Resolution

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I have been thinking more about elements of my Social-Play Model, especially the IIEE pieces of it, and doing a little reading. I found Victor Gijsbers' old post, Shared Imagined Space, Shared Text (April 2005) to be very enlightening. I know next to nothing about Derrida, structuralism, semiotics, and the like, so I tread on thin ice here, but

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[joepub]

So, it seems to me that:
*Idealized Fiction is the image on the cover of the game book: a swashbuckling pirate and a bionic ape fight a purple-clad necromancer on a chasm of doom.

*Everyone's Personalized Fiction prioritizes different elements of the Idealized Fiction, in a way that puts the particular emphasis in competition with the Idealized Fiction: The swashbucker represents old-school nostalgia, and so he needs to get the coup de grace on the necromancer, wtih the bionic ape being a tragic sidekick.

So, Personalized Fictions represent a tug-o-war over the direction the Idealized Fiction will get moved. A Personalized Fiction will by dynamic, where an Idealized Fiction will be static.

If people's Personalized Fictions are opposed and people advocate them somewhat equally within Resolution, then the Idealized Fiction will be more or less maintained. It's when all but one person at the table (the GM) look at the image on the cover and imagine slaughtering that Necromancer no problem that the drama and the "punch" of the Idealized Fiction. Because it's being pulled too far in one (albeit wide) direction.

And, seperately, I see that:
* Personalized Fiction reflects how the player imagines the scene moving forward and the details being fleshed out, whereas

* State of Play reflects what is established and understood to be true already.

And if I'm right in assuming that differentiation between the two, it seems like Personalized Fiction is something that's never established. Idealized Fiction is the light, Personalized Fiction is the light at the end of the tunnel (just ahead!), and State of Play is the tunnel itself. And the light is always within view and very close, but you're never *quite there*, always moving through the tunnel toward it.

Maybe I'm way off base here. Just something that came to mind as I read.