The basic unit of time is the week. Four weeks make a game month, three months make a season and four seasons make a year.
For each month of the game, all players send their personal actions for those four weeks in a PM to the GM. A negotiation period is necessary to allow players to arrange for duels, toadying or any other activity that must be arranged in advance. A player need not keep his word to other players, but must do what is written in the orders sent to the GM.
A character may engage in only one activity per week. The specific actions recorded in the example below will be explained later, but this is the manner in which weekly records must be planned.
2.1 Pre-Monthly Actions
- Attend Trial
- Issue Duel challenges
- Fight / Serve as Second at Duel
- Sell Owned Residence or Estate
- Sell Horses
- Sell Carriage.
- Embezzle from appointment
- Borrow, Lend, Repay or Give Money to / from Shylocks or another character.
- Redeem Mortgage on Estate
- Buy Higher Rank in Regiment
- Buy Carriage.
- Buy Horses.
- Pay Support for Mistress, Horses & Groom, Carriage, Residence and Self (automatic).
- Consume Conspicuously.
- Move into or Leave Rented Residence.
- Resign from / Join Club (characters will resign current club before joining another).
- Ask NPC to do something.
- Use Influence on NPC.
- Apply for / Accept / bestow Appointment.
- Nominate Confessor
- Volunteer for Front.
- Veto companies & regiments from volunteering (Adjutant / Inspectors-General only).
- Substitute regiments (Minister of War only).
NB Premonthly Actions occur in the order above.
2.2 Weekly Actions
- Travel to / from / between provinces.
- Recover from wounds (automatic).
- Visit club / Bawdyhouse / country girls.
- Court mistress
- Entice Admirer (if Female PC)
- Practise weapon (with regiment, another character or at a Salle if in Paris).
- Practise Guile
- Attend Military or Ladies Academy
- Join regiment.
- Attend Military Academy.
- Visit Court.
- Host or Attend Ball or Party ( at home, club, estate, rented home or Court)
- Visit family.
- Visit mistress’ family
- Hunt.
- Work on Ferret Mission
- Go on Patrol (if Night Watch)
- Attend Church
- Issue / Prompt Wedding Proposal
- Buy Residence in Paris or Estate
- Mortgage Estate
- Launch Company Investment (with Shylocks or in Province)
- Perform Regimental or other duties
- Languish in Custody
No-Time Actions
(and what they must be combined with)
- Give Evidence at a Trial.
- Issue warrants for arrest (at any time).
- Issue Summons to Stand Trial (at any time).
- Accept toadiers (at Club, Bawdyhouse, home, estate, Ball, hunt, or Court).
- Toady (at Club, Bawdyhouse, home, estate, Grand Ball, hunt, or Court).
- Carouse (at Club, Bawdyhouse [mandatory], home, estate, Court or Ball)
- Gamble (at Club, Bawdyhouse or Court).
- Womanise (at Bawdyhouse or with country girls in provinces).
- Become Titled (at Court).
- Invest (at Court).
- Order NPCs to make an arrest
- Make an arrest (at any time)
- Officiate at / attend Church Service in conjunction with Wedding Reception or Wake
- Participate in or spectate at Horse Race in Conjunction with Fete