Editing Unwritten: System Reference Document/Playing a Scene (section)

==Overwhelmed==

Normally, you leave a scene whenever makes sense. However, sometimes circumstances conspire to make you irrelevant. When you are overwhelmed, you are no longer an active participant in the scene. You have been trapped, fallen unconscious, chased away, or any other result that would remove you from the action. In some scenes, such as an investigation, it might be that you simply has gotten so confused that you are no longer helpful. 

You are overwhelmed when:
* You are required to take a consequence and you have no empty consequence slots left.
* You fumble a dangerous action.

Whatever the case, you are no longer a part of that scene, even if your character is physically present. The person who caused you to be overwhelmed (player or GM) describes how you are removed from the scene.