VAULT 69 - BUILD 4.5.1 - PROSE PASS Revised 148 passages across the opening, character introductions and histories, common events, investigations, relationships, endings, and tutorial. The pass replaces vague references with concrete actions, trims repeated explanations of gestures, clarifies what choices mean, and states consequences more directly. The Bina and Hedda dialogue also agrees more closely with the story/ Examples: Before: "I have been keeping the room's temperature for Hedda since the first week." After: "I have been calming people down for Hedda since the first week." Before: "The pause does the talking." After: "Your silence makes the rumor harder to deny." Before: "You keep it to the size of the room. She laughs once, properly, and files it somewhere." After: "You joke about the day. She laughs, then adds a joke of her own." Validation: all 20 embedded scripts parse. Comparing their structure before and after the pass found no changes to non-text logic or embedded expressions. Twelve representative scenes rendered in a Chromium browser without page errors. This was an editorial pass and scene check, not a complete playthrough. Extract the full folder and open "Vault 69.html". Keep the art folder beside it. OPENING REWRITE (post-seal) --------------------------- Rewrote intro_door, intro_speech, intro_manifest, intro_suit, intro_orient, intro_tour and intro_verdict. The women were told women go first and the men would follow on a second call; the door sealed on the men. Scene IDs, options, flags, blame/relationship calls and script order are unchanged. Two helpers (_iN, _iL) read names and each woman's `lost` from the cast, so mods still work. First day is now work-free: shiftToday() returns "First day" on day 1, onShift() is false, sleeping through the day isn't counted as a missed block, and unranked residents drift between dorm, mess and corridor instead of posts. WINDOWS AND MOODS A paragraph that is only "~mood" starts a new window. The player pages with Continue; choices appear on the last window. Moods: chaos, shock, fury, tense, grief, dread, tender, numb (CSS on #sitBox, off under reduced motion). Any scene can use it; scenes without "~" render as before. SIREN art/sfx/klaxon loops from intro_door until the seal moment; cut ~1.4s before the seal picture ends. Stops on mute. Siren is now art/sfx/siren.ogg/.m4a (new, loud, seamless 6s loop). klaxon was ~-32 dB and buried under the music. SCENE STANDEES While a scene is open, its people stand in the viewport: the subject, whoever speaks in the window on screen (latest first), the second woman, and anyone who answered. Up to the room cap (3 classic / spots in depth mode), then the room fills as before. Baked plates (SCENES.sit pictures with people painted in, tier-1 baked rooms) are left alone. A SCENES.sit plate that is just an empty room (e.g. intro_tour -> plant) now gets standees. ORIENTATION REEL art/orientation.webm/.mp4: sloppy Rocky-Tec reel played on the Rocky-Tec pull-down cinema screen when intro_orient opens, Hedda standee beside it (cinema.play opt.presenter). Scene text rewritten around it The S.L.O.P.P.Y. assessment film (art/sloppy.mp4) moved off the intake sheet onto the schoolroom projector. v3 What's new Gifts You can now buy small items and give them to the women. Whether a gift lands well, does nothing, or lands badly depends on who she is and how she feels about you. One gift per person per day. Twelve new items were added (chocolate, coffee, tea, socks, hand cream, a hairbrush, a notebook, a pen, a paperback, a flower kit, cigarettes, ribbons). The cat A stray cat now lives in the vault. It roams, hides, and gets into things when no one is looking after it. Find it, then pet or feed it, and it will follow whoever cared for it last — a small daily boost for that person. Other women can adopt it too, so you may have to go and win it back. (Can be turned off in Settings.) Sub-rooms Rooms now have smaller rooms inside them, which only appear when you are in the main room: Kitchen, Overseer's Quarters, Overseer's Wash, Security Post, Showers, Back Aisle, Archive, and a Control Nook. Some are private and stay locked until you are trusted enough — the women's showers, for example, only open to you once enough of them have warmed to you. Chores and rotas There are now two shared jobs on a rota: the bins (cleaning) and the pots (cooking). If the woman whose turn it is skips it, the place gets dirty, meals suffer, and the others notice — someone may cover for her, or have a word with her, and you can catch the end of that argument as you pass by. (Can be turned off in Settings.) Employee of the Week The board is now a real contest with first, second, and third place, decided mostly by who actually does the work. Relationships now pay off A woman who likes you will do things for you without being asked — cover a shift you missed, save you a seat, bring you the last of the coffee, put the cat on your bunk, or warn you when trouble is coming. Appointments Someone who trusts you may ask you to meet her somewhere at a certain time. Turn up and it means something. Forget, and that means something too. Rumours Around forty new rumours now spread through the vault and change as they travel. Some are just gossip; others are tied to what is really going on. Bina- Bina has been reworked into a genuine danger. If the overseer is gone and security has collapsed, the vault turns lawless — and if she is against you, she can kill you. If you have won her over first, she protects you instead. New backstory included. Moments Big "firsts" now get a short full-screen beat — the first woman to take your side, the cat choosing your bunk, your name reaching the board. Feel and polish Portraits shake when someone turns cold on you and glow when they warm to you; the screen jolts when things get dangerous; more sound effects throughout. A woman who can't stand you may get up and leave when you walk into the room. Quality of life Settings: mini-games (the cat, the rotas) can be switched on or off. Character creation has been rewritten in plain, clear English so it is easy to understand what each background, flaw, and difficulty actually does. New artwork for all the sub-rooms. Fixes Fixed romance images showing up as raw text instead of pictures (this affected every character, not just one). Stability and continuity fixes. The build was put through an automated play-test — many long, randomised playthroughs — with no crashes and no broken game states.
