MDP Script Rough Draft

(text-colour:purple)["The first part sounds like..."] [![Sing your song.|1st note]] [![Give the orange to a stranger.|1st note]] [![Open the addict door.|1st note]] //This sequence inspired by Puzzle inspired by this tutorial level password puzzle in Kentucky Route Zero: https://youtu.be/uhDaWwg5uCI?feature=shared&t=465 The three choice paths in this sequence are written to attract our top player types, from the design vision meetings - Expression, Fellowship, and Discovery. //

The structure of this is by design entirely free-form, and should have a broad 'net' allowing for a range of general inputs leading to ladel info, such as: Ask [x] about... - ladel Ask [x] about... - roland Ask [x] about... - problem Ask [x] about... - soup [[NPC directs PC to the (lost ladel) hidden in (location)]]

(text-colour:red)[Let me explain. At this rate, we're going to run out of tools, and if we don't have working tools, well...] (text-colour:red)[... that would be bad for everyone. We could use some help repairing the smithy. I have the bellows here. As they are, they're punctured and useless. Would you mind taking a look?] [![I would be happy to.]] [![Ask Taryn about...]]

(like in the shrouded path, use this to guide the LLM based on physical descriptions of each player for their description. Further info/guidance is in the culture docs in git.) (I'd suggest an amalgam of previous attributes here, or to give a guided free-form input. I'll demonstrate what the former looks like.) I hail from particularly distant lands. (text-colour:red)[Fascinating, tell me more about your people.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn looks quizzically at (name).] We have... [Textured hair.] [Straight hair.] ...and generally are... [Blonde-haired] [Red-haired] [White-haired] [Black-haired] [Brown-haired] ...our eyes tend to be... [Gray] [Silver] [Green] [Violet] [Ice Blue] [Blue] [Dark Blue] [Light Brown.] [Yellow.] [Hazel.] [Brown.] [Dark Brown.] ...our complexions are... [Very Dark] [Dark] [Tan] [Lightly Tanned] [Fair] ... and our statures are... [Small.] [Medium.] [Large.] [Particularly Tall.] (Repeat the selections as a sentence. prompt to review and confirm, or go back.) (Some of these combinations could be a little odd, but that's okay in my view, since our aim is to focus on expression.) (text-colour:red)[A foreigner indeed. You are welcome here, in our hamlet.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn offers a small reassuring smile, seemingly nonplussed.] [[(text-colour:red)[You're an outsider, your perspective is different, at least. Perhaps you can help.]]]

(text-colour:red)[Such a classic. Play it for me.] Tut1: Make some sounds on the keyboard that evoke your feeling. Player enters first tune. It repeats back to them. Tut2: You've created your first Loop. The Loopy records your songs so you can build musical Spells. (text-colour:red)["Pretty. The second part sounds like..."] [[Dancing around the fire.|2nd note]] [[Learnin someone's name.|2nd note]] [[Rummaging through the old chest.|2nd note]] //wishlist: The player can sing into their mic, and the pitch will be auto-detected. The instrument that comes from the window is a microphone.//

(text-colour:red)["I didn't think you'd know that part. Prove it."] Player creates their second loop. Tut text: You've created the second loop. You can layer Loops to create complex songs on the Loopy. (text-colour:red)["Dramatic. Now the finale. It's like..."] [[Banging the drum.|3rd note]] [[Exchanging secrets in the grove.|3rd note]] [[Taking the compass.|3rd note]]

(text-colour:red)[Very good. Let's hear it.] Player creates third loop. Tut text: You can record up to three Loops on the Loopy. Tut text 2: Press the Play Back button to listen to your song. Player plays their song. Tut text 3: Press the Big Glowing Button to cast the spell. [[Cast first spell]]

(depict) Three sealed crates of River Folk make. Three are sealed tightly shut with pine pitch adhesive - one is open. The open crate appears to have a void in the shape of a bass guitar. (unlocks) [[Ask about crates]]

(depict) A carved wooden idol of an elderly man holding a rough wood bowl is fastened to a canoe by a rough-spun plant fiber rope. An oar and fishing line rests on the edge of the canoe, and a worn tin tackle box is resting on one of its seats. (prompt for manual input to Arturo to learn more about River Folk, the River's Creed, and their water ceremonies. / ask him about fishing and the river. Potential spot for a fishing minigame? potential ancestor worship or cultural archetypes, such as the old man of the river / guardian of dreams) [[Fish]] (this scene unlocks ask about wooden idols path / ask about canoe path once the tutorial is complete) (once ask about canoe is unlocked and the tutorial is finished,) [[Explore waterways]]

At the stage, players should be able to form Ensembles with other players (present in the Tavern). The purpose of parties can be iterated on/defined later. I'd like to see the Tavern serve as a social hub, and shoehorning a location as being where people gather to form parties.

(Briefly tutorialized on placeables/customization of their space - allowed to tinker with it) [[Leaves, exiting the Prologue]]

(open prompt for the LLM. This one doesn't lead to a puzzle, but it can potentially lead to other listed objectives)

(Open prompt, returns to previous selection/question) (text-colour:purple)["I hope you feel enlightened... but can I trust you with a secret?]

(Open prompt, returns to previous selection/question) (text-colour:orange)["Wooyeah!."]

It's important the puzzle can NOT be solved by asking Roland. However, giving information about multiplayer, the setting/world, or other characters would be relevant.

(Open prompt, returns to previous selection/question) (text-colour:#945210)["Ahem, yes, back to the task at hand."]

Taryn: "What should I build or fix today? I am feeling INSPIRED! The creative fire burns within me!" There will be a big guitar on the table right in the center of the picture. It will be bright and broken, as if inviting player to say guitar. [![Player: Guitar]] [![Player: Hammer]] [![Player: Drum]] [![Player: Something useful?]] [![Player: {FREEFLOW}]] [![Exit Smithy]]

(Open prompt, returns to previous selection/question) (text-colour:aqua)["So anyways...."]

Freeform dialogue prompt goes here.

[[Explore waterways]] (This could be used as an alternate route of exploring Grit's surroundings in theme with the modus vivendi of the River Folk. Ideally, I'd like this to connect to locations along the river, instead of the road. For now, this could be a placeholder image to suggest a feature later implemented) "Of course you can, just make sure to leave an offering for the Old Man of the River. It's traditional... any refreshing drink other than water should do."

"Oh, the crates? They're heirlooms. I brought them with me when I moved to Grit." Arturo eyes (player) up and looks thoughtful. "I guess it wouldn't hurt to show them to you." He smiles encouragingly. (footstep sfx, scene continues inside.) (Arturo has a crowbar. He breaks the pine pitch seal of the three crates) (A trumpet, a cajón (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caj%C3%B3n), and an acoustic bass guitar are inside each crate, corresponding with these proposed melody, rhythm, and harmony roles) Arturo appears to be deep in thought. He looks meaningfully at the instruments and then at (player name). "They're no use gathering dust in these crates. Go ahead, pick one." [[Select the trumpet]] [[Select the cajón]] [[Select the bass]]

(Arturo describes River's Creed traditions potentially relating to - ancestor worship or cultural archetypes, such as the old man of the river / guardian of dreams. Importantly, he should speak about how they say the old man of the river only asks for refreshment to use his river. (telegraphing this 'toll' concept.)

(text-colour:purple)[Like I said! You can do a lot with your talents!] (text-colour:purple)[Go out there and put 'em to use. I'm not the only critter like myself out here. You can see us now, if you know where to look.] (night sequence - fae visibility unlocks) (text-colour:purple)[I can trust you with a secret, right?] [[You can trust me with a secret.]] [[Get real, bozo.]] [[Ask Echo about...]] - returns here

(introduce cooperative music segment where you continue Arturo's bassline (harmony) or provide percussion (rhythm) or provide melody (trumpet) tutorializing the cooperative music portion of this game and how it is structured Ultimately, this pattern is telegraphed here simply, with Arturo providing a musical segment which the player responds to. He then prompts the player to play something, which he responds to.) Unlocks [[Jam with Arturo]] Repeating this sequence, potentially with difficulty sliders. and [[Ask about canoe]] (which allows the player to explore the river.)

(like in the shrouded path, use this to guide the LLM based on physical descriptions of each player for their description. Further info/guidance is in the culture docs in git. https://gitlab.com/the-smithy1/glass-umbrella-knowledge-repo/-/blob/main/docs/narrative/Culture_of_the_River_Folk.md?ref_type=heads) We are the river keepers, the natives of this land. (text-colour:red)[Yet you seem just a bit far from home. It's quite alright, there's a home for everyone here.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn offers a small reassuring smile and nods.] [[(text-colour:red)[You're an outsider, your perspective is different, at least. Perhaps you can help.]]] (consider adding more options for River Folk physicality)

(smithy entrance, green=narration, red=taryn) (text-colour:green)[The clink of a hammer hitting an anvil, always accompanied by the soft tone of a vibraphone resounds through the air.] (text-colour:green)[The hammer strikes stop, as if the source stops to listen.] RIP [![Wait at the door.]] [![Enter.]]

