Rules & laws
Last reviewed 23 September 2026
Six 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, and the Regulations are the specifics it relies on.
In character, and binding on the town rather than on you. These are the things your character can hold Cold Creek to, and the court is where they are raised.
These rights as defined are intended to protect the player, the experience and the server.
The Bill of Rights supersedes all laws. Laws may add to it, but they may not take from it.
You have the right to speak your mind, both in game and out of game. All players are adults and should conduct themselves as such.
Possession of firearms is not illegal within Cold Creek, except as the law restricts. Check the Local Laws for stipulations.
What you earn in Cold Creek is yours. You may hold money, own a home, own a vehicle and run a business under your own name. Ownership is recorded rather than argued about, a vehicle at the DMV and a property against its address, and that record is what settles who a thing belongs to. What was bought lawfully is not taken by the town without a case, and a business is not closed because somebody in an office would rather it were.
The roads and the public places of Cold Creek are open to you. You may travel where you like, stop where you like and stand with whoever you like, and being somewhere is not by itself a crime. Private property, a posted lot and a secured facility stay closed until you are invited in. An officer moving you on from a public place needs a reason, and not liking the look of you is not one.
You are told what you are being arrested for, at the time of the arrest, in the words the Book of Laws uses. That book is published in full, so nobody is charged under a law they had no way of reading. Having heard the charge, you are not required to answer an officer's questions about it. Refusing is not an admission, it is not obstruction, and it cannot be charged as either.
You may have someone speak for you before the court, and you may ask the court for the time to find them. A hearing does not begin because you happened to be unrepresented and available.
What is yours is yours. Your home, your vehicle, your pockets and your business are not open to anybody who feels like looking. An officer who searches you, your vehicle or your home has to be able to say what they were looking for and why they believed it was there. Consent can be given, and consent once given can be withdrawn. A search with nothing behind it is unlawful, and what it turns up was taken unlawfully with it.
You are entitled to hear the case against you and to put your own account of it before any ruling is made. A case decided on one side's story alone is not a case.
Anything seized or impounded is recorded against the case, held, and returned when the case ends, unless the court orders otherwise and says why.
Anyone in Cold Creek may bring a civil claim against anyone else, including government agencies and the town itself. Being on the payroll is not a defence.
When a case is closed you cannot be charged again for the same act. A closed case is closed whichever way it went.
Which document you want. If another player broke a server rule, that is the rulebook and it goes to a staff ticket. If the town broke one of these, that is your character's complaint and it goes to the court. Sign in to CreekLink to read your own file or to file against somebody.
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