next-adventure

Summary New story branch: Continues the "lock the door" cliffhanger (which ended with a mysterious smell from the basement) into a full branching arc with 6 new states and 4 new endings: Investigate the basement -- discover a haunted laptop compiling your fears, then choose to smash it with a mechanical keyboard or befriend the ghost of technical debt Ignore the smell -- crank up lo-fi beats while a ghost writes comments in your editor, then choose to keep coding (and wake up to COBOL) or call a senior engineer for help 8 fallback characters (): Creative characters with fun favorite smells (e.g., "petrichor after a thunderstorm", "a brand new mechanical keyboard", "fresh pizza at 2 AM") so the story works even when the Hasura API is unreachable Error handling* in : Added a to the character fetch so the app gracefully falls back instead of failing silently Details The original "lock-the-door" path ended on a cliffhanger: a mysterious smell wafting from the basement. This PR picks up that thread and gives players 2 new choices that each branch into 2 more endings -- all written in the same spooky-dev-humor tone as the existing story. All new state keys follow the existing naming conventions ( event names, organized into level constants). The fallback characters use the same shape as the database records. New story tree (additions in bold) Test plan [ ] Verify the existing story paths still work as before [ ] Play through all 4 new endings from the "lock-the-door" branch [ ] Disconnect from the network / block the Hasura endpoint and confirm a fallback character loads [ ] Check that pronoun generation works correctly for all new story text (masc/fem/nb) This character was written by Daniel Bates. Happy to make any adjustments! 🤖 Generated with Claude Code