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Areas arrive as situations, not prompts

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The review's verdict after resolution blocks: 'still choices attached to
prompts, not spaces that naturally produce play'. The hand-written delve gives
a place — four people back-to-back around a dead lantern — and the decisions
fall out of it. DELVE gave a decision and asked the GM to imagine the room.

Every area now carries a situation: an occupant, what they are doing, what
changes when the party walks in, why (GM), and what it offers. 48 across 8
motifs, motif-scoped and dealt without replacement.

It produces chains nothing planned: in seed live-table-01 a grave-robber in
area 2 is trying to get a password's intonation right, and area 4 is a door
that needs one. Three routes to it now exist where there was a Wits roll.

Also closes the last two open complaints: the five roll-less decisions now have
real attempts (a voice you could not speak to was the weakest), and {priorCue}
resolves against a cue the party has actually seen instead of granting the
answer by fiat.

Tests 19 -> 24.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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core/beat.mjs
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const FACET_TRUTH = {
demandEnd: 'the question itself, asked directly',
};
export function buildArea({ skeleton, planned, pack, pressure, rng, baneBeat = null, feature, decision, temptation = null }) {
export function buildArea({ skeleton, planned, pack, pressure, rng, baneBeat = null, feature, decision, temptation = null, situation = null }) {
const r = rng.derive('area', String(planned.index));
const fs = skeleton.foreshadow.find(f => f.index === planned.index) ?? {};
const names = pack.areaNames?.[planned.role] ?? pack.areaNames?.approach ?? ['Unnamed'];
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ export function buildArea({ skeleton, planned, pack, pressure, rng, baneBeat = n
// Cue: fragments, not prose.
cueFragments: [fs.fragment, feature].filter(Boolean),
// The situation is the room as the players find it: someone doing something, and what
// changes when they walk in. The decision is one of the things you can do about it.
situation: situation ? {
occupant: situation.occupant, doing: situation.doing, onArrival: situation.onArrival,
because: situation.because, offer: situation.offer,
} : null,
truth: `${FACET_TRUTH[fs.facet] ?? ''}. ${skeleton.knot.transgression}`,
decision,
core/content/barrow.json
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@@ -341,10 +341,10 @@
"cue": "a room you must cross either quickly or quietly",
"cost": "quick is one Turn and a clock roll; quiet is two Turns and none",
"resolve": {
"roll": null,
"success": null,
"failure": null,
"orElse": "a pure choice: quick costs a clock roll, quiet costs two Turns"
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you read which way the room is watched and pick the right speed — cross unremarked",
"failure": "you pick wrong: roll the clock, and whatever is watching now knows your pace",
"orElse": "cross without judging it: quick costs a clock roll, quiet costs two Turns"
}
}
],
@@ -405,6 +405,50 @@
"eyeholes bored through a wall at three different heights",
"a lamp set facing the wall so it lights nothing but stone",
"dust disturbed in a wide circle, as though someone turned slowly on the spot"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "a half-dozen of the Host",
"doing": "holding a bow, waiting to be acknowledged",
"onArrival": "they hold it deeper, and wait longer",
"because": "nobody has returned the courtesy in three centuries",
"offer": "acknowledge them properly and be received as court"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host at a mirror",
"doing": "describing its own reflection aloud, incorrectly",
"onArrival": "it asks you to confirm the description",
"because": "it was taught to say what the Lord wished to hear",
"offer": "agree, and it will show you what it is not allowed to look at"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody visible",
"doing": "something is turning to follow you, one mirror at a time",
"onArrival": "the movement stops when you look directly at it",
"because": "it may only move unobserved",
"offer": "stare it down — hold your gaze and it cannot advance"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber",
"doing": "covering mirrors with a torn shirt, working fast",
"onArrival": "they hiss at you to keep your face down",
"because": "they have learned what being seen twice costs",
"offer": "help, and they will tell you which rooms are watched"
},
{
"occupant": "two of the Host",
"doing": "presenting an absent noble to an empty chair",
"onArrival": "they present you instead",
"because": "the ceremony cannot be abandoned, only redirected",
"offer": "accept the presentation and the barrow treats you as its guest of honour"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber",
