thread: 2006-03-20 : Creating Situation: a practical example
On 2006-03-24, Nobody Special wrote:
I think I see. High stakes conflicts, once resolved, raise the stakes of all other interests. The character may return to their original interests after a high-or-highest stakes conflict, but in a way they can never return to prior interests since those interests have been changed by the experience and will be modified by the likewise-changed interests of other characters. Frodo ultimately goes home, his earliest primary interest, but home is no longer home because conflict has changed him, and because Saruman, changed by conflict, has taken a new interest in hobbits.
Is this the same as what you said?
This makes NS go "Forgot Escalation"
Perhaps I should have said characters may return to prior interests but those interests have escalated?
I don't understand your statement, "So when the resolution of one conflict of interest sparks a new conflict of interest, what happens is that the situation develops upward, until nothing more can possibly be at stake. [O]nce that happens, once as much is at stake as can be, the final resolution has to be final. There's simply nowhere else to go."
The priestess' life is at stake but, when resolved, play continues. Does this just connect with your other statement about what "possibly can be at stake"? So in these examples, lives are not the ultimate stake, maybe faith is, or the life of the world should the trickster god awake.
