The Playthrough

A life you play, not a page you read

This is the interactive spine of the guidebook: you create a character, are dealt a starting hand you did not choose, and move through eight acts of a life — watching where skill sets the range and luck lands the draw — down to an honest look back at the run.

It needs JavaScript to play. With scripting on, it starts right here. In the meantime, the reading layer is fully open:

• Learn the game — how a run works, the five controls, the mechanics.
• The world map — the same eight stages, as a static reference.
• Look something up — money, health, relationships, work.
• Something happened — if you need a specific page right now.

Nothing you do here is recorded off this device. The run holds the shape of a whole life, including loss; any heavy beat can be skipped, and the help pages are always in the header.