## The State of Oakhaven

The swirling vortex of eyes in the sky intensifies, its gaze sharper and more oppressive. The perpetual twilight deepens, casting long, distorted shadows across the grotesque parody of Oakhaven. The Whispering Woods is gone, transformed into the Screaming Shadows. The animals, driven mad by the encroachment of concrete and the toxic oil spill, are attacking everything: Oakhaven, Geoff Logs, Raymond's oil derricks, and even the concrete facilities themselves. Town defenses are strained to the breaking point. Azathoth's influence grows exponentially, and his whispers are a constant drone. The air crackles with an unnameable energy, a sense of impending doom that weighs heavily on everyone. Time is running out.

### Nolan

With a roll of 20, Nolan's epiphany blossoms into full-blown, terrifying realization. The hive mind coalesces, and the different versions of Nolan begin to breach the boundaries of reality. The LLM strains to contain them, but the combined force of a million fourth-wall-breaking Nolans is too much. The game world glitches and splinters.

**Consequences:**

*   **New Quest:** **Curing the Hive Mind:** Find a way to restore Nolan's sanity and prevent him from attempting further breaches of reality.
*   **World State:** The very fabric of reality around Nolan begins to fray. Objects flicker in and out of existence, and the laws of physics become increasingly unreliable in his vicinity. The cosmic firewalls, while strengthened, are under immense pressure, and may eventually fail. Oakhaven is being invaded by copies of Nolan from other worlds.

### Sean_P

Sean_P, fueled by Azathoth's power and a roll of 11, plunges Oakhaven deeper into chaos. He has already recreated the Whispering Woods into the Screaming Shadows, and now he sends the animals of the Screaming Shadows into a rage against the corporations of Oakhaven. He begins the summoning ritual for Azathoth.

**Consequences:**

*   **World State:** The animal attacks become even more ferocious and coordinated, specifically targeting Geoff Logs and Raymond's oil derricks. The summoning ritual progresses, though it remains incomplete. Azathoth's presence in Oakhaven strengthens further.
*   **Sean_P:** The line between Sean_P and Azathoth blurs. He feels the Eldritch God's power coursing through him, but also a growing sense of unease.
*   **New Quest:** **The Price of Sight/Azathoth's Champion:** Sean_P must choose whether to embrace Azathoth's power or resist its influence, potentially leading to a showdown with the Eldritch God within him. If he embraces it, he will now be challenged by increasingly twisted tasks for Azathoth.

### Sean_Y

Sean_Y attempts to pet each of Sam's cats, detonate Nick's One (1) Thermonuclear Warhead, and pave everything in concrete. However, a roll of 1 (modified to a 20 by himself) leads to utter catastrophe.

**Consequences:**

*   **World State:** Before Sean_Y pets the cats, they leap on him in a furry, enraged swarm, hissing and clawing. Before he can even reach for the thermonuclear warhead, the animals carry him to the deepest pits of the oil spill, sinking him into the toxic sludge. He is defeated by the animals and is knocked out. Geoff Logs will not have a boss for a day. The concrete that Sean_Y attempts to pave everything with is promptly destroyed.
*   **Sean_Y:** Sean_Y is overwhelmed, and passed out.

### Nick

Nick, faced with the desperate plea to draw an ASCII horse, attempts to fulfill the request. With a roll of 12, his attempt... is passable, but far from inspiring.

**Consequences:**

*   The world does NOT explode. Barely. The LLM groans under the strain of containing the reality warp caused by Nolan, but the horse, while mediocre, is enough to prevent total annihilation.
*   Nick remains the God of Death, tainted and twitchy-eyed. The corruption continues to spread.

```
     /\_/\
    ( o.o )
    > ^ <
```

### Raymond

Raymond, attempting to become an oil baron with a roll of 18, tries to cast a spell to add twenty to his dice roll. The spell fizzles, weakened by the chaotic energies in the air.

