:: Start
(set: $ticket to false)
(set: $guideTrust to 0)
(set: $objectChosen to "none")
(set: $listened to false)
(set: $jingleHeard to false)

You find the table before you find the story.

Cardboard folds outward like a small theatre. Three figurine boxes wait under handwritten fragments. A QR placard catches the light.

A guide in a royal-blue embroidered suit says:

"Welcome to the Oudano Table. What you're seeing is a moment - one among many."

[[Approach the guide->Guide Introduction]]
[[Look at the table->Oudano Table]]
[[Listen for the jingle->Jingle QR]]

:: Guide Introduction
(set: $guideTrust to $guideTrust + 1)

The guide does not rush you.

"The table is not asking you to buy first," they say. "It is asking you to notice."

On the sleeve of the blue suit, a hornbill, a beetle and a desert glyph sit like small witnesses.

[[Ask about the figurines->Figurine Boxes]]
[[Ask about the ticket->Ticket]]
[[Return to the table->Oudano Table]]

:: Oudano Table
The Oudano Table is a fold-out world.

There are figurine boxes, a portrait of Alison, a jingle QR and a ticket card. Nothing is only decoration.

(if: $guideTrust >= 1)[
The guide watches gently, as if waiting to see which object will call you first.
]

[[Look at the figurine boxes->Figurine Boxes]]
[[Scan the jingle QR->Jingle QR]]
[[Ask about the ticket->Ticket]]
[[Choose one object to remember->Ending - Curator]]
[[Leave as a visitor->Ending - Visitor]]

:: Jingle QR
(set: $jingleHeard to true)
(set: $listened to true)

The jingle is brief.

Not a song exactly. More like a knock on the door of attention.

It says: come closer, but come carefully.

[[Return to the Oudano Table->Oudano Table]]
[[Ask the guide what it means->Guide Introduction]]

:: Figurine Boxes
(set: $objectChosen to "figurine")
(set: $guideTrust to $guideTrust + 1)

The boxes are small enough to carry, but not small enough to dismiss.

One figurine is tied with ribbon. One is bound with twine. One cradles raw matter where a simple answer should be.

[[Look for Alison's portrait->Alison Teaser]]
[[Return to the table->Oudano Table]]

:: Alison Teaser
(set: $objectChosen to "alison")

Alison stands in a field of sunflowers.

The portrait is bright, but not cheerful. Wrapped, but not finished. Silent, but not empty.

This is only the doorway to her story.

[[Return to the table->Oudano Table]]
[[Ask about the ticket->Ticket]]

:: Ticket
The guide shows you a ticket card.

"N$10 to N$20," they say. "The ticket opens the 9-minute voice-over at the Deep Listening Station. But the first scan is free."

[[Take the free story first->Oudano Table]]
[[Accept the ticket->Ticket Accepted]]

:: Ticket Accepted
(set: $ticket to true)

The ticket is also a postcard.

On the back, there is a blank line:

I listened to: __________________

[[Enter the Deep Listening Station->Deep Listening Station]]
[[Return to the table->Oudano Table]]

:: Deep Listening Station
(if: $ticket is true)[
(set: $listened to true)

The Deep Listening Station is shaded and still.

The voice-over does not begin by explaining. It begins by making room.

You sit long enough for the market noise to become a border around the story.

[[Continue->Ending - Listening]]
]
(else:)[
The guide points back to the ticket card.

"Listening is free in spirit," they say, "but this station is how we support the work."

[[Return to the ticket card->Ticket]]
]

:: Ending - Visitor
You looked. You listened a little. You know now that the table is not only a stall.

It is a portable archive.

[[Credits->Credits and Rights]]
[[Replay->Start]]

:: Ending - Curator
(if: $objectChosen is not "none" and $guideTrust >= 1)[
The guide stamps your card.

"A curator is not someone who owns everything," they say. "A curator is someone who remembers carefully."

You leave with one object in your attention.
]
(else:)[
You try to choose, but the table has not opened yet.

It asks you to return with more patience.

[[Return to the table->Oudano Table]]
]

[[Credits->Credits and Rights]]

:: Ending - Listening
You do not leave with the whole story.

You leave with a rhythm.

The ticket in your hand has become a small receipt for attention.

[[Credits->Credits and Rights]]
[[Replay->Start]]

:: Credits and Rights
Title: Welcome to the Oudano Table  
Story number: 001  
Version: v0.1  
Author: [Name]  
Contributors: [Names]  
Copyright owner: [Name / Entity]  
Market visibility: Public Display  
Commercial adaptation: Permission required  
Audio/image permissions: Pending / Approved  
Date: [Date]

[[Replay->Start]]