Quoth — Jeff Kubik

Quoth v1

{(metadata: "choice", "Eagerly wish the morrow.", "mousover", "white")\ (urgency:4)(storylet: when visits is 0 and turns < 6)\ }\ \ (if: $Conditions's "Window" is "closed")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore.])(print:_hook)]] (if: $Conditions's "Window" is "open")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; ORE RHYMING LINE ABOUT THE OPEN WINDOW Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore.])(print:_hook)]] $Newbie[$linkFont[[Stand repeating: "'Tis some visitor."|3]]]\ \ $StoryletCall

{(metadata: "choice", (str:["Stand repeating: "'Tis some visitor."]), "mousover", "white") (urgency:4)(storylet: when visits is 0 and turns < 6 and $Conditions's Door is "closed" and (visited: "2") is true)\ }\ \ (if: $Conditions's "Window" is "closed")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door— Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;— This it is and nothing more."])(print:_hook)]]\ (if: $Conditions's "Window" is "open")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [And the silken, sad, now-certain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So now turning to the tapping, pond'ring still about the rapping: "'Tis some visitor," I swore, "seeking entrance at my door door— Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;— This it is and nothing more."])(print:_hook)]] $Newbie[$linkFont[[Open wide the door.|4]]]\ \ $StoryletCall

{(metadata: "choice", "Open wide the door.", "mousover", "white") (urgency:4)(storylet: when visits is 0 and (visited: "2c") is false and $Conditions's "Door" is "closed" and turns >= 4 and turns < 6) }\ \ (if: (visited:"3") is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"—here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there and nothing more.])(print:_hook)(set:$Conditions's "Door" to "open")]] (if: (visited:"3") is false)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Distraction was what next I tried, asking: were there visitors outside? "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"—here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there and nothing more.])(print:_hook)(set:$Conditions's "Door" to "open")]] $Newbie[$linkFont[[Whisper, "Lenore?"|5]]]\ \ $StoryletCall

{(metadata: "choice", (str:[Whisper, "Lenore?"]), "mousover", "white") (urgency:4)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's Door is "open" and turns is 5) (set: $Conditions's Whisper to true)(set: $Conditions's Echo to true) }\ (if: (visited: "3c") is false)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"— Merely this and nothing more.])(print:_hook)] $Newbie[$linkFont[[Turn back into the chamber.|6]]]\ \ $StoryletCall]\ (if: (visited: "3c") is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was that whispered word, "Lenore?" 'Til the darkness answered silence with the murmured name: "Lenore!"— Murmured back the name: "Lenore!"])(print:_hook)] $StoryletCall]

{(metadata: "choice", "Turn back into the chamber.", "mousover", "white") (urgency:4)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's LockedOut is false and turns is 6) }\ (if: $Conditions's Window is "closed")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore— Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;— 'Tis the wind and nothing more!"])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Fling the shutter.|7]]] \ (if: $Conditions's Window is "open")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. "Surely," said I, "surely all I've heard is the pecking of that bird; Rapping, tapping at the lattice I have checked upon before— Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;— 'Tis the bird and nothing more!"])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Oh that bird's just coming in regardless, huh?|7]]]

(if: $Conditions's "Window" is "open")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Then with look so universal, as though I had missed rehearsal, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more.])(print:_hook)]] (if: $Conditions's "Window" is "closed")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more.])(print:_hook)(set: $Conditions's "Window" to "open")]] $linkFont[[Demand the Raven's lordly name.|8]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Marvel this ungainly fowl.|9]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door— Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore."])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Scarcely more than mutter "On the morrow he will leave me."|10]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered— Till I scarcely more than muttered "Other friends have flown before— On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore."])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Be startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken.|11]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore— Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never—nevermore'."])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Wheel a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door.|12]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore."])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Sit engaged in guessing.|13]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore!])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Ask if God hath lent the Raven.|14]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" Quoth the Raven "$Nevermore."])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[[Ask if there is a balm in Gilead.|15]]

(set: $Conditions's Dynamic to false)\ (if: $Nevermore is "Nevermore")[ $hookFont[(set: _hook to ["Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!— Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted— On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!" Quoth the Raven "$Nevermore."])(print:_hook)]]\ \ (if: $Nevermore is not "Nevermore")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to ["Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!— Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted— On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!" Quoth the Raven $NevermoreFont["$Nevermore."]])(print:_hook)]] $linkFont[[Ask if the distant Aidenn clasps a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.|16]]

(if: $Nevermore is "Nevermore")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to ["Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven "$Nevermore."])(print:_hook)]] \ (if: $Nevermore is not "Nevermore")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to ["Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven $NevermoreFont["$Nevermore."]])(print:_hook)]] $linkFont[[Shriek, upstarting.|17]]

(if: $Nevermore is "Nevermore")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to ["Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting— "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven "$Nevermore."])(print:_hook)]] \ (if: $Nevermore is not "Nevermore")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to ["Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting— "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven $NevermoreFont["$Nevermore."]])(print:_hook)]] $linkFont[[Leave your soul in that shadow that lies floating on the floor.|18]]

