From the Introduction: In Springers each player will take on the role of a disembodied mind jumping randomly through an infinity of possible universes. Each time you play your disembodied mind will find itself temporarily possessing the body of someone who normally lives in that universe. You work to solve their problems and then your mind leaves their bodies, hopefully with them better off than before, and travels on to the next universe. We've all seen Quantum Leap right? It's like that.