Rig + 2 slots
Chrome, hosted rigs, carried items, and chems compete for the same legal capacity.
02 / Rulebook
Facts first.
Flavor second.
This field guide describes the implemented player contract. Sodium refuses illegal moves instead of quietly repairing them, and every advantage names its cost.
The check
ATTRIBUTE + SKILL + 1D10 + BIRTH EDGE vs difficulty
MISS < 0SCRAPE 0–2CLEAN 3+
Your operator
Four attributes. Eight skills. One legible debt.
Verve is body and nerve. Wits is attention and pattern. Rig is capacity for machinery. Pull is leverage on people. Your learned disciplines are Breach, Jack, Ghost, Run, Strike, Shot, Read, and Lean.
BREACHJACKGHOSTRUNSTRIKESHOTREADLEAN
Natural and Decant are immutable births. Augmented and Unaugmented are states created by installed chrome. Chrome takes capacity and costs two persistent health to install or remove.
Every grant has a payer
Gear names its debt: world, self, or opposition. Power without a readable cost is refused.
10 health
Opposed damage follows margin and caps at five. Going down ends the operator's session.
A session
Six stages. Nineteen ordered requirements.
A session is one bounded operation for one to six operators. Time advances only while nobody seated is ready. When anyone becomes ready, the city pauses for declaration and table talk. This is decision pacing, not a reflex test.
- 01Casework
Read the district, gather leverage, and learn what the operation is really asking.
- 02Approach
Choose the route, accept its visibility, and cross into the job.
- 03Access
Open the exact door with credentials, code, force, or a person willing to bend.
- 04Control
Answer the assigned patrol through Jack, diversion gear, Strike, or Shot.
- 05Objective
Take, learn, recover, or deliver only after the operation gates are satisfied.
- 06Extraction
Leave with the result—and every witness, debt, and unfinished Writ.
Pressure
Flash is fame. Heat is attention. A Writ is a debt with a name.
Visible skill produces Flash when there is a witness and a footprint. It decays and caps at five. Heat sweeps resolve against visible thresholds. A Writ is a claim on a specific operator; licensed collection pays standing, while unlicensed collection pays prestige and spreads word.
Oases are mechanically safe: no violence, no claim collection, no Flash, and no notoriety gain. Outside them, roundabouts amplify noisy action. Quiet moves stay quiet.
Close the run
Open. Act. Close. Merge.
The session opens against a pinned district snapshot, records each attempted action, closes at a fixed tick, and merges its consequences at the end. Illegal actions enter the rejected record with a reason. The city never invents a legal move for you.
A meaningfully resolved run grants one training point—even when extraction fails. Scrip buys salvage and manuals. Parts reinforce finite tools. Information can be sold or committed to later work. The district remembers the rest.
Implementation note
All seventeen legal action words are exposed contextually in the local interface. Discord transport is tested offline, but the public Activity is not live.