Here’s a quick summary of the game:

At its core, playing the Osiris Sanction consists of uncovering a dark and twisted conspiracy. In the Osiris Sanction, knowledge is power, and you will find that the more information you collect, the better your standing within the community will become.

There are three types of play in the game, but in the end the tasks you complete in each will uncover information regarding the singular storyline that ties them all together. We refer to those three types of play as Alpha, Beta, and Theta play. This page is meant to clarify the differences between the three, as well as give you a sense of what you can expect from the game.

Alpha Play
Alpha play is that which takes place in the real world. We use the real-life environments of cities as the backdrop for Alpha play, and then overlay our storyline and game play on top of it. In Alpha, you take actions in the real world to obtain information and uncover more of the plot. Alpha runs all the time….it does not wait for a specific time to happen, though some of the encounters will have to be scheduled.

In the end, Alpha play is a bit like an urban scavenger hunt, where you range across a city, performing certain tasks at checkpoints in order to discover the location of the next checkpoint and continue on. The difference is that this Alpha 'scavenger hunt' is a hunt for information, and the information you unveil is all a part of the plotline of the Osiris Sanction.

However, Alpha play is not 'The Amazing Race.' Our plotline is one of conspiracy and clandestine encounters with secret and unknown contacts. As such, the ideal Alpha encounter will take place in a public place where you are surrounded by normal folks going about their normal business, yet they will have no idea that the game is even happening around them.

Beta Play
Beta play follows the same basic model as Alpha play, but it takes place in the online virtual world of the internet. Much of Beta play takes place in the 3D virtual world known as Second Life, but parts of Beta may lead you out of the Second Life environment to scour the internet for a vital piece of information, or to perform some other task.

In the end, Beta is just like Alpha, but instead of the backdrop being the physical real world, the backdrop is the virtual real world represented by the internet. Again, you will be surrounded by normal online folks going about their normal online business, and ideally none of them will know that the game is even taking place.

Theta Play
Theta play is easily the most physically active aspect of The Osiris Sanction. In it, we send you on SWAT-style raids to attack your adversaries' positions. In game terms, this action is happening in a 'virtual reality.' In real-world terms, we equip you with airsoft guns and other necessary equipment You then physically enter the Theta game space to eliminate your enemies and complete the assigned tasks. Think of a Tom Clancy video game, but instead of pushing buttons on a controller to control your special-ops character in the game, the special-ops character is you.

Other aspects of a Theta 'run' include using tools to disarm bombs, picks to open locks, med-kits to heal your squad members' wounds, software to hack into real computers, and more. In Theta, it is up to you and your squad members to do what needs to be done. Though there is a basic rules system to govern how combat and other aspects of Theta play work, you will always have to physically perform the task at hand in order to succeed, whether that task is eliminating an enemy by use of your gun, disarming a laser tripwire, or anything else.

More information about the game is available in the 'information' section of this site. Make no mistake, though: this game is unlike anything else you have ever played. If you are looking to sign on as staff or for an internship, this will pay some money, but not a lot, at least initially.

But come and join us for the fun.

-Ford