Cut Up Solo
Poirot Investigates
Cut Up Solo Poirot Investigates takes two Poirot novels by Agatha Christie and cuts them into snippets of text typically 4-6 words in length. Poirot Investigates produces gentle investigative solo games, the sort where if someone points a gun at you you put your hands up, not going for your gun. The language is very evocative, and not without blood and death, but the smattering of French, Mademoiselles and Messieurs, gives some great flavor to NPCs.
Cut Up Solo is a technique that uses random snippets of text that you pick and fit together, creating what the GM says to you. You can then respond to that, and then the cycle repeats. As all the snippets in this set all come from the same author, and series of books, it gives a sense of continuity.
Cut up play is very different from more traditional oracle-driven solo play. If you struggle with how to interpret word pairs or prompts, cut up could be for you.
The novel contains over 92,000 words of text, chopped into snippets of 4 or 5 words. You get over 21,000 snippets to mix and match in your solo games. The PDF contains two d1000 tables of snippets, and the spreadsheets contain the full set of snippets.