The interaction between autonomous characters in a realtime fiction can be defined very loosely. Since we don’t have a fixed story to tell and all meaning should come from the spectator’s own imagination, a great deal of the autonomus behaviour can be governed by randomness.<\/p>\n
One of the characters in our virtual space, however, will be the avatar of the spectator. Contrary to the Non Playing Characters (NPCs), the behaviour of this character will be controlled by a human. This means that we cannot use the concept of “activity-things<\/a>” (Richard Evans) for these interactions. It seems that we will not be able to cheat as much when the spectator knows what is going on in the mind of one of the participants.<\/p>\n For instance, when one NPC seems to have forgotten what he experienced with another NPC, the spectator will probably make up a story why this is.
\nFor example, in one scene we see the Wolf behaving very aggressively towards the Deafmute Girl en she runs away. In the next scene we see both of them play together. The spectator can imagine that at some point these characters got to know each other and decided that they like each other. When the Wolf is aggressive towards the avatar (Red), however, the spectator (who controls the avatar) will find it highly suspicious if suddenly the Wolf wants to play with her.<\/p>\n