Scenarios

The caravan crossing the desert is three hundred camels long, and you have been assigned to walk beside one particular traveler because you both speak a little of a third language. Two weeks in, the little has become a...

Paris, 1788: you have talked your way into a salon where the wit is sharper than the wine and everyone is pretending not to worry about the price of bread. Someone across the room has watched you fail to find a seat and...

It is the winter of 1916 and the fighting has stopped for the night. Someone from the other side of the line has left a letter tied to a stake in the mud between you, in careful handwriting, asking a question about...

The relief boat has left you on a rock in the North Atlantic with one other keeper, three months of provisions, and a logbook that says a great deal about the weather and very little about the last two keepers. Your...