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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8431013" data-attributes="member: 42582">What happens to Huxley? Selene? The other sailors? The PCs? What happens to the ships - the Sea Maiden, or the Albers?None of these things is determined by the scenario. As I posted, the scenario is analogous to a threat clock in Apocalypse World. It doens't pressupose a plot.Here is a post of mine from earlier this year, that closely reads two Prince Valiant episodes to make a similar point about the difference between a pre-scripted plot/railroad, and a complexly framed situation:Maiden Voyage is not identical in its structure to The Crimson Bull - it relies more heavily on the fact that the PCs are on a ship to facilitate framing; and as a result it places a bit more weight on the lead-up events (the captain's death, in particular) in setting up the ultimate situation, which is the encounter with the ghost ship. (Rereading my old thread, I saw this: The module has two attacks by the Sea Maiden, an initial skirmish and then a final assault, but I decided that it would be better to combine these into one. That's an example of removing elements of plot in order to focus on situation.)But as I've already posted upthread, we can't talk sensibly about authority over the fiction, in a RPG, without distinguishing setting (there's a ghost ship in these parts) and backstory (the captain was killed by a ghost; the crew are superstitious of having a woman on board), from situation (you find the captain's dead body; you come across an abandoned ship - there are dead bodies trapped below its deck!), from outcomes (Huxley is saved from being hanged; the morale of the crew sinks ever-lower).</blockquote>

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