"doing": "sketching the room, badly, by feel",
"onArrival": "they ask you not to look at the drawing",
"because": "they have learned that what gets looked at gets noticed",
"offer": "leave the sketch alone and they will mark your map with the watched rooms"
}
]
},
"naming": {
@@ -557,6 +601,50 @@
"a gravestone laid face-down, which takes two people",
"chalk marks numbering the doorways, not old",
"a name spoken so recently the air still feels used"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "one of the Host with a ledger",
"doing": "reading the roll of the dead aloud, and has reached the Ns",
"onArrival": "it asks for your names, politely, pen ready",
"because": "the roll must be complete or the reading starts again",
"offer": "give a name — any name — and it will read you the entry beside it"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody",
"doing": "something is calling a name in the next room, patiently",
"onArrival": "it starts calling yours instead",
"because": "it learned your names when you were announced",
"offer": "answer once and it will lead you somewhere; answer twice and it will not stop"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber",
"doing": "chiselling their own name over an older one",
"onArrival": "they stop, caught, and try to look casual",
"because": "they think a name on the wall means the barrow lets you leave",
"offer": "tell them the truth for a share of what they have found"
},
{
"occupant": "three of the Host",
"doing": "searching for someone by name, room to room",
"onArrival": "they ask whether you are that person",
"because": "the summons was never fulfilled",
"offer": "say yes and be taken directly to whoever wanted them"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host, silent",
"doing": "holding a nameplate out, waiting for someone to claim it",
"onArrival": "it offers the plate to each of you in turn",
"because": "the post has been vacant and the household needs it filled",
"offer": "take the plate and the household obeys you — and expects you to stay"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody",
"doing": "a name is being written on the wall, letter by letter, as you watch",
"onArrival": "the letters stop",
"because": "the barrow is recording who came in",
"offer": "finish the name yourself with something false and it is accepted"
}
]
},
"voices": {
@@ -625,10 +713,10 @@
"cue": "two doors, and behind one a voice giving instructions to nobody",
"cost": "the quiet door is longer; the voice would tell you exactly where to go",
"resolve": {
"roll": null,
"success": null,
"failure": null,
"orElse": "a pure choice: the voice names the route exactly, the quiet door takes one Turn"
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you answer the voice as a subordinate would — it tells you the route AND answers one question about what lies on it, without taking you into its service",
"failure": "you engage and it takes that as enlistment: it will give you orders for the rest of the delve, and the first is now",
"orElse": "take the quiet door and never speak to it: one extra Turn, no obligation"
}
},
{
@@ -646,7 +734,7 @@
"cost": "guessing costs a Bane per attempt; the long way costs two Turns",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "the fiction gives you the word — the unfinished order, the wax, the name on the tube all point at it",
"success": "the word is already in your notes. It is in something you passed earlier — *{priorCue}*. Say it and the door opens; if nobody wrote it down, the roll tells them now",
"failure": "you have the shape of it but not the word: one more attempt, or take the long way",
"orElse": "the long way: two Turns, no guessing, no Banes"
}
@@ -709,6 +797,50 @@
"a door braced shut from within by furniture",
"boot-prints that stop mid-corridor and do not resume",
"someone has been talking here, and stopped when you arrived"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "three of the Host in servants' dress",
"doing": "carrying out an errand that has no destination left",
"onArrival": "they stop, and wait to be told what to do",
"because": "the order was never rescinded and nobody outranks it",
"offer": "tell them where to go, and they go"
},
{
"occupant": "a single figure at a speaking-tube",
"doing": "reporting, at length, to a listener who died first",
"onArrival": "it pauses mid-sentence and asks whether you are the reply",
"because": "it has never once been answered",
"offer": "answer as the listener would, and learn what it has been reporting"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody — but the bells are moving",
"doing": "a summons is being rung, room by room, coming closer",
"onArrival": "the bell in this room begins",
"because": "something has called for service and the house is obliging",
"offer": "answer the bell yourself before whatever is meant to arrives"
},
{
"occupant": "two of the Host",
