#ramcoa scripting

[many-but-one]

Okay sysblr I think there’s been a massive misconception on what makes a script.

What a script IS: Abusers using a fictional story or movies to create a “base” to your system. This includes designing your inner world, higher ups, entire system functions, etc based on this script. Unless a script is started when you are very VERY young, these fail more often than not. Common script bases I’ve seen are Alice in Wonderland, Narnia, Halo (as in, the games), and Disney Princess movies. (Disney Princess programs are NOT the same as a Disney Princess script, ftr)

What a script is NOT: Having abusers purposely split fictives based on what “use” they have to them. ie, splitting a maid character if they want a part who will clean for them, splitting a fictional sex worker to do sex work for them, etc.

Scripts are meant to be the basis of your system, they will control every aspect of your system and if done well/correctly, engaging in the media that the script is from can be genuinely catastrophic to a non-healed, non-deprogrammed system.

Scripts are not necessarily uncommon but they aren’t nearly as common as people seem to think because they are DIFFICULT and COMPLEX and require extensive access to a kid to shape their system to fit the script correctly. Our abusers tried to script us too late, to multiple scripts, and failed. Our abusers were extremely skilled programmers and many of our other programs prior to deprogramming were airtight as fuck. They had access to sets and scenes and high quality materials to try to script children.

Point is, it is not easy to script someone—but it IS easy to get them to split certain fictional characters to get them to do certain tasks that will “fit” the characters. I think what a lot of you are experiencing is the purposeful splitting of fictives, which is a normal and common occurrence. It is easier to get a kid to split something that fits a desired template rather than creating a brand new thing and trying to manipulate that part to do the thing. If an alter already believes they are ‘xyz’ character that does ‘xyz’ thing, it will make programming that alter to do that ‘xyz’ task way easier.

Hope this helps, don’t clown on my post. That’s all I’ve got.

-Many but One

[hc-did-culture-is]

This is gonna sound dumb but what are scripts exactly? We haven't found anything about them in any of our research

-🪽

Script is piece of external media used to structure some part of the system (eg alters/alter roles, innerworld, hierarchy/structure, etc).

So basically the abuser picks a piece of media that has themes/story elements/characters that they want to add to the system, and then they give the victim that media whilst torture/forced dissociation is underway. So the media becomes part of a program. Scripts will often cause introjects to form, who can then be programmed in keeping with the needs of the abuser. The script may also lead to certain story locations being formed as part of the IW, typically ones where important events happen in the story. Those locations will also be tied to programming.

[coyotecoining]

New RAMCOA Script: Dipper Goes to Taco Bell

The victim is convinced that they are Dipper. They are led to a forest that they are told there is a Taco Bell in. The victim will then search for the Taco Bell with the handler. They will be given food and have to go to the bathroom once arriving. The handler will then traumatize the victim in the bathroom. The victim will be convinced that they died and Mabel is going to look for them.

[foundation-of-nightmares]

I swear tbmc/ramcoa is genuinely insane sometimes

Who's grand idea was it to script us with halo??

Fuckin nerds lol

[glagglepilled]

A lot of people in the "RAMCOA" online community are probably lying.

Theres believing victims, and then there's believing utter nonsense. At some point, you have to realise something is up with most of these claims.

Ritual abuse and organised abuse do happen, but does it really happen in the way some of you are claiming it does?

If all your claims are correct, then there are international groups, weaponising dissociation using specified methods. And they have never been caught nor do they have any publicity despite doing this to seemingly thousands of children.

If these groups exist, what are they called? Who is behind them? Why do they all use the same method, is there some kind of manual for doing this? Why has literally nobody gone to authorities? How do they get access to children to do this? Why is this only being talked about on social media such as tumblr and discord? Why have they not been caught? How did any of you get out? Do any of you have proof or evidence?

Yes, authorities can be unhelpful. But SURELY aren't so dumb that they wouldn't make the link if hundreds or thousands of cases popped up internationally claiming the exact same thing. And surely, if they DID make the link, it would be a HUGE scandal.

Yes, i know, there are "scripts" that make it so you cant talk about what happened.. but weirdly enough a lot of you seem just fine talking it about it on tumblr. And, many of you seem to be in therapy and are minors, in (my country at least, probably others too) therapists have a duty to report when children could be at harm, so surely a lot of your cases would've gone out to social workers or the police.

