Editing Night Birds (section)

=== Dials ===

'''Seriousness: 3''' - Situations can get absurd, and the sort of wry, laconic sense of humor characteristic of hard boiled fiction is encouraged, but on the whole things should be played straight. "Goofy" comic relief characters should be avoided or, failing that, shot.

'''Realism: 3''' - This <u>is not</u> but for most intents and purposes <u>might as well be</u> the real world, at least in regard to how things and people <u>generally</u> work.

'''Violence: 3 (4?)''' - There will be blood, there will be death, and either might be yours. As a rule, the series aims for at most a TV-14 rating in terms of on-screen portrayal of sex, drugs and violence. When in doubt, err towards stylishly coy rather than explicitly graphic.

'''Continuity: 2''' - While most episodes are largely self-contained, they are connected by overarching storylines and character arcs, and the events of any given episode can change the status quo of future episodes.