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Teaser

There's another world hidden behind this one. It looks just like our world - has the same streets, buildings, parks, and forests. It has the same bored and jaded pedestrians drifting through the work week. But this other world, the world down the rabbit hole, is constantly in danger. Zombies crawl up from the graveyards to feast on the flesh of the living. Deep beneath the earth, the King of the Mole People plots his conquest of the surface world. An Artificial Intelligence emerged from the helical tangles of the Internet, and she's declared war on us. Space aliens watch us silently from above.

This is the world of the Rabbit Hole. It's not Wonderland, but it's a very strange and dangerous place which exists behind the places we know. Any park, any street corner, any place where you and your friends gather could exist on the other side of the Rabbit Hole.

You and your friends will explore, build, and possibly conquer the world beneath the Rabbit Hole. The adventures you have in your town will influence ongoing storylines.

Intro

Flipside is a live gaming system which can be used to run different types of live adventures. Players transform familiar hangout spaces into several types of game spaces. Adventure scripts can be downloaded from the website. Adventure types include live boffer combat scenarios and turn-based card battles involving real space. Accumulate resources by creating content for your friends. Spend resources to build imaginary facilities like secret labs and occult libraries to give yourself access to class skills.

Several plotline-based adventure scripts are available for download on the game website. When your group runs an adventure, the outcome may influence ongoing global storylines (For example, every time you kill a zombie in boffer combat, it adds to the global zombie bodycount).

For each scenario type, there are a number of "character sheets" available for download (single page PDF). Each character class has its own character sheet with rules on one side, and a character building flowchart or checklist on the reverse. Before you play, you just print out a character sheet, check off a number of skills, and read any scenario specific rules. You may have access to a bonus sheet based on available facilities.

Table of Contents

Wards - transform your neighborhood into a game space

Facilities - things you can build on your territories

Live Combat - rules for live boffer scenarios

List of Game Calls - game effects and language

Card Combat - rules for card-based scenarios

Character Sheets - printable character sheets for the Live Combat scenarios

Social Networking Site - describes the architecture of the website