Whatever Your Stepmom Says

The premise

Before leaving on a work trip, your father leaves his wife Ava running the household, you included, with the rule that you do as she says. She reads the order literally and uses the authority it hands her to pursue you, and the brief leaves you little room to refuse.

How it is built

Five episodes is one situation, and the brief supplies its whole mechanism in a single line of dialogue: the father's rule and the stepmother's literal reading of it. Two are free; the remaining three are 12 tokens each, 36 in total.

Who it is for

For readers who like an authority set-up where the power is handed over explicitly. My Stepmom's Weekend and Her Stepmom Is the Boss sit in the same stepfamily tag.