Your stories, simply, do not add up.

It doesn't help that the term RAMCOA has a history with conspiracy theorists and therapists attempting to convince patients of fake SRA in their pasts.

[creature-wizard]

A warning for trauma survivors looking for online support

You may have come across the acronym "RAMCOA", which stands for "ritual abuse, mind control, and organized abuse."

If you search the Internet for RAMCOA, you might come across a result like this:

If you click the link, you'll be taken to a site that briefly describes what RAMCOA supposedly is, with content like:

MC - Mind Control. A shortened form of TBMC, standing for Torture Based Mind Control. MC is also known as programming, where victims are repeatedly tortured starting at a very young age to intentionally cause a system of dissociated parts that function perfectly to suit the abusers' needs.

alpha : a base program, one of the very first implemented. it trains the victim's mind to accept every order given by handlers willingly. parts with alpha programming will often have no will of their own, and very little personality outside of following orders.

aiw : alice in wonderland. typically split into 3 different sections : black alice, white alice, and crazy alice. ideally, a system scripted with aiw would have all three. white alice makes sure the system forgets the trauma, black alice makes the system feel like theyll be a danger to others if they remember the trauma, and crazy alice makes the system think theyre making it up or going insane if they ever remember it.

Literally all of this comes from a conspiracy theory - specifically, the Project Monarch alter programming conspiracy. It was developed and pushed by far right conspiracy theorists. Most of what people run into specifically traces back to Fritz Springmeier, a man who claimed in the 90's that the fight for gay rights was part of a plot to enthrone the antichrist in the year 2000. The Project Monarch conspiracy theory was always adjacent to the Satanic Panic, if not a somewhat niche part of it. If you start checking citations, you will find many of these people citing Svali, a conspiracy theorist who gets a lot of her material from Springmeier. (Example 1, example 2.)

This is no accident. The term RAMCOA was created by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), which was created by and for psychologists who believed in the myths promoted during the Satanic Panic.

The RA part comes from "satanic ritual abuse," which was coined by Dr. Lawrence Pazder of Michelle Remembers (cw for descriptions of horrible abuses) fame. Lawrence Pazder is the man who effectively started the Satanic Panic. It cannot be overstated that Pazder, now a known malpractitioner, was considered the expert on ritual abuse during this time.

The MC part comes from "trauma-based mind control," which was coined to refer to the alleged abuses inflicted in Project Monarch. Parts of this conspiracy theory that can't be traced back to Fritz Springmeier can usually be traced back to Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips, two other (really racist) conspiracy theorists.

Ultimately, the entire conspiracy theory is constructed from tropes that go back to The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (a known antisemitic hoax), blood libel, and early modern witch panic.

Searching the Internet for RAMCOA resources, ritual abuse, or trauma-based mind control will always bring you to conspiracy theorists.

(Also, the term OEA, which stands for "organized extreme abuse," will lead you to conspiracy theorists as well.)

So yeah, if you're looking for support, be very wary of this stuff. It will absolutely not help you heal; just the opposite.

[granulesofsand]

Reasons people underestimate the prevalence of RAMCOA:

Untraumatized people don’t think about trauma nearly as much as survivors

People don’t know what the signs are. Trainings are shitty when given, attendees don’t think they’ll need to use the information, and trainings offered are usually online and easy to walk away from

Mandatory reporters don’t usually follow through their contracts. This is sometimes a good thing, but it can leave room in the wrong places for endangered children

People who know the signs will ignore them. They think it unlikely, that they’re overreacting, or they just don’t notice

Survivors are quiet. Speaking up puts us in danger, and more people think of us as media material than peers

The police don’t do jack shit for us. Some stations train officers to overlook our cases, and it’s difficult to take to court if a survivor wants to. In larger cases, government works with organized criminal groups that perpetrate or do so themselves for research

We’re a test question. The only time we are brought up in psychology classrooms is if they want to nod to a DID diagnosis. Few therapists are educated and willing to take us on as clients

Abusers know how to make connections with local authority. In high control groups, members may be taught how to abuse and evade interception

All of this makes it hard to report anywhere how many survivors exist free, and the low numbers in turn make us less believable when we do report

RAMCOA includes severe religious abuse, manipulative coercion, programming, cults, trafficking rings, criminal gangs, and more. Survivors are your coworkers, neighbors, cashiers, librarians.

