Entry 263

Mutation's story under the autopilot, and area 43's map

2026-09-28worldtestvolumes

Filescrates/piney-world/src/story_map.rscrates/piney-world/src/evarea03.rscrates/piney-world/src/field_world.rscrates/piney-game/src/area.rscrates/piney-game/src/session.rscrates/piney-game/src/session/tests/survey.rscrates/piney-game/src/session/tests/area43.rscrates/piney-game/src/start.rscrates/piney-fieldui/src/lib.rscrates/piney-gen/src/manifest.rscrates/piney-gen/src/talk.rs

mutation_story_survey now finishes 13 of Mutation's 16 story events, up from 6 in 250. Event 101, the new game's, has a start (the desktop as the boot leaves it) and plays from there through Mac Anu and field 27's dungeon into event 104's field. Most of the gap was the survey and the pilot, not the port. The rest is the first of the story maps Mutation needs: area 43's EVENTAREA03, behind a new StoryMap trait.

The survey read the flag in the wrong places

The survey took an event's flag only in a town, field or dungeon. An event that ended on the desktop kept the flag it had there. And a closed event (bit 63, its end_event played) turns done (bit 62) only at the next mode's ccStartThEvent (Vm::start_thread). Event 106 had played every block (flag 0x800000000000003b) and was reported open. The flag is now read on every stage, and bit 63 or 62 counts as the end.

What the pilot learned

• The arena door. Event 107's boss is in field 2, EVENTAREAB0, reached from field 46's dungeon through the door into its special room (type 16 or more): GotoNextRoom answers -255 and WORLD_MAN::Enter calls ChangeArea(1, special::exit_field(area)). When the story wants that field, the pilot's dungeon goal is that room.
• A lake's second dungeon. Area 48 is a lake (field type 4): its dungeon 1 lies below dungeon 0, down the last floor's stairs (Enter's -1). Want::Dungeon now carries the dungeon's index, and a goal one floor past the lake's last takes those stairs. Event 111 finishes.
• A revive in progress. condition[0] 5 is a member getting up (78 frames, ccFellow::Action's fade). ChatMenu1 refuses him every order (rows 0, 2, 3 in a fight), and the open menu pauses the fight, so the count never ran out: the pilot ordered, was refused, and ordered again, for 35,000 frames in event 107. Members whose condition is not 0 are now not ordered or targeted, and menu 71's refusal (proccess 10, 11) takes OK.
• The top page. An add_operate bit (command + 6: 6 Log in, 7 the board, 8 Quit) makes the command an event's message instead. Event 108 takes the board for its whole run. The pilot passes a taken command by, logs in instead, and does not log out for posts while the board is held. It also writes a post waiting to be written (state 7): OK types it out, OK posts it (ExitWritingMsgPage).
• Repeatable blocks. A block that plays again each time is a side line: event 115's point 3 clears block 10 on every entry, and 113's point 2 waits for an item. Their event points are not goals, though their other wants (a member, an area's words) still are.
• Towns. The pilot walked straight at its target. In Carmina Gadelica the equipment shop (event 103's add_target type 8, the EQUIP_SHOP flag 0x100, npcTbl row 11) is behind a wall. The field's breadth-first planner is now general (path_to), and towns use it.

The story maps behind one trait

Place had a variant for each ported EVENTAREA (02, 07, B0), and each of them went into some twenty matches. They are now one Place::Story(Box<dyn StoryMap>). The trait is piney_world::story_map: hits, lights, start positions, the clear colour, enter, frame and draw. story_map::build is GO(1)'s choice by field. Place::story::<T> reaches a class's own state, such as the arena's SwitchLayer, as the towns' RootTown does.

Area 43: EVENTAREA03

Event 102 goes to field 43, which the port had given a generated field. It is EVENTAREA03 (MUT gcmn 0x00416590 constructor, 0x00416bf0 Draw; INF 0x00403590, 0x00403bf0; Mutation's is 4 bytes shorter in each):

• The scene. se2_1, with EA_MODELTABLE03's two pass-0 models (MDL_se2_1fl1, MDL_se2_1ba1) and eventarea03Light's one distant light, LGT_se2_1lig1. Fog is (150, 4000, 0, 80, 0x1e1e1e), the start (0, 0, 0) with w 1.0.
• flag (+0x1c8). The constructor reads gateListMark[game.server][1] & 0x800: area 43 marked on the server (+0x1c is ccGame.server, from the DWARF).
• The fly-over. While flag is 0, Draw runs a scene of its own:
  1. Frame 0: changeCamera(3), MenuBan.
  2. Camera 3 goes from view (1322, -1128, 1014) and position (1678, -1433, 1188) to (-210, 167, 36) and (162, -133, 178), with t = min(cnt / 120, 1), over frames 0-139.
  3. Frame 140: ccMsg->Open(&kiteSelfTalk, kiteSelfTalk.name, -1, -1).
  4. Once Check(0) answers: MenuClr, changeCamera(1), ChangeArea(0, 1), back to Dun Loireag.
• DrawBG draws bg[0], which the constructor never sets. Draw never calls it.

During the story the area is marked (event 102's gate_mark), so only the event's own fade plays and the scene waits. The port runs the scene in StoryMap::frame. The camera moves happen there. MenuBan and the message go to the game as Request::Story, and AreaMode answers Check(0) with the frame's pad before the field steps. kiteSelfTalk is a record of the fieldui group now (kite_self_talk, kite_self_talk_va), and a root of the talk records, so FieldUi::story_message opens it as talk::open_record does. DATA_VERSION is 9.

Checks: evarea03::tests::area_43 (the models, the hits, the light, the mark), and the session's area_43_flies_over_and_sends_the_party_back (a new game's warp to area 43: camera 3, the ban, the line at cnt 141, OK, town 1). Area 15's and 16's session tests pass on the trait.

The survey now (60,000 frames a start; 150,000 for the long ones)

• Done: 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116.
• 107: at the arena boss in field 2; the pilot never uses Data Drain.
• 108: logs in to Dun Loireag, not Carmina Gadelica, and around again.
• 115: in field 52's dungeon, slow; after it comes field 13, EVENTAREA01.

One more thing turned up. The game's own binary did not build: the console's invite_party used AreaMode::world_mut, which was test-only. Only the tests had been built since. It is public now.