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Chapter - Choice Redux

Epilogue-Dream is a room in Dreamlands with printed name "". The description is "[if ep-concept-art is on-stage]Waves.[paragraph break]Dream seas surge around you, slow, silent, and for a moment it's as if everything you've been through, all you've seen and done, has not yet happened, and again you feel you must make a choice, between [t]art[x] and [t]love[x][else]You float in infinite void[end if].".

ep-concept-art is an abstraction in Epilogue-Dream. Understand "art" as ep-concept-art when location is Epilogue-Dream. ep-concept-love is an abstraction in Epilogue-Dream. Understand "love" as ep-concept-love when location is Epilogue-Dream.

Instead of doing anything other than examining or examining by name or discussing or exhausting or getting bored when location is Epilogue-Dream: say "[if ep2-door is enclosed by location]All you can seem to focus on is the [o]door[x].[else if an attentive other person is enclosed by location]You can only seem to focus on [a random attentive other person enclosed by the location].[else]There is only the choice: [t]art[x] or [t]love[x]?[end if]".[]

The description of ep-concept-art is "[if we chose art]Yes, and it feels as right as the first time. You are an artist, and nothing can change that.[otherwise if we chose both]{You have chosen. Whereas once you chose both, now you choose art.}[otherwise]It feels right now, where before it did not.[end if]". After examining ep-concept-art: now second-choice-art is true; prep-ep-convo; continue the action.

The description of ep-concept-love is "[if we chose love]Yes, and it feels as right as the first time. You cannot be human without loving, and you cannot be an artist without being human.[otherwise if we chose both]{You have chosen. Whereas once you chose both, now you choose love.}[otherwise]It feels right now, where before it did not.[end if]". After examining ep-concept-love: now second-choice-love is true; prep-ep-convo; continue the action.

second-choice-art is a truth state that varies. second-choice-art is false. second-choice-love is a truth state that varies. second-choice-love is false.

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To prep-ep-convo:

remove ep-concept-love from play;

remove ep-concept-art from play;

if ep_likeRume:

now tempfuse of eplr_intro is 5;

if Rume is male, now ep-rume is male;

else now ep-rume is female;

move ep-rume to location;

now ep-rume is attentive;

otherwise if ep_likeProgue and Progue is not dead:

now tempfuse of eplp_intro is 5;

move ep-lethe to location;

now ep-lethe is attentive;

otherwise:

move ep-dr-quick to location;

now tempfuse of epln_intro is 5;

now ep-dr-quick is attentive;

if ( we chose love and second-choice-art is true ) or ( we chose art and second-choice-love is true ) :

now eplr_intro suggests eplr_diffchoice;

now eplp_intro suggests eplp_diffchoice;

now epln_intro2 enqueues epln_diffchoice;

if end-neither:

if second-choice-art is true, now eplr_junction enqueues eplr_neitherart;

otherwise now eplr_junction enqueues eplr_neitherlove;

now epln_junction enqueues epln_destroy;

else if end-abstain:

now eplr_junction enqueues eplr_abstain;

now epln_junction enqueues epln_abstain;

else if end-rebels:[aar]

now eplr_junction enqueues eplr_rebels;

now epln_junction enqueues epln_city.