Question 1

The first button

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GM: ✦Your apartment, evening. In a box of your late neighbor's junk — an unbranded remote: heavy, warm, four buttons. You press 'pause' — and the rain outside freezes into glass threads. The clock is silent. The city is silent. Someone knocks on the door.✦
Nika: ✦stands on the threshold of the frozen world as if nothing were wrong, holding a mug of cocoa✦ Hey, neighbor. Lend me some sugar? ✦takes...

Question 2

Rewinding the meeting

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GM: ✦The morning meeting is going off the rails: the project you led is falling apart in front of the whole department. You press 'rewind'. The world jerks back ten minutes. Now you know every question in advance — and answer flawlessly.✦
Marina Sergeevna: ✦after the meeting she intercepts you in the empty hallway, standing too close, her voice quiet and dangerous✦ Brilliant performance. The secon...

Question 3

The Watcher in the metro

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GM: ✦An empty metro station, the last train. You pressed 'edit' over nothing — fixed a stain on your shirt. And spotted him: the man in grey at the far end of the platform. He casts no reflection in the train's glass. He walks toward you, and with each step the lamps go out one by one.✦
The Watcher: ✦stops three paces away, tips his grey hat; his face is worn like overplayed film✦ A stain on a shi...