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What survives / promotes / recasts

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# What survives / promotes / recasts

- **Promoted to the headline:** one Scenario decision substrate with two entries—direct abstract play or
  immersive live Episode roleplay.
- **Recast:** **World** is a branch-derived semi-permanent artifact; replayability is an open configuration,
  not its definition.
- **Introduced:** two Episode postures—catch-up embodiment of accepted material and live Stageplay that
  opens governed roleplayed moves to advance the branch.
- **Sequenced without becoming strictly linear:** maintain the Domain → cultivate branching stories through
  direct Scenario and Episodes → optionally deploy a World from a mature preserved coordinate.
- **Promoted to world physics:** graph topology as the structure for location, access, context, and
  information propagation—not only a visualization.
- **Promoted to the action boundary:** MCP as the concrete channel through which human and agent Will
  enters a world.
- **Recast:** Scenario remains a first-class configurable game, now understood primarily as how the raw
  world is built, explored, and played at a branch's frontier.
- **Recast:** Position remains a powerful form of situated commitment, but not every playable character,
  location, or artifact must act through a Position.
- **Recast:** practice and evaluation become uses of the wider world engine, not its enclosing identity.
- **Survives as the substrate:** extraction, System/World/Fate, Threads, Streams, Positions, Reasoning
  Graphs, Research, Merge, the Program, branches, Stories, and the canonical record.
- **Remains retired:** markets as proof of universal understanding, portfolio identity, and claims that a
  world predicts or governs its source reality.
- **Returns only as bounded direction:** economies, leagues, speculation, and real-value stakes may exist
  inside or above particular Worlds under explicit rules and governance; they are not the universal
  verification mechanism.

## Working lines

- **The identity:** *Drive the story. Inhabit the decision. Live in what remains.*
- **The system:** *Domain defines. Branch preserves. Scenario resolves. Episode embodies. World inherits and lives.*
- **The trajectory:** *Commit the scene or open the move. Let Stageplay make consequence felt.*
- **The forces:** *System constrains. World embodies. Fate remains open. Will makes the move.*
- **The mechanism:** *Programmable rules. Situated information. Plural Will. Kept history.*
- **The World promise:** *Stories build places worth returning to.*

The former practice-only brand line is retired. **Play the Possible** names Scenario without reducing
the whole product. A replacement master tagline is deliberately unresolved.
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