Entry 268

Event 107 under the autopilot: to Innis and past the breeder

2026-09-28testbattle

Filescrates/piney-game/src/session/tests/survey.rscrates/piney-game/src/session.rs

With Innis ported (266), mutation_story_survey for 107 now ends story 107: done (400,000 frames, the fight about 146,000 of them). Three things stood in the way, each the pilot's, not the port's.

Walking into Data Drain's reach

Innis roams the arena where Skeith came to Kite, and the target menu (65) finds no one past Data Drain's reach (2000 plus the boss's width). The pilot cast from where it stood, so each protect break went by. Now, in a fight, with a boss's protect broken (pp_count, the break's frames; pp is the gauge that fills to it) and Kite knowing Data Drain, the pilot walks straight at the boss until within 1200 (approach_boss), then drains. In the run the protect first broke about 80,000 frames into the fight (Innis lv 99 against a lv 31 party: its HP from 30000 down at about 0.3 a frame), and the pilot drained at ten breaks before Innis fell.

Data Drain's game over

The first run went from the arena to the title. The drain's side effect roll (rand() % 100 <= infection / 2) picked effect 30, which DataDrainMenu step 12 turns into Request::GameOver: the game's own rule, at the infection the story's start gives. PINEY_SURVEY_GOD (and mutation_whole_story) now hold Kite's infection at 0 through the console, as god holds HP: a harness aid, not the game's.

The breeder in Carmina Gadelica

After the fight, block 23 in town makes the Grunty breeder (NPC 16) an event target (add_target 13 16) for a repeatable line (block 25). The town pilot marked an NPC spoken to only when the talk's block banned the menus; the breeder opens his own menu (27) instead, which nothing closed, so the pilot stood in it. Now a talk counts once the NPC's own menu opens (21-27, 44-46), and gate_player backs out of a shop's or breeder's menu (CIRCLE). Then block 26 wants the top page (game_status 3), and the pilot's log-out and Quit (265) end the event (block 29, end_event).

The Innis session tests

event_107_ends_with_innis and innis_drained_through_the_menus (in session/tests/skeith.rs) never ran when they were written: block 19's message 4 waits for a button, and both held the pad still, so the event task sat in its phase-4 pass (op 15) for the whole run and block 20 never came. They press CROSS while a block plays now, and pass. Vm::playing_op (event, block, instruction) was added to find that.

Also

mutation_whole_story now passes event 104: the Gate Out from a field the story is done with (265) takes it back to town at frame 117,600, where it used to stand in field 58.