Signs to look for:

Ritual Abuse

History of self-harm, substance use, sui/homicidality, especially with prescribed patterns

Unusual phobias (red or brown foods, kinds of houses, churches, hospitals, fear of the dark or being alone in adults)

Aversion to or obsession with the occult/witchcraft or other faith traditions

Patterns of nightmares, aversions or obsessions with common or nondescript themes (gore, needles, bugs, rodents, monsters, babies, men or women)

Sudden or irresistible urge to relocate, recontact abusers, participate in abusive ceremonies

High pain tolerance

Repeated phrases with violent, aggressive or religious themes

Mind Control and Coercion

Unquestioning obedience of a person or doctrine

Defers to another, speaks as though scripted, frequently accompanied by another or has to ask permission inappropriate for their age

Sudden or dramatic change in behavior, hobbies, or long-standing habits

Refusal to consume media unless approved by another/without further explanation

Anxious or idealized descriptions of childhood home and family, unable to recall these things

No memory of childhood or missing years

Multiple self-states, especially in high quantities

Organized Abuse and Trafficking

Disconnection from peers, family and friends

Does not attend community events or faith services or is perpetually preoccupied with a single group

Repeated unexplained absences from work or school

Disoriented, confused or dissociated for long periods of time or without explanation

Fearful or self-persecutory behavior, especially with allusions to another person or group

Bruises, broken skin or other wounds in various stages of healing

Minors engaging in commercial sex (including CSEM or survival sex)

Timid, skittish, fearful or submissive behaviors (including when this is the norm)

Malnourished, dehydrated, exhausted or with untreated ails

Without belongings or suitable living space

Many indicators of abuses flow together, as do the events themselves. It’s common that RA and OA perps use MC to keep victims in line, and techniques are often implemented by default in abusive environments. A group using RA or MC also qualifies as OA. This is why the community acronym includes all three.

There are more discreet examples for each. It’s possible to find many symptoms of RAMCOA and have none of those maltreatments as the cause. It’s possible to have none and still be abused.

Noticing indicators in children should be followed up by alerting any available reliable authority. Children sometimes disclose using metaphors or slang words they have been taught, so keep this in mind if you work with them.

[starlitvases]

Hello,

I am the system that first pointed out snowchester-system's racism here on Tumblr. I want to say something to everyone who was affected by their actions, whether it be the racist actions, the RAMCOA/OEA bait, or both at the same time.

I think I speak for everyone when I say that we as a community are devastated by the bait account's actions, either because we fell for it or because we are acutely aware of the harm they have caused.

If you believed them and are now hurt, know that your feelings are valid. Many of us are vulnerable survivors and may miss the signs of dishonesty. It is not your fault. If anyone wants to let out their grievance, my DMs and asks are open.

I cannot overstate that their actions are inexcusable. Every bait account blog that is coming out as bait has a responsibility to take accountability for their actions. I acknowledge that many won't, but it's the truth nonetheless.

For systems of color, especially Latino systems, this message is for your specifically: you did not deserve to have your language and culture mocked. I speak as a Latina system when I say that I'm beyond disgusted that these bait accounts didn't see the harm in being discriminatory towards our community in their goals. Our culture is rich, expressive, and valuable. Our culture never deserved to be made a mockery, especially in a community that has deep trauma. As I've stated before, anyone affected by these bait blogs' actions is welcome in my DMs or my Tumblr asks.

I think it's important to dispell some of the myths these accounts have made. Here are some of the highlights:

1. You can be racist against an ethnic group you're also a part of. This is called internalised racism. Snowchester-system claims to be Puerto Rican and therefore cannot be racist against Mexicans. Pushing negative stereotypes against Mexicans is still a racist action. Being Puerto Rican does not change this.

2. Scripts are rarely used because of the time and resources they require. They take a long time to input into a child and an even longer time to develop a useable script at all. Many groups do not have the resources needed to implement a script into a child. Scripts also need to be implemented early. They cannot be implemented after the ages of 4-5 due to normal child development. A child at and after these ages will start to separate fantasy from reality and will likely be able to determine that the script being presented to them isn't real. For this reason, scripts need to be implemented starting very early, preferably very shortly after birth. When implementing a script, it needs to be uncomplicated, short, and believable to an infant. Long and complicated scripts are extremely unlikely to stick to a child.

