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Campaign
A continuing story made from connected sessions, characters, places, decisions, and consequences.
In Mystic, the campaign is an ownership and continuity boundary—not merely a label.
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Game Master (GM)
The person who presents the world, portrays its inhabitants, and adjudicates uncertain outcomes.
The GM controls unrevealed campaign truth, but does not own a player’s original character or private writing.
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Player character
A character portrayed by a player as their primary way of acting within the shared story.
Mystic keeps the player-owned original separate from the approved campaign-bound copy.
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Scene
One focused stretch of play: a negotiation, investigation, journey, battle, or quiet character moment.
Several scenes usually make up a session, and their meaningful changes can feed the campaign record.
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Five Hearts
Explore teaches; GM runs campaigns; Player participates; Creative drafts; Solo supports personal play.
A Heart is an operating lens, not an account rank or permission shortcut.
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Campaign context
The explicit campaign boundary used to scope each relevant read, write, reveal, and relationship.
This prevents records from one campaign—or one Heart—from silently bleeding into another.
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Visibility
Who may see a record: private, individually shared, party revealed, or public/sample.
Visibility grants a view, not ownership or editing authority.
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Player Knowledge
A player-safe record created when the GM reveals campaign information.
The revealed record is separate from the GM-only source, so hidden annotations never leak with it.
Finding things
Binder Tags
Curated and freeform labels that help related records surface together.
Tags support discovery across characters, lore, quests, sessions, notes, maps, and examples without merging their ownership.
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ASCII map
A text-first map built from symbols, coordinates, labels, and a legend.
It remains understandable without uploaded images, color, animation, or visual ornament.
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Sample content
Protected, view-only teaching material such as The Ashen Road.
It demonstrates connected systems without exposing or modifying anyone’s private work.
Explore offers context, not requirements. Return whenever a concept needs refreshing.