Mythos game

mythos.a4

# Game Header
Version: 4.00.54
Title: The Deep Cases
Author: Assistant
Description: A noir detective story with cosmic horror elements

# Variables
%Variable: Sanity
Type: Number
DefaultValue: 100
MinValue: 0
MaxValue: 100

%Variable: Understanding 
Type: Number
DefaultValue: 0
MinValue: 0
MaxValue: 100

%Variable: PlayerState
Type: Text
DefaultValue: "sane"

# Tasks - General Game Mechanics
%Task: CheckSanity
Type: System
Restrictions:
    Variable "Sanity" Less Than 20
Actions:
    Set Variable "PlayerState" = "mad"
    Message "Your grip on reality begins to slip..."

%Task: UpdateUnderstanding
Type: System
Restrictions:
    Variable "Understanding" Greater Than 50
Actions:
    Message "The pieces start falling into place, revealing terrible truths..."

# Locations
%Location: Detective's Office
Description: Your office is small but functional. Rain streams down the window, distorting the city lights outside. A door leads to the hallway.
Directions:
    South to Office Hallway

%Location: Office Hallway
Description: A dingy hallway lit by flickering fluorescent lights.
Directions:
    North to Detective's Office
    South to Street Outside

%Location: Street Outside
Description: Rain-slicked streets reflect the neon signs of downtown.
Directions:
    North to Office Hallway
    East to Docks
    West to Henderson's Apartment

%Location: Henderson's Apartment
Description: A small one-bedroom in a pre-war building. Books on ancient civilizations fill the shelves. Something about the geometry of the room feels... wrong.
Directions:
    East to Street Outside

%Location: Docks
Description: The harbor stretches into darkness. Warehouse 23 looms ahead.
Directions:
    West to Street Outside
    East to Warehouse 23

%Location: Warehouse 23
Description: Towering shelves disappear into shadows above. The floor slopes subtly toward a large drain in the center.
Directions:
    West to Docks
    Down to Secret Passage

%Location: Secret Passage
Description: A tunnel hewn from ancient stone. The walls are carved with symbols that hurt your eyes.
Directions:
    Up to Warehouse 23
    Down to Sleeping City

%Location: Sleeping City
Description: A vast chamber of impossible architecture. Buildings of cyclopean stone rise at angles that defy geometry.
Directions:
    Up to Secret Passage

# Objects
%Object: Case File
Location: Detective's Office
Type: Static
Description: Thomas Henderson's missing persons file. Research notes mention "cyclopean architecture."
Examine: The file contains police reports, witness statements, and Henderson's bizarre research notes about the harbor's architecture.

%Object: Ancient Tome
Location: Henderson's Apartment
Type: Static
Description: A leather-bound volume with an unmarked cover.
Examine: The pages contain diagrams of impossible architecture and references to "The Sleeping City."
Actions:
    On Examine:
        Decrease Variable "Sanity" by 10
        Increase Variable "Understanding" by 10

# Characters
%Character: Mrs Henderson
Location: Detective's Office
Pronoun: she
Description: A well-dressed woman in her early forties. Dark circles under her eyes suggest she hasn't slept much lately.

# Conversation Topics for Mrs Henderson
%Topic: disappearance
Character: Mrs Henderson
Response: "It was so sudden. Thomas had been acting strange for weeks, spending all his time at that warehouse. But he's never just... vanished like this."

%Topic: warehouse
Character: Mrs Henderson
Response: "He said he found something in his research about old structures beneath the harbor. Something about the angles of the buildings being wrong."

%Topic: research
Character: Mrs Henderson
Response: "Thomas is - was - a professor of architecture at Miskatonic University. He specialized in ancient building techniques."

%Character: Officer Sullivan
Location: Street Outside
Pronoun: he
Description: A beat cop you've worked with before. One of the few honest police left in this city.

%Topic: warehouse
Character: Officer Sullivan
Response: "Weird place, that Warehouse 23. We get calls about strange lights and chanting, but whenever we check, it's empty."
Restrictions:
    Variable "Understanding" Greater Than 20
    Variable "Sanity" Greater Than 30

%Character: Professor Zhang
Location: Miskatonic University
Pronoun: she
Description: A sharp-eyed academic in her fifties. Her office is filled with architectural diagrams and strange sculptures.

%Topic: architecture
Character: Professor Zhang
Response: Normal="He believed the original city planners followed some ancient geometric principle."
EldrritchResponse: "The angles... they form nodes. Points where reality becomes permeable."
Restrictions:
    Variable "Understanding" Greater Than 30

%Character: Cultist
Location: Warehouse 23
Pronoun: they
Description: A figure in a hooded robe. The hood's shadow seems impossibly deep.

# Special Events
%Event: SanityWarning
Type: Repeating
Interval: 5
Restrictions:
    Variable "Sanity" Less Than 50
Actions:
    Message "Your grip on reality feels increasingly tenuous..."

%Event: EndgameCheck
Type: System
Interval: 1
Restrictions:
    Location is "Sleeping City"
    Variable "Understanding" Greater Than 50
Actions:
    Message "The truth shatters your mind. You understand too much..."
    End Game

# Alternative Endings
%Ending: Madness
Restrictions:
    Variable "Sanity" Less Than 20
Text: Your grip on reality shatters. They find you weeks later, babbling about impossible angles and cities beneath the waves.

%Ending: Enlightenment
Restrictions:
    Variable "Understanding" Greater Than 50
    Variable "Sanity" Greater Than 80
    Location is "Sleeping City"
Text: With tremendous effort, you maintain your sanity. You seal the entrance to the Sleeping City, but the knowledge of what lies below will haunt you forever.