Something resembling a story..?

game/story.coffee

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ room "world",
   tags: ["start"],
   optionText: "Enter the world",
   ways: ["plaza"]
-  enter: () ->
-    bugg.put(@name)
   content: """
     ### Rhinestone Room
     
@@ -26,16 +24,19 @@ room "plaza",
       "quirky", "distinct", "kooky", "crazy", "quaint"
     ]
   ways: ["shop"]
-  before: () ->
-    """
-      You climb up the well and come out to a central plaza of a #{cyclelink("quaint")} little town.
-      A plaque nearby says it's the town of *Innsmouth,* wherever that is.
-    """
-  content: """
-    There are #{textlink("people shouting", "people")} nearby.
-
-    You could ask a policeman #{textlink("for directions.", "mark")}
-  """
+  before: (character, system, from) ->
+    if from == 'world'
+      """
+        You climb up the well and come out to a central plaza of a #{cyclelink("quaint")} little town.
+        A plaque nearby says it's the town of *Innsmouth,* wherever that is.
+      """
+    else
+      "You quickly find the central plaza."
+  content: (character, system) -> 
+    retval = "There are #{textlink("people shouting", "people")} nearby."
+    unless character.sandbox.has_mark?
+      retval += "\n\nYou could ask a policeman #{textlink("for directions.", "mark")}"
+    return retval
   writers:
     cyclewriter: (character) -> cycle(this, character)
     mark: (character) ->
@@ -60,17 +61,18 @@ room "shop",
 
 room "lair",
   title: "The Lair"
-  before: "Seems like you can't leave this just like that."
+  before: "Finding The Lair is easy. Leaving it is impossible. Your game ends here."
   content: """
     The Lair of Yog-Sothoth is a very *n'gai* cave, full of *buggs-shoggogs* and *n'ghaa ng'aa*.
   """
-
-bugg = obj "bugg-shoggog",
-  dsc: "You see a particularly beautiful slimy {{bugg.}}"
-  takeable: false
-  act: () =>
-    here().drop(@name)
-    return "You eat the bugg mass. Delicious and raw."
+  objects: {
+    bugg: obj "bugg",
+      dsc: "You see a particularly beautiful slimy {{bugg.}}"
+      takeable: false
+      act: () =>
+        here().drop(@name)
+        return "You eat the bugg mass. Delicious and raw. Perhaps it's a good lair to live in."
+  }
 
 dialogue "Yes", "merchant", "merchant", """
   Yes.
@@ -93,10 +95,16 @@ room "shop-inside",
         return ""
   }
 
+###
+I want to be able to do this but I can't because I'm lost in all the `this` and @objects and `new`.
+The chain of calls is very weird and this puts an object IN EVERY ROOM for God's sake.
+I need someone smarter than me to fix this.
+
 lamp = obj "lamp",
   dsc: "You see a {{lamp.}}"
   takeable: true
 lamp.put("shop-inside")
+###
 
 room "merchdialogue",
   choices: "#merchant",

lib/markdown.coffee

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Implies that you don't mix up your tabs and spaces.
 Copyright 2015 Bruno Dias
 ###
 normaliseTabs = (text) ->
+  unless text?
+    return ""
   lines = text.split('\n');
   indents = lines
     .filter((l) => l != '')
@@ -23,6 +25,8 @@ normaliseTabs = (text) ->
   ).join('\n')
 
 markdown = (text) ->
+  unless text?
+    return ""
   if typeof text is Function
     text = text()
   return marked(normaliseTabs(text), {

lib/situation.coffee

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ RaconteurSituation.inherits(undum.Situation)
   Undum API.
 ###
 
-RaconteurSituation.prototype.act = (character, system, action) =>
+RaconteurSituation.prototype.act = (character, system, action) ->
   actionClass = action.match(/^_(\w+)_(.+)$/)
   that = this