capitalm | NETWORK RULES

capitalchan is where all online communication in Capital H goes.

Perhaps most notably, it’s home to three significant in-game networks.

The first is HeroLink, the CONDOR-sponsored registered superhero network. This network is accessible to registered superheroes only. It is moderated by CONDOR officials from its superhero registration branch and is generally fairly official in tone – alerts and requests for help tend to come through official avenues like the military or emergency services. If you post a ton of selfies of your new uniform you will probably get told off.

Posts on this network are generally supposed to be limited to on-topic subjects like alerts and requests for assistance, whether from superheroes or outside sources like the police, announcements about changes in official team rosters, new heroes registering, or heroes retiring, and constructive discussions about methods and advice.

Posts to this network should be tagged with #herolink

The second network, The Watch, is the unofficial superhero bulletin network, which is maintained anonymously. Occasionally people get concerned that whoever’s running it has sinister motives, but it’s been going for years without any sign of that being the case, and most heroes who’ve been using it for a while feel relatively comfortable with it. Anyone can submit a request for help via the site, and although, unlike the official network, this can sometimes be abused, most pranksters tend to steer clear of submitting false requests for assistance ever since a few years back when some disgruntled vigilantes tracked down the guy from 4chan who submitted a false request they responded to and beat him up and hung him from the top of a lamp post for wasting their time.

This network has a much more relaxed and social atmosphere overall; you absolutely can get away with posting new uniform selfies, gossip about other superheroes, and ‘don’t you hate it when the police do X’ discussions. It’s used equally by registered and unregistered superheroes, and although some registered superheroes prefer the CONDOR-run network’s more strictly on-topic setup, a lot of them keep an eye on the unofficial one as well anyway, to make sure they don’t miss anything important.

Membership is gained via invite codes; users can generate their own, in limited quantities, if they’ve been on the site for long enough, but whoever’s running the site is pretty on the ball and superheroes just starting out will often find themselves handed one in an envelope by a furtive figure the first time they successfully stop a mugging. These invite codes may also be given to relevant non-superhero individuals, for example Intrepid Reporters, helpful police commissioners, producers of superhero costumes, etc. Heroes may also give invite codes to family members who they’ve let in on their secret, if they want to, but individuals registering under these circumstances are generally advised to use a handle that doesn’t include their real name and avoid mentioning which superhero they are associated with.

Posts to this network should be tagged with #the watch

The third, even more obscure network is used by villains. This one, known as The Underground, is a little less functional; criminals mostly use it to gossip and complain about law enforcement, and sometimes to share tips, but the risk of law enforcement infiltrating or getting a hold of it – plus the fact that supervillains by definition can’t really trust each other very much – means there’s not much point in announcing one’s evil plans on there. Unless that’s how you roll.

Posts to this network should be tagged with #the underground

Besides these networks, though, this community can be used for anything from secret organisation communiqués to blog posts and twitter conversations. How peripheral or major the general online aspect of this community ends up being will depend on what players make of them – it’s pretty much up to you!

Private communications should be tagged with #private, and other general internet posts should just be tagged #internet, with the site or kind of site it’s supposed to be on in the subject line of the post.