More so than Visual Language, sometimes I find a need to give a form of intellectual discourse between the acts and various existentialist viewpoints of the various characters which comprise the form of a narrative. That said, the creation of said intellectual discourse runs the risk of treading into difficult and at times, certainly damaging territory against the narrative it set out to strengthen. Whether or not this seed of intellectual discourse I have planted may find itself a recurring undercurrent of the narrative, and hopefully, the entire gaming experience, is yet to be determined, although it suffices at the moment for the sake of development.
The Three Theaters I refer to point at a certain zeitgeist extolled by the Schrodinger Clan of Cats, in that the world they meddle in and perform their acts of preservation, manipulation, and expulsion of errors within the timelines, are but a stage of unreality: for what is reality to a species whose sole purpose rests in the manipulation, dilution and in times of need, perforation of space-time and its consequences. To argue to them on the "Reality" and "Truth" of a current situation is as futile an endeavor as one might try to argue for the existence of a corporeal God. To the Cats, all that exists is the Theater, and the various points in the plot that comprise it, and like a group of editors they wield a pen in which to either augment and make solid pages of good text, or the elimination of stray verses. To this end, how far a Cat might go in his consideration of a situation and his subsequent action, depends very much on which of the Three Theaters he subscribes to.
Being born of Humanity, I thought it apt to allow certain forms of influential theatre in the earlier eras of the 1900s to form the basis of the Three Theaters that the Cats follow. They are the Theater of the Absurd, the Theater of Cruelty, and the Epic Theater.
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