Slyfox

Rules & Guidelines for Play

• For the pre-generated characters, your additional tic must be sent with the first action e-mail sent in response to the first game update, otherwise I will accept that you only have the tic specified in the character description, and thus forfeit the Perversity Point (PP) bonus.
• Also for pre-gens, the two blank narrow specialities may be filled in whenever you want to during play. Once filled in, you’re stuck with it, though.
• In general, you will have a reasonable amount of actions available to you within one turn. In other words, you can lump more than one action into a single action e-mail following a game update from me. A good habit to form is to also state conditional actions. For example, if you say your character is going to try something, think ahead and also state what they will do if they are successful, and what they will do if they are unsuccessful.
• Dice rolls will probably mostly be done on my side to keep things flowing. There may be occasions (in which case I will announce) where dice rolls will be done privately (or in public!) by you.
• On a related note, Perversity Point spending will default to secret, but may on occasion be laid bare to the list so that mass PP auctioning may occur for great paranoia. And lulz.
• In general, if you say what you are going to do and you’re in the presence of the other players, you can send your update to all of the players (just make sure you exclude the lurkers, they only receive the end-of-turn updates that I send out as summaries of what actually happened). If you want to do something sneaky, like try to plant a treasonous item on a fellow Troubleshooter, you’ll obviously send it to me privately. If you’re going to talk to someone, or to each other, make sure you send what you say to all players in earshot (in other words, all players that are in the general vicinity of you). If you’re ever in doubt of whether other players should know what you’re doing, send the update to me only, and I will forward it to the others as I deem appropriate.

FAQ
Q: OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO?!
A: Relax, Citizen. Anxiety is prohibited. Happiness is mandatory. Simply put yourselves in the shoes of your alter-ego (for as long as they’re not burning from laser fire), and think what you would do if you were in their skin. Then, send an e-mail to me telling me what you think you’d do if you were them. Then, I’ll tell you how you managed to send them to their dooms in a remarkably spectabular fashion.

Q: I don’t get what you’re talking about with all this Perversity Points and service firms and Computer knows what else. Help!
A: If you’re unsure about anything, just drop me an e-mail and I’ll explain to the best of my ability.