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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5017992" data-attributes="member: 54707">The Terrains of Mind, Soul, Spirit, and SocietyIt would definitely take some experimentation, that's for sure. Especially when you are talking about gaming and even simulation situations. But, generally peaking, I very much like the idea of mental, psychological, argumentative, and even "social terrains and geographies." And of all of the accompanying factors involved. You could have negotiation terrains, debating terrains, charismatic terrains and domains, inventive terrains, wit (argumentative wit competitions) terrains, interrogational terrains, investigative terrains, conversational terrains, etc. But one thing I think would be very much possible while engaging in mental and psychological and social contests, competitions, and combats, would be "tactical terrain shifts." That is to say that since such contests take place on social, metal, psychological, and perhaps even spiritual levels, the combatants or disputants would be able to use the established "terrains" in very unique ways. For one thing certain aspects of a terrain would be "fixed" or basically agreed to, but on the other hand much of the associated terrain would be transmutable, open to modification (depending upon the line of pursuit followed by one or more disputants), changeable by circumstance and would even be able to be created ad hoc, as arguments and contests and combats proceed, stall, reform, etc.Because so much of the terrain would be alterable because of the fact that the "field of contest" is mental, psychological, and spiritual (rather than entirely physical, as with physical combat situations), then much of the terrain(s) would be very fluid and easily open to almost instantaneous to manipulation, destruction, creation, and recreation. As a matter of fact I wouldn't mind seeing such a set of ideals or systems and sub-systems being created and developed not only to handle things like social combats, but also to handle things like magic (arcane), supernatural magic, and so-called psychic powers. It would I think make the interaction between physical forces and powers and what are essentially magical and mythical and psychological and spiritual forces and powers much more interesting. Not to say varied, flexible, and in some ways powerful.</blockquote>

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