The "StoryDwelling Adventures" was the original name of the series of games to be produced by Oddworld Inhabitants (the first one being SoulStorm. The name remained until at least late 1996. The use of this term is infrequent, so it's hard to track its origins, but is obviously a play on the term "storytelling", and implying that video games allow the player to "inhabit" the story instead of just listen to it as an external observer.
To the best of my memory, the term appears only on Story Stones that include moving characters. This isn't at all hard to do, since a Story Stone screen is just a regular CAM file: you can even float Abe in front of some using the noclip mode in Abe’s Oddysee, but for some reason it wasn't used until AE. I can't say for certain what the word underneath is, but at one point I thought it might be "theater".
p.s. I'm merging this with the Q&A thread.
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