Three Character Converser

The Jacarandas and the rosehips hang low and very close and quiet(if: $current_script < 83 or $current_script > 98)[, and the dark is so thick and wide you can barely see around it](else:)[.<p>And maybe... A crepuscular blue light..].(if: $current_script is 1 and $textiniter is 0)[<p>A beam slices the thickness of the night. From Adelheid’s flashlight.<p>Three friends go for a walk, far from the path.(set: $textiniter to 1)]  (if: $current_script > 120) [(set: $current_script to $current_script % 3)] (set: $character_names to (array: "Adelheid", "Lucky", "Liliʻulolokuwalaniakamakaʻeha")) (set: $script to (array: "Aw shit it is darker than I thought it would be. These woods are like, very, very dark.", "“(It’s one a.m. and we literally drove here in the dark…)", "Heh yeah. I keep bumping into stuff.", "Fuck fuck fuck I stepped in a deer deuce.", "I brought another flashlight…", "Lucky’s got a pen light…", "Nope wrecks the ambience. We need wicked ambiance right now.", "Yeah, I guess that wouldn’t, like, set the Mise-en-scene?", "Oh, uh, cool?", "This is suppose to be super spiritual and shit. I cannot engage with the mysteries of the night without appropriate lighting.", "Adelheid’s all about preserving mysteries and things right now.", "Aw nice, I get that. I mean like usually I go for walks more in the daytime, but this is cool too.", "We are one hundred percent, all in, here to commune with our nature-selves tonight.", "(Sure is dark though.)", "(Yeah did we bring snax I am so fucking hungry.)", "DIANA THE MOON-MOTHER I BESEECH YOU TO MAKE THIS NIGHT SICK AS HELL.", "(Dang. I made trail mix and then left it on the counter.)", "(Maaaaanng that trail mix you made for our housewarming would rilly hit the spot right now.)", "KYAH KEEEYAH SKREE OWLS I COMMUNE WITH YOU", "(I even added Jelly Beans, ‘cuz you said you liked it…)", "(Are they always like this…? I mean, it’s cool! But… it’d be a lot if it was all the time.)", "MAKE ME THE WITCH QUEEN OF YOUR NIGHT REALM FOREST CREATURES", "(Sorry, they’re kinda going through a… crisis thing lately, I think. Um. They haven’t been talking about it.)", "Hmmmm. Um.", "MMmmmmmm. This feels super good. This is like, a positive life experience.", "(This is a lot more intense than they usually are, but not like, abnormal?)", "Um…", "…", "…", "…", "…", "Wow.", "It’s so…", "Really quiet.", "But it’s not city-quiet.", "I can hear myself breathing.", "I can hear mice and stuff.", "Wow. Me too.", "It’s really…", "It’s so…", "…", "…", "…unnerving?", "I… don’t think I like it.", "…It’s like… if you were in a coma for a million years… and you just… forgot what the world sounded like…", "When we stop talking, it’s like… like I really, really wish someone would say something. Like it almost hurts, it’s so quiet.", "Yeah…", "Heh. That’s so weird. Haha.", "Huh.", "…", "…", "You know how this could be way better.", "Oh my God I am so glad I didn’t let you bring weed.", "I’ve never really been super…? But I coulda tried, I guess?", "That would have really ratcheted up how transcendent this would have been.", "That would have been really…", "Kinda would’ve been way too intense, though.", "Yeah, I guess this is already really intense.", "I’m already fully spooped out.", "Kinda glad we didn’t. God I’m such a narc.", "I guess that’s more of an alone-time thing for me, anyway.", "So… why all of a sudden…?", "Yeah, so um, I’m still not totally sure I get the appeal of this.", "Huh? Oh. Ummmm. I guess I just wanted to go experience something… like, big. And vacuous.", "Maybe it’s sort of… a loneliness thing.", "Like, you kind of want to feel alone?", "No, it’s. Uh. It’s like I wanted everything to sort of.. disappear.", "It feels like - like trying to shake a really old etch-a-sketch, right?", "Oh. I guess I can get that if I think about it.", "It’s more like… I wanted to scrub everything away all at once, in order to see what’s. What’s. uh.", "To try and see what’s left when it’s all gone.", "What’s left behind.", "The stuff you can’t see.", "…", "…", "But there isn’t anything.", "Just…", "…just so quiet…", "It’s not the way I thought is was going to be.", "I… didn’t think I’d feel like this either.", "It feels really big.", "…", "…", "…", "Is that the sun coming up?", "The sky is sort of, like, blue-y.", "Could be…", "That’d be really weird.", "There was just a kind of warm breeze.", "Maybe it’s morning.", "Dude we’ve only been walking for like…", "It hasn’t really been that long.", "…", "…", "Oh.", "Huh.", "I guess it was just our eyes adjusting.", "…I don’t think it actually got brighter.", "…Just in our heads I guess.", "…", "Are you having fun?", "Um. Yeah sort of.", "Not really.", "Oh.", "(This wasn’t really what I wanted to do together.)", "Fun isn’t really the point.", "(Obvs.)", "I feel like…", "I feel really dislocated. I guess that’s what I wanted.", "It's like we’ve been walking for longer than I thought.", "…I feel…", "…feels really…", "…it really is so dark…", "…", "…", "Ugh.", "Really wish you’d let me use the other flashlight.", "Mood wrecker.", "This lighting is not conducive to a mood of romance and adventure.", "Where are we now…?"))   (if: ($current_script % ($character_names's length)) is not 0) [(print: $character_names's ($current_script % ($character_names's length)))] (else:) [(print: $character_names's 3)] (print: $script's ($current_script))  (print: $character_names's ($current_script % ($character_names's length)+1)) (link: " speaks next") [(set: $current_script to $current_script + 1) (goto: "player")] (if: ($current_script % ($character_names's length)+2) is not 4) [(print: $character_names's ($current_script % ($character_names's length)+2))] (else:) [(print: $character_names's 1st)] (link: " speaks next") [(set: $current_script to $current_script + 2) (goto: "player")]

(set: $current_script to 1) (goto: "player") (set: $textiniter is 0)

$script (set: $script to (array: “Aw shit it is darker than I thought it would be. These woods are like, very, very dark.","It’s one a.m. and we literally drove here in the dark","Heh yeah. I keep bumping into stuff.")) (set: $butt to (array: "1", "2") (set: $character_names to (array: "Onesie", "Twosie", "Threesie")) (set: $character_names to (array: "1", "2"))