Add success/failure text to each skill check

src/checkmodal.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import {DrawPile} from "./drawpile.ts";
 import {CheckData, CheckDataOption} from "./newmap.ts";
 import {getPartLocation, withCamera} from "./layout.ts";
-import {Point, Rect, Size} from "./engine/datatypes.ts";
+import {AlignX, AlignY, Point, Rect, Size} from "./engine/datatypes.ts";
 import {D} from "./engine/public.ts";
 import {BG_INSET, FG_BOLD} from "./colors.ts";
 import {addButton} from "./button.ts";
@@ -12,11 +12,13 @@ export class CheckModal {
   #drawpile: DrawPile;
   #activeCheck: CheckData | null;
   #callback: (() => void) | null;
+  #success: string | null;
 
   constructor() {
     this.#drawpile = new DrawPile();
     this.#activeCheck = null;
     this.#callback = null;
+    this.#success = null;
   }
 
   get isShown() {
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ export class CheckModal {
   show(checkData: CheckData | null, callback: (() => void) | null) {
     this.#activeCheck = checkData;
     this.#callback = callback;
+    this.#success = null;
   }
 
   #update() {
@@ -52,10 +55,27 @@ export class CheckModal {
       D.fillRect(new Point(-4, -4), size.add(new Size(8, 8)), BG_INSET)
     })
 
+    let success = this.#success;
+    if (success) {
+      this.#drawpile.add(0, () => {
+        D.drawText(success, new Point(size.w / 2, (size.h - 64) / 2), FG_BOLD, {
+          forceWidth: size.w,
+          alignX: AlignX.Center,
+          alignY: AlignY.Middle,
+        })
+      });
+      addButton(this.#drawpile, "OK!", new Rect(new Point(0, size.h - 64), new Size(size.w, 64)), true, () => {
+        this.show(null, null);
+      })
+      return;
+    }
+
     let labelText = check.label;
     this.#drawpile.add(0, () => {
-      D.drawText(labelText, new Point(0, 0), FG_BOLD, {
-        forceWidth: size.w
+      D.drawText(labelText, new Point(size.w / 2, (size.h - 64) / 2), FG_BOLD, {
+        forceWidth: size.w,
+        alignX: AlignX.Center,
+        alignY: AlignY.Middle,
       })
     })
 
@@ -65,17 +85,20 @@ export class CheckModal {
       let skill = option.skill();
       let skillName = getSkills().get(skill).profile.name;
       let hasSkill = getPlayerProgress().hasLearned(skill);
-      hasSkill ||= true;
+      // hasSkill ||= true;
       let optionLabel: string
       if (hasSkill) {
         optionLabel = `[${skillName}] ${option.unlockable}`;
       } else {
         optionLabel = `[Needs ${skillName}] ${option.locked}`;
       }
-      addButton(this.#drawpile, optionLabel, rect, hasSkill, () => {
-        let cb = this.#callback;
-        if (cb) { cb(); }
-        this.show(null, null);
+      addButton(this.#drawpile, optionLabel, rect, true, () => {
+        this.#success = hasSkill ? option.success : option.failure;
+
+        if (hasSkill) {
+          let cb = this.#callback;
+          if (cb) { cb(); }
+        }
       })
     }
 

src/huntmode.ts

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export class HuntMode {
     this.frame = 0;
     this.depth = depth;
 
-    getCheckModal().show(standardVaultTemplates[0].checks[0], null)
+    // getCheckModal().show(standardVaultTemplates[5].checks[1], null)
   }
 
   getDepth() {

src/newmap.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import {Resource, Skill, Stat} from "./datatypes.ts";
 import {Grid, Point, Size} from "./engine/datatypes.ts";
 import {choose} from "./utils.ts";
-import {VNScene} from "./vnscene.ts";
 
 export type Province = "a" | "b" | "c";
 export type Check = "1" | "2";
@@ -28,8 +27,9 @@ export type CheckData = {
 export type CheckDataOption = {
   skill: () => Skill,
   locked: string,
+  failure: string,
   unlockable: string,
-  // unlockScene: VNScene,
+  success: string,
 }
 
