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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8238487" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Old game.And yup, you're correct that those offscreen elements led to on-screen and off-screen content generation.This turned into a The Last of Us -ish scenario with Emeline - Joel - rescuing Eliza - Ellie - from her plight, but in the doing having to slay many &gt; which fed into further content generation as a result of a sequence of moves/complications including a Spout Lore move that was driven by a provocative (but unfixed until acted upon) Lovecraftian detail of scene framing because a Druid was the other PC (Slay an unnatural menace) &gt; the investor was actually part of a cult of a primordial being of Pestilence that bought Eliza to ensure she wasn't properly studied so a cure couldn't be developed for her ailment (monetizing her was a nice vector to spread the plague and a way to ensure that the cult's racket had consistent funding) &gt; which led to Emeline's player taking the Paladin move Quest (to hunt down and end this cult to save her sister) &gt; which led to more fiction around the cult (more NPCs, befouled altars, the genesis story of sickness in the world, and various sites) &gt; which led to slaying the cult and Emeline's player taking the Paladin move Lay on Hands to cure her sister &gt; which led to questions and conflict framing around pestilence and the responsibility to cure the blighted (particularly the vulnerable who become afflicted) vs the natural order and place of purging sickness (which put the Druid and the now Paladin-ey Fighter at odds).It was initially a nebulous game about unnatural menace and protecting loved ones/the meek in an unforgiving world.&nbsp; It transformed a bit as a byproduct of all of that snowballing of player input (via build changes, questions answered, and declared actions) and action resolution (contrast with GM imposition).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8238487, member: 6696971"] Old game. And yup, you're correct that those offscreen elements led to on-screen and off-screen content generation. This turned into a The Last of Us -ish scenario with Emeline - Joel - rescuing Eliza - Ellie - from her plight, but in the doing having to slay many > which fed into further content generation as a result of a sequence of moves/complications including a Spout Lore move that was driven by a provocative (but unfixed until acted upon) Lovecraftian detail of scene framing because a Druid was the other PC (Slay an unnatural menace) > the investor was actually part of a cult of a primordial being of Pestilence that bought Eliza to ensure she wasn't properly studied so a cure couldn't be developed for her ailment (monetizing her was a nice vector to spread the plague and a way to ensure that the cult's racket had consistent funding) > which led to Emeline's player taking the Paladin move Quest (to hunt down and end this cult to save her sister) > which led to more fiction around the cult (more NPCs, befouled altars, the genesis story of sickness in the world, and various sites) > which led to slaying the cult and Emeline's player taking the Paladin move Lay on Hands to cure her sister > which led to questions and conflict framing around pestilence and the responsibility to cure the blighted (particularly the vulnerable who become afflicted) vs the natural order and place of purging sickness (which put the Druid and the now Paladin-ey Fighter at odds). It was initially a nebulous game about unnatural menace and protecting loved ones/the meek in an unforgiving world. It transformed a bit as a byproduct of all of that snowballing of player input (via build changes, questions answered, and declared actions) and action resolution (contrast with GM imposition). [/QUOTE]

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