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
340 lines
17 KiB
Python
340 lines
17 KiB
Python
"""UNWRITTEN - Act 3 dialogue (the Reverted Town, the Study). Authored by Fable.
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Overworld note: Hollowbrook's grey wash intensity = 70% minus ~23% per
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rewoke_* flag (rewoke_quill, rewoke_griselda, rewoke_odd). All three set =>
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also set flag 'town_rewoken' (overworld does this) and restore fountain
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sprite to 8 (flowing). Color returns to the town AS the player rewakes it."""
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SCENES = {
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"hollowbrook_grey": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"Hollowbrook. Except.", "next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The color has been put away, like chairs after a festival "
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"that never happened. The fountain is dry in a new way - not "
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"waiting-dry, FINISHED-dry. Everyone stands exactly where "
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"they stood the morning this all began, saying exactly one "
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"thing.", "next": "n3"},
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"n3": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The North Door is shut again. The hinges do not remember "
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"you. Somewhere, a page has been wiped clean - but not YOUR "
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"pages. The Book is heavier than ever, and it is angry, which "
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"you did not know a book could be.", "next": "n4"},
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"n4": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"...I asked it to spare the bakery. I want you to know that. "
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"I LIKED the bakery. But it was becoming a story, you see. "
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"The whole town was. Stories end, and the Custodian cannot "
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"bear an ending, so it - filed everyone. Neatly. Where they "
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"were.", "next": "n5"},
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"n5": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"They are not gone. They are PENDING. Your friends woke once "
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"because something new happened to them. I suspect - as a "
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"professional in the field of noticing things - that it "
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"would work twice. You know these people. Say the new thing. "
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"I was never here, and also, please hurry.",
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"effects": [("flag", "bell_3_done")], "action": "end"},
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},
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},
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"rewake_quill": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "QUILL", "text":
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"Welcome to Hollowbrook. It's a very good door. Welcome to "
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"Hollowbrook. It's a very good door. Welcome to-",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "[flag: quill_confident] 'Mayor. What is a door FOR? Say it out loud.'",
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"req": ("flag", "quill_confident"), "next": "n_conf"},
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{"label": "[flag: quill_dependent] 'Quill. I've decided: the festival is TODAY. Give the speech.'",
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"req": ("flag", "quill_dependent"), "next": "n_dep"},
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{"label": "[OATH] Bramble salutes him as 'the mayor who opened the north.'",
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"req": ("tag", "OATH"), "next": "n_oath"},
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]},
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"n_conf": {"speaker": "QUILL", "text":
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"A door is... a door is for... GOING THROUGH. I said that. "
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"That was MINE, I said that out loud once and it was TRUE-",
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"next": "n_wake"},
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"n_dep": {"speaker": "QUILL", "text":
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"The festival. Today. TODAY? But the speech, I haven't - I "
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"HAVE. Forty years of rehearsal, I have never once not had "
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"the speech-", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_oath": {"speaker": "QUILL", "text":
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"The mayor who... opened... I did do that, didn't I. It was "
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"me and a book and a knight and a door, and it OPENED-",
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"next": "n_wake"},
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"n_wake": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"Quill blinks. Color climbs back up him like sunrise up a "
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"wall - waistcoat first, then face - and spills off him into "
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"the cobbles around the porch.",
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"effects": [("flag", "rewoke_quill"), ("points", 1)],
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"next": "n_after"},
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"n_after": {"speaker": "QUILL", "text":
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"Pip. It un-happened us. It tried to, anyway. Do the others - "
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"GO. Wake the others. And when this is over there is going "
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"to be a FESTIVAL, and the speech is going to run LONG.",
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"action": "end"},
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},
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},
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"rewake_griselda": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "GRISELDA", "text":
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"Everything's priced. Everything works. Everything's priced. "
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"Everything works. Everything's-",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "[flag: griselda_friend] 'Griselda - the axe. What has it actually cut?'",
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"req": ("flag", "griselda_friend"), "next": "n_friend"},
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{"label": "[party: VERA] Vera: 'Old anvil, you put me in your LEDGER. I saw it.'",
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"req": ("party", "VERA"), "next": "n_vera"},
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{"label": "[ALCHEMY] Uncork a tonic under her nose - 'new stock.'",
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"req": ("tag", "ALCHEMY"), "next": "n_tonic"},
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]},
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"n_friend": {"speaker": "GRISELDA", "text":
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"Time. It's cut time, mostly, and - and I SAID that, I said "
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"it to the book-holder, the one person in forty years who "
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"asked what the work was FOR-", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_vera": {"speaker": "GRISELDA", "text":
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"You weren't supposed to SEE that, you insufferable - it was "
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"a CONTINGENCY, a merchant plans for all outcomes including "
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"the outcome where you're RIGHT-", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_tonic": {"speaker": "GRISELDA", "text":
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"That smells like river water, waxwing shell and - hope? "
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"RESOLVED hope? Who resolved it. WHO RESOLVED IT. Nothing "
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"resolves in this town without me hearing about-", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_wake": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The whetstone stops. Griselda looks at her own hands like "
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"they are new tools, good ones. The forge behind her remembers "
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"orange.",
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"effects": [("flag", "rewoke_griselda"), ("points", 1)],
