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In navigating this perplexing scenario as walls restricted in mobility and senses, players must reorient their typical assumptions of agency and narrative discovery. The 'empty' room is not so empty to the walls, filled with memories, stains, cracks, and echoes of past events. Players must adopt a symbolic mindset, interpreting limited environmental details to co-author an imagined history.
Some latent desires elicited through this constrained wall perspective may be yearnings for security, stability, or being part of a lasting community. The walls imply the tavern's lost patrons and all that happened within this space. What emerges is a contemplative excavation of community identity, imagining the lives and events that molded the walls over time.
Wall-PCs cannot enact change directly, but instead must speculate on past and future, emphasizing strategic patience, interdependence, and finding meaning where one is situated. The elicited desires revolve around finding fulfillment as part of a greater whole.
This example demonstrates how tabletop RP can manifest latent perspectives even through experimental player-character embodiments, by shifting identification from literal projection to interpretive interiority. The empty room contains infinite possibilities with imagination and constraint as the conduits for self-discovery.