<p>How about this kind of layout:
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- Introduction summary:
- Chapter, where we role-play our mother-loving brains out.
- Summary to advance the story.
- Chapter, where we again have our fill of role-play and all that entails.
- Summary -- you see where I'm going with this, right?
- Chapter, what a surprise! More role-play; there's explosions, maybe a few deaths, and someone has their pants stolen. Not necessarily in that order, mind you.
- Summary.
<p>You get the picture. This does away with the concept of a "main character", as all the story-threads are presented beforehand and what we do with them is up to us. What we do dictates what comes next. Only issue is that it becomes slightly episodic, but that can have its advantageous as well.
</p><p>Just a thought.
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