Midnight Masquerade RP

Terms of Service

Effective 14 October 2026.

These terms cover Midnight Masquerade Roleplay (“Midnight Masquerade”, “we”, “us”): this website, our FiveM game server, our Discord server and the patronage subscriptions sold through our Shoppe. By applying, signing in, playing, contributing or subscribing, you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use our services.

1. Who we are

Midnight Masquerade is made by Rick-Rack Studios and operated by Tarpeian Group, LLC, based in the United States. For business inquiries and questions about these terms, email masquerade@tarpeiangroup.com.

Midnight Masquerade is not approved, sponsored or endorsed by Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive or Cfx.re. It is a fan community and is not official World of Darkness material. Portions of the materials are the copyrights and trademarks of Paradox Interactive AB, used with permission under the Dark Pack Agreement.

2. Who can join

You must be 18 ans ou plus.
You need your own legitimate copy of Grand Theft Auto V, a Cfx.re account and a Discord account, and you must follow their terms as well as ours.
The city is allowlisted. Admission is by application and at staff discretion, and staff may decline or withdraw it.
Your account is yours alone. Don’t share it, sell it or use someone else’s.

3. How we expect you to behave

The Accord, our community rules, applies in the city, on Discord and on this website. Staff may warn, suspend or ban anyone who breaks it, and may remove content that breaks it. Patrons follow the same rules as everyone else: paying never buys an exception.

Don’t cheat, exploit bugs, harass anyone, share other people’s private information, or try to disrupt the server, the website or other players’ accounts.

4. What you write for us

Your applications, character backgrounds and other submissions stay yours. You give us permission to store them, show them to our staff, use them to run your character in the city and keep them in our records and shared story. Only submit material you have the right to share, and keep other people’s private information out of it. Notes marked as private to Storytellers are shown to staff only.

5. Work you donate

Sometimes players offer us things they’ve made for use in Midnight Masquerade: art, writing, lore, maps, clothing, vehicles, sounds, scripts or other creations (a “contribution”). Contributing is always your own choice. We never require it, and it is never a condition of playing, admission or patronage.

A contribution is a donation. You give it freely and without payment, and nothing is owed for it, now or later.
You keep ownership. You can still use, share, publish or sell your own work anywhere. We don’t ask for exclusivity, and we will never bring a claim against you for sharing or using what you made.
We receive a permanent licence. Once we confirm in writing (a Discord message or an email from staff) that we’ve accepted your contribution, you grant Tarpeian Group, LLC a free, worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual and irrevocable licence to use, copy, adapt, edit, display and distribute it as part of Midnight Masquerade, including the city, this website, our Discord and our promotion. Our staff and Rick-Rack Studios may work with it for that purpose.
No claims after confirmation. From that confirmation on, you can’t withdraw the licence, ask for payment or royalties, or bring any claim against us for using the contribution within this licence. Until we confirm, you can withdraw your offer at any time.
It must be yours to give. Only donate work you made yourself or have the right to give. Don’t include other people’s work, files taken from Rockstar’s games, real-world brands or logos, or licensed music. If a contribution turns out to infringe someone else’s rights, we may remove it, and responsibility for that infringement stays with the person who donated it.
Use and credit are our choice. We don’t have to use a contribution, and we may change it or stop using it. Where practical we’ll credit you, unless you’d rather not be named. To the extent the law allows, you agree not to assert moral rights, such as the right to object to edits, against our use within this licence.

6. Patronage subscriptions

Tebex sells them. Patronage is sold by Tebex Limited, our official FiveM payment partner, which is the reseller and merchant of record for every purchase. Tebex takes your payment, handles billing and taxes, and its checkout terms apply to the purchase. Where its terms and ours conflict about the purchase itself, Tebex’s terms apply. Patronage subscriptions are purchases, not donations; section 5 is only about work you contribute.

They renew monthly. Each tier is billed every month at the price shown before you check out, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time with the link in your Tebex receipt email or through Tebex’s payment history at checkout.tebex.io. Cancelling stops the next renewal; your perks continue until the end of the month you’ve already paid for.

What you receive. Each tier’s perks are listed on its card in our Shoppe and in its Tebex description. Higher tiers include everything in the tiers below them. Perks are delivered automatically to the Cfx.re and Discord accounts linked at checkout, usually within a few minutes, and stop when the subscription ends.

Discord roles and the Murmur tag are cosmetic and social.
The Velvet design changes how your own in-game menus look. It changes nothing else.
Pier76 car club membership lets members use the Pier76 club and see, and buy with in-game money earned through play, new cars there before their citywide release. Membership never includes free vehicles, in-game money or items.
Seasonal storyline votes are advisory polls on future storylines. Each season can bring several of them, on whatever storylines are coming up, and there is always at least one. Storytellers make the final decisions.

What patronage never gives. No tier grants staff authority, admission to the city, character approval, experience, powers, story control, in-game money, items with real-world value, or any reward decided by chance. Perks are a personal, non-transferable licence. They have no cash value and you don’t own them.

Changes. We may improve, replace or retire perks. If we remove or materially reduce a perk you pay for, we’ll announce it on this website and in our Discord at least 30 days before your next renewal, so you can cancel first. Price changes take effect only from a later billing date, after notice.

All sales are final. We don’t refund patronage payments, including for a partial month, a suspension or ban, or if we change or close the server, except where the law requires it or Tebex corrects a billing error. Our Refund Policy has the details. If you’re suspended or banned for breaking our rules, perks that depend on the city or our Discord stop working until access returns. You can cancel at any time.

Payment disputes. Please contact us before disputing a charge with your bank; most problems can be fixed quickly. While a chargeback is open, the perks it covers may be paused. Disputing a charge in good faith is never a rule break.

7. The service itself

We run Midnight Masquerade as a hobby community and can’t promise it will always be available, error-free or unchanged. We may change, pause or close the city, the website or any feature. Characters, in-game property and in-game money exist only inside the game and have no real-world value.

8. Our content and marks

The website, artwork, writing and game resources made for Midnight Masquerade belong to Tarpeian Group, LLC, to Rick-Rack Studios or to the people who licensed or donated them to us. Don’t copy, resell or redistribute them without permission. Tarpeian Group™ is a trademark of Tarpeian Group, LLC. Other names and marks belong to their owners.

9. Liability

To the extent the law allows, our services are provided “as is”, and Tarpeian Group, LLC is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost data or lost in-game progress. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the three months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have by law that cannot be waived, including your rights as a consumer.

10. Ending your participation

You can stop playing, cancel your subscription and ask us to delete your data at any time (see our Privacy Policy). We may end or suspend your access for breaking these terms or the Accord, or if we close the community. Licences you granted for confirmed contributions (section 5) continue after you leave.

11. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA, and disputes go to the courts located in Florida. If you are a consumer living in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country and may bring a claim in your local courts.

12. Changes to these terms

We’ll post any update here with a new effective date. If a change materially affects paid perks, we’ll give the notice described in section 6. Changes never take back a licence or a promise already given for a confirmed contribution.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: masquerade@tarpeiangroup.com. We aim to reply within 72 hours.