Conversation: `mw_watts_m`

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PC replies: 20
NumWords: 200
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creature NPC Alan Watts mw_watts_w

Scripts referenced

Script	Slot	In module
`mw_enc_watts`	action	✓
`mw_wat_unl`	action	✓
`mw_wat_reset`	action	✓
`mw_wat_inc`	action	✓
`mw_wat_pass`	active	✓
`mw_chk_watts`	active	✓

Quest entries granted

Quest	Tag	Step(s)
MW: Alan Watts	`mw alan watts`	1, 2
The Path of Meaning	`mw path of meaning`	1

Starting entries

entry #9 (if mw_chk_watts) — Ha. The river does not need to remember flowing, . You have already understood w…
entry #0 — Welcome, dear friend. You are the universe playing hide-and-seek with itself. Sh…

Conversation flow

Each starting entry is expanded recursively. Repeated nodes (cycles, shared continuations) appear inline as ↩ link backrefs to the first occurrence.

entry #9 (if mw_chk_watts) ¶

Ha. The river does not need to remember flowing, <FullName>. You have already understood what most spend a lifetime avoiding. Come back to laugh with me — but there is nothing left to prove.

reply #19 ¶

Of course. Thank you.

entry #0 → mw_enc_watts ¶

Welcome, dear friend. You are the universe playing hide-and-seek with itself. Shall we play a small game of questions, or will you wander on?

reply #0 → mw_wat_reset ¶

Ask. I will answer.

entry #1 ¶

Who is doing the experiencing?

reply #2 ¶

I am, separate from the world.

entry #2 ¶

What is the universe?

reply #5 ¶

A machine.

entry #3 ¶

Why try, then?

reply #8 ¶

To win.

entry #4 ¶

What is the self?

reply #11 ¶

A noun.

entry #5 ¶

How do you let go?

reply #14 ¶

By gripping harder until you cannot.

entry #6 → mw_wat_unl (if mw_wat_pass) ¶

Hahaha. You see it now. When you next dream, I will be there to laugh with you.

reply #17 ¶

Thank you.

entry #7 ¶

Oh dear, you are still pretending to be a separate thing. Wander a while; the joke will land when it lands.

reply #18 ¶

I will return.

reply #15 → mw_wat_inc ¶

By falling on purpose, with grace.

↩ entry #6 “Hahaha. You see it now. When you next dream, I will be there to laugh with you.” (if mw_wat_pass)

↩ entry #7 “Oh dear, you are still pretending to be a separate thing. Wander a while; the jo…”

reply #16 ¶

By renouncing the body.

↩ entry #6 “Hahaha. You see it now. When you next dream, I will be there to laugh with you.” (if mw_wat_pass)

↩ entry #7 “Oh dear, you are still pretending to be a separate thing. Wander a while; the jo…”

reply #12 → mw_wat_inc ¶

A verb — selving.

↩ entry #5 “How do you let go?”

reply #13 ¶

An illusion to be destroyed.

↩ entry #5 “How do you let go?”

reply #9 → mw_wat_inc ¶

Because the trying is the play; the goal is incidental.

↩ entry #4 “What is the self?”

reply #10 ¶

Because failure shames the gods.

↩ entry #4 “What is the self?”

reply #6 ¶

A test of moral fibre.

↩ entry #3 “Why try, then?”

reply #7 → mw_wat_inc ¶

A game played in hide-and-seek by what we are.

↩ entry #3 “Why try, then?”

reply #3 → mw_wat_inc ¶

There is no separate I; the experiencing is the experience itself.

↩ entry #2 “What is the universe?”

reply #4 ¶

The mind sealed inside the skull.

↩ entry #2 “What is the universe?”

reply #1 ¶

Not today.

entry #8 ¶

Then walk on.

NPC lines (entries) — flat index

entry #0 → mw_enc_watts

Welcome, dear friend. You are the universe playing hide-and-seek with itself. Shall we play a small game of questions, or will you wander on?

→ reply #0 “Ask. I will answer.”
→ reply #1 “Not today.”

entry #1

Who is doing the experiencing?

→ reply #2 “I am, separate from the world.”
→ reply #3 “There is no separate I; the experiencing is the experience itself.”
→ reply #4 “The mind sealed inside the skull.”

entry #2

What is the universe?

→ reply #5 “A machine.”
→ reply #6 “A test of moral fibre.”
→ reply #7 “A game played in hide-and-seek by what we are.”

entry #3

Why try, then?

→ reply #8 “To win.”
→ reply #9 “Because the trying is the play; the goal is incidental.”
→ reply #10 “Because failure shames the gods.”

entry #4

What is the self?

→ reply #11 “A noun.”
→ reply #12 “A verb — selving.”
→ reply #13 “An illusion to be destroyed.”

entry #5

How do you let go?

→ reply #14 “By gripping harder until you cannot.”
→ reply #15 “By falling on purpose, with grace.”
→ reply #16 “By renouncing the body.”

entry #6 → mw_wat_unl

Hahaha. You see it now. When you next dream, I will be there to laugh with you.

→ reply #17 “Thank you.”

entry #7

Oh dear, you are still pretending to be a separate thing. Wander a while; the joke will land when it lands.

→ reply #18 “I will return.”

entry #8

Then walk on.

entry #9

Ha. The river does not need to remember flowing, <FullName>. You have already understood what most spend a lifetime avoiding. Come back to laugh with me — but there is nothing left to prove.

→ reply #19 “Of course. Thank you.”

PC replies — flat index

reply #0 → mw_wat_reset

Ask. I will answer.

→ entry #1 “Who is doing the experiencing?”

reply #1

Not today.

→ entry #8 “Then walk on.”

reply #2

I am, separate from the world.

→ entry #2 “What is the universe?”

reply #3 → mw_wat_inc

There is no separate I; the experiencing is the experience itself.

→ entry #2 “What is the universe?”

reply #4

The mind sealed inside the skull.

→ entry #2 “What is the universe?”

reply #5

A machine.

→ entry #3 “Why try, then?”

reply #6

A test of moral fibre.

→ entry #3 “Why try, then?”

reply #7 → mw_wat_inc

A game played in hide-and-seek by what we are.

→ entry #3 “Why try, then?”

reply #8

To win.

→ entry #4 “What is the self?”

reply #9 → mw_wat_inc

Because the trying is the play; the goal is incidental.

→ entry #4 “What is the self?”

reply #10

Because failure shames the gods.

→ entry #4 “What is the self?”

reply #11