Operation: Vancouver Package: A Solo Spy Adventure

Every Creative Concept solo adventure is different, with its own unique card meanings and events, making a "core" book unnecessary. Operation: Vancouver Package *Recording starts* Hello, Agent. Sorry to pull you away from your recreational and recovery time so suddenly. We have a problem. Our intelligence has learned that a list of undercover agents and assets from multiple agencies has been compiled, and their identities are at risk. A flash drive, inside a locked metal box disguised as a cellphone, contains the list I just mentioned. Retrieve this package from a courier in Vancouver, British Columbia. Your handler, “Foxglove”, will identify them and the handoff location upon your arrival. Be forewarned, multiple other agencies have also been apprised of the potential exposure of the list and will attempt to retrieve the package before you. Make your way to the consulate Foxglove will indicate, and infiltrate the location. Our people would prefer you to move with all due stealth in this matter, but we know how that usually works regarding your work, don’t we? Keep the property damage and casualties to a minimum, won’t you? The mission is yours if you choose to accept it. Good luck. This document will self-destruct in 30 seconds. *FIZZZZZ* Materials you will need. You will need some simple items as follows: • A Standard Deck of Playing Cards (with Jokers): I own several decks with different face card themes. You can use a standard deck or a unique one to play solo games with themes. Every card will have a different meaning as you draw one. They produce the adventures to start you on your way, a side quest, a discovery, how your character may feel, or people or creatures you will meet along the way. • Paper and pencil, or a writing program: I prefer a writing program or a spreadsheet to log, in order, your ideas as you travel the world. Now, before you begin, you have to decide who you are: 1. Are you a veteran, a new agent, or pulled out of retirement? What’s your gender? Are you from this agency you’re working with or a rival? What is your one best agent skill? 2. Choose Your Role: Do you want vengeance? A maverick? Dedicated, loyal agent? Has another agency turned you, and are you seeking to gain your freedom? Any bad habits? A lover, fighter, or loner? Disagree with the mission’s parameters or follow orders like a good soldier? Do you seek acclaim? Adventure? Or addicted to danger? 3. Prepare your Deck: Shuffle your deck of playing cards and place the stack face down. With your character’s nature made, your role in the story selected, and your cards ready, it’s time to start your journey. Gameplay: Try not to read all the descriptions on your first game play so that you can be surprised as you draw. Each card creates a new event or discovery for your character; make sure to chronicle them in order. A series of turns of fate may reflect on the card you have, two cards later. 1. Draw a single card at a time from the deck. Begin by drawing a card, specifically a Club suit, and it starts you on the adventure. Reshuffle the deck with the cards drawn before drawing the first Club, and continue. 2. The prompts below will tell you the card’s meaning by number and suit. Try to imagine the scene with all five senses. 3. Write your entry describing the moment using your senses. Imagine it’s a scene in a movie, comic, or novel, and play with it. Use that imagination! 4. After writing down your scene, draw the next card to continue your adventure. When you reach the end of the deck, you can either imagine going back to where you started or use it as a cliffhanger for your next story after you shuffle the deck. You just completed “Book One” of your adventure. 5. Even though this is a solo adventure, you can bring your friends along and have them as part of your group, and all of you write your part in the adventure separately. Careful, their character may not be trusted! Watch your back.