Entry 358

"Infection's whole story under the autopilot: the pilot's gaps up to event 21"

2026-10-02testscript

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

276 ran Mutation's story from its new game to its end under the story autopilot (mutation_whole_story), and Outbreak's followed. Infection, the volume being finished first, had only story_survey: one story start at a time, 4,000 frames each. infection_whole_story now runs INF from its first story start (event 3; 1 and 2 are the desktop's) to event 31's end. Its first runs stopped at once. Each stop was the pilot's, not the port's.

What the pilot lacked

• Event 10: Kite's own post. bbs_post7 leaves a post in state 7, which the board writes out on the next visit. The top page player read only new posts (state 1), so it went between the desktop and the top page for ever. It now opens the board first when piney_toppage::bbs::check_write_bbs finds a post waiting.
• Event 11: targets that are not town NPCs. The town talk looked every add_target up as an NPC. Event 11's are BlackRose (type 2, a party character) and the Chaos Gate (13). GateGoal::Talk now carries the kind: 2 a party character, 3, 4 and 8-12 an NPC (8-12 are event 16's five merchants), 13 the gate.
• Events 12 and 14: a closed event. An event's end_event closes it (bit 63), and it turns done (bit 62) only at the next mode's ccStartThEvent. The next story event opens on done. With the story wanting nothing in town, the pilot took the last marked area (field 28, an old mark) instead. It now logs out whenever a story event is closed and not yet done.
• Event 13: a town marker. Block 2 waits on near_marker 31 in Mac Anu. The pilot walked to markers only in fields. GateGoal::Marker walks to World::marker's place first.
• Event 21: Elk alone. Block 9 refuses the gate while anyone but Elk is along (in_party 10, party_other 10). The pilot had filled the free slot with Mistral. story_wants now gives Want::Only(pc) for a party_other block; the pilot then sends the others away, re-invites the member, and fills no slots.
• Event 22: two towns. Event 22 wants both Mac Anu and Dun Loireag. Each town's goal was the other, so Kite went back and forth. A town that is itself wanted now keeps him.

whole_story now starts at the volume's first story start (crate::start::POINTS). It gives up after PINEY_SURVEY_STALL frames (200,000) with no event ending, and says where. The stall report (whole_state) adds, in a field or dungeon, the event targets, the foes and the nearest one's distance, in_battle, the menu, the phase and the playing block.

Where it stands

Events 3, 4 and 10-21 end, the last at frame 222,600 (with god, the infection held at 0, cores given for the hacks, as the survey's aids do). The run then stops in area 31's dungeon with Piros in the party. Event 22's blocks 21-24 wait on Kite holding the cures (items 15/54-57). In a story dungeon the idol of a story room holds that room's itemID (SetIDOL, ep.param[1]), and the pilot never opens idols.

The stall in field 28 showed one more thing to look at: in_battle stayed 1 for 60,000 frames with Kite idle at the field's start. The pilot's gate_out takes in_battle as busy, so it never left. That run predates the closed-event rule, which keeps the pilot out of field 28; the in_battle reading itself was not explained.