"doing": "arguing, soundlessly, over an instruction each was given",
"onArrival": "both turn to you as the obvious arbiter",
"because": "the orders contradict and neither may disobey",
"offer": "rule between them — the loser stands down and the winner is yours for a scene"
},
{
"occupant": "a living grave-robber",
"doing": "repeating a phrase over and over, trying to get the intonation right",
"onArrival": "they go quiet and put their back to the wall",
"because": "they heard the password and cannot say it correctly",
"offer": "trade something for the phrase, badly remembered"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host, kneeling",
"doing": "waiting for an instruction that was promised and never came",
"onArrival": "it addresses the first of you to speak as its superior",
"because": "it was told to await further orders and did",
"offer": "give it the instruction and it will carry it out to the letter, wherever that leads"
}
]
},
"keeping": {
@@ -767,10 +899,10 @@
"cue": "a bed, made, and a body-shaped hollow that has not filled in",
"cost": "lie in it and you rest fully; you also stop, and the barrow prefers that",
"resolve": {
"roll": null,
"success": null,
"failure": null,
"orElse": "a pure choice: rest fully and lose a Turn, or press on tired"
"roll": "Wits 1",
"success": "you see what the hollow is for and rest without lying in it — regain Grit, lose a Turn",
"failure": "someone lies in it: they rest fully, and the barrow now counts them among what it keeps",
"orElse": "press on tired: no rest, no cost, no attention"
}
},
{
@@ -858,6 +990,50 @@
"one preserved thing removed, leaving a clean shape in the dust",
"a fire built recently, of furniture that was three centuries old",
"rot, in exactly one place, spreading"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "one of the Host",
"doing": "trimming a lamp that has never gone out",
"onArrival": "it will not stop, and speaks without looking up",
"because": "the task is what has kept it from ending",
"offer": "take the task from it, and it will finally rest — and tell you something first"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody",
"doing": "a room is undoing your presence — footprints filling, dust returning",
"onArrival": "it works faster",
"because": "nothing here is permitted to change, including evidence of you",
"offer": "leave something deliberately and see whether it is allowed to remain"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber, badly hurt",
"doing": "refusing to bleed, and frightened by it",
"onArrival": "they grab you and ask what is wrong with them",
"because": "the barrow has begun keeping them too",
"offer": "carry them out and the wound resumes; leave them and they stay perfect"
},
{
"occupant": "two of the Host",
"doing": "setting a table for a meal that is always about to happen",
"onArrival": "they lay two more places",
"because": "the household was told to expect guests, and does",
"offer": "sit and eat — full restoration, and the barrow adds you to its inventory"
},
{
"occupant": "something young",
"doing": "waiting, exactly as instructed, and has been",
"onArrival": "it asks whether it is allowed to stop now",
"because": "nobody ever came back to release it",
"offer": "release it, and it gives you what it was guarding"
},
{
"occupant": "two of the Host",
"doing": "repairing something that is not damaged",
"onArrival": "they set the work down and wait for inspection",
"because": "the standing order was to maintain, and there is nothing left to maintain",
"offer": "find them a genuine fault and they will fix a door you cannot"
}
]
},
"display": {
@@ -1010,6 +1186,50 @@
"the best piece gone and a worse one moved into its place",
"a trophy defaced with a knife, thoroughly",
"sacking and rope left behind by people who meant to carry a lot"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "two of the Host",
"doing": "polishing a piece that is already flawless",
"onArrival": "they turn it toward you to be admired",
"because": "it was never admired enough while the Lord lived",
"offer": "admire it properly and they will show you the better one"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber",
"doing": "weighing two trophies, unable to choose",
"onArrival": "they ask which is worth more, genuinely",
"because": "they can carry one and have been here an hour deciding",
"offer": "decide for them and take the other"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody",
"doing": "a case is being restocked — items arriving in it, one at a time",
"onArrival": "a space clears, sized for something you carry",
"because": "the collection is still being completed",
"offer": "contribute, and the barrow counts you a benefactor"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host",
"doing": "comparing every visitor against a portrait and recording the result",
"onArrival": "it begins comparing you",
"because": "the Lord required to know he was the finest thing here",
