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This Thing We Started
You are all Creators.  You each use science, magic, power, or energy to bring things into being. Your greatest Creation, your masterpiece has broken free. You must follow its trail. You and your companions are on the trail of your Creation. You will destroy it. Or it will destroy you. Draw a question and answer it, or pass it to someone else. Proceed until you reach your Creation and you destroy it or it destroys you. This Thing We Started is Descended from the Queen, and is for 3-5 players. Written for the 90s Game Jam! #90sGameJam Inspired by Can't Stop This Thing We Started, by Bryan Adams.
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