• It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and travel far and wide...
• ...for faith without works is dead.

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Nor is SF0 strictly a game, at least as we know games. Rather, SF0 is real life; it is authentic action from one's own agency and indeed more authentic than the lives most people live. But to cut through our ennui, it repackages Real Life in the form of a game, taking our goals and motivations and spinning them like a cotton candy machine would spin mint leaves, making them sweet and sharp, until we forget that we've spent our lives putting off living and have a bite. And then another.

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(I reserve the right to inadvertently break the Secret Rules until such time as they cease to be secret.)

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Planning Stage: Public Patch, A Real Life Secret Egg, Pyramid Scheme, Pushpins/Five-Dimensional Thinking/O Time Thy Pyramids

Active Stage: Create the Present

Documentation Stage: Everyday Life, Stranded

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Acquired Skills:

• Magnetic field detection
• Mailman distraction
• Bribery of corrupt officials
• Free telephone network utilization
• Ability to trick children and animals into doing one's bidding
• Airport security elusion
• Buried treasure detection
• Immortality via vampirism

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Proposed Tasks Here

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Wasn't it your own Hartley who said, nothing reveals humanity so well as the games it plays? Almost right. Actually, you reveal yourselves best in how you play.

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...I'd better get on that, then.

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