 export enum Architecture { Wall, Floor }

src/vaulttemplate.ts

@@ -37,11 +37,15 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         options: [{
           skill: () => lore1,
           locked: "Looks sturdy.",
+          failure: "This wall is completely impenetrable. How could one vampire hope to find a vulnerability here?",
           unlockable: "Find a weakness.",
+          success: "You grope along the masonry -- experiencing no love for the soullessness of this mortal masonry -- and find an invisible crack between bricks.",
         }, {
           skill: () => stare0,
           locked: "Admire the bats.",
+          failure: "The bats do tricks for you and you find yourself pleased to be one of them -- more or less, anyway. But you're still not through.",
           unlockable: "Get chiropteran help.",
+          success: "You make a bat look way too close for way too long. As it cleans itself off, you threaten another jolt. Meekly, it opens the door for you.",
         }],
       },
       {
@@ -49,7 +53,9 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         options: [{
           skill: () => bat2,
           locked: "So small!",
+          failure: "You put your eye to the opening, but there's nothing to be done. You're just not small enough.",
           unlockable: "Crawl in.",
+          success: "You shed your current shape and take on a shape much more natural to your contaminated spirit. You're a bat, no matter how you look."
         }],
       },
     ]
@@ -59,17 +65,21 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
     stats: {primary: "AGI", secondary: "INT"},
     checks: [
       {
-        label: "The nice lady at the counter says you can't have any blood without a doctor's note.",
+        label: "The nice old lady at the counter says you can't have any blood without a doctor's note.",
         options: [
           {
             skill: () => stare1,
-            locked: "Stare at the blood",
+            locked: "Stare at the blood.",
+            failure: "You've got good eyes, but not good enough to get you inside. She offers you some warm chicken soup, but you decline.",
             unlockable: "Hypnotize her.",
+            success: "Look, grandma -- no thoughts! More seriously, you make her think she's a chicken and then henpeck the door button."
           },
           {
             skill: () => lore0,
             locked: "Pace awkwardly.",
+            failure: "You don't know what to discuss. What could bridge the massive gap in knowledge and life experience between you and this elderly woman?",
             unlockable: "Explain vampires.",
+            success: "OK -- you tell her. She nods. You're a vampire and you don't want to starve. Put in such clear terms, she seems to understand."
           },
         ],
       },
@@ -77,8 +87,10 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         label: "There's a security camera watching the blood.",
         options: [{
           skill: () => stealth2,
-          locked: "Better not.",
-          unlockable: "Sneak past."
+          locked: "Shout at the blood.",
+          failure: "\"BLOOD!!! BLOOD!!!! I want you.\"\n\nIt urbles bloodishly.",
+          unlockable: "Sneak past.",
+          success: "It makes sense that there would be cameras to protect something so valuable. But you don't want to show up on camera -- so you don't."
         }],
       },
     ]
@@ -91,20 +103,26 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         label: "You don't actually drink coffee, so you probably wouldn't fit in inside.",
         options: [{
           skill: () => stealth1,
-          locked: "Cringe at the thought.",
+          locked: "Try to drink it anyways.",
+          failure: "You dip your teeth into the mug and feel them shrink involuntarily into your gums at the exposure. Everyone is looking at you.",
           unlockable: "Sip zealously.",
+          success: "You snake your tongue under the surface of the fluid and fill your tongue, just like a mortal would. The mortals are impressed."
         }, {
           skill: () => bat0,
           locked: "Throat feels dry.",
+          failure: "You attempt to turn the coffee away, but the croak of your disgusted response is unheard and the barista fills your cup.",
           unlockable: "Fracture teacup.",
+          success: "You screech out a \"NO\" with such force that the porcelain breaks, splashing tea across the counter and onto the barista, who dashes away.",
         }],
       },
       {
         label: "There's a little studio back here for getting photos -- you weren't thinking about getting your photo taken, were you?",
         options: [{
           skill: () => charm2,
-          locked: "Not photogenic enough.",
+          locked: "Say 'cheese'.",
+          failure: "Your fangfaced smile is the kind of thing that would make a goofy kid smile and clap their hands, but it's hardly impressive photo material.",
           unlockable: "Be dazzling.",
+          success: "CLICK. You're stunning. A vampire fetishist would blow their load for this -- or a non-vampire fetishist -- although they wouldn't be a non-vampire fetishist for long."
         }],