"offer": "lose the comparison deliberately and it relaxes entirely"
},
{
"occupant": "three of the Host",
"doing": "setting out gifts nobody will open",
"onArrival": "they present one to you",
"because": "the giving was the point; the opening never was",
"offer": "accept without opening it, and they will carry your burdens"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host",
"doing": "dusting an empty plinth with great care",
"onArrival": "it asks whether you have brought the replacement",
"because": "the finest piece was stolen and the post has been vacant since",
"offer": "give it anything at all and it treats you as the restorer of the collection"
}
]
},
"company": {
@@ -1058,10 +1278,10 @@
"cue": "a chair drawn out, and a place laid, and time to sit",
"cost": "sitting costs a Turn and buys the Host's goodwill entirely",
"resolve": {
"roll": null,
"success": null,
"failure": null,
"orElse": "a pure choice: sit and lose a Turn for the Host's goodwill entirely, or press on"
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you sit, are courteous, and leave — the Host's goodwill for the whole delve, one Turn spent",
"failure": "you sit too long: +1 Bane, and they expect you at every table from here",
"orElse": "walk past the setting: no goodwill, no obligation"
}
},
{
@@ -1162,6 +1382,50 @@
"a door tied open with a belt, so it could not close",
"someone has been counting the dead — tally marks by the entrance",
"a name carved beside another, joining them, badly"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "a dozen of the Host",
"doing": "sitting in a circle, facing one empty chair",
"onArrival": "they shuffle round to make room for you",
"because": "the gathering may not end while anyone remains",
"offer": "sit, and they will answer anything while you do"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host",
"doing": "holding a door open for someone who is not coming",
"onArrival": "it looks relieved and gestures you through",
"because": "it was told to wait and hold the door",
"offer": "walk through and it may finally follow — it will not leave you afterwards"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber, alone",
"doing": "talking steadily to a companion who is not there",
"onArrival": "they introduce you to the empty air",
"because": "the barrow does not like people leaving, and one of them did",
"offer": "play along and they will guide you; correct them and they stop speaking"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody",
"doing": "a second set of footsteps is keeping pace with yours",
"onArrival": "they stop when you stop, close",
"because": "something attached itself in an earlier room",
"offer": "acknowledge it and it becomes useful; ignore it and it becomes insistent"
},
{
"occupant": "two of the Host, hand in hand",
"doing": "refusing to be parted to let anyone past",
"onArrival": "they look at you and do not move",
"because": "they were separated once and will not be again",
"offer": "find them a way to pass together and they open every door ahead"
},
{
"occupant": "three of the Host",
"doing": "laying out a game for four",
"onArrival": "they look up and count you",
"because": "the fourth left and the game has never finished",
"offer": "play a round and they will tell you how the fourth got out"
}
]
},
"confession": {
@@ -1311,6 +1575,50 @@
"someone has answered the question aloud, and the echo has not settled",
"a knife left on the ledge where hands should rest",
"fresh ash in a place designed for keeping things"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "one of the Host at a screen",
"doing": "hearing a confession from nobody, and nodding",
"onArrival": "it slides the panel and waits for yours",
"because": "it may not leave the box until someone is absolved",
"offer": "confess something true and it will absolve you — and tell you what it heard last"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber",
"doing": "writing a confession they cannot finish",
"onArrival": "they ask you how to word it",
"because": "they think the barrow will let them go if they admit it properly",
"offer": "help them word it and they will hand over what they took"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody",
"doing": "the room is repeating a confession, quietly, on a loop",
"onArrival": "it changes to your voice",
"because": "it keeps the last honest thing said in it",
"offer": "say something true and worse, and it will let you take the old one away"
},
{
"occupant": "three of the Host",
"doing": "kneeling in a row, waiting to be heard",
"onArrival": "they turn, hopefully, toward you",
"because": "the confessor died and nobody replaced him",
"offer": "hear one of them, and the rest will stand aside for you permanently"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host with a scale",
"doing": "weighing small objects against a feather, all night",
"onArrival": "it holds out its hand for something of yours",
