name: Notes 3
posted: 2012-03-15
comment: |-
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  Angels are "Fires of Wanting the Impossible"
    Come into being if you speak a new name for one
    Judges are based around the idea of wanting something impossible?

  Pagefolds on the wall for quests, open folds for everyone

  Theater Mechanics:
    Modifiers can apply to any element if you can make it make sense
    How do you get them?
      Do particular actions particular places?
      Share bits of your backstory?
        Secrets that camouflage the Big Secret
        All secrets are in thirds?
        More like trivia, that only seems important in combination?
          Specific people care about the combined secret
        Want to keep the big secret from getting out too soon
        Advantage to having more unrevealed secrets?
        Quests require you to not know things
          Or reveal something unrevealed to a sphinx
            You tell your party members, too
          Or have a certain number of secrets
      Secrets on its own sheet of paper, notebook to keep track of things
      Secrets only have their power if they connect to other people?
      Secrets lose their power if they come back to you?
      Different mechanics need specifically "unrevealed secrets" or "secrets the target doesn't already know"
      Judges have secrets about their corresponding actor, and might be more willing to reveal them
        That breaks "unrevealed"
        Maybe they know secrets about you you don't know, or a variant
      This is a bit like Clue
      Multiple contradictory secrets, first to get publicized wins?
      Answers of questions require other people's secrets?
        Find information about other people that help you come to terms with something about you
        Find three parts of a Secret to resolve something you don't know about your own past
      Secrets are transferable items?  You copy the info, but pass the card on
        "Unrevealed secrets" are ones you started with and never traded
        Could allow your secrets to respawn based on number, but lots of pieces of paper
        Might need just the 3 pieces of info, or need the 3 cards as proof for a judge or something
        Actor with 3 thirds of a secret answering a mystery teams up with a judge to do something about it?
      Exchange instead of give?
      Secrets are the currency that Judges trade?
        All secrets have a faction?
          Need certain colors to pass quest bits, maybe secrets have a type as well
      For the most part, conservation of secrets
      Secrets are intelligible sentences, but may seem innocuous without context
      Plays could introduce new secrets into game?
        Judges give you a secret and then draw a random new one?
      How many secrets do people start with? 5-10?
      Secrets serve as modifiers?  Maybe in combination?
        Exchange two matching secrets among two actors in your play
        It's in the Judge Code of Conduct to favor plays with more modifiers, up to the ceiling
      The Excrucian Secret is only dangerous if you know the three parts and intend to publicize them on Earth (optional bookkeeping)
    Elements are pieces of paper

  Woglies:
    Created by unplayable squares in the map
    Might eat secrets in some cases?

  Isn't Locations:
    Flip over based on world map configuration
    Source of elements?
      Greater variety of elements as more things become real
      In addition to "slay-the-dragon" quest, a source of dragon-themed elements
      Some incentive for using a new type of element or combining different types of elements?
        Bonus secret or something for first to use a type of element
        Also something to encourage variety
    Themes, possibly by faction, where you get cool quest stuff:
      fairy tale
      space opera
      mythological
      postapocalyptic
      mundane, hard SF
    Quests:
      Shadowrun group with particular aspects, secrets, spend an element of some sort
      Give a secret or secrets to the other party members, or recycle a secret, to claim the prize (pretty expensive cost)
    In addition to unlocking faction-allied isn't locations, judges have specific configurations they want in their packet.
    No followers/points unless we have a compelling reason

  Item cards:
    Big, important things, not RTIs

  Actor Groups:
    Gossips, want to keep secrets flowing
    The Show Must Go On, people who want to make sure shows happen

  Roomba quest to get more LEDs!
  }}}
