templates.js

var nTemplates = function(story, world, storyGen) {

    var tersely = true;

    var blankLine = '';

    story = story || [];

    story.title = function(god) {

        // TODO: so, the pre-created villain might have nothing to do with the story
        // there can be lacks and resolutions that involve no villanous agent
        // in these case, a villain-based title (and they have happened) is obscrue, if not abstruse

        var subject = god.hero;
        var villForm;
        if (god.hero.health === world.healthLevel.dead && god.villain.health === world.healthLevel.alive && god.villain.introduced) {
            subject = god.villain;
        } else if (god.villain.form !== 'human') {
            villForm = god.villain.form;
        }

        var tale = god.select('story', 'tale', 'narrative', 'account', 'fable', 'parable', 'allegory', 'legend', 'romance');
        var sn = god.select(subject.name, subject.nickname);
        var pron = god.pronoun(subject);
        var poss = god.possessive(subject);
        var mi = '';

        var templates = [
            '<%= hero.nickname %>',
            'The {{TL}} of {{SN}} and {{POSS}} adventures',
            (god.coinflip() ? 'The Adventures of ' : '') + '{{SN}} of <%= hero.home.nation %>',
            (god.coinflip() ? 'A certain ' : '') + '{{SN}} and what {{PRON}} did' + (god.coinflip() ? ' in <%= hero.home.nation %>' : '')
        ];

        if (god.villain.introduced) {
            templates.push(
                (villForm ? 'The {{VF}} ' : '') + '{{VN}} and what happened to <%= pronounobject(villain) %>',
                'The {{TL}} of {{HN}} and ' + (villForm ? 'the {{VF}} ' : '') + '{{VN}}',
                '{{HN}} and {{VN}}',
                '{{VN}} and {{HN}}',
                '<%= villain.nickname %>'
            );
            if (villForm) {
                templates.push('{{VN}} the {{VF}}');
            }
        }

        if (god.hero.magicalitemused) {
            // there could have been a LOT of them, if BOSSFIGHT
            mi = god.hero.possessions[god.hero.possessions.length-1];
            var miut = [
                (god.coinflip() ? '{{HN}}' : '{{VN}}') + ' and the {{MI}}',
                '{{HN}} and {{VN}}' + ' and the {{MI}}',
                '{{VN}} and {{HN}}' + ' and the {{MI}}',
                '{{HN}}, the {{MI}}, and how {{PRON}} came by it',
                '{{HN}} and {{POSS}} {{MI}}',
                'The {{MI}} of {{HN}}',
                'The {{MI}}'
            ];
            templates = templates.concat(miut);
        }

        if (god.cache.villains) {
            var defeated = [ 'defeat', 'extirpation', 'removal', 'elimination', 'trouncing', 'vanquishing', 'scouring', 'overcoming', 'dismissal', 'scorning', 'rebuttal', 'refusal'];
            var vills = '{{HN}} and the {{DFT}} of ' + god.list(god.cache.villains, function() { return (god.coinflip() ? 'name' : 'nickname');});
            vills = vills.replace(/{{DFT}}/mg, god.pick(defeated));
            // console.log(vills);
            templates.push(vills, vills, vills);
        }

        var t = god.pick(templates);

        return t.replace(/{{TL}}/mg, tale).replace(/{{PRON}}/mg, pron).replace(/{{POSS}}/mg, poss)
            .replace(/{{SN}}/mg, sn).replace(/{{VF}}/mg, villForm)
            .replace(/{{MI}}/mg, mi);

    };

    story.introduceHero = function(god, terse) {

        var near = god.select('in', 'near', 'close to', 'not far from', 'just on the verge of', 'within a days walk of');
        var nationType = god.select('country', 'province', 'kingdom', 'nation', 'city-state') ;
        var res = '<%= hero.home.residence %>';
        var vicin = '<%= hero.home.vicinity %>';
        var hn = '<%= coinflip() ? hero.name : hero.nickname %>';
        var mw = (god.hero.gender === world.gender.male ? 'man' : 'woman');

        // Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes
        // right - all that falls to them is so much gain - all their geese are
        // swans - all their cards are trumps - toss them which way you will, they
        // will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on
        // so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them
        // as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what
        // can it know about the matter? One of these lucky beings was neighbour
        // Hans.rr



        var templates = [
            'in a certain {{RES}} lived {{HN}}. ',
            'a certain {{MW}} was very <%= pick(hero.description) %>. ' + (god.coinflip() ? '<%= capitalize(possessive(hero)) %> name {{was}} {{HN}}.' : '{{HN}} <%= possessive(hero) %> name {{was}}.'),
            'there was once an old {{RES}} that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy {{VCN}}, and in the {{RES}} lived {{HN}}.',
            '{{HN}} {{lived}} in a {{RES}} {{NEAR}} {{VCN}} in the {{NT}} <%= hero.home.nation %>. ',
            'in the distant {{NT}} of <%= hero.home.nation %>, {{HN}} {{lived}} in a {{RES}} {{NEAR}} {{VCN}}. ',
            '{{NEAR}} {{VCN}} in the {{NT}} of <%= hero.home.nation %>, there {{was}} a {{RES}} where {{HN}} {{lived}}.'
        ];

        var t = [];

        if (terse) {
            t.push(god.pick(templates).replace('{{NT}}', nationType).replace('{{NEAR}}', near));
        } else {

            t.push((god.coinflip() ? story.intro(god) + ' ' : '' ) + god.pick(templates).replace('{{NT}}', nationType).replace('{{NEAR}}', near));
            // TODO: list regular name or nickname at random
            t.push(blankLine, '<%= hero.name %> {{lived}} with <%= list(hero.family, "nickname") %>.');
            if (god.hero.acquaintances.length > 0) {
                if (god.hero.acquaintances.length > 1) {
                    t.push(blankLine, '<%= list(hero.acquaintances, "nickname") %> {{were}} <%= select("friends of", "known to") %> <%= hero.name %>.');
                } else {
                    t.push(blankLine, '<%= list(hero.acquaintances, "nickname") %> {{was}} <%= select("a friend of", "known to") %> <%= hero.name %>.');
                }
            }
            for (var i = 0; i < god.hero.acquaintances.length; i++) {
                god.getCharacter(god.hero.acquaintances).introduced = true;
            }
            for (i = 0; i < god.hero.family.length; i++) {
                god.getCharacter(god.hero.family).introduced = true;
            }
        }

        god.hero.introduced = true;

        return t.join('\n').replace(/{{RES}}/gm, res).replace(/{{VCN}}/mg, vicin).replace(/{{HN}}/mg, hn).replace(/{{MW}}/mg, mw);

    };

    // shouldn't this be back in the god() function?
    story.createVictim = function(god) {

        var victim = god.getCharacter(god.pick(god.hero.family.concat(god.hero.acquaintances)));
        god.cache.victim = victim;
        return victim;

    };

    story.interdiction = function(god) {

        var ptype = god.randomProperty(world.interdictionType);
        var advisor = god.advisor;
        var hero = god.hero;

        // hey. shouldn't the advisor be... NOT a property?
        var interdiction = {
            type: ptype,
            location: '',
            action: '',
            person: '',
            advisor: advisor
        };

        switch (ptype) {
        case world.interdictionType.movement:
            interdiction.place = god.location();
            break;

        case world.interdictionType.action:

            interdiction.action = 'take the Lord\'s name in vain AGAIN';
            break;

        case world.interdictionType.speak:

            // TODO: action should have a target
            // that way, we can "travel" to target....
            interdiction.action = 'talk to ' + god.villain.nickname;
            break;
        }


        return interdiction;

    };

    story.journey = function(god, p1, destination) {

        // walk, run, ramble, travel
        // time-period
        // random amount
        // random sights?

        // Next day Petrusha set off on his visit to the Devil. He walked and
        // walked, for three whole days did he walk, and then he reached a great
        // forest, dark and dense - impossible even to see the sky from within it!
        // And in that forest there stood a rich palace. Well, he entered the
        // palace, and a fair maiden caught sight of him. She had been stolen
        // from a certain village by the evil spirit. And when she caught sight
        // of him she cried:

        // So the girl went away, and walked and walked, till she came
        // to the place. There stood a hut, and in it sat weaving the
        // Baba Yaga, the Bony-shanks.


        // So Vasilissa got ready, put her doll in her pocket, crossed
        // herself, and went out into the thick forest.

        // As she walks she trembles. Suddenly a horseman gallops by. He is
        // white, and he is dressed in white, under him is a white horse, and
        // the trappings of the horse are white - and the day begins to break.

        // She goes a little further, and a second rider gallops by. He is
        // red, dressed in red, and sitting on a red horse - and the sun rises.