(suggesting a more free-form character-centric approach to this next stage of the prologue, ultimately resolving back at Taryn when she realizes her aether/binding ability and has the player help repair the smithy, exiting the prologue) Exit to town. [![Player enters the tavern]] [![Player enters the lumber mill]] [![Player goes to the Market]] (Player can only go to the Market, all other directions are temp disabled)

Player uses Listen at Library Game text: You've cast the Listen Spell. Game tex2: The hair on your ears stand up as a sound reveals itself from this place. Game text3: (text-colour:orange)[The timber of the library creaks, set inside stones and mortar, clicking and pushing against one another with the speed of a giant. ] Game text4:A slow tempo reveals itself to you. Game text5: Your Loopy can now detect Earth Magic, and its unique tempo. The listen segments are interchangable. [[EXT Market2]]

(Tavern exterior depicted, with Skapper/Harvest present, fading in.) (text-colour:orange)[Finally! Hi, I'm Git! It's great to finally meet you.] [[Ask Git about...]] (The Gramophone must be facing SW. Perhaps a click sfx plays when it is in place.) (The Ignite cantrip must be cast on the Gramophone. The sequence should not matter because it was not telegraphed.) (When complete) (text-colour:orange)[Oh yeah! That's the stuff!] (if others are complete) (text-colour:orange)[To Taryn! She's waiting!] [[Return to smithy]]

Player uses Listen at Sawmill. Game text: You've cast the Listen Spell. (text-colour:orange)[SFX of the river flowing and bubbling.] Game text2: The river's flow becomes amplified. Each bead of water is moving forward in unified beat. Game text3: Your Loopy can now detect Water Magic, and its unique tempo. The listen segments are interchangable. [[EXT Market2]]

(sawmill exterior depicted, with Zurp present, fading in.) (text-colour:aqua)[Zurp blinks slowly. "Welcome. I'm Zurp and you're at the sawmill. Everyone's asleep 'cept you an me."] [[Ask Zurp about...]] (The Gramophone must be facing NW. Perhaps a click sfx plays when it is in place.) (The Dampen cantrip must be cast on the Gramophone. The sequence should not matter because it was not telegraphed.) (When complete) (text-colour:aqua)[Woohoo! You did it!] (if others are complete) (text-colour:aqua)[Taryn's waiting for you.] [[Return to smithy]]

Player uses Listen at Tavern. Game text: You've cast the Listen Spell. (text-colour:orange)[The roar of the fire in the hearth in the tavern.] Game text2: You can hear a warm fire burning in the fireplace of this tavern. Its flames dance to a song you can now hear. Game text3: Your Loopy can now detect Fire Magic, and its unique tempo. The listen segments are interchangable. [[EXT Market2]]

(Tavern exterior depicted, with Skapper/Harvest present, fading in.) (text-colour:#945210)[Oh. Hi. You can see me. Erm... this is awkward. Hi. I'm no good at introductions.] [[Ask Skapper/Harvest about...]] (The Gramophone must be facing SE. Perhaps a click sfx plays when it is in place.) (The Mend cantrip must be cast on the Gramophone. The sequence should not matter because it was not telegraphed.) (When complete) (text-colour:#945210)[You did it. Great job.] (if others are complete) (text-colour:#945210)[Taryn is expecting you. I think.] [[Return to smithy]]

(Give offering ->) [[Travel upstream on the Passion]] [[Travel upstream on the Perseverance]] [[Travel downstream on the Grit]] [[Travel to River's Bend]] [[Travel downstream to...]] (requires a drink (and indirectly currency) to offer the idol to use the canoe)

Ext. - Forest - Rainy Night - 1st Person Camera (text-colour:green)[A wooden wagon slowly crosses through a wooded path. The driver is a hooded figure, not more than a silhouette and a lamp. Stars hang in the sky.] (text-colour:green)[The driver TAPS against the wall of the wagon.] (text-colour:purple)[[Letter for you.|Int. Wagon]] //These scenes are intentionally designed to be implemented with minimal effort - MDP! Animatics need not be more than 2d keyframes and SFX, though the wagon for instance is a simple 3d environment with a wood texture and seems doable! //

(text-colour:purple)[Keep trying. I can see your ears growing.] (Section repeats, option to exit and return to the sequence later.) [[Try again|Repair the Scale]] [[Take a break|INT Market]]

(potential fishing minigame. If there's an economy / cooking, this seems like an easy way to engage with that. Decent example of what a fishing minigame might look like -> https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Fishing . Furthermore, this is something probably within the scope of the MDP which would not be super involved with multiple steps and systems)

(text-colour:purple)[Eh? What's that? We don't get a newcomer like you every day. Shape up. BE someone who can be trusted with a secret. You pickin' up what I'm puttin down, pal? Let's get down to business."] (text-colour:purple)["Top secret information. You've noticed those gramophones around town I'm sure. You wanna know their purpose I'm sure. They keep the Lost at bay."] Echo takes a serious tone. (text-colour:purple)["The Lost are those of my kind who have been drained of vibrance... who have lose their spark and drive. These gramophones are a lot like your (item) in some ways, but they don't need a magically gifted pilot such as yourself behind the wheel. That, and they just serve one purpose, so they're not as cool. I want you to use what I taught you, and turn them in a direction you think fits. Capiche?"] [[Ask Echo about...]] [[Yeah boss, whatever you say.]]

(like in the shrouded path, use this to guide the LLM based on physical descriptions of each player for their description. Further info/guidance is in the culture docs in git.) (text-colour:green)[Taryn studies you for a few quiet moments. Her expression plays out an animated eureka moment.] (text-colour:red)["You mean you're a Let? I was beginning to wonder if our humble settlement would attract a bit of post, someday." She teasingly chides. "But tell me more about your family."] The pattern of our uniforms are... [Vertically Striped] [Horizontally Striped] [Paisley] [Waved] [Polka Dotted] [Incorporate a fish tessellation pattern] ...and incorporate these colors... [Yellow, Purple, and White] [Black, Red, and Blue] [Green, Blue, and Brown] [White, Gray, and Black] [Orange, Red, and Yellow] [Red, White, and Blue] [Red, Blue, and Yellow] We have... [Textured hair.] [Straight hair.] ... and our complexions are... [Very Dark.] [Dark.] [Tan.] [Lightly Tanned.] [Fair.] (Repeat the selections as a sentence. prompt to review and confirm, or go back.) ... stature strike fear into the hearts of our enemies. (text-colour:red)[One of my people, yes I see.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn offers a small reassuring smile, seemingly nonplussed.] [[(text-colour:red)[You're an outsider, your perspective is different, at least. Perhaps you can help.]]]

(actual test minigame goes here. I'm operating under the assumption the broken scale is used, and its implied with A/V cues that the player repairs it using their instrument and magic.) (text-colour:red)[You did it! Of course, it could be sewn up using magic - good thinking. There's more pieces to the puzzle, and I get the feeling you're just the person we need to help us out of this bind.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn smiles encouragingly.] (text-colour:red)[Be sure to meet everyone around town and ask them about the smithy, if you find the time. You've been a huge help already. If you have any more questions for me, feel free to ask.] [[Ask Taryn about...]] [[Exit Smithy]]

Int. Wagon Simple wooden cabin, with a small window that looks out above the driver's hat. Rain and stars. (text-colour:purple)[I think. What's your name again?] ''Player types in their name.'' (text-colour:purple)[Oh.] A letter flaps through the window and lands on the floor. The rain has smudged its To and From to be unrecognizeable. (text-colour:purple)[So that's what that's supposed to mean.] [[Open letter.]] //Assigning a surprising sound to each letter on the player name keyboard would be a fun little thing here. //

My name is {name}. I hail from... [[The Kingdom of Marnivar, the land of warriors.]] [[The distant north, the home of the Khyángha.]] [[Elsewhere in the Two Rivers valley, nearby. I am of the River Folk.]] [[The eastern drylands - I am of the Asharim people.]] [[Here and there. We Let don't call just one place home.]] [[...Somewhere else]]

[[4 aged crates]] [[Wooden Idol]] We could add in red herrings that more thoroughly categorize Arturo, his living conditions, or his lifestyle. Otherwise, a simple depiction would probably serve here.

(Market exterior depicted, with Echo.) [[Ask Echo about...]] (The Gramophone must be facing NE. Perhaps a click sfx plays when it is in place.) (The Stir cantrip must be cast on the Gramophone. The sequence should not matter because it was not telegraphed.) (When complete) (text-colour:purple)["Bingo!"] (if others are complete) (text-colour:purple)["Ya don't wanna keep a lady waitin' all day, do ya? Go see Taryn!"] [[Return to smithy]]

A repeat of the cooperative music tutorial, potentially with different difficulties, modes, sliders, and styles. This could be a great way to demo and test npc musicians.

(Segue into C1)

It is important to keep this gated behind an event tag of some kind, so it can't be found until this sequence is tutorialized. [[Retrieves ladel]]

EXT. - SMITHY - DAY Player finds themselves on the path outside of the smithy. On one side of the path is the wreck of the wagon. [[Enter the Smithy]]

(Pearl glances to your new acquisition, then back up to you. (text-colour:cyan)["There's no need to be dishonest..." (loses sentiment?) (text-colour:cyan)["Accompany me to my workshop." (Pearl leads PC to workshop) [[To workshop]]

The letter opens up on screen. A few words smudged out by water, represented by dashes. VO does its best to mumble its way through these parts. (text-colour:purple)[Dear reader, We regret to inform you that you are officially rejected from this world. This is effective immediately.] A low foreboding tone. The letter takes on a strange hue, starting as a faint glow, getting brighter. The rain gets more intense outside the window, blotting out the stars and The Rider's hat. (text-colour:purple)[Please standby for the --pl--m-g-rt-z-- process to complete. ] The darkness behind the rain transitions to a galactic stream of color, and a heavy wind pushes the rain at an extreme angle. A song begins to play very softly and distantly, overtaking the sound of the rain. (text-colour:purple)[Your participation is mandatory.] Thunder sfx. Lightning (window whiteout fx). Rain is falling upside down. The song is more audible. The words are missing (text-colour:purple)[However you'll need a new form.] The words of the song begin to fade in. It's the Ballad of the Unshaken. The cabin begins to shake. (text-colour:purple)[But first we'll need to get rid of the old one!] The words of the song get louder, as the cabin begins to sound like an airplane nosediving through the air. The cabin window rushes quickly towards a white circle, then the screen whites out. [[Character Customization Menu]] //link to song: https://thesmithyworkspace.slack.com/files/U089PSV2MFF/F091XJTPV9V/a_mx_unshaken_book_loop.wav//

