salet/game/story.coffee

room "world",
  tags: ["start"],
  optionText: "Enter the world",
  ways: ["plaza"]
  content: """
    ### Rhinestone Room
    
    You're in a large room carved inside a giant milky rock mountain.
    The floor and walls are littered with signs and signatures of the previous visitors.

    A steep narrow #{textlink("well", "well")} proceeds upward.
  """
  writers:
    well: "There is only one passage out. See the „Other rooms“ block popped up? Click it."

room "plaza",
  title: (from) ->
    if from == "world"
      return "Upwards"
    else
      return "Town plaza"
  cycle_gallery: () -> # it needs to be a function if you want localization
    return [
      "quirky", "distinct", "kooky", "crazy", "quaint"
    ]
  ways: ["shop"]
  before: (character, system, from) ->
    if from == 'world'
      """
        You climb up the well and come out to a central plaza of a #{cyclelink("quaint")} little town.
        A plaque nearby says it's the town of *Innsmouth,* wherever that is.
      """
    else
      "You quickly find the central plaza."
  content: (character, system) -> 
    retval = "There are #{textlink("people shouting", "people")} nearby."
    unless character.sandbox.has_mark?
      retval += "\n\nYou could ask a policeman #{textlink("for directions.", "mark")}"
    return retval
  writers:
    cyclewriter: (character) -> cycle(this, character)
    mark: (character) ->
      if character.sandbox.has_mark?
        return "You already talked to him, no need to bug the man twice."
      character.sandbox.has_mark ?= true
      get_room("lair").destination()
      """
        “Here, let me mark it on your map.”
      """
    people: 'Just some weirdos shouting "Viva la Cthulhu!". Typical.'

room "shop",
  title: "The Shop"
  ways: ["plaza", "shop-inside", "lair"]
  content: """
    Being the only shop in town, this trendy establishment did not need a name.
    It's an open question why it had one, especially because its name was "Hung Crossing".

    You are standing in front of a picturesque sign. It's cold here.
  """

room "lair",
  title: "The Lair"
  before: "Finding The Lair is easy. Leaving it is impossible. Your game ends here."
  content: """
    The Lair of Yog-Sothoth is a very *n'gai* cave, full of *buggs-shoggogs* and *n'ghaa ng'aa*.
  """
  objects: {
    bugg: obj "bugg",
      dsc: "You see a particularly beautiful slimy {{bugg.}}"
      takeable: false
      act: () =>
        here().drop(@name)
        return "You eat the bugg mass. Delicious and raw. Perhaps it's a good lair to live in."
  }

dialogue "Yes", "merchant", "merchant", """
  Yes.
"""

room "shop-inside",
  ways: ["shop"]
  tags: ["merchant"]
  optionText: "End the conversation"
  title: "Inside the Shop"
  content: """
    The insides are painted pastel white, honouring The Great Milk Spill of 1985.  
  """
  objects: {
    merchant: obj "merchant",
      dsc: "A {{merchant}} eyes you warily."
      takeable: false
      act: (character, system) =>
        undum.processClick("merchdialogue")
        return ""
  }

###
I want to be able to do this but I can't because I'm lost in all the `this` and @objects and `new`.
The chain of calls is very weird and this puts an object IN EVERY ROOM for God's sake.
I need someone smarter than me to fix this.

lamp = obj "lamp",
  dsc: "You see a {{lamp.}}"
  takeable: true
lamp.put("shop-inside")
###

room "merchdialogue",
  choices: "#merchant",
  content: """
    Nice day, isn't it?
  """