Rules & laws
Last reviewed 12 September 2026
Five documents, one set of expectations. The rulebook is between players and staff enforce it. The Bill of Rights is the town's promise to your character. The Book of Laws is what the court sentences from.
Out of character, and binding on you rather than on the person you play. Your character can lie, steal and hold a grudge. You cannot.
Cold Creek is intended to be a true roleplay experience. For this to occur in an online environment, all players must be aware of the rules and their consequences, and must WANT to follow them.
This document goes hand in hand with the Bill of Rights, offering a bedrock for the experience we are cultivating.
As always, the biggest rule is simple. Take the game seriously, not yourself. We are all silly larpers playing a silly larp game. Act like it.
This is, and will remain, a living document. It may change at any time, though we will always strive to give 72 hours of notice.
Rules are quoted by number. If you are told you broke rule 14, it is the one below.
Who can play, and where the character stops.
All players MUST be over 17 years of age. There are no exceptions and no second chances.
All players must be present in the Cold Creek Discord and linked to CreekLink. The server will not let you play without them. You do not need to talk, but you will be there.
All in-game interactions and communications are assumed to be in character. Players should act on the knowledge their character would have, within the realm of the game.
All Discord channels, unless annotated otherwise, are assumed to be out of character. Current in-game goings-on should not be spoken about there. Discord channels are not for playing the Cold Creek server together.
Everywhere we operate, not only in game.
Every interaction, on any platform, is expected to be respectful. Racist, sexist, demeaning or derogatory language or behavior, including anything targeting someone's race, religion, gender, creed, disability or sexual identity, is strictly forbidden. Toxicity, defamation and department bashing toward any individual or group are not tolerated. Slander, threats and bigoted language toward any member result in disciplinary action, up to permanent removal from the community.
Prohibited within this community. No exceptions.
Do not share or distribute another member's personal information without their explicit consent. That covers names, location, photos, email addresses, passwords and anything else identifying.
Keep language appropriate in and out of roleplay, and avoid excessive swearing in Discord or in game. NSFW content is not permitted anywhere in the community, including Discord profile pictures, banners, bios and statuses. Sexual or explicit roleplay is banned outright. If you are playing custom in-game music that is explicit, warn nearby players in chat first. Staff can stop it at their discretion regardless.
Arguing with other members, in or out of the game, is not allowed. Take disputes to a private conversation or to staff mediation instead. If you witness an argument, report it to staff rather than getting involved yourself.
Staff are treated with respect and their directives are followed without argument in the moment. You are never required to agree with a decision, only to follow it at the time. If you believe you were punished unfairly, file an Internal Affairs report rather than litigating it live. Route any issue or concern through the chain of command, and do not insert yourself into a staff situation unless you are directly involved or have been asked to help. Perceived staff misconduct is reported through proper channels with evidence, never argued out in chat.
You are responsible for everything done on your account, regardless of who was actually using it at the time.
During high traffic, or when a queue is active, AFK players may be removed to free up slots for others.
Cold Creek is an English-speaking community. A working microphone and the ability to communicate in English are required to participate.
Advertising or recruiting for other servers or communities is not allowed without explicit approval from community management.
Unauthorized mods, hacks, cheats or exploiting scripts and resources result in an immediate, permanent ban. Exploiting bugs or glitches carries consequences scaled to the severity of the exploit.
Documents, items and assets cannot be copied, redistributed or replicated without authorization. Introducing or soliciting leaked items, files or assets into the server is prohibited.
If it does not make sense, do not do it.
Keep every scenario realistic and logical for the situation. Do not chase down a minor traffic stop in a supercar, swarm an officer during somebody else's stop, drive a supercar through backroads at ridiculous speeds, or roleplay a supernatural being without server approval.
Do not drive recklessly without an in-character reason. No blowing through red lights at 100mph for fun. Crash realism still applies: hit a wall at 45mph and your car is broken.
Common sense governs anything not explicitly listed. If it does not make sense, do not do it.
A hostile or roleplay-altering interaction cannot begin until there has been direct contact: voice, or a visible in-character action with the other party. Once a conflict starts escalating, give the other party reasonable time to respond before continuing. Do not rush to force an outcome.
Roleplay is expected to stay within Cold Creek's defined map boundaries. Leaving the area of play to dodge a scene, avoid consequences or continue roleplay outside the intended bounds is not allowed.
Playing a person who can lose.
You must stay in character at all times. Breaking character in game can mean a kick or a strike. Take out-of-character issues outside the game.
React the way a real person would. A gun to your head means you are scared.
Act as if your character is a real human who fears death or serious injury. Treat your character's life as precious, rather than acting recklessly because you respawn after dying.
Characters need realistic names and a real backstory. Play actions consistent with who your character is.
Respond to chat and to any /me directed at you with total truthfulness. If an officer pats you down and you /me finds nothing, you are now roleplaying as unarmed.
If you die from something dumb, roleplay it out. If you think a rule was broken, wait until the scene ends to call staff, unless it is egregious enough to need immediate intervention. Something being unintentional or annoying does not automatically get it reversed.