"because": "the Lord wanted to know he was not the heaviest thing here",
"offer": "give it something that matters and it will weigh a door open"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host",
"doing": "reciting the same admission, over and over, getting no answer",
"onArrival": "it stops and asks whether that was sufficient",
"because": "nobody has ever told it yes",
"offer": "tell it yes and it will open the way it has been guarding out of gratitude"
}
]
},
"precedence": {
@@ -1389,10 +1697,10 @@
"cue": "a stair where the order of descent is visibly recorded",
"cost": "whoever goes last is remembered as having gone last",
"resolve": {
"roll": null,
"success": null,
"failure": null,
"orElse": "a pure choice: whoever goes last is recorded as having gone last, and the Host treats them accordingly"
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you settle the order before you descend and the record reads as a party, not a rabble",
"failure": "you descend in a scramble: whoever is recorded last is treated as least by the Host from here",
"orElse": "descend however you like and accept the record as it falls"
}
},
{
@@ -1463,6 +1771,50 @@
"the queue disturbed — three of the dead pushed aside",
"a numbered flagstone lifted and not replaced",
"a seat at the head of the hall dragged back, as if to sit in"
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "a queue of the Host",
"doing": "waiting to pass a door, in strict order, not moving",
"onArrival": "the queue opens a gap at exactly your rank",
"because": "the first in line is waiting for someone who never arrived",
"offer": "take the gap and go with them; take the front and they will remember it"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host",
"doing": "reading out an order of precedence to an empty hall",
"onArrival": "it pauses and asks where you fall in it",
"because": "the list must be read in full before anyone may proceed",
"offer": "name your own place in the order and it will be honoured, exactly"
},
{
"occupant": "two of the Host",
"doing": "each refusing to go through a door second",
"onArrival": "they both look at you to break it",
"because": "neither may be seen to yield",
"offer": "rule between them and the loser attaches to you as a lesser"
},
{
"occupant": "a living robber",
"doing": "prising number-plates off the flagstones",
"onArrival": "they freeze, then offer you one",
"because": "they worked out the order is what keeps the doors shut",
"offer": "take a plate and go first anywhere — the Host will hate you for it"
},
{
"occupant": "nobody",
"doing": "a procession is passing through, unhurried, and you are in its way",
"onArrival": "it does not stop or go round",
"because": "it has right of way and has had for three centuries",
"offer": "stand aside and be counted courteous; join it and be counted one of them"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Host with a herald's staff",
"doing": "announcing arrivals to an empty stair",
"onArrival": "it announces you, inventing a rank",
"because": "the post requires arrivals and there have been none",
"offer": "accept the invented rank and the barrow will treat you as it"
}
]
}
},
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@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ export function generateDelve(params = {}) {
const decisionPool = motifPack.decisions?.length ? motifPack.decisions : (pack.decisions ?? []);
const featurePool = motifPack.features?.length ? motifPack.features : (pack.features ?? []);
const features = deal(featurePool, plan.areas.length, 'features', pack.features ?? []);
// A room must arrive as a place with something happening in it. Without this an area is a
// prompt plus a resolver: the review's verdict was "choices attached to prompts, not spaces
// that naturally produce play".
const situations = deal(motifPack.situations ?? [], plan.areas.length, 'situations');
const decisions = deal(decisionPool, plan.areas.length, 'decisions', pack.decisions ?? []);
// Temptations are dealt across the areas that carry a hoard, for the same reason as decisions:
@@ -56,11 +60,22 @@ export function generateDelve(params = {}) {
const built = plan.areas.map((planned, i) => {
const beat = baneBeatFor(planned, pressure, rng.derive('banebeat', String(planned.index)));
if (beat) pressure.bankBane('(offered)', beat, planned.index);
const area = buildArea({ skeleton, planned, pack, pressure, rng, baneBeat: beat, feature: features[i], decision: decisions[i], temptation: planned.hoard ? temptations[tIdx++] : null });
const area = buildArea({ skeleton, planned, pack, pressure, rng, baneBeat: beat, feature: features[i], decision: decisions[i], situation: situations[i], temptation: planned.hoard ? temptations[tIdx++] : null });
area.fallback = fallbackRoute(area, skeleton);
return area;
});
// Resolve {priorCue} against a cue from an earlier area, so an investigation route points at
// something the table has already been shown rather than granting the answer by fiat.
