Systems

Rules with teeth.

The systems keep action physical, readable, and tied to the city. Timing, body state, salvage, death layers, journals, and records move together.

Actions resolve through timing, target choice, defense, cover, and position.

The body has parts that take harm, carry strain, and change the fight.

Recovery work, storage, and trade create a darker economy around consequence.

Salvage becomes tools, repairs, traps, and practical survival objects.

Dead layers and liminal seams preserve routes, wounds, signs, and returns.