(if: $Nevermore is "Nevermore")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore!])(print:_hook)]] \ (if: $Nevermore is not "Nevermore")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—$NevermoreFont[$Nevermore]!])(print:_hook)]] $Review

The Invitation: ./Audio/Blood-Lord--Unwelcome-Guests-MP3/Blood-Lord--Unwelcome-Guests-01-The-Invitation.mp3, https://jeffkubik.squarespace.com/s/Blood-Lord-Unwelcome-Guests-01-The-Invitation.mp3 Kubik: ./Audio/Kubik.mp3, https://jeffkubik.com/s/Kubik.mp3

<center>\ (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-size:2)[Quoth: The Interactive Raven] (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[Designed by Jeff Kubik] <style> img { max-width: 60%; max-height: 60%; } </style>\ <img src="https://jeffkubik.com/s/Pixel-Raven-1.png">\ </div>\ \ (text-size:2)+$linkFont[[Begin|1]] \ (link-reveal-goto: "(Read the original instead)", "1", $linkFont+(text-style:"subscript", "blur"))[(set: $Conditions's Newbie to true)] </center> \ \ [{ (track: 'The Invitation', 'loop', true) (track: 'The Invitation', 'playwhenpossible') }](TURNED_OFF| (set: _hook to (a:""))

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$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more."])(print: _hook)] (if: $Conditions's "Newbie" is true)[$linkFont[[Eagerly wish the morrow.|2]]] $StoryletCall \ |TURNED_OFF)[ (if: $Conditions's "Newbie" is false)[ |modalhooks>[] (replace: ?modalhooks)[{ (css:" position: fixed; display:block; z-index: 1; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; /* Full width */ height: 100%; /* Full height */ overflow: auto; /* Enable scroll if needed */ background-color: rgba(0,0,0,20); ")[ (css:" display:block; margin: 15% auto; padding: 20px; width: 80%; border: 1px solid limegreen; ")|modal>[ (css:"float:right")+(link-repeat:"×")[(replace: ?modalhooks)[]] ] ] }] (set: $typewriterText to "Here I have eternal languished, ever in this night of anguish. To my left, a window shuttered, showing evening’s distant shore. A bust of Pallas rightward looms, where lamp-light serves to outline gloom. There beneath, a lonely portal, the profile of my chamber door. My faithful friends in faithless langour, only these and nothing more. Only these and nothing more.") (append:?modal)[ { (set: $typewriterPos to 1) |typewriterOutput>[] (live: 15ms)[ (append: ?typewriterOutput)[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-colour: #50d038)(print: $typewriterText's $typewriterPos)] (set: $typewriterPos to it + 1) (if: $typewriterPos is $typewriterText's length + 1)[ (stop:) ] ] }]] ] (set: _hook to [Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more."])

{(metadata: "choice", "Open wide the door.", "mousover", "blue") (urgency:3)(storylet: when $Conditions's Door is "closed" and visits is 0 and turns < 4)\ (set: $Conditions's Door to "open") }\ \ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [Nothing could be wronger, than to hesitate one second longer, So though discomfort I abhor, I rose to meet the challenge at my door. Night yet lay upon the morrow, where else but sleep lies end of sorrow? My trembling head reached for the door, as ice flowed now from every pore. "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore"—here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there and nothing more.])(print: _hook)] $StoryletCall

{(metadata: "choice", (str:[Whisper, "Lenore?"]), "mousover", "blue") (urgency:3)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's Door is "open" and (visited: "2c") is true and turns >= 3 and turns < 5)\ (set: $Conditions's Whisper to true)}\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [Calls out for Lenore.])(print: _hook)] $StoryletCall

{(metadata: "choice", "Wait to hear the name called for.", "mousover", "blue") (urgency:3)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's Door is "open" and (visited: "3c") is true and $Conditions's Whisper is true and turns <=4) }\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You wait in the darkness. There is only silence.])(print: _hook)] $StoryletCall

{ (metadata: "choice", "Wait once more.", "mousover", "blue") (urgency:3)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's Door is "open" and (visited: "4c") is true or (visited: "4") is true and $Conditions's Whisper is true and turns < 6) (set: $Conditions's Echo to true) }\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You hear a murmur: "Lenore!"])(print: _hook)] $StoryletCall

{(metadata: "choice", (str:["Follow the murmured name, "Lenore."]), "mousover", "blue") (urgency:3)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's Door is "open" and $Conditions's Echo is true and turns is 6)\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [Follows "Lenore!" Hears tapping behind, which is the Raven at his chamber's window.])(print: _hook)] }\ $linkFont[[Follow the murmured name, "Lenore."|7c]] $linkFont[[Turn back into the chamber.|a7c]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Follows "Lenore!" again. A commotion as the Raven breaks through the window behind him. But now, it's not as clear: there is definitely more than one voice/Raven.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Walk further into the darkness.|8c1]] $linkFont[[Return to your chamber.|8c2]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [A cacophony from a flock of Ravens, all croaking "ore" rhymes.])(print: _hook)] [$linkFont\ [\ [\ (link:"Turn back.")\ [\ (replace: ?links)+(transition:"fade")+(transition-time:3s)\ [\ (text-size:2)+$linkFont[[Go further.|9c1]]\ ]\ ]\ ]\ ] $linkFont[[Go further.|9c1]] ]<links|

