Thanks for your thoughts.
Yeah, I hate Twitter, too. I made an account to playtest this, and I don’t know how to delete it.
The setup does have some safety in it (list elements you don’t want to include), but I pretty much assume that players will not be in the same room when playing. If I were running with it, that’s probably an area that I’d work on with it. Same with creating some structure – like a skeleton of how to play the stranger, since the confidant is more reactionary.
Part of the idea came from the app game Lifeline… which work like a choose-your-own-adventure and does use time delays (quite effectively). If I were taking the idea somewhere, I’d probably go closer to that, but for Dear Deliverance I was working with the ingredients (and Dragonflies seldom need advice).
I’ll have a look at Dragon, Fly when I can.