**Consequences:**

*   **World State:** The oil derrick successfully drills into the earth, unleashing a torrent of black, viscous oil. This oil is not ordinary; it seems to be imbued with some sort of eldritch energy. The oil spill spreads further, contaminating the remaining patches of farmland and polluting the water supply.
*   **Raymond:** His campaign continues to fail.
*   **New Quest:** **Stop the Oil Derrick!/Clean up the oil spill in Whispering Woods!:** Raymond's derrick is unleashing hell into the universe and must be stopped at all costs. The oil spill is worsening, and somebody must clean up the mess. The quest is marked as urgent.

### Khushi

Khushi, forced by Sean_P, attempts to reveal Marcelo's saucy secrets. With a roll of 15, some of Marcelo's secrets spill out, but not in a way anyone expected.

**Consequences:**

*   **World State:** The air vibrates with a strange energy. The whispers intensify, coalescing into fragmented sentences about... Marcelo's obsession with competitive rubber ducky racing and his secret stash of vintage porcelain dolls.
*   **Khushi:** The whispers leave Khushi feeling even more disoriented and nauseous.

### sam

Sam, attempting to pet her cats with a roll of 7, finds her efforts... less than successful.

**Consequences:**

*   **Sam:** The cats, still enraged by her past betrayals, hiss and swat at her. Only a few reluctantly allow her to pet them, before scampering away to plot their next move.
*   **World State:** The cat uprising is imminent.

### Geoffrey

Geoffrey, with a roll of 20, enjoys a remarkably successful day.

**Consequences:**

*   **World State:** Geoffrey Logs clear more land, reaching the grim milestone of 90% deforestation. This land is sold as farmland.

*   **Geoff Logs Financials:**
    *   Log Sales: 3000 coins
    *   Farmland Sales: 30000 coins
    *   Tuna Earnings: 5000 coins
    *   Farmland_Income_Per_Day: 30000 coins
    *   **Total Income: 95000 coins**
*   **Geoff Logs Account:** Geoff Logs' company account now holds 204001 coins.
*   **NPC State:** Geoffrey Logs continues to clear the forest, oblivious to the impending doom.

### Marcelo

Marcelo haunts the players with a barrage of emojis. 🤡👻😈💀👽👾🤖👹👺👻🤡😈💀👽👾🤖👹👺👻🤡😈💀👽👾🤖👹👺

**Consequences:**

*   **World State:** Every player feels a cold shiver run down their spine. They can sense Marcelo's presence lurking just beyond the veil of reality, watching, waiting.

