A striking character remains more or less in-character and is still subject to most of the whims of the Cartoonist, but refuses to play along with the storyline until conditions improve. If all players other than the Cartoonist agree to mutiny and unanimously agree on one of their number to be the new Cartoonist, a Mutiny call can be made to eject the current Cartoonist from the game. Triangle may not be chosen to be the new Cartoonist. Everyone goes out of character and nothing anyone says during Halftime has any in-game consequences. No player may bring a grudge against any other player into the game for events of Halftime.
Halftime ends when everyone agrees for it to end.
Each character has a limit on how many Deus ex Machina can be called. When Deus ex Machina is called, the Cartoonist draws one of the slips of paper from the container, reads it aloud, and has it occur in some fashion beneficial to the character who made the call. Deus ex Machina may not refer to any character except the Cartoonist by name, although they may introduce new characters by name. The Cartoonist decides to whom a Deus ex Machina specifying an event happening to a single character happens. The current scene is suspended and a new one started.