Write six passages with distinct states
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An original local browser story with six passages, three endings, meaningful choice consequences, reachable-state tests and a complete text reading alternative.
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What to include
- Write six complete passages and three reachable endings.
- Give choices different narrative consequences with stable targets.
- Trace hasMap and history consistently and reset all state.
- Run or honestly scope four path/invalid choice/restart checks.
- Deliver working relative assets and all-route text companion.
Review and revise
Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.
- Narrative: choices affect later text/outcomes.
- Continuity: incoming facts and item effects are coherent.
- Engine: stable target/restart/path checks are correct.
- Access/evidence: reading alternative and actual test scope are clear.
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The idea in everyday life
Write enough prose for a reader to understand what they can do next. Keep passage title, text and choices separate. A shared ending must fit all incoming routes or explicitly vary its text. In this project CLOSED is written to work after either middle passage, while OPEN requires the map.
Every passage inherits facts from the route that reaches it.
Write six passages with distinct states — worked practice
Every passage inherits facts from the route that reaches it.
Original CLOSED text: “The west gate is already closed. You sketch its outline from outside, making a different drawing rather than reaching the bench.” It fits both ARCHIVE and GARDEN routes. A faulty alternative “You unfold the map at the closed gate” contradicts the route that left without one. OPEN text begins “With the map” and has only the map-preserving incoming route.
1. 2.1 Write
Draft all six passages from the supplied scenario or invent a new equally small story. Include the initial want and distinct ending consequences.
You should see: All nodes contain actual narrative, not only titles.
2. 2.2 Write
For each middle/ending passage list the incoming routes and facts known there. Compare text with each incoming case.
You should see: Incoming facts are enumerated.
3. 2.3 Write
Repair any shared ending that claims an item absent on one route; use common text or explicitly supported conditional wording.
You should see: Shared text fits each route.
4. 2.4 Write
Change one item fact in a copied route and revise the affected passage text. Keep a continuity ledger showing which lines depend on it.
You should see: A changed fact revises its dependent lines.
What to finish
Six complete passage drafts and an incoming-fact ledger.
Watch for this
Writing a shared passage as though only one route can reach it.
How can I tell I understand it?
You can test a passage against every incoming route.
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Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01
Read own object keys, case-sensitive property access and object literal semantics; original story data/code supplied.
Access: Public page text or PDF was opened and read through the web reader on 2026-10-01; no signup required for reading.
Reuse: Linked for further study. All LifeStarter scenarios, samples, assets and assessments are original; no source exercises or artwork are copied.
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01
Read the public character section and its discussion of character/event relationships through the web reader; linked source exercises are not reproduced.
Access: Public page text or PDF was opened and read through the web reader on 2026-10-01; no signup required for reading.
Reuse: Linked for further study. All LifeStarter scenarios, samples, assets and assessments are original; no source exercises or artwork are copied.
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