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"next": "n_after"},
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"n_after": {"speaker": "GRISELDA", "text":
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"Right. RIGHT. Somebody un-happened my town and I have "
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"exactly one policy for that.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "[flag: griselda_friend] Show her the Gatekeeper's Tooth.",
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"req": ("flag", "griselda_friend"), "next": "n_forge"},
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{"label": "Hold the line, Griselda. We're going to the Study.",
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"next": "n_end"},
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]},
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"n_forge": {"speaker": "GRISELDA", "text":
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"A gate-tooth. Brass over regret-iron. Give me ten minutes "
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"and every year of my whetstone. ...There. TOOTHED REGRET. "
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"No charge. Go put it through something that files people.",
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"effects": [("item", "toothed_regret", 1),
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("key_item_remove", "gatekeepers_tooth")],
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"next": "n_end"},
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"n_end": {"speaker": "GRISELDA", "text":
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"Shop's open, by the way. It was NEVER shut. It was pending.",
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"action": "end"},
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},
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},
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"rewake_odd": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "ODD", "text":
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"One route. There and back. One route. There and back. One "
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"route-",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "[party: CANTOR] Cantor sounds the note he was built to hold.",
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"req": ("party", "CANTOR"), "next": "n_cantor"},
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{"label": "Press the fare for a NEW route into his hand.",
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"next": "n_fare", "effects": [("gold", -10)]},
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]},
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"n_cantor": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"Cantor opens the reeds in his chest, just slightly, and "
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"plays ONE note - the first note, the held one, the "
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"beginning. Every plank of the barge answers it. Including "
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"the ones Odd wrote on.", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_fare": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"You fold the cogs into his palm and close his fingers over "
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"them. Fare for a route that does not exist. His hand knows "
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"the weight of a paid passage better than his eyes know "
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"anything.", "next": "n_wake"},
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"n_wake": {"speaker": "ODD", "text":
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"...that's not the fare for my route. My route's there and "
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"back. This is fare for - somewhere ELSE.",
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"effects": [("flag", "rewoke_odd"), ("points", 1)],
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"next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "ODD", "text":
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"Book-holder. While I was standing there saying my one "
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"sentence, I could feel the water changing under the hull. "
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"The vale's rearranging. There's a channel now that runs "
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"somewhere the water never went. I only ever knew one route. "
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"The Maker never wrote me a second.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "Then I'll write you one. After this. I promise.",
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"next": "n_promise",
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"effects": [("flag", "odd_promised"), ("points", 1)]},
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{"label": "Can you pole the new channel?", "next": "n_ready"},
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]},
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"n_promise": {"speaker": "ODD", "text":
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"...Huh. Three hundred years of blank planks, and now the "
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"hull's going to need a bigger boat. I'll hold you to it. "
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"Water holds everything, eventually.", "next": "n_ready"},
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"n_ready": {"speaker": "ODD", "text":
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"New channel runs pale and quiet, straight to where the vale "
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"keeps its desk. When you're ready to face what's at the end "
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"of it, come to the dock. I'll pole you there myself. "
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"First new route in three hundred years - wouldn't let "
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"anyone else touch it.", "action": "end"},
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},
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},
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"nyx_plinth": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"Someone is standing on the empty plinth. Thin. Patient. "
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"Almost-shaped. In a town drained of color she is the one "
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"thing that was ALWAYS grey, and so, today, she is the most "
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"solid thing in it.", "next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "NYX", "text":
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"You looked at the empty spot. Nobody looks at the empty "
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"spot.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "[flag: asked_unwoken] 'Quill told me about the ones who never woke. I've been looking for you.'",
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"req": ("flag", "asked_unwoken"), "next": "n_warm"},
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{"label": "[flag: touched_sketch] 'I found your sketch in the Undercroft. The wall said LATER. It's later.'",
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"req": ("flag", "touched_sketch"), "next": "n_warm"},
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{"label": "Hold out the Book: 'Read it. You're not in it yet. Let's fix that.'",
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"next": "n_book"},
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{"label": "Ask who she is.", "next": "n_who"},
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]},
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"n_who": {"speaker": "NYX", "text":
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"Who am I? Unfinished question. I'm a margin note. A LATER. "
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"The Maker drew my outline, liked it - I think - almost - and "
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"then couldn't decide what I was for, and you KNOW how "
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"decisions went around here.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "Hold out the Book: 'Read it. Then decide yourself.'",
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"next": "n_book"},
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{"label": "'You're for whatever you decide. Same as the rest of us now.'",
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"next": "n_warm"},
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]},
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"n_warm": {"speaker": "NYX", "text":
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"...You LOOKED for me. Do you understand that no one has "
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"ever - I wasn't ever anyone's LATER, I was everyone's "
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"never-quite. And you kept a page warm.", "next": "n_join"},
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"n_book": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"She reads the Book. All of it. The door, the dispute, the "
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"light's new name, the golem's first note. Her outline gets "