(text-colour:purple)[My sister? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You know what? You know what? Is this about... there's a note somewhere - one sec.] (text-colour:orange)[Pearl plays a little three second diddy on her flute. It's like a filler word for her. From here on out I'll call these Fillers. Wishlist is to have different fun particle effects for when these happen.] (text-colour:purple)[Well, there was //something// I was supposed to be doing for her. It'll turn up if it's important.] [[Ask Pearl about fixing the anvil.]] [[Ask Pearl about calendar.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about flute.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about returning home.]] [[Pearl {FREEFLOW}]]

(Using this as a placeholder event to illustrate possible branches a player could take after entering the tavern.) [[Speak with Arturo]] [[Investigate interior]] [[Approach river]]

(Using this as a placeholder event to illustrate possible branches a player could take after entering the tavern.) [[Speak with Roland]] [[Approach the stage]] [[Speak with (unnamed npc 1)]] [[Speak with (unnamed npc 2)]]

INT - Pearl's Shop (text-colour:green)[Pearl's Shop is a disorganized general store, bodega style, mixed with her personal home. There's a shop counter, and a small sitting area with potted plants (a small living room). Pearl manages stuff in strategic piles around the shop: piles of books leaning near the coffee table, piles of dishes in the sink, piles of clothes at the foot of the bed, pile of spell scrolls in a bargain bin, pile of instruments in another, pile of dirty potion bottles in the cauldron on the stove, and piles of artifacts from Pearl's travels overflowing her few display shelves. On the counter is Pearl's Flute. It glows with white-gray wind magic, and has an unusual design. Different gems, medals, and talismans have been taped, glued, and nailed to its surface over the years. On the wall behind the counter is a menu of services and items, the prices are covered by multiple layers of tape from years of impulse re-pricing.Next to this is a tattered calendar on the month of October. Beyond the counter is the rest of her home, a sort of studio apartment with a bedroom, magic workbench and kitchenette in one circular room. Strewn above the dirty dishes in the sink is something glowing underneath. It is the Listen Pipe, for the FtS puzzle. Pearl stands behind the counter.] (text-colour:purple)[Hellooooo? Who are you? It's so close to closing time. No one comes around this time of night. Um um um um... ] [[Taryn sent me. |PC Talks to Pearl]]

A self-playing drum! BRILLIANT! One that reads the room's emotional energy and plays the perfect rhythm! With crystal resonators and... wait, what if it also changes colors? And maybe shoots sparkles? OH! And it could brew tea while it plays! This will revolutionize music forever!

Oh... you noticed that old thing? Great idea, let's do that. You know, nobody usually appreciates my inventions—they always want 'practical' things like 'working door hinges' and 'swords that don't explode.' I'm really glad you came to Grit. Maybe you'll actually understand what I'm trying to create here.

A magical singing hammer! YES! One that harmonizes with whatever you're building! Each strike creates a different note based on the metal's molecular composition! We could have SYMPHONIC construction! Finally, someone who appreciates true innovation!

Useful? USEFUL?! My friend, you clearly don't understand the artistic process! Everything I make IS useful—just in ways people haven't realized yet! But fine, let's make a... a... OH! A spoon that tells you exactly how much salt your soup needs! With tiny bells that chime the perfect seasoning ratios!

(text-colour:purple)[You found it. It's the - well - you see it. It's a pipe. You blow in it. And it makes a noise.] (text-colour:orange)[Pipe makes a noise.] (text-colour:purple)[Now it's all on you. The mystical answers to the magical planes will reveal themselves to you, if you try really really hard and think a lot.] (text-colour:orange)[Mystical filler.] RtS puzzle opens. Tut text: Welcome to the Repair The Scale puzzle demo. Tut text2: This is the Listen Pipe. In order to solve it, you will need to use it to play a major scale. Tut text3: A major scale has eight notes. Each pitch ascends, meaning it should sound higher than the last. Figure out the pattern by listening closely and figuring out the correct pattern to play. [[Success]] [[Fail]] Considering re-writing the tut text based off of this c-scale ear training ref: https://jamzone.musicwill.org/lesson-plans/hearing-notes-in-the-major-scale/ Design Wishlist: This is also a part of the game where, if on mobile, they could turn the phone to blow into different sides of the Listen Pipe. Or sing their answer into a microphone?

[[Speak with Roland]]

''Player requires Water, Fire, and Earth tempos to continue to this sequence. Otherwise the shrine should not glow/act as a interaction hook yet.'' The wind shrine is glowing. [[Listen to Market]] [[Examine Glowing Shrine]]

Smithy exterior is depicted. A bright green flash is seen from within the smithy. Spyder fades in, looking grumpy. (text-colour:#945210)["You... did you have something to do with this, you ragamuffin?"] He shakes his head. (text-colour:#945210)["No, not this time - but I'm watching you. Whippersnapper."] Spyder is shifted to the side to reveal Taryn, who initially looks exerted, but looks relieved, smiling when she sees the PC. She does not appear to see Spyder initially. (text-colour:red)["Pearl told me about all you did to help repair the smithy, and I want to thank you personally. I just finished. Let's go inside - I can show you."] Interior is once again lit, Taryn is beaming. (text-colour:red)["Like I said, I couldn't have done it without you. As far as I see it... you're one of us now. A citizen. Even if you go elsewhere, you're welcome here in Grit."] (text-colour:red)["Before I show you to your new place... do you have any questions for me?"] [![Ask Taryn about...]] (text-colour:red)["Let's go."] Taryn nods firmly at the PC. [[Arrives in PC housing/room]]

Arturo gently removes the trumpet from the case and hands it to (player). "It was my sister's." He looks distant and introspective, for a moment. "It'll be like old times... Go ahead. It's yours now." Arturo hands (player) the bass and smiles. Narrowing his eyes playfully, he queries - "Let's give it a try, what do you say?" Arturo pulls up a stool and stows the crowbar for his bass. [[Cooperative music tutorial]]

Arturo gently removes the cajón from the case and hands it to (player). "It was my father's." He swallows hard and looks grim for a moment. Collecting himself, he proceeds. "Go ahead. It's yours now." Arturo hands (player) the cajón and smiles. Narrowing his eyes playfully, he queries - "Let's give it a try, what do you say?" Arturo pulls up a stool and stows the crowbar for his bass. [[Cooperative music tutorial]]

Arturo gently removes the trumpet from the case and hands it to (player). "It was my mother's. Heh, I never learned to play it... Go ahead. It's yours now." Arturo hands (player) the trumpet and smiles. Narrowing his eyes playfully, he queries - "Let's give it a try, what do you say?" Arturo pulls up a stool and stows the crowbar for his bass. [[Cooperative music tutorial]]

(tbd identity, description, further information about this npc) If Roland has not been spoken to (tag event sequence to individual player) they say something along the lines of (unfinished) - Roland's soup smells so good, doesn't it? I heard him complaining about the ladel. He's looked all over the tavern for it. Maybe you should ask him about it? (give free-form dialogue option here, without the ability to solve the puzzle just yet, telegraphing the follow-up to the puzzle before the player has the full contextual understanding) [[Ask [x] about...]] (after Roland event tag) [[(2) Ask [x] about...]] (once the player has the event/dialogue tag, ladel-related options open up)

(depict) Arturo is sitting on a stump soulfully strumming away on his bass guitar. He nods to [player name], but otherwise appears occupied. [[Ask Arturo about...]] (conditional) [[Ask about canoe]] [[Ask about crates]] [[Ask about wooden idols]]

(general guidance, rewrite - ): Roland looks scattered and distressed, but hastily pulls himself together to speak to the PC. -He introduces himself -He describes how he made a once in a lifetime soup, he suspects. He hasn't tried it yet, because it's too hot and stays hot, but he thinks it's delicious. -The only problem is, he can't find where the ladel is. He asks the PC to keep an eye out, and ask tavern patrons about it. [[Ask Roland about...]] (after ladel is returned/quest/tutorial sequence is complete, contained / customizable personal space potentially implemented in the scope of an MDP) [[Full MDP Narrative]]

(text-colour:purple)[By the powers of the elements, I officially welcome you to the ranks of magic people. Users, magicians, I mean. The pipe has granted you a path to learning magic properly now. Long live the lsiten piiiiipe.] (text-colour:orange)[Plays achievement filler.] (text-colour:purple)[Let's get you set up. Here's your first ''Scroll Spell.'' Take a look.] Game text: ''Listen Scroll Spell ''added to Spellbook. Tut text1: Scrolls contain Spells that you can play on your Loopy. Tut text2: Your Scroll Spells are always saved in your Spellbook. (text-colour:purple)[You're not done yet. Listen is a special spell that needs to be connected to its world. Go ''Listen'' to four sounds that connect you to the elements. Then return to me.] Tut text3: Scroll Spells have special effects. Experiment with them and see what happens. [[Talk to Pearl|Pearl hub2]] [[Exit Pearl's Shop]]

Prologue Outline 1.Wagon Scene: introduce theme, introduce instrument, player name, 2.Smithy, Taryn: Introduce music puzzles, introduce npc system, introduce magic, introduce magical instruments. 3. Travel: Introduce map: Introduce basic multiplayer interactions ( to be designed) 4. Tavern, Arnaldo: Puzzle 2 - Introduce Music Features 201 (to be designed), introduce music puzzles/exploration feature 2?, Introduce hidden dialogue (Arnaldo knows a lot about the village, but you'll need to figure out how to get him to spill the beans.) The above focuses on a rough roadmap of us getting up to speed on the pipeline and roughly completing the Smithy area and all its features by end of July/start of August, and roughly completing basic multiplayer and a second area by end of August.

