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"plaintext": "A plan to share with mobius. Captures the loop we want, who owns what, the decisions locked, what I just changed on the engine side, and the open items that need your call."
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"plaintext": "You wake in a **fixed room** with a **fixed NPC**. The NPC gives you background and something like a quest — but the quests are *exploratory*: go see the world, learn things, circle back when you know enough to answer my questions. So you explore, crystallize features, uncover lore through NPCs and the environment. When you've covered enough, the NPC **pages you back**. You answer (multiple choice). Your answer moves you to the next deck/zone — start at another fixed room, with another fixed NPC, who provides another fixed quest. Repeat across the anchor NPCs, then you're paged into a **final chamber** for a **final choice** that ends the chapter."
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"plaintext": "Stages 1–4 each have one anchor NPC; stage 5 is the final decision chamber. The geography escalates (Nave → upper rind → lower rind → Signal Chamber), it isn't a stack of identical decks. Each deck should feel different, with a different composition--room types that only appear on certain decks, same for creatures, etc. This provides novelty for the player and a sense of progression and motion. We already lock content behind narrative and revelation tiers, but we can make the decks feel different too. Decks can be collections of chunks, but in the narrative progression, they are completely different biomes, so they should be physically and experientially separate."
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"plaintext": "- **All advancement + paging is deterministic and the client's (yours).** No LLM anywhere in the advancement loop."
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"plaintext": "- **\"Answers\" that the player gives to the key NPCs = pre-generated multiple choice**, not free text. They accumulate into save state; they do **not** gate progression (progression and consequence are decoupled — you always advance; what you say only shapes the ending). Future: lock some options behind specific lore fragments via the `requires` gate."
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"plaintext": "- **Verdict = one record per player.** The accumulated answers either ride along as evidence in the verdict or you pull them from your own player state — either is fine; showing them to the player at the final choice would be a nice touch."
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