Default initiative order is determined by Agility (or Speed if you've spent a white stone for that during chargen).

1. You may add red stones to your Agility value to increase your initiative score for the present page. e.g. White King has Agility 1. His default Agility is 1. This page, Bill adds 3 red stones to WK's Agility score, giving him an initiative value of 4.

2. Declare intentions for the page from lowest initiative to highest. Do not allocate stones at this time.

3. Allocate stones to Actions and defense in secret.

4. Reveal stone allocations. Prescient characters may reallocate at this time.

5. Resolve Actions in appropriate order. Usually ranged attacks at range happen before close combat. Higher initiative characters act before lower.

6. Stones spent to improve initiative are in all cases "spent stones." They get wiped from your CAD at the end of the page and only come back through normal refresh. It can be expensive to improve your initiative - it's an extra expense on the page - but it can be worth it.