John McCardle
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A 30-45 minute turn-based RPG built overnight as an engine showcase: six recruitable characters (party of three), four recurring NPCs, choice-driven dialogue with visible-but-locked skill checks, shops, loot, levels, two bosses with in-battle Talk options, the reverted grey-town beat, and an epilogue assembled from the player's actual choices. 33 dialogue scenes / 171 nodes. Terrain is ColorLayers only; kenney_tinydungeon supplies characters, items, and props. Creative direction, story, dialogue, maps, and systems design by Fable; implementation by four Opus subagents (framework, battle, overworld, integration). Verified by tests/playthrough.py: a scripted headless run of all three acts, 20/20 beats passing, plus per-system unit tests (script integrity, UI kit, 225-battle balance sim, overworld). Run: cd build && ./mcrogueface --exec ../games/unwritten/main.py Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014vxWJ6GY384SmZiMVXgrF4
93 lines
3.9 KiB
Python
93 lines
3.9 KiB
Python
"""UNWRITTEN - epilogue pages. Authored by Fable.
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The epilogue is the Book read aloud. Full-screen INK panels, centered PARCH
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text, GOLD page ornament, one keypress per page. PAGES is ordered; each entry
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is (condition, text). condition: None = always shown, or a req tuple in the
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dialogue schema (("flag", x) / ("flag_not", x) / ("points", n)). The renderer
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shows every page whose condition passes. {light_name} is substituted from the
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moth_light_name_* flag: dark -> "for the ones walking in the dark",
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lost -> "for everything the vale lost waiting", small -> "for suppers, and
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mending, and company"."""
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PAGES = [
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(None,
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"This is the story of the vale,\nas it actually happened."),
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(None,
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"There was a door that was only ever a wall\nwith better manners. "
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"Someone decided\nit was for going through.\nSo it was."),
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(("flag", "quill_confident"),
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"The mayor of Hollowbrook said what a door was for,\nout loud, in his "
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"own words.\nHe has scheduled the Founding Festival.\nThe speech runs "
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"long. Nobody minds."),
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(("flag", "quill_dependent"),
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"The mayor of Hollowbrook waits, still,\nfor someone to say when. "
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"You say when.\nHe beams every time.\nThat is also a way to be a "
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"mayor,\nand the town loves him anyway."),
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(("flag", "vera_joined_early"),
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"A merchant sold possibility\nin a town that had none.\nShe was not "
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"wrong. She was early.\nThe difference was one believer."),
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(("flag", "vera_reconciled"),
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"Two shopkeepers quarreled for forty years\nabout whether hope keeps.\n"
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"It keeps. It kept.\nThe ledger had a column waiting all along."),
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(("flag", "vera_grudge"),
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"Somewhere a merchant still waits\nto collect an apology with "
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"interest.\nThe vale has time now. Real time,\nthe kind that goes "
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"somewhere.\nShe'll collect."),
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(("flag", "moth_joined"),
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"A brazier that waited three hundred years\nwas lit at last -\n"
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"{light_name}.\nIt has not gone out.\nIt is not going to."),
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(("flag", "cantor_joined"),
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"A fanfare built for the beginning\nplayed in the middle instead.\n"
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"The middle, it turns out,\nis a strong place for brass."),
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(("flag", "cantor_quiet"),
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"He was woken without a name,\nby a knock instead of a word.\nHe "
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"chose his own, later,\nand tells nobody.\nIt is a very good name."),
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(("flag", "gatekeeper_relieved"),
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"An old guard was formally relieved of duty\nby a knight who knew "
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"what the words cost.\nIt sleeps now, off schedule,\nand the deep "
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"vale breathes."),
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(("flag", "rewoke_quill"),
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"When the world was smoothed flat,\nthe people were woken\nnot by "
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"magic, but by particulars:\na thing only they had said,\na debt "
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"only they remembered,\na note only they were built to hold."),
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(("flag", "odd_promised"),
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"The ferryman has a second route now.\nIt is written on the hull\n"
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"in a hand that is not the Maker's,\nand the water - he reports -\n"
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"is showing signs of interest."),
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(("flag", "bell_defected"),
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"A herald spent three centuries\nannouncing silence,\nthen rang "
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"itself backward\nand chose a side.\nIt has SUCH a backlog."),
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(("flag", "nyx_joined"),
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"And there was someone\nwho was never anyone's later.\nShe stepped "
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"off the empty plinth\nand the plinth is empty on purpose now,\n"
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"which is a different thing entirely."),
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(("flag", "nyx_missed"),
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"There was someone else, almost.\nLook for her, next time.\nShe "
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"waits by the fountain,\nat the empty spot,\nand now you know to "
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"look."),
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(("flag", "book_read_custodian"),
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"The margin read the pages\nand chose to be a bookmark instead."),
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(None,
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"The Maker built the vale.\nYou were what happened."),
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]
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# Final card: the title UNWRITTEN, then the word UNWRITTEN gets struck
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# through / replaced by WRITTEN stamped in GOLD. Hold on it. Roll nothing.
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# There are no credits. The Book just closes.
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