5.b. Bounty, Contracts & Incarceration Regulations

■ Bounties are monetary values assigned to mages who commit criminal acts throughout Fiore. The worse the act and more often that they occur, the greater the bounty one person may have compared to someone who commits less significant or far fewer criminal acts.

■ Contracts are the inverse of Bounties and are assigned to mages who commit deeds against dark guilds and villains. These acts include hunting prominent dark guild figures to the raiding of a dark guild.

■ While typically reserved for dark and guildless mages, it is possible for anyone to get a bounty, as is true with contracts that are typically reserved for legal guild, Rune Knights, and guildless members.

■ Actions ranging from the simple theft from a merchant to the utter destruction of a town and its citizens, any user may find themselves being wanted and possibly hunted based upon the actions they commit to within threads so long as it can be assumed that there were witnesses after the fact. Threads in which a bounty can be accrued must be "Open" threads, not private.

■ In some situations, the reputation level of a wanted person may further influence their bounty or their contract.

■ Fill in the form in the Bounty & Contract Review topic to claim a bounty or contract.

■ Once someone is given a bounty or contract, they may be hunted and are subject to the Fighting Regulations.

■ Bounties and contracts are not to be meta-gamed, even if there is an existing understanding between two users OOC. A user can only learn of a bounty if they have written in a topic within a town after the bounty was assigned. This is due to the fact that bounties are public information, put up for the public within towns.

■ We consider your character automatically up to date when they roleplay in a town. There is no need to actually roleplaying looking at a bounty board.

■ Do note that if someone's bounty or contract page gets updated with their magic and you have not RPed in a town after that update while facing them off, you do not know off their magic because you never update your bounty knowledge by RPing in a town after their page got updated.

■ While it can be assumed that a higher bounty/contract indicates more information about that user being made public, this is not always the case. Often it depends on the individual's fame/infamy, as well as the location of the acts committed. When in doubt, refer to the bounty page of that individual, or ask a Moderator for clarification.

■ When a bounty/contract hunter enters the topic, invasion rules are put in place. In the case of multiple people working together to capture the individual with the bounty, each individual will split the bounty/contract reward.

■ If you invade someone with a bounty or contract and they surrender, as long as you complete the word count requirement for fighting them, you will receive normal fighting rewards and half of their bounty/contract.

■ If it is deemed that there is no effective fight that took place between you and the bounty holder then you will only receive half of their bounty/contract as a reward.

■ In case the wanted user wins, they may leave the topic freely. The defeated pursuers may not pursue the wanted user for two months after that.

■ Upon defeating the wanted individual, the target is moved to the Hellsea Bastille or Boiling Rock depending whether a bounty or contract has been collected. This is done via instant travel, regardless of where the individual was.

■ If the bounty/contract hunter caused severe damage in the process, they may also be arrested and taken in for processing. This is done via instant travel, regardless of where the fight occurred.

■ Members cannot claim another person's bounty or contract if they already have a bounty or contract themselves. This is with the exception of Neutral Guilds who may have the bounty and contract hunting perk.

■ Member must participate with each enemy they wish to claim bounty or contract rewards against, this must include something directly impactful i.e. attacking them, debuffing, defending against an attack from them, buffing an ally who attacks said enemy. Talking with them or, simply being in the topic is not sufficient to justify claims.

■ Members do not receive any bounty or contract reward from members that are surrendering to them in a social topic.

■ Depending on how much damage was caused during the capturing of the criminal, the bounty payout may be less than the actual number shown. This number depends on the damage caused in the thread, and again, it is completely subjective. Moderators maintain the right to make the determination of how much is deducted.