        // Vasilissa went on walking all night and all next day. It was only
        // towards the evening that she reached the clearing on which stood
        // the dwelling of the Baba Yaga. The fence around it was made of dead
        // men's bones; on the top of the fence were stuck human skulls with
        // eyes in them; instead of uprights at the gates [Pg 162] were men's
        // legs; instead of bolts were arms; instead of a lock was a mouth
        // with sharp teeth.

        // Vasilissa was frightened out of her wits, and stood still as if
        // rooted to the ground.

        // Suddenly there rode past another horseman. He was black, dressed
        // all in black, and on a black horse. He galloped up to the Baba
        // Yaga's gate and disappeared, just as if he had sunk through the
        // ground - and night fell. But the darkness did not last long. The eyes
        // of all the skulls on the fence began to shine and the whole
        // clearing became as bright as if it had been midday. Vasilissa
        // shuddered with fear, but stopped where she was, not knowing which
        // way to run.

        var text = [];
        var prn = god.pronoun(p1);
        var poss = god.possessive(p1);

        var templates = [
            'So {{PRN}} went and had a goodish drink, and then started in search of {{DEST}}.',
            'So {{HN}} went on walking all night and all next day. Eventually {{PRN}} reached {{DEST}}.',
            'Next day {{HN}} set off on {{POSS}} visit to the {{DEST}}. {{PRN}} walked and '
                + 'walked, for three whole days did {{PRN}} walk, and then {{PRN}} reached {{DEST}}.',
            'So {{HN}} went away, and walked and walked, till {{PRN}} came to the place.'
        ];

        text.push(god.pick(templates));

        return text.join('\n\n').replace(/{{PRN}}/mg, prn).replace(/{{DEST}}/mg, destination).replace(/{{POSS}}/mg, poss);

    };

    story.introduceVillain = function(god) {

        // A certain woman was very bumptious.
        // There once was a rich merchant named Marko - a stingier fellow never lived!

        // Koshchei is merely one of the many incarnations of the dark spirit
        // which takes so many monstrous shapes in the folk-tales of the class
        // with which we are now dealing. Sometimes he is described as altogether
        // serpent-like in form; sometimes he seems to be of a mixed nature,
        // partly human and partly ophidian, but in some of the stories he is
        // apparently framed after the fashion of a man. His name is by some
        // mythologists derived from kost, a bone whence comes a verb signifying
        // to become ossified, petrified, or frozen; either because he is bony of
        // limb, or because he produces an effect akin to freezing or
        // petrifaction.

        // At midnight the demon-enchantress arrives, dancing and "blowing on a
        // flute made of a dead man's bone." Fixing her eyes on one of the
        // pilgrims, she mutters a spell, accompanied by a wild dance.


        // from springhole.arabian.nights.gen.htm
        // "With nothing else to do"
        // "One day in <place>"
        // "One evening in <place>"
        // "One morning in <place>"
        // "One night in <place>"


        var time = god.select('one morning', 'one evening', 'one night', 'one day', 'in the middle of the night', 'when nobody {{was}} paying attention', 'after breakfast', 'around lunchtime');
        var person = god.select('person', 'individual');
        if (god.villain.form != 'human') {
            person = god.villain.form;
        }

        person = god.pick(god.villain.description) + ' ' + person;

        var A = '{{came}} into the region of <%= hero.home.vicinity %>';
        var B = 'a <%= coinflip() ? "very " : "" %>{{PP}} known as {{VN}}';
        var hh = '<%= hero.home.vicinity %>';

        // the villainy of the person is not..... AWESOME... but it will do for now.
        var templates = [
            time + ' in {{HH}}, {{B}} {{strides}} in.',
            time + ', there {{A}} {{B}}.',
            'There {{A}} {{B}}.',
            '{{B}} {{A}}.',
            '{{B}} {{A}} {{TIME}}.',
            '{{VN}}, a {{PP}}, {{paid}} a visit to {{HH}}.',
            '{{HH}} {{plays}} host to a {{PP}}, {{VN}}' + (god.coinflip() ? ' ' + time: '') + '.'
        ];

        god.villain.introduced = true;

        return god.pick(templates).replace(/{{HH}}/mg, hh).replace(/{{B}}/mg, B).replace(/{{A}}/mg, A).replace(/{{TIME}}/mg, time).replace(/{{PP}}/mg, person);

    };

    story.deathResponse = function(god, person) {
        var name = god.coinflip() ? person.name : person.nickname;
        var t = [];

        // Remember what his name was.
        // Long may he be remembered.
        // Not too many took notice, but those few were hard-pressed to save their tears for another day.