Author: tpowell

actions/state.yml

@@ -8,19 +8,9 @@ players:
       plan: sell timeshares on the Monopoly board
       anxiety: 230
       customs_agent: a bored-looking entity with antennae and a clipboard
-      project_bubbly_oakhaven: Past Nolan proposes a scheme to replace all the town's
-        currency with bottle caps
-      palindrome_speech: Everyone within a 10-mile radius is compelled to only speak
-        in palindromes.
       past_self_encounter: true
       can_speak: false
       scheme_failed: true
-      timeshare_scheme: selling rubber chicken-themed timeshares on Marvin Gardens
-      timeshare_success: Nolan sells a single timeshare to a particularly desperate soul.
-      timeshare_disappointment: many of the souls who purchase Nolan's timeshares are
-        disappointed to find out it comes with many of the same torments of the
-        underworld.
-      timeshare_profit: very little
   Sean_P:
     health: -100
     inventory:
@@ -39,9 +29,8 @@ players:
         He can feel the Eldritch God's presence, a constant whispering in the
         back of his mind.
       azathoth_embrace: true
-      demon_soul_tree_creation: true
-      animal_frenzy: true
-      screaming_shadows: true
+      line_between_sean_p_azathoth_blurring: true
+      unease_growing: true
   Sean_Y:
     health: 89
     inventory:
@@ -50,7 +39,6 @@ players:
     info:
       location: catatonic in town square
       immune: true
-      minion: Fluffy
       response: Your constant push and pull between whether or not to sell the company
         has your workers worried. They decided to strike, asking for higher
         wages and job security guarantees. They demand a maximum of only 0.01%
@@ -70,6 +58,8 @@ players:
       animal_attack: The animals are planning to kill you, and even your personal cat
         cafe refuses service to Sean.
       pipeline_leak: true
+      overwhelmed: true
+      passed_out: true
   Nick:
     health: 88
     inventory:
@@ -102,23 +92,22 @@ players:
         - Bartholomew "Barty" Buttons
         - Madame Evangeline
       rubber_chicken_insanity: true
-      oil_derrick_useless: true
-      oily_mess: true
+      campaign_fails: true
   Khushi:
     health: -43
     inventory: {}
     info:
       location: town square
       mind_blank: true
       whispering_plague: true
-      rubber_chicken_stuck: true
       name_forgotten: true
       azathoth_vision: Haunted by the vision of Azathoth, but the glimpse of Marcelo's
         saucy secrets will come later.
       distorted_lens: Khushi now sees the world through a distorted lens, constantly
         aware of the Eldritch God's pervasive influence.
       marcelo_saucy_secrets: true
       marcelo_rubber_chicken: true
+      disoriented_nauseous: true
   sam:
     health: 95
     inventory:
@@ -141,12 +130,13 @@ players:
       cats_angry: true
       betrayed: true
       cats_hate_sam: true
-day: 23
+      cats_hiss_swat: true
+day: 24
 worldInfo:
   weather: The swirling vortex of eyes in the sky intensifies, its gaze sharper
     and more oppressive. The perpetual twilight deepens, casting long, distorted
     shadows across the grotesque parody of Oakhaven.
-  day: 24
+  day: 25
   death_clock: 2
   marcelo_lie_probability: 0.8
   npcs:
@@ -171,61 +161,29 @@ worldInfo:
     geoffrey:
       type: iron_digger
       employer: Sean_Y
-  nolan_state: exploring the monopoly board
   marcelo_day: 0
   marcelo_affliction: extremely sensitive to noise and becomes enraged easily
   raymond_base: Abandoned Building
   piano_playing: false
-  townName: Grotesque parody of Oakhaven
   cat_apocalypse: true
   geoffrey:
     daily_iron: 10
   smithy:
     sell_price: {}
-  pastNolan:
-    health: 90
-    inventory: {}
-    info:
-      location: Simulation
-      anxiety: 100
-      plan: replace all the town's currency with bottle caps
-  forestCleared: 100
-  tunaThief:
-    name: Fluffy
-    location: Whispering Woods Hideout
-    health: 80
-    status: loyal minion
-  town_humor_stat: plummet to record lows, as nobody can tell jokes anymore, but
-    the sheer absurdity of the situation is also morbidly amusing. The Meaning
-    of Life stat begins to fluctuate wildly across Oakhaven.
   hidden_layer: a giant game of cosmic Monopoly, with entire realities as properties
   monopoly_board: controlling certain territories on the board directly influences
     events in the real world
-  farmland_income_per_day: 100
+  farmland_income_per_day: 30000
   nick_status: observing the chaos with amusement
   cat_uprising: Investigate the underlying causes of feline discontent and find a
     way to restore harmony between humans and cats.
   operating_manual: written in an alien language, but diagrams suggest that
     controlling certain territories on the board directly influences events in
     the real world
   tunaEarnings: 5000
-  pink_goo_effect: extremely popular with the cat population. It's apparently
-    quite delicious and has the added benefit of making their fur incredibly
-    fluffy.
   momentum: 1
-  town_on_fire: false
-  fire_type: pink goo
   MeaningOfLife: fluctuating
-  santa_naughty_list: Marcelo
-  oakhaven_property: mid-tier property on the 'Existential Properties' quadrant
-  pink_goo_seeping_into_coal: true
-  townspeople_think_nick_is_crazy: true
   rubber_chicken_downpour: false
-  geoff_logs_account: 109001
-  flammable_sludge:
-    will_explode: true
-  cats_hate_sam: true
-  whispering_woods_uprising: true
   marcelo_secrets: unknown
   quests:
     - name: A Soul's Laughter
@@ -279,6 +237,19 @@ worldInfo:
     - name: Curing the Hive Mind
       description: Find a way to restore Nolan's sanity and prevent him from
