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Book 3 - Scenes

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

The Void is a room with printed name "Nothing" and description "Nothing was here. Here was nothing. Senses were indistinct. We had a vague notion that this wasn't the first time"

When play begins:

dramatise "In the beginning all was void.";

dramatise "Aeons passed. [paragraph break]Within the void, a tiny cluster of thoughts appeared.";

dramatise "Aeons passed. [paragraph break]The thoughts swirled and slowly crystalised.";

dramatise "Aeons passed. [paragraph break]The thoughts started to become self-aware, but they were still indistinct.";

The Beginning is a scene.

The Beginning begins when play begins.

The Beginning ends when stars is concrete.

The Real Nothing is scenery in The Void with printed name "Nothing" and description "Nothing. [We] [can] sense nothing.Maybe if [we] concentrated?".

concentrating is an action applying to nothing.

Understand "concentrate" as concentrating.

Carry out concentrating:

say "We concentrated, but nothing happened".

Carry out concentrating during The Beginning:

now stars is concrete.

After printing a parser error during the beginning:

provide beginning hints.

Every turn during the beginning:

provide beginning hints.

To provide beginning hints:

if the real nothing has been examined:

if the knowtime of the real nothing is greater than 3:

say "What if we [bold type]concentrate[roman type] ?";

otherwise:

If the runtime of the beginning is greater than 5:

say "Maybe something like [bold type]examine nothing[roman type] ?";

otherwise if the runtime of the beginning is greater than 3:

say "The vague notions in our mind solidified slightly. Maybe the nothingness was less absolute than we thought. Closer examination might help."

When The Beginning ends:

dramatise "The void was getting brighter. [We] [can] now see light.";

dramatise "Light was everywhere. Literally everywhere. We could see, but we could see nothing.[paragraph break]Light was everywhere.";

dramatise "The light started fluctuating.[paragraph break]Dark patches appeared.";

dramatise "The light concentrated into tiny bright dots. [paragraph break]'Stars', we thought, although we didn't know why.";

now the player is in Starry Night.