Merge branch 'main' of ssh://git@lufta/ebooks/spellblade

scripts/redo-continuously

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+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#! nix-shell -p redo-apenwarr -p entr -i bash
+
+redo all
+redo-sources | entr redo all

src/chapter-1/plans.md

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 Introduction to the school of bladecraft. Alicia is shown to suppress their
 magic and tensions between spellcraft and bladecraft are hinted at.
 
-- [ ] The first battle between team red and team blue, team red barely wins,
+- [x] The first battle between team red and team blue, team red barely wins,
       Alicia has to hide their magic from Zekas
-- [ ] A dressing-down from the instructors, Alicia starts to feel fiery rage and
+- [x] A dressing-down from the instructors, Alicia starts to feel fiery rage and
       has to suppress their magic again lest they fireball the instructors
-- [ ] Dinner with rumors spreading about an affair between Alicia and Zekas,
-      Alicia feels embarassed and has to stop themselves from turning invisible.
-      Tistus attempts to defend Alicia but has difficulty putting things to
-      words
-- [ ] Alicia lays on her cot and remembers their dad telling them why they
+- [x] Alicia lays on her cot and remembers their dad telling them why they
       needed to hide their magical talent. 
-  - [ ] Full on flashback scene
-  - [ ] Alicia falls asleep
-- [ ] Zekas complaining about Alicia in his team's bunk, one of his teammates
-      comments on Alicia's hand glowing during that last stand. 
+  - [x] Full on flashback scene
+  - [x] Alicia falls asleep

src/chapter-1/scene-1.md

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 Red team had won.
 
-Puri helped Alicia up and gave her a bandage. Alicia dressed her wound and felt
-a surge of lightning race up her hand. The exact kind of surge she didn't want
-to have around other people.
+Puri, one of Alicia's teammates, helped Alicia up and gave her a bandage.
+Alicia dressed her wound and felt a surge of lightning race up her hand. The
+exact kind of surge she didn't want to have around other people.
 
 _No no no no no no. Focus, calm, let it drain to the lightning rod in my heart._
 Alicia ran through the exercises her father told her to do and the feeling

src/chapter-1/scene-3.md

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-\pagebreak
-
-TODO(Mai): Meal hall, Red team talking about the event. Puri noticed the glowing
-hand and mentions it inquisitively. Contrive a reason away from it using glare
-or something.

src/chapter-1/scene-4.md

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+\pagebreak
+
+Alicia strode across camp and made her way to her team's barracks. Her team was one of the better performing ones in the Zhalrami School of Bladecraft. It got her to thinking about her father.
+
+Her father had done a lot of the hard work raising her after her mother passed from the mage trials. The Zhalrami army was so desperate for spellcasters that they had invaded her home town of Letsel and found her mother. Alicia's mother was a natural born mage, absurdly skilled in her craft. She used her talent to help her community thrive. Tistus had gotten into a tustle one day and had broken his arm. Without her mother's intervention, Tistus would have easily suffered a life of deformity or worse.
+
+Alicia paused as she approached her cot. It was exactly as she had left it. The
+corner she left folded was in the same upper left corner that it was always in.
+She stretched and laid down in the bed. Her mind drifted back to a warning that
+her mother had given her: "If you see signs of the awakening, hide your hands.
+They can't find you if they never see your hands glow. If it happens in public,
+you're on your own. Lie if you must."
+
+Alicia curled up in her cot and held her hands out in front of her face. Her
+hands were immaculate, which was odd given all of the training. One of her claws
+had gotten scuffed in the battle. She grabbed a nail file from her bag and
+started sanding it down.
+
+Tistus walked over by Alicia and knelt down next to her, purring. Alicia purred
+back and smiled. "Good work out there. I don't entirely know how that worked
+out, but you were catalytic to it. Thank you." Tistus smiled back.
+
+"I was just doing what felt right. How did Belsa react?"
+
+"Oh she yelled at us both, slow clapped too. Zekas seemed to take it well
+though."
+
+Tistus grinned more.
+
+"That sea-sucker needs to get taken down a notch sometimes."
+
+"Maybe, it's getting late though. Let's rest for tomorrow. We've got green team
+tomorrow. The Chees are on offense."
+
+"Good point. Night 'leesh."
+
+"Night 'tus."
+
+Tistus headed to his nearby cot and curled up under the blanket. Alicia could
+hear him start to snore almost instantly. Her mom was never able to fix that
+issue.
+
+Alicia looked back at her hands again and stared deep into them. _Am I a mage?_
+she thought, _That can't be. My skills lie in the battlefield. This can't be
+happening to me. I'll get expelled. I'll have to go back to that town. I'll lose
+Tistus. I--_
+
+Alicia caught that she was caught in an anxiety spiral and took a deep breathe
+like her mom had shown her. Deep breath in for a count of four, hold for a count
+of four, out for a count of four, hold for a count of four. Then repeat. Focus
+on the Now, not the Then. In, hold, out, hold. Pause to savor the moment that's
+happening, not the moment that's not happened yet. Deep, calm breaths.
+
+After a few moments, the panic subsided and Alicia was left laying on her cot
+staring at the ceiling. _I miss you mom and dad_ she thought to herself before
+the tiredness caught up with her.
+
+Alicia was asleep.

