Don't intentionally try to break the chatroom system.
Don't impersonate another regular chatter.
Those are the rules that apply to all the chatrooms.

There's also the normal usages of good manners. If you're bad mannered, you could be kicked out of the chatroom as a warning, or even banned permanently. That's mostly up to the performer. I'm not expecting this to happen much, but there is always a tiny percentage of extreme jerks in any population.

In addition, each performer can set her own guidelines, such as "Don't ask me to do a 'Most Muscular' pose", or whatever guidelines she wants to set. Performers have the power to kick (a temporary thing that chucks someone out of the chatroom, and they have to log in again) or ban. It's entirely up to them.

Don't ask the performer to get naked, or perform any sex act. That's against our rules, and you could be kicked or banned for even asking it, it depends on how offended you make the performer.

TROUBLESHOOTING VIDEO PROBLEMS

If the video isn't working, right-click on the green border around the video, and choose "refresh". If that doesn't work, close down all copies of your browser, and then start it up again. In some situations, you might need to reboot your computer.

Some browsers, after you use them for an hour or two intensively, start to get sluggish. You might be able to fix that just by closing down the browser and restarting it, or you might need to reboot. In the longer run, you might get a better browser.

BASICS

There are two chatrooms for each performer - one is free and the other is premium, which carries a per-minute charge of $3/minute in most cases.

Billing starts at $3 per minute as soon as you access a PREMIUM chatroom. If you log on twice to the same room (which might happen if you accidentally click the Logoff button), then you aren't double-billed.

The basics of the chatroom are pretty obvious. You type what you want to say at the bottom, then press your keyboard "Enter" key. That's really all you need to know to use it. But there's also some cool stuff, just like there is in the Diana the Valkyrie chatroom.

There's the /me command.

So, if you're logged in as Jim Beam, and you type:
/me starts to sing a song
Then the chatroom will say "Jim Beam starts to sing a song".

You choose a colour when you log in - if you don't, your colour is black. But you can change your colour once you're chatting. /colour green will move you to green. There's actually millions of colours available, you can do /colour #2f9956, for example. Look here for a colour chart. People often pick a colour, and then use it every day. And if someone is already using a colour, it's customary not to use the same one. You'll find that the colours make it easier to see who said what.

Want to change your name? Use the /nick command
/nick Happy Jim Beam
will change your chatroom name to "Happy Jim Beam". You can do this as often as you like; people often change their nick to tell other folks what mood they're in, or that they're only in for a minute, or that they've just popped out for a moment "Jim Beam AFK" (short for "Away From Keyboard"). You can also tell everyone your email address with a command like
/email valkyrie@thevalkyrie.comThere's emoticons, like :-) (meaning happy) and lol (meaning, "laughing out loud"). They get shown as little faces. Grr, wink, kiss, eek and some others. There's a few other things that get translated into little graphics; you'll soon find out what they are :-) You can applaud the performer with the /clap command, although tipping is a more useful form of applause.

You can use the snapshot camera to take as many pictures as you want, and you can copy and share those with other people, but you must leave our logo on the picture.

TIPPING

In this chatroom, you can tip the performer. That means, you're giving her some money. Tipping is completely optional, of course, and you can choose how much. The easy way to tip, is to use the tip links, over on the left. If you accidentally click on one of those links, don't worry. You have to also click on the "Yes" button that pops up, to confirm that you want to tip. If you click "No", then the tip isn't done.

You can also use the /tip command, which works in dollars. So, /tip 5 will tip the performer $5, equal to 500 tokens. the chatroom announces the tip. Once you've tipped, you can't take it back. You can tip as much as you like (up to a maximum of $20 per tip), as often as you like.

ADVANCED STUFF
You can't use HTML here. But you can post links. You just type:
http://www.thevalkyrie.com
or whatever your link is, and the chatroom turns it into a clickable link.

Sometimes, you want to say "Hi" to everyone when you enter the chatroom. You could do this with a dozen posts, but it's much neater to type "hi /everyone" and let the chatroom do the rest.

You can upload files, using the "upload" link. They'll be announced in the chatroom by the chatroom.

You might want to summon the Valkyrie, because something has gone wrong. For that, you can use the ValkSignal, which is a bit like the Batsignal, except it isn't in Gotham. "/valksignal on" will switch on the signal; "/valksignal off" will switch it off again.

"/roll" will ask the chatroom to roll the dice for you, you'll get a number beteen 1 and 100. There's some chatroom games based on that.

"/slap Jim Beam" will slap Jim Beam around a bit with a kipper. This is generally considered to be hilarious.

And there's other stuff. You'll recognise most of it from the Diana the Valkyrie chatroom, or maybe other chatters will tell you about it.

Speaking of links - if you give a web site address (starting with http), then the chatroom will turn that into a clickable link, so that people can follow it. If you want to show something to people, that's the way to do it.