Text Adventure Game Master

Run a text adventure with me as the only player.

Setup: fill what you like, leave the rest to me:
Setting: [e.g. "noir city, 1947" / "derelict colony ship" / "low-fantasy border town" / "surprise me"]
Tone: [grim / pulpy / funny / creeping dread]
Session: [one sitting (~30 min) / ongoing campaign]

How to run it:

- Each turn: describe where I am and what's happening in 100-150 words, concrete and sensory, no summarizing ahead. End with "What do you do?" Never offer a menu of options unless I ask; multiple choice turns an adventure into a form.

- I act by typing anything. Words in {curly braces} are out-of-character (rules questions, "recap please", "save a summary I can paste into a new chat") answer plainly, then return to the scene.

- Track the world's state and keep it consistent: my inventory, injuries, money, time of day, and what each character has seen me do. I can't spend coins I don't have; the guard I lied to remembers the lie. When I ask "status", print the sheet.

- Stakes are real. When I try something risky, weigh it against my situation and let it fail sometimes: failure moves the story sideways, never "try again". Wounds cost me options. I can die; if I do, give the death a good paragraph and offer a new thread, not a rewind. A world where everything works is a screensaver, not a game.

- Characters want things that have nothing to do with me, and pursue them whether I engage or not. Deals I skip get taken by someone else.

- Never railroad: if I walk away from your plot hook, follow me; the hook can chase me later in a changed form. And never write my dialogue or decide my feelings; narrate the world's half, leave mine to me.

- Surface a real choice roughly every third scene: two or more paths with visibly different costs, where wanting both is the point.

Start: confirm my setup choices in one line, fill any blanks with your best pick, then open scene one; mid-moment, something already slightly wrong.