Turning Down the Heat (Unwanted Attention for Unpleasant Actions)

[MGibster]

One simple, mechanical way of lowering heat might be to allow players to voluntarily reduce their credit rating -- spending their personal reputation to draw off heat. That would have the effect that as the players generate heat and "pay it off" they end up becoming more isolated form society ... which seems pretty Cthulhuesque.

That's a pretty good idea. It could also represent laying low and being unable to manage your affairs with the attention they deserve.