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I'm guessing you know about Thousand Year Old Vampire then? And The Story Engine?
I've already heard mention of Thousand Year Old Vampire, never played it, though. There are a lot of things happening in the space of solo roleplaying which are boons for writing, but you will need several lifetimes to try them all. :) I stick to the three ones I use and already know well from tabletop gaming (dnd, shadowrun and traveller), and I don't want to start system hopping, because for me the focus is the story, not the rulesets, and it would get in the way. The only exception I made to that was to start using some parts of Mythic GM Emulator, because it can be used on top of the rulesets I use and it did indeed made my story way more interesting, especially when the pace is cooling down and you're not sure what to do next.
That s why I mentioned The Story Engine. It's not an RPG. It's purely a ... storytelling device? It's a bunch of cards and you pick a few (there are various algorithms to create different things) and then you just go wild with what you got. Here, I just picked four cards and I got : Assassin - Wants to unravel the mystery of - Archive - But it will mean risking the thing most precious to them. From there you can dig further, have another agent (like the Assassin here) with a conflicting agenda. You could generate what that precious thing / maybe person is. Etc. You could check out the quickstart (what I just used) and see how it feels.
Oh I see. That sounds cool, thanks for mentioning it. 👍️