The Player Guide

Both keys are in the pause menu under Settings, then Key Bindings, then the FiveM section.

/scene

Scenes let you leave detail in the world for other people to find. There are two kinds and they behave very differently.

• Prop scene. Place any physical object, position it with a live preview, and write the text a successful roll reveals. Another player Third Eyes the object and only reads what you wrote if they pass the roll you set. This is the one for evidence, hidden marks, and things that should reward a perceptive character.
• Text only scene. Plain readable text floating in the world. Not hidden, not gated, anyone walking past can read it. Look at where you want it, the real text previews in place, and E drops it. Up and Down adjust height, hold Shift for fine control, X or Esc cancels.

Dropping an item from your inventory also uses the scene placer, so you can put things down precisely and describe them, instead of items appearing in a heap at your feet.

Every player has a numeric server ID. Press Home to see the IDs of everyone near you for five seconds. You need one for /pm, for targeted commands, for reporting, and for selling someone a vehicle.

/id shows your own. /cid shows your character identifier, which staff sometimes ask for.

An ID is an out of character handle. Your character does not perceive it, cannot say it, and does not learn anything about a person from it. Recognising a player by their ID and acting on it in character is metagaming.

Reading the result

• Each die that comes up at or above the difficulty is a success. Standard difficulty is 6.
• One success means it worked, barely. Three is comfortable. Five is exceptional.
• A 1 cancels a success. If you roll ones and no successes at all, that is a botch, and something goes actively wrong rather than merely not working.
• Your wound penalties are applied automatically to almost everything. A hurt character rolls fewer dice, and you do not have to remember to subtract them.

Rolls are announced to nearby players, but your name only appears to people who have actually been introduced to you. Everyone else sees the unknown label. You cannot learn someone's identity by watching them roll.

Experience is granted by Storytellers and through the site, not by grinding. It is spent through your sheet, and the spend is reviewed before it takes effect.

1. Open /sheet and click Spend XP.
2. Raise whatever you want to raise. The editor is add only: dots go up, never down, and nothing can be removed.
3. Submit. The sheet locks and shows your new dots, but they are not usable yet.
4. A Storyteller approves or denies. On approval the dots go live and the experience is deducted. On denial nothing changes and nothing is lost.

Costs are calculated automatically from the standard tables and recomputed on the server, so there is nothing to argue about and nothing to work out on paper.

A permanent rating is the ceiling; the temporary value is what you actually have to spend. You can usually burn into the permanent rating in an emergency, but you will be warned first, and getting it back costs experience rather than time.

Type /condition at any time to see where you are.

Named injuries

Separately from the wound track, your character accumulates specific injuries: a gunshot wound to the left leg, a fractured rib, lacerations. Each is recorded with a body region and a severity of Minor, Serious or Critical. These are what a medic actually treats.

They accrue during ordinary play, not only when you go down. If you get shot and walk it off, the wound is still on your chart.

Controls while you are down

The monitor's heartbeat trace is real: it reflects your actual wound track, and it will flatline if you do. It is deliberately see through so the scene around you stays visible.

How long before you can give up

Giving up is gated on whether help is realistically coming:

Giving up is a hold rather than a press for the same reason rising is: no amount of typing produces a held key, so a stray keystroke mid sentence cannot kill you.

Separately, a genuinely critical patient has a rescue window of 30 to 60 minutes. Inside that window you can still be saved, and that is the timer that really decides how your downing resolves.

Declaring your injuries

Press E while down and tell the medic what is wrong with you. You choose the injury, the body region, and how bad it is. If you would rather not adjudicate your own wounds, pick the option that asks the system to judge severity: it rolls three dice and decides.

You can also write, in your own words, what happened. This goes onto your chart and the treating medic can read it. It is the single most useful thing you can do for the person about to work on you.

Anything you declare is flagged as stated, meaning it came from you rather than from the system. You are free to lie about how you got hurt. They are free to be sceptical.

Waking up

Two ways back. A medic revives you and you come back treated. Or you give up, and wake on a hospital bed still carrying the injuries from whatever put you down. Being shot to death and then waking up does not un-shoot you.

You do not have to be online for it. Healing that would have happened while you were away is applied when you log back in.

Walk into any registered facility and Third Eye the Check In For Treatment desk. Reception sees you and does what reception can do.

Giving up and waking at the hospital counts as a check-in. The same fifteen minutes applies, so you cannot respawn and then immediately walk to reception to top yourself up. Respawning is meant to cost you something.

A walk-in is deliberately weaker than being treated by a person. It exists for the night when nobody is on duty, not as an alternative to calling one.

Treatment sets a care level that multiplies your natural healing for the next few hours:

• Basic aid. Normal rate, but the bleeding is stopped.
• Professional care. Twice as fast, lasts about 2 hours.
• Advanced care. Four times as fast, lasts about 4 hours.

