Membership rules
To become a member an applicant has to agree to these rules.
1. You are free to enter the premises at any given time unless the club has been closed down for maintenance.
2. You may bring guests with you but you are responsible for their actions in the premises during their stay. Guests have to be aware of the rule and agree to abide by them.
3. If you are asked to leave by a member of the staff do so immediately and without quarrel.
4. The management reserves the right to terminate any membership at any time if they deem it necessary. Probations are also possible.
5. If you get a drink while no service staff is around place your glass on the bar counter for billing purposes. Your tab will be deducted from your account at the end of each month. Hosts are responsible for beverages of their guests.
6. Take fights outside. While Fourth Wall does not employ such means as Pocket D does it is strongly wished that no fights occur inside the club. Breach of this no violence policy may result in a ban from the club, pending management review of the case.
7. Maintain general order. People come to the club to relax from the hassle outside. Respect that.
(( OOC side of things
Premise
Fourth Wall is privately owned technomagical club that is targeted for metahumans and people interested in the hero culture in Paragon City. There is no hard requirements for membership, but recommendation from a current member is preferred.
The idea and concept for the club comes from @Blackdove aka Wild Thyme who has also designed the interior (with the kind help of Doctor Temporis). The club is currently managed, IC and OOC, by @Coile aka Stratocaster.
Purpose
The club is intended to be an RP venue for those who agree to the rules below and wish to contribute to a good and interesting social environment. We want to have a place where discussions and other roleplaying can go on at its own pace without needless interruptions.
Definite unambiguous limits about anything are hard to draw. Here is a brief description what the club is not about or what is not wanted.
1. Acts that force the totality of the other attendants to pay attention and get involved with the situation are not welcomed. Having a shout match is ok. Climbing to the stage to say something is ok. Threatening to blow the whole place up is not. Sometimes IC is IC and a situation develops naturally. It is asked that such situations are taken outside at the first possible convenience.
2. The flipside is that people should try to seek reasons for their characters to not hear something that they see in local chat and which irritates them. Just missing something said in two tables away is a neat option.
3. Physical fights are not welcomed. IC the location is for relaxation. OOC you can have the tussle happen in Steel Canyon or in the arena. IC the people are asked to take their fights outside. One punch in the heat of an argument is reasonable but the rest should happen elsewhere.
4. Silliness in reasonable amounts is fine. Silliness for its own sake or because the player is simply bored is not. Keep the madness under moderation or take it to places more suited for it. If your character is unable to do so please do not attend with that character to begin with.
5. Pay some attention to spelling and grammar. Not everyone is a native speaker of English and perfect language is not expected. Basic effort is.
6. Keep OOC out of local chat. Group with the people you're playing with and use the group chat. Use Fourth Wall global channel. Use tells. A simple announcement of an (( AFK )) is not a problem but lengthier chats are. Use other means for them.
7. lolspeek irritates most people. Smileys amidst IC lines are frowned upon. Check Zortel's excellent guide for roleplaying basics on official forums in Roleplaying section.
8. Use your common sense. You are in the club having fun. So is everyone else. Little consideration goes a long way.
The management may assign some plot purposes for the club. If this happens an announcement about it will be made.
The club
The Fourth Wall club has been fitted with technomagical means which take care of the automatic functions, like bartending, if the staff is not present. While IC tampering with the systems might work it will hardly go unnoticed. If you decide to risk it, let the Fourth Wall GMs know about it (currently active GM is @Coile, PM on official forum preferred).
The club is always open but a bartender is present only at specific times (rarely). Other times the bar works on self-service and the bill goes to the member's tab. See IC rules.
There is surveillance by the entrance and by the bars. No audio recordings are made. Only cases where the security records are important are if disturbances occur. It is hoped that they never will be needed.
The club is hooked on the city's teleportation grid and members can access it from any of the normal base teleport locations. There is also street entrance from Steel Canyon near the Blyde Square.
In general expect things just to work out without knowing the specifics. Club knows what you drink, club knows who came in with whom. We hope it does not become necessary to start defining how it all works. Try to maintain this suspension of disbelief, please.
Membership
Club's membership can be attributed to either a civilian name or a hero license name. In case of secret identities both identities may be members. [u]Note:[u] If you have a secret identity, it's a good idea to remind your mates to consider which name they call you by depending on what you're wearing.