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You're lost in the darkness. You have to...])(print: _hook)] (transition-time:6s)+(transition:"fade")+$hookFont\ [\ (link:"Reach out your hand.",(action:'mouseover'))\ [\ (transition-time:2s)+(transition-depart:"blur")+(transition-arrive:"blur")(go-to:"9c1a") ]\ ]\ (set: $Conditions's Dynamic to true)

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Through darkness deeper than the night, I came upon a doorway's light. And there beheld my chamber, a chamber changed from before. Velvet curtains, seat and all; they danced in guttering lamplight's thrall. Yet arrayed in different ways, this chamber was my home's neighbor. And there upon a bust of Bacchus, a Raven croaking out: "Lenore!" Breathlessly I heard: "Lenore!"])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Run away.|9c1]] $linkFont[[Marvel this ungainly fowl.|9c2b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Goes back. Finds the shutter of his window already open. A Raven flies in and perches on a bust of Bacchus.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Demand the Raven's lordly name.|a8c]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You realize your chamber is subtly changed... Then the Raven croaks: "Lenore!"])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Run away.|9c1]] $linkFont[[Marvel this ungainly fowl.|9c2b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You can feel something near... \ And then it grabs you! \ Pulls you deeper into the darkness!\ Like all the others...\ There are..\ Six lines])]\ (event: when time > 1s)+(transition:"fade")+$hookFont[You can feel something near...] (event: when time > 3s)+(transition:"fade")+$hookFont[And then it grabs you!] (event: when time > 5s)+(transition:"fade")+$hookFont[Pulls you deeper into the darkness!] (event: when time > 7s)+(transition:"fade")+$hookFont[Like all the others...] (event: when time > 9s)+(transition:"fade")+$hookFont[There are..] (event: when time > 11s)+(transition:"fade")+$hookFont[Six lines] (event: when time > 15s)[(transition-depart:"instant")+(transition-time:5s)+(transition-arrive:"fade")(go-to:"11c1")] (set: $Conditions's Dynamic to false)

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You discern that the blackness is actually an infinite set of interlocking wings. Infinite Ravens, pulling you in infinite directions. Tearing you apart...])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Resist.|12c1a]] $linkFont[[Let go.|12c1b]]

{(set: _nevermore to (either:...$OreWords))} $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You marvel at this bird who has spoken the name of the lost Lenore. You wonder what might have caused it to say so, until you realize you aren't alone: your doppelganger is also there. And echoing back in the darkness: two more words: Evermore and $NevermoreFont[_nevermore].])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask your Other about Lenore.|10c2b1]] $linkFont[[Follow 'Evermore.'|10c2b2]] $linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: "Follow '_nevermore.'", "10a2b")[(set: $Nevermore to _nevermore)]]

{ (set: _r13 to (either: [a13c2b1a],[a13c2b1b],[a13c2b2a])) } $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You fight it. You feel yourself hurled across the universe in a cacophony of "ore" rhymes. You find yourself reforming...])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Become something else.|_r13]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You let go. Your body is torn apart.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Good.|13c1b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You float in infinity, losing attachment to every idea you had. What was your name again? You can't remember, only one name held you: Lenore. And now... it's slipping away too. Choice: fight it or let it all go.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Fight it.|14c1b1]] $linkFont[[Let it all go.|14c1b2]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You fight it. As the air grows denser, you painfully pull your consciousness back together. You scratch and peck... Before, it felt like Ravens tearing at you. Now, it feels like a tempest, tossing you around. You beg for it to stop... Nevermore.])(print: _hook)] [[Nevermore.|15c1b1]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You let go. The air grows denser])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Open your eyes.|15c1b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Then light shone in as if through gauze; I opened eyes, flexed beak and claws. Feathers still about my body, though my body was no more. Next I heard the calls below me, there beheld a double of me. Or, at least, a double of the one I was before. "Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!” My reply was “Nevermore.”])(print: _hook)] [[Nevermore.|16c1b1]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [“Prophet!” said he, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!— By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” My reply was “Nevermore.”])(print: _hook)] [[Nevermore.|17c1b1]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to ["Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" he shrieked, upstarting— "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” My reply was “Nevermore.”])(print: _hook)] [[Nevermore.|18c1b1]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [HOOK])(print: _hook)] And there I perch, never flitting, still am sitting, still am sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above his chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a madman that is keening, And the lamp-light o’er me streaming throws my shadow on the floor; And our souls from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore! $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [It's daytime in your chamber. You look around, don't recognize many of the things there. Because they're new, or because you didn't notice them in your grief? You see the Raven on the bust of Pallas.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Make a promise to the Raven.|16c1b2a]] $linkFont[[Don't say anything.|16c1b2b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You say something. And the last line is the narrator's own promise to move on: "Nevermore."])(print: _hook)] [[Open the door.|17c1b2]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You don't say anything. You stand and the Raven alights on your shoulder.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Open the door.|17c1b2]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You open the door. See the bright, unfamiliar world outside. If you spoke, this is when the Raven alights on your shoulder.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Leave.|18c1b2]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You and the Raven walk into the new world, completely alien to you both.])(print: _hook)] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You stay in "Lenore." Having chosen to stay, you interrogate your other self. Asked who he loves, he replies: "Lenore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Run away.|11c2b2]] $linkFont[[Sit engaged in guessing.|11c2b1]]

