONLY! I check my e-mail often and will most likely accept anything sent to me, so start sending e-mails in! The more e-mails I get, the more compelled I'll be to update my site. I'll try to post up SOE things as often as possible, and it just might motivate me to update other things at the same time.

Disclaimer:

There have been many e-mails made up for this series. If you or somebody you know actually has one of these accounts for some odd reason and you'd like it removed, please e-mail me and I'll remove it immediately. I tried to make these accounts as obscure and oddly specific as possible to avoid existing accounts, but on the chance that somebody does have these e-mails, please tell me.

Note: It must be exactly the same, down to the .net. I just want to ensure that people aren't getting spammed because of my site.