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✦ Kalons is a closed species and only Staff Members may make official Main or Nursery adopts. Community members may make Kalon designs official with the use of MYO slots.
✦ Users may own an unlimited amount of Kalons. They may only win three Main Adopts or RUs per month. The month is determined by when the Kalon is posted, not when the competition is judged. NBs and special event Kalons do not count towards this limit.
✦ Selling or purchasing Kalons for any type of payment [money, virtual currency, art, etc.] is prohibited.
✦ Users may not use the Kalon base to sell pre-made designs for the species. They may offer their commission services to design MYOs for users.
✦ Designs purchased on other bases may be transferred to Kalon designs as MYOs with the permission of the original artist. Designs that exist as Kalons may not concurrently be part of others closed species.
✦ Kalons may be transferred out of the species with permission from the original designer and the species owner.
✦ Once in a users ownership, they are free to develop a Kalons character as they'd like within the Kalon rules.
✦ Kalons can be any romantic or sexual orientation, and any gender.
✦ Kalon kits should not be in romantic or sexual relationships with adults.
✦ Kalons should not be in incestuous relationships.
✦ Users may roleplay and write for their Kalons.
✦ Users may draw or create any sort of art for their Kalons.
✦ Kalons may interact with other non-Kalon OCs.
✦ Kalons may be a fursona with permission from the original designer.
✦ Kalons may be made into fursuits with permission from the original designer.
✦ Kalons may not be officially co-owned. They remain under a single owner in the archive.
✦ Users may not mini-mod official thread or answer questions in place of Staff Members.
✦ The Kalon community will not tolerate harassment, scammers, or begging. Please respect all members and staff! We want our community to be a positive space!
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✦ All Kalon customs, growths, and edits must be officially approved by a Kalon Staff member, and either posted on oekaki or on the off oekaki archive thread.
✦ Kalon growths may only be officially approved one month after the batch was posted.
✦ When editing the Kalon base, please follow the trait guidelines for different edits. The muzzle and back lines of a Kalon must remain untouched.
✦ Users may not edit Official Kalons without the use of edit items. Kalons designs must remain the same and should not be edited.
✦ Changing a Kalons expression is allowed and does not need approval. This includes the expression of the eyes, mouth, eyebrows, and whiskers. Colors and traits must remain the same when editing an expression.
✦ Adding accessories to a Kalon is allowed and does not need approval. Accessories should clearly be removeable.
✦ Kalons may be given scars and missing limbs with the approval of a Staff Member.
✦ All official Kalon MYOs and Growths must be on the Kalon base. Users may use the Customs and Growth threads to work on oekaki or download the Kalon PSD here.
✦ The Kalon base should not be custom sized. Official x2 and x4 lines are available in the Kalon discord server, as well as through this link.
✦ Kalons on the V1 lines may be transferred to the V2.5 lines. Kalons originally created off oekaki may be transferred to oekaki. Both require approval from a Staff Member once complete for the new reference to be official.
✦ Approved growths may be regrown if they are inaccurate to the original kit, with the permission of the species owner.
✦ Users may revamp a custom once with the permission of the species owner, as long as it has never traded hands or been bred.
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✦ Official Kalons may only be traded for other official Kalons or MYO slots. Kalon breeding and edit items may only be traded for other Kalon items or MYO slots.
✦ All trades must be posted on the proper threads with the proper forms to be official. Kalon trades and gifts should be posted on the archive update thread. Item trades and gifts should be posted on the item trade thread.
✦ A user must own a Kalon for 30 days before they are allowed to trade it. They may gift a Kalon at any time.
✦ Users may only make two Kalon trades a month. These trades can occur at any point within the month. A month rollover is determined by CS time zone. There is no limit for item trades.
✦ Users may trade any number of Kalons in one trade between themselves and another user.
✦ Users may make three way trades that are cyclical and involve Kalons being traded from A >> B >> C >> A.
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✦ Kalon Artists open nursery slots as they see fit. Users may post tickets trying out for any open nursery slots.
✦ Nursery batches will result in 1-4 kits, randomly rolled, unless a breeding item is used to determine number.
✦ Traits passed from the parents are randomly rolled with predetermined rates based on trait rarity and the number of parents in the ticket containing the traits. These rates, along with breeding item uses can be seen on the breeding rolls sheet.
✦ Rolls for traits and kii number may be requested from the artist who took a user's ticket. Legendary trait rolls will be done in the public discord channel.
✦ Users must wait one week after obtaining a Kalon before they can breed it.
✦ Users must wait one month after a nursery ticket has been accepted before trying out for a new one.
✦ Kalons have a maximum of 3 free breedings. A fourth breeding slot may be purchased from the Kalon shop.
✦ Any items being used in a breeding must be on the ticket at the time of posting.
✦ Nursery tickets can be between either two or three Kalons.
✦ Any pair or trio of Kalons can breed regardless of sex or gender.
✦ Kalons that are kits that have not had an official growth approved cannot breed. Users cannot seek breedings with Kalon kits until they have an approved growth.
✦ Incestuous pairings cannot breed.
✦ If at least a month has past and a user cannot get into contact with the artist who took on their nursery ticket, they may contact the species owner to find a new artist for the ticket.
✦ Once a Nursery Batch is posted, kit fates must be determined and agreed upon between the users involved in the ticket. If an agreement cannot be reached, a Staff Member can be contacted to roll fates publicly in the Kalon discord.
✦ Fates of kits must be posted on their NB thread to be official and for all cooldowns to start.
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✦ A user may hold a readoption for any official Kalons they own at any time.
✦ Once a readoption is posted, a winner must be chosen at the end of the competition, and the Kalon must be gifted to the new owner.
✦ Readopts should be judged within a months time. If left unjudged, if the host cannot be contacted, a Kalon Staff Member will step in to judge.
✦ All readopts require entries to be posted publicly. DM entries are not allowed.
✦ Readoptions may only be hosted on CS threads or within the Kalon discord raffle channel.
✦ If a user wishes to readopt their Kalons, but does not wish to host the readoptions, they may contact any Kalon Staff member to host the readoption.
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[ Strikes & Bans List ]
✦ Users banned from the Kalon species may not interact with any Kalon threads or the Kalon discord server, including but not limited to trying out for new adopts or readoptions, applying for breedings, or participating in events. Banned users may not obtain new Kalons, grow kits, trade Kalons, or use MYO slots. Banned users may also not take any commissions involving Kalons.
✦ Users who repeatedly break rules in the Kalon discord server may be banned temporarily or permanently from the server, without being banned from the species entirely.
✦ The Kalon species reserves the right to strike or ban any user via majority Kalon staff vote in accordance with the assessed severity of the situation.
✦ Users are usually given three strikes before a complete ban. Occasionally for offenses great enough, users may be banned before being given any strikes.
✦ Users may request appeals of both strikes and bans. The species owner may reverse decisions based on discussion within the staff chat.
✦ Kalons of banned users may be readopted based on the severity of the case. This usually occurs in cases where the Staff is concerned banned users may scam others with sales of their Kalons.
