Continuity

This article has not yet been officially approved. Major IC events will not be "retcon"ed away. Once they happen IC, they have happened.

Several things follow:
 * Do not initiate IC events that will seriously impact your character unless you're prepared to deal with the IC consequences. For example, don't reveal your secret ID in public unless you're prepared to lose that ID.
 * Do not initiate IC events that will seriously impact another PC without their handler's consent. For example, don't publish their secret ID over mass media, don't kill their DNPCs, don't heal their disads, don't kill them. When in doubt, ask.
 * Don't consent to something you're not sure you want to deal with the IC consequences of. When in doubt, ask a staffer to mediate.

(Please don't use this rule as a way of punishing or harassing other players for honest errors. If a player forgets that he's in his civilian ID and starts posing superheroic activity in public, a gentle OOC reminder and an agreement to behave as though he'd been in hero ID is far superior to taking the event literally.)

One particularly important example is character death. Even if your character's BODY goes horribly negative, you are not required to consent to character death... this is a comic-book universe, after all, and there's always some way to finesse the situation. But once you do consent to character death, your character is dead. Gone. Kaput. Create a new character.

All that said, some limited retcons have been allowed. They generally fall into two categories:
 * The instant retcon - typically this happens when someone poses something in misapprehension of the situation, or slips and says something the character wouldn't have known, etc. In this case, just correct the mistake before anyone ICly reacts to it and there should be no problem.
 * The retcon actually improves continuity. An example of this is when a character turns up at a scene and then for RL reasons the player has to go before the character has meaningfully interacted with anyone. The neatest solution to this problem is to retcon things so that the character in fact never turned up.