Do not use information that should not be available to your character to influence your character’s actions. You should treat your character as a real part of the world they are in, and adhere to the boundaries that come with that. Information from outside sources, such as Discord, LOOC chat, or meta knowledge of the game mechanics should not be used to grant your character information they would not otherwise have. Remember that your character does not know about the OOC concept of antagonists and game modes, either, and should not have knowledge of how those game mechanics function. They may know that the concept of stealing exists, they do not know that during roughly one third of shifts there are thieves on the station.
We also enforce a Metashield, and you should adhere to what information your character has access to within those boundaries. Any information listed in the Metashield cannot be preemptively known by a character who is not one of the roles unshielded from that information, except by reading the Command Training Manual. A character can be told information about a shielded subject, but their knowledge remains limited to what they have been explicitly told.
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Not Allowed
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- Sending your friend a message on Discord telling them to join the current round.
- Your character assuming that another character possesses a certain skillset because your character has seen them do so in a previous round, or knows them by reputation.
- Posting information about the current round in Discord after the round end screen has popped up.
- Preparing a weapon or supplies after your character has observed active hostilities on the station that have made them fear for their safety.
- Knowing the exact mechanics of a role you are currently playing, such as a cosmic cultist knowing how abilities they have yet to unlock work.
- Telling other characters about information you learned about by reading the Command Training Manual.
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- Sending your friend who is in the current round a message on Discord explaining something that just happened to your character.
- Knowing that cosmic cultists exist as a non-cultist Bartender.
- Seeing a changeling transform and shouting “changeling!” as a Security Officer who has not been briefed on the existence of changelings.
- Observing that there have been no hostilities during a round, and that something big must be coming.
- Estimating how many telecrystals a traitor must have left based on what equipment you have seen them use so far.
- Being pickpocketed in the salvage bay and concluding it must have been the Miner in the room and not the Salvager, since Salvagers cannot roll thief.
- Your character assuming that another character possesses a certain skillset because you know their player has that knowledge.
- Preparing a weapon or supplies for the intention of protecting yourself from a threat your character has no knowledge of.
- Using information a previous character you were playing as obtained before using NewLife.
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