(Exciting news: I have a $1000 grant for this project!!)
- a single story can be grafted onto any group of characters. The dev writes a story once, but can apply it to multiple situations.
The player is exploring an open world. A fantasy world. They come across a "detective story". They are asked to find the missing puppy. Later, they're playing a space adventure, and the same detictive story appears, this time with different trappings. Space-dogs. Robo-damsels. Etc.