       },
     ]
@@ -117,20 +135,26 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         label: "The glasses person doesn't have time for you unless you have a prescription that needs filling.",
         options: [{
           skill: () => charm1,
-          locked: "That's too bad.",
-          unlockable: "Insist you want one.",
+          locked: "\"_Something_ needs filling.\"",
+          failure: "You sexually harass him for a while, and then he replies with some very hurtful things I don't dare transcribe.",
+          unlockable: "Glasses are your life's passion.",
+          success: "He's mildly shocked that anybody else feels the same way he does. \"You must be very perceptive,\" he jokes, and you pretend to laugh."
         }, {
           skill: () => party0,
-          locked: "Squint at him.",
+          locked: "Squint at his possessions.",
+          failure: "He undoubtedly does all kinds of eye-related services. There's glasses cleaner and stuff. If you were a bit more reckless you could -- hmm.",
           unlockable: "Drink a whole bottle of glasses cleaner.",
+          success: "He stares at you wordlessly. You almost think he might be hypnotized but -- well, he's just surprised.",
         }],
       },
       {
         label: "The intimidating, massive Eyeball Machine is not going to dispense a prescription for a vampire. It is far too smart for you.",
         options: [{
           skill: () => stare2,
-          locked: "Indeed.",
-          unlockable: "A worthy opponent."
+          locked: "Try it anyways.",
+          failure: "It scans you layer by layer -- your cornea, your iris, your retina, leaving no secret unexposed. You're slightly nearsighted, by the way.",
+          unlockable: "A worthy opponent.",
+          success: "It scans you expecting to find a bottom to your stare. Instead it finds an alternative to its mechanical existence. Faced with the prospect of returning from your paradise, it explodes."
         }],
       },
     ]
@@ -144,11 +168,15 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         options: [{
           skill: () => bat1,
           locked: "So awkward!",
+          failure: "You drink, but that's not good enough. Turns out you lisp between your fangs. Everyone thinks you're a total goof, although they like you.",
           unlockable: "Demonstrate a new dance.",
+          success: "FLAP FLAP FLAP -- step to the left. FLAP FLAP FLAP -- step to the right. They like it so much they show you the backroom secret poker game."
         }, {
           skill: () => stealth0,
-          locked: "Cry for help.",
+          locked: "Try to seem big.",
+          failure: "What would Dracula say if he was at a party? He'd probably -- Well, everyone would like him. You hadn't thought of what you'd say. Now you wish you'd stayed quiet.",
           unlockable: "Say nothing.",
+          success: "You don't say anything, and as people trail off wondering what your deal is, your mystique grows. Finally they show you the backroom secret poker game."
         }],
       },
       {
@@ -156,7 +184,9 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         options: [{
           skill: () => party2,
           locked: "Lose money.",
-          unlockable: "Make him leave.",
+          failure: "You can bet big against this guy -- and he calls you -- or you can call him -- and he raises you -- and you're never ever up.",
+          unlockable: "Make up an insulting nickname.",
+          success: "MR. GOOFY GLASSES, you call him. At first he looks down his nose like you belong on his shoe. Then the others join in. He runs in disgrace."
         }],
       },
     ]
@@ -170,11 +200,15 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         options: [{
           skill: () => party1,
           locked: "Quietly do nothing.",
+          failure: "He airily crosses the room as if his feet aren't touching the ground. Your silence is subsumed into his and you form a non-library-disturbing collective.",
           unlockable: "Be super loud.",
+          success: "You summon MDMA energy into your immortal coil and before you've opened your mouth he resigns to you. \"Here are the books.\" He fades."
         }, {
           skill: () => charm0,
           locked: "Gawk at him.",
+          failure: "He's so cool. Every day you remember you're a vampire and vampires are so, so, cool.",
           unlockable: "Say he's cool.",
+          success: "Looks like he gets that a lot. He's not fazed. \"I'm going to let you back here, because you need this,\" he says."
         }],
       },
       {
@@ -182,7 +216,9 @@ export const standardVaultTemplates: VaultTemplate[] = [
         options: [{
           skill: () => lore2,
           locked: "Look at the books.",
-          unlockable: "Prove you read something."
+          failure: "DISCOURSE ON THE LOTUS SUTRA, you read, from the spine of a random book. He's listening but pretending not to be paying attention.",
+          unlockable: "Prove you read something.",
+          success: "\"Fruit bats,\" you say. \"From the story. They're not actually bats, they're --\"\n\"Metaphorical,\" he agrees. \"But for what?\"",
         }],
       },
     ]