This is why it is worth seeing a medic even when you are not dying. Clearing a chart entirely requires you to be lying on a bed at a registered facility, and aggravated damage needs a written justification that stays on your record permanently.

The system deliberately does not fully heal anyone in the field. Being hurt stays a thread someone can pull on.

Your dead or furious flesh does not care much about ambulances.

• Rising. Hold G while down. Costs one Blood Point or one Rage. You come back at Crippled and your injuries come back with you. It is not a heal, it is refusing to stay down. /rise works as a fallback if your G binding conflicts with something.
• Mending. /mend spends a point to close one health level, once per scene. Vitae and Rage can close bashing and lethal. Neither can touch aggravated. Fire is still fire.

Fera, ghouls and other splats with pools do not get this. Kindred and Garou only.

If you fall in the Umbra, the Dreaming, the Shadowlands or anywhere else off the map that mortals share, no unit is coming. There is no dispatch to page and no hospital to wake up in. The death screen will tell you where you are and what it feels like.

Your rescue is another character's Gift, Art, Discipline or Sphere. Failing that, the give up timer is your way out. Plan accordingly before you go somewhere like that alone.

Visit a bank branch or any ATM for cash, savings and society accounts. Businesses and organisations have their own accounts with their own permissions, so an owner can let a manager draw on the company without handing over everything.

Paychecks arrive automatically while you hold a job. Cash on your person can be taken from you. Money in the bank cannot.

Player owned businesses have menus, recipes, staff rosters and a bank account. If you are a member of one, /markets opens the business dashboard: stock, suppliers, negotiations and imports.

Crafting recipes turn purchased ingredients into sellable products. Supply is not infinite: suppliers have prices that move, negotiations can go badly, and a business that never restocks runs dry.

Menus and business requests are managed through your account on this site, and staff review changes before they go live in the city.

You can also buy a jerry can at the pump, up to 50 litres, for the day you misjudge a journey. Electric vehicles recharge at charging stations rather than pumps.

If a player is clocked in as the attendant at that station, the transaction goes through them instead. Talk to the person behind the counter.

Vehicles wear down with mileage, not with time parked. Oil, filters, brakes, spark plugs and the rest all degrade, and a neglected car handles like one.

Take it to a mechanic shop. Mechanics are players, which means a working relationship with one is worth having before your brakes are the problem.

/listings opens the property portal: everything currently on the market, sorted into tiers from a room above a bar to something with a gate.

Properties are bought through an estate agent, who is a player. Real estate agents earn commission, so they have every reason to actually show you around.

Once you own somewhere you can furnish it, set access for other characters, and use it as a haven, a safehouse, or somewhere your character keeps their things. For most supernaturals, having somewhere defensible is not a luxury.

Buildings with multiple floors have working elevators. Third Eye the panel and pick a floor. Some floors are private and will refuse you, which is the intended answer rather than a fault.

M opens it. Calls, text messages, contacts, photos, and the apps your character has access to. Numbers are exchanged in character like names are, and a number is a real piece of information: give it out carefully.

/phone works as a fallback if your keybind conflicts with something.

Phones can be lost, stolen, and taken off you. If yours goes missing there is a recovery route, but it is deliberately not instant.

Two way radio

Emergency services and some organisations run encrypted radio channels. You need the job and you need to be on duty to join one. /callsign sets how you identify on the air.

Radio traffic is heard by everyone on the channel and by anyone standing next to you when you transmit. Be aware of who is in the room.

Letters are slower than email on purpose. Some things should arrive in an envelope.

Hunger runs from 0, sated, to 5, on the edge of frenzy. It climbs by one every twenty four hours whether you play or not. Every blood point you drink brings it back down by one.

At hunger 5 the Beast is close enough to touch, and a Storyteller may call for a frenzy roll at any provocation. Do not let it sit there.

Obfuscate, level by level

Activating is Wits plus Stealth at difficulty 6. Anyone nearby may roll Wits plus Alertness at difficulty 7 to see through it, and Auspex adds to that. If an observer's Auspex equals or beats your Obfuscate rating, they simply see you. Vehicles break every level of it.

Protean, level by level

Domain is the right to feed in a place, and it is granted by the Court, not taken. You must be at least Acknowledged to ask for one, the number of separate domains you may hold is capped by your status, and their size is set by your Domain background.

Every approved grant automatically enters a boon in the Harpy's ledger. The Court does not give away ground for free, and you will be reminded of that.

The Anarch Movement runs on reputation and favours instead of status and boons.

The form menu, quick shifting and the Umbra toggle all ship with no default key so they cannot collide with anything you already use. Assign them yourself under Esc, Settings, Key Bindings, in the FiveM section, searching for Garou.

