Lieutenant Elo hoped to God that wasn't how they smiled. It was how they spoke. Oh dear sweet lord. She opened fire. Again with skulls.
Vignettes borrow more from television advertising than from prose fiction.
In the vignette above, we're obviously witnessing the fateful first contact we wrote about earlier. Since we're on the inside of this manuscript, we know that Elo's gun might have no effect at all. Immune to zap guns, can eat skulls . Vignettes demonstrate what the GM can do with a setting. Like Joe Avatars, they provide a concrete example of how to work with the material.