{
  "arrival": {
    "start": "first",
    "nodes": {
      "first": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "curious",
        "text": "You must be Z. The scholar who corrected three footnotes in our festival catalogue before breakfast.",
        "next": "reply"
      },
      "reply": {
        "speaker": "z",
        "expression": "wry",
        "text": "Two footnotes. The third was merely being watched very closely.",
        "choices": [
          {"text": "I was hoping to impress the curator.", "next": "flirt", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "achievement", "id": "first_spark"}]},
          {"text": "Accuracy is a form of respect.", "next": "respect", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 6}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 3}]},
          {"text": "I panic-edit when beautiful royalty reads over my shoulder.", "next": "flirt", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 6}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "comfort", "amount": 3}, {"type": "achievement", "id": "first_spark"}]}
        ]
      },
      "flirt": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "playful",
        "text": "Careful. If you keep speaking that plainly, I may arrange for you to stand very close to me all week.",
        "next": "business"
      },
      "respect": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "warm",
        "text": "Then we agree. History deserves precision—especially when powerful people prefer decoration.",
        "next": "business"
      },
      "business": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "regal",
        "text": "Come. I want you to see the Moonlit Manuscript before the doors open. Its last folio carries the festival's oldest dedication.",
        "effects": [{"type": "flag", "id": "met_lima"}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 2}, {"type": "discoverGift", "id": "inkstone"}]
      }
    }
  },
  "saira": {
    "start": "welcome",
    "nodes": {
      "welcome": {
        "speaker": "saira",
        "text": "So you are the visiting scholar. Lima has mentioned your footnotes twice, which is once more than she mentions most diplomats.",
        "choices": [
          {"text": "Her catalogue deserved the attention.", "next": "good", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "familyApproval", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 2}]},
          {"text": "Only the footnotes? I must work harder.", "next": "bold", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 3}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 2}]}
        ]
      },
      "good": {"speaker": "saira", "text": "A diplomatic answer. Fortunately, your expression ruined it. I think I shall like you.", "effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "embroidered_ribbon"}]},
      "bold": {"speaker": "saira", "text": "Bold. I see why she smiled after breakfast. Do try not to cause an international incident before supper.", "effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "embroidered_ribbon"}]}
    }
  },
  "missing_folio": {
    "start": "case",
    "nodes": {
      "case": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "determined",
        "text": "The seal is intact, the glass unbroken, and the final folio is gone. Someone with a keeper's key removed it.",
        "next": "ribbon"
      },
      "ribbon": {
        "speaker": "z",
        "expression": "thoughtful",
        "text": "Not quite gone. This indigo thread was caught beneath the frame. The knot marks a reading order: dawn, rain, lantern, moon.",
        "choices": [
          {"text": "Ask Lima what she thinks before proposing a theory.", "next": "together", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 4}]},
          {"text": "Suggest a secret keeper's trail.", "next": "trail", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 2}]},
          {"text": "Observe that mysteries improve an already excellent first date.", "next": "date", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 5}]}
        ]
      },
      "together": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "warm",
        "text": "You ask instead of announcing. That is rarer in this palace than any illuminated folio. I think Anwara wants us to follow.",
        "next": "close"
      },
      "trail": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "curious",
        "text": "Anwara taught me that knot when I was twelve. If she left it, the disappearance is a message—not a theft.",
        "next": "close"
      },
      "date": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "playful",
        "text": "A first date usually includes tea. Solve my missing-manuscript problem and I may permit a scandalous second cup.",
        "next": "close"
      },
      "close": {
        "speaker": "z",
        "expression": "warm",
        "text": "Then we begin with four shelves and one lantern. Stay close—the scholarship may become dangerous.",
        "effects": [{"type": "item", "id": "folio_ribbon"}, {"type": "quest", "id": "letters", "action": "start"}, {"type": "discoverGift", "id": "poetry_book"}]
      }
    }
  },
  "garden_confidence": {
    "start": "bench",
    "nodes": {
      "bench": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "vulnerable",
        "text": "Everyone assumes confidence is effortless when one wears a crown. Mostly it means learning where to hide the trembling.",
        "choices": [
          {"text": "Offer your hand without filling the silence.", "next": "hand", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "comfort", "amount": 7}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 3}]},
          {"text": "Tell her courage is action taken while trembling.", "next": "courage", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 4}]},
          {"text": "Confess that she makes you forget several useful words.", "next": "words", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 7}]}
        ]
      },
      "hand": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "tender",
        "text": "Her fingers settle between yours. “You are surprisingly good at silence, Z. Do not become proud; I still prefer your voice.”",
