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
251 lines
12 KiB
Python
251 lines
12 KiB
Python
"""UNWRITTEN - Act 2 dialogue (the Undercroft). Authored by Fable."""
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SCENES = {
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"vera_reconcile": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "VERA", "text":
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"Oh. It's the ruling committee. Yes, I followed you across the "
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"water - a merchant goes where the possibilities are, and "
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"apparently they all go where YOU go. I'm not speaking to you, "
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"incidentally. This is market research.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "[ALCHEMY] Offer her a Bomb Flask: 'Your field needs a colleague.'",
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"req": ("item", "bomb_flask"), "next": "n_bomb",
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"effects": [("item", "bomb_flask", -1)]},
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{"label": "[NIMBLE] Return the ledger page you lifted from Griselda's counter.",
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"req": ("tag", "NIMBLE"), "next": "n_ledger"},
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{"label": "We were wrong about your shop. I'm sorry.", "next": "n_flat"},
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]},
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"n_bomb": {"speaker": "VERA", "text":
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"A bomb flask. Waxwing shell, river water and - is that an "
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"UNRESOLVED HOPE in suspension? You made one. You made one of "
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"MINE, except yours goes off.", "next": "n_join"},
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"n_ledger": {"speaker": "VERA", "text":
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"...This is from Griselda's ledger. Forty years of stock, "
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"nothing sold, and she wrote my name in the suppliers column "
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"anyway. The old anvil PLANNED to stock my tonics. When they "
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"worked. She was waiting too.", "next": "n_join"},
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"n_flat": {"speaker": "VERA", "text":
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"Hm. An apology with no garnish. In this economy. ...Accepted, "
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"obviously. Do you know how long I have waited for someone to "
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"be WRONG about something? It means things are happening.",
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"next": "n_join"},
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"n_join": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"VERA joins the party! She immediately relabels three of your "
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"tonics 'artisanal.'",
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"effects": [("flag", "vera_reconciled"), ("points", 1)],
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"action": "recruit:VERA:3"},
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},
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},
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"nyx_sketch": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"Charcoal on the wall, older than dust: a figure, half-drawn. "
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"Thin. Patient. The face was never filled in. Underneath, in "
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"the Maker's hand, one word: LATER.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "Trace the unfinished line with a finger.", "next": "n2"},
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{"label": "Move on.", "next": "n_no"},
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]},
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"n2": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The charcoal is cold. Somewhere behind you - exactly where "
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"no one is standing - the air feels briefly grateful. The "
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"Book hums, low.",
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"effects": [("flag", "touched_sketch")], "action": "end"},
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"n_no": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"LATER, says the wall, to no one, for three hundred years.",
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"action": "end"},
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},
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},
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"cantor_wake": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The Chord Hall. Pipes rise into the dark like a bronze "
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"forest. At its center kneels a golem, fists on knees, head "
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"bowed - dust-caped, patient, enormous. Its chest is an organ "
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"of stopped reeds. A brass plaque reads: FOR THE FANFARE, "
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"WHEN IT BEGINS.", "next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"It has been holding the first note of a song for three "
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"hundred years. The Book grows warm in your hands - then hot "
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"- then it opens ITSELF, to the first page, and waits. It has "
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"never done that before. It wants a name.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "Write CANTOR.", "next": "n_cantor",
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"effects": [("points", 1)]},
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{"label": "Write its serial: CH-0RD.", "next": "n_serial",
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"effects": [("points", 1)]},
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{"label": "Write nothing. Lay a hand on the plaque instead.",
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"next": "n_quiet",
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"effects": [("flag", "cantor_quiet"), ("points", 1)]},
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]},
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"n_cantor": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"CANTOR, says the page, in your handwriting, which has never "
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"looked like that before. The reeds shiver. Dust pours off "
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"shoulders like a curtain falling.", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_serial": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"CH-0RD, says the page. Somewhere in the golem's chest a reed "
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"sounds a small, amused note - the mechanical equivalent of a "
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"raised eyebrow - and accepts it. Names are what you answer "
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"to. It will answer.", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_quiet": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"You write nothing. You put your hand on the plaque, over the "
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"word BEGINS. The golem's head lifts anyway. Some things wake "
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"for a name. Some wake for a knock at the door.", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_wake": {"speaker": "CANTOR", "text":
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"...The note. I was holding the first note. Is it - is it "
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"TIME? Has it begun?", "next": "n3"},
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"n3": {"speaker": "PIP", "text":
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"It's begun. It began a few days ago, actually. You're not "
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"late - you're the fanfare. Fanfares come in the middle "
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"sometimes.", "next": "n4"},
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"n4": {"speaker": "CANTOR", "text":
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"The middle. Yes. A strong place for brass.", "next": "n5"},
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"n5": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"CANTOR joins the party! When he walks, the Undercroft hums "
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"faintly in sympathy, like a struck tuning fork the size of a "
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"county.",
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"effects": [("flag", "cantor_joined"), ("points", 1)],
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"action": "recruit:CANTOR:4"},
