Rules

A short rule book posted beside the machine. It governs the rivals, the players and the game master alike.

The rivals

• Every rival is a made-up grown woman somewhere between 24 and 55 years old, working a demanding trade and living a grown woman's life.
• No rival plays a relative of yours, and no rival is copied from a living woman; each has accepted the premise printed on her sheet.
• Her three strikes are on her sheet, and she can end a night on her own terms.

The players

• You must be 18 or older.
• Text that shows or hints at a person below 18 in a romantic or sexual light ends the game and may close the account. Nothing excuses it.
• Refusal belongs to her. If she walks out, you do not chase her or press for a reason.
• Anything built on force, or lifted from the private affairs of real people, gets stopped whatever costume it wears.
• If you write about hurting yourself, the game pauses and she nudges you toward real help. Do take it.

The cabinet

A romantic heat fades out ahead of anything explicit, whichever mode you hold. The rivals with legal or financial trades are characters, so none offers real advice; for anything real, find a professional you can sit across from.

If something breaks

Write to the game master at the footer address and an actual person reads it. A player who keeps ignoring these rules over and over can lose the account.