feat(copy): #299 #300 opening hook monologue — smuggler + detective first 5 minutes

Smuggler: 11-line diegetic tutorial arc (station hum → Kael → fog → sound ping)
Detective: 12-line analytical tutorial arc (lattice overlay → Sera → manifest anomaly)

Both sequences: priority 8-10, cooldown 9999 (fire once), prerequisites null,
fully D-035 schema-compliant. Voice-checked against docs/design/voice-patterns.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-02-21 14:05:17 +01:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6
parent c01ad011ed
commit 6dc3a123e6
2 changed files with 317 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
character: detective
location: opening
lines:
# Opening Hook Sequence — Ticket #300 — Detective Diegetic Tutorial Arc / First 5 Minutes
# 12 lines. Prerequisites null on all — fires before any knowledge graph state exists.
# Priority 8-10 ensures these fire before the general terminal pool lines.
# cooldown: 9999 — each line fires once, does not repeat.
# Arc: institutional orientation → sensory/analytical → lattice overlay → Commission kiosk → fog boundary →
# NPC lattice scan → Sera sighting → Sera warmth → manifest board → anomaly → flag it → operational settle.
# Contraction discipline: analytical lines = uncontracted; personal lines (Sera) = contracted.
# All lines fully schema-compliant per D-035 (role, access, trust, situation present).
- id: opening_m_d_001
text: "Sova Transit. Mid-morning shift, dock lighting at half-cycle. Consistent with the Commission pre-arrival briefing."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [focused]
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, analytical, orientation]
notes: "Opening line. Reality matches the briefing — he arrived prepared. Establishes: detective as institutional outsider sent here. Cool-lit corridors per D-046 expressed through 'half-cycle' lighting observation. No contractions (analytical)."
- id: opening_m_d_002
text: "Cargo lubricant, recycled atmosphere. Same mixture on every freight hub from here to the wormhole threshold. First observation: consistent with Commission briefing profile."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, atmospheric, analytical]
notes: "Environmental sensory in analytical register. Colon usage (detective verbal pattern, section 2.2). No contractions. Contrast with smuggler's 'Home sweet home' — same smell, opposite emotional valence. He's working, not home."
- id: opening_m_d_003
text: "Lattice overlay initializing. Four identity flags in immediate range — cross-referencing against Commission case file."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [focused]
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, lattice, perception]
notes: "Teaches insert channel. The analytical lattice is active on entry — it flags and cross-references automatically. Teaches: detective's insert HUD is denser and diegetically active (D-048). Players learn the lattice is a tool, not decoration."
- id: opening_m_d_004
text: "Commission kiosk confirmed my credentials on entry. Authority access logged. The floor knows someone's here."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [focused]
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, institutional, authority]
notes: "Commission kiosk visible, institutional standing established. Sardonic close — dry awareness of his effect on the social environment. Confidence register: wry humor (section 2.8). Teaches: Authority access tier, institutional role is visible to NPCs."
- id: opening_m_d_005
text: "Visual range terminates at bay nine. Approximately fifteen meters. Consistent with district atmo settings."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, observation]
trigger: enter_location
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, fog, perception]
notes: "Fog boundary in analytical register. He clocks the measurement, notes 'approximately' — precision with honest calibration. Contrast with smuggler's 'Can't see the far dock' — same fog, different framing: limitation vs. measurement."
- id: opening_m_d_006
text: "Dock workers distributed across nine visible bays. Lattice flagging each on contact. Names from the case file, faces from the floor."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, observation]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [focused]
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, lattice, orientation]
notes: "Spatial overview with lattice overlay tutorial. Explains how the insert channel works: lattice matches observed faces against the pre-loaded case file. Parallel structure ('Names from... faces from...'). Teaches: NPC identification comes through the lattice."
- id: opening_m_d_007
text: "Venn, S. at the far terminal. She said she'd come in early."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, social]
trigger: observe_npc
mood: [warm]
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, sera, friend-arc]
notes: "First Sera sighting. Surname-initial filing first (institutional reflex) — then breaks to personal contracted voice ('she'd') in the same beat. Teaches contrast: case-file subjects get 'Davan, K.'; Sera gets a different register. D-033 Unknown/Neutral teal entity."
- id: opening_m_d_008
text: "She's got the manifest logs open already. We've worked this district before — she knows what I need before I ask."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, social]
trigger: observe_npc
mood: [warm]
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, sera, friend-arc]
notes: "Sera warmth. Fully contracted throughout ('She's', 'We've', 'she knows') — personal mode, no analytical distance. Em-dash. Prior relationship established. Contrast with how he processes everyone else. Teaches: some NPCs are in a different relational category (THE FRIEND pattern, D-034)."
- id: opening_m_d_009
text: "Central manifest board: real-time container routing, weight declarations, bay assignments. Everything routes through here."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, investigation]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [focused]
priority: 8
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, manifest, investigation]
notes: "Manifest board labeled and cataloged. Colon usage (section 2.2). No contractions (analytical). Teaches: the manifest board is the information hub — and therefore the investigation's starting point."