Eating and drinking as an animal

Lupus and Hispo can lap water from rivers and lakes: walk to the water's edge and press E. Lupus, Hispo and Crinos can feed on dead animals the same way. Carcasses are picked clean after a few bites.

Recognition

Garou learn each other's voices over time. Hear a stranger once and they are an unfamiliar voice. After three times they are vaguely familiar, after seven familiar, and after twelve you know exactly who is out there. Packmates and septmates are recognised much faster.

Garou territory is hunting ground, and it is granted by rank rather than by court. You need to be in a pack to claim, and approval comes from a Garou of Athro rank or higher.

Hunting in someone's territory uninvited gets word back to them through their pack contacts, vaguely and after a delay. No names, no coordinates. What happens next is roleplay, not a notification.

Gifts are written freely on your sheet, and the ones that have real mechanical effects are wired up and matched to your sheet entry automatically. Spelling and punctuation do not have to be exact.

More Gifts are wired up over time. Anything not listed here is still on your sheet and still playable as narrative freeform.

Mechanically you share most of the Garou framework. Forms, Rage, Gnosis, Renown, the Umbra and Gifts all work the same way, with your own breed's forms and your own breed's culture around them.

Rage and Delirium fire automatically around you exactly as they do for Garou. Territory is claimed through the same route, and approval still comes from high rank.

/glamourpool shows both halves of it.

Your rating is a ceiling. Harvest past it and the surplus spills back into the Dreaming, and you are told so. Spending always drains temporary first; you may burn permanent Glamour in an emergency, after a warning, but burned permanent Glamour only comes back through experience, and until it does your ceiling is lower too.

Emotion, by approach

How strong the feeling already is changes the pool, from minus two dice for a momentary flicker to plus two for something raw and fresh.

Dreams

Enter a sleeping mortal's dream instead of working on them awake. Dreaming rewards patience: rushing costs you dice, taking your time gains them. It gets more lucrative as your Wyrd rises.

How a cast resolves

1. Art. Do you own enough dots.
2. Realm. Worked out from the target, not declared by you. Another Changeling is Fae. Anyone else is Actor, at 2 if you have been introduced to them and 5 if you have not. Weaving at strangers is expensive on purpose.
3. Glamour. Every wired power reaches into the real world, so every one is a Wyrd cast and costs 1 Glamour. Birthrights are free.
4. Roll. Art plus Realm against difficulty 8, with wound penalties applied.
5. Duration. Bought by successes: thirty seconds, two minutes, ten minutes, thirty minutes, an hour.

Glamour is spent when the roll is made, so a botched weaving still burns it. A cast refused because you do not own the Art costs nothing.

Trods are fae roads. They cost Glamour to open and Glamour every real day to keep open, charged against wall clock time, so a trod nobody maintains closes on its own.

A new trod opens with its creation cost plus a starting bonus already in the pool, and anyone can contribute up to ten Glamour at a time, to a maximum of fifty. Fifty Glamour is roughly seven weeks of a Twilight Road.

Flight needs either the Winged merit or a dot of Wayfare. Flying over a crowded street is a Wyrd invocation with witnesses, and Banality has opinions about that.

/casting opens the interface. Mages work through Spheres and build Effects; Sorcerers, hedge mages and psychics work through Paths, Rituals and Phenomena. The interface adapts to which you are.

Every roll is resolved on the server from your sheet, so what you can attempt is exactly what you have paid for. You declare what you are trying to do, the system works out whether your dots reach it, and the dice decide the rest.

The city is threaded with ley lines, and the places where they cross hold power that Mages and Changelings can both draw on.

Harvesting a node is not private. Places of power are finite, contested, and other people are watching the same map you are.

A dossier is a file on a target. Intel goes in with a category and a confidence level, and it accumulates into something you can act on.

Both commands ship with no default key because the obvious ones are already taken. Assign them yourself under Esc, Settings, Key Bindings, in the FiveM section, listed under HunterNet.

Claimable events cover the obvious ones and a lot of the subtle ones: feeding, discipline use, frenzy, torpor, sunlight damage, visible fangs, blood healing, an Embrace, every shift form, rage frenzy, gift use, rapid regeneration, glamour, cantrips, mortal enchantment, a true form revealed, and the general run of impossible strength, speed, senses, mind control, invisibility and death defiance.

Equipment

/armory opens the hunter armory if your background gives you access to one. Restocking is on a cooldown, so a cell that burns through everything in one night is unarmed for the next one.

The Imbued are the ones something reached out and touched. Everything above applies, plus Edges, Conviction, and access to the network.

Non-Imbued hunters are entirely playable and in some ways harder: no Edges, no network, and the same monsters.

