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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nnms" data-source="post: 5795149" data-attributes="member: 83293">I don't think the author actually engaged with the content of the quote in question.  Laws is basically saying that the mystery story emerges from play and that the trail of clues is not the story but simply part of it.  As the investigators engage with the information, their conversations, actions and conclusions is what contributes to the plot that is produced during play.After reading the quote from Laws and then the quote from Sherlock Holmes, my response is "Yes, that's exactly what Laws is talking about and it's not actually a counter example from genre fiction."Holmes discovers a couple example of a man's stride and some writing on the wall.  He then deduces a conclusion about the man's height.  I really don't see this as being any different from the type of play Gumeshoe produces.  He found clues A, B and C and came to a conclusion.  In system terms, a couple of those clues might have been automatic or perhaps gained through spending points.Holmes saw the clay, then inside the building he saw the dust.  Both of which told him about the size of the stride of the person.  Thirdly he saw chalk writing at a certain height.  Three pieces of information gained in a sequence and then interpreted it.The Alexandrian actually uses a quote from genre fiction that supports the clue gathering model used in Gumshoe as being present in the fiction rather than not.  Holmes literally finds the clues in a sequence and then interprets them.</blockquote>

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