======Core Rules======

=====What Any Player Character Can Do=====

**NB**: //This does not apply to human monsters by default.//

  * Call HEAL 1 to someone after 10s of medical roleplay.
  * Wield one weapon. 
  * Have 3 hits.
  * Wear armor to gain 3 more hits, if they wish. This does NOT need to be physrepped. 
  * Have 6 psyche.
  * Regain all hits and psyche between encounters.
  * Die 4 times per character lifetime without being rendered unplayable. 
  * Speak quietly on their death count.
  * Have enough to live on. (You can be anything from dirt poor to comfortable depending on player preference.) 
  * Source a set of standard equipment between adventures.
  * Source 2 Imperial Essence (call FIGHT ON! to a target within sword reach by scattering ash across them) between adventures. 
  * Execute an unresisting target by spending 10s of appropriate roleplay killing them.
  * Drag an unconscious or bleeding person slowly by using both hands (nb: do not actually drag them).
  * Every 6 adventures, gain a [[:quality|Quality]] on one of your items.  

=====Death & Dying=====

====Bleeding Out====

  * When someone reaches 0 body hits, they enter their death count. 
  * This is also known as 'bleeding out'.
  * You cannot speak, move, concentrate, or make calls when bleeding out. 
  * After 60 seconds of bleeding out, you die.
  * Taking any HEAL call, including HEAL 0, stops you from bleeding out. 
  * Medical roleplay pauses your death count. 

====Death====

  * Player characters belong to a group of individuals known as the Blessed who are resistant to death. 
  * When a player character dies, so long as they wish to persist, their body dissipates and reforms elsewhere.
  * In play, this means that a player character may rejoin the party after a couple of encounters at GM discretion.
  * (OC, we will be looking to do what is most appropriate and makes the most fun for all involved). 
  * A player can respawn in this way up to four times. 

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=====Psyche====

  * Psyche measures your strength of will and mental wellbeing. 
  * A character starts off with 6 psyche and can gain more through buying skills.

===Psychic Combat===
  * Psychic combat represents your strength of will and ability to resist spiritual effects. 
  * These combats are always fought with matched weapons. 
  * In psychic combat, your hits are equal to your psyche.

=====Concentration=====

  * Some skills require the user to concentrate for a length of time.
  * Concentration is broken by taking offensive effect calls. (If you RESIST or DODGE your Concentration is unbroken.) 
  * Taking damage does not break concentration, but bleeding out (starting your death count) does.  
  * If concentration is broken the timer is reset to 0 and the user must begin concentrating again.
  * You cannot concentrate while under the effect of a durational call. 
  * Whilst concentrating you should roleplay appropriately. 

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=====Medical Roleplay=====

  * Some abilities which let you call HEAL require the use of 'medical roleplay'.
  * Every PC can spend 10 seconds of medical roleplay to call HEAL 1 on somebody else. 

===Style & Conduct===

  * Medical roleplay in Animus is performed the style of [[http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Waterbending|spiritual healing]], rather than 20th century medicine. 
  * Medical roleplay does not involve any physical contact. 
  * Indeed, as with the rest of the system, contact is __completely forbidden__ unless clear consent is given.

===Rules for Medical Roleplay===

  * The healer must be within 1m of the patient. 
  * The healer must use both hands to gesture. 
  * The healer must be Concentrating.
  * The healer cannot make calls EXCEPT reactively (e.g. DODGE, RESIST, VOID).

  * You can never perform medical roleplay on yourself. 
  * When healing, the healer must take blows that hit their weapons or shields as though they had successfully hit their body. 
  * Medical roleplay pauses the death count of the patient. 
  * The healer should say 'STAUNCHING' to the patient if they are bleeding out, and it is unclear whether medical roleplay is happening. 

  * Once medical roleplay is complete, these limitations cease, and the player may make the appropriate HEAL call. 


=====The Golden Rule=====

  * When referring to game rules on this wiki, specific rules override general ones. 
  * This does not apply to OC guidance covered in the introduction (Social Contract, Safety, Accessibility.)