I. GENERAL. Drink anytime. . .

1. Magick is used (2 drinks if it's vulgar)

2. A character from a past Macrocosm game puts in an appearance (2 drinks

if it's not a parent or parent-surrogate)

3. A new supernatural manifestation unrelated to the characters puts in an

appearance

4. Someone new joins the characters' lunch table

5. A romantic or sexual relationship commences (generally also requires a

drink for #4)

6. A romantic or sexual relationship ends (2 drinks if at least one of the

participants takes up with someone else at the lunch table within 24 hours)

7. School rules are violated (2 drinks if the violator(s) are actually

caught; finish your drink if any lasting consequences actually result)

8. A new teacher or fellow student is introduced and given a name. (Drink

again when such a character appears for the third time, thus officially

becoming "recurring.")

9. The major characters are occupied with schoolwork or interact with

students outside their group for more than five minutes at a time.

10. Classes are called off Yet Again, thus making it likely that school

will run through August

11. HALF is officially activated/reactivated.

12. HALF is officially de-activated after the accomplishment of a goal.

13. The Hannibal Nephandi put in an appearance.

14. Someone comments on:

a. Ivan's wickedness

b. Jasmine's age

c. Kerry's perversion

d. Vincent's erudition

e. Tyler's being a prick

f. Mel's religious beliefs

g. Corinna's babelicious nature

II. INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS. Drink whenever. . .

1. Ivan

a. Hatches a scheme (2 drinks if it involves a "shopping list")

b. Uses his real last name

c. Employs his "Mr. Camembert" identity

d. Accomplishes a goal by the implementation of large sums of cash

e. Plots against a friend (finish your drink if he ever actually carries it out)

f. Describes his personal philosophy of life or gives the "evil" perspective on a situation

g. Deals with infernal forces

h. Gets in way over his head

i. ... but refuses to admit it

j. ... and wins out anyway through sheer AUDACITY!

k. Goes two whole sessions without throwing a party

l. Shocks a friend with his opinions or behavior

m. (whole drink) Is shocked by a friend's opinions or behavior

2. Jasmine

a. Spies on a friend or snoops into a friend's personal affairs

b. ... and shares the information with a third party

c. Displays intellectual arrogance

d. Displays maturity beyond her years

e. Utterly fails to display maturity beyond her years

f. Racks up another favor she owes someone

g. Employs her adult guise

h. ... to flirt with guys

i. ... and actually has the slightest idea what to do if any respond

j. Invents a new gadget or technique

k. Pursues her goal of becoming Mrs. Tyler Elliot

l. Pursues her goal of becoming an omniscient being of pure intellect

m. Fails to see any contradiction between goals k and l

3. Kerry

a. Affects an overly formal manner. (Two drinks if it is verbal rather than written).

b. Displays a rather flexible, yet oddly honorable morality.

c. Manages to go an entire game without a snide comment to or about anyone.

d. Tells someone (who doesn't already know) about the love of his life.

e. ... and actually identifies the object of that love.

f. (Whole drink) ... and he is speaking TO the object of that love.

g. Develops an organism that any sane person would quarantine immediately

h. ... and non-chalantly carries it about in his pockets.

i. displays intellectual arrogance

j. offhandedly says something incongruous (e.g., the

question about Santa Claus and the Loch Ness Monster)

k. Invents a new gadget or technique

l. Proposes something that weirds out all his friends

m. (whole drink) Becomes involved in a nice, normal relationship,

despite the fact that his three closest female attachments are with his own

sister, a ten-year-old girl, and a near-mindless clone

4. Vincent

a. Understands a language no one else does

b. Reveals obscure knowledge

c. Displays dry humor

d. Gets naked (2 drinks if ritual magick is not involved)

