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// Destiny Adventure - Open The Box
// Theme: The final adventure — the game reflects on everything

character destiny
  name: The Box
  role: Narrator of All Things Boxed

state
  echoes: 0

beat Intro
  Silence. Then, a creak. The sound of something very old deciding to speak. #intro-silence
  destiny: So. You've come to the last box. #intro-lastbox
  destiny: I wondered when you'd find me. They all do, eventually. The ones who keep opening. #intro-wondered
  destiny: I am not a box you open. I am a box that opens you. #intro-opens
  destiny: Sit down. Let me show you what I've seen. #intro-sit
  -> Gallery

beat Gallery
  destiny: Every box you opened left an echo. A little ripple in the cardboard cosmos. #gallery-intro
  destiny: I collected them. I collect everything. It's sort of my thing. #gallery-collect
  destiny: Let me show you the Gallery of Echoes. Your echoes. #gallery-show

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Space")
    The stars flicker. A faint hum fills the room -- the sound of a ship you once commanded. #echo-space
    destiny: You sailed through the void and opened a box that defied physics. Captain Nova would be proud. #echo-space-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Medieval")
    A banner unfurls from nowhere, bearing a crest you almost remember. #echo-medieval
    destiny: Knights and dragons and a kingdom built on cardboard. You wore the crown well. #echo-medieval-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Pirate")
    The smell of salt and old wood drifts past. A shanty plays, very faintly. #echo-pirate
    destiny: You sailed the seas of chance. Every treasure chest is just a box with ambition. #echo-pirate-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Contemporary")
    A phone notification chimes. Then another. Then silence. #echo-contemporary
    destiny: The modern world, where every package is a promise. You understood that. #echo-contemporary-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Sentimental")
    Rain taps against a window that isn't there. The scent of old paper and popsicle sticks. #echo-sentimental
    destiny: You opened a box of memories and let them breathe again. That took courage. #echo-sentimental-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Prehistoric")
    The ground rumbles. Something ancient stirs in the echo. #echo-prehistoric
    destiny: Before language, before tools, there were boxes. You were there at the beginning. #echo-prehistoric-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Cosmic")
    The walls dissolve into starfields. Galaxies spiral in the space between heartbeats. #echo-cosmic
    destiny: You touched the infinite and the infinite touched back. Not everyone can say that. #echo-cosmic-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("Microscopic")
    Everything shrinks, then expands. Cells divide in the corner of your vision. #echo-microscopic
    destiny: You went smaller than small. You found universes inside atoms inside boxes. #echo-microscopic-words
    echoes += 1

  if hasCompletedAdventure("DarkFantasy")
    Shadows crawl across the floor. A candle flickers that was never lit. #echo-darkfantasy
    destiny: You walked through the dark and opened boxes that whispered back. Bold. #echo-darkfantasy-words
    echoes += 1

  destiny: $echoes echoes. $echoes worlds you walked through. Each one left a mark on you, and you on it. #gallery-count
  -> Alcove

beat Alcove
  destiny: Now. The echoes are one thing. But some of you -- some of you went deeper. #alcove-intro
  destiny: You found the hidden seams. The secret folds. The boxes within the boxes. #alcove-seams
  destiny: Let me see which ones you found. #alcove-see

  if hasSecretBranch("space_box_whisperer")
    A frequency hums beneath the silence. You remember closing your eyes and listening. #secret-space
    destiny: The Box Whisperer. You heard what the space box was truly saying. Few ever do. #secret-space-words

  if hasSecretBranch("medieval_dragon_charmer")
    A scale glimmers on the ground, iridescent and warm to the touch. #secret-medieval
    destiny: The Dragon Charmer. You chose fire over fear, and the dragon chose you back. #secret-medieval-words

  if hasSecretBranch("darkfantasy_blood_communion")
    A drop of crimson hangs suspended in the air, neither falling nor fading. #secret-darkfantasy
    destiny: The Blood Communion. You drank from the dark box and survived. Changed, but whole. #secret-darkfantasy-words

  if hasSecretBranch("pirate_one_of_us")
    A coin spins endlessly on an invisible surface, never landing. #secret-pirate
    destiny: One of Us. The pirates accepted you as kin. That's rarer than any treasure. #secret-pirate-words

