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Before your first life

Guides & Rules

Getting started

Four steps, and the whole thing takes about twenty minutes.

01

Join the Discord

Read the rules and the lore. Ask anything — somebody is always around.

02

Write your application

Tell us who your character is. We read every word; effort is the whole filter.

03

Pass the interview

A short voice call so we know you understand the rules you agreed to.

04

Arrive in the city

Get your licence, find work, and start the only life that character gets.

You will need a microphone. Everything happens in voice. Text roleplay is not supported in the city.

How permadeath works

Death is not instant and it is not random. It is a window, and what happens inside that window is roleplay.

Serious injury puts your character into a downed state with a timer. During it, anyone nearby can apply first aid, and EMS can do considerably more. If someone stabilises you before the timer runs out, you live — with consequences that persist.

If nobody reaches you, or the injury was never survivable, the character is flagged deceased and locked. That character is finished. You keep the memory, the memorial, and anything you willed to somebody else.

Staff cannot undo it. Not as a policy position — as a technical one. Reversals happen only for proven server faults, with logs, and they are rare.

The medical system

Injuries are modelled per body part and per type. A broken arm is not a health bar going down; it is a broken arm, and it stays broken until somebody sets it.

Injury Caused by Treated with
Bleeding Gunshots, blades, glass Bandage, then sutures
Fracture Falls, vehicle collisions Splint on scene, cast at hospital
Shock Blood loss, severe trauma IV fluids, transfusion
Organ damage Penetrating trauma Surgery. Hospital only

Hospitals have finite supplies and they are restocked on a schedule. A busy night genuinely runs the city short, and that is a plot rather than a bug.

The full rules

1.Value your life

A gun to your head changes what your character does. Six guns changes it more. Behave like somebody who wants to live.

2.No random deathmatch

Violence needs a reason your character could explain out loud. Initiation, escalation, consequence — in that order.

3.Stay in character

Take it to a ticket, not to the street. Breaking character to argue ends the scene for everybody in it.

4.No metagaming

What you heard on a stream, your character did not hear. What you read in Discord, your character does not know.

5.No exploits

Found a bug? Report it. Using one to dodge permadeath is the fastest route out of the city, permanently.

6.Respect the people

The character can be a monster. You cannot. Anything aimed at the person behind the character is dealt with immediately.

FAQ

How long does whitelisting take?

Usually under 48 hours. Longer at weekends, because the people reading applications also play here.

Can I transfer a character from another server?

No. Everybody starts with nothing, which is the only way starting with nothing means anything.

What happens to my money when I die?

Whatever you willed goes where you willed it. Anything you did not is gone. Write a will early; nobody plans the day they need one.

Is there a donation store?

There is, and it sells cosmetics and convenience. Nothing in it makes you harder to kill.

I died to a bug. Now what?

Open a ticket with the time, the location and a clip if you have one. Server-fault deaths are reviewed and sometimes restored. Clips make the difference.

Still stuck? Ask in Discord — somebody is always awake.

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