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Reputation and heat

• Rep is credit. Being known as reliable gets work, credit and patience; being burned once can end a career.

Hitting someone bigger earns more rep than bullying someone smaller.

• Standing is per faction: a gang, the lender, the cops on the take each remember what the boss did to them. Every

job against one costs standing with it.

• Heat comes from noise: a loud job, a body, a famous victim, hostile turf; a school block draws more of it

(School blocks). It cools slowly. When it is high, the only fast way down is for someone to take the fall: a dealer does time, a rival is framed, a contact is handed over. Loyalty is spent this way.