[War_ooc] WAR Rules: Secret Actions

[John Penta]

I'm bored, ergo I add another page to my WAR folder.

In any case. Covering a topic I'm surprised hasn't come up yet:

SECRET ACTIONS
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Secret Actions are anything you want to keep secret from the rest of
the playerbase. Covert ops, secret research....anything your minds can
imagine should be secretive, within reason, I can accommodate.

They should, naturally, be sent to me privately - and clearly labeled
IN THE SUBJECT as secret actions, as follows (not a real post):

"Secret Actions: France: Torturing the Ninja Squirrels"

If you screw up and send em to the list, I will laugh at you...and
treat it as a normal post. This is your only warning.

They should thereafter be written as you would write a normal post.

Dates are *mandatory*. I've seen them not applied by players in normal
posts...Not gonna fly on secret actions. For follow-up, they need an
IC date attached to em.
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The Actions Section of a secret action is vital. You need to be
*absolutely clear* as to your intentions. Any unclear phrasing, and I
will decide what you meah myself - this will basically depend on my
sense of drama.

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Secret Actions are generally resolved as I would resolve a normal
post. However, I apply another measure after I decide success - the
leak roll.

Essentially, for each action, I assign a target number along a scale
of 100 - I then roll a d100 against it. Meet or beat the target
number, and your action is carried out in secrecy. Roll below it, and
the action is 'leaked'.

I plan to decide consequences of a leak fairly dynamically - if you're
conducting something horrific or illegal, it'll get a different
reaction than if it's just run-of-the-mill spying, naturally.
Sometimes it'll mean press attention. Other times, I may quietly slip
a note to another player, alerting them to your activity. Other times,
it may mean entirely unique consequences.

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Long-term secret actions:

Some kinds of things, I will designate "long-term" activities. Most
commonly, this will apply to research or construction, but it can
apply to anything that logically stretches for more than one WR.

In such cases, I'll make notes of the activity in files held by me -
with each WR, I'll roll new leak rolls and, if applicable, decide on
continuing success/failure.

Research/Construction will also, for sanity's sake, have it noted when
they should be complete by.
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In case you're wondering, no, I will not count Secret Actions in with
the post count.

Any other questions on this topic, feel free to ask off-list.

John