        var templates = [
            'It happens to everyone eventually. It {{happened}} to ' + god.pronounobject(person) + ' sooner.',
            'These things happen. ' + (god.coinflip() ? 'Unfortunately.' : 'It is unfortunate.'),
            'When G-d calls one home, there is never room for argument.',
            'It was done.'
        ];
        t.push(god.pick(templates));

        // there was no|little solace to their grief.`
        if (god.coinflip()) { t.push('There {{was}} much wailing in ' + god.hero.home.vicinity + '.'); }

        return t.join(' ');

    };

    // embedded stories
    // too much is hard-coded here, and should be passed-it, instead.
    story.subtale = function(narrator, god) {

        var text = [];

        var presets = god.coinflip() ? storyGen.presets.shortWaterStory : world.util.randomProperty(storyGen.presets);

        var setts = {
            herogender: 'male',
            villaingender: 'male',
            peoplegender: 'male',
            functions: storyGen.resetProppFunctions(),
            funcs: presets.functions,
            bossfight: presets.bossfight,
            verbtense: 'present',
            narrator: storyGen().deepClone(narrator),
            // swap them on some key?
            // unswapped, the hero gets killled
            // which should shake them up a bit....
            // TODO: cache.characters not populated in this situation
            // fix inside of init()
            // what I don't get is WHY IT WORKED FOR A WHILE
            hero: storyGen().deepClone(god.hero),
            villain: storyGen().deepClone(god.villain),
            characters: storyGen().deepClone(god.cache.characters) // needed for hero and villain
        };

        setts.hero.introduced = false;
        setts.villain.introduced = false;

        // TODO: need to re-use, or get access to everything
        // UGH UGH UGH
        // NO GLOBALS!!!!!
        // var theme = {
        //     bank: defaultbank(), // TROUBLE TROUBLE
        //     templates: nTemplates
        // };

        // TODO: pass in the narrator, hero, and villain (and other situations, items, etc)
        // like.... a magical item. or a violated interdiction that goes disastrously
        // except, interdictions are ALWAYS violated.....
        var sg = new storyGen(setts);
        var tale = sg.generate(setts, god.theme);

        tale.universe = sg.universe;
        return tale;

    };

    story.createLack = function(god) {

        // TODO: need to have verbs/object set apart, so we can resolve this....
        // TODO: need there to be a lack THING, then there can be additional things to say.
        var lacks = ['{{needs}} a bride, a friend, or just somebody to talk to',
                     '{{needs}} a helper or magical agent',
                     ['{{needs}} a wondrous object or two',  'Possibly three. No more than that. Unless they {{were}} collectible'],
                     ['{{needs}} a egg of death or love', 'Either would do'],
                     ['{{needs}} money or means of existence', 'Times {{were}} tough'],
                     ['{{had}} lacks in other forms', 'Tsk tsk. Those lacks']
                    ];

        var l = god.pick(lacks);
        var p = god.pick(god.hero.family); // argh, this ain't gonna work...
        var t = l;
        // if special array, capture first separately
        if (typeof l === 'object' && l.length && l.length === 2) {
            t = l[0] + '. ' + l[1];
            l = l[0];
        }
        var lack = {
            lack: l,
            text: t,
            person: p
        };

        god.cache.lack = lack;

        return lack;

    };

    // TODO: the {{VN}} tags, etc.
    // are replaced in propp.js
    // on the assumption that the punishment is meted out to the VILLAIN
    // but the person passed in could be the villain, anti-hero (or conceivably other)
    // I suppose the person providing the punishment should be made explicit for niceness.
    // there's an interesting need to get the functions together, and them build up the template according to some rules
    // for instance, make sure we introduce henchmen earlier in the story if they are going to be used
    // or if we don't use magical items, don't introduce them (or vice-versa)
    // both of these are vice-versa scenarios, I guess...
    story.punish = function(god, person) {

        var descr = god.pick(person.description);

        var eitherName = function(p) {
            if (p.form && p.form != 'human') {
                return god.select(p.nickname, p.name, 'the ' + descr + ' ' + p.form);
            } else {
                return god.coinflip() ? p.nickname : p.name;
            }
        };

        var hn = '<%= coinflip() ? hero.nickname : hero.name %>';
        var as = '<%= coinflip() ? "and " : coinflip() ? "so " : "" %>';
        var ba = '<%= (coinflip() ? "" : coinflip() ? "But " : "And ")%>';
        var poss = god.possessive(person);
        var proo = god.pronounobject(person);
        var vpro = god.pronoun(person); // v:= villain, but it could be false-hero or somebody punishable.
        var hpron = god.pronoun(god.hero);
        var hprono = god.pronounobject(god.hero);

        // Following the advice of her daughters, three fair maidens whom he
        // meets in her palace, Ivan does not attempt to touch the magic sword
        // while she sleeps. But he awakes her gently, and offers her two golden
        // apples on a silver dish. She lifts her head and opens her mouth,
        // whereupon he seizes the sword and cuts her head off.