(set: $Nevermore10 to $Nevermore)\ $hookFont[(set: $disorder10 to [But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered— Till I scarcely more than muttered "Other friends have flown before— On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "$NevermoreFont[$Nevermore10.]"])(print:$disorder10)]<stanza| {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(Though I could have misheard.)]<confusion|]}\ \ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont [ (link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name again.")\ [\ (input: bind $Nevermore10, (either:...$OreWords))(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ (link:"Yes, that sounds right.")\ [\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]\ ]<guess| $NevermoreLinkFont [\ (link-rerun: "Take another wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [(set: $Nevermore10 to (either:...$OreWords))\ (hide: ?confusion)\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]<random|\ ]<both|\ [$linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: "Be startled at the stillness broken by reply so oddly spoken.","11a2b")[(set: $Stanzas to it + (a:$disorder10))(set: $Nevermore to $Nevermore10)]]](link|

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You fumble through the darkness, avoiding the others. I think I could reuse a lot of 8c1 here.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Follow "Lenore."|11c2b2]]

(if: (visited:"10c2b2") is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You enter your chamber and it's LENORE. Standing there. You ask her if she can imagine how long you would have searched for her, and she says: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)]]\ (if: (visited: "10c2b1") is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You run away into the darkness. Reenter your chamber and it's LENORE. Standing there.])(print: _hook)]]\ (else:)[$errorFont[This was an error! Let Jeff know!]] $linkFont[[Marvel this radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.|12c2b2]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You're so startled by the reply, you doesn't reply. Is this man your brother? Your arch rival? Does he know more, or less than you do? Or has _he_ come to talk to the Raven, seeking the succor you haven't been able to find?])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven what he knows.|12c2b1a]] $linkFont[[Ask your other what he knows.|12c2b1b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You embrace her, pressing your head into her hair like the velvet-violet lining of your seat, where you would happily rest evermore.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask her how long you have been given.|14c2b2a]] (link-reveal-goto: "Doubt her.", "14c2b2a1", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's ResistedLenore to true)]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You doubt her. How can she be here after what you know you did? And what can she mean by "Evermore"? Made it sound like you'd never be able to stop...])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask how long you have been given.|14c2b2b]] (link-reveal-goto: "Embrace her.", "14c2b2a", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's Embraced to true)]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask how long she has been given to stay here. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask if there is a balm in Gilead.|15c2b2b]] $linkFont[[Ask how long she will remember your shame.|15c2b2a]] (link-reveal-goto: "Doubt her.", "15c2b2a1", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's ResistedLenore to true)]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask her how long you have this time, since your time before was cut short. She replies "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask if there is a balm in Gilead.|15c2b2b]] $linkFont[[Ask if she knows your shame.|15c2b2b]] (link-reveal-goto: "Embrace her.", "15c2b2a", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's Embraced to true)]

(if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is false)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Tentative, you ask if she remembers what you did. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask when you may serve your penance.|16c2b2a]] (link-reveal-goto: "Doubt her.", "16c2b2b", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's ResistedLenore to true)] $linkFont[[Accuse her.|16c2b2b]]]\ \ (if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Knowing what she is, you ask if she remembers what you did. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask how you may serve your penance.|16c2b2a]] $linkFont[[Accuse her.|16c2b2b]]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask her if there is a balm in Gilead i.e. will you ever feel better? She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] (if: $Conditions's Embraced is false)[(link-reveal-goto: "Embrace her.", "16c2b2a", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's Embraced to true)]] $linkFont[[Ask how you may serve your penance.|16c2b2a]] $linkFont[[Accuse her.|16c2b2b]]]

(if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is false)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Shamed, you ask if you can serve your penance for having wronged her. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] (link-reveal-goto: "Doubt her.", "17c2b2b", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's ResistedLenore to true)]] $linkFont[[Stay in her arms.|17c2b2a]] \ (if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Rebellious, you ask what she believes your penance is for having wronged her. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook) $linkFont[[Stay in her arms.|17c2b2a]] $linkFont[[Demand the creature's given name.|17c2b2b]]]]

(if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is true)[\ [$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Knowing what she is, you accuse her of being a liar, your torturer. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] [$linkFont[[Stay in her arms.|17c2b2a]] $linkFont[[Demand the creature's given name.|17c2b2b]]]]\ ]\ (if: $Conditions's Embraced is false)[\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You accuse her of being a liar, your torturer. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] (link-reveal-goto: "Embrace her anyway.", "17c2b2a", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's Embraced to true)] $linkFont[[Demand the creature's given name.|17c2b2b]] ]