(text-colour:red)[You can see my predicament, I'm sure. Cold forging is such a slow process, and I can't be of much use to anyone going at the pace I am. The forge is broken, and it's been this way for a while. You wouldn't believe the backlog I have - at this rate progress in town is going to grind to a halt.] (text-colour:green)[Silence lingers for a moment after the blacksmith vents her frustration. Taryn is making the best out of a bad situation.] [![Introduce yourself]] [![Ask Taryn about...]]

(like in the shrouded path, use this to guide the LLM based on physical descriptions of each player for their description. Further info/guidance is in the culture docs in git. https://gitlab.com/the-smithy1/glass-umbrella-knowledge-repo/-/blob/main/docs/narrative/Culture_of_the_Marnivar.md?ref_type=heads) I come from a clan of... [Blonde-haired] [Red-haired] ... warriors. Our... [Gray] [Blue] [Green] ... eyes and... [Medium] [Large] ... stature strike fear into the hearts of our enemies. (Repeat the selections as a sentence. prompt to review and confirm, or go back.) (text-colour:red)[One of my people, yes I see.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn offers a small reassuring smile, seemingly nonplussed.] [[(text-colour:red)[You're an outsider, your perspective is different, at least. Perhaps you can help.]]]

(like in the shrouded path, use this to guide the LLM based on physical descriptions of each player for their description. Further info/guidance is in the culture docs in git. https://gitlab.com/the-smithy1/glass-umbrella-knowledge-repo/-/blob/main/docs/narrative/Culture_of_the_Khy%C3%A1ngha.md?ref_type=heads) I come from a family of... [Blonde-haired] [White-haired] ... scholars and dragon tamers. Our eyes are... [Violet] [Ice Blue] [Blue] [Dark Blue] ... and our frames are... [Small] [Medium] , perfect for living in harmony with silver dragons. (Repeat the selections as a sentence. prompt to review and confirm, or go back.) (text-colour:red)[Ah, Minh's people! I have heard tales of your mysterious land beyond the polar rim.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn offers a small reassuring smile and nods.] [[(text-colour:red)[You're an outsider, your perspective is different, at least. Perhaps you can help.]]]

(like in the shrouded path, use this to guide the LLM based on physical descriptions of each player for their description. Further info/guidance is in the culture docs in git.) We Asharim are a people with many histories and many stories, yet we are a unified people My family has... [Textured hair.] [Straight hair.] Our eyes are... [Light Brown.] [Yellow.] [Hazel.] [Brown.] [Dark Brown.] Our skin is... [Very Dark.] [Dark.] [Tan.] [Lightly Tanned.] [Fair.] And we are... [Average in stature.] [Particularly Tall.] (Repeat the selections as a sentence. prompt to review and confirm, or go back.) (text-colour:red)[How welcome it is to meet one of the nomads of the east.] (text-colour:green)[Taryn offers a small reassuring smile and nods.] [[(text-colour:red)[You're an outsider, your perspective is different, at least. Perhaps you can help.]]]

(depiction of the workshop, pause, fadein to Pearl standing before the player) (text-colour:cyan)["Taryn would only send me to you if she believed in you..." (text-colour:cyan)["... And you wouldn't have an (thingamajig name) if she didn't believe in you. Let's put that to the test. The smithy isn't functional. It would be noteworthy to everyone if you helped out with that, and I have an idea of how you might." (text-colour:cyan)["Your (item) responding as it does to your touch means you innately possess a magical gift. Magic must be learned, skill must be fostered. Before any of that, first and foremost - you must learn to listen." (text-colour:cyan)["Follow the resonance and repair the bellows. Should you be successful, I will ensure everything finds its rightful place." Pearl offers a small reassuring smile. (text-colour:cyan)["Let us begin." (Segue to) [![Repair the Scale]]

(leads to locations downstream on the Grit river)

(travels to a list of previously visited locations. Potentially, this could also be a manual input field, if we want to encourage player communication. For example, Billy found the Riverside Bloomeries location, and he tells Timmy, but Timmy hasn't explored the Riverside Bloomeries, but Timmy can join Billy there if he manually inputs the location name) (realistically, this might look like a list of locations and have a manual input field.)

(fast travel to River's Bend)

(leads to locations upstream on the Passion river)

(leads to locations upstream on the Perseverance river)

(text-colour:green)[A lingering vibraphone note lingers in the air, this time accompanied by footsteps. They approach. Surely as one could expect, the door to the smithy swings open. Before you stands a tall and muscular blacksmith. She seems somewhat exerted and her apron is smudged with grease, as if she has been working for some time. She offers a half-hearted but friendly smile.] (text-colour:red)[Oh! A newcomer. Well, you've found the smithy. I'm Taryn, the blacksmith of this hamlet.] (text-colour:green)[![Taryn beckons you inside.]] (provides an example of tutorializing choices)

(alternate unlock to 'ask about wooden idols' path depict - wooden carved idol depicting a warrior with shut eyes. The warrior is standing alert, holding a spear. The warrior is facing Arturo's bed.)

(text-colour:purple)["Eyy, that's more like it. Well, my work is done. Yours is just beginning, heh heh. Tell Taryn the good news when you're done - and you'll know when you have the right configuration. Now scram!"] [[Exit to tavern 2]] [[Exit to library 2]] [[Exit to sawmill 2]] [[Investigate market]]

(text-colour:cyan)["I figured." Pearl glances to your new acquisition, then back up to you. (text-colour:cyan)["I see. You can use it. Follow me."] (Pearl leads PC to workshop) [[To workshop]]

(text-colour:purple)["Top secret information. You've noticed those gramophones around town I'm sure. You wanna know their purpose I'm sure. They keep the Lost at bay."] Echo takes a serious tone. (text-colour:purple)["The Lost are those of my kind who have been drained of vibrance... who have lose their spark and drive. These gramophones are a lot like your (item) in some ways, but they don't need a magically gifted pilot such as yourself behind the wheel. That, and they just serve one purpose, so they're not as cool. I want you to use the cantripsI taught you, and turn them in a direction you think fits. Capiche?"] [[Ask Echo about...]] [[Yeah boss, whatever you say.]]

Player enters the void of a character creation menu. (text-colour:purple)[Create your new form.] Tut text: Move the slider bars to change how your character looks. [[Animatic 2]] //Design notes Planned to use slider gui. Player customizes char. - Simple 3d elements. Lazy susan and a basic model to edit. Face and blend shapes. Single base model - maybe can be a culture? skintone hair eyes ''bring in Rihards about this!''//

Starting game menu. New Game select. [[Prologue]]