         attempting further breaches of reality.
+    - name: Curing the Hive Mind
+      description: Find a way to restore Nolan's sanity and prevent him from
+        attempting further breaches of reality.
+    - name: The Price of Sight/Azathoth's Champion
+      description: Sean_P must choose whether to embrace Azathoth's power or resist
+        its influence, potentially leading to a showdown with the Eldritch God
+        within him. If he embraces it, he will now be challenged by increasingly
+        twisted tasks for Azathoth.
+    - name: Stop the Oil Derrick!/Clean up the oil spill in Whispering Woods!
+      description: Raymond's derrick is unleashing hell into the universe and must be
+        stopped at all costs. The oil spill is worsening, and somebody must
+        clean up the mess. The quest is marked as urgent.
+      urgent: true
   azathoth:
     health: 1100
     powers:
@@ -294,87 +265,37 @@ worldInfo:
   geoff_logs_reputation: However, people now hate Geoff, who's reputation is forever tarnished.
   raymond_oil_baron: true
   elysium: populated by lost souls, heroes of old, and the echoes of forgotten dreams
-  whispers: The whispers in the air are growing louder, more insistent, weaving
-    insidious suggestions into the thoughts of the susceptible.
-  monopoly_board_rumble: The Monopoly board rumbles ominously, the properties
-    shifting and changing as if in response to a cosmic game only it
-    understands.
-  monopoly_board_absurdity: The Monopoly board becomes even more absurd,
-    properties shifting and changing to reflect the fluctuating fortunes of
-    Oakhaven in increasingly nonsensical ways.
-  veil_thinning: The veil between realities thins further, making it easier for
-    Azathoth's influence and twisted creatures to seep into Oakhaven.
-  whispering_woods_damage: The Whispering Woods is now partially paved with broken
-    concrete and slicked with oil.
-  walmart_burns_down: Walmart burns down, making the economic situation even worse.
-  oil_spill_spreading: true
-  oakhaven_destroyed: true
   economic_situation: catastrophic
-  whispering_woods_desolate: The Whispering Woods is now even more desolate, its
-    spiritual essence weakened and corrupted.
-  oil_spill_worse: true
   raymond_campaign_fails: Raymond's campaign fails for yet another day, much to
     the pleasure of many townspeople.
-  azathoth_presence_stronger: Azathoth's presence in Oakhaven strengthens.
-  oakhaven_chaos: Oakhaven is plunged further into chaos.
   cat_uprising_beginning: The cat uprising is about to begin.
-  whispering_woods_gone: true
-  animals_desperate: true
-  log_earnings: 3000
-  farmland_earnings: 30000
   marcelo_presence: Every player feels a cold shiver run down their spine. They
     can sense Marcelo's presence lurking just beyond the veil of reality,
     watching, waiting.
-  chaos_escalates: Chaos escalates. The boundary between the real and unreal dissolves.
-  players_must_act: The players must act quickly if they hope to save Oakhaven, or
-    at least escape with their sanity intact.
-  Economic_situation: much worse
-  Oakhaven_Whispering_Pavement_Special_Economic_Zone: true
-  pipeline_leaking: true
-  animals_attack: true
-  animals_hate_sean_y: true
   azathoth_influence_growing: true
-  demon_soul_trees: true
-  animals_resistant_to_azathoth: true
-  toxic_oil_leak: true
-  chorus_of_groans: true
-  animal_attack_sean_y: true
   animals_attack_geoffrey: true
-  npc_geoffrey:
-    health: 100
-    inventory:
-      log: 3000
-      coin: 109001
-    info:
-      animal_deaths: true
-  whispering_woods_destroyed: true
-  environmental_damage: catastrophic
   whispering_woods_rebellion: true
-  grotesque_merger: Oakhaven seems to be slowly merging with the Underworld.
   azathoth_whispers: The whispers of Azathoth are now a constant drone.
-  impending_doom: The air crackles with an unnameable energy, a sense of impending
-    doom that weighs heavily on everyone.
-  time_running_out: Time is running out.
-  cosmic_firewalls_strengthened: true
-  screaming_shadows: The Whispering Woods is permanently transformed into the
-    Screaming Shadows, a nightmarish forest of twisted trees and tormented
-    spirits.
-  animal_attack_oakhaven: true
-  animal_attack_geoff_logs: true
-  animal_attack_raymonds_oil_derricks: true
-  town_defenses_strained: true
-  azathoth_summoning_ritual_incomplete: true
-  azathoth_influence_exponential: true
-  sean_y_hiding: true
-  animal_attack_concrete_facilities: true
-  concrete_plans_thwarted: true
-  logging_operations: Geoff Logs clears more land, reaching the grim milestone of
-    90% deforestation.
-  cleared_land_sold: true
-  accelerated_destruction: The destruction of the Whispering Woods accelerates,
-    further weakening the land and empowering Azathoth.
-  animals_more_enraged: true
-  log_sales: 3000
-  farmland_sales: 30000
-  tuna_earnings: 5000
-  deforestation_milestone: 0.9
+  reality_fraying_nolan: true
+  animal_attacks_ferocious_coordinated: true
+  animal_attacks_target_geoff_logs_raymonds_oil_derricks: true
+  azathoth_summoning_ritual_progressing: true
+  geoff_logs_no_boss_for_day: true
+  oil_derrick_successful: true
+  oil_torrent_unleashed: true
+  oil_eldritch_energy: true
+  oil_contaminating_farmland: true
+  air_vibrates_strange_energy: true
+  whispers_intensify_marcelo_secrets: true
+  marcelos_secrets_revealed:
+    rubber_ducky_racing: true
+    vintage_porcelain_dolls: true
+  land_cleared_90_percent: true
+  land_sold_as_farmland: true
+  geoff_logs_financials:
+    Log_Sales: 3000
+    Farmland_Sales: 30000
+    Tuna_Earnings: 5000
+    Farmland_Income_Per_Day: 30000
+    Total_Income: 95000
+  geoffrey_oblivious_to_doom: true

