Indie Gamer Attempts To Assert Narrative Control Over Bear; Dies
A bit of cruel whimsy from RPG Blog II, especially funny having just played octaNe:
"[Macavoy] just wouldn't stop talking to that bear", bystander Rashida Johnson recalled. "He kept saying stuff like 'OK, we're shifting stances, bear. OK, bear, we need to dictate story to push the conflict. Bear, you need to relinquish control. This is a safe place to explore this theme, ok, bear? Now, bear, the narrative structure is...'"
"If anything, I think it just made [the bear] angrier".Police now believe Macavoy was attempting to gain what he called "narrative control" over the situation, by dictating to the animal what should have been happening in the "scene" of the Grizzly Pit.