"Orlkar's Bull" is actually a mini-LARP that Neil Robinson and I have run at a couple of conventions. The central question - whether Orlkar's Bull was stolen or ran away is actually completely undetermined and the veracity ends up being completely up to whoever is playing Orlkar. In Australia, some years back, I ran a game for MOB, Andrew Bean and a few others with the same premise. I think Fall of the House of Malan had a few similar conflicts.
As an attorney (and a former prosecutor), I tend to differ with many people's assumption about the relative ease of being able to determine the objective facts associated with a particular conflict. Many times, I don't bother as a narrator to develop a "true" objective statement of facts. I just give the players a variety of biased and conflicting narratives, and let them run with it.
Obviously, everyone's gaming style differs - I'm not saying there is a right answer here. I'm just saying that it is not necessarily advantageous for the narrator to know all the answers.
Jeff
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