I like this!

My understanding of Fictional Positioning is that it’s another way of saying Shared Imagined Space — so, not just “hopefully shared” but shared by definition, else the table can’t come to an understanding of what’s actually happening.

So, my question is: are the Social/Psychic/Tactical spaces shared as well?

They read to me more like Reward — which is the new, shiny term for Agenda — and so are kinda shared but also kind of not, i.e., they are Paul’s Buttons™, but not necessarily Mark’s Buttons™.

In other words, do these types of Positioning need to happen the way Fictional does, or are they kind of orthogonal? E.g., it doesn’t matter why I make a given choice — it may be sub-optimal or it may be optional in pushing some sort of button — the game proceeds based on my having made the choice regardless.