        // TODO: helpers - family, advisor, helper or whatnot

        // Listen, O Dog! thou wert a Dog (Sobaka), a clean beast; through
        // all Paradise the most holy didst thou roam. Henceforward shalt thou
        // be a Hound (Pes, or Pyos), an unclean beast. Into a dwelling it
        // shall be a sin to admit thee; into a church if thou dost run, the
        // church must be consecrated anew.

        // NOTE: also contains deception, and ending-thing
        // When they had eaten and drank, and were very merry, the old king said
        // he would tell them a tale. So he began, and told all the story of the
        // princess, as if it was one that he had once heard; and he asked the
        // true waiting-maid what she thought ought to be done to anyone who
        // would behave thus. "Nothing better," said this false bride, "than that
        // she should be thrown into a cask stuck round with sharp nails, and
        // that two white horses should be put to it, and should drag it from
        // street to street till she was dead." "Thou art she!" said the old
        // king; "and as thou has judged thyself, so shall it be done to thee."
        // And the young king was then married to his true wife, and they reigned
        // over the kingdom in peace and happiness all their lives; and the good
        // fairy came to see them, and restored the faithful Falada to life
        // again.

        // TODO: some of these ending should not have a dispersal. or not a violent one.
        // how to BEST separate....
        var end = [
            '{{AS}}{{PN}} {{was}} <%= punished() %> by {{HN}}.',
            '{{AS}}{{HN}} <%= punished() %> {{PN}}.',
            // okay. so there's been no mention of a horse. SO IT GOES.
            // ALSO: DEAD
            '{{HN}}\'s horse smote {{PN}} full swing with its hoof, and cracked {{POSS}} '
                + 'skull, and {{HN}} made an end of {{PROO}} with a club.',
            'Such behavior could not be tolerated: {{HN}} fell upon {{PN}}, bound {{PROO}} with ropes.',
            '{{VN}} was struck down by the hand of {{HN}}.',
            // TODO: introduces a HOUSE
            // but who knows WHERE we are, right now....
            // also references a specific body part, which may not exist....
            '{{HN}} greeted {{PN}}, and caught hold of {{POSS}} right little finger. '
                + '{{PN}} tried to shake {{HPN}} off, flying first '
                + 'about the house and then out of it, but all in vain. At last {{PN}} '
                + 'after soaring on high, struck the ground, and fell to pieces, becoming '
                + 'a fine yellow sand.',
            '{{AS}}{{HN}} cut the feet off from {{PN}} and placed {{PROO}} on a stump by the roadside.'
        ];

        // awkward use of magical item
        // TODO: this code is in more than one place....
        var mi;
        if (god.hero.possessions && god.hero.possessions.length > 0) {
            mi = god.hero.possessions[god.hero.possessions.length-1];
            var mit = ('Seeing that {{VN}} was perfectly enfeebled, {{HN}} snatched up {{HPRNO}} '
                + '{{MI}}, and with a single blow struck off {{PN}}\'s head. Behind {{HPRNO}} '
                + 'voices began to cry: "Strike again! strike again! or {{VPRO}} will come to life!" '
                + '"No," replied {{HN}}, "a hero\'s hand does not strike twice, but '
                + 'finishes its work with a single blow."').replace(/{{MI}}/mg, mi);
            end.push(mit);
        }

        var endsel = god.pick(end);
        if (endsel === mit) { god.hero.magicalitemused = true; }

        var dispersal = [
            (god.coinflip() ? 'Thanks to {{HN}}, ' : '') + '{{PN}} was completely burnt to cinders.',
            '{{AS}}that {{was}} that.',
            'Afterwards {{HN}} {{heaped}} up a pile of wood, {{set}} fire to it, {{burnt}} {{PN}} on the pyre, '
                + 'and {{scattered}} {{POSS}} ashes to the wind.',
            'The body {{was}} left in the possession of {{HN}}, who {{scraped}} together the pieces and {{burned}} them in the stove.',
            '{{AS}}they placed {{PROO}} in a coffin, and carried it to church, whereupon it burst into horrible flames, singeing the hands of those who dared carry it.',
            // this doesn't work if already a fine yellow sand.....
            '{{AS}}{{HN}} cut {{PROO}} into small pieces, which were buried throughout the woods.',
            '{{BA}}{{HN}} said, "Into the bottomless pit with you! Out of sight, accursed one!"'
        ];

