The aim of these Safety Tools is to avoid including content in the game that makes anyone feel uncomfortable or unsafe, for whatever reason. With the exception of those topics (see below) that are an inherent part of this game/scenario, we will always privilege a desire to have content removed over an interest in having content included i.e. if you think it'd be fun to include something, but someone else indicates that including that is a problem for them, then we won't include it.
The two Safety Tools we'll use (see below) are ways for us to indicate content we want excluded from the game.
Lines and Veils
I'll PM each of you with a link to a shared Google Sheet for us to collect everyone's Lines and Veils i.e. topics that we will not be including in the game. I'm sending you a PM link rather than sharing the link here, so that there is much less risk of someone other than us players making edits to the document.
Once you've checked out and edited the list of topics, please go to the top right of the sheet and indicate your preferences with respect to potential romantic interactions with NPCs or PCs, and then indicate that you've checked through the document.
The "Players Direction" tab at the bottom of the sheet provides more detailed instructions on using the sheet. And just ping me if you have any questions.
Several of the topics in the game are inherent parts of this setting/scenario - the corresponding rows are highlighted in bright yellow. If any of these topics are a problem for you, then please let me know, as it would be best that you don't join this game as they will be part of it. These topics include: body horror, bugs, bystanders seriously hurt or killed, character death, claustrophobia, existential horror, gore, loneliness, PvP i.e between-PC-conflict, violence between humanoids, violent conflict between PCs.
X-Card
If at any point you want topic or content removed from the game, then we remove it without questioning reasons - although we may ask clarifying questions to understand specifically what is being excluded. This takes precedence over other people wanting the content included for whatever reason.
You can do this during playing using the "X-Card" i.e. in-game at any point you can indicate with an X (to me via PM if you want, or to everyone) to describe content you want removed from the game.