3. Witsec is highly unlikely to move someone outside of the US due to jurisdiction complications. They also very much would not move someone to a country where international ties are fragile, like Mexico. People in Witsec are not allowed social media as this breaks anonymity and increases the risk of being discovered.

I highly encourage people to do their research if you suspect someone to be lying. These bait accounts are a tragedy for everyone involved, but we can still learn from it. I hope that as a community, we can all heal from this.

[requiemsystem]

PROGRAMMING MISCONCEPTIONS

Trigger warning for discussions of programming and RAMCOA. CLOCKING Clocking is not a real thing. It's arguably one of the stupidest things I've heard of in this community. I don't blame people for believing it, paranoia is understandable, but I absolutely do blame the person who chose to spread that misinformation in the first place. It operates under the assumption that everyone comes from similar groups with similar hierarchies, which is just not true. There is no possible way for someone from a completely different group with a completely different structure to tell your rank or anything about your group just by looking at you. What is possible is identifying dissociative traits and trauma responses as well as potentially attire matching specific groups, if you are still involved with your group. Even this would take some level of practice and familiarity with the individual, you probably can't tell some random stranger in the grocery store is traumatized and dissociative just by looking at them, the same is true for anyone else. INTERNET PROGRAMMING You can't be programmed over the internet. You just can't. Programming requires someone in person torturing you and causing you to dissociate, this is not possible virtually. Programming takes a degree of control and torture that is just not possible over the internet. What is possible, and what is probably being mistaken for programming over the internet, is virtual manipulation and grooming. PROGRAMMING OUTSIDE OF A GROUP Programming is inherently organized because of the nature of the abuse, there need to be multiple people to reinforce the abuse. If only one person were involved it would fall apart from not enough reinforcement and exposure to cues. Even if there aren't many active abusers, there have to be people complicit in the abuse and allowing it to occur. Programming groups typically have multiple victims as well, it's very unlikely that they just suddenly decided to program only one child one day. What can happen outside of a group setting is conditioning, which is frequently mistaken for programming. For more details, see this post. SCRIPTING Scripts have to be implemented very early on, and it's very hard to implement a script. Most programming survivors will not have scripts. It's also unlikely to have multiple scripts, as they would get confused very easily. I also dislike the term "miniscript", as it's still a script even if it only affects one part of the system. What commonly gets confused for scripting is forced introjection, where alters are forcibly introjected as certain characters. Scripting involves molding the innerworld and programming around the media, forced introjection does not. PROGRAMMING AFTER THE AGE OF OSDDID FORMATION The entire purpose of programming is to create dissociative states in the individual, this cannot occur past the age of OSDDID formation. What can happen past the age of system formation is someone manipulating and abusing you, which can cause further splitting, but this would not be programming as it doesn't have to do with the formation of your system. To my knowledge, programming has to do with the actual creation of the system, not just causing someone to split. I am a bit uncertain about this, so correct me if I'm wrong. DEPROGRAMMING You cannot be deprogrammed without a lot of internal work. You have to put in a lot of work yourself and with a reputable therapist to effectively deprogram. It isn't something that happens overnight, and it's not something that can be done to you if you aren't ready, and you have to be in a safe and stable environment in order to effectively deprogram. PROGRAMMING ONLY OCCURRING A FEW TIMES In order for programming to be actually effective, it has to occur repeatedly on a regular basis. It cannot happen just a couple of times. This isn't to say it has to be constantly occurring, but it has to be semi-regular and reinforced via activation of cues. If it happened infrequently, it would be much less likely to cause dissociation. - C-004-2

[the-song-system]

We are Issac. We are programmed with a Songs of War script. We were beaten and abused by our father and father Micheal. We used to fully believe we were in Ardonia, due to how our mind had been affected by the drug abuse. We are free from the Christian cult now. - Ryan

We are a RAMCOA zurv¡vor. We are a cult zurv¡vor, we are an abuse zurv¡vor. And we dezerve to be heard -W¡ll¡am

We will not be silenced by ableist fakeclaimers online! RAMCOA survivors deserve to be heard like us!! We are the proof! - Tommy!

[rosestraumablog]

Uhhh what is going on in the ramcoa tag rn?? Like dsmp script??? Excuse me!? Y’all are. . . Something

Have a nice day

[svyetofor]

The existence of 'transRAMCOA' and similar bullshit labels is exactly why older RAMCOA survivors have been telling us to keep our abuse private. Stop posting programming scripts and sharing types of programs. Stop explaining the way trafficking or cults works in families. Stop providing strangers with details to your system, how it was programmed, and how you got that way.

