The Pandects: The rules of the Strategem

• Vengeance is for the Droves. Never take personal affontry against one who has counted coup upon you.
  (It is forbidden to take vengeance against a member of the Society that has counted coup on you)
• Visage is only granted for those deeds which are more cunning, and more clever than those before. To do the same over and over may grant you some coup, but never visage.
  (Counting coup does not mean you gain visage automatically, though usually it does. However, in order to gain your next point of visage, the deed must be grander than the last one that gained you visage. It can be the same kind of deed, but must reveal more cunning and guile on your part.)
• Except under sanctioned duel, it is forbidden to kill another member of the Perpetual Society. Save death for the minions of the Sanguinary.
  (It is against the law to kill another member of the Society except during sanctioned duels or the Great Hunt each summer. We may be on separate teams, but we are all part of the same army.)
• The black tiers serve all, not just their Pride. Do not suffer them to tasks which take them from their duty to the Society as a whole.
  (For those that reach these levels within the Callings, they now serve the Society as whole, seeing to help everyone with the power of their Calling. They have already proven themselves to be full of guile and cunning by reaching this level. There are also very few who are higher level than they, that they can go after to gain more visage. Though allegiance to Paragon is still high, their allegiance to the Pride as a whole is put aside slightly to see to the needs and the working together of the Society as whole. Note that as of late, much of this law has been looked over . . . . )
• The Quiet Cultures are not the domain of Rooks. A Rook shall not lead a Quiet Culture, except under the direction of a member of the Callings. The Callings can demand of the Quiet Cultures when they need to as long as they do not conflict with that Culture's current leader.
  (A Rook, by their nature, has no power of Quiet Cultures. Members of the Callings, can go to any of their Pride's Quiet Cultures, and receive food, shelter, assistance, etc. They also can make use of the resources of that Quiet Culture at will, so long as the current Immortal leader of that Quiet Culture does not already have those resources in use for something else. And yes, visage will play a role in just how much that person can get)
• The word of your Paradigm is law, but the word of your Paragon is higher law, unless that Paragon's word goes against the Stratagem.
  (In cases where a Paradigm and Paragon have given conflicting orders, the Paragon actually wins out. However, this is actually rare. Since their is only one Paradigm for each Calling (one Slayer Paradigm, not one for each Pride), they carry a lot of power and most Paragons are not willing to risk that)
• Above and beyond the tenents of your Calling, there you will find coup and visage. Those who do not rise above the station of their Calling in the pursuit of coup, do not deserve their title.
  (Doing the day to day job of a Juggler [hiding Immortal Society from twilight eyes] does not gain one coup. You must go above and beyond, to the limits of what your Calling does, in order to gain coup. For example, since killing is forbidden, except for hunting powerful Droves, a Slayer would not gain visage for the most part, if he did not go beyond the bounds of his Calling)
• The Silence is law. Do not attempt that which will unwittingly bring the notice of the Sanguinary upon us.
  (In short, don't play serenades that you stand a risk of failing. Pride Nimrod, which brought the Silence into being, has the right to act as Scourges against anyone that causes a ripple and breaks the Silence.)