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A guy notices this figure who is always present during major life events for him. He hires a private investigator to investigate. Private investigator discovers that the guy who is inquiring is a nonplayer character. Then private investigator discovers that he is also a nonplayer character. And then the mystery becomes about finding out whose story they are in.
Or:
A fisherman believes he’s caught a mermaid in his glittering net, but the more he reels her in the more he finds that he is in fact swimming in the waves with her.
Or:
Short poems of praise addressed to various extinct species.
An important line from western literature? “Me that fly I am the wind.”
And an important line from eastern? “The master has gone herb-picking on the mount, cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown."
