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GLOSSARY
Activation - The expenditure of Plot Points in order to empower a character to alter the fabric of an Episode's
plotline.
Conflict - see Drama.
Distributed Directing- Blurring the lines between the roles of Actor and Director, allowing the Actors to take control
of portions of the plot.
Downtime - The time that occurs between Episodes.
Drama - see Conflict.
Improvisation- To compose, perform, or create on the spur of the moment.
Information - Any communication which serves to further define the Stage.
Macroscopic - Pertaintng to the whole, or from the larger perspective.
Main Plot - The plot to which all other plots in the Episode are related.
Microscopic - Pertaining to the minutiae of events that make up the whole.
Process - The ongoing interaction of descriptions and ideas which comprises the roleplay during each Scene
Statement- Descriptions of a character's knowledge, memories, or perceptions, in that character's own voice, and
from that character's perspective.
Structure - The framework of plot, character, and dramatic necessity that holds the action of the story together
Subplot - Any story that occurs along side, while still remaining secondary to the Main Plot
Troupe Style Roleplaying - see Distributed Directtng, then multiply by a factor of three.
SUMMARY
It! Information - Improvisation relies upon ...
The Incomplete Moment- The time between the description of some action and when the Result is
actually realized.
The Vague Sensory Perception - Any perception whose description is incomplete, requiring time
and/or investigation to be fully realized.
The Pliability of Fact - Through the use of Statements.
1t.1 Statements- Provtde a means for the Actors to directly effect the ongoing process of the story. Remember
that an Actor's Primary Descriptor may effect her Statements as follows ...
Disapproval- A character may Disapprove any other Statement, about any piece of Information that
falls within the domain of their own Primary Descriptor.
Activat.lon - If any character makes a Statement covered by their own Primary Descnptor, then that
is the only Statement in the field which may be Activated with a Plot Point.
0 Props - Actors are free to improvise any non-dramatic prop that's appropriate to the Stage
0 Veto - The Director has final approval over any and all improvtsations.
0 Plot Points- Every one of those little suckers should be precious. Hard to earn. Harder to spend. And always
worth the expenditure. A Jist of all the ways in which Plot Points may be earned and spent is located on 'Theatrix
Reference Sheet A'.
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