7/7/25 Chunking, - examine skeleton and re-align to new gddX - replace the original 123 puzzle with char customization, still making space to cue in the song and first zapping the player into a realm that is the char custom menu.X - insert thingamijid introduction into taryn env - find thaingamjig conceptsX - to do - pearl/market rewrite - read through berry's draft and update outline accoridngly - - tryin to understand why spyder shows up at the end - - maybe spyder is teased at the start as well - end plotting - write lyrics to finale song? - do content review and edit to consistency - do play test - playtest - reformat to json and mr to git -share - asset tag things https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T-fjvW4V1dREPNuOSEPHna_sMq2luZgcYD27xQ675XE/edit - char profiles for spyder, echo, taryn, and pearl ASSET COLOR TAGS: - Purple, dialogue - Orange, sound - Green, Art Anvil vibraphone concept art https://thesmithyworkspace.slack.com/files/U089PSV2MFF/F092626LT2P/virboanvil.jpg Omni concept art: https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T05SNAJEA9G-F095CHYEWSU/img_0650.jpg Whimsical taryn redux - Aether/binding element - mad genius - craves validation < conflict? - melts down when anything goes wrong/doesn't appear smart< conflict? -broken scale < is hiding this from player, but player keeps asking anyhow - offers useuless upgrades constantly - aether magic only works when they can connect with others/form emotional bonds - heart Whimsical Pearl - Air - a let (goodness) - short attention span - curious - freedom lover - burst out in language/hypefocus - well traveled -laughs! - feels tied down here < conflict? - disorganized - distractable < conflict? Thingd go unfinished. Needed things. - Magic teacher - plays wind instrument(originally saxophone) Fae lore redux elementals created by music Have an anchor/temple visible and invisble forms True forms: in home, at night Day: animals? ''Fae are attracted to music! '' Smithy familiars - control forge temp - protect against burns - sense metal impurities market fae - meh, social sevants I guess? Echo redux Echo windweaver, Voice of the gales born from the four wnds - perfect WIND stuff - is not pearl's familiar, just hangs out around there? A wisp wind compass?, carries bells that contain trapped whispers (sabriel reference detected) finishes sentences with wind chimes never lies matriarchal patient kind https://gitlab.com/the-smithy1/glass-umbrella-knowledge-repo/-/blob/main/docs/worldbuilding/village-of-grit/npcs/echo/character-sheet-echo.md?ref_type=heads Spyder redux Forge Brownie - what's a forge brownie? keeper of grudges grumpy old man Born in the forge beneath the hill(van down by the river,etc etc) A house fae - as in comfort food fae? oh as in a small brown spider tool belt more bells??? boots has trained the forge mice to move metal (ghibli ref for sure) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/176766354115020888/ https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.wRUbhMZPVHE2XLD9mFs-LgHaEK%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=d1dfdf078954b1af428ba2b83ca7eb231fd12023e54f220ae0ab91f0345f8a50&ipo=images https://gitlab.com/the-smithy1/glass-umbrella-knowledge-repo/-/blob/main/docs/worldbuilding/village-of-grit/npcs/spyder/character-sheet-spyder.md?ref_type=heads https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Kamaj%C4%AB Inspired byan outdated japanese derogatory term for dirt/earth spider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuchigumo Otherwise known as political anarchist clans and individuals who would not submit to imperial rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo ------------------------------ MDP OUTLINE -the player is lost without a homex -taryn offers a room if player helps them fix the anvilx -Taryn's anvil is broken - their calendar on october and covered in dust, presumably here for yearx -she gives you the looper to help fix itX -But it doesn't work all the way. Have a magic problem? Pearl could help with that. - you;'re from the outside, maybe you will help my aether?? Market area: -So you head to the marketX, - and then you talk to pearl for help.X -Pearl has been meaning to do that for lmany falls?, but is too distracted and disorganized to ever get it done where there's all this other stuff to do!X -You talk to her about whether it's still october, and she shows you her calendar, also covered in dust.X -You must complete a ritual. - repair the scale. --Lost the steps long ago, but real magic users can always figure it out forthemselves? Lore: Taryn needs Pearl. Why hasn't Pearl come and repaired the anvil themselves? Pearl has been meaning to actually do it for over a hundred years (or days?), but is so distractable, it'll be easier if you do it! What is pearl always distracted by then? Magic impulses of creativity. Doot doot dooos and la la las.<<<< Pearl noteX Moving on - Pearl talks about the cardinal points briefly? - Echo/fae familar teaser - echo walks by Are these characters stuck in their areas by their neuroses? Then what traps Taryn? Taryn has been too embarassed since the scale has been broken to emerge from the smithy. Also for many years. Maybe immortals? Or maybe it's months. Real stakes. Or maybe winter is coming any day now, and they'd both prefer not to risk it too. Fall! Maybe this is a place where it's always fall, so winter is coming is a big ole excuse. You find out by Taryn flipping through a calendar that's nothing september, october, and november on repeat cycles forever. It becomes obvious that the player's arrival is an impetus to break them of this cycle. Maybe if they do, winter WILL come and SOMETHING will happen. SOMETHING BAD GOOD? Theme: Avoiding the inevitiable. Maybe a b or c or d plot! Player solves the scale puzzle, and pearl celebrates by teaching a spell: Listen.X ______________________________________________________ You need to teach the spell now. Go around town and listen for magic. Objective: Find four elemental sounds.X When you've heard enough, return to me.X Listen rewards you with the four tempos. You can now hear Fire.X (where'd pearl go?) - maybe an easter egg sentence that pearl forgot that entirely and fell asleep? Pearl is playing a song, and echo is listening? Or echo helps from outside for some reason? Maybe Pearl's sleep song, to quiet her down?X When player does, Echo, pearl's familiar, and the wisp, appears. Protecting pearl while she sleeps.X --Echo teaches you a wind spell - for some reason? - introduces fae - echo knows some things, and can answer your questions a bit more directly -sawmill, tavern, library - Echo deliveres the gramophone mission - what for??? Why does the player care -- you'll need the gramophones fixed in order to ECHO IS A LORE DUMP/UNLOCK - the elements, the Loopy 201 explainer, got it - Echo describes Aether to you -- The anvil and many other powerful devices run off of Aether energy here. Without something to tune the elements, Aether struggles to gather in large enough amounts to fuel anything, or whatever??? -- echo lore dumps about the four corners of the soundiverse or whatever? They are listening to the Lost Sounds - the sounds of the seasons?? of time??? Ocarina of time crossover too imminent.... Sounds of winter? -- ECHO teaches you STIR, after a puzzle? OR as a reward? X --gramophones - uhhhhhhhhhhh - tut this puzzle - should require players to combine their skills learned so far? - Puzzle to consider... Maybe breadcrumbing this? Shouldn't we explain cardinal points to 8 year olds? Yes. Yes we should.X - What's motivating the player externally? They are gaining spells, spells lead to.. stuff? We can give them stuff? Or player motivations? Maybe repairing the gramophones will resolve a rift between Taryn and Pearl? Or maybe the gramophones might mean you can find your way home? Create a portal? The aether machine! - Forge is fixed short cinematic -Smithy flashes green in the windows, maybe makes a song to followX Player finds taryn overjoyed,reuinted with pearl? Or their fae. Yeah let's say their fae. The anvil releases the fae? She had forgotten them somehow? Spyder??? Spyder is also the creator aether element/stand in for AI, that makes it possible to generate random room! - spyder has already done the honors of furnishing your room!!!! Niiiiiice Plots: A plot - player needs a home, and maybe to return home? Maybe they're dead? B plot - Time here - is the village under a curse or is this just the nature of this place? What happened to time here? C plot - the aether machine and the gramophones D plot - what do the fae want in this world E plot - Pearl and Taryn can no longer see one another What happened between Pearl and Taryn? Friends stuck in their loops. But let's get more specific. What were they building here together? Maybe something that went off and started this whole fiasco? Maybe a sort of time machine? Or aether experiment? The Machine. Taryn and Pearl are cousins/family. D plot: What do fae want in this world? To protect the village? OR: Echo tircks you? Thoughts: - can we rename aether to something more fun, cool, and kid friendly? Ideas: Blues, Jive,Flow - monsters can be corrupted animals? Solve them and they turn back into friendly animals or objects? Lost things returning to whatever things? - Maybe Fae are tied to their instruments, and fixing the forge brings them back awake? Taryn yells Spyder when the green flash happens.

Ext. Void - The Wagon A burst of light is shot into the wagon floating in the char custimization void. (text-colour:purple)[New form complete. Standby by for entry.] The wagon begins to glow and smoke violently, its wheels burning smoke into the void. (text-colour:purple)[In three, two, one...] Fire shoots out of its hood, like a derby engine. (text-colour:purple)[You're in for it now!] The music starts up again like a warbly record, and the wagon shoots off at incredible speed, dissapearing into the void in a streak. [[EXT Giant Drum Face]]

EXT. GIANT DRUM FACE A loud bang. The front of the cabin crashes through an immense drumhead. (Flash of a good keyframe.) CRASH SFX. Blackout. [[Chapter One]]

EXT. - SMITHY - Night Player finds themselves on the path outside of the smithy. Light streams from its windows, as the muffled sound of a hammer hitting Taryn's anvil clangs away at odd tinny notes. On one side of the path is the wreck of the wagon. Player paths to the door. [[Open Door|INT - Smithy ]] [[Examine Wagon Wreck]]

(text-colour:green)[You slide open the creaky smithy door and peek inside.] (depiction of Taryn cold forging SOMETHING inside. If relevant, a note is played on her anvil when she strikes the metal against the anvil.) (text-colour:green)[A tall, muscular blacksmith relentlessly strikes at the billet of metal on her vibraphone anvil. And when she does - the metal appears to heat up, ever so slightly. It looks like hard work, and judging by the grease on her apron and sweat on her brow, she's been at it for a while. Your presence attracts her attention. She places her hammer on her anvil and turns to face you, with a small bewildered smile on her face.] (text-colour:red)[Oh! A newcomer. Well, you've found the smithy. I'm Taryn, the blacksmith of this hamlet. Don't be a stranger, come in.] (text-colour:green)[![Taryn beckons you inside.]] (provides an example of tutorializing choices)

Taryn is cold forging on her vibraphone anvil. An offtune note plays each time her hammer falls. (text-colour:red)[Who's there? I don't recognize you.] Tut text: ''Choose what you'd like to say back to the blacksmith.'' [[I've just been in a wagon crash!|Dialogue1]] [[I'm an outsider.|Dialogue1]] Anvil vibraphone concept art https://thesmithyworkspace.slack.com/files/U089PSV2MFF/F092626LT2P/virboanvil.jpg

(text-colour:red)[Oh I'm so sorry! Where are my manners? I've not had a visitor in...] Taryn looks at a calendar on the wall. It's on the month of October, aged yellow under a mat of dust. Below it are a pile of torn off months, also all reading October. (text-colour:red)[-well, since Spring.] (text-colour:red)[What can I do for you?] [[What a strange calendar.|Dialogue2a]] [[Your anvil sounds funny.|Dialogue2c]] [[I need a place to stay.|dialogue2b]]

(text-colour:red)[No. That's an average October calendar.] [[Your anvil sounds funny.|Dialogue2c]] [[I need a place to stay.|dialogue2b]]

Tut text: Found'' Hidden Path!'' (text-colour:red)[Oh this? Yeah. The Loopy. It can'' tune ''the anvil and a bunch of other things. In truth, I'm an ''Aether ''user, and it's not too much use to me unless I have an outside magic to compare it to. Not that you'd understand.] (text-colour:red)[But wait. You're an outsider. I'll compare it to you. You sound so offkey, it's perfect. Why didn't I think of that sooner? Help me out, and I'll consider giving you the spare room for the Fall.] (text-colour:red)[What do you say?] Taryn offers you the Loopy. [[Player takes the Loopy.]]

