Help Menu

At any time, you can pause your game to take a step back and collect yourself. When the game is paused, nothing can harm your character and your avatar is temporarily removed from the situation until you unpause.

In the Help Menu you can adjust things like difficulty, graphics, and audio, setting the game to better fit your needs. Lowering the graphical fidelity removes the aesthetic gore. Changing the difficulty will help guide your character to content you will enjoy. And audio settings can be altered to enable in-game hints or remove the sometimes-overwhelming original soundtrack.

You can also save your game state and return at a different time, or just exit the game and return to your last checkpoint. This is helpful if the situation you find yourself in is too overwhelming. Remember! If you do not have a previous checkpoint, you can always return to Tutorial Town through the main menu.

CMD

-##- HELP-MENU.EXE

// Special thanks to Monte Cook Games and their "Consent-In-Gaming" checklist.

## Difficulty

// Select the one that matches your intended experience:

  • -- EASY: Decrease all dice once down the chain.
  • -- MEDIUM: The typical play experience as described in this book.
  • -- HARD: Increase all dice once up the chain.

## Definitions

// What does all this mean?

  • -- ON: Enthusiastic consent. You want and enjoy having these things shown/discussed in your games.
  • -- OFF: A strong no. A hard line. Do not include these in your game.
  • -- ONLY SOMETIMES: It's okay if these things are mentioned, veiled, or offstage. And may even be okay onstage but requires discussion ahead of time. Uncertain.

## Graphics

// Toggle on/off the graphical fidelity.

-- Gore
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Blood
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Bugs
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Harm To Animals
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Rats
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Spiders
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Nudity
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Sex
On
Off
Only Sometimes

## Audio

// Toggle on/off the audio descriptions.

-- Romance
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Sex
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Homophobia
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Racism
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Real-World
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Religion
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Sexism
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Self-Harm
On
Off
Only Sometimes
-- Suicide
On
Off
Only Sometimes

## Tools

//Keep these tools in mind while you play. You can always use them.

  • -- Loading Screen: The current scene fades to black like in a film, letting it all happen off-screen.
  • -- Saves: You can revert back to a previous point in the game if everyone at the table agrees it's for the best.
  • -- Tab Out: tep away from the game and take a break. Return at your own leisure.
  • -- Log Out: Leave the game and decide if you'd like to return at another time.