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# Cthangover: Murakami — a story line of the main game
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This mod adds one story line to Cthangover: something prowls the town, and following it leads to a meeting with Murakami. It brings the scenarios of that meeting, Murakami as a character with her portrait and set of expressions, a quest in the journal, and battles. It is part of the Cthangover game and needs the base story (`cthangover_game`) to run.
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This page describes how the line is attached to the game and how it starts; what happens later is left for the player.
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## How it starts
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When Marao comes to the town entrance, a growl comes from the darkness and the player chooses whether to go back home or check the alley:
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![The town entrance at night: the text "[A muffled growl came from the darkness]" with the answers Return home and Check the alley.](assets/growl.jpg)
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Checking the alley starts the quest **Meeting Murakami**, and its first entry appears in the journal:
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## How it is attached to the base story
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The mod changes no file of the base game. It adds scenarios to existing scenes, and the game picks the one to play by its priority and condition:
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```scenario
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scene: town_entry
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priority: 10
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condition: MeetingMurakamiQuest.notHasTag("wolf_battle")
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```
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- The opening scenario belongs to the scene `town_entry` with priority 10, so it is chosen over the town's ordinary scenarios while its condition holds.
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- Each next step of the line is another scenario of `town_entry` with a higher priority (20, 30) whose condition looks at the tags of the quest `MeetingMurakamiQuest`. The last step plays in the house (`home_vestibule`).
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- Battles start with `battle.init` on the platform's battle system; the outcome is written back as a quest tag, so the next scenario knows what happened.
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- When the line is finished, its conditions no longer hold and the town plays its ordinary scenarios again.
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What the mod ships:
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- `scenarios/murakami/meeting/` — the four scenarios of the meeting;
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- `quests/quests.json` — the quest with three journal entries;
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- `characters/player/murakami.json` — Murakami as a character, with her picture;
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- `avatars/murakami/` — her expressions for dialogs;
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- the backgrounds of the meeting in `backgrounds/town/meetingmurakami/`;
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- texts in seven languages in `locale/`.
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## Turning it off
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The line can be left out of the game's collection: the town then plays only its own scenarios, and the quest never appears.
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## Known problems
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- Two of Marao's expressions used by these scenarios, `marao/what` and `marao/relax`, do not exist in the game, so those lines show no portrait. The Validator reports them as `REF_NOT_FOUND`.
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