Clearance Area · For adults

The grown-ups’ side of the Society

The Society of Unseen Things is a letter-writing game played between a child and the adults who love them. This is where those adults do the arranging: enrol a recruit, take on a role for somebody else’s, or accept an invitation that has landed in your inbox.

What you are agreeing to run

• We never send a letter to a child. Every letter comes to you, and you decide how and when your child sees it. We hold no child’s email address and send nothing to one.
• We hold a codename, an age band and a few interests — never a child’s real name. That is the whole of what our records say about them.
• We write every letter, and one of the child’s own adults delivers it — printed at home, or posted by the adult playing the Society officer. You choose the officer and set the pace; you are not asked to invent an adventure from scratch.
• Nothing is sent to an address until the adult who lives there confirms it. In a household where one parent runs the whole thing, that is simply them. Where a grandparent writes the letters, it is a hard gate: nothing ships and no mission starts without the parent.

Two adults, two jobs

Whoever is at the child’s address is their Site Supervisor: they hold the mailing address and decide whether it is ever shared, and they confirm when a task has really been done. The letters name them to the child and tell the child to show them every one, so the oversight happens where the game does — on paper, at home, without a form to fill in. Whoever plays the Society officer is their Recruiter: they choose the department, pace the letters and fund the commission. Often that is the same person wearing both hats. It does not have to be.

We never send a letter to a child.