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Chapter 1 - Plastic Ring Flashback Scene

[This scene is triggered when the player finds a specific ring in the regretful mood. A suitor wins a plastic ring at a carnival game, and offers it to the player. The player gets to decide whether to take the ring or to refuse it in some way.]

Plastic Ring Flashback is a scene.

Plastic Ring Flashback begins when Plastic Ring Flashback has started.

Plastic Ring Flashback ends when Plastic Ring Flashback has finished.

To decide whether Plastic Ring Flashback has started:

[We need to be careful here, because the player ends up in Carnival at the moment the game starts; account for this carefully when deciding.]

if game-correctly-initialized is false, no;

if Plastic Ring Flashback has happened, no;

if the player is not carrying the plastic ring, no;

yes.

To decide whether Plastic Ring Flashback has finished:

if the first wedding proposal is pending, no;

yes.

When Plastic Ring Flashback begins:

if Plastic Ring Flashback has not happened:

now the flashback reentry point is the location;

now the story viewpoint is first person singular;

now the story tense is past tense;

stash all the player's things;

say "Unexpectedly, a memory washed over [us], clear and agonizing.";

move the player to Carnival;

move the plastic ring to the carnival barker.

When Plastic Ring Flashback ends:

now the story tense is past tense;

now the story viewpoint is third person singular;

unstash all the player's things;

now the player is wearing the plastic ring;

move the player to the flashback reentry point.