(if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is false)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You let her hold you in her embrace, knowing something is wrong but not caring.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Stay evermore.|18c2b2a]] (if:$Conditions's Embraced is true)[(link-reveal-goto: "Doubt her.", "18c2b2b1", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's ResistedLenore to true)]]] \ (if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Resigned to the prospect of being forced to make up for the past, you ask how much more time you have together. She replies: "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Stay evermore.|18c2b2a]]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask her for her true name, though you already suspect you know it. She replies: "Evermore." The door slams shut behind you.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Stay evermore.|18c2b2b1]] $linkFont[[Embrace her.|18c2b2a]] (if: $Conditions's Window is "open")[$linkFont[[Jump out the window.|18c2b2b2]]]

(if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is false)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [And now you're stuck in her arms, a lamb to the slaughter... And it's just what you wanted.])(print: _hook)]] (if: $Conditions's ResistedLenore is true)[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [And now you're stuck in her arms! Knowing you're a lamb to the slaughter....])(print: _hook)]] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [If you had opened the window, you climb through the window and wander into the night. You don't know that Lenore is out there, but you know it's something different. See: 18c2b1c1])(print: _hook)] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [If you hadn't opened the window, now you're trapped in a standoff with this thing that looks like Lenore.])(print: _hook)] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask the Raven what he knows, but your self interrupts you. You're prompted to wonder: will you ever forget Lenore?])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven if God hath lent him as respite.|13c2b1a]] $linkFont[[Ask your Other if God hath lent the Raven as respite.|13c2b1b]] (set: $Conditions's otherInterrupted to it + 1)

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask the Raven if you will ever forget, a rewrite of s14, but your self interrupts with a question that ends in "Lenore."OK])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven if there is a balm in Gilead.|14c2b1a]] $linkFont[[Ask your Other if there is a balm in Gilead.|14c2b1b]] (set: $Conditions's otherInterrupted to it + 1)

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [The air grows denser. You ask the Raven if you will ever heal, a rewrite of s15, but your self interrupts with a question that ends in "Lenore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven if the distant Aidenn clasps a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.|15c2b1a]] $linkFont[[Ask your Other if the distant Aidenn clasps a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.|15c2b1b]] (set: $Conditions's otherInterrupted to it + 1)

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask the Raven if Lenore is in paradise, a rewrite of s16, but your self interrupts with a question that ends in "Lenore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Demand that your Other stop speaking.|16c2b1]] (set: $Conditions's otherInterrupted to it + 1)

(set: _hook to [You realize you can't get an answer with your other and scream at him to stop talking / answer you, depending on your choices. He won't.])$hookFont(print: _hook) $linkFont[[Wait.|17c2b1d]] $linkFont[[Run back into the darkness.|17c2b1b]] (if: $Conditions's otherInterrupted is > 2)[$linkFont[[Stop his throat.|17c2b1a]]] (if: $Conditions's Window is "open")[$linkFont[[Go to the open window.|17c2b1c]]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask your other self what he knows, but he won't stop talking. Ends with: "Furthermore..."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask your other if God hath lent the Raven as respite.|13c2b1b]] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven if God hath lent him as respite.|13c2b1a]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask your doppelganger if he was ever able to forget Lenore, a rewrite of s14, but he just goes on, ends with "Furthermore..."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask your other if there is a balm in Gilead.|14c2b1b]] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven if there is a balm in Gilead.|14c2b1a]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [The air seems to grow denser. You ask your self if you will ever heal, a rewrite of s15, but he goes on and ends with "Furthermore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask your other if the distant Aidenn clasps a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.|15c2b1b]] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven if the distant Aidenn clasps a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.|15c2b1a]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You ask your self if Lenore still lives here, a rewrite of s16,, but he goes on and ends with "Furthermore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Demand that your Other answer you.|16c2b1]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You throttle your Other to death. Lying on the floor, as the Raven above you croaks: "Lenore."])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Listen for "Lenore."|18c2b1a]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You run into the darkness and see visions of yourself from the other beats: embracing Lenore, screaming at nonsense at the Raven, torn apart by the darkness. All you, all possible, none you chose. A long, long list of options that winnow down to nothing...])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Nevermore.|18c2b1b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You look outside. It's a bleak December. But some details are different. Behind you, the doppel and Raven are following their scripts.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Climb through the window.|18c2b1c1]] $linkFont[[Wait.|18c2b1c2]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You are trapped, getting the question that plagues you as the only answer you'll ever have: Lenore.])(print: _hook)] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [A cacophony of "ore" rhymes plagues you from all directions. You didn't like the answer you were getting. Now you're getting too many. Forever.])(print: _hook)] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You climb through the window and wander into the night. You don't know that Lenore is out there, but you know it's something different.])(print: _hook)] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [A rewrite of the vanilla s18, but with the Raven and your doppel arguing.])(print: _hook)] $Review

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You wait to see if your Other will ever stop talking.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Wait.|18c2b1c2]]