IC membership is just an IC agreement between the character and the Fourth Wall management. By game mechanics there are three options how this is represented. Please see "IC access" below for details.
Members may bring guests but IC and OOC they are responsible for them. If someone has been banned from the club they may not enter even as guests. If someone frequents as a guests it is wished that they will become members.
IC access
All characters who IC are members of the club have access to the bar. In practice this means three options.
1. The character belongs to Fourth Wall SG and has IC membership (or is a guest).
2. The character is in an SG that is in coalition with the Fourth Wall SG and has IC membership (or is a guest).
3. The character is in group with a Fourth Wall SG member as a leader and has IC membership (or is a guest).
Please be mindful that sometimes the "base kick bug" interferes. In those occasions the character cannot enter the base even if the group leader belongs to the SG and the base is set to accept such visitors. This is an issue only with characters who belong to an SG that is not in coalition with the SG whose base is being entered to. This bug does not affect SG-less characters.
One rather laborious fix is to create a look-alike alt for the member character and join the Fourth Wall SG with that alt.
OOC access
The Fourth Wall will be coalitioned with other supergroups to allow the members of those supergroups to enter the base. The game sets a hard limit of 10 possible coalitions which has to be worked around. In practice a few SGs will be kept permanently on coalition list while others will be rotated on a need basis. We are aware that this will be an inconvenience but one that game mechanics prohibit to work around.
SGs that are coalitioned with the Fourth Wall SG may apply for an IC group membership. In practice the membership is granted to all members of that SG. Each member is required to read and agree to the IC rules of the club, and each player is required to read and agree to the OOC rules. Agreement is considered to be automatic and SG leaders bear the responsibility to acquaintance their members with the IC and OOC rules.
Members of the Fourth Wall SG are NOT allowed to use other bases without permission from that particular SG. Breaches of this rule will be taken very seriously and may result in expulsion from the Fourth Wall SG. If you enter the wrong base by mistake, leave immediately.
OOC members of the Fourth Wall SG will not be permitted to enter the base / club without IC permission. They require either membership of their own (making them IC members rather than OOC members) or being accompanied by another member, same as anyone else.
Fourth Wall SG members
Gaining prestige for the SG is not an IC contribution, but OOCly we are thankful for any and all help that we can get in this are. More prestige means new rooms for the club, and possibly some basic functionality.
People are free to join the SG as OOC members if they so wish. They are also quite free to just remove those characters at any given time without prior notice. A good scenario is a roleplayer finding a nice SG while talking in Fourth Wall and hooking up for more fun with them.
The fourth wall
Yes, we know what 'fourth wall' means. The reference is made in-character. What for? Ask IC if interested. ))
((Brilliant initiative 
An alternative for the D and GG, sounds great!))
((sounds like a great idea Coile What are the IC rules regarding minors, drinking and general entrance?))
((I think Zorielle might have to visit, and perhaps arrange group membership for the Unity Vigil. Can be discussed more IC. *nods*))
((Top idea that man! A nightclub with no... tools (ahem)! Woot!))
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Brilliant.
((Ah what the h&ll! Now I have to delete an alt and create GoodGuy's "civilian"-self. Damn! 
Brilliant idea really. Love it.))
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((sounds like a great idea Coile What are the IC rules regarding minors, drinking and general entrance?))
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(( Excellent question and one that needs an answer with some creative fudge applied to it. ))
Any legally independent person or a person with a standing hero license may enter the premises. Buying alcohol is governed by state and city laws.
(( Age is a tricky thing. It's sanely measurable only with 'regular humans'. There's your clones, replicas, AIs, gynoids, demons and aliens with whom the how many times Earth has rotated around its sun since they came into being has little to do with maturity. Earth laws use age as a criteria but in CoX universe age is not as clear cut.
I am making some basic assumptions: Regular folks have their IDs and can prove their age. Some people look old enough so no one would ask. With some critters it's really hard to tell and the answer would not provide usable information and there is no point in asking.
The only problem area left is human looking heroes who are legally underage. Paragon City has through its history shown to cater to heroes and I'm taking advantage f it. Fourth Wall has made a deal with Paragon City that anyone with a hero license may enter the club that is aimed for just their kind. The city already has vested them with authority similar to the police and sends them to fight criminals. Surely they must think them to be adults enough in some respect.