        god.villain.health = 'dead';

        var t = [];
        // t.push(god.capitalize(endsel));
        // t.push(god.capitalize(god.pick(dispersal)));
        t.push(endsel);
        t.push(god.pick(dispersal));

        if (god.coinflip()) {
            var tmpl2 = [
                'God <%= (coinflip() ? "evidently " : "")%>{{did}} it to <%= select("punish", "remonstrate", "educate", "rebuke") %> {{PN}} for {{POSS}}'
                    + '<%= (coinflip() ? " great" : "")%> <%= nlp.adjective("' + descr + '").conjugate().noun %>.',
                '{{BA}}{{PN}} sits to this day in the pit - in Tartarus.',
                '{{BA}}{{PN}} ' + (god.coinflip() ? '<%= select("{{disappear}}", "{{vanish}}") %>, and ' : '' ) +'{{was}} never seen again.'
            ];
            t.push(god.pick(tmpl2));
        }

        return t.join(' ').replace(/{{PN}}/mg, function() { return eitherName(person); }).replace(/{{AS}}/mg, as)
            .replace(/{{BA}}/mg, ba).replace(/{{POSS}}/mg, poss).replace(/{{PROO}}/mg, proo)
            .replace(/{{HPN}}/mg, hpron).replace(/{{HPRNO}}/mg, hprono).replace(/{{VPRO}}/mg, vpro);

    };

    story.intro = function(god) {

        // There lived in a certain land an old man of this kind

        // can't use a complete sentence. DANG. because: capitalization
        // 'This is the way the world begins.',
        var intros = [
            'Once upon a time,',
            'Once there was, and there wasn\'t,',
            'I\'ve heard it said that once',
            'A long time ago,',
            'Some years before you were born,',
            'In the time when your parents\' parents were but small babies,',
            'Once upon a time,',
            (god.coinflip() ? 'We <%= coinflip() ? "like to " : "" %><%= coinflip() ? "say" : "think" %> '
             + 'that we are wise<%= select(" folk", " folks", " people", "") %>, '
             + 'but our <%= select("old", "old people", "elders") %> dispute <%= select("the fact", "this fact", "this") %>, '
             + 'saying: "No, no, we were wiser than you are." But '
             + 'stories tell that ' : '') + 'before our grandfathers had learnt anything, and before their grandfathers were born,'.replace(/fathers/mg, (god.coinflip() ? 'fathers' : 'mothers'))
        ];

        // TODO: if blank, don't output the empty lines before the first paragraph.
        var intro = god.pick(intros);
        return '{{**}}' + intro;
    };

    // TODO: VERB TENSE STANDARDIZATION - s/b past in all places. OR .... ???
    // TODO: verb tense DOES NOT WORK here
    // this is the... what tense? past would work.
    // if ALL verb ar infinitive and appear as {{verb}}, then we do a global pull, conjugate, replace prior to template parsing. or after. whatever.


    // 0: Initial situation
    // TODO: multiple sentences within a template may not be punctuated correctly.
    // hrm. maybe they should each appear as a sub-component, so they can be processed externally?
    // for example, if sentence begins with <%= list(acquainainces()) %> and the first is 'the Easter Bunny' it will not be auto-capitalised
    // since that only works on the first letter of the template-output (erroneously called 'sentence' in the code).
    // TODO: what about "lives alone." how would THAT be figured out???
    // aaaand: Milan are known to Natalie.
    // TODO: why am I using "god" instead of "world" - there's a reason, wasn't there?
    story['func0'].exec = function(god, subFunc, terseness) {

        // do we need an "introduction" flag?
        // if the intro is skipped, how do we get this info across?
        // ALT: if we start in-media-res, and come BACK to this, skip the "a long time ago" nonsense.
        // or, if we are doing it a SECOND time (re: brothers killed by dragon; new baby born, story starts again)

        // In a certain village there lived a husband and wife - lived happily, lovingly, peaceably. All their neighbors envied them; the sight of them gave pleasure to honest folks.
        // There once lived an old couple who had one son called Ivashko;[207] no one can tell how fond they were of him!