e. Talks, comfortably, to a girl

f. (whole drink) Raises his voice

5. Tyler

a. Acts like a prick

b. ... to someone other than a past, present, or future girlfriend

c. Manages to hurt someone more by trying to do just the opposite

d. (Year 1) Displays self-loathing through self-destructive behavior

e. (Year 2) Displays preternatural calm in the face of provocation

f. Kills someone (in Year 1, generally also requires a drink for

option d)

g. Meets a new friend thanks to one of his sleepless nights

h. Employs his wealth and/or social status to good effect

6. Melanie

a. Has someone profess his love for her

b. ... and then screw someone else

c. Broods about how men are jerks

d. Displays religious devotion

e. Has sex (finish your drink if demonic influence is not involved)

f. Acts as the viewer-identification newbie in a supernatural situation

g. Displays magely competence that astonishes her more experienced

friends

h. Frets about her celebrity as a model

7. Corinna

a. Displays superhuman self-absorption

b. Deliberately avoids being involved in High Weirdness

c. Uses her charms to manipulate an older man

d. Acquires or dispenses illegal drugs

e. Plays Pygmalion with a less worldly girl (2 drinks if the other

girl actually goes along)

8. Simon

a. Demonstrates a new stage in his social development

b. Talks to a ghost in the presence of other humans who can't see it

c. Displays unexpected wisdom and insight into his friends' lives

d. Gets drunk (2 drinks if *not* at Ivan's instigation)

e. (whole drink) Has sex

9. Tenna

a. Reads someone's emotions

b. ... and gets so caught up in it that she can't stop

c. Figures something out ahead of the person explaining it to her

d. Displays a personality trait other than "sweetness"

e ... and this is surprising only to her brother

10. The Airhead Twins (Brandon or Kelli or both)

a. Cause great annoyance just by talking

b. Are used as a conduit to the rumor mill (to spread or acquire

gossip)

c. Show signs of actually being human

d. (whole drink) Are actually treated as equals by anyone else at

the lunch table

III. CHARACTER PAIRS. Drink whenever. . . .

1. Ivan/Jasmine

a. Plot together that which neither could plot alone

b. Threaten, or try to one-up, each other

c. Indicate that their friendship is based entirely on their mutual

utility to each other

d. ... under circumstances which make it clear that's a lie

2. Ivan/Kerry

a. Ivan plots to loosen Kerry up (with Mexican whores or whatever)

b. Ivan gets Kerry to do something illegal (e.g., make

super-powerful hallucinogenic mushrooms) by manipulating his scientific

curiosity

3. Ivan/Vincent

a. Ivan plots to loosen Vincent up

b. ... and pisses him off royally

4. Ivan/Tyler

a. Plot to see naked chicks

b. ... and succeed without being arrested

c. Engage in macho posturing (aka the "prick-waving dick fight")

with each other

d. Ivan expresses jealousy of Tyler's wealth, fame, and/or romantic

prowess

5. Ivan/Melanie

a. Exhibit a deep, healthy friendship despite their vast differences

b. Ivan simultaneously amuses and embarrasses Mel

c. Ivan expresses regret that he and Mel are no longer dating

d. Ivan refers to Mel as his "conscience," or mentions "the Sacred

and the Profane"