{(metadata: "choice", "Fling the shutter.", "mousover", "cyan") (urgency:2)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's Window is "closed" and turns < 6)\ (set: $Conditions's Window to "open")\ (set: _tis to [(verbatim:)["Stand repeating: "'Tis some visitor."]])\ (set: $Conditions's EarlyRaven to true)\ }\ \ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You throw open the shutter: vanilla s7. You look outside, see the Raven waiting for his cue. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.])(print:_hook)] $StoryletCall

\ { (set: $Stanzas to (a: [ "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more."])) (set: $Conditions to (dm: "Window", "closed", "EarlyRaven", false, "LockedOut", false, "Door", "closed", "Newbie", false, "Embraced", false, "ResistedLenore", false, "Name", "//something//more?"))\ (set: $Nevermore to "//something//... more?")\ (set: $OreWords to (a: "Brontosaur","Candy store","Civil War"))\ }  $hookFont[(set: _hook to [HOOK])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[TEXT|DESTINATION]]  (if: $Conditions's "NAME" is "VALUE")[$hookFont[(set: _hook to [STANZA_COPY])(print:_hook)]]  (link-reveal-goto: "LINK_TEXT", "DESTINATION_PASSAGE", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's NAME to VALUE)] \ \ (set: $Furthermore to 5) (set: $Conditions to (dm: "Window", "open")) (set: $Stanzas to (a: [ "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more."]))

<center> (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-size: 2)[(if: $Nevermore is "Nevermore")["The Raven"](else:)[(text-colour: #11e2ac)["The $Nevermore"]]] (if: $Conditions's "Newbie" is true)+(font: "Glass TTY VT220")[By Edgar Allen Poe]\ (if: $Conditions's "Newbie" is false)+(font: "Glass TTY VT220")[By You] </center>\ (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 2nd) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 3rd) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 4th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 5th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 6th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 7th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 8th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 9th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 10th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 11th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 12th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 13th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 14th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 15th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 16th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 17th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 18th) (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))(print: $Stanzas's 19th) <center>$linkFont+(text-size:2)[(link:"Play once more?")[(restart:)]]</center>

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(if: $Conditions's Dynamic is false)[(set: $Stanzas to it + (a:_hook))]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You don't dare touch her yet, so you just look. Her every feature matches your memory. You wonder why she said "Evermore."])(print: _hook)] (link-reveal-goto: "Embrace her.", "13c2b2a", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's Embraced to true)] $linkFont[[Doubt her.|13c2b2b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You try and fail to get out of her arms. Uh oh! What do you do now?])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask if there is a balm in Gilead.|15c2b2b]] $linkFont[[Ask if she knows your shame.|15c2b2a]]

{(metadata: "choice", "Close the shutter.", "mousover", "cyan")\ (urgency:2)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's EarlyRaven is true and turns > 2 and turns < 6) (set: $Conditions's LockedOut to true) }\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You close the window on the Raven. The curtains rustle.])(print:_hook)] $StoryletCall

{(metadata: "choice", "Fling the shutter. Again.", "mousover", "cyan")\ (urgency:2)(storylet: when visits is 0 and $Conditions's LockedOut is true and (visited: "6") is false and turns is 6) }\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You hear the tapping on the window, know exactly what it is.])(print:_hook)] (link-reveal-goto: "Fling the shutter. Again", "7", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's LockedOut to false)] $linkFont[[Ravens //belong// outside!|7a2b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You just look at the dumb thing waiting outside. What a stupid Raven.])(print:_hook)] $linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: "Demand the Raven's lordly name.","8a2b")[(set: $Conditions's Dynamic to true)]]

{(set: $Nevermore8 to "//something//... more?")}\ $hookFont[(set: $disorder8 to [Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven: "$NevermoreFont[$Nevermore8.]"])(print:$disorder8)]<stanza8| {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(Wait, that can't be right... Can it?)]<confusion|]}\ \ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont\ [(link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name.")\ [\ [\ (input: bind $Nevermore8, (either:...$OreWords))(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ (link:"Yes, that sounds right.")\ [\ (rerun:?stanza8)\ (show: ?guess)\ (replace: "a wild")[another wild]\ (replace: "Guess the Raven's lordly name")[Guess the Raven's lordly name again]\ (show: ?link)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]\ ]\ ]<guess|\ \ $NevermoreLinkFont\ [\ (link-rerun: "Take a wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [\ (set: $Nevermore8 to (either:...$OreWords))\ (hide: ?confusion)\ (rerun:?stanza8)\ (replace: "a wild")[another wild]\ (show: ?link)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]<random|\ ]\ ]<both|\ [$linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: "Marvel this ungainly fowl.","9a2b")[(set: $Stanzas to it + (a:$disorder8))(set: $Nevermore to $Nevermore8)]]](link|