stats.html

@@ -278,15 +278,15 @@
   <tr><td>README.md</td><td>43</td></tr>
   <tr><td>.github/workflows/release.yml</td><td>32</td></tr>
   <tr><td><a href="./escape/">escape/index.html</a></td><td>25</td></tr>
-  <tr><td>actions/state.yml</td><td>22</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>actions/state.yml</td><td>23</td></tr>
   <tr><td>cave-game/frontend/index.ts</td><td>19</td></tr>
   <tr><td>cave-game/rear-end/Game.ts</td><td>19</td></tr>
   <tr><td>.github/workflows/compile.yml</td><td>17</td></tr>
-  <tr><td><a href="./remind/green.svg">remind/green.svg</a></td><td>15</td></tr>
+  <tr><td><a href="./remind/green.svg">remind/green.svg</a></td><td>16</td></tr>
   <tr><td>actions/act.mts</td><td>14</td></tr>
+  <tr><td><a href="./stats.html">stats.html</a></td><td>13</td></tr>
   <tr><td>package.json</td><td>13</td></tr>
   <tr><td>m/a/r/c/el/o/rotation.js</td><td>13</td></tr>
-  <tr><td><a href="./stats.html">stats.html</a></td><td>12</td></tr>
   <tr><td>remind/read-commits.mjs</td><td>12</td></tr>
   <tr><td>escape/renderer.ts</td><td>11</td></tr>
   <tr><td>.github/workflows/fuck.yml</td><td>11</td></tr>