Instead of the traditional Day phase, this game will be broken up into Cantos. A canto is a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic. The word comes from Italian, meaning "song" or singing. Each canto will last exactly 120 hours (5 days) starting from the moment each living player has made a post, or until a Lynch is achieved, whichever comes first. This means that a canto can in theory be stretched to being quite a lot longer if one player refrains from making a post (however, excessive inactivity will be punished, sloth is one of the deadly sins after all). When a canto ends, the next canto will begin immediately following a post from me. There is no "Night" phase in Hell.

There are nine circles of Hell. They are:

First Circle (Limbo)
Second Circle (Lust)
Third Circle (Gluttony)
Fourth Circle (Greed)
Fifth Circle (Anger)
Sixth Circle (Heresy)
Seventh Circle (Violence)
Eighth Circle (Fraud)
Ninth Circle (Treachery)

Each circle is a location within the game and provides a different benefit or drawback for being in that circle. At the start of the game, almost everyone will begin in a random circle. During each canto, you have the option of moving from one circle to the next. This is done by PMing me your decision to move up or down, and by how much, along with any actions or abilities you may wish to active at the same time. In the next canto, you will find yourself in the newly desired circle. For most characters you can either move up by one circle at a time, or down by up to two circles (it is harder to climb out of hell than it is to dive into it). A few characters might find their movement through circles more liberal or restricted (check your role PMs). Each character has a "home circle", and knows the benefit or drawback associated with that circle. Tourists will have to suffer with not knowing what boon or trap awaits them by entering a circle.

Knowledge that pertains to circles (eg. what circle you're in, what your home circle is, and what powers are associated with it) is free to be shared publicly if you so desire to do so. You still may not directly quote any info pertaining to circles that you are sent.

There are only three alignments to be found in this game. They are:

1. DIVINE ALIGNED. The good guys. You probably won't find very many of these in Hell. Their win condition is to Kill Lucifer.
2. INFERNO ALIGNED. The bad guys. Just about everything you find in Hell will be this. Their win condition is to Kill Dante.
3. COMEDY ALIGNED. The other guys. These are characters whose exact motives are unknown. Their win conditions will vary from one to the next.

A Lynch ordinarily requires a majority vote (half the living players plus one). A few exceptional characters might have a different Lynch Threshold, which would require a different amount of votes to be Lynched. These characters, if any exist, would be the exception, not the norm. In the event that a Lynch does not occur before the end of a canto, the canto ends with no Lynch.

Each player has the ability to vote during a canto to attempt to Lynch another player. The accepted format is Vote: PlayerName (note the bold text). Coloured votes help them stand out, but is not a requirement. You do not need to unvote to place a new vote, but only your most recent vote will count (unless you have the ability to make more than one vote). You can elect to vote for No Lynch if you wish to see the canto end without a Lynch. No Lynch has a threshold of Majority minus one.

Information given to you in private by the GameMod is intended to stay private. You may not quote, paraphrase, or even hint at anything that you have been told from me. The only exceptions to this are:

-Your Role Name
-Your Alignment
-Information pertaining to circles
-You may VAGUELY claim abilities (eg. "I am a variant protective role," or "I am kinda like a tracker in some ways.")

Anything else may not be shared, unless your role PM specifically tells you otherwise.