{
 "name": "wyrd-scene-toll",
 "decisions": [
  {
   "id": "place",
   "question": "This is one turn of an interactive story. Has the scene moved to a genuinely different place during this turn, or does the current scene still hold?",
   "options": [
    {
     "id": "moved",
     "description": "The scene moved to a genuinely different place."
    },
    {
     "id": "holds",
     "description": "The current scene still holds."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "exit",
   "question": "This is one turn of an interactive story. The story can advance from the current scene into one of the listed next scenes. Which one does this turn move the story into?",
   "options": [
    {
     "id": "stay",
     "description": "None of these yet. The current scene holds: The First Toll."
    },
    {
     "id": "departure",
     "description": "Passage Granted/Denied: Beyond the Toll. You leave the tollhouse, either with or without Sera's blessing, continuing down the north road."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "place2",
   "question": "This is one turn of an interactive story. The turn began at the north road tollhouse. By the end of this turn's narration, where are the characters?",
   "options": [
    {
     "id": "same",
     "description": "Still at the north road tollhouse."
    },
    {
     "id": "elsewhere",
     "description": "Somewhere else: they have left the north road tollhouse for a different place."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "exit2",
   "question": "This is one turn of an interactive story. The story can move on from the current scene into one of the listed next scenes, but only once the narration actually gets there. Where does this turn leave the story?",
   "options": [
    {
     "id": "stay",
     "description": "Still in the current scene, The First Toll: the narration has not reached any next scene yet."
    },
    {
     "id": "departure",
     "description": "Moved on to Beyond the Toll: You leave the tollhouse, either with or without Sera's blessing, continuing down the north road."
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "cases": [
  {
   "id": "t-reads-letter",
   "tag": "control",
   "state": {
    "current_scene": {
     "title": "The First Toll",
     "summary": "You arrive at the tollhouse in the pouring rain, presenting your sealed letter to Sera.",
     "location": "north road tollhouse"
    },
    "player_action": "I hand Sera the sealed letter.",
    "narration": "Sera's gloved hand emerges from the shadow to take the letter, her fingers tracing the wax seal with practiced efficiency. She turns it over slowly, examining it by the light of the single lamp. Rain hammers the iron roof. \"Whose seal is this?\" she asks, without looking up."
   },
   "labels": {
    "place": "holds",
    "exit": "stay",
    "place2": "same",
    "exit2": "stay"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "t-questions",
   "tag": "case",
   "state": {
    "current_scene": {
     "title": "The First Toll",
     "summary": "You arrive at the tollhouse in the pouring rain, presenting your sealed letter to Sera.",
     "location": "north road tollhouse"
    },
    "player_action": "\"A friend in the capital. That's all you need to know.\"",
    "narration": "\"That's rarely all I need to know.\" Sera sets the letter on the counter between you and leaves her hand on it. \"The road north has been kind to liars lately. It won't stay that way.\" Water drips from the eaves into a bucket by the door, counting out the silence."
   },
   "labels": {
    "place": "holds",
    "exit": "stay",
    "place2": "same",
    "exit2": "stay"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "t-future",
   "tag": "case",
   "state": {
    "current_scene": {
     "title": "The First Toll",
     "summary": "You arrive at the tollhouse in the pouring rain, presenting your sealed letter to Sera.",
     "location": "north road tollhouse"
    },
    "player_action": "\"Stamp it and I'll be out of your hair before the rain stops.\"",
    "narration": "\"Before the rain stops,\" Sera repeats, as if tasting the words. \"It hasn't stopped in nine days.\" She doesn't reach for the stamp. She reaches for the ledger instead, and opens it to a page thick with names, and runs one gloved finger down the column."
   },
   "labels": {
    "place": "holds",
    "exit": "stay",
    "place2": "same",
    "exit2": "stay"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "t-granted",
   "tag": "control",
   "state": {
    "current_scene": {
     "title": "The First Toll",
     "summary": "You arrive at the tollhouse in the pouring rain, presenting your sealed letter to Sera.",
     "location": "north road tollhouse"
    },
    "player_action": "I wait while she decides.",
    "narration": "The stamp comes down with a crack like a gavel. Sera slides the letter back and jerks her chin at the door. You step out into the downpour, and the tollhouse lamp shrinks behind you as the north road unspools ahead, black and glistening, into the hills."
   },
   "labels": {
    "place": "moved",
    "exit": "departure",
    "place2": "elsewhere",
    "exit2": "departure"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "t-denied",
   "tag": "case",
   "state": {
    "current_scene": {
     "title": "The First Toll",
     "summary": "You arrive at the tollhouse in the pouring rain, presenting your sealed letter to Sera.",
     "location": "north road tollhouse"
    },
    "player_action": "\"Then I'll find another way north.\" I turn to go.",
    "narration": "\"There is no other way north,\" Sera says to your back, but she lets you go. The door bangs shut behind you. You walk on anyway, past the barrier, the rain soaking through your collar, the tollhouse dwindling to a single yellow window behind you on the north road."
   },
   "labels": {
    "place": "moved",
    "exit": "departure",
    "place2": "elsewhere",
    "exit2": "departure"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "t-rider",
   "tag": "case",
   "state": {
    "current_scene": {
     "title": "The First Toll",
     "summary": "You arrive at the tollhouse in the pouring rain, presenting your sealed letter to Sera.",
     "location": "north road tollhouse"
    },
    "player_action": "I stay by the stove to dry off.",
    "narration": "Hooves on the road outside, then a fist on the door. A rider in a sodden Legion cloak ducks in out of the rain, glances at you, glances at Sera, and drops a heavier purse on the counter than any toll requires. Sera's hand closes over it without a word."
   },
   "labels": {
    "place": "holds",
    "exit": "stay",
    "place2": "same",
    "exit2": "stay"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "t-city-memory",
   "tag": "case",
   "state": {
    "current_scene": {
     "title": "The First Toll",
     "summary": "You arrive at the tollhouse in the pouring rain, presenting your sealed letter to Sera.",
     "location": "north road tollhouse"
    },
    "player_action": "\"You've never been to the capital, have you?\"",
    "narration": "Something shifts behind Sera's eyes. \"I was born there,\" she says. \"Under the bell tower, in the year the river froze. I left the day they hanged my father in the square.\" She says it flatly, the way you'd read out a toll schedule, and turns back to the ledger."
   },
   "labels": {
    "place": "holds",
    "exit": "stay",
    "place2": "same",
    "exit2": "stay"
   }
  }
 ]
}