I tend to think there’s a bit of mental editing involved with playing it, which helps if you’re all good at elaborating on the fly and threading it together when you read from the book of tales. take a second to read the paragraph ahead, try and fit it in with the story so far.

the player i read for had this amazing thelma and louise style adventure about becoming a vizier, on the path to becoming a sultan, and then giving it all up to rescue a slave and being pursued across arabia by the merchant, finally reaching a showdown at Baghdad and getting greviously wounded in the duel- end of the story, she had the most points by that stage. I tried throughout to strike a balance between reporting the outcome of her choices objectively and folding them into the developing story, which feels like another part of the game to me these days.

I ended up married ridiculously early and returning home after getting beaten up repeatedly to visit my ugly children.