Escalation

"There is a cost to learning the information. There's another phrase from game design that I like in terms of thrillers, which is information puts players in danger and danger rewards characters with information, right? That's kind of the loop with like thriller game design."

"We're oscillating between push and pull, right? In a way: learning information is pull; danger is push, right? So you're talking about a way of creating a narrative energy from oscillating between those two."

"When is the information revealed to the character and when does it create danger? What are the particular skills of a character that allowed them to obtain the information? And then what is the cost of learning the information?"

"There is a related idea... which is: **Save. Survive. Save.** All which are goals for your characters."

"I think each sequence runs through its own tomb cycle. Each sequence culminates in a Banishment and a Slumber and then the next sequence starts with a new Transgression."

"And today we are looking at how to escalate antagonism within the story. And we are looking at this the lens that we are looking at escalating antagonism is through a paradigm that Stu discovered in the ttrpg horror Mothership and that paradigm is called TOMBS: Transgression Omens Manifestation Banishment and Slumber and I'm really excited about this topic."

"The transgression is the act that awakens the slumber and that leads into the omen."

"From that point onwards, there's a rhythm of this film. And what happens is the rhythm is Ron is busted by someone, be it the FDA or the IRS or Dr. Savard. So someone tries to shut him down. Within often two pages, Ron sorts this out. Like there was one point where they had their location shut down. A few pages later, Ron has a new location. There's another point where Ron is broke, within a few pages, Rayon is lending him money. But what there is, is a rhythm to the act two."