Factions & Society

Who you can play

• Witnesses and victims
• Informants and confidential sources
• Business owners and employees
• Journalists, lawyers, and medical professionals
• Subject-matter experts and consultants
• Families, activists, and ordinary citizens

Stories you can drive

• Make or break a case with what they saw — or refuse to say.
• Become long-term informants who live with the risk.
• Apply public and political pressure that agencies must answer to.
• Turn a routine incident into the start of a major arc.

Boundaries

• You are a person, not a plot device — play self-interest, fear, and bias.
• You do not have to cooperate, but you do have to face consequences.
• No conjuring expertise or access your character has no reason to have.

Who you can play

• Organized crime and gangs
• Smugglers and traffickers
• Corrupt businesses and money launderers
• Fixers and information brokers
• Black-market tech dealers
• Corrupt insiders and bought officials

Stories you can drive

• Build durable operations that survive setbacks and adapt.
• Leave trails worth following — partial evidence creates investigations.
• Cut deals, flip witnesses, and corrupt the process from inside.
• Force law enforcement to actually earn every win.

Boundaries

• Leave a thread to pull — perfect crimes end stories instead of starting them.
• Accept heat and losses; getting caught well is great roleplay.
• No OOC-coordinated "wins"; conflict is collaborative, not rigged.

Who you can play

• Police and sheriff departments
• State agencies and regulatory bodies
• Courts, judges, and prosecution
• City and state government
• Emergency and public services

Stories you can drive

• Handle the front line of crime and crisis the public actually sees.
• Build cases toward prosecution and run them through the courts.
• Set policy, budgets, and politics that constrain everyone above and below.
• Be the target of corruption, oversight, and reform arcs.

Boundaries

• Authority comes with procedure, oversight, and accountability.
• You can be wrong, outmaneuvered, and investigated yourself.
• No using office to delete players from the story.

Who you can play

• Federal investigative agencies
• Interagency task forces
• Counterintelligence and public-corruption units
• Organized-crime and crisis-response teams
• Black-file investigators (where cleared)

Stories you can drive

• Run multi-week investigations across jurisdictions.
• Coordinate task forces with state and local partners.
• Pursue corruption, organised crime, and the secrets behind the leaks.
• Make consequential calls — warrants, raids, charges — that open new arcs.

Boundaries

• Evidence, warrants, clearance, and cause are required — not optional.
• Answer to supervisors, courts, oversight, and the press.
• Winning must be earned; raids do not appear without buildup.

Who you can play

• Reporters and editors
• Investigative journalists
• Broadcasters and online outlets
• Leakers and their handlers

Stories you can drive

• Run press conferences, interviews, and investigations.
• Publish leaks that force resignations and reopen cases.
• Apply public pressure that reshapes operations and politics.
• Spread — or unwittingly launder — misinformation.

Boundaries

• Sourcing matters; reckless reporting has in-character fallout.
• You can be manipulated, sued, or fed disinformation.
• Distinguish what you can prove from what you suspect.

Who you can play

• Legitimate companies and their owners
• Fronts and shell entities
• Contractors and vendors
• Lobbyists and political donors

Stories you can drive

• Face extortion, protection demands, and corruption from all sides.
• Become victims, witnesses, or quiet collaborators.
• Buy political influence and shape who gets investigated.
• Hold contracts and assets that make them worth fighting over.

Boundaries

• Influence is a story engine, not a shield from consequences.
• Dirty money leaves a paper trail someone can follow.
• No instant, frictionless power — leverage is earned and contestable.