Knowledge · Medium — speaking the country, not just walking through it.

Social · Medium — turning what somebody knows into what you need to know.

Physical · Medium — coming in hot, getting in and out, and never letting the LZ be your grave.

Knowledge · Medium — knowing exactly where you are when nobody else does.

Da Nang, 1965. The war is young and so are the men fighting it. The air cavalry is a brand-new experiment, the Hueys are lined up on the flight line, and beyond the wire the jungle is waiting. Choose your soldier, your pilot, your correspondent — and step into the noise.

The war's deniable back door. MACV-SOG recon teams work the places the war officially isn't — across the fence, down the trail, into the bush where nobody was ever there. Brief at the compound, cross the line, come back with the truth and the team. Choose your operator, your point man, your radio man, your scout — and step into the places that don't exist.

Berkeley, 1965. The war is young, half-believed, and coming home — teach-ins on Sproul Plaza, draft notices in the mail, and the movement learning how loud it can be. Choose your organizer, your draftee — and step into the fight over whether America's boys go at all.

Triggered after each player message — read the few files this turn actually turns on; files are canon.

Triggered after each GM reply — keep the pinned Companions file true: members, shared gear, the party purse, and party notes.

Tool-triggered on file creation — create it complete in one write, then make its one link; no second pass over the same file.

Triggered after each GM reply — create new Feat files when abilities are earned and raise tiers only when the story earns it on screen.

The one manual for running the world — the master sequence, adjudication, firefights, the war pulse, and upkeep, with worked examples. The deep rulebooks stay the references; this is the playbook you run from.

The always-on prose rulebook — pin this file. How narration stays fresh across a long campaign: signature phrases spent once, varied turn endings, precise moods, and tone that breathes.

The core rulebook — pin this file. Diceless, statless narrative play: feats, tiers, adjudication, inventory, growth, and running a good game.

The rulebook for when to update what — pin this file. Updates fire on triggers, not on a timer: immediate when the fiction changes on screen, deferred on the pendingUpdates ledger, and only the war's two living trackers run on a cadence.

The rulebook for the war back home — pin this file. How America's news, sentiment, and movements advance alongside the war, and how big wins and failures shift what the country believes.

A quiet corruption thread running under the war: supplies that vanish between the depot and the flight line. It's the kind of thing that gets men killed by inches, and it can entangle the squadron, the reporter, or the SOG operator who walks into it.

Every commander carries losses; Ellison carries this one in a letter he can't bring himself to answer. It can pull him — and the squadron — toward a family, a village, or a truth about a mission that haunts the campaign.

The air cavalry is a brand-new idea — helicopters as the weapon instead of the taxi. Duke Ellison has staked his career on proving it works, and the whole army is watching whether it can. Every mission is a test the skeptics are waiting to fail.