welcome back hipbone,
I have been perusing BS and all this facinating stuff about bead games and HipBone games.. all very intruiging.
Naturally, the first thing I think is think how can we play this in cow?
Heres a possible way we can walk amongst the 'board':
build a link to a notion of happiness to build a new node
radar to see how nodes link to each other
Mind you the radar command gets a bit stumped by complex doorways.. but stand in the open field and try it.. quite scary.