Player reference / Help files

KNOW THE
CONSEQUENCES.

Commands and field notes for life in Gravesend. Read the rules before the rules find you.

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Getting started

Your first session

Get oriented in Gravesend before choosing a fight or a faction.

Getting started

Commands worth knowing

A practical command reference rather than a decorative terminal.

Getting started

Roleplay and emotes

Write an action another character can answer.

Characters

Character creation and tiers

Separate your background from your powers and progression.

Characters

Human backgrounds and Gifted

Distinct human backgrounds and their creation rules.

Bloodlines

Vampires

Blood-dependent immortality without the convenient parts of the myth.

Bloodlines

Werewolves

Transformation and regeneration come with lunacy and silver.

Bloodlines

Faeborn

Human-looking descendants of the fae with an unstable relationship to fortune.

Bloodlines

Angelborn

Empathy can be a gift and a means of control.

Bloodlines

Demonborn

Demonic influence in a person who still looks human.

Bloodlines

Demigods

Divine ancestry does not make a starting character a god.

Characters

Skills, powers and focuses

Build on your background or bloodline through skills and supernatural abilities.

Characters

Progression and legendary powers

Know the difference between ordinary progression and an earned high-tier remake.

Characters

Higher-power guests

A territorial guest character supported or opposed through operations.

Characters

Monster guests and earned remakes

Survive the monster path to earn a high-tier permanent character.

Organizations

Joining and founding a society

Membership is a strategic commitment rather than an unlimited set of badges.

Organizations

The two alliance sides

Two strategic sides shared by eligible factions and player societies.

Organizations

Society services and upkeep

Roster size matters and an empty treasury switches services off.

Organizations

The Cortex

Authority maintained through coercion and the promise of order.

Organizations

The Scum and the destroyed Order

Opposition is not the same as innocence.

Organizations

Faction chip control

Institutional membership can give other members physical leverage.

Organizations

Worship and opposition

Higher-power relationships are declarations with operational consequences.

World and lore

The Academy of Civic Integration

Education and care used to produce loyalty to Cortex.

World and lore

Gravesend and the other worlds

A Massachusetts town with routes to places ordinary geography cannot explain.

Survival

Sanctuary and its limits

Protection can pay for recovery without preventing the original harm.

Survival

Death and maim recovery

The injury records the coverage. Recovery does not retrieve your belongings.

Survival

Unaffiliated humans and debt

Personal recovery has a different price and a different route into dependence.

Survival

Feeding and hunger

The hunger clock uses real days and keeps running while you are offline.

Survival

Lifeforce and active modifiers

The visible LF total is a result rather than a complete explanation.

Conflict

Investigating and thwarting schemes

An unknown scheme must be discovered before it can be thwarted.

Conflict

State of Emergency

A scheme can suspend the machinery that normally answers public violence.

Conflict

Operations and deployment

Scheduled objectives connect the tactical fight to society territory and resources.

Conflict

Reading the combat map

Identity markers and cover information use the same tactical view.

Getting started

Local maps and navigation

A room map is a different tool from the tactical combat view.

Getting started

Moving around Gravesend

Cardinal movement for the room. Transport for the town and beyond.

Conflict

Dissent patrols

Keep a protest alive or suppress it before the clock expires.

Conflict

Public fights and Cortex response

An arrest squad and a public-defense squad do not have the same outcome.

Conflict

Cortex arrests and syndicate auctions

The alarm-arrest route can put a defeated character into a timed auction.

Organizations

Selling blood for society funds

A weekly opportunity with a coin-flip risk of a Cortex sting.

Organizations

The Cortex harvest quota

The monthly institution-wide quota counts raw drained lifeforce.

Organizations

Territories and their rewards

The organizations holding the footholds receive the direct benefits.

Conflict

Breaches and other-world ambushes

A failed operation can bring a threat back to Gravesend.

World and lore

Wandering pedestrians

Ordinary adult NPCs have routines and a limited lifeforce reserve.

Getting started

Colours and retired community credit

The former reward features are no longer locked behind community credit.

Reference

Changed and retired systems

A short list of traps in inherited help text.

Getting started

Player conduct and character consequences

Fictional coercion does not make out-of-character harassment acceptable.

Reference

Where these guides come from

Pinned repository sources and clear boundaries around inherited material.