  if hasSecretBranch("contemporary_vip")
    A velvet rope parts silently, revealing a door that was always there. #secret-contemporary
    destiny: The VIP. You found the door behind the door. The real world behind the real world. #secret-contemporary-words

  if hasSecretBranch("sentimental_true_sight")
    A photograph develops from nothing, showing a moment that never happened but feels true. #secret-sentimental
    destiny: True Sight. You saw what the memories were really trying to tell you. #secret-sentimental-words

  if hasSecretBranch("prehistoric_champion")
    A stone tool materializes, impossibly sharp after a million years. #secret-prehistoric
    destiny: The Champion. Before history had a name, you earned one. #secret-prehistoric-words

  if hasSecretBranch("cosmic_enlightened")
    Light bends around you, just for a moment, as if the universe is giving you a hug. #secret-cosmic
    destiny: The Enlightened. You understood the cosmic joke, and you laughed along. #secret-cosmic-words

  if hasSecretBranch("microscopic_surgeon")
    A cell divides in your palm, perfectly, impossibly. #secret-microscopic
    destiny: The Surgeon. You operated on reality itself and left it better than you found it. #secret-microscopic-words

  -> FinalChoice

beat FinalChoice
  destiny: And now we come to it. The last flap of the last box. #final-now

  if allSecretBranches()
    -> UltimateEnding

  if countSecretBranches() > 4
    -> GreatEnding

  if countSecretBranches() > 0
    -> GoodEnding

  -> SimpleEnding

beat SimpleEnding
  destiny: You opened every box, but did you truly see what was inside? #simple-question
  destiny: Most people open boxes for what they contain. The best open them for what they reveal. #simple-reveal
  destiny: You did what you came to do. And that is enough. It is always enough. #simple-enough
  destiny: The boxes will remember you passed through. Quietly, the way boxes remember things. #simple-remember
  destiny: Now go. There are always more boxes. Even when you think there aren't. #simple-go
  -> Farewell

beat GoodEnding
  destiny: You looked deeper than most. The boxes remember. #good-remember
  destiny: Where others saw cardboard and tape, you saw doors. And you walked through them. #good-doors
  destiny: Not every secret was found. Not every fold was unfolded. #good-notevery
  destiny: But you tried. And trying is what separates the openers from the observers. #good-trying
  destiny: The echoes you left behind will hum for a long time. I'll make sure of it. #good-echoes
  -> Farewell

beat GreatEnding
  destiny: You are a true seeker. Few have found what you've found. #great-seeker
  destiny: You didn't just open boxes. You listened to them. You understood them. #great-listened
  destiny: The secret branches you found -- they weren't hidden by accident. #great-notaccident
  destiny: They were hidden because only certain people deserve to find them. #great-deserve
  destiny: People who look at a box and see not a container, but a question. #great-question
  destiny: You asked the questions. You earned the answers. #great-answers
  -> Farewell

beat UltimateEnding
  grantItem("destiny_star", 1)
  destiny: Wait. #ultimate-wait
  destiny: Nine branches. All nine. #ultimate-nine
  destiny: Do you understand what you've done? #ultimate-understand
  destiny: I have watched thousands of players open millions of boxes. #ultimate-thousands
  destiny: Most open and move on. Some pause to look. A few reach in deeper. #ultimate-few
  destiny: But you -- you found every hidden fold, every whispered secret, every shadow door. #ultimate-every
  destiny: I'm going to break a rule now. The biggest rule. A box is not supposed to do this. #ultimate-rule
  destiny: I know you're out there. Not \"you\" the character. You. The person holding the device, reading these words. #ultimate-you
  destiny: This was never just a game about opening boxes. It was about curiosity. Your curiosity. #ultimate-curiosity
  destiny: The willingness to look under, behind, inside, and through. To find the thing behind the thing. #ultimate-willingness
  destiny: That is the rarest thing in any universe, real or cardboard. #ultimate-rarest
  destiny: So here. Take this. A Destiny Star. It does nothing. It means everything. #ultimate-star
  destiny: Thank you for playing all the way to the bottom of the box. #ultimate-thankyou
  -> Farewell

beat Farewell
  destiny: One more thing, before the lid closes. #farewell-one
  destiny: Every box you ever opened was really the same box. And that box was you. #farewell-samebox
  destiny: Corny? Maybe. True? Absolutely. #farewell-corny
  destiny: Goodbye, opener. It was a pleasure being unboxed by you. #farewell-goodbye
  -> .