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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8597355" data-attributes="member: 42582">[USER=71699]@clearstream[/USER], I am struggling to follow your posts. A seed is a seed. It can be planted. It can be eaten. It can be glued to cardboard by a child i the course of making an illustration at childcare. And there are limitless other things that might be done with a seed. The fact that we can think of some things that can't be done with a seed - eg it can't be ridden on to the moon, not even if we were really small - doesn't mean the things that can be done with it aren't limitless.Harguld's fictional position is that he is standing, in a cave mouth, crossbow cocked and loaded, waiting for Gnolls. Any number of things could follow from that. The GM decides on one: a Gnoll scout emerges from the shadows. Now any further number of things could follow (eg Harguld could shout a threat to the Gnoll; could offer a bribe to the Gnoll; could lose his nerve and run from the Gnoll), but Dro chooses one: Harguld shoots at the Gnoll. We can track these changes in fictional position without needing to invoke notions of intention, or latency, or anything else. The position is what it is, and in most cases can be very easily described.But none of this will make the fact that Harguld waits too long, luring the Gnoll in, part of the fictional position at the moment Dro declares that Harguld shoots. Because that bit of fiction hasn't been authored yet. It is authored as part of the process of resolving the test that takes place in response to Dro's action declaration.</blockquote>

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