Kingsward

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The mission goes on without you. Your squad still needs you.

How to serve a writ

• Slow is smooth. Running is loud. Enemies who hear you get ready: they hold angles on doorways, and they react much faster once alert. Walk, or crouch.
• Doors are everything. Hold F to ease a door open and peek. Use the scrying glass (T) under a closed door to see who's waiting. Kick (G) to burst in and stagger anyone behind it.
• Shout first. V calls on everyone who can see you to yield. Stunned, hurt, surprised or outnumbered foes yield far more often. Then hold F to bind them, quickly: some only pretend.
• Arrests beat kills. A bound suspect is worth more than a dead one. Killing someone who yielded is unlawful and costs you dearly. So does harming innocents.
• Innocents panic. Shout at them too, then hold F to secure them. Captives are tied up: cut them free.
• Light cuts both ways. Your lantern (L) shows you the room, and shows the room you. The gem at the bottom right shows how visible you are.
• Rune wards trap some doors. Rogues spot them from afar and can disarm them; anyone else sees them only up close, or with the scrying glass.
• Nobody is alone. Fall and you bleed out unless a squadmate revives you (hold F). Healers do it fastest.
• The writ is served when every hostile is dealt with and every innocent is safe. Gather in the yard and press X to withdraw early.

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