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168 lines
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# ============================================================
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# Chapter 1 — Scene 3: The Lanterns (Emma's First Encounter)
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# ============================================================
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# Characters: Protagonist, Emma
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# Location: Riverside at dusk — lantern-lighting ceremony
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# Affinity gates: Choice 3, Choice 4
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# ---- DUSK AT THE RIVER ----
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[background arg="res://orzo/locations/location_03_lantern_ceremony_2.png" fade="0.5"]
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[pause=0.5]
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The sky drains from amber to violet. Paper lanterns, unlit, rest in rows along the riverbank.
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I'm at the water's edge, camera raised — waiting for the shot.
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[pause=0.3]
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Except it's not working.
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[pause=0.3]
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The angle is wrong. Stage light bleeds into the frame. I adjust. Still wrong. I crouch. Still
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[pause=0.3]
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join emma (Casual/idle) left pos=x+256px [animation="Fade In" length="0.6" wait="true"]
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emma: You're framing it wrong.
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[pause=0.2]
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She's beside me, close enough that our sleeves brush. Incense, and something sweet.
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[pause=0.3]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/thinking] Lower. Let the water reflect the light. The lanterns aren't the subject... the river is.
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[pause=0.3]
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leave emma [animation="Fade In" length="0.6" wait="true"]
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I adjust...
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[pause=0.3]
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Click.
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[pause=0.6]
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[background arg="res://orzo/locations/location_03_lantern_ceremony_close_up.png" fade="0.5"]
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[pause=0.3]
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join emma (Casual/amazed) left pos=x+256px [animation="Fade In" length="0.6" wait="true"]
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emma: See? Now it sings.
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[pause=0.3]
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update emma (Casual/happy) left pos=x+256px [animation="Fade In" length="0.6" wait="true"]
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She's still smiling when I look up. I'm smiling too before I realize it.
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[pause=0.5]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] I'm Emma. Shamisen player. Occasional narrator. Three summers on this circuit. I've learned a thing or two about how light behaves around water.
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/idle] You must be the new photographer. Takeda told me, "The new photographer arrives today." I guess that's you.
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/thinking] ...kisha-san. That okay?
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# ---- CHOICE 3: The Correction ----
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] So?
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- "Thank you. I'm {ORZO_01.player_name}. Are you with the festival?"
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set {ORZO_01.emma_affinity} += 2
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] With it? Kisha-san, I *am* the festival.
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Well — one-third of it. The other two-thirds are a fire dancer who doesn't talk and a van that might not make it to September.
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[pause=0.3]
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She laughs, carrying across the water. Festival-goers glance over and smile.
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- Lower the camera and just watch the lanterns with her.
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set {ORZO_01.emma_affinity} += 3
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[pause=0.3]
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I lower the camera. The lanterns drift on dark water — a ribbon of slow fire.
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[pause=0.3]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/amazed] ...oh.
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] Most photographers never put the camera down.
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- Nod, keep shooting.
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set {ORZO_01.emma_affinity} -= 1
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[pause=0.3]
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I nod, camera still raised. There are more frames to capture.
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[pause=0.5]
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When I look again, she's stepped back... still polite, but the space between us has grown.
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# ---- CHOICE 4: The Name ----
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[pause=0.5]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/thinking] Kisha-san.
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[pause=0.2]
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She's testing it. Smiling.
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- Smile back. "And what should I call you?"
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set {ORZO_01.emma_affinity} += 1
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] Emma. Just Emma. The festival elders? They say, "That girl talks too much." I earned that one.
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- "Kisha-san? I've been called worse."
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set {ORZO_01.emma_affinity} += 1
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[pause=0.2]
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She laughs — bright and sudden.
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[pause=0.3]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] Oh, I'm sure. But I mean it nicely. Promise.
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- "Just {ORZO_01.player_name} is fine."
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/idle] Mm. Noted.
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[pause=0.3]
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She doesn't say anything. But she's still smiling.
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# ---- CONTINUE ----
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[pause=0.5]
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A voice from the stage: "Emma! Two minutes!"
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[pause=0.3]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] Duty calls. But kisha-san — after the show, come find me. There's a food stall three blocks in that does imagawayaki that'll ruin you for all other food.
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: ...
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[pause=0.2]
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emma: [portrait=Casual/happy] I've done the research.
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[pause=0.3]
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She waves and disappears into the crowd.
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leave emma [animation="Fade Out" length="0.4"]
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[pause=0.5]
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I look down at the camera. The reflection shot is still there.
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[pause=0.3]
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She was right. About everything.
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[pause=0.5]
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[signal arg="scene_complete"]
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[end_timeline] |