for (let i = 0; i < built.length; i++) {
const rv = built[i].decision?.resolve;
if (!rv?.success?.includes('{priorCue}')) continue;
const prior = built.slice(0, i).flatMap(a => a.cueFragments).filter(Boolean);
const pick = prior.length ? rng.derive('priorcue', String(i)).pick(prior) : null;
built[i] = { ...built[i], decision: { ...built[i].decision, resolve: { ...rv,
success: rv.success.replace('{priorCue}', pick ?? 'what the approach already showed you') } } };
}
const endFs = skeleton.foreshadow.find(f => f.role === 'ending');
return {
core/render.mjs
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@@ -70,6 +70,14 @@ export function renderMarkdown(d) {
L.push('**Cue** — *assemble aloud; these are fragments, not read-aloud text*');
for (const c of a.cueFragments) L.push(`- ${c}`);
L.push('');
if (a.situation) {
const S = a.situation;
L.push(`**The situation.** ${S.occupant} — ${S.doing}.`);
L.push(`**When you walk in:** ${S.onArrival}.`);
L.push(`- *Why (GM):* ${S.because}`);
L.push(`- *What it offers:* ${S.offer}`);
L.push('');
}
L.push(`**Truth.** ${a.truth}`);
L.push('');
if (a.clue.automatic) {
core/test.mjs
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@@ -97,8 +97,34 @@ for (const m of Object.values(pack.motifs)) {
}
}
t('every decision has a resolution', noResolve === 0, `${noResolve} missing`);
t('every decision offers an attempt, not just a pick', (() => { let n = 0; for (const m of Object.values(pack.motifs)) for (const dec of m.decisions ?? []) if (!dec.resolve?.roll) n++; return n === 0; })(), 'a decision with no roll is a menu, not a situation');
t('no decision gates progress without an alternative', noEscape === 0, `${noEscape} gated — playtest 1 died on one`);
t('every rolled decision states success AND failure', halfSpecified === 0, `${halfSpecified} half-specified`);
// {priorCue} must always be substituted — an unresolved token would print a literal placeholder
let unresolvedToken = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
const d = generateDelve({ pack, seed: `tok-${i}`, areas: 6 });
for (const a of d.areas) if (a.decision?.resolve?.success?.includes('{')) unresolvedToken++;
}
t('no unresolved {tokens} reach the page', unresolvedToken === 0, `${unresolvedToken}`);
// every area must arrive as a place, and no situation may repeat inside one delve
let noSit = 0, dupSit = 0, offMotifSit = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
const d = generateDelve({ pack, seed: `sit-${i}`, areas: 6 });
const m = pack.motifs[d.skeleton.motif.id];
const ids = [];
for (const a of d.areas) {
if (!a.situation?.occupant) { noSit++; continue; }
ids.push(a.situation.occupant + a.situation.doing);
if (!(m.situations ?? []).some(x => x.occupant === a.situation.occupant && x.doing === a.situation.doing)) offMotifSit++;
}
if (new Set(ids).size !== ids.length) dupSit++;
}
t('every area arrives as a situation', noSit === 0, `${noSit} bare areas`);
t('situations come from the delve\'s own motif', offMotifSit === 0, `${offMotifSit} off-motif`);
t('no repeated situation inside one delve', dupSit === 0, `${dupSit}/40`);
console.log(`\n${pass} passed, ${fail} failed`);
process.exit(fail ? 1 : 0);
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@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ On success it was obeyed, and The Silent Host will not open hostilities first.
- servants' bones arranged as though mid-errand
- someone has been talking here, and stopped when you arrived
**The situation.** three of the Host in servants' dress — carrying out an errand that has no destination left.
**When you walk in:** they stop, and wait to be told what to do.
- *Why (GM):* the order was never rescinded and nobody outranks it
- *What it offers:* tell them where to go, and they go
**Truth.** this is how the place was ordered, and it still is. The Patient Lord bought a household from those with nothing left, so that someone would always obey.
**The clue is automatic:** servants' bones arranged as though mid-errand — and it was done deliberately.
@@ -74,13 +79,21 @@ On success it was obeyed, and The Silent Host will not open hostilities first.
