game skeleton

internal/content/dialog/dex_talk.go

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+package dialog
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// dexTalk is the standing conversation with Dex. Its branches are gated on
+// story flags, so the same entry point stays useful as the game progresses.
+func dexTalk() inkwell.Dialogue {
+	return inkwell.Dialogue{
+		Name:  names.DlgDex,
+		Start: "root",
+		Nodes: []inkwell.DialogueNode{{
+			Name:  "root",
+			Lines: []inkwell.DialogueLine{{Speaker: names.Dex, Text: "Talk."}},
+			Choices: []inkwell.DialogueChoice{
+				{
+					Text: "What am I doing here, Dex?",
+					Actions: []inkwell.Action{
+						inkwell.Say(names.Dex, "You got a letter from a man you hadn't seen in twenty years. And you came. That says more about you than it does about him."),
+						inkwell.GotoNode("root"),
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					Text: "What do you know about Noodle?",
+					Show: inkwell.Not(inkwell.Flag(names.FlagHasTape)),
+					Actions: []inkwell.Action{
+						inkwell.Say(names.Dex, "He traded cracked Armillas. That isn't charity, Paul, that's a business. The kind they take you in for."),
+						inkwell.GotoNode("root"),
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					Text: "What do you make of this tape?",
+					Show: inkwell.Flag(names.FlagHasTape),
+					Actions: []inkwell.Action{
+						inkwell.Say(names.Dex, "I make of it that you found a password-locked tape in a gap between two bins, on a tip from a government office. Count how many times that has ended well."),
+						inkwell.GotoNode("root"),
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					Text: "I miss you.",
+					Once: true,
+					Actions: []inkwell.Action{
+						inkwell.Say(names.Dex, "I'm four kilobytes of a dead man. Don't do this to yourself."),
+						inkwell.GotoNode("root"),
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					Text:    "Nothing. Forget it.",
+					Actions: []inkwell.Action{inkwell.EndDialogue()},
+				},
+			},
+		}},
+	}
+}

internal/content/dialog/dialog.go

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+// Package dialog registers the game's dialogue trees.
+//
+// Talking to a tape carries the same weight as talking to a human NPC — the
+// wiki states this explicitly. Tapes are dialogue partners, not menus.
+//
+// A note on DialogueChoice.Once: inkwell HIDES a spent choice. The wireframe
+// deck wanted it struck through but still visible, so the list becomes a
+// memory of what you already tried. That is still open — see README, "Known
+// gaps".
+package dialog
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"realworld/internal/world"
+)
+
+// Register adds every dialogue to the game.
+func Register(w *world.World) {
+	for _, d := range []inkwell.Dialogue{
+		dexTalk(),
+		mysteryTapeSilent(),
+	} {
+		w.G.DialogueManager.Register(d)
+	}
+}

internal/content/dialog/mystery_tape_silent.go

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+package dialog
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// mysteryTapeSilent covers the stretch before the club trigger (beat 6), while
+// the tape is still mute. Talking to it is really Dex talking about it — the
+// tape itself says nothing.
+func mysteryTapeSilent() inkwell.Dialogue {
+	return inkwell.Dialogue{
+		Name:  names.DlgMysteryTape,
+		Start: "root",
+		Nodes: []inkwell.DialogueNode{{
+			Name:  "root",
+			Lines: []inkwell.DialogueLine{{Speaker: names.Dex, Text: "Nothing. Warm, spinning, and silent."}},
+			Choices: []inkwell.DialogueChoice{
+				{
+					Text: "Are you sure it works?",
+					Actions: []inkwell.Action{
+						inkwell.Say(names.Dex, "It works. It just isn't talking to you. That is not the same as silence."),
+						inkwell.GotoNode("root"),
+					},
+				},
+				{
+					Text:    "Fine. It'll speak when it speaks.",
+					Actions: []inkwell.Action{inkwell.EndDialogue()},
+				},
+			},
+		}},
+	}
+}