Priors

# Priors

Both the compounded asset and the surface that builds it (formerly the *Queue*). As an asset: what the domain has compounded over time — established canon, character truths, world rules and lore, the structural shape of branches already explored, calibrated reads of how each actor moves under which pressure. *The moat is your canon;* its depth and freshness decide the result, the math is fixed and cheap. As a surface: a **perspective-based prior-collection system**. Members record observations against the world's open questions — filtering the noise, structuring each prior, setting the open threads worth tracking (web search assists the drafting; *curation, not capture*, never scraped). Priors are **per-perspective** — each seat keeps its own, a **general perspective** by default — and read out a running stance on how each thread bears as the story accumulates: a **local bearing** that moves over the chronology its priors were added. Divergence across seats is preserved (the antagonist's seat holds deliberately hostile priors; what's shared is the board, not the belief). A seat's running prior-set is a **Stream** (above); folding a seat's Priors into the domain commits its Stream via a **Merge**, and that committed stance guides scene generation — the next *N* scenes that carry the story forward. **AI-simulated seats:** because Priors are per-seat, an empty or quiet seat can have its priors *simulated* by the engine from its stances and open questions — keeping a thin-rostered room whole, putting AI agents in seats beside humans, and at the limit running a fully autonomous table. Humans are the main support; simulation lets the loop run when a human isn't there.

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