If someone has no license, is underage and does not wish to lie, then there is a problem, but it's one that I can't right now work around.
Drinking alcohol is another issue. Serving minors would be illegal. Then again there's usually no staff. And an adult can get a drink and hand it to a minor. A minor with a secret identity can pass as an adult. There's loopholes aplenty. It's not too hard to device a situation where a minor ends up with a glass of beer.
I wish to apply common sense here. IC-wise the management is not too fuzzed about this. They expect the clientèle to know what's what by themselves.
The GM-ship expects everyone to have a reasonable reasoning as to how they got their drink. Adults are handled by IDs. Someone who looks like an adult is good to go. A big demon spewing brimstone is hardly denied a shot of Jack Daniels. If the character is of legal age in some faery kingdom or is a time traveler with an adult mindset, they probably could make their case to a living staff member. If no reasonable proof can be given but another hero (the more respected the better) vouches for the young looking person stating that they should be served it goes.
In short, use some sensibility OOCly. Don't break the suspension of disbelief by claiming that a 12 year old street urchin is allowed to drink themselves into oblivion. Lots of characters would not let this slide and would have to intervene. What we don't want is situation where other heroes or the club management have to intervene. It will be done if necessary, though.
Summa summarum: enter the club if you can reason how it happens. Buy a drink if you can explain it. Don't stretch the believability too far. The name of the game is having an RP location, not carding everyone and their guardian angel before they are allowed to breath the air.
If anyone finds this unreasonable, please speak up. I'd like a set of rules / conventions / practices that allows maximum of people to enjoy RP with minimum fuzz. ))
Just remember, in most states in the US, the legal drinking age is 21, not 18. 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
My tuppence. If your character is underage, fine. If they're underage and somehow get a drink, fine. If an underage person's character goes into the club solely to rp how "cute" they are when drunk? Ugh, no, Pocket D is that way.
A query - how does one manage to get an invitation to the club as a alt-guest or even a member? I admit I don't quite understand how bases work. I figured I'd create a look-alike for Jean-Luc as a level 2 and just go from there but I admit my cluelessness to figuring out how to make it known he'd like to go in.
(( To get into the Fourth Wall SG you need me online, and present. I'll invite characters to the SG or SGs into coalitions. I may assign helpers and announce their globals.
These days I have a habit of afking in-game a lot so a tell to @Coile might be delivered but if the connection breaks before I have a chance to see it, it's lost. Evening time I should be present (except Fridays).
Gaining a membership does not have to be played out. I'll just ask OOCly if the rules are clear. If they are, invitation can happen.
Once your character is a member, please add the name to the list in wiki entry.
I'm hoping the age limits will not become a major issue, regardless of what they are. ))
A channel has been created for 4th Wall use. The name is simply 4th. It's open to join. While the channel, as well as the club, does allow adult themes, again moderation and consideration are expected.
IC profanities have more leeway than OOC ones.
In two words:
This Rocked.
Thank you very kindly for all the effort in putting it together. Definitely going to hop on the civilian Loup and get some prestige together to promote the effort. Well done to everyone involved.
^I'm with Loup, A great venue!
Thanks to everyone involved, particularly coile for getting it all together.
er..and apologies to everyone on the OOC channel for my prime display of idiocy when I managed to 'misplace' my tab and spam the channel *facepalms*
Last night was certainly fun. Very fun. Zortel was able to sort out IC membership for the UV, Nene met up with Dee, chatted to various people and was her usual self, and I was in there on Cindersnap till 2.30am-ish talking to Arcavius.
And Doc Mechano found yet another person to try and foist Ryan on to. :P
*mutters* No comment on that from the peanut gallery. *Jean luc piles up a hasty blockage before the door of his closet*
(( These flyers appeared today (November 26th) across Paragon City plastered on the walls. Graphical version is coming. Timezone used is English time. 9 PM for Central Europe, 10 PM for Eastern Europe. ))
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Opening a new, fashionable club for metahumans and people who are interested in the hero culture in Paragon City.
FOURTH WALL
Grand opening November 27th from 8 PM onwards
Entrances: physical one in Steel Canyon, Blyde Square. The club is also connected to the base teleport network.
Opening is for all. For other times a club membership is required.
On behalf of Fourth Wall's owner and manager Wild Thyme,
Stratocaster, herald of the new weird, consumer all things rock and fun-loving deputy manager of Fourth Wall