- id: opening_m_d_010
text: "Container 4471. Temp storage flag since yesterday. Standard turnaround is sub-eight hours — that's not standard."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, observation, investigation]
trigger: observe_anomaly
mood: [focused, suspicious]
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, manifest, investigation, anomaly]
notes: "First manifest anomaly. Specific container ID from case file. 'That's not standard' — only contraction in an analytical line, marking it as personal reaction to the finding. Sets the investigation hook: something is wrong before he asks a single question."
- id: opening_m_d_011
text: "Worth flagging. Let's see what the shift logs say about that container's overnight routing."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [observation, investigation]
trigger: observe_anomaly
mood: [focused]
priority: 8
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, investigation, next-step]
notes: "'Worth flagging' + 'Let's see what' — both detective verbal tics in sequence (section 2.7). Frames the next investigative step. Teaches: investigation is incremental — observe, flag, investigate deeper."
- id: opening_m_d_012
text: "Lattice stable. Nine identity flags and counting. Let's see what this shift tells me."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [focused]
priority: 7
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, lattice, operational]
notes: "Operational settle — closes the opening arc. Lattice confirmed active, identity count growing. 'Let's see what...' verbal tic as the closing beat. The whole opening hook lands here: credentials logged, floor scanned, first anomaly flagged. Investigation begins."
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
character: smuggler
location: opening
lines:
# Opening Hook Sequence — Ticket #299 — Smuggler Diegetic Tutorial Arc / First 5 Minutes
# 11 lines. Prerequisites null on all — fires before any knowledge graph state exists.
# Priority 8-10 ensures these fire before the general terminal pool lines.
# cooldown: 9999 — each line fires once, does not repeat.
# Arc: station hum → spatial count → fog boundary → thin crowd → Kael sighting ×2 → news ticker → sound ping → time countdown → settle ×2.
# All lines fully schema-compliant per D-035 (role, access, trust, situation present).
- id: opening_m_s_001
text: "Station hum. B-flat, steady — freight's moving."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, atmospheric]
notes: "Opening sensation. Station audio registers first — the hum tells her freight is running. Teaches: audio environment carries operational information (D-074)."
- id: opening_m_s_002
text: "Sixteen bays, three arms running. Standard morning."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, orientation]
notes: "Spatial orientation. She clocks the floor in two beats — count of bays, count of running arms. Everything in fragments. Teaches: the terminal layout."
- id: opening_m_s_003
text: "Haze past bay eight today. Can't see the far dock from here."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, observation]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, fog, perception]
notes: "Fog boundary. She notices the edge of her vision as a fact of the floor, not a mechanic. Teaches: perception range has limits (D-015, D-046)."
- id: opening_m_s_004
text: "Morning crew's spread thin. Good. Room to move."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc]
notes: "Light crowd = operational comfort. 'Good.' standalone verbal tic (section 1.7). Teaches: NPC density affects movement options."
- id: opening_m_s_005
text: "Kael's at dock three. Right where he should be."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, social]
trigger: observe_npc
mood: [content, warm]
priority: 10
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, kael, friend-arc]
notes: "First Kael sighting. Warm, immediate — she locates him before she finishes reading the floor. Teaches: named NPCs are identifiable via insert overlay (D-033 green entity)."
- id: opening_m_s_006
text: "Already has his clipboard. Day's organized before it starts. That's Kael."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, social]
trigger: observe_npc
mood: [warm]
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, kael, friend-arc]
notes: "Kael warmth. Three beats: observation → interpretation → naming. The name at the end lands as affection. Establishes: Kael is trusted, competent, reliable — the baseline before the friend arc erodes it."
- id: opening_m_s_007
text: "Bulletin board's got a new Commission notice. Lattice registration updates. Not today's problem."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, routine]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 8
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, news-ticker]
notes: "News ticker glance. She reads and dismisses it. The Commission exists as background noise — relevant only when it stops being ignorable. Teaches: environmental text exists, player can engage or skip. D-037 irony: lattice registration is exactly what the ring circumvents."
- id: opening_m_s_008
text: "Span gate echo from dock fourteen. Something inbound, running heavy by the sound of it."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, observation]
trigger: hear_sound
mood: [content]
priority: 9
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, sound, perception]
notes: "First sound ping at the edge of range. She interprets pitch instantly — the echo tells her load weight. Teaches: sound carries operational information (D-018, D-074 sound model). Sound channel is meaningful."
- id: opening_m_s_009
text: "Shift board says light cargo today. Fifty minutes before Voss does his rounds."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, routine]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 8
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, operational]
notes: "'Fifty minutes' = time-as-countdown verbal tic (section 1.7). She's already calculating windows. Teaches: time and NPC patrol rhythms are trackable."
- id: opening_m_s_010
text: "Same floor, same faces, same hum. Could be worse."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 8
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc, atmospheric]
notes: "Settling line. Baseline contentment. Parallel three-beat structure then understatement. 'Could be worse' is her comfort language — not enthusiastic, just settled. Voice anchor for confidence register (section 1.8)."
- id: opening_m_s_011
text: "Dock's clean this morning. Good start."
role: player_character
access: [public]
trust: surface
situation: [arrival, shift_start, routine]
trigger: enter_location
mood: [content]
priority: 7
cooldown: 9999
tags: [opening-hook, tutorial-arc]
notes: "Close of opening arc. Short, approving. 'Good start' = positive 'Good.' tic applied to the environment. Everything is where it should be — for now."