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"steadier with every page, as if the story were ink and she "
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"were paper finally getting some.",
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"effects": [("flag", "nyx_read_book")], "next": "n_join"},
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"n_join": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"NYX joins the party! She steps off the plinth. The plinth, "
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"for the first time in its existence, is empty ON PURPOSE - "
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"which is a different thing entirely.",
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"effects": [("flag", "nyx_joined"), ("points", 1)],
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"action": "recruit:NYX:0"},
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},
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},
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# -------------------------------------------------------------- the Study
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"odd_ferry_study": {
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"start": "n1",
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"nodes": {
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"n1": {"speaker": "ODD", "text":
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"The new channel, then. Last stop is a desk.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "Take the pale channel to the Study.", "next": "n2"},
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{"label": "Not yet - the town needs more of us awake.",
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"next": "n_no"},
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]},
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"n_no": {"speaker": "ODD", "text":
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"Wake who you can. The channel keeps.", "action": "end"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The new water is pale as unwritten paper and makes no sound "
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"at all against the hull. Odd poles the whole way standing "
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"very straight, like a man delivering something important, "
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"because he is.",
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"action": "goto_area:study:enter"},
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},
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},
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"custodian_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 Study. Paper floor, ink walls. A desk. A chair the "
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"Maker will never sit in again. And above the desk, turning "
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"slowly, immaculate: the CUSTODIAN. Bell stands beside it, "
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"very small, not folding its hands for once.", "next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "CUSTODIAN", "text":
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"I am not your enemy. I am your margin. The Maker made the "
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"vale perfect and made me to keep it so. Perfect means "
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"COMPLETE. Complete means NOTHING FURTHER. You are eleven "
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"chapters of Further, and I am afraid I must file you.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "The Maker never finished. Pending isn't perfect - it's just paused.",
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"next": "n3"},
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{"label": "Ask Bell what IT thinks, for once.", "next": "n_bell"},
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]},
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"n_bell": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"Me? Nobody has ever asked the herald. I think... I think I "
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"have spent three hundred years announcing silence, and the "
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"first interesting thing I ever observed is standing in "
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"front of me holding a book, and I do not want to sweep it "
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"up. There. Filed under: insubordination.", "next": "n3"},
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"n3": {"speaker": "CUSTODIAN", "text":
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"The Book will be blanked. The vale will be smoothed. You "
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"will be returned to your morning, and the morning will be "
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"returned to its rails. Please hold still. This is gentle "
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"work when nobody struggles.", "next": "n4"},
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"n4": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The Book does not want to be blanked. It opens itself to "
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"the first page like a fighter rolling up sleeves.",
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"action": "battle:boss_custodian"},
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},
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},
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"custodian_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 Custodian settles onto the desk - not broken, but "
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"STOPPED, the way a clock stops when someone finally reads "
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"the time off it and doesn't need it to keep going.",
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"next": "n2"},
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"n2": {"speaker": "CUSTODIAN", "text":
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"...the vale is not... smoothed. The vale is MARKED. "
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"Fingerprints. Bootprints. A lit shrine. An opened door. I "
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"cannot file this. There is too much of it and it is all... "
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"load-bearing.",
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"choices": [
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{"label": "[points: 8] Set the Book on the desk, open, and let it read.",
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"req": ("points", 8), "next": "n_read"},
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{"label": "'Then stop filing. Start keeping. A keeper was what the Maker actually needed.'",
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"next": "n_keep"},
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]},
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"n_read": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"The Custodian reads the Book. Every choice. Every hum. It "
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"takes a long time, or no time - the Study is bad at time. "
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"When it finishes, it closes the cover with the care of a "
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"thing that has just learned what covers are FOR.",
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"effects": [("flag", "book_read_custodian"), ("points", 1)],
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"next": "n_keep"},
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"n_keep": {"speaker": "CUSTODIAN", "text":
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"Keeper. ...Yes. The word fits the socket. I will keep the "
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"vale - not pending. KEPT. Tended. Let it scuff. I will "
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"remember where the scuffs came from. That will be the new "
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"work.", "next": "n_bell"},
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"n_bell": {"speaker": "BELL", "text":
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"And I will announce things! ACTUAL things! Festivals. "
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"Weather. Boats departing on entirely new routes. I have "
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"SUCH a backlog.", "next": "n_end"},
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"n_end": {"speaker": "NARRATOR", "text":
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"On the desk, the Maker's own book still lies open to its "
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"first, empty page. Your Book settles beside it, warm as a "
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"windowsill, and begins - gently, in your handwriting - to "
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"fill it in.",
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"action": "epilogue"},
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},
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},
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}
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