The House of Yes-But
So, suppose you're doing this thing where you and some other folks are making up a story about some characters, and there are some rules telling you how to do it. Also suppose there are five little decks of cards in front of you:
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The five "directions" the decks are named for are meant to reflect ways a character or entity might "move" its energy in an attempt to affect something outside him/her/itself. So, the idea is you choose some character and say they're gonna try to do something to affect the world somehow, and then you pick up a card from one of those five decks.
What the cards do is say how the situation changes, with a statement that begins with "yes, but". So, the character will get his/her/its way (probably) but the cards say something like "but it costs you ____" or "but it affects a relationship like so" or "but what you want isn't what you need" or whatever. They are designed to need some interpretation; assume that there are some other rules about who guides the interpretation and how (in short, don't worry about it for now).
Question 1: can you imagine a fictional situation wherein it'd be difficult or impossible to decide in which of the above five ways a character was trying to move him/her/itself to change the situation?
Question 2: imagine drawing a card from one of the decks. What can you imagine it telling you? (Please say which deck, and feel free to give multiple answers or answers for multiple decks.)
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The five "directions" the decks are named for are meant to reflect ways a character or entity might "move" its energy in an attempt to affect something outside him/her/itself. So, the idea is you choose some character and say they're gonna try to do something to affect the world somehow, and then you pick up a card from one of those five decks.
What the cards do is say how the situation changes, with a statement that begins with "yes, but". So, the character will get his/her/its way (probably) but the cards say something like "but it costs you ____" or "but it affects a relationship like so" or "but what you want isn't what you need" or whatever. They are designed to need some interpretation; assume that there are some other rules about who guides the interpretation and how (in short, don't worry about it for now).
Question 1: can you imagine a fictional situation wherein it'd be difficult or impossible to decide in which of the above five ways a character was trying to move him/her/itself to change the situation?
Question 2: imagine drawing a card from one of the decks. What can you imagine it telling you? (Please say which deck, and feel free to give multiple answers or answers for multiple decks.)
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