They must gain access, engage in field-work, and finally leave the field to carry out analysis.

I set the autopilot to due south, so I could get some rest.

[…]there is a distinct preference for direct-experience learning, which gives rise to an antibook attitude.

A game like chess, for example, may not really have a well-scripted narrative but its structure is certainly informed by a metastory of two armies (black and white, with varying significances) engaged in strategic battle.