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from your king's eye issues forth a green chevron-tipped vector, an arrow, a direction. it points toward that beautiful star that only you can see.The function of this meta-activity is to act as practice. You are droqen, and you need to hone the focusing lens that resides within your own brain. How can you do that? The focus ritual.
the path branches and branches, multiplying. in the real world these paths are not pruned, but go on and on into the darkness forever without limit. endless endless roads sprawl (through a yellow wood or a white void or a grey ewhat is necessary is a pruning device.such a device is, becomes, terribly bespoke and overfitted. but the key is to achieve an understanding of these devices: to learn the skills of pruning device deployment, and development.what games can be used to teach these skills?
what games can be used to practice their use?
The knife would say that what is necessary is not an abstraction which enables out-of-context practicing but in-context trial-by-fire type shit. As the knife-wielder I would tend to agree. Yet I remain drawn to design that which the knife believes too to deserve to die. I would be creating it only to kill. What could be a purer motivation? That's the very essence of experimentation.
In plainer language, what I mean to record is a suspicion that some "game" or abstracted practice located within a hermetically sealed magic circle is a poor alternative to the most straightforward available gaining of techniques (i.e. knowledge of how to perform the skill) and subsequent safe application of said techniques in real circumstances (i.e. in situations that are as similar as possible in all ways including consequences).
For the focus ritual the skill in question is how to be friends with the king, and though I find it easy to envision its many arrows blossoming into a beautiful but burdensome infinity, I do find it to be impossibly difficult to describe.
Being friends with the king.