Troll menus, disobeying staff, racist or sexist roleplay, or otherwise ruining the roleplay for others.
Do not insert your character into a scene you were not part of, unless you are invited in by the players already running it, or by staff.
Minimize all out-of-character speech during active roleplay, unless staff facilitated it or a real-life reason arises.
Disconnecting from the server to avoid an active roleplay situation, especially one involving law enforcement or staff intervention, is strictly prohibited and treated as a bannable offense.
Beyond the existing ban on sexual or explicit roleplay, gratuitously graphic or disturbing content is not allowed, even outside a sexual context. That covers excessive gore, prolonged torture, animal cruelty and recreations of real-world tragedies.
Reviving a character or changing their appearance must go through the game's intended systems. No shortcuts that skip the in-character process.
Characters should behave like someone genuinely afraid of legal consequences. Avoid openly committing or discussing crimes in plain view of police.
Roleplay injuries with the weight a real injury would carry, and respect the New Life Rule and the permanent consequences of a Character Kill. A character's death or serious injury is not something to shrug off and continue past.
Military, militia, hitman, suicide, terrorism, sexual or erotic, and real public figure roleplay are all strictly prohibited. If you have a question about one, contact staff.
Everything on the road belongs to somebody.
Theft of emergency vehicles is prohibited.
Deploying a heavily armored vehicle requires prior staff approval and must fit an established, valid roleplay context.
Every civilian vehicle must be registered in the CAD system. CAD is what law enforcement treats as accurate, and I forgot is not a roleplay excuse. Claiming a car is rented or new does not exempt it: police will treat it as unregistered and tow it. If you do not want a car tied to your name, register it under a your-name auto rentals company in CAD instead.
Unique scenarios involving emergency vehicles or large-scale operations require direct approval from community management before they happen, not after.
Violence is on the table. It costs something.
Weapons must be set to semi-automatic.
Sniper rifles are prohibited.
Killing or attacking another player with no roleplay reason or buildup. Walking up and shooting somebody for no in-character reason, the way you would frag someone in a shooter.
The same idea as random deathmatch, using a vehicle as the weapon. Ramming or running somebody over without any roleplay justification, as opposed to an actual in-character car chase or a crash that develops naturally.
Killing somebody because your previous character died to them, or over a past grudge, rather than because the current scene calls for it. It is an out-of-character motive, getting even, dressed up as roleplay.
The badge is worn by a player who applied for it.
Do not provoke an officer solely to start a chase.
Running from police is governed by the evading rules in the group below.
Priorities are capped at 45 to 60 minutes so other civilians get a turn. No single civilian or group runs back-to-back priorities.
Members cannot run more than one priority at the same time. Doing so requires special permission from an administrator or higher.
911 calls must be descriptive, covering what, where, when and who. Be ready to answer the dispatcher's follow-up questions.
Impersonating law enforcement is allowed only under strict conditions: the vehicle and equipment used must be acquired illegally through roleplay. A member who instead wants a dedicated vehicle set up for this must consult staff and get prior approval first.
Violent roleplay is restricted inside designated green zones, such as police stations, unless staff has given prior consent.
Fine when it is earned and played out realistically.
Not probably. You have to actually know, and have an in-character way of finding out. Checking CAD is fine, but roleplay how you learned it. A felony stop, with multiple officers, guns drawn and an order out of the car, is not automatically a warrant. Your character would not know police procedure well enough to assume that is the reason.
You committed a felony right before this interaction and believe police are actively looking for you. A felony is a major crime carrying more than a year in prison. If you get away and police track you down later, that later encounter still counts, because the earlier evasion was itself a felony.
You are carrying illegal goods that would mean a felony charge if found, and police already have probable cause to search you. The probable cause matters more than the goods. Pulled over for speeding with no indication they want to search is no reason to run, and running would only give them one.
Your vehicle is disabled, you flee on foot and you get caught. You are boxed in with no way to flee, so you surrender. Or you genuinely get away and lay low. A real person chooses prison over death almost every time, and getting out of a disabled car to shoot it out with several officers is low-quality roleplay. The only exception is a character in an active manic or mass-murder state, where that response is actually consistent with who they are.
A real collision does real damage, often enough to disable the car outright. Landing hard after airtime should blow your tires. A low-suspension car through rough terrain should be wrecked.
If you crash, you are hurt. Walking away and sprinting off on foot is not realistic unless your character is under a copious amount of drugs.
The point of evading is to evade. Returning to re-engage the same officers is not legitimate roleplay.
Breaking this policy adds civilian roleplay restrictions on top of whatever punishment applies to the underlying violations that happened during the pursuit.
How this is enforced. Most breaks end in a conversation and a correction. Repeated ones end in time away from the server, and the rules marked zero tolerance end an account outright. Every decision can be appealed in Discord, and an appeal is read by somebody who was not part of the original call.
Open a ticket in DiscordCold Creek is not affiliated with any law enforcement agency or any fire and rescue agency.