In a game, we begin with what the text tells us. Here is a villain, here is a merchant, here is somebody standing beside the road who may or may not help. But when we go looking for what else that person has, we need to give them a life from which their actions make sense. Everybody can beat out, however tenuously, their own "hero’s" journey through the tale. They can tell you what they have suffered, what they have earned, and why the thing they are doing is justified. This is called moral agency. Let them inhabit it completely. The players have their reasons for being here, but they are not the only people whose reasons count.
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We have to experience free will; we do not have to be free to do it. Characters enter a scene already shaped by designs and circumstances their players have not entirely chosen. The GM can bring those forces to bear, making an obligation felt or a possibility suddenly compelling. That scene is a node within the story.
The bones of an adventure here at 10000things, are a series of discrete scenes, or nodes . A meeting at the well, an argument before a magistrate, a search through an abandoned shrine.
"The woman bent beneath it, though she believed the weight was her own tiredness.
The bucket maker steadies a cedar stave and draws his plane along its edge, a thin curl of pale wood falling among the shavings at his feet. Each narrow board must fit its neighbours closely enough to hold water; assembled around a fitted wooden bottom, they form an oke, an open-topped bucket. He taps woven bamboo hoops down around the body, tightening their grip until the joints close.
Within musashis words we can see something of socratic method; that knowledge comes from within. Socrates sought truth and didnt think there was alot of it. Here Musashi begins with a truth and for him, questioning the known will lead us on a path of revelation.