In Difficult Salad, a panel of experts collectively design and play a roleplaying game themed on international marriage law and inadvertently hold a seance. Guided through a process of gamification, a priest, a migration lawyer and a legally registered international couple waver between immersed roleplayers, vindictive investigators and the empirical architects of a subjective model of international marriage. The entangled forces of bureaucracy, romance, citizenship, spirituality and economics are synthesized into a roleplaying scenario where an interrogation of romantic legitimacy and stability overrides that of human personhood. A debate about borders becomes a debate about the border booth itself being a suitable spouse. The complex body of international marriage is channelled through the assembled knowledge of the players, and a 14th century spirit is invoked.