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Fourteen EGA screens for MRPGI: nano banana backgrounds squeezed into the engine's 160x168 double-wide-pixel frame, hand-pixelled item sprites, the full RSD flag chain (poster frenzy -> yard door secret -> roof -> side door -> clerk favours -> back-room seam -> payment -> notice -> BeckyWall dispersal), the five-word true ending, and two scripted test paths (golden win + gate locks), both green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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108 lines
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# MORPQUEST — Record Store Day
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### A Beyond Morp graphical adaptation for MRPGI
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You're on a quick cat-food run. Your Uncle's list is in the glovebox. The record
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shop's front door is a wall of Taylor Swift superfans. Morp is not cruel; Morp
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is accurate.
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Adapted from the Beyond Morp text adventure (RSD storyline). Fourteen screens,
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one day, five words, one white label.
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## The map (room / exits N,E,S,W — as built, matching the art)
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```
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[4 Toilet]--(W door)--[3 Alley]--(N)--[5 Yard]--(E, vine)--[6 Roof]
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(S) (N, side door)
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[0 Car]-(E)-[1 Car Park]-(N)-[2 Entrance] [7 Kitchen]
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(E->alley) |
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(N)
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[9 Rock]-(E)-[8 Shop Floor]-(E)-[10 Dance]-(N)-[11 Listening]
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(N)
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[12 Counter]-(N, beads)-[13 Back Room]
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```
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| # | room | N | E | S | W | music |
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|---|------|---|---|---|---|-------|
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| 0 | Your Car (interior) | – | 1 | – | – | calm |
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| 1 | Car Park | 2 | – | – | 0 | calm |
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| 2 | Shop Entrance (BeckyWall) | – | 3 | 1 | – | tense |
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| 3 | Alley — "Scenic Rim" | 5 | – | 2 | 4 | eerie |
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| 4 | Toilet — "Pacific Rim" | – | – | 3 | – | spooky |
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| 5 | Yard behind shop | 7 | 6 | 3 | – | eerie |
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| 6 | Roof — "Above the Rim" | – | – | – | 5 | calm |
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| 7 | Kitchen | 8 | – | 5 | – | tense |
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| 8 | Shop Floor (hub) | 12 | 10 | 7 | 9 | jolly |
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| 9 | Rock Aisle | – | 8 | – | – | jolly |
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| 10 | Dance Racks | 11 | – | – | 8 | jolly |
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| 11 | Listening Station | – | – | 10 | – | calm |
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| 12 | Counter | 13 | – | 8 | – | tense |
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| 13 | Back Room | – | – | 12 | – | spooky |
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Physical access is open (the engine has no flag-gated exits); progression is
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gated Infocom-style through flags, dialogue, and the win condition.
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## Main chain (flags in order)
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1. Car: take `paperclip` (under seat). **seatbelt** `needs paperclip` → `seatbelt-freed`.
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Take `car-keys`, `wallet`, `45-adapter`, `tote-bag`. (Kebab: examine-only warning.)
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2. Entrance: Becky Theologian dialogue → ask which variant is canon → `poster-frenzy`
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(the hive shreds a Taylor poster).
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3. Entrance: **shredded poster fragments** use `requires poster-frenzy` → `knows-yard-door-secret`
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(fragments spell YARD DOOR SECRET).
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4. Toilet: take `elastic-band` (cupboard). Yard: **vinyl vine** use `requires knows-yard-door-secret`
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→ `noticed-vine` ("It isn't a ladder. But it's climbable.") — narratively unlocks the roof (east edge).
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5. Roof: **door-shaped absence** use → `seen-door-outline`.
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6. Entrance: Dave dialogue, choice gated on `seen-door-outline` → `side-door-open`
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("Yeah nah. That was NOT there." He shoulders it anyway.)
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7. Kitchen: take `consolation-lollipop` (sink bench, under a soggy flyer).
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8. Listening Station: **turntable** `needs 45-adapter` → `station-working`.
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**sad balloon** `needs elastic-band` → `eyepatch-made`.
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9. Shop Floor: take `clean-sleeve` (by the crates). **half-sleeved record** `needs clean-sleeve`
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→ `shop-tidied` ("Clerk notices. Pretends not to. But it counts.")
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10. Counter: Clerk dialogue — favour 1 gated on `shop-tidied` → `clerk-warm`; favour 2 gated
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on `eyepatch-made` (node reachable once warm) → `back-room-open` ("The beaded curtain is
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no longer purely decorative.")
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11. Back Room: **hidden seam** use `requires back-room-open` → `found-grail`; take
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`white-label` + `delay-notice` (they were "always there"; the seam look points at them).
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12. Counter: **card terminal** `needs wallet` → `paid`.
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13. Entrance: **notice board** `needs delay-notice` → `notice-posted`. Becky Crier dialogue:
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read-the-notice choice gated on `notice-posted`, then lollipop choice → `beckies-dispersed`.
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14. Car: **ignition** `requires beckies-dispersed`, `needs car-keys`, **wins**.
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## True-ending layer — the five words (strict order via flag chain)
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`use` each surface; each requires the previous word:
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- Car **rear-view mirror** → `word-rsd` ("RSD", scratched in the plastic)
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- Toilet **lipstick mirror** `requires word-rsd` → `word-first`
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- Kitchen **greasy splashback** `requires word-first` → `word-global`
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- Listening **spinning record** `requires word-global` (and station fixed, narratively) → `word-ambassador`
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- Counter **receipt spike** `requires word-ambassador` → `word-version`
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Becky Crier's final node: bonus choice "SAY THE WORDS" `requires word-version` →
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`curse-broken` → the hive blinks awake ("…why are we here?" The door is a door again.)
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## Side quests
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- **S1 Rock Aisle:** take `mystery-disc` from the chud box; **yellow Daly-Wilson sleeve**
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`needs mystery-disc` → `break-ancestor-revealed`; Clerk dialogue bonus choice.
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- **S2 Dance Racks:** **overstuffed crate** `needs tote-bag` → `made-space`; DJ Someguy
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dialogue choice gated on it ("Keep your face normal. Your face is loud.")
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- **S3 Mirror liturgy** is the word chain above.
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## Voice rules (from the tone bible)
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Second person, present tense, parser-deadpan. Short declaratives; the last beat
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turns. Colon-verdicts. Parenthetical counter-voice. Morp is accurate, not cruel.
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Never zany, never explains a joke, never punches down, no exclamation marks in
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narration.
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## Build pipeline
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- `tools/gen_art.py` — nano banana (OpenRouter) backgrounds + NPC sprites,
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squeezed to 160×168 (the GUI shows 2×-wide pixels, so art is generated wide).
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- `tools/gen_items.py` — deterministic tiny item sprites (PIL, hand-placed pixels).
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- Engine quantizes PNGs to EGA on load; walls/priority painted as strokes over the art.
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- Playtest: `mrpgi-headless --script tools/playtest.jsonl --game .`
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