(set: $Nevermore9 to $Nevermore)\ $hookFont[(set: $disorder9 to [Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door— Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "$NevermoreFont[$Nevermore9.]"])(print:$disorder9)]<stanza| {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(Or was it something else?)]<confusion|]}\ \ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont [ (link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name again.")\ [\ (input: bind $Nevermore9, (either:...$OreWords))(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ (link:"Yes, that sounds right.")\ [\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]\ ]<guess| $NevermoreLinkFont [\ (link-rerun: "Take another wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [(set: $Nevermore9 to (either:...$OreWords))\ (hide: ?confusion)\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]<random|\ ]<both|\ [$linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: (str:[Scarcely more than mutter "On the morrow he will leave me."]),"10a2b")[(set: $Stanzas to it + (a:$disorder9))(set: $Nevermore to $Nevermore9)]]](link|

(set: $Nevermore11 to $Nevermore)\ $hookFont[(set: $disorder11 to [Startled at the stillness broken by reply so oddly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore— Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of "$NevermoreFont[$Nevermore11.]"])(print:$disorder11)]<stanza| {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(Though I could have misheard.)]<confusion|]}\ \ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont [ (link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name again.")\ [\ (input: bind $Nevermore11, (either:...$OreWords))(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ (link:"Yes, that sounds right.")\ [\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]\ ]<guess| $NevermoreLinkFont [\ (link-rerun: "Take another wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [(set: $Nevermore11 to (either:...$OreWords))\ (hide: ?confusion)\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]<random|\ ]<both|\ [$linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: "Wheel a cushioned seat in front of $Nevermore11, and bust and door.","12a2b")[(set: $Stanzas to it + (a:$disorder11))(set: $Nevermore to $Nevermore11)]]](link|

(set: $Nevermore12 to $Nevermore)\ $hookFont[(set: $disorder12 to [But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "$NevermoreFont[$Nevermore12.]"])(print:$disorder12)]<stanza| {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(Unless it was... ???)]<confusion|]}\ \ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont [ (link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name again.")\ [\ (input: bind $Nevermore12, (either:...$OreWords))(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ (link:"Yes, that sounds right.")\ [\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]\ ]<guess| $NevermoreLinkFont [\ (link-rerun: "Take another wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [(set: $Nevermore12 to (either:...$OreWords))\ (hide: ?confusion)\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]<random|\ ]<both|\ [$linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: "Sit engaged in guessing.","13a2b")[(set: $Stanzas to it + (a:$disorder12))(set: $Nevermore to $Nevermore12)]]](link|

(set: $Nevermore13 to $Nevermore)\ $hookFont[(set:$disorder13 to [This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, $NevermoreFont[$Nevermore13]!])(print:$disorder13)]<stanza| {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(Unless it was... ???.)]<confusion|]}\ \ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont [ (link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name again.")\ [\ (input: bind $Nevermore13, (either:...$OreWords))(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ (link:"Yes, that sounds right.")\ [\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]\ ]<guess| $NevermoreLinkFont [\ (link-rerun: "Take another wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [(set: $Nevermore13 to (either:...$OreWords))\ (hide: ?confusion)\ (show:?link)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]<random|\ ]<both|\ [$linkFont[(link-reveal-goto: "Ask if God hath lent the $Nevermore13.","14a2b")[(set: $Stanzas to it + (a:$disorder12))(set: $Nevermore to $Nevermore12)(set:$Conditions's Dynamic to false)]]](link|

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer And my eyes were drawn to the bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— There sat the Raven. That its repetition is in your head. That it's always been in your head. And then there it is! On the bust of Pallas. Quoth the Raven: $NevermoreFont["$Nevermore."]])(print:_hook)] {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(I could have misheard...)]<confusion|]}\ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont [ (link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name again.")\ [\ (force-input: bind _Nevermore, $Nevermore)(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ [\ (show:?gilead) ]\ ]\ ]<guess| $NevermoreLinkFont [\ (link-rerun: "Take another wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [(hide: ?confusion)\ (show:?gilead) (rerun:?stanza)\ ]\ ]<random|\ ]<both|\ (event: when $Nevermore is "Nevermore")[(replace:?both)[(show:?gilead)]] [$linkFont[[Ask if there is a balm in Gilead.|15]]](gilead|

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [STANZA])(set: _hookp to (print: _hook))_hookp]

(transition: "fade")[\ {<center><style> img { max-width: 60%; max-height: 60%; } </style>\ <img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5fbd924e7b51bb576723d7ad/61ad6d31-df88-4372-b4a0-bc725d274296/_Kubik-White.png?content-type=image%2Fpng">\ </div> </center>} ]\ <center>(event: when time is >1s)[(transition: "fade")+(text-rotate-z:-3)[(print:(either: "**Not even artificially intelligent.**", "**Superficially intelligent.**"))]]</center> \ { (track: 'Kubik', 'loop', false) (track: 'Kubik', 'playwhenpossible') } (event: when time is >4s)[(t8n-depart: "dissolve")[(go-to: "Splash page")]]

