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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6117623" data-attributes="member: 6696971">@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?6668292-JamesonCourage" target="_blank">JamesonCourage</a> Here is what I'm saying regarding the above crossing the street to get the ice-cream in the ice-cream parlor scenario: (I am the GM, nephew is the player)- My nephew has been a good boy. I say; &quot;I'm proud of you. Let's get some ice-cream.&quot;- My nephew is excited about the getting ice-cream and he knows our ice-cream shop that we usually visit is just across the street.- We go down to the street and I'm looking around, spending time exploring the ice-cream prospects on this side of the street or listening hopefully for that familiar ice-cream truck tune.- My nephew be would wondering why we aren't crossing the street and getting directly to the ice-cream. He would probably be standing there, hand in mine, with a question mark over his head. He would assuredly ask me why we aren't crossing the street to the ice-cream shop.- If I say to him, &quot;we're on the street&quot;, it would quickly turn into an Abbot and Costello skit.- If I say to him, &quot;we're on the street...perhaps if we're lucky we will find a street vendor over here selling ice-cream...or maybe an ice-cream truck will come along and sell us ice-cream.&quot;- I am certain, beyond all doubt, puzzled at this exploration...this &quot;ice-cream prospecting&quot;...that he would say &quot;why don't we just cross the street to the ice-cream shop?...&quot;Given how difficult this conversation has been, I'm going to leave nothing to implication or inferrrence:Table handling time on the desert crossing (Desert as Action Scene rather than Transition Scene to City Action Scene) = Real life time exploring the ice-cream prospects on the street (Street as Action Scene rather than Transition Scene to ice-cream shop Action Scene).&nbsp; Both, might be interesting and fun and per chance there may be &quot;ice-cream relevance&quot; that manifests at some point (such as the ice-cream truck song playing on the horizon and the truck coming over a bend).&nbsp; However, neither are * spatially or ** temporally associated with &quot;city mcguffins&quot; or &quot;ice-cream&quot; except in that they are * transit requirements which impose ** later attainment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6117623, member: 6696971"] @[URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?6668292-JamesonCourage"][B][COLOR=#ffffcc]JamesonCourage[/COLOR][/B][/URL] Here is what I'm saying regarding the above crossing the street to get the ice-cream in the ice-cream parlor scenario: (I am the GM, nephew is the player) - My nephew has been a good boy. I say; "I'm proud of you. Let's get some ice-cream." - My nephew is excited about the getting ice-cream and he knows our ice-cream shop that we usually visit is just across the street. - We go down to the street and I'm looking around, spending time exploring the ice-cream prospects on this side of the street or listening hopefully for that familiar ice-cream truck tune. - My nephew be would wondering why we aren't crossing the street and getting directly to the ice-cream. He would probably be standing there, hand in mine, with a question mark over his head. He would assuredly ask me why we aren't crossing the street to the ice-cream shop. - If I say to him, "we're on the street", it would quickly turn into an Abbot and Costello skit. - If I say to him, "we're on the street...perhaps if we're lucky we will find a street vendor over here selling ice-cream...or maybe an ice-cream truck will come along and sell us ice-cream." - I am certain, beyond all doubt, puzzled at this exploration...this "ice-cream prospecting"...that he would say "why don't we just cross the street to the ice-cream shop?..." Given how difficult this conversation has been, I'm going to leave nothing to implication or inferrrence: Table handling time on the desert crossing (Desert as Action Scene rather than Transition Scene to City Action Scene) = Real life time exploring the ice-cream prospects on the street (Street as Action Scene rather than Transition Scene to ice-cream shop Action Scene). Both, might be interesting and fun and per chance there may be "ice-cream relevance" that manifests at some point (such as the ice-cream truck song playing on the horizon and the truck coming over a bend). However, neither are [B][I]* spatially [/I][/B]or [I][B]**[/B][/I] [B][I]temporally [/I][/B]associated with "city mcguffins" or "ice-cream" except in that they are [I][B]* transit requirements [/B][/I]which impose [I][B]** later attainment[/B][/I]. [/QUOTE]

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