The codex
The rules are the game.
In plain english
MANSORI is an outdoor social game and interactive reality show played by consenting adults. Nobody is ever touched, chased into danger, followed home, or filmed without standing. The "elimination" is a phone scan. Break a conduct rule once and you are out of the season — no appeals theater, no second warnings for safety violations.
The tag is never contact
An elimination in MANSORI is a scan, not a touch. A player tags their target by scanning the target's code, or capturing a clear photo of them from within ten meters. The target confirms the tag in the app within fifteen minutes; a disputed tag goes to Gamemaker review of the footage. There is no physical component to an elimination — ever.
RULE 01No touching
No physical contact between players in the course of play. Not a tap on the shoulder, not a grab, nothing. Contact of any kind during a tag attempt is instant disqualification.
RULE 02No dangerous pursuit
No chasing anyone into traffic, across roads, or into any situation where someone could get hurt. No hunting from a moving vehicle — driving while playing is instant disqualification.
RULE 03Game hours: 9:00–22:00
Play exists only between 9:00 and 22:00 local time. Outside those hours every player is untouchable and required to leave the game alone. Off-hours play is a conduct violation.
RULE 04Public zones only
The arena is the public city: streets, parks, campuses, malls. Explicit no-go zones: private homes, the workplaces of non-players, vehicles in motion, and transit platforms. A tag attempted in a no-go zone doesn't count — and costs the hunter.
RULE 05The panic button
Every player carries a panic button in the app. One press instantly pauses their game state — they cannot be tagged, they are removed from the live map — and alerts the Gamemakers. No questions asked, no penalty for using it.
RULE 06Adults only, on paper
Every member of MANSORI is 18 or older — watchers included. Every cast player is a consenting adult under a signed participation agreement covering conduct, media release, and safety rules before the season begins.
RULE 07Bystanders are not content
Filming non-consenting bystanders as the subject of content is a conduct violation. The show is the cast — people who signed up for it — never the public around them.
RULE 08Nobody's location is for sale
Spectators never see a player's precise, real-time position. The live map shows zone-level areas only, delayed thirty minutes. Precise location is used by the game engine alone, during game hours alone.
What gets you disqualified
These end a player's season on the spot, pending only a review of the evidence:
- Touching another player during play
- Trespassing on private property to make or escape a tag
- Playing while driving, or hunting from a vehicle
- Playing outside game hours
- Filming non-consenting bystanders as content subjects
- Threats, harassment, or intimidation — in the arena or in the app
A disqualified player is struck from the board and loses any claim on the pot. Conduct reports trigger an instant game-pause for the reported player while a human reviews.
The audience is moderated too
- Report and block everywhere. Every profile, clip, comment, live chat message, and tag carries a report action feeding a human-reviewed moderation queue. Blocking a user removes them from your world.
- Live chat is filtered. Banned-word filtering and slow mode run on every live room; on-camera messages pass the moderation filter before they render.
- Audience-written trials pass a safety gate. Every proposed trial is screened automatically — anything dangerous, illegal, sexual, targeting non-players, or touching private property is rejected — and then requires human Gamemaker approval before it can go live. The audience writes the show; it does not get to write an unsafe one.
The money is clean
- No entry fees, ever. Playing costs nothing; joining costs nothing. Nobody buys a seat in the cast.
- The pot is a gift, not a wager. Audience donations buy nothing back — no stakes, no shares, no odds payouts. The winner receives the pot as a prize.
- No weapons — not even pictures of them. Nothing in the game involves, simulates, or depicts a weapon. The tag is a phone scan, and the app's language reflects it: players are "eliminated," never anything else.
Questions or reports
Anything you see that worries you — in the arena or in the app — goes to support@mansori.ai and is read by a human. Urgent, in-progress safety issues should always go to local emergency services first.