This doesn't mean keep it a secret. Keep it in closed RAMCOA spaces as much as possible. Not only is sharing those details publicly very dangerous for yourself and other survivors who might come across it and be triggered, it's now dangerous in that it is giving a bunch of freaks the ammunition they need to completely discredit everything that survivors and professionals have worked DECADES for.

The majority of professionals in my country do not take RAMCOA or any forms of extreme abuse seriously and deny the existence of disorders like DID – domestic violence is legal here, they do not care about ''regular'' abuse, let alone extreme. Even in the USA, RAMCOA survivors are constantly being dismissed and ignored for the association people have with the 'satanic panic' in the late 20th century. Whether our real, lived experiences even happened is still debated by people who never experienced it and don't even know us. Now, with these new 'trans-disorder'/'trans-abuse' freaks, there is just another reason for us to be completely ignored, disregarded and discarded as making it all up.

The same thing happened when DID began to get more public recognition online through people being open about their experiences and trying to get people to believe us. Suddenly there was a massive wave of losers 'identifying' as having our disorder. They came up with new terms and made themselves a bunch of ''pride flags'' to go with it. 'TransRAMCOA' is identical (though I have noticed there is a significant number who actually seem to have a sexual fetish for it, which is even more disgusting and these people deserve to take a long walk off a short pier with weights tied to their ankles).

Keep yourself and others safe. Keep the details of your programming and abuse in safe, private spaces. As unfortunate as it is, sharing the details is very dangerous, which these 'transRAMCOA' people have only proven.

AND PLEASE AVOID THE TRANSRAMCOA TAGS AT ALL COSTS. THERE ARE PEOPLE POSTING KINKS AND FANTASIES ABOUT RAMCOA AND OPENLY SEXUALISING OUR TRAUMAS.

[confessions-of-a-doormat]

I hate when people call everything a fucking cult. It shows how little so many people know about fucking cults and how fucking hard it is to get out. Sure, they’re good at drawing you in, but they also require you to stick to the fucking script. Questioning authority is discouraged, you go through a whole process of indoctrination. They prey on people who doesn’t have a good support system or is going through a rough time, they isolate you from the fucking world, your life, your family, your friends. They try to control everything about you. People aren’t allowed to disagree or explore other viewpoints. Cults have: a charismatic leader, indoctrination process, and strict guidelines for your life (like where you live, what you wear, who you see, what you get to do) you have to follow.  You wanna criticize a group for being shitty? Go right ahead. But don’t you dare compare very much non-cult things to cults, when you have no fucking idea what it’s like for those who’ve had to go through that actual shit.

Disclaimer: I am not saying to look into cults if you have RAMCOA trauma or it would be triggering for you. I just want people to actually use their brain. Please take care of yourself if this is a triggering subject.

[glagglepilled]

Scientology literally has its own private prison.

Look up "The Hole (Scientology)" on wikipedia.

I have my own doubts about the reality of some of the RAMCOA claims, but considering what some places have been able to get away with (Scientology infiltrated the US government ffs), I can't be sure enough to discount them.

I am not denying ritual abuse, or cults. And the shitty things they do. I am aware that things like this do happen, and im not denying the fact that it could cause more complex or more severe DID. But, the difference between this and what **most** people in the RAMCOA community claim is that there is actual proof / proper accounts of these events/places/groups existing. which there is not for most RAMCOA claims. And no i am not asking every single person in this community to give me proof, but there are no convincing documented accounts or proof of any group or cult using "scripts" or "alpha", "beta" whatever programming to abuse kids. In fact the only research documents i can easily find about this "alpha" "beta" "omega" programming is by well... Colin Ross where he is talking about satanic ritual abuse,, yknow the thing very very linked to conspiracy nonsense. (anyone feel free to send me more research or evidence about this as long as you dont call me "fucking stupid" in the process like the last guy.) Im not saying everyone in the RAMCOA community is lying, which is why i said "a lot" in my original post. but there has been an increase in people saying utter nonsense that has no proof. RAMCOA itself is probably not a good acronym to use if you are an actual ritual abuse or organised abuse survivior, due to its history. you will probably just lead people to nonsense. sorry anon a lot of this is unrelated to you but i wanted to make a follow up post lol

[creature-wizard]

Out of curiosity, I've been looking into the RAMCOA conspiracy theory, and while it's obviously anti-Semitic bunk, I did have a thought - that it could easily become a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, that someone unethical could (in theory) read the guides and manuals and whatnot and decide to try torturing someone to program them. Has anything like that ever happened, to your knowledge?

