# MORPQUEST — Record Store Day
### A Beyond Morp graphical adaptation for MRPGI

You're on a quick cat-food run. Your Uncle's list is in the glovebox. The record
shop's front door is a wall of Taylor Swift superfans. Morp is not cruel; Morp
is accurate.

Adapted from the Beyond Morp text adventure (RSD storyline). Fourteen screens,
one day, five words, one white label.

## The map (room / exits N,E,S,W — as built, matching the art)

```
[4 Toilet]--(W door)--[3 Alley]--(N)--[5 Yard]--(E, vine)--[6 Roof]
                          |               |
                         (S)            (N, side door)
                          |               |
[0 Car]-(E)-[1 Car Park]-(N)-[2 Entrance]  [7 Kitchen]
                              (E->alley)        |
                                               (N)
                                                |
              [9 Rock]-(E)-[8 Shop Floor]-(E)-[10 Dance]-(N)-[11 Listening]
                                 |
                                (N)
                                 |
                          [12 Counter]-(N, beads)-[13 Back Room]
```

| # | room | N | E | S | W | music |
|---|------|---|---|---|---|-------|
| 0 | Your Car (interior) | – | 1 | – | – | calm |
| 1 | Car Park | 2 | – | – | 0 | calm |
| 2 | Shop Entrance (BeckyWall) | – | 3 | 1 | – | tense |
| 3 | Alley — "Scenic Rim" | 5 | – | 2 | 4 | eerie |
| 4 | Toilet — "Pacific Rim" | – | – | 3 | – | spooky |
| 5 | Yard behind shop | 7 | 6 | 3 | – | eerie |
| 6 | Roof — "Above the Rim" | – | – | – | 5 | calm |
| 7 | Kitchen | 8 | – | 5 | – | tense |
| 8 | Shop Floor (hub) | 12 | 10 | 7 | 9 | jolly |
| 9 | Rock Aisle | – | 8 | – | – | jolly |
| 10 | Dance Racks | 11 | – | – | 8 | jolly |
| 11 | Listening Station | – | – | 10 | – | calm |
| 12 | Counter | 13 | – | 8 | – | tense |
| 13 | Back Room | – | – | 12 | – | spooky |

Progression is gated through flags, dialogue, and the win condition — plus
four real flag-gated exits (engine feature added for this game): the car door
(`seatbelt-freed`), the kitchen side door (`side-door-open`), the vine climb
(`noticed-vine`), and the beaded curtain (`back-room-open`).

**Scoring:** 250 points on offer (`max_score` in game.json), Sierra-style —
takes, first successful uses, and dialogue-choice flag flips all pay out.
**Deaths:** the mouldy kebab (eat it despite two warnings), and improvising
the five words at the hive (the Becky-grue). Death restarts the day.
**Vanishings:** the poster fragments exist only after the frenzy
(`visible_flag`), and the Beckies leave the entrance for good after dispersal
(`hidden_by_flag`). The lollipop is consumed when given (`consumes`).

## Main chain (flags in order)

1. Car: take `paperclip` (under seat). **seatbelt** `needs paperclip` → `seatbelt-freed`.
   Take `car-keys`, `wallet`, `45-adapter`, `tote-bag`. (Kebab: examine-only warning.)
2. Entrance: Becky Theologian dialogue → ask which variant is canon → `poster-frenzy`
   (the hive shreds a Taylor poster).
3. Entrance: **shredded poster fragments** use `requires poster-frenzy` → `knows-yard-door-secret`
   (fragments spell YARD DOOR SECRET).
4. Toilet: take `elastic-band` (cupboard). Yard: **vinyl vine** use `requires knows-yard-door-secret`
   → `noticed-vine` ("It isn't a ladder. But it's climbable.") — narratively unlocks the roof (east edge).
5. Roof: **door-shaped absence** use → `seen-door-outline`.
6. Entrance: Dave dialogue, choice gated on `seen-door-outline` → `side-door-open`
   ("Yeah nah. That was NOT there." He shoulders it anyway.)
7. Kitchen: take `consolation-lollipop` (sink bench, under a soggy flyer).
8. Listening Station: **turntable** `needs 45-adapter` → `station-working`.
   **sad balloon** `needs elastic-band` → `eyepatch-made`.
9. Shop Floor: take `clean-sleeve` (by the crates). **half-sleeved record** `needs clean-sleeve`
   → `shop-tidied` ("Clerk notices. Pretends not to. But it counts.")
10. Counter: Clerk dialogue — favour 1 gated on `shop-tidied` → `clerk-warm`; favour 2 gated
    on `eyepatch-made` (node reachable once warm) → `back-room-open` ("The beaded curtain is
    no longer purely decorative.")
11. Back Room: **hidden seam** use `requires back-room-open` → `found-grail`; take
    `white-label` + `delay-notice` (they were "always there"; the seam look points at them).
12. Counter: **card terminal** `needs wallet` → `paid`.
13. Entrance: **notice board** `needs delay-notice` → `notice-posted`. Becky Crier dialogue:
    read-the-notice choice gated on `notice-posted`, then lollipop choice → `beckies-dispersed`.
14. Car: **ignition** `requires beckies-dispersed`, `needs car-keys`, **wins**.

## True-ending layer — the five words (strict order via flag chain)

`use` each surface; each requires the previous word:
- Car **rear-view mirror** → `word-rsd` ("RSD", scratched in the plastic)
- Toilet **lipstick mirror** `requires word-rsd` → `word-first`
- Kitchen **greasy splashback** `requires word-first` → `word-global`
- Listening **spinning record** `requires word-global` (and station fixed, narratively) → `word-ambassador`
- Counter **receipt spike** `requires word-ambassador` → `word-version`

Becky Crier's final node: bonus choice "SAY THE WORDS" `requires word-version` →
`curse-broken` → the hive blinks awake ("…why are we here?" The door is a door again.)

## Side quests
- **S1 Rock Aisle:** take `mystery-disc` from the chud box; **yellow Daly-Wilson sleeve**
  `needs mystery-disc` → `break-ancestor-revealed`; Clerk dialogue bonus choice.
- **S2 Dance Racks:** **overstuffed crate** `needs tote-bag` → `made-space`; DJ Someguy
  dialogue choice gated on it ("Keep your face normal. Your face is loud.")
- **S3 Mirror liturgy** is the word chain above.

## Voice rules (from the tone bible)
Second person, present tense, parser-deadpan. Short declaratives; the last beat
turns. Colon-verdicts. Parenthetical counter-voice. Morp is accurate, not cruel.
Never zany, never explains a joke, never punches down, no exclamation marks in
narration.

## Build pipeline
- `tools/gen_art.py` — nano banana (OpenRouter) backgrounds + NPC sprites,
  squeezed to 160×168 (the GUI shows 2×-wide pixels, so art is generated wide).
- `tools/gen_items.py` — deterministic tiny item sprites (PIL, hand-placed pixels).
- Engine quantizes PNGs to EGA on load; walls/priority painted as strokes over the art.
- Playtest: `mrpgi-headless --script tools/playtest.jsonl --game .`