"""UNWRITTEN - epilogue pages. Authored by Fable. The epilogue is the Book read aloud. Full-screen INK panels, centered PARCH text, GOLD page ornament, one keypress per page. PAGES is ordered; each entry is (condition, text). condition: None = always shown, or a req tuple in the dialogue schema (("flag", x) / ("flag_not", x) / ("points", n)). The renderer shows every page whose condition passes. {light_name} is substituted from the moth_light_name_* flag: dark -> "for the ones walking in the dark", lost -> "for everything the vale lost waiting", small -> "for suppers, and mending, and company".""" PAGES = [ (None, "This is the story of the vale,\nas it actually happened."), (None, "There was a door that was only ever a wall\nwith better manners. " "Someone decided\nit was for going through.\nSo it was."), (("flag", "quill_confident"), "The mayor of Hollowbrook said what a door was for,\nout loud, in his " "own words.\nHe has scheduled the Founding Festival.\nThe speech runs " "long. Nobody minds."), (("flag", "quill_dependent"), "The mayor of Hollowbrook waits, still,\nfor someone to say when. " "You say when.\nHe beams every time.\nThat is also a way to be a " "mayor,\nand the town loves him anyway."), (("flag", "vera_joined_early"), "A merchant sold possibility\nin a town that had none.\nShe was not " "wrong. She was early.\nThe difference was one believer."), (("flag", "vera_reconciled"), "Two shopkeepers quarreled for forty years\nabout whether hope keeps.\n" "It keeps. It kept.\nThe ledger had a column waiting all along."), (("flag", "vera_grudge"), "Somewhere a merchant still waits\nto collect an apology with " "interest.\nThe vale has time now. Real time,\nthe kind that goes " "somewhere.\nShe'll collect."), (("flag", "moth_joined"), "A brazier that waited three hundred years\nwas lit at last -\n" "{light_name}.\nIt has not gone out.\nIt is not going to."), (("flag", "cantor_joined"), "A fanfare built for the beginning\nplayed in the middle instead.\n" "The middle, it turns out,\nis a strong place for brass."), (("flag", "cantor_quiet"), "He was woken without a name,\nby a knock instead of a word.\nHe " "chose his own, later,\nand tells nobody.\nIt is a very good name."), (("flag", "gatekeeper_relieved"), "An old guard was formally relieved of duty\nby a knight who knew " "what the words cost.\nIt sleeps now, off schedule,\nand the deep " "vale breathes."), (("flag", "rewoke_quill"), "When the world was smoothed flat,\nthe people were woken\nnot by " "magic, but by particulars:\na thing only they had said,\na debt " "only they remembered,\na note only they were built to hold."), (("flag", "odd_promised"), "The ferryman has a second route now.\nIt is written on the hull\n" "in a hand that is not the Maker's,\nand the water - he reports -\n" "is showing signs of interest."), (("flag", "bell_defected"), "A herald spent three centuries\nannouncing silence,\nthen rang " "itself backward\nand chose a side.\nIt has SUCH a backlog."), (("flag", "nyx_joined"), "And there was someone\nwho was never anyone's later.\nShe stepped " "off the empty plinth\nand the plinth is empty on purpose now,\n" "which is a different thing entirely."), (("flag", "nyx_missed"), "There was someone else, almost.\nLook for her, next time.\nShe " "waits by the fountain,\nat the empty spot,\nand now you know to " "look."), (("flag", "book_read_custodian"), "The margin read the pages\nand chose to be a bookmark instead."), (None, "The Maker built the vale.\nYou were what happened."), ] # Final card: the title UNWRITTEN, then the word UNWRITTEN gets struck # through / replaced by WRITTEN stamped in GOLD. Hold on it. Roll nothing. # There are no credits. The Book just closes.