src/chapter-2/index.md

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+# Chapter 2
+
+> _Calm the raging whirlwind of your mind like this: breathe in for four counts, hold for four counts, breathe out for four counts, hold for four counts. Focus on Now, not Then or What Might Be._
+
+- Alicia's Mother

src/chapter-2/plans.md

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+# Plans
+
+Another day at the school of bladecraft. Alicia is suspected by Zekas and blue team. Puri mentions Alicia's fast healing rate in private. Alicia accidentally makes her sword glow in a battle.
+
+- [x] Blue team dinner involving Blanu seeing Alicia's hands glow after he stabbed her
+- [ ] Battle with green team
+  - Zekas is watching Alicia intently
+   - Blanu asks him what he's doing
+   - Zekas mentions that conversation at dinner last night
+   - Blanu asks how he can help
+   - Zekas gives him a spyglass
+   - Blanu holds it backwards and claims it doesn't work
+   - Zekas corrects it
+  - Red team is on defense
+  - 
+- [ ] Dinner with rumors spreading about an affair between Alicia and Zekas,
+      Alicia feels embarassed and has to stop themselves from turning invisible.
+      Tistus attempts to defend Alicia but has difficulty putting things to
+      words

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+\pagebreak
+
+Earler, in the meal hall Zekas and his team were having a meal. Today was the chef's "experimental" day. However Sharks don't have a particularly strong sense of smell above water. Normally this was Zekas' favorite day because he could easily get a double portion, but today's events had left him on edge. 
+
+"I can't believe we lost like that. We were so damn close. How could you let it get away like that? It was _right there_!", Zekas angered at the poor people who were subjected to being on the same team with him.
+
+Blanu sat there and recieved the tounge-lashing. _If this is that bad, then what the hell happened with the teacher?_ he thought to himself. 
+
+"That know-it-all cat keeps getting away with it. First she gets the good team, then she uses her blood to fake the flag? How stupid are you people?"
+
+Blanu decided that this was a good time to pipe up, "I don't think that was her plan, I was the one that stabbed her. Didn't think it would do so much though."
+
+Zekas looked over at Blanu's direction. Zekas intently stared at the younger shark, studying his medium build and roughly short stature. "How much damage did you do?"
+
+"I kinda sharpened my sword last night to try and buff out a knot in the wood, and when it struck her the cut was pretty good, about one knuckle-tip across. I figured she had thicker skin."
+
+Zekas looked at Blanu incredulously. "A knuckle-tip? I saw the bleed had stopped by the time we walked back to the teacher. She had a bandage on it by then, but still she should have had some more bleed in her."
+
+"Oh yeah, there was one other thing. I could swear this was glare or something but I think I saw her hands glow at the end of it."
+
+Zekas looked over inquisitively. "Her hands...glow? Like a witch?"
+
+"Mighta been the glare, but I could swear that I saw her hands glow."
+
+Zekas stared down at his food. _Hands glowing? Fast healing? Could she be a spellcaster?_ Zekas laughed to himself a bit. "It was probably the glare. You need to be more attentive next time."
+
+Blanu laugned to himself with a very nervous laugh. "Yeah, it was probably nothin', sorry boss!"
+
+Zekas continued the laugh, making the rest of the team feel obligated to laugh as well. _It's probably something, but I'd need proof before I do anything about this._

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+\pagebreak
+
+

src/zz_end/dictionary.md

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 ## Dictionary
 
-This list of words will help you 
+This list of words will help you understand any terms that were left unchanged
+from their original incarnations.
+
+#### Bladecraft
+
+Swordfighting, physical martial arts, archery, and similar such things.
 
 #### Snep
 
 Snow Leopard. 
+
+#### Spellcraft
+
+Magic via either raw intent or words of power.