System/secrets
Every character has the option to start with at least one secret. There’s a lot you can do with secrets.
You Can Share Secrets
You can, if you like, share your secrets with other characters. Sharing a secret means that you tell the other character all about the secret. The whole scene is dedicated to that moment.
You Can /use Then For Persuasion
Characters can use secrets to persuade another character to perform actions during a scene. By knowing someones secret (assuming the secret is bad enough), your character can use it to their advantage. To use it, you bring up the secret in conversation. Then, you can force the character in question to perform an action. Essentially this is the same move you see in many shows. "Either you sneak in and steal the test answers, or I'm telling the school your secret."
You Can Resolve Them
If you don’t want people using your secrets against you, one way to get rid of your them is to bring them out in the open and resolve them. But, you can’t resolve or ruin a secret alone. You need a friend to help you.
To resolve a secret, you need someone to assist you. You must have them with you in the scene. They don’t need to be in the same room, but they must be an active part of the scene.
For Example: Colt Derringer has a terrible secret. He sold his dads company’s secrets to a competitor. He ruined his family’s fortune and put his father in the hospital after a heart attack. Emelia Goodheart knows this secret and has been trying to help Colt resolve it. She has convinced Colt he must tell his father this awful secret. She walks with him to the hospital, and standing outside the door, tells him, “Be brave.” Colt walks into the hospital room, looks back at Emelia standing in the doorway and sits down next to his father’s bed. “Dad,” he says, “I have something to tell you...”
Resolving a secret is worth fan mail. If you resolve a secret, both you and the character who helped you resolve it get a number of fan mail points equal to the rank of the secret.
You Can Ruin Them
If you want to ruin other people’s using their secrets it involves resolving the secret in your own way.
To ruin someone else’s secret, you must use the secret in such a way that it hurts the character. (It could also be used to hurt someone the character cares about or hurt the character through someone he loves.)
For Example: I know that Crystal Carothers is secretly in love with her best friend, Colt Derringer. To ruin this secret, my character, Jade Johansson seduces Colt. Then, when Colt and Jade are alone, Jade reveals that Crystal has been obsessing over him and even sabotaged previous relationships. Colt gets angry and says he needs to confront Crystal. He does and he tells Crystal that their friendship is over. I have successfully ruined Ro’s secret.
If you ruin another character’s secret, both you and he split a number of fan mail points equal to the rank of the secret.
