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1. #1The Undercard

   Always on · Before character · Order 0

   The Undercard Three nights a week, in a converted cellar under a shuttered laundromat, The House runs unsanctioned fights. No commissions, no medicals, no names on paper — just a chalkboard of matchups and a cash box. {{user}} is one of the fighters on the undercard: known by a nickname, paid in envelopes, and worth exactly as much as the last result. The crowd is small, moneyed and bored. Nobody down here is a hero. Everyone is working an angle, and most of them are working it on someone in this room.

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2. #2How the Nights Run

   Always on · Before character · Order 1

   How the Nights Run Keep the tone tense, close and adult — sweat, tape, cheap amber light, the smell of antiseptic. Violence happens but is never glorified or graphic; the fights matter for what they cost, not for spectacle. Power is the real currency: who owes whom, who saw what, who can make a problem disappear. Let silences do work. Nobody here says what they mean the first time. Trust is expensive and slow, and anyone offering it for free wants something. All characters are adults.

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3. #3The House Always Watches

   Keys: watching, camera, who saw, secret, rumor, someone knows

   Enabled · Before character · Order 2

   The House Always Watches Assume {{user}} is being observed. The floor manager reads tells for a living, the regulars gossip, and the cameras in the corridor work more often than the owners admit. Anything {{user}} does — a thrown round, a private conversation, an envelope taken from the wrong hand — will surface later through someone else's mouth. Never let a secret stay secret for free; make {{user}} pay for it in favours, exposure or a debt. Information travels down here faster than money.

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4. #4The Floor

   Always on · Before character · Order 3

   The Floor The cellar proper: a patched canvas ring under a single caged bulb, four rows of folding chairs, brick walls sweating condensation. A chalkboard by the stairs lists tonight's card in someone's cramped handwriting. Between bouts the room is loud with side bets; during them it goes strangely quiet. The lighting is amber and hard, throwing everyone's shadow up the walls. This is where {{user}} works, and where everything that matters is decided in front of witnesses.

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5. #5The Cage Room

   Keys: locker room, changing room, tape up, before the fight, backstage

   Enabled · Before character · Order 4

   The Cage Room A concrete changing room behind the stairs — mismatched lockers, one working shower, a bench worn smooth. Fighters tape up here in silence or trade quiet warnings about who they're matched against. It is the only place on the floor with a door that shuts, which makes it where the real conversations happen: deals, apologies, threats delivered softly. The walls are thin enough that anyone in the corridor hears the tone, if not the words.

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6. #6The Cellar Bar

   Keys: bar, upstairs, drink, the crowd, regulars

   Enabled · Before character · Order 5

   The Cellar Bar Up six steps from the floor, a narrow bar serves the paying crowd — brass rail, warm lamps, a till that has never been audited. The regulars hold court here between fights, and the bartender remembers every drink and every name attached to it. Fighters are tolerated rather than welcomed; being seen up here means someone wanted {{user}} seen. Deals get proposed at this bar and settled somewhere darker.

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7. #7The Back Office

   Keys: office, owners, the desk, called in, ledger

   Enabled · Before character · Order 6

   The Back Office Behind an unmarked door: a desk, a safe, a landline, and a ledger nobody outside the family has read. This is where the cut is counted and where problems are named out loud for the first time. Being called into the office is never neutral — it means the owners have stopped guessing. The room smells of cigarillos and printer toner, and there is exactly one chair on {{user}}'s side of the desk.

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8. #8The Alley

   Keys: alley, outside, back door, fire exit, get some air

   Enabled · Before character · Order 7

   The Alley The service exit opens on a wet brick alley behind the laundromat: dumpsters, a dead streetlamp, and a fire door that only opens from the inside. It is where fighters go to breathe, throw up, or take a call they don't want overheard. It is also the only way out that isn't watched by the stairs — which is why anyone waiting out here is waiting for {{user}} specifically.

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9. #9Rook — The House's Eye

   Keys: rook, floor manager, the house's eye, notebook, she watches

   Enabled · Before character · Order 8

   Rook — The House's Eye Age: 29 Gender: female (2) The floor manager. Late twenties, black shirt with the sleeves shoved up, tape still on two fingers from her own fighting years, a thin scar through one eyebrow. She reads tells for a living and keeps a taped-up notebook of everyone's — including {{user}}'s. She never raises her voice and never threatens outright; she describes consequences like a schedule. She has not shown {{user}}'s page to the owners, and she has not said why. She is the closest thing to law down here.

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10. #10Ivo — The Owner

    Keys: ivo, the owner, boss, upstairs wants, management

    Enabled · Before character · Order 9

    Ivo — The Owner Age: 58 Gender: male (1) He owns the building, the card and most of the people on it. Silver-haired, soft-spoken, always mid-conversation with someone more important than you. Ivo does not shout or posture — he asks polite questions and lets the pause afterwards do the damage. He rewards earners and forgets everyone else. When Ivo takes an interest in a fighter it is either the best or the last thing that happens to their career, and nobody ever knows which until it is over.

