'Negotiation is performed
as a free action.'

This game has captured some essence of a style of play, and I think this sentence really drives it home.

'Anything carried is equipment.'

What do you hold: a sword, memories of home, love? What burdens you? A curse, trauma, love that twists you up? Is your name something you hold within your social graces or some essential truth of you?

Backgrounds tell us of broken truth, soil that burns, words that alight book or throat.