Entry 189

"The ML events open in Infection: twelve of the members' mail events, Black Rose's run on the desktop"

2026-09-26script

Filescrates/piney-game/src/desktop.rsdocs/engine/events.md

events.md listed "whether the ML events open in Infection" as unknown. The ML group (401-455) is on Infection's disc, all 55 scripts. Each is a member's mail thread:

• It opens once a story event is done, on the desktop (game_status 2).
• Its blocks wait for the desktop's set-up (phase >= 4).
• Each block sends the next mail as the member's friendship passes a mark (50, 75, 100, ...) and adds 10 to it.
• The reply to the last mail (mail_5 or mail_6) picks the branch.

Twelve open on Infection's events alone:

The rest wait on events 102, 113, 155-162, 210, 219, 262, 304 and 310, of the later volumes.

The walk (event-vm.md, the gate) reaches them each pass after S1 to S4, never in Parody Mode. A first test had only events 0-14 done: event 15 then opened, its block 2 held the pass, and 401 was never reached. The game's eventSub walk, which the port's VM follows (the VM fixture replays it), does the same.

black_rose_writes_when_friendly (piney-game) marks Infection's events 0-99 done, sets Black Rose's friendship (row 15) and runs the desktop:

• at 50, mail 85 comes: state 1, then 2 once the mailer icon has seen it;
• at 49, nothing comes.