Equipment

Cones, barriers, work lights, spike strips, speed cameras, breathalysers, door cameras, drones, shields, tracker darts and wheel clamps are all carried items rather than menu options. If it is not in your inventory, you cannot deploy it.

The city also runs automatic number plate recognition and facial recognition. Both are tools, not oracles, and both produce records somebody can subpoena later.

Command staff can manage layers and act as dispatchers. Everyone else takes calls and clears them.

/mdt opens the mobile data terminal. Records, warrants, charges, reports, vehicle and person lookups, and the photographic evidence attached to them.

What goes in the MDT is what exists. A stop that never gets written up did not happen as far as the courts are concerned, and defence attorneys read these.

Evidence collected at a scene is tracked separately and can be linked to a case. Chain of custody is a real thing here, not set dressing.

Everything you need is at a registered facility. Third Eye the interaction points:

• Clock In and Out. You must be on duty for any of the rest of this to work.
• Personal locker. Yours alone, persistent, keyed to your character.
• Departmental supply. Shared, restricted to on-duty staff.
• Cloakroom.
• Hospital beds. These matter more than they look. See discharging below.

F6 or /callouts opens it.

A call only reaches the board when the patient asks for one. Going down does not page you. That makes the board a list of people who have actively requested help, and you can treat it that way: every name on it wants you there.

It also means the board is not a list of everyone who is down. There will be bodies on the map that never appear here. That is intended. Do not go looking for them.

Each call shows how long they have been down, where they are, how far you are, their condition, and whether they wrote a statement. Take the call before you drive. The patient is told the moment you do, and again when you mark en route and on scene. That message is the only way they can tell a crew three streets away from one that logged off.

If you cannot make it, stand the call down so it goes back on the board. A patient who believes help is coming is sitting behind a fifteen minute gate.

Target any player and choose Assess Patient to open the field chart, or use /vitals [id] for a quick read in chat.

The chart shows their condition and the wound track behind it, their impairment in dice, every open injury with region and severity, the patient's own statement, whether you are carrying the tool each injury needs, their care level, and whether they are critical.

Injuries tagged stated came from the patient, not the system. That is testimony, not evidence. Treat it the way you would treat a patient telling you what they think is wrong with them.

Treatment is resolved by a Medicine roll, not a minigame. The item you carry decides whether the attempt is possible at all. The roll decides how much good it does. It is Intelligence plus Medicine against difficulty 6.

• Three or more successes closes the injury outright.
• One or two improves it by one severity step.
• No successes achieves nothing.
• A botch makes it worse.

Field treatment takes about six seconds, treatment at a facility about nine. Each treatment closes up to two wound levels, bashing first then lethal, on a five minute cooldown per patient. The cooldown only starts if something actually closed, so a wasted attempt does not lock you out.

Your Emergency Equipment Pack is a container, not a consumable. It holds medical supplies and only medical supplies, and field supplies do not run dry for an on-duty crew.

Reach is arm's length and only on-duty medical staff can do it. You cannot carry someone who is on their feet, and a patient who gets revived is set down rather than left over your shoulder.

Reviving is done through the field chart, and the patient comes back treated.

Discharging a chart entirely is location gated rather than rank gated. Any rank may do it, but the patient must be lying on a bed at a registered facility. Aggravated damage additionally requires you to type a justification, which stays on their chart permanently. Write something a Storyteller reading it later would accept.

Smoke calls

A smoke call is somebody reporting smoke before anyone has found the fire. It shows as a smoke plume, a marker on the map, and a card on the tablet.

You cannot hose a smoke call out. Crews clear them by walking up and investigating, or by a real fire spawning nearby and taking over the incident. If you are spraying water at smoke, you are in the wrong place.

Hoses and water

Hoses connect to appliances and to hydrants, and they have real length. Park the engine with that in mind, because moving it once the line is run is a genuine problem.

Indoor fires behave differently from outdoor fires: heat, smoke and spread are all modelled separately. Ventilation matters, and so does the order you attack a building in.

Fire and medical share several tools and are dispatched together on most serious incidents. Police share the scene control tools. On a big call, the sensible order is police for the perimeter, fire for the hazard, medical for the people, and everyone off the radio who does not need to be on it.

Cells are unlocked by default. The prison runs on a daily routine of recreation, meals and lockdown, and the routine is set by corrections rather than by a timer. Contraband exists, searches exist, and solitary exists.

Corrections officers run the block: cells, doors, routine, work details, searches, contraband and solitary. Release is a corrections decision rather than a staff one, including for lifers on parole.

Some inmates need a suppression regime, for reasons corrections officers are told about in character and no further.

Attorneys, judges and clerks are player roles applied for through the Government Jobs page. A charged character can request representation, and a case that goes to trial is played out rather than resolved by a number.

The MDT record is the evidence. If law enforcement did not write it down, it did not happen, and a good attorney will say so.