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Actual Play Example

(Author’s Note: I originally played this out using an older draft of ALONe, and so the
version here has been tweaked to show the same results, but using the new rules and
notation.)
The night is dark, and this estate is huge--and I have no vehicle or communicator, since
I specifically wanted to avoid dealing with people right now. So I can either run back home, or
run to the ship; does my gut, the same one that told me to go out here tonight, want me to go
investigate on my own, in the dark? (E:N!; T5vsS4, RE: Unseal Weapon) Well, that didn’t take
long; I gain the free, temporary Descriptor I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS as a
consequence of ignoring my instincts to flee. I hear explosions and weapons’ fire, and I do
have a small holdout pistol I’ve been tinkering with, so I put aside my misgivings and rush on to
the crash site!
As I approach through the forest and near the top of a hill, I slow down to be a bit more
cautious. The situation probably makes it easy to be stealthy here, so the real question is: Is
there still a battle going on? (E:N, T5vsS5). The sounds of fighting have died down, so I
continue my approach, creeping through the woods.
Now, is anyone left alive at all? (E:Y, T5vsS3, RE: Interrupt Relative)
Oh, crap.
It seems like there was a reason I felt especially drawn here tonight, though I didn’t see
THAT coming. Is this… a parent? (E:N, T5vsS6). Ok, so it’s my sister, whom I probably
hate/am hated by.
My sister, whom I discover (how badly wounded, on a 1-10 scale? DiffGen on a card
says 7) bleeding and unconscious, but not actually dying. Everyone else is dead, and
everyone else would be that dark mystical energy wielder, as far as I know. Is there anyone
else there? (E:N!, T5vsS6) Alright--a ship crashed, with a dead man who (characterized by
sensory snippets from a GMA draw: A moment of deja-vu/The dank of a tomb) looks oddly
familiar; a man, wrapped in bandages and smelling of decay, who I know I saw on my parents’
ship from time to time! He was a customer of theirs; in fact, was he the one I saw buying
slaves from them? (G:Y!, T5vsS4, RE: Fix Legend) Not only that; he was someone I’d seen
before, and my parents told me was EXTREMELY powerful, and a good person to have on
“our” side--so clearly it’s good that he’s dead.
But how did my sister come to be on his ship? I don’t want to answer that one right now.
How can I get her to safety? Is there a speeder on the crashed ship? (E:Y, T5vsS5). Yes, but is
it working after the crash? (B:N, T5vsS3: RE: Cleanse Grudge) I don’t see a way I can cleanse
a grudge with my sister this very moment, but does this mean, maybe, that I’d actually gotten
in contact with her after I fled, and made up, so we don’t hate each other? (E:Y; I ignore
Tension and Stability since I’m just clarifying a Random Event). So we have a free Vignette,
because it was caused by a Random Event...
VIGNETTE: Seven years ago...