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 ======Core Rules======
-=====What Anyone Can Do=====
+=====What Any Player Character Can Do=====
-  * Call HEAL 1 to yourself or an ally after 10s of medical roleplay.
+**NB**: //This does not apply to human monsters by default.//
-  * Wield one weapon.
-  * Use a buckler to block damage.
+  * Call HEAL 1 to someone after 10s of medical roleplay.
-  * Use a dagger in their offhand.
+  * Wield one weapon.
-  * Have 6 hits.
+  * Have 3 hits.
-  * Wear armor to gain 2 more hits, if they wish.
+  * Wear armor to gain 3 more hits, if they wish. This does NOT need to be physrepped.
-  * Have 4 psyche.
+  * Have 6 psyche.
-  * Regain all hits between encounters.
+  * 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=====
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   * 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 reforms elsewhere.
+  * 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.
+{{ :corerules.jpg?nolink | A player in a white shirt collapsed on a path strewn with brown leaves, weapon hand outstretched.}}
 =====Psyche====
   * Psyche measures your strength of will and mental wellbeing.
-  * A character starts off with 4 maximum psyche and can gain more through buying skills.
+  * A character starts off with 6 psyche and can gain more through buying skills.
-  * Psyche is restored after an extended rest (i.e between adventures).
 ===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 maximum psyche.
+  * In psychic combat, your hits are equal to your psyche.
-  * If you win, gain one psyche.
-  * If you lose, lose one psyche and gain an effect at GM discretion.
-===Zero Psyche===
-  * If at any time, a player has 0 psyche, they fall unconscious until the end of the encounter.
-  * They then wake up on 1 psyche and gain a negative effect.
-  * This effect will tend to last for the rest of the adventure.
 =====Concentration=====
-  * Some skills require the user to concentrate for a duration of time.
+  * Some skills require the user to concentrate for a length of time.
-  * Concentration is broken by effect calls.
+  * Concentration is broken by taking offensive effect calls. (If you RESIST or DODGE your Concentration is unbroken.)
-  * Damage calls do not break concentration, but bleeding out (starting your death count) does.
+  * 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.
+{{ :corerules2.jpg?nolink | a player looking pensive while battle rages on in the distance}}
 =====Medical Roleplay=====
-  * Requires the healer to use both hands.
+  * Some abilities which let you call HEAL require the use of 'medical roleplay'.
-  * Requires the healer to concentrate.
+  * Every PC can spend 10 seconds of medical roleplay to call HEAL 1 on somebody else.
-  * Requires the patient to stay still.
-  * Requires the patient to not make any offensive calls.
+===Style & Conduct===
-  * Pauses the death count of the patient.
+  * 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 rules on this wiki, specific rules override general ones.
+  * 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.)

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