Tropers/{{JET73L}} did this accidentally on ''KingdomOfLoathing'', to said troper's utter confusion. After about a week or two of computer trouble and other events preventing gameplay, the
Adventurer finds a nearly-demolished Seaside (Main) Town, an
Altar of Bones that accepted a currency of Bone Chips, and a Council of Loathing that refused to give any information aside from "
Why don't you stir up trouble between the Frat Boys and Hippies? Try assassinating Franz Ferdinand. Historically, it usually helps". Follow the adventurer going to the
Cannon Museum, fighting four exponentially more difficult
One Time encounters and being underprepared for the fourth, and witnessing the
Face Heel Unmasking of a BigBadFriend who s/he had never met before. At one point, it became difficult to tell the difference between
obscure puns and single-meaning references to dead comrades, thanks to never having been introduced to said comrades! Even
COLdfront didn't help, the skipped sequences were so (sub-? Side-? MythArc-?)plot-relevant.