This is the OOC thread.  You know what to do, right?<br/><br/>This is also where we'll handle the die rolls, announcements, updates, general mechanics chatter, and the like.<br/><br/>Keep it friendly.  Keep it safe.  Play nicely.<br/><br/>+++<br/><br/>A note on Die Rolling<br/><br/>I've been asked to handle all the die rolling for one participant, and am willing to do so for others.  Since these will all be posted in the same format, I'm going to ask that anyone doing their own rolling follow suit so that everyone is on the same page.<br/><br/>You (almost) always roll your three Discipline dice.  Next comes<em>Exhaustion</em>, Madness, and<strong>Permanent Madness</strong>(if any)...and last but not least, if I'm rolling all the dice for you, you'll see<strong>Pain</strong>.  Otherwise, you roll just the first three (or four) and total both your successes and the strength of your three pools.<br/><br/>This will hopefully become more clear as we go.<br/><br/>+++<br/><br/>A note on Narrative Control<br/><br/>One thing that threw me when I tried running this before: the dice resolve an entire scene, not just an action or two.  So die rolls will happen at the start of a conflict, and then we'll narrate the results, discussing matters when necessary.  If Discipline, Exhaustion, or Madness dominate, then the Player gets the final say in how things go.  If Pain dominates, then the GM does.