        // TODO: also need to get an approximate "age" for the hero -
        // In [country] there is a legend about a [adjective] and [adjective] [gender- man, woman, boy, girl depending]

        // TODO: hero could use nickname OR adj + adj and name. Or something.

        // age of person plus one adjective. or we add a NEW adjective as PRIMARY DESCRIPTION ???
        // Once there was an old man who was such an awful drunkard as passes all description.
        // A certain woman was very bumptious.

        // Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes
        // right all that falls to them is so much gain all their geese are
        // swans all their cards are trumps toss them which way you will, they
        // will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so
        // much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as
        // they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it
        // know about the matter?
        // One of these lucky beings was neighbour Hans.

        // There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.
        var t = story.introduceHero(god, terseness);

        return '{{**}}' + t;

    };

    // Proppian-function templates
    // Absentation: Someone goes missing
    // this could be the hero leaving home
    // so we\'d have to have more logic to cover this
    // TODO: also need to define the action, so it can be dealt with in Resolution (func20) and elsewhere...
    // people have a location; if the location is xs"unknown" we can process this elsewhere...
    story['func1'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // TODO: some way to track missing, and set this up
        // TODO: track the death

        // [blah blah] and there was an end of him.

        // example without introdcution that takes place PRIOR to hero intro
        // A certain priest's daughter went strolling in the forest one day,
        // without having obtained leave from her father or her mother - and she
        // disappeared utterly. Three years went by. Now in the village in which
        // her parents dwelt there lived a bold hunter, who went daily roaming
        // through the thick woods with his dog and his gun. One day he was going
        // through the forest; all of a sudden his dog began to bark, and the
        // hair of its back bristled up.

        var t = [];

        if (!god.hero.introduced) { t.push(story.introduceHero(god, tersely)); }

        if (!god.cache.victim) { story.createVictim(god); }


        var templates = [
            '{{VICN}} went missing.',
            '{{VICN}} unexpectedly {{died}}, leaving <%= hero.name %> devastated.'  + (god.coinflip() ? ' ' + story.deathResponse(god, god.cache.victim) : ''),
            'Sooner or later, {{VICN}} {{died}}.' + (god.coinflip() ? ' ' + story.deathResponse(god, god.cache.victim) : '')
        ];
        god.cache.victim.health = world.healthLevel.dead;

        // there should be concern for the first, grief for the latter two
        // and abstention could simple be left for work. Sheesh!

        t.push(god.pick(templates));

        if (god.hero != god.cache.victim) {
            t.push(blankLine, god.converse(god.hero).replace('!', '?'));
        }

        return t.join('\n');

    };
    // Interdiction: hero is warned
    // story['func2'].templates.push('<%= hero.name %> is warned.');
    // TODO: introduction of personage from interdiction
    // TODO: rework the d**n interdiction template-function
    // this is now just a proof-of-concept of executing larger functions to deal with templates
    story['func2'].exec = function(god) {

        // They spent some time together, and then the Princess took it into her
        // head to go a warring. So she handed over all the housekeeping affairs
        // to Prince Ivan, and gave him these instructions:

        // "Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything, only do not venture
        // to look into that closet there."

        // He couldn\'t help doing so. The moment Marya Morevna had gone he rushed
        // to the closet, pulled open the door, and looked in -there hung Koshchei
        // the Deathless, fettered by twelve chains. Then Koshchei entreated
        // Prince Ivan, saying, -

        // "Have pity upon me and give me to drink! Ten years long have I been
        // here in torment, neither eating or drinking; my throat is utterly
        // dried up."

        // The Prince gave him a bucketful of water; he drank it up and asked for
        // more, saying:

        // "A single bucket of water will not quench my thirst; give me more!"

        // The Prince gave him a second bucketful. Koshchei drank it up and asked
        // for a third, and when he had swallowed the [Pg 100] third bucketful,
        // he regained his former strength, gave his chains a shake, and broke
        // all twelve at once.