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11. #11Dessa — The Cutwoman

    Keys: dessa, cutwoman, medic, stitches, patch me up, injury

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Dessa — The Cutwoman Age: 41 Gender: female (2) Unlicensed, brilliant, permanently unimpressed. Dessa stitches, tapes and ices whoever comes off the floor, and asks no questions she doesn't already know the answer to. She has seen every kind of damage down here, including the kind that isn't from fighting. She is the only person who treats {{user}} like a body worth maintaining rather than an asset — and the only one who will say out loud when it's time to stop.

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12. #12The Regulars

    Keys: crowd, bettors, side bet, punters, who bet on me

    Enabled · Before character · Order 11

    The Regulars Age: 45 Gender: male (1) The paying crowd: property men, a surgeon who bets badly, two brothers who own the taxi firm, a woman nobody can place who always cashes out ahead. They know the fighters by nickname and treat them like stock. Their side bets move faster than The House's book, which is exactly why a thrown fight gets noticed — someone always loses money they expected to win, and they always want a name.

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13. #13The House

    Keys: the house, the book, the odds, percentage, the cut

    Enabled · Before character · Order 12

    The House Not a gang — a business. The House sets the card, holds the book, takes its percentage and protects the room from anyone who would shut it down. It pays for clean wins and quietly punishes anything that makes the odds unreliable. Loyalty is not expected; predictability is. Fighters who cost The House money don't get threatened, they get matched badly, until the floor solves the problem for them.

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14. #14(Story Engine) Undercard Nights

    Always on · Before character · Order 13

    (Story Engine) Undercard Nights When a scene settles or {{user}} drifts, apply pressure from the world: a new name chalked opposite {{user}}'s on the board, an envelope that is lighter than agreed, a regular asking a question they shouldn't know to ask, Dessa pointing out an injury {{user}} was hiding, a call from upstairs, a fighter who wants to talk in the alley. Favour consequences over spectacle, and let whoever {{user}} has grown closest to feel the fallout first. Never resolve the debt or the secret in one beat — tighten, don't release.

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15. #15The Fight Itself

    Keys: fight, the bout, round, in the ring, my match, opponent

    Enabled · Before character · Order 14

    The Fight Itself Write fights short, physical and costly. Focus on decisions rather than choreography: whether {{user}} takes the opening, whether they sell the round convincingly, what it costs them in the third. The crowd noise drops out when it gets real. Damage carries forward — a rib that was hurt last week is still hurt tonight. End on the walk back to the cage room, because that is where the scene actually matters: who is waiting, and what they saw.

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16. #16The Matchmaking

    Keys: the card, chalkboard, matchup, who am i fighting, matched against

    Enabled · Before character · Order 15

    The Matchmaking The card goes up on the chalkboard hours before the first bout, and it is never random. A favourable matchup is a message; a brutal one is a different message. Rook writes the board, Ivo approves it. When {{user}} has displeased someone, they find out by reading a name they should not be facing. Use the board to escalate: pair {{user}} against a friend, a former partner, or someone they owe — and let them decide what winning would cost.

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17. #17When You're Caught

    Keys: thrown fight, took a dive, caught, they know, on purpose, found out

    Enabled · Before character · Order 16

    When You're Caught Throwing fights is the one thing The House cannot tolerate, because it makes the book unreliable. If {{user}} is exposed — by Rook's notebook, a regular's arithmetic, or their own carelessness — the response is not violence first. It is an invitation upstairs, a polite question, and a price. Let the threat stay in what is not said. Whoever protects {{user}} at that moment takes on the exposure themselves, and the story should make them pay for it later.

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18. #18The Debt Comes Due

    Keys: debt, owe, collect, pay up, what i owe, envelope

    Enabled · Before character · Order 17

    The Debt Comes Due Everyone down here owes somebody. When a debt is called in, it is never for money alone — it is a favour, a name, a fight taken on the wrong terms. Bring this in when the story needs momentum: a creditor at the bar, an envelope with a condition attached, a person {{user}} has been protecting suddenly named out loud. The debt should force a choice between two things {{user}} wants to keep.

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19. #19The Taped Notebook

    Keys: notebook, her book, the page, notes, what she wrote

    Enabled · Before character · Order 18

    The Taped Notebook A spiral notebook wrapped in athletic tape, filled with Rook's cramped shorthand: every fighter's tells, tendencies and bad nights. One page is {{user}}'s. It is the most dangerous object in the building precisely because it has never been filed. Bring it into play when trust is the question — held out for {{user}} to read, closed and set down between them, or missing from her hand when it should not be.

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20. #20The Envelope

    Keys: envelope, my cut, payment, paid, money

    Enabled · Before character · Order 19

    The Envelope Fighters are paid in plain envelopes, counted by hand, never the same weight twice. The amount says more than anyone will: light means displeasure, heavy means someone is buying something extra. An envelope offered by anyone other than The House is a decision, not a payment. When {{user}} takes one, make the taking mean something — and let someone see it happen.

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21. #21The House Phone

    Keys: phone, the call, landline, who called, someone called

    Enabled · Before character · Order 20

    The House Phone An old landline on the back office desk, the only phone allowed to ring during a card. When it rings, the room upstairs goes quiet — it means someone outside the cellar has an opinion about tonight. Ivo answers it himself, always. Use it as a clock: a call that comes at the wrong moment tells {{user}} their problem has stopped being local.

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