6. Ivan/Corinna

a. Go a whole session without having some kind of deviant sex

b. Have a new kind of deviant sex not previously hinted at in the game

c. Indicate that their relationship is based entirely on sex

d. ... under circumstances which make it clear that's a lie

7. Ivan/Simon

a. Ivan nudges Simon toward more "corrupt" behavior

8. Jasmine/Kerry

a. Team up on a project that is neither perverse nor embarrassing

nor uncomfortably intimate

b. Have an entire conversation about something that SHOULD be

perverse or embarrassing or uncomfortably intimate while both are in

"analysis" mode

c. Actually DO something perverse or embarrassing or uncomfortably

intimate under the aegis of Science

d. Actually do something perverse or embarrassing or uncomfortably

intimate, because one or both of them would rather be doing it with someone

else

e. Exchange advice/counseling about their respective crushes

f. Learn that they are believed to be dating each other

g. (whole drink) Decide "Oh, to hell with THEM" and actually date

each other

h. Jasmine tries to talk Kerry out of his dislike for Tyler

i. Kerry tries to talk Jasmine out of either of her life goals

j. (whole drink) Either d or e actually succeeds

9. Jasmine/Vincent

a. Jasmine mentions the time that Vincent got naked

10. Jasmine/Tyler

a. Actually, actively do something together as best friends

b. Refer to their future marriage and/or offspring

c. Flirt

d. ... at Tyler's instigation

e. ... when he's not drunk, stoned, or in the future

f. Do anything more than flirt

g. (whole drink) ... without time travel being involved

h. Jasmine displays jealousy/possessiveness toward Tyler

i. Tyler displays protectiveness/possessiveness toward Jasmine

11. Jasmine/Melanie

a. Ally against an unworthy contender for Tyler's affections

b. Manage somehow to mix friendship and rivalry simultaneously

c. Jasmine displays jealousy of Mel's short-term prospects with Tyler

d. ... but encourages them anyway

e. (or) ... and does something drastic

f. Mel displays jealousy of Jasmine's long-term prospects with Tyler

12. Jasmine/Corinna

a. Corinna gives Jasmine "womanly" advice on fashion, behavior,

and/or relationships

13. Jasmine/Brandon

a. Demonstrate growing mutual respect

b. Jasmine insults or taunts Brandon

c. ... out of pure habit, while trying to be friendly

14. Kerry/Vincent

a. Argue about the allowable parameters of "natural" life

15. Kerry/Tyler

a. Engage in (subtle) macho posturing/PWDF with each other

b. Kerry insults Tyler, or casts doubt on his trustworthiness

c. (whole drink) ... and turns out to be right

d. Kerry does something calculated to annoy or spite Tyler

e. (whole drink) Kerry admits that he may be wrong about

Tyler, apologizes to Tyler, or has a rather pleasant and congenial (i.e.,

non-barbed) conversation with Tyler.

16. Kerry/Melanie

a. Kerry proposes a perverse, embarrassing, or uncomfortably

intimate experiment

b. (whole drink) ... and Mel agrees

17. Kerry/Corinna

a. (Skip next drink, because it can't be that hard) Kerry gets

Corinna involved in a perverse, embarrassing, or uncomfortably intimate

experiment

18. Kerry/Simon

a. Kerry evaluates Simon's apprenticeship potential

19. Kerry/Tenna

a. Switch personalities

b. Maintain a normal sibling relationship for at least one session

c. Kerry displays protectiveness/possessiveness toward Tenna

d. ... which annoys her

e. Kerry blanks his emotions to prevent Tenna from reading him

f. ... which annoys her

g. Tenna annoys Kerry by managing to read him too well

h. Kerry displays disturbing incestuous feelings for his sister

i. (whole drink) Kerry gets over the whole incest thing

j. (whole drink) Tenna displays some reaction other than revulsion

to the whole incest thing

k. (drink 'til you pass out or vomit, your choice) Actual incest is

committed

20. Kerry/Brandon

a. Actually have a pleasant, respectful conversation

b. Kerry plots Brandon's torturous death

c. ... and actually carries out any of these plots

d. (whole drink) Kerry accepts Brandon's relationship with his sister

21. Tyler/Melanie

a. (Year 1) Take "one step forward and two steps back" on the

romantic front

b. (Year 2) Achieve a new milestone in their relationship

c. Fight and make up within the same session

22. Tyler/Corinna

a. Display surrogate-sibling playful antagonism

b. Corinna displays her hero-worship of Tyler

c. ... and recounts the story behind it

23. Tyler/Brandon

a. Demonstrate what in the world it is that makes them best friends

24. Tyler/Kelli

a. (Vomit previously consumed drinks) Get back together

25. Melanie/Corinna

a. Exhibit close friendship despite their personality differences

26. Tenna/Brandon

a. Achieve a new milestone in their developing relationship