SecOps
Chair: Company’s chair. You read the logs, watch the accounts and devices, and cut a device off when the table has a reason. You are the table’s eyes on behaviour.
Verbs are DEFAULT playtest parameters. The role is RULED. The IM calls every roll and states the target first (Easy 8, Standard 12, Hard 16). You have 2 actions per round.
“I do not accuse anyone. I tell you what the logs say.”
Your three verbs
Pull-log
What it does: Pull a log for a hire’s account or device. It never rolls: it always costs one action and one lookup, raises the clue tier one step (capped at clean) and reveals one fact. At clean it keeps the tier and still reveals one more unrevealed fact. The IM announces the new tier.
Use it when: you have a specific question: which device, which time, which hire. It informs and never scores or closes.
Isolate
What it does: Cut a device or session off from the network.
Roll it when: the table has a reason and needs to stop reach quickly. Isolate is a closing verb: a success is a closed control and lowers Payoff by 1, never below 0.
Watch
What it does: Monitor an account or device across rounds.
Roll it when: you want to catch a pattern without spending a lookup now.
Free actions
Ask, Look and Hold are free for anyone and never roll. Ask the IM or a teammate a question, Look at the card or the file and read it aloud, or Hold an action for a better moment.
Tips
- Spend Pull-log on one hire, with one question.
- Name the control you are running: it is what makes a cut valid.
- Watch costs an action and no lookup. Pull-log costs a lookup but raises the tier, which makes every later Company roll easier.
- Share the result in one sentence.
What this role watches
- The lookup budget, which you drain first.
- Remote tools and unusual device activity.
- The ship-to address and the device the hire used.
What you never do
Never read a log as if it showed nationality, accent or face. Never accuse from looks. Never use a real log, a phone or a search engine in the middle of the game: Ask the IM, or use Pull-log.
Judge the process, not the person.
Short on players?
SecOps pairs well with Engineering. Any player may borrow another role’s verb for one action. Say aloud which verb and whose it is. See Chairs and Roles.