Before the run
The Guidebook to Life
Before the run, there is a quiet nowhere — no cosmology asserted, just a place to stand and look at the whole thing before it starts.
Down there is one life, not yet begun. You are about to be dealt into it — most of it unchosen, some of it yours.
You can switch any time — you’ll keep your place.
What is this?A guidebook, not an app. No account, no analytics, no score. Anything you choose to write stays in this browser.
Where would you like to start?
- Begin a lifeThree ways in: the whole shape of a life fast, twelve years as a sandbox, or one decision forked and compared. Your first choice is under a minute away.
- Something happenedStart with the event. Two questions at most, then the page you need.
- Learn the gameHow a run works, the five controls, and the mechanics — before you play, or alongside it.
- Look something upGo straight to money, health, relationships, work, or search the guide.
- Help me nowImmediate danger, a suicidal crisis, someone hurting you, or a death.