I'm curious too whether vignettes can be triggered without a GM even if the vignette choices can actually trigger effects like loading levels and stuff. Though I meant more I was drawing inspiration from what was originally a choose your own adventure story rather then trying to implement one in D:OS 2.
Regardless, anything that could be accomplished with vignettes this way could be done with scripted dialogs as well. I suppose you'd lose out on the vignette picture and the voting feature, which is a loss for multiplayer, but some other system of voting may be possible.