The game also has Ensemble Characters (ECs), sometimes called Non-Player Characters (NPCs). You narrate their actions and reactions as antagonists, allies, bystanders, and so on.

• Give ECs a name and identity
• Find the essential humanity of every EC
• Don't steal agency or spotlight from the PCs
• Initiate actions that prompt a PC response

During play, you can speak from one of several agendas.

These agendas can be assigned individually to several people, or all given to a single player.

The agendas can change hands during the game. You cannot take an agenda away from someone else, but you can ask someone else to give up an agenda.

If you've been assigned an agenda, you are bound to speak from it.