You, Eskelian, likely have nothing to worry about. Because if we thought you were involved in this same sort of shady activity, the first thing that would happen would be a warning. Which is exactly what happened to most of the aforementioned Hell group.

Torak and Artificial got denied due to it being a repeat offense.

Tweedster got slain/purged and de-empowered due to using people that he admitted to speaking with OOC to achieve the goal of getting to Satan. It was fairly clear to me that this was a pre-planned thing prior to character creation.

The players in question do have quite a history of rule breaking. This was a huge factor in the punishment. There were 4-5 other characters who were given a warning. One was unfortunately left in the Realm of the Dead longer than I wanted, because I was unable to find him, and so instead I spelled out the warning to him in an email and had him moved out of the RotD offline so he could go back to playing.

You have allowed Torak and Artificial to make you their Champion in this...whether you are just wanting to be argumentative or not. The bottom line is repeat-offenders who broke a rule got denied for that rule. First time offenders would not have been denied. And BECAUSE the rule is vague, when I talk to people about it, I TALK to them. Many of the "other permas" that people like to speak of on these forums have had that talk. But that is between them and the Immortal staff. That talk has changed at least one of their play patterns, for the better. More than one, in fact, that I can think of.

The rule does not need to be changed, nor does the wording.