(text-colour:red)[What! No it doesn't! It's fine. Nothing wrong here! See?] Taryn hits the anvil a bunch, and it makes a series of offtune nonsensical sounds (a wet slop, an ostrich, a scratchy record). (text-colour:red)[Uhhhhh. Great right???] [[No. It's bad.|Dialogue3]] [[Oh. Yeah. Sure. It's great.|Dialogue3]]

(text-colour:red)[What! Ah! Wait! It was working before! I swear!] Taryn adjusts the Loopy (the omni/player instrument) on a nearby table, and hits some buttons. Taryn hits it again, and the anvil makes a raspberry. (text-colour:red)[Woops. That's - let me make an adjustment on the Loopy.] Taryn hits it again. It makes a longer raspberry. (text-colour:red)[Okay! Okay! It's broken. It's been broken for ages! Did you come here to make fun of me? I'm the best inventor in this village! I don't need some stranger coming in here to harass me while I am enlightening the world.] Tut text1: You can type in your own responses to a character at any time. Tut text2: Typing in the right responses will reveal Hidden Options in a conversation. Type "Ask Taryn about Loopy". [[What a strange calendar.|Dialogue2a]] [[Your anvil sounds funny.|Dialogue2c]] [[I need a place to stay.|dialogue2b]] [[Hidden: Ask Taryn about Loopy|Hidden]]

(text-colour:red)[Poor thing! I actually have a spare room, but with the winter coming... I'm not sure it makes sense to give it out. My inventing can't be disturbed right now.] [[What a strange calendar.|Dialogue2a]] [[Your anvil sounds funny.|Dialogue2c]]

Tut text1: ''Loopy'' added to your inventory. Tut text2: ''The Loopy'' is a musical instrument that casts magic spells. (text-colour:red)[You probably have zero understanding of how a genius tool like a Loopy works. Just follow my instructions, and we'll get this forge working.] (text-colour:red)[The key to magic is the self. Play notes that come to you, your mind, the most joyfully. From the heart. There's no wrong to what you play, per se, as long as you truly, honestly, genuinely want it.] (text-colour:red)[Let's begin.] (text-colour:red)[The first part feels like..] [[Singing your song.|1st note]] [[Sharing an orange with a stranger.|1st note]] [[Opening an attic door.|1st note]]

Player song plays. Loopy glows with magic. (text-colour:red)[Wow. Honestly I didn't think you'd get this far. This might actually work.] The anvil begins to glow too. (text-colour:red)[Let's give it a shot. ] Taryn hits the anvil, and the sounds start to correct. A song comes together for a short while. (text-colour:red)[Amazing. This will change everything.] Something goes wrong, and the anvil goes back to being broken sounding, but retains a faint glow. It's as if a song is offkey half the time. (text-colour:red)[No. Agghhhh. Danggggg.] Taryn stops playing. (text-colour:red)[That was going so well. That was your first time doing magic? Unbelievable.] (text-colour:red)[Still, no quantity of magic is going to solve ... technical issues. We're going to need some expert magical thinkers on this one. ] (text-colour:red)[Follow the lantern path to the market and find a magician named Pearl. Tell them Taryn sent you.] [[What about the room?]] [[Did I use the Loopy wrong?]] [[What is this place?]] [[Will you build something for me?|Ask Taryn to build something for you.]] [[Hidden: Ask Taryn about Pearl]] [[Exit|Leave smithy.]]

Ext. - Smithy - Night Tut text: As you go through the game you will collect items in your inventory. To open your inventory, press //enter correct keymapping here// or press the //whatever// button located //gui location//. Player opens the inventory. Tut text2: Here you can also find your Spellbook, which collects all the songs you've made on the Loopy. You can play them back whenever you feel like! Player opens Spellbook. Tut text3: To close the inventory, press //gui location//. Player closes the inventory. Tut text4: Follow the lantern trail. [[EXT Market]] //Since we don't have a complex navigation system, suggested design solution is to breadcrumb lanterns along the single path the player needs to take to get to the market. Opem to more nuanced level design, but wanted something there.//

(text-colour:red)[Offer stands as is. Fix my anvil, and the room is yours.] [[Did I use the Loopy wrong?]] [[Hidden: Ask Taryn about Pearl]] [[Leave smithy.]]

(text-colour:red)[Wrong? No. You used it perfectly. It's hard to believe that was your first time. I've not heard a tune that powerful in many years. I'd be careful about that. Powerful music attracts powerful music.] [[What about the room?]] [[Hidden: Ask Taryn about Pearl]] [[Leave smithy.]]

Game text: Found ''Hidden Path!'' (text-colour:red)[Pearl? A clever magician. Very, very, messy, too. But I didn't say that.] [[What about the room?]] [[Did I use the Loopy wrong?]] [[Leave smithy.]]

Tut text: Welcome to the Freeform response demo. Here we are inviting you to ask the character whatever you want. The responses will return back to you through the power of AI. (text-colour:red)[What should I build or fix today? I am feeling INSPIRED! ] There's a large broken guitar on a workbench, inviting the player to repair it. Tut text2: You have the ability to type anything you want to a character at certain points in the game. These are called Free Form options. Tut text3: Type Build _____, filling in the blank, and enter to see Taryn's response. The game will automatically suggest popular Freeform Options at important discussion points. You are not limited to its suggestions. Tut text4: Try typing in Build Guitar! [[Build Guitar]] [[Build Drum]] [[Build Something useful]] [[Build {FREEFLOW}]] [[Ask Taryn about something else.]]

(text-colour:red)[Oh... you noticed that old thing? Great idea. You know, nobody usually appreciates my inventions. They always want 'practical' things like 'working door hinges' and 'swords that don't explode.' I'm really glad you came here. Maybe you'll get what I'm trying to create here.] (text-colour:red)[Done. It's a really chique mid-century coffee table. Enjoy.] Tut text: Useless Mid Century Coffee Table added to inventory. [[Build Drum]] [[Build Something useful]] [[Build {FREEFLOW}]] [[Ask Taryn about something else.]]

(text-colour:red)[A magical singing hammer! YES! One that harmonizes with whatever you're building! Each strike creates a different note based on the metal's molecular composition! We could have SYMPHONIC construction! Finally, someone who appreciates true innovation!] Tut text: Useless Singing Hammer added to inventory!

(text-colour:red)[What about a self-playing drum? One that reads the room's emotional energy and plays the perfect rhythm. With crystal resonators and... wait, what if it also changes colors? And maybe shoots sparkles? OH. And it could brew tea while it plays! This will revolutionize sparkles as we know it.] Tut text: Useless Mood Drum added to inventory. [[Build Guitar]] [[Build Something useful]] [[Build {FREEFLOW}]] [[Ask Taryn about something else.]]

//To hook up the dynamic LLM dialogue system to// [[Build Guitar]] [[Build Drum]] [[Build Something useful]] [[Ask Taryn about something else.]]

(text-colour:red)[Useful? USEFUL? My friend, you clearly don't understand the artistic process. Everything I make IS useful—just in ways people haven't realized yet. But fine, let's make a... a... OH. A spoon that tells you exactly how much salt your soup needs. With tiny bells that chime the perfect seasoning ratios.] Tut text: Very Useless Chime Spoon added to inventory. [[Build Guitar]] [[Build Drum]] [[Build {FREEFLOW}]] [[Ask Taryn about something else.]]

[[What about the room?]] [[Did I use the Loopy wrong?]] [[Ask Taryn to build something for you.]] [[Hidden: Ask Taryn about Pearl]] [[Leave smithy.]]

(text-colour:red)[You mean, right here, where we are? Well, it's my smithy. It's where a blacksmith like me can go, uh, smith stuff. Make things. Hammer molten metal into neat magic stuff. You get me?] [[What about the room?]] [[Did I use the Loopy wrong?]] [[Ask Taryn to build something for you.]] [[Hidden: Ask Taryn about Pearl]] [[Leave smithy.]]

Game text: You're unharmed from the crash. Find someone who can help. [[Open Door|INT - Smithy ]]

Player enters Market area. (text-colour:green)[Outside the market is a small shrine bearing symbols of Echo and the Wind element. This is where Echo appears later in demo.] (text-colour:orange)[Jazzy flute and scat singing comes softly from Pearl's door.] (text-colour:green)[The shrine is a stone set in the path, carved with the image of powerful storm clouds, underneath, a tree is bending under the wind, its leaves blowing away. Lit candles, flowers, and fruit rest at the base of the shrine.] [[Enter Pearl's Shop|INT Market]] [[Examine Shrine]]

Concept: Spyder is an embodiement of creation - one that encapsulates creativty (art), magic(elemental forces), AI - and the confusion and interpretation that it requires. Its body is made up of a mash up of items and the magic of the combined four elements. Problems this solves: - There is currently no reason for spyder to be at the end of the game - An exciting and unique design rewards the player, and intrigues them to want to know more about the world, leaving them with a lasting impression at theend of the demo - The character continues to put our foot forward about a self-awareness and transparency about AI use in the game - the confusing mush of his life is an example of Aether magic and its complexity - and confusing parts about AI interactions in the game can be explained in-world by blanketing them in the logic that they are Aether or Spyder interactions. -This context around Aether gives parents a metric to customize settings, ir Parental restrictions around how much or if AI interactions are approriate for the player, but also kids and parents discussing Aether Events without having to get into the details of AI. - Spyder's theme is in line with Taryn's character, who creates for the sake of creation, and whose creations are often nonsensical - Spyder's theme is in line with the reward in his introduction, the room cusotmization, and his nature can explain its random object generation - Allows us to visually introduce the idea of Aether-based technology, and give an explanation for who might have built the gramophones. This visual consistency will give the player more to look for when exploring the world for interactive elements. - Introduces the instruments and fae are mysteriously bound to their companions. Possible hook for the future corruption system. Visual Design: Spyder is a six limbed (or normal limbed) fae of the Aether. Aether is the element of crafting, combining, mixing, and creating. On a thematic level, they represent all elements combined, so should incorporate the four elemental colors/symbols. Their skin/body is made up of a mash of items, lots of art supplies, misc items appropriate to a rennaissance village, and items that feel related to aether-tech (like the gramophones), such as Taryn works with and creates. Visual references: This is inspired by the assemblage technique. Some references are below. https://pin.it/71YH9PDOW https://pin.it/3t09tQO84 https://pin.it/5tfrPmNDy https://pin.it/1YWEvk27y https://pin.it/7mJZkrC4z https://pin.it/1BqWui0iA https://pin.it/1RXRZWm0k https://pin.it/4GvbG9CyV https://pin.it/3ktzxwpsp https://pin.it/6mrQ4J7cg I also highly suggest taking alook at Nick Cave's Sound Suits for inspiration! https://publicdelivery.org/nick-cave-soundsuits/

