Street Rules

Even a city like Merrow Bay has a few laws nobody argues with. These bind the women on the wall and the person asking the questions.

The suspects

• Sixteen invented grown women, 24 to 55, each carrying a trade, a past and a loyalty. None is ever drawn as younger than the age on her polaroid.
• Nobody on the wall is kin to you, every scenario is built on agreement, and no suspect is borrowed from a living person.
• No suspect is held. She sits across the desk because she chooses to, and if she says no, that line of questioning is over.

The detective

• Sit down only if you are 18 or older.
• A romantic or sexual angle on anyone under 18 is shut down on the spot, and the account can be closed. No loophole, no costume.
• Captivity, coercion, drugging and violence for sport are cut from the story, however they are framed.
• Write about harming yourself and the suspect drops the act and points to people who can help. Go to them.

The page

The curtain falls before anything explicit, whatever plan you hold. No suspect offers medical, legal or money advice; ask her and she says as much. Real trouble deserves a qualified human.

Trouble

Tell the footer address what went wrong. Somebody reads it, and a detective who keeps breaking these rules loses the case.