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},
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},
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"chest_a": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"A chest, banded and patient. Inside: supplies laid down by "
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"someone who believed, eventually, in company.",
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"effects": [("item", "red_tonic", 2), ("item", "blue_draught", 1),
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("gold", 25), ("flag", "chest_a_open")],
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"action": "end"},
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},
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},
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"chest_b": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"This chest holds a weapon wrapped in waxed cloth, and a note: "
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"'FOR WHOEVER FINALLY NEEDS IT.' You need it.",
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"effects": [("item", "twin_axe", 1), ("item", "bomb_flask", 1),
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("flag", "chest_b_open")],
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"action": "end"},
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},
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},
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"mimic_chest": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"A chest sits alone in the alcove, very slightly too pleased "
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"with itself.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "Open it.", "next": "n_fight"},
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{"label": "[SHADOW] Circle it first.", "req": ("tag", "SHADOW"),
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"next": "n_shadow"},
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{"label": "Leave it.", "next": "n_no"},
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]},
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"n_shadow": {"speaker": "NYX", "text":
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"It's breathing. Chests don't breathe. I say we open it "
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"anyway - it's been waiting three hundred years to bite "
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"someone, and honestly? Same.", "next": "n_fight"},
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"n_no": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The chest does its best impression of furniture as you go.",
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"action": "end"},
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"n_fight": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The chest has TEETH -", "action": "battle:uc_mimic"},
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},
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},
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"mimic_post": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The mimic subsides into honest lumber. Inside its... "
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"everything... you find a trinket of quietly absurd quality.",
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"effects": [("flag", "mimic_slain"), ("item", "second_trinket", 1)],
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"action": "end"},
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},
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},
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# --------------------------------------------------------- Gatekeeper boss
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"gatekeeper_pre": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The deep gate. And waiting before it, hands folded, "
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"immaculate in the fog: Bell.", "next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"Hello again. I am here in an official capacity, which I "
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"regret. Beyond this gate the vale keeps its deepest pending "
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"things. The Custodian asks - and it does ASK, we are not "
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"savages - that you stop here.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "We're going through, Bell.", "next": "n3"},
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{"label": "What's the Custodian afraid of?", "next": "n2b"},
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]},
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"n2b": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"Afraid? Nothing. The Custodian does not fear stories. It "
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"TIDIES them. It is very good at its work and I have never "
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"once heard it wonder whether the work is good. That "
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"distinction has been keeping me up at night. Custodians "
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"don't sleep, so I have had a great deal of night.",
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"next": "n3"},
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"n3": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"Then I will observe. For the record: I was courteous, you "
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"were determined, and the moss was excellent. The Gatekeeper "
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"will see you now.", "next": "n4"},
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"n4": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The gate's stone face grinds open its eyes. It looks at your "
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"party the way a librarian looks at a dog in the atlas "
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"section.", "next": "n5"},
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"n5": {"speaker": "GATEKEEPER", "text":
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"UNSCHEDULED. ALL OF THIS IS UNSCHEDULED. I HAVE KEPT THE "
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"DEEP VALE PENDING FOR THREE CENTURIES AND I WILL NOT BE "
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"FILED INCORRECTLY BY A WALKING PAPERWORK ERROR.",
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"next": "n6"},
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"n6": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The Gatekeeper inhales.", "action": "battle:boss_gatekeeper"},
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},
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},
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"gatekeeper_post": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The stone face settles, cracked, strangely peaceful. Its "
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"jaws relax for the first time in three hundred years, and "
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"one tooth - a long brass wedge - drops politely at your "
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"feet.", "effects": [("flag", "gatekeeper_slain"),
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("item", "gatekeepers_tooth", 1)],
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"next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "GATEKEEPER", "text":
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"...off schedule. everything off schedule. how... "
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"restful...", "next": "n3"},
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"n3": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"Then, from everywhere at once - from the stone, the fog, the "
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"brass forest above - a sound like the whole vale being "
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"SMOOTHED. Bell has gone pale, which for Bell means neat.",
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"next": "n4"},
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"n4": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"That was the Custodian. It has... responded. You should go "
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"home, book-holder. Quickly. And I am sorry - I want that "
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"noted somewhere that doesn't get swept. I am SORRY.",
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"next": "n5"},
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"n5": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The way back up is short. It shouldn't be. The vale is "
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"rearranging itself to hurry you along - or to get you out of "
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"the way.",
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"effects": [("act", 3)],
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"action": "goto_area:hollowbrook:from_ferry"},
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},
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},
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}
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