Game text: Someone upstairs must be looking after this ''Shrine.'' [[Enter Pearl'sShop|INT Market]]

(text-colour:purple)[Riiiight. The anvil. Anvily anvily anvil. She must've asked me to do that in... the Spring?] (text-colour:purple)[I've been putting it off. There's been so much else to do.] (text-colour:purple)[Agghhhhh.] (text-colour:orange)[Failure filler.] (text-colour:purple)[Don't mention this to her.] (text-colour:purple)[Let's do it. I'm a professional magician, so I do know what to do, really.] (text-colour:purple)[Your Loopy can never tune the Anvil unless you learn to''Listen.''] (text-colour:orange)[Magic filler.] (text-colour:purple)[Naturally, fundamentally, and absolutely importantly magic like this requires fancy little items. Pretty sure I left it somewhere in the kitchen.] (text-colour:navy)[Find it, and I'll teach you the rest.] (text-colour:green)[Player sees the magical glowing coming from the dishes in the sink. ] [[Examine dishes]]

Game text: Found ''Hidden Path!'' (text-colour:purple)[This is my ''Staff''. It's how I wield magic.] (text-colour:orange)[Pearl plays a pretty filler.](text-colour:green)[ A particle effect of peanuts float into the air.] (text-colour:purple)[Oops. Should have asked if you're allergic first. I'll add them to the pile.] [[Ask Pearl about fixing the anvil.]] [[Ask Pearl about calendar.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about returning home.]] [[Pearl {FREEFLOW}]]

Game text: Found ''Hidden Path!'' (text-colour:purple)[Oh nooooo. You're lost! Ahhhhh. But like wowwwwwww. Pretty exciting. What're you gonna do?] (text-colour:orange)[Mysterious filler.] (text-colour:purple)[Sorry. I'm not sure what you should do. ] (text-colour:purple)[You're never lost if you're traveling. Maybe try that. Works for me.] [[Ask Pearl about fixing the anvil.]] [[Ask Pearl about calendar.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about flute.]] [[Pearl {FREEFLOW}]]

(text-colour:purple)[Oh that? It's been a long October. Or two. Let me see, how many have we had recently... ] (text-colour:orange)[She plays a nervous filler.] (text-colour:purple)[So that's fun, isn't it?] [[Ask Pearl about fixing the anvil.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about flute.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about returning home.]] [[Pearl {FREEFLOW}]]

To be connected to LLM dialogue system. [[Ask Pearl about fixing the anvil.]] [[Ask Pearl about calendar.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about flute.]] [[Hidden: Ask Pearl about returning home.]]

Game text: You search the dirty dishes. Game text: You found the ''Listen Pipe''. Its added to your inventory. [[Talk to Pearl |Repair the Scale]] //art note: Basically a big musical pitch pipe.//

Cinematic 1: Image 1: A wooden wagon slowly crosses through a wooded path. The driver is a hooded figure, not more than a silhouette and a lamp. Stars hang in the sky. Image2: The driver TAPS against the wall of the wagon. Image3: The interior of the wagon from the POV of player seated facing forward. Out the window is the rain, stars, and the top of the driver's hat. In the player's hands is a soggy letter, the to and from unreadable. Seperating this into a before letter and have letter version is preferrable, but not a deal breaker. If you can animate the letter being thrown into the wagon, go for it. Image4: A wet letter. Okay if all words are not able to fit on screen or are legible. Prefer lower portion of screen taken up by letter and upper portion show the window, which is now filled with a galactic stream of color and light. Letter contents: Dear reader, We regret to inform you that you are officially rejected from this world. This is effective immediately. Please standby for the --pl--m-g-rt-z-- process to complete. Your participation is mandatory. However you'll need a new form. But first we'll need to get rid of the old one! Image5: Just a classic white out. Unlikely you need to generate anything here. Cinematic 2: Image6: The wagon is floating in the white voice of the character customization screen/albedo

[[Animatic 1]]

[[EXT. - SMITHY ]]

Purple=dialogue Orange= Music asset, sfx, sound design Green= Art Asset, props, animations, backgrounds, environments How To tag - Highlight relevant text, click on rainbow circle in the above hook gui, then choose appropriate color. Examples below. (text-colour:green)[Taryn lifts giant balloon animal.] (text-colour:orange)[Taryn plays the anvil.] (text-colour:purple)[Did you like that song?]

Game text: Explore the vilage for sounds. Use Listen at different buildings to see what's revealed. Tut text: To cast a Scroll Spell open up the menu and...//fill in with design// This is likely the first possibly open world segement they could play. If so, insert open world tut here too. [[EXT Sawmill]] [[EXT Tavern]] [[EXT Library]] [[EXT Smithy2]]

To be written - player can ask for hint drops for listen sequence [[Exit Pearl's Shop]]

Player uses Listen at the Smithy. Game text: You've cast the Listen Spell. Game text2: You don't hear anything. The listen segments are interchangable. [[EXT Market2]]

Game text: Something seems different about the shrine. (text-colour:orange)[You can almost hear something on the wind.] [[Listen to Market]]

Player uses Listen at the Shrine. Game text1: (text-colour:orange)[You listen to the drift of the air, moved by the shape of clouds, and their dreams. Game text2: You can now hear the lungs of this world, a tempo quick and flowing.] Game text3: Your Loopy now detects Wind Magic, and its unique tempo. [[Cinematic 4]]

Pearl VO: (text-colour:purple)[*musical magical snoring interrupted* snrrrhuhwha? I think someone's downstairs. Can you check please?] (text-colour:orange)[The wind sound picks up.] (text-colour:green)[Storm clouds and fog fill the shrine, as it](text-colour:green)[ glows with magic.] (text-colour:orange)[Thunder claps. Big echoy wind chimes.] (text-colour:orange)[The clouds clear, and Echo the wind Fae stands at the Shrine below Pearl's shop.] (text-colour:purple)[Now who's stomping around at this hour?] [[I didn't touch anything.|Talk to Echo]] [[A powerful magician.|Talk to Echo]]

Taryn Character Reference: Professor Farnsworth? Jimmy Neutron Pearl Character Reference: Luna Lovegood Echo Character Reference: Mathilda “And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda “If you are good life is good.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda “Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda Violet Baudelaire Harriet the Spy In other words, a very intellectualy curious and active young person. - spunky, clever, bemused, bookish Sort of like Athena, but not all knowing. Wind chimes Spyder Character Reference: Dunno yet ''Spyder Art brief sent to Rihards Char Model'' "All the other Fae, narrative was thinking they look like very traditional elementals - people clearly made up fire, water, etc 12:47 But Spyder is Aether, so he doesn't really fit that mold, so I made a concept that's a bit more in theme, should feel like a reward for the player, and so on. 12:47 ''Spyder Aesthetic references'' Spyder is a six limbed (or normal limbed) fae of the Aether. Aether is the element of crafting, combining, mixing, and creating. On a thematic level, they represent all elements combined, so should incorporate the four elemental colors/symbols. Their skin/body is made up of a mash of items, lots of art supplies, misc items appropriate to a rennaissance village, and items that feel related to aether-tech (like the gramophones), such as Taryn works with and creates. This is inspired by the assemblage technique. Some references are below.https://pin.it/71YH9PDOW https://pin.it/3t09tQO84 https://pin.it/5tfrPmNDy https://pin.it/1YWEvk27y https://pin.it/7mJZkrC4z https://pin.it/1BqWui0iA https://pin.it/1RXRZWm0k https://pin.it/4GvbG9CyV https://pin.it/3ktzxwpsp https://pin.it/6mrQ4J7cg I also highly suggest taking alook at Nick Cave's Sound Suits for inspiration! https://publicdelivery.org/nick-cave-soundsuits/" Old char ref redux: Whimsical taryn redux - Aether/binding element - mad genius - craves validation < conflict? - melts down when anything goes wrong/doesn't appear smart< conflict? -broken scale < is hiding this from player, but player keeps asking anyhow - offers useuless upgrades constantly - aether magic only works when they can connect with others/form emotional bonds - heart Whimsical Pearl - Air - a let (goodness) - short attention span - curious - freedom lover - burst out in language/hypefocus - well traveled -laughs! - feels tied down here < conflict? - disorganized - distractable < conflict? Thingd go unfinished. Needed things. - Magic teacher - plays wind instrument(originally saxophone) Fae lore redux elementals created by music Have an anchor/temple visible and invisble forms True forms: in home, at night Day: animals? ''Fae are attracted to music! '' Smithy familiars - control forge temp - protect against burns - sense metal impurities market fae - meh, social sevants I guess? Echo redux Echo windweaver, Voice of the gales born from the four wnds - perfect WIND stuff - is not pearl's familiar, just hangs out around there? A wisp wind compass?, carries bells that contain trapped whispers (sabriel reference detected) finishes sentences with wind chimes never lies matriarchal patient kind https://gitlab.com/the-smithy1/glass-umbrella-knowledge-repo/-/blob/main/docs/worldbuilding/village-of-grit/npcs/echo/character-sheet-echo.md?ref_type=heads Spyder redux Forge Brownie - what's a forge brownie? keeper of grudges grumpy old man Born in the forge beneath the hill(van down by the river,etc etc) A house fae - as in comfort food fae? oh as in a small brown spider tool belt more bells??? boots has trained the forge mice to move metal (ghibli ref for sure) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/176766354115020888/ https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.wRUbhMZPVHE2XLD9mFs-LgHaEK%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=d1dfdf078954b1af428ba2b83ca7eb231fd12023e54f220ae0ab91f0345f8a50&ipo=images https://gitlab.com/the-smithy1/glass-umbrella-knowledge-repo/-/blob/main/docs/worldbuilding/village-of-grit/npcs/spyder/character-sheet-spyder.md?ref_type=heads https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Kamaj%C4%AB Inspired byan outdated japanese derogatory term for dirt/earth spider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuchigumo Otherwise known as political anarchist clans and individuals who would not submit to imperial rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor%C5%8Dgumo