- orders scratched into the floor, the last one unfinished
- a door braced shut from within by furniture
**The situation.** a living grave-robber — repeating a phrase over and over, trying to get the intonation right.
**When you walk in:** they go quiet and put their back to the wall.
- *Why (GM):* they heard the password and cannot say it correctly
- *What it offers:* trade something for the phrase, badly remembered
**Truth.** the office is still being performed, for someone who is no longer served by it. The Patient Lord bought a household from those with nothing left, so that someone would always obey.
**The clue is automatic:** orders scratched into the floor, the last one unfinished — and it was done deliberately.
[VANITY: Observation — 1 success] buys who did it, and roughly when
**The decision.** two doors, and behind one a voice giving instructions to nobody — *the quiet door is longer; the voice would tell you exactly where to go*
- **Or simply:** a pure choice: the voice names the route exactly, the quiet door takes one Turn
- **Attempt it:** `[VANITY: Poise 2]`
- **Success:** you answer the voice as a subordinate would — it tells you the route AND answers one question about what lies on it, without taking you into its service
- **Failure:** you engage and it takes that as enlistment: it will give you orders for the rest of the delve, and the first is now
- **Or simply:** take the quiet door and never speak to it: one extra Turn, no obligation
**Encounter — fight.** 1 Ghoul and 2 Skeletons
@@ -113,6 +126,11 @@ On success it was obeyed, and The Silent Host will not open hostilities first.
- a hall where your own voice arrives before you speak
- an order half-scratched out and rewritten by a different hand
**The situation.** nobody — but the bells are moving — a summons is being rung, room by room, coming closer.
**When you walk in:** the bell in this room begins.
- *Why (GM):* something has called for service and the house is obliging
- *What it offers:* answer the bell yourself before whatever is meant to arrives
**Truth.** here the want is explicit — the place asks something of whoever enters. The Patient Lord bought a household from those with nothing left, so that someone would always obey.
**The clue is automatic:** a hall where your own voice arrives before you speak — and it was done deliberately.
@@ -140,6 +158,11 @@ On success it was obeyed, and The Silent Host will not open hostilities first.
- an instruction repeated until the stone gave out
- boot-prints that stop mid-corridor and do not resume
**The situation.** a single figure at a speaking-tube — reporting, at length, to a listener who died first.
**When you walk in:** it pauses mid-sentence and asks whether you are the reply.
- *Why (GM):* it has never once been answered
- *What it offers:* answer as the listener would, and learn what it has been reporting
**Truth.** this is the damage the want did to those who had to satisfy it. The Patient Lord bought a household from those with nothing left, so that someone would always obey.
**The clue is automatic:** an instruction repeated until the stone gave out — and it was done deliberately.
@@ -147,7 +170,7 @@ On success it was obeyed, and The Silent Host will not open hostilities first.
**The decision.** a door that opens to a spoken password nobody living knows — *guessing costs a Bane per attempt; the long way costs two Turns*
- **Attempt it:** `[VANITY: Wits 2]`
- **Success:** the fiction gives you the word — the unfinished order, the wax, the name on the tube all point at it
- **Success:** the word is already in your notes. It is in something you passed earlier — *someone has been talking here, and stopped when you arrived*. Say it and the door opens; if nobody wrote it down, the roll tells them now
- **Failure:** you have the shape of it but not the word: one more attempt, or take the long way
- **Or simply:** the long way: two Turns, no guessing, no Banes
@@ -172,6 +195,11 @@ On success it was obeyed, and The Silent Host will not open hostilities first.
- a key that fits nothing here
- wax jammed into a speaking-tube, still soft
**The situation.** one of the Host, kneeling — waiting for an instruction that was promised and never came.
**When you walk in:** it addresses the first of you to speak as its superior.
- *Why (GM):* it was told to await further orders and did
- *What it offers:* give it the instruction and it will carry it out to the letter, wherever that leads
**Truth.** the thing the whole barrow is arranged around is close. The Patient Lord bought a household from those with nothing left, so that someone would always obey.
**The clue is automatic:** a key that fits nothing here — and it was done deliberately.