I forgot that one of the influences for this game is The Skeletons. In it, you have a map that can change over time and you have different character archetypes with questions you can answer. The map part is not that interesting in and of itself, so the games are usually focused on answering the questions and figuring out the past lives of the skeletons, how they are related to one another, etc.
So that's similar to what I was going for, but it's hard for me to know if I have succeeded 😅
No, the questions are simply answered as-is, without a scene. This is the rough flow of the game:
That's pretty much it. So the questions simply flesh out who those people were before becoming cursed skeletons and it actually has little connection to the action scenes, because the skeletons are cursed and they need to guard the tomb anyway (they have no will). On paper it might sound boring or unengaging, but it's anything but! It's amazing to discover the relationships between them, and realising that some of them might have been enemies in the past, maybe even killed each other, or how they might be guarding the person who killed them all. It can get extremely dark and dramatic.
It's a very free-form game, lots is left to the players' devices, but it's good! One thing I recommend is that one of the players controls/decides for the intruders, instead of doing it collaboratively. It flows a lot better and has resulted in much, much better games.
I'll add some notes in Unexplored about the scenes. Maybe nothing too formal, but a reminder of the things that the players can work with. Thanks!