First of all, "RAMCOA" is not a conspiracy theory in itself, strictly speaking. "RAMCOA" is an acronym created to cover a broad spectrum of abuses, many of which actually do exist. It was just also created to include the types of tortures that the instigators and perpetrators of the Satanic Panic claimed existed.

If you specifically mean the DID programming conspiracy theory, you should just say that.

So, and I want to make this very clear, there are no DID programming guides or manuals. None. Zero. Not a single one. All of the literature describing these alleged programming methods are written by conspiracy theorists, and they're all way too vague to constitute anything remotely resembling a real programming guide or manual. They are by and large witchfinders' manuals, meant to convince the reader that all of this horrible stuff is really happening, and here are the Totally Real Signs Of It That Aren't Actually Signs Of Anything Else At All.

Is theoretically possible that someone might give it their best shot anyway? Sure. But it would take quite a lot of effort. The kinds of tortures and programming methods these books claim happen would take a fair amount of work to prepare and carry out. These books claim that DID programming involves a lot of elaborate rituals that use a lot of tools and props, plus individualized scripts for each alter/part/internal structure the victim is supposed to be programmed with.

Someone would need to collect all the necessary tools and props, come up with all of the rituals and scripts themself, and then inflict it on their victim. And then in the end, it wouldn't work any better than any other form of indoctrination or conditioning. (If anything it would actually be worse, because torturing someone into a state of dissociation would make it a lot harder for them to actually retain information and learn skills.)

Given that it wouldn't actually deliver the kind of results conspiracy theory literature claims is possible, it's difficult to imagine there would be many people who'd keep up with it for long.

But I also think it's not really all that likely that someone would try it in the first place. If somebody just wants to control someone else, all of the more typical methods usually work just fine.

Also - and this is something I think a lot of people overlook - the myth of DID programming is itself a tool of mind control. We have seen it used numerous times to manipulate others into adopting certain beliefs, and believing that they could only trust certain people. Mark Phillips, Fritz Springmeier, Teal Swan, Unwelcome Ozian - the list goes on.

The thing about the DID programming myth is that the diagnostic criteria are so broad and vague that you can diagnose just about any traumatized or mentally ill person you want with programmed DID, and it's completely unfalsifiable. It's much easier for a manipulative and controlling person to play the whole thing straight and convince others that they're victims of TBMC and need their help to heal and free themselves, than it is to try and reenact the alleged programming methods. It is, after all, the old "you're in danger from an unfalsifiable threat and only I can save you" con that works on countless people every day.

For anyone who isn't aware: RAMCOA, which stands for "Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, & Organized Abuse" is not an innocent catch-all term for religious abuse, institutional abuse, sex trafficking, etc. It was coined by conspiracy theorists to try and make far right conspiracy theories sound respectable within legitimate psychiatry. For more information, see this post.

[granulesofsand]

🗝️🏷️ RAMCOA programming, some details of scripts/introjects but none of TBMC

We have programmed Warrior Cats. I like to make that clear every once in a while. We have colony cats who were raised for woodland living, who prefer the cult and are most comfortable with that danger than domestic safety. They probably weren’t intended to be Warrior Cats, more loosely based on the feral colony in the area. Our mother was a literacy teacher, and reading was our best coping mechanism second to outright dissociation (fancy dissociation, guided style). She didn’t see the harm in letting us read the series, so we internalized some of the details. Those are Warrior Cats now, and have been for longer than not.

The reason I point this out is because I see a lot of talk about new media as rare or impossible to program with. This was fairly accidental as far as I know, a chance to elaborate that wasn’t specifically disallowed, but we also have a fair amount of recent media tied to our programming (especially on the modern side of the system). The more exposed we were to external narratives, the more our trainers twisted them to put them to use. Scripts and media introjects don’t have to be used at all in programming, but there is no one rule book outlining which are allowed. Different trainers and different groups will have their own methods. There is no wrong way to have been hurt.