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{ (set: $Conditions to (dm: "Window", "closed", "EarlyRaven", false, "LockedOut", false, "Door", "closed", "Whisper", false, "Echo", false, "Newbie", false, "Embraced", false, "ResistedLenore", false, "Name", "//something//more?","Dynamic", false,"otherInterrupted", 0))\ (set: $Nevermore to "Nevermore")\ (set: $hookFont to (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-rotate-z:(either:359,361))) (set: _hook to [])\ (set: $linkFont to (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-colour: #00fc00)+(hover-style:(text-color: #c0ffc0)))\ (set: $errorFont to (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-color:red)) (set:$NevermoreFont to (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-colour: #11e2ac)) (set: $Review to [$linkFont(link-goto: "Revisit your evening.")]) (set: $Newbie to (if: $Conditions's "Newbie" is true)) (set:$NevermoreLinkFont to (font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-colour: #11e2ac)+(hover-style:(text-color: #9ee1cf))) (set: $OreWords to (a: "Answer for","Anymore","Battledore","Battledore","Battledore","Battledore","Battledore ","Blastopore","Carnivore","Account for","Albacore","Ankylosaur","Anymore","Archosaur","Baltimore","Brontosaur","Candy store","Civil War","Commodore","Crimean War","Dinosaur","Door-to-door","Ecuador","Fire door","Folding door","Guarantor","Hackamore","Hardware store","Hadrosaur","Herbivore","Heretofore","Labrador","Louis d'or","Madrepore","Luchador","Man-of-war","Manticore","Marine corps","Matador","Minotaur","Nothosaur","Open door","Out-of-door","Petit four","Picador","Pinafore","Lesiosaur","Polypore","Pterosaur","Saddle sore","Salvador","Singapore","State of war","Stegosaur","Stevedore","Sycamore","Thermidor","Tidal bore","Trojan War","Troubadour","Tug-of-war","Two-by-four","Uncalled-for","Underscore","Warrantor")) (set: $Stanzas to (a:)) (set: $Dynamic to false) }\ (set: $StoryletCall to [(if: $Conditions's "Newbie" is false) [(for: each _p, ...(open-storylets:))[$linkFont+(hover-style:(text-color:_p's mousover))(link-goto: _p's choice,_p's name) ]]])

(align: "==><=")[$hookFont[(link:"Reach further",(action:'mouseover'))[(transition-time: 3s)+(transition-depart:"fade")+(transition-arrive:"fade")(go-to:"9c1b")]]]

(align: "===><=")[$hookFont[(link:"Further",(action:'mouseover'))[(transition-time:5s)+(transition-arrive:"fade")(go-to:"9c1c")]]]

(align:"=><=")+(box:"X=")+(text-size:6)+$hookFont\ [(text-style:"blur")[further]] (event: when time is > 5s)[(go-to:"10c1")]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You find yourself staring at... Lenore?! But how can she be here after what you know you did? And what can she mean by "Evermore"? Made it sound like you'd never be able to stop...])(print: _hook)] (link-reveal-goto: "Embrace her.", "14c2b2a", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's Embraced to true)] $linkFont[[Ask how long you have this time.|14c2b2b]]

(set: $Conditions's Embraced to true)\ $hookFont[(set: _hook to [You find yourself in Lenore's arms, pressing your head into her hair like the velvet-violet lining of your seat, where you would happily rest evermore.])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask her how long she has been given.|14c2b2a]] (link-reveal-goto: "Doubt her.", "14c2b2a1", $linkFont)[(set: $Conditions's ResistedLenore to true)]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [There's a Raven in your room, and an Other! And then the freakin' Raven says the name of the lost Lenore. You wonder what might have caused it to say so, until you realize you aren't alone: your doppelganger is also there. You ask the Raven if you will ever forget, a rewrite of s14, but your self interrupts with a question that ends in "Lenore." See: 9c2b])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask the Raven if there is a balm in Gilead.|14c2b1a]] $linkFont[[Ask your Other if there is a balm in Gilead.|14c2b1b]] (set: $Conditions's otherInterrupted to 2)

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer And my eyes were drawn to the bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— $NevermoreFont[$Nevermore]!])(print:_hook)]<stanza| {[(font: "Glass TTY VT220")+(text-style:"subscript")[(Unless it was... ???.)]<confusion|]}\ \ [\ $NevermoreLinkFont [ (link: "Guess the Raven's lordly name.")\ [\ (input: bind $Nevermore, (either:...$OreWords))(hide: ?confusion)(hide: ?random)\ (link:"Yes, that sounds right.")\ [\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (show:?gilead) (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]\ ]<guess| $NevermoreLinkFont [\ (link-rerun: "Take a wild guess at the Raven's lordly name.")\ [(set: $Nevermore to (either:...$OreWords))\ (hide: ?confusion)\ (rerun:?stanza)\ (show:?gilead) (rerun:?both)\ ]\ ]<random|\ ]<both|\ [$linkFont[[Ask if there is a balm in Gilead.|15]]](gilead|

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You try and fail to get out of her arms. Uh oh! What do you do now?])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Ask when you may serve your penance.|16c2b2a]] $linkFont[[Accuse her.|16c2b2b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You try and fail to get out of her arms. Uh oh! What do you do now?])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Stay in her arms.|17c2b2a]] $linkFont[[Demand the creature's given name.|17c2b2b]]

$hookFont[(set: _hook to [You try and fail to get out of her arms. Uh oh! What do you do now?])(print: _hook)] $linkFont[[Stay evermore.|18c2b2a]]

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