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BookedOrange jumpsuit, a yard full of inmates, guards with tasers. Your sentence only runs while you're online and in your cell, so you'd better know how to cut it short. Or get out early.
Intake#
When you reach your cell, everything you carry goes to the locker at the desk in front of the prison: bought guns, ammo, food and med kits, tools, drugs, loot bag, jerrycans. Your cash and your phone stay on you. You'll need that cash in the yard.
You put on the orange jumpsuit and all you have left is your fists. In your cell, your inventory comes down to your phone and your contraband.
Your sentence clock only runs while you're online and inside the walls. Logging off gets you nowhere: you pick your sentence back up where you left it.
The yard#
- The guards leave you alone as long as you behave. Taser and nightstick on the belt, pistol for troublemakers, rifles on the posts by the fences, the walls and the entrance.
- Labor: fix an electrical box, sweep, scrub graffiti. Each task takes 15 s off, once each per sentence, up to 50% of your sentence.
- Packages: every 3 min, a package flies over the fence. It shows up on your map. First come, first served: a shiv, bolt cutters or $500 – $2,500 in cash.
- The yard boss smokes in a corner. He sells the shiv and the bolt cutters, cash only. One of each on you at a time.
The shiv is a blade: enough to defend yourself or settle a score. The bolt cutters are for cutting the fence, once.
What adds time#
| Offense | Extra time |
|---|---|
| Shiv in hand in front of a guard (confiscated) | 60 s |
| Killing another inmate | 60 s |
| Killing a guard | 120 s |
A dead guard leaves his gun behind. It works in the yard, but it drops when you die and gets confiscated if you walk out the front door. And a guard who sees it in your hand opens fire.
Die in the yard? You get back up in the yard and your sentence keeps running. But the shiv and the cutters are gone, and the guards' guns stay by your body for whoever comes by first.
Getting out#
Serve it
- Time passes, you walk out the front gate.
- Labor shortens it.
- A long sentence served to the end leaves a mark.
Lawyer$5,000 + $2,500/min
- Visiting room phone, in the yard.
- Paid from your bank, then your cash.
- Out right away.
Bail
- A free crewmate with no stars pays at the desk in front of the prison.
- Same price as the lawyer, paid from their bank then their cash. They get a text when you reach your cell.
- Not during the convoy.
Escape
- Gate, fence or a wall that blows.
- See escape.
Every minute started counts in the lawyer's price. A sentence that gets longer makes him pricier.
The Prison app#
On your phone: your sentence, the time you've earned off, the tasks left, the lawyer's price. Outside, it shows your crewmates behind bars with their bail price, and your locker waiting for you, with GPS to the desk.
Getting your stuff back#
Once out, go to the desk in front of the prison and press G: the locker sheet lists what's waiting for you. With no stars, the clerk hands everything back. Wanted, he refuses. You can also break into the locker with convenience store bolt cutters ($2,000): everything in one go, but ★★★, the alarm and the scanner for the whole server. The cutters stay there.
Die before you pick up your locker and it's gone. Getting revived by a crewmate doesn't count as dying.
A package sits on the ground for before the guards find it. The first package only comes once the first inmate arrives.
In a package, of a shiv, of bolt cutters. A second pair of cutters or a second shiv in a package?
A dead guard is replaced later.