This is an adult story-telling game for two writers, me and one other. (I can run multiple versions of this.) It doesn’t work like most role-playing games. There are no dice and there are no stats, but there are a few critical rules. It is ideal for players who like to understand the motivations of their characters and to elaborate a character’s personality, and players who like to write.

You must meet the requirements for an adult game on rpol to play. The narration can include sex and it shines an unflattering, cynical light on the shameless minds of humans in their private thoughts. People think horrible things. The thoughts that we write in this game are just from fictional characters in a story, but they can be realistic and they can be offensive.

The Mystery Is Your Character
In this game, your character is your own mystery at the beginning of the story. You take on the role of young woman in the present-day USA who is so beautiful that it affects her interactions with most other people. But you do not design your character. Instead, your character develops between the posts of other people’s perspectives and your reactions to their points of view.

Let me explain.

All posts are written in the first person. The game begins with a post from me, giving you one perspective on your character based on a single person’s point of view.

You learn the external “facts” about your character and her life only from the perspective of others. This goes even for basic facts of her existence, from her appearance, to her family, to where she lives. Each of my posts presents the perspective of one person who has had an encounter with your character. Whatever those posts say about your character’s appearance, words, and deeds, the places she goes and the manner in which she acts—they are are real in the story, at least from that person’s point of view. And that’s all you have to go on, until the next post, and the next, and your character gradually gets fleshed out.

This means that you have comparatively little to go on at the beginning, but you do have lots of room to express your character’s thoughts and feelings.

Because my posts are just the perspective of one different person each time, you can accept or subvert their point of view in your posts. How? You control your character’s intentions in that situation described in my posts, her explanation of her actions after they happen, her secret thoughts. Your job, in your posts, is to make sense of what other people see in her, including what they may not understand about her. Different people will have different perspectives on your character, and the truth is hard to pin down.

Where the perspectives on the same events diverge, we players may not know what really happened exactly!

To read more about how the game works, including the Rules, visit the game page and inquire with me there.