thread: 2009-06-22 : Secrets: the Smelly Chamberlain
On 2009-06-23, Ian O wrote:
Here is how it works for me:
"The Chamberlain is smelly"
O1) It becomes true in rl when the GM rolls with it and everyone basically proceeds with the smelliness of the chamberlain being true.
Once this happens, the truth extends backwards into the fiction, making it true for the previous sessions, with some wiggle room for players and GM to negotiate.
O2) Basically the same as O1.
O3) It becomes not-true in rl when the players relent, the not-truth rolling backward in the fiction much like O1, O2.
O4) This is hard. I'd parse it: it's just bad, inconsistent fiction, and both the Chamberlain being smelly and not smelly are rl-true when both sides refuse to relent, with the same rollback as the other outcomes so far.
Crap fiction happens.
O5) Same as O4, loathing generated doesn't change the relationship.
O6) Never true. We never see in the fiction what is going on with the behavior and rival explanations abound. The players only posited acting as-if, not conspiring to author the Chamberlain as smelly.
O7) Basically the same as O3, just more dramatic.
O8) It depends if the GM relents to the player's demands that it not be acknowledged. If he relents, the Chamberlain isn't smelly at that point, with rollback fictional truth. If he doesn't, it's just O4 again.