        "effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "spiced_tea"}]
      },
      "courage": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "determined",
        "text": "Then let us tremble efficiently. There is a clue at the archery range—and I intend to beat you to it.",
        "effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "archery_charm"}]
      },
      "words": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "playful",
        "text": "Only several? I had hoped to be devastating. Sit nearer. Perhaps proximity will improve my performance.",
        "effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "brass_compass"}]
      }
    }
  },
  "anwara_truth": {
    "start": "meeting",
    "nodes": {
      "meeting": {
        "speaker": "anwara",
        "text": "You followed every thread. Good. I hid the folio because the council planned to display it beneath hot lamps until its pigments flaked away.",
        "next": "history"
      },
      "history": {
        "speaker": "anwara",
        "text": "But protection was not my only reason. The dedication names cooks, boatwrights, poets, gardeners, and travellers as the festival's founders. The court catalogue names only kings.",
        "next": "lima"
      },
      "lima": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "determined",
        "text": "You should have trusted me with the truth.",
        "choices": [
          {"text": "Anwara was wrong to act alone, but right to protect the folio.", "next": "balanced", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "familyApproval", "amount": 3}]},
          {"text": "The public deserves the complete history tonight.", "next": "public", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 6}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 3}]},
          {"text": "Let Lima decide; it is her risk and responsibility.", "next": "decide", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 7}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 3}]}
        ]
      },
      "balanced": {"speaker": "anwara", "text": "A precise rebuke. You would have made a formidable keeper."},
      "public": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "triumphant", "text": "Then tonight the founders recover their names—and the council learns that truth survives poor lighting."},
      "decide": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "tender", "text": "Thank you. Not for agreeing—for remembering that the choice is mine. We reveal it, carefully and completely."}
    }
  },
  "resolution": {
    "start": "stage",
    "nodes": {
      "stage": {
        "speaker": "saira",
        "text": "The council is listening, Lima. How shall the folio be presented?",
        "choices": [
          {"text": "As a shared text, studied before it is celebrated.", "next": "scholar", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "scholar", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 6}]},
          {"text": "With the founders' descendants telling the story.", "next": "families", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "families", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "familyApproval", "amount": 7}]},
          {"text": "As the first clue in a travelling exhibition.", "next": "road", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "road", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 7}]},
          {"text": "Briefly. Then we dance before the speeches breed.", "next": "laughter", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "laughter", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 7}]}
        ]
      },
      "scholar": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "warm", "text": "Z and I will prepare the first public edition together. I expect lively arguments in the margins."},
      "families": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "regal", "text": "The palace will lend the page; the city will supply the voices. That is how the festival began."},
      "road": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "triumphant", "text": "Let the folio travel both rivers. History should meet the people who inherited it."},
      "laughter": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "playful", "text": "A compelling scholarly principle. I second the motion—especially the dancing."}
    }
  },
  "moonrise": {
    "start": "river",
    "nodes": {
      "river": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "tender",
        "text": "The city is still arguing about the folio. You realise this means the festival succeeded.",
        "next": "z"
      },
      "z": {
        "speaker": "z",
        "expression": "warm",
        "text": "I have been distracted from the historical significance by the way moonlight keeps taking your side.",
        "choices": [
          {"text": "Ask whether she would object to being kissed.", "next": "kiss", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 9}]},
          {"text": "Tell her you do not want this night to be an ending.", "next": "promise", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "comfort", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 8}]},
          {"text": "Suggest investigating the dangerous proximity of her smile.", "next": "kiss", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 8}]}
        ]
      },
      "kiss": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "playful",
        "text": "“I would object only to further delay.” She catches his collar, and the river, the music, and every carefully prepared sentence disappear.",
        "next": "after"
      },
      "promise": {
        "speaker": "lima",
        "expression": "tender",
        "text": "“Good. I have several mornings in mind.” Her kiss is warm, certain, and entirely unconcerned with the waiting palace.",
        "next": "after"
      },
      "after": {
        "speaker": "z",
        "expression": "flustered",
        "text": "Much later, when the pavilion lanterns burn low, Z remembers that he once came here to correct footnotes.",
        "effects": [{"type": "achievement", "id": "moonrise"}, {"type": "ending"}]
      }
    }
  }
}