CreekiPedia | Cold Creek Roleplay

About ten minutes, most of it choosing a name.

Join the Discord: Read the entry post and accept the rules. Everything else starts here, and being in the Discord is itself rule 02.
Subscribe: One Workshop item pulls the whole framework. Console players subscribe from inside the game.
Link up: Connect once, take the code you are given and hand it to the bot. Your account and your character become the same person. The bridge is built in game on first join; the website can read it but never creates it.
Make a life: A name, a face, one thousand dollars and a clean record. Character creation runs immediately after the link gate lets you through.

An append-only ledger. Balances are derived, never edited.

Your accounts: Checking and savings, both created the first time you spawn. Checking is the only account anything spends from; savings is a place to put money, not a wallet.
The ATM: A six-screen flow: balance, deposit, withdraw, transfer, history. Machines are placed around town.
The bank teller: What the ATM will not do. Uncapped deposits and withdrawals, and the loan desk.
Loans: Taken at the teller, repaid from checking.
Savings interest: Five percent every seven days, and it accrues while you are offline. A daily sweep keeps the history from growing without bound.
Cash: A real item in your inventory, not a number on a screen. Withdrawals arrive as cash, bundles merge when you pick them up, and cash survives a reconnect. It can also be taken off you.
Getting paid: An income tick pays you automatically while you are on duty. Vendors can be set to take cash, take the account, or accept either.

A carryable item with a grid of apps.

Opening it: A keybind brings it up. It is an item you carry, so it can be dropped, stored or taken.
Messages: Typed texting with contacts, thread view, chat bubbles over the sender, unread chime and custom ringtones.
GPS: Where you are and how far you have travelled.
Sending money: Typed amounts, sent from the phone to another person.
The rest of the grid: Fifteen apps including keys, property transfers, feeds and the market.

A job is a set of capabilities, checked on the server.

The duty terminal: Where you go on and off duty. Duty is what opens gated doors, pays the income tick and puts you on the roster.
Police ranks and divisions: Rank and division decide what you may buy, wear and drive. The checks run server-side at the point of purchase, not on the honour system.
Department lockers: Issue and return. Uniform, duty kit and the SRT locker, each gated by what you hold.
Fleet assignment: Which vehicle is yours, and the routes that go with it.
Applying: Applications are filed and reviewed on the department dashboard. Acceptance grants the Discord tag automatically.

Owned, plated, locked and recorded.

Buying one: At the motors lot. The ownership record is written and the plate is minted before the car ever spawns, so there is no such thing as an unplated purchase.
The garage: Store a vehicle and bring it back out. What is in the boot persists with it.
Locking: Vehicles are born locked to their owner, and the lock covers every seat including turrets. Vehicle theft is currently switched off at the framework level.
Registration and the DMV: The plate is automatic; the registration is not. Register at the DMV terminal, and keep it current. Registrations expire and can be suspended, and police treat the CAD record as the truth.
Plates: One format, issued in sequence. There is no temporary tag and no way to choose your own.
Towing: A flatbed trailer and a heavy tow truck. An unregistered car is towed rather than argued about.

Doors know who you are.

Buying property: Through the realty office. Ownership is a record, the same as a vehicle.
Door locks: The lock policy is separate from ownership, so access can be granted without handing over the deed. A gated door replaces the ordinary prompt rather than adding a second one, so there is nothing to walk around.
Your address: Your housing address appears on your driver licence and in the CAD lookup.
Transfers: Property changes hands from the phone.

Everything is a record before it is an object.

Vendors: Counters, pads and signs for motors, realty, the store, the gun shop, the armoury, the fleet yard, EMS, the mod shop and the garage. Each vendor is set to take cash, the account, or either.
Clothing: Four civilian stores. The pack runs to 68 tops, 48 trousers, 11 pairs of shoes and 6 hats.
Firearms and serials: A gun sold over a legal counter is stamped with a serial at the point of sale. A gun with no serial was never sold legally, and that absence is what makes it an illegal firearm in the eyes of the law.
Safes: Container storage that persists. Safes are not raidable.
Pockets: A pocket slot that carries your ID and your phone, separately from your main inventory.
Deployables: Cones, barricades and spike strips, placed from the boot of a police vehicle.

Who your character is, on paper.

Your state ID: Created with your character. It is what the CAD looks you up by.
The driver licence: A physical card you carry, with your housing address on it.
Presenting ID: You can hand your ID to somebody, and an officer can take it from a restrained person.
Your CreekLink file: Sign in on this site to read your own record: identity, accounts, licences, vehicles, property and anything the department has filed. Reading your own file is Article XIII of the Bill of Rights.

What happens when the lights come on.

The CAD: Computer-aided dispatch. Calls, units, vehicle registrations and character records, on laptops and station screens.
Citations: Written against your record and payable. An overdue citation prompts the department to seek a warrant.
Warrants: Sought through the CAD and visible to officers. Knowing about one is the first legitimate reason to run, under the evading rules.
Arrest and handcuffs: Handcuffs are an item. A restrained person cannot use their inventory, cannot get in or out of a vehicle under their own power, and has their hands locked. Officers escort and load them.
Search and seizure: An officer can search a restrained person and take what they find. Article VI of the Bill of Rights says they have to be able to say why.
Radar: Dash radar with a live readout and a speed in miles per hour.
Less lethal: The Creek Arc stun device, with probes, wires and a laser, and tear gas canisters that blur vision, cause coughing and drain stamina.
Court: cDocket. Charges are filed by the arresting officer and ruled on by a judge, never the same person. Every offence, its term and its fine are published in the Book of Laws.

The parts of the game that happen to you.

Hunger and thirst: Both tick down. Food and drink are items, and consumables carry modifiers.
Injury: A wound lasts until it is treated. EMS respond to calls once a scene is declared safe for entry.
Death: Death clears what you were carrying. That is mechanical, not an honour rule, so what you take out with you is a real decision.
Reconnecting: Position, health, worn kit and inventory are saved on disconnect and restored when you come back. Disconnecting during a scene is recorded, with who you were fighting and where you had been.