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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5057589" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p>I had a few minutes tonight before hitting the bed. So i thought I'd make a post on some of the materials I've already prepared.</p><p></p><p>This is the table of contents third draft outline, and the second draft of part of my Introductory remarks, for <em><strong>Traversal</strong></em>.</p><p></p><p>If you guys, or anyone else wants to comment, then please feel free to do so.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><u>Table of Contents:</u></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Opus Major</strong></p><p></p><p>How and Why Men Explore</p><p>Theoretical and Practical Considerations</p><p>Training, and the Advancement of Capability Through Experience</p><p>Adventuring (<em>The Enterprising Art</em>) </p><p>Discovery (<em>The Terra Incognita</em>)</p><p>The Mystery of What is Found (<em>Reading the Unnoticed Evidence</em>)</p><p>Process</p><p>Secret Things</p><p>Secret Places</p><p>Secret Lives</p><p>The Enigmas</p><p>The Invisible Markings</p><p>Surveiling and Reconnaissance</p><p>Investigating the Obscure</p><p>Methods of Exploration</p><p>Methods of Discovery</p><p>The Infiltrating Vadder</p><p>Research and Inquiry</p><p>Recording, Mapping, Charting, and Disclosure </p><p>Preparing for Disaster</p><p>Anticipating the Unexpected (<em>The Unknown Assumptions</em>)</p><p>Going Underground</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Opus Minor (The Coda)</strong></p><p></p><p>Play as Exploration (<em>The Vadding of the Mind</em>)</p><p>Ultimately What You Discover is What You Know</p><p>Lessons Learned by Simulation and Practice</p><p>Recreation of the World</p><p>Role Play, Alternate Realities, Parallel Worlds</p><p>The Fantasy of Being Useful, and the Usefulness of the Imagination</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>The Addendum:</strong> Charts, Graphs, Characterizations, Schemes, Related Matters</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Introductory Forward:</strong> <em>Traversal</em> is not a game. Nor is is about a game. Those of you expecting to come to this work and discover a game will find yourself inevitably disappointed, if that is your only motivation. As a matter of fact this work is not intended to be about any type of gaming at all, be that Role Play Gaming, Alternative Reality Gaming, or even Parallel Reality Gaming.</p><p></p><p>What this work is intended to be about is Discovery and Exploration. The Traversal that occurs as one carefully explores and fully examines new landscapes, new situations, new territories, and the unknown hearts of men. The Traversal of the Undiscovered Country. The Frontier beyond which you have yet to pass. Now, that being more or less fully explained and disclosed the ideas and concepts within this work can easily be adapted and employed towards most any type of role play, alternative reality, parallel reality, or even video game design or structure to which one wishes to make application. And I have no objection to doing this, indeed I have included mechanical and supplementary material, which will allow one to do exactly that kind of thing, should one so desire. For I think that both gaming plays and simulation works are very valuable ways of learning new skills and of practicing and more fully developing already existing skills. So if any individual wants to make Traversal into a game, or wants to incorporate the already existing ideas and materials of this work into their already existing game (and that was indeed one of my original objectives, though not the most important objective, in creating this book) then please feel free to do so. Experiment at your leisure, or at your individual inclination.</p><p></p><p>But that is not the real intention, certainly not the chief intention of this work. This work is intended to show men of all types and of every age that the Art of Exploration is far from a dead or lost art, and that it is far from a desiccated and useless subject of mere academic or fantastical interest. Rather it is as it has always been - <em><strong>an Underground Art</strong></em> - and that is after all entirely appropriate to the nature of the undertaking and endeavor, for it is surely now and ever a vital and living enterprise. Dangerous in nature, rewarding in character, and nearly inexhaustible in open and unending possibilities for the future. For what we fearlessly and intently explore we may soon actually discover, and what we discover is never truly lost, but rather it penetrates through and infiltrates within us, as surely as we infiltrate into, and then penetrate beyond the unsure borders of the wider world we erroneously thought we knew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5057589, member: 54707"] I had a few minutes tonight before hitting the bed. So i thought I'd make a post on some of the materials I've already prepared. This is the table of contents third draft outline, and the second draft of part of my Introductory remarks, for [I][B]Traversal[/B][/I]. If you guys, or anyone else wants to comment, then please feel free to do so. [B][U]Table of Contents:[/U] Opus Major[/B] How and Why Men Explore Theoretical and Practical Considerations Training, and the Advancement of Capability Through Experience Adventuring ([I]The Enterprising Art[/I]) Discovery ([I]The Terra Incognita[/I]) The Mystery of What is Found ([I]Reading the Unnoticed Evidence[/I]) Process Secret Things Secret Places Secret Lives The Enigmas The Invisible Markings Surveiling and Reconnaissance Investigating the Obscure Methods of Exploration Methods of Discovery The Infiltrating Vadder Research and Inquiry Recording, Mapping, Charting, and Disclosure Preparing for Disaster Anticipating the Unexpected ([I]The Unknown Assumptions[/I]) Going Underground [B]Opus Minor (The Coda)[/B] Play as Exploration ([I]The Vadding of the Mind[/I]) Ultimately What You Discover is What You Know Lessons Learned by Simulation and Practice Recreation of the World Role Play, Alternate Realities, Parallel Worlds The Fantasy of Being Useful, and the Usefulness of the Imagination [B]The Addendum:[/B] Charts, Graphs, Characterizations, Schemes, Related Matters [B]Introductory Forward:[/B] [I]Traversal[/I] is not a game. Nor is is about a game. Those of you expecting to come to this work and discover a game will find yourself inevitably disappointed, if that is your only motivation. As a matter of fact this work is not intended to be about any type of gaming at all, be that Role Play Gaming, Alternative Reality Gaming, or even Parallel Reality Gaming. What this work is intended to be about is Discovery and Exploration. The Traversal that occurs as one carefully explores and fully examines new landscapes, new situations, new territories, and the unknown hearts of men. The Traversal of the Undiscovered Country. The Frontier beyond which you have yet to pass. Now, that being more or less fully explained and disclosed the ideas and concepts within this work can easily be adapted and employed towards most any type of role play, alternative reality, parallel reality, or even video game design or structure to which one wishes to make application. And I have no objection to doing this, indeed I have included mechanical and supplementary material, which will allow one to do exactly that kind of thing, should one so desire. For I think that both gaming plays and simulation works are very valuable ways of learning new skills and of practicing and more fully developing already existing skills. So if any individual wants to make Traversal into a game, or wants to incorporate the already existing ideas and materials of this work into their already existing game (and that was indeed one of my original objectives, though not the most important objective, in creating this book) then please feel free to do so. Experiment at your leisure, or at your individual inclination. But that is not the real intention, certainly not the chief intention of this work. This work is intended to show men of all types and of every age that the Art of Exploration is far from a dead or lost art, and that it is far from a desiccated and useless subject of mere academic or fantastical interest. Rather it is as it has always been - [I][B]an Underground Art[/B][/I] - and that is after all entirely appropriate to the nature of the undertaking and endeavor, for it is surely now and ever a vital and living enterprise. Dangerous in nature, rewarding in character, and nearly inexhaustible in open and unending possibilities for the future. For what we fearlessly and intently explore we may soon actually discover, and what we discover is never truly lost, but rather it penetrates through and infiltrates within us, as surely as we infiltrate into, and then penetrate beyond the unsure borders of the wider world we erroneously thought we knew. [/QUOTE]
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