Ten Candles Solo Playthrough: The Steam Train

This one was written with Trait and Moment prompts from jasmine_r_s .

I like things about this setting and this Them; the story did come out really long. As always, the narrative is improvised based on a sketched-in scenario, a few character traits, and the dice rolls.

This is actually the second round I did with these prompts. The first time, with a different character, I think I was trying too hard to make the story come out in a specific way, and it came to a head too early -- which would have worked fine in a group game, but sent me off in a weird direction in the solo game. Not bad, exactly, just sort of meta. So I thought I'd try again -- same prompts, but new character.

I tell this one in the third person, but I think the first person has more impact.

Anyway, enough caveats--

See previous playthrough posts for the game rules.

Content notes: Character death (always); child in peril; choking; gross space plants


The Character
Ghost
Age 17
They/them pronouns
Prematurely grey hair
Virtue: Logical (inference)
Vice: Exaggeration
Moment: I will find hope in … a message from a past self
Brink: [I forget what this was exactly; it involved other people, though, and I never got to use it]

( Ghost's Story )

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