(text-colour:purple)[You? I'm not conviced. And I would know. I'm Echo, Wind Fea, protecter of-] Pearl VO: (text-colour:purple)[Echo, are you going all big on the new one?] (text-colour:purple)[Well-] Pearl VO: (text-colour:purple)[Be nice to them. They're nice. Be nice.] (text-colour:purple)[I'm nice. ] Pearl VO: (text-colour:purple)[Nice.] (text-colour:purple)[Nice.] Pearl VO: (text-colour:purple)[Going back to sleep now niiiiiii- *copious snores*] (text-colour:purple)[What can I help you with wanderer?] [[What's a Fae?]] [[I need to see Pearl.]] [[Where'd you come from?]] [[Ask Echo about the elemental tempos.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about returning home.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about October.]] [[Echo{FREEFLOW}]] --Echo teaches you a wind spell - for some reason? - introduces fae - echo knows some things, and can answer your questions a bit more directly -sawmill, tavern, library - Echo deliveres the gramophone mission - what for??? Why does the player care -- you'll need the gramophones fixed in order to ECHO IS A LORE DUMP/UNLOCK - the elements, the Loopy 201 explainer, got it - Echo describes Aether to you -- The anvil and many other powerful devices run off of Aether energy here. Without something to tune the elements, Aether struggles to gather in large enough amounts to fuel anything, or whatever??? -- echo lore dumps about the four corners of the soundiverse or whatever? They are listening to the Lost Sounds - the sounds of the seasons?? of time??? Ocarina of time crossover too imminent.... Sounds of winter? -- ECHO teaches you STIR, after a puzzle? OR as a reward?

(text-colour:purple)[A fae is a magical creature connected to the elemental forces of this world. We come in all varities, and some us are connected to companions, like I am with Pearl.] [[I need to see Pearl.]] [[Where'd you come from?]] [[Ask Echo about the elemental tempos.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about returning home.]] [[Echo{FREEFLOW}]]

Pearl is busy sleeping. I can help you though. [[Can you help me fix the anvil?]] [[What's a Fae?]] [[Where'd you come from?]] [[Ask Echo about the elemental tempos.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about returning home.]] [[Echo{FREEFLOW}]]

Game text: Found ''Hidden Path!'' (text-colour:purple)[As a being of magic, who's a lot smarter than you, I'm afraid you might not like my answer. I don't know of a way for you to return home. But if there is, it's likely to require lots and lots of magic. ] [[What's a Fae?]] [[I need to see Pearl.]] [[Where'd you come from?]] [[Ask Echo about the elemental tempos.]] [[Echo{FREEFLOW}]]

(text-colour:purple)[Some Fae are anchored to this world by significant places. When you listened to my shrine, it called up wild wind magic, and I was drawn to it. ] (text-colour:purple)[But also you were pretty loud. ] [[What's a Fae?]] [[I need to see Pearl.]] [[Ask Echo about the elemental tempos.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about returning home.]] [[Echo{FREEFLOW}]]

(text-colour:purple)[All magic is connected to the elements. One for each direction in the universe - ''North, South, East, and West.'' Go far enough in any one direction, maybe for your entire life, and you'll find their source. But for everyone else who has a busy schedule, we learn the tempos so we can cast spells. Your Loopy will van detect the presence of the tempos, and now you can cast spells in their elements as well.] [[Can you help me fix the anvil?]] [[What's a Fae?]] [[I need to see Pearl.]] [[Where'd you come from?]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about returning home.]] [[Echo{FREEFLOW}]]

(text-colour:purple)[Let me ask. CAN I? ] Pearl VO: (text-colour:purple)[What?] (text-colour:purple)[DO YOU MIND IF I HELP THE WANDERER DO THE WHOLE ANVIL THING? LIKE, I DON'T MIND, BUT-] Pearl VO: (text-colour:purple)[Goodness. Do it then. (text-colour:orange)[Grumpy filler. ] Quiet pleassseeee.] So. The anvil runs on ''Aether Magic''. Aether rarely occurs in nature, except in places that can channel all the elements together. Taryn built ''Record Players '' around the village to do just that. But if her anvil isn't working, that means something's wrong with them. To start, find the one around here in the market. [[Player finds market Record Player]] //Offering an angle on the original puzzle. Think this will make more narrative sense and be a more intutive puzzle for an age group that might not know the cardinal points to begin with.//

To be connected to LLM dialogue system. [[What's a Fae?]] [[I need to see Pearl.]] [[Where'd you come from?]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about returning home.]]

Game text: Found ''Hidden Path!'' (text-colour:purple)[... You see that too? It's not something I can explain to you right now. Visit my shrine tomorrow morning.] [[What's a Fae?]] [[I need to see Pearl.]] [[Where'd you come from?]] [[Ask Echo about the elemental tempos.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about returning home.]] [[Echo{FREEFLOW}]]

Player finds the first record player in the market.(text-colour:green)[ Giving it good lighting/glow should help them find it quick enough. The record player should have the cardinal points carved into it or its pedastool, with North painted red.] Echo ~follows~ the player, by providing tut tips. We can either put her face profile in the text box or a 2d profile, visual novel style, above the text box. Echo VO:(text-colour:purple)[ You've found it. This one is... Well someone changed it. You'll need to get it back to the direction indicated on the pedastool. You'll need a new spell for that. Here.] Game text: ''Swirl Spell Scroll ''added to Spellbook. (text-colour:purple)[Swirl allows you rotate objects to the four directions of the universe - North, South, East, and West.] Game text2: Cast swirl to rotate the record player to the right direction. Player uses swirl until record player is north. (text-colour:orange)[A loud click, the record player comes to life, playing a song of the wind.] (text-colour:green)[A concentrated ray of wind magic FX comes from the northern sky. ] Echo VO: (text-colour:purple)[Good. You've done it! Three left to go. ] [[EXT tavern 2]] [[EXT library 2]] [[EXT sawmill 2]] (text-colour:green)[//Design idea/art request: Each record player is pointing to an elemental landmark. For this, it could be a flag flapping in the wind, a bunch of spinning pinwheels, or leaves blowing off the branches of a tree.// ]

Player finds record player. (text-colour:green)[Its pedastool has the compass rose, with the southern point colored red.] Player uses swirl until record player is south. (text-colour:orange)[A loud click, the record player comes to life, playing a song of fire.] (text-colour:green)[A concentrated ray of fire magic FX comes from the southern sky. ] Echo VO: (text-colour:purple)[That's south done. ] [[EXT library 2]] [[EXT sawmill 2]] [[Record Player Puzzle Complete]] (text-colour:green)[//Design idea/art request: Each record player is pointing to an elemental landmark. For this, few idea, bright hearth inside the tavern you can see through a window or maybe a cooking fire outside or torches outside its entrance.// ]

Player finds record player. (text-colour:orange)[Its pedastool has the compass rose, with the western point colored red.] Player uses swirl until record player is west. (text-colour:orange)[A loud click, the record player comes to life, playing a song of earth.] (text-colour:green)[A concentrated ray of earth magic FX comes from the western sky. ] Echo VO: (text-colour:purple)[That's the western side of the universe taken care of.] [[EXT tavern 2]] [[EXT sawmill 2]] [[Record Player Puzzle Complete]] (text-colour:green)[//Design idea/art request: Each record player is pointing to an elemental landmark. For this, it's a large boulder set into the wall of library or a large tree. Maybe a rock sculpture.// ]

Player finds record player. (text-colour:green)[Its pedastool has the compass rose, with the eastern point colored red.] Player uses swirl until record player is East. (text-colour:orange)[A loud click, the record player comes to life, playing a song of water.] (text-colour:green)[A concentrated ray of water magic FX comes from the eastern sky. ] Echo VO: (text-colour:purple)[That will do for East. ] [[EXT tavern 2]] [[EXT library 2]] [[Record Player Puzzle Complete]] (text-colour:green)[//Design idea/art request: Each record player is pointing to an elemental landmark. For this, it would be the river.// ]

After player has completed last record player, regardless of area. Echo VO: That's complete now. Wow. It's... this should be... very interesting. [[Cinematic 5]]

CUT TO: (text-colour:orange)[The smithy's windows explode with magical green light.] Taryn VO: (text-colour:purple)[Ahhhhh! Spyder!!!] [[Back to player]]

Return back to player screen, (text-colour:green)[the record player now has an extra green glow as well.] Echo VO: (text-colour:purple)[Spooky.] [[Did it work?]] [[Ask Echo about green light.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about Record Players.]] [[Return to EXT Smithy]]

Echo VO: It worked. Aether is back in the village. For better. Or for worse. [[Ask Echo about green light.]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about Record Players.]] [[Return to EXT Smithy]]

That green light is ''Aether Magic.'' It's what the anvil was missing. [[Did it work?]] [[Hidden: Ask Echo about Record Players.]] [[Return to EXT Smithy]]

(text-colour:purple)[These are some kind of ''Aether Tech.'' Every book about it I've found is kookoo bananas nonsense. I can't remember the last time they were working.] [[Did it work?]] [[Ask Echo about green light.]] [[Return to EXT Smithy]]