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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 5930382" data-attributes="member: 413"><p>It's the bit between the bits where you are interacting with NPCs (i.e. talking to them and/or killing them and taking their stuff). </p><p></p><p>You're in a room. There is a door to the north and a passage to the east. You can see what appears to be the glow of candle light and some shadows as if there might be a room with someone in it a few dozen feet down the passage. Through the door you hear shouting and occasional whimpering...what do you do?</p><p></p><p>or</p><p></p><p>You wake up. You don't remember who you are or why you are here. You are cold but you feel the warmth on your face and can see the glow of the sun through your eye lids. You feel dust under you and taste it along with blood in your mouth. Your head aches. When you open your eyes you see that you are in the middle of a dusty plain. The sun is low on the horizon (probably rising). In all directions is flat dry land covered by low scraggly bushes. You here a low rumbling sound...at first you think it to be thunder but you a could of dust indicates it is like the hooves of many large beasts...possibly horses or cattle. They appear to be approaching you...you are wearing tattered rags. You have no weapons. A set of broken shackles are on your wrists. Your hands and clothes are covered in dried blood that is likely not your own. What do you do?</p><p></p><p>Exploration is where the players (through their characters) get an opportunity to determine the direction of the game. Do you go right? Do you go left? It is out of initiative order.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Uller, post: 5930382, member: 413"] It's the bit between the bits where you are interacting with NPCs (i.e. talking to them and/or killing them and taking their stuff). You're in a room. There is a door to the north and a passage to the east. You can see what appears to be the glow of candle light and some shadows as if there might be a room with someone in it a few dozen feet down the passage. Through the door you hear shouting and occasional whimpering...what do you do? or You wake up. You don't remember who you are or why you are here. You are cold but you feel the warmth on your face and can see the glow of the sun through your eye lids. You feel dust under you and taste it along with blood in your mouth. Your head aches. When you open your eyes you see that you are in the middle of a dusty plain. The sun is low on the horizon (probably rising). In all directions is flat dry land covered by low scraggly bushes. You here a low rumbling sound...at first you think it to be thunder but you a could of dust indicates it is like the hooves of many large beasts...possibly horses or cattle. They appear to be approaching you...you are wearing tattered rags. You have no weapons. A set of broken shackles are on your wrists. Your hands and clothes are covered in dried blood that is likely not your own. What do you do? Exploration is where the players (through their characters) get an opportunity to determine the direction of the game. Do you go right? Do you go left? It is out of initiative order. [/QUOTE]
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