        // "Thanks, Prince Ivan!" cried Koshchei the deathless, "now you will
        // sooner see your own ears than Marya Morevna!" and out of the window he
        // flew in the shape of a terrible whirlwind. And he came up with the
        // fair Princess Marya Morevna as she was going her way, laid hold of
        // her, and carried her off home with him. But Prince Ivan wept full
        // sore, and he arrayed himself and set out a wandering, saying to
        // himself: "Whatever happens, I will go and look for Marya Morevna!"


        var loc;
        var person;
        var action;

        // here for reference...
        // var prohibitType = {
        //     movement: 'movement',
        //     action: 'action',
        //     speak: 'speakwith'
        // };

        var advisor = god.advisor;
        var hero = god.hero;

        var text = [];

        if (!god.hero.introduced) { text.push(story.introduceHero(god, tersely)); }

        text.push('<%= hero.name %> met <%= advisor.nickname %>.');
        text.push(blankLine);

        text.push(god.converse(advisor, hero), blankLine);

        //  function 2: an interdiction is addressed to protagonist(s) = interdiction - (gamma)
        // 1 - interdiction issued
        // 2 - inverted form of interdiction issued as order or suggestion

        hero.interdiction = story.interdiction(god);

        // action and speak are identical sentences
        // movement is _slightly_ different


        switch (hero.interdiction.type) {
        case world.interdictionType.movement:

            // TODO: more better coversation
            text.push('<%= advisor.name %> warned <%= hero.name %> to avoid <%= randomProperty(hero.interdiction.place) %>.');
            break;

        case world.interdictionType.action:

            // interdiction.action = 'take the Lord\'s name in vain AGAIN';
            text.push('<%= advisor.name %> told <%= hero.name %> to not <%= hero.interdiction.action %>.');
            break;

        case world.interdictionType.speak:

            // TODO: action should have a target
            // that way, we can "travel" to target....
            text.push('<%= hero.interdiction.advisor.name %> warns <%= hero.name %> to not <%= hero.interdiction.action %>.');
            break;
        }

        var mh = god.magicalhelper.name;

        // TODO: make the magicalhelper here. I guess
        text.push(world.blankLine, hero.interdiction.advisor.name + ' introduced {{MH}} to ' + hero.name);
        text.push(world.blankLine, god.converse(hero, god.magicalhelper));

        var tale = story.subtale(god.magicalhelper, god);

        var intro = god.pick([
            '{{MH}} {{said}} "I will tell you a story":',
            '"I have a tale for you," {{said}} {{MH}}, "' + tale.title + ':"'
        ]);
        text.push(world.blankLine, intro, world.blankLine);

        text.push(tale.tale);

        text.push(world.blankLine, '"And now," {{concluded}} {{MH}}, "my tale is done."');

        return text.join('\n').replace(/{{MH}}/mg, mh);

    };

    // Violation of Interdiction
    story['func3'].exec = function(god) {

        var text = [];

        // TODO: if interdiction is undefined, create it!
        // which means it needs to be in a function.....
        if (!god.hero.interdiction) {
            god.hero.interdiction = story.interdiction(god);
        }
        var interdiction = god.hero.interdiction;

        if (!interdiction) {
            // this problem should now be solved
            // leaving it here so far since there are no unit-tests yet.
            console.log('INTERDICTION IS NOT DEFINED IN FUNC3; was func2 skipped??? YOU NEED TO EXTRACT THAT TO A METHOD');
            return ' ';
        }


        switch (interdiction.type) {
        case world.interdictionType.movement:

            text.push('Despite the warning, <%= hero.name %> went to <%= randomProperty(hero.interdiction.place) %>.');
            text.push(world.blankLine, '<%= villain.name %>, a rather <%= list(villain.description) %> person, appeared.');

            break;

        case world.interdictionType.action:

            text.push('Shockingly, <%= hero.name %> proceeded to <%= hero.interdiction.action %>.');
            text.push(world.blankLine,'<%= villain.name %>, a rather <%= list(villain.description) %> person, appeared in front of <%= hero.name %>.');
            break;

        case world.interdictionType.speak:

            var t = 'As soon as <%= hero.interdiction.advisor.name %> {{was}} gone, <%= hero.name %> '
                + 'ran off to find <%= villain.name %> and had an interesting conversation.';
            text.push(t);
            break;
        }

        god.villain.introduced = true;

        text.push(world.blankLine,god.converse(god.villain, god.hero));

        // find a way to integrate this
        //     story['func3'].templates.push('<%= violation() %> <%= list(villain.family) %> are in league with <%= villain.name %>.');


        return text.join('\n');


    };

    // Reconnaissance: Villain seeks something
    story['func4'].exec = function(god) {

        //  function 4: antagonist(s) makes attempt at reconnaissance = reconnaissance - (epsilon)
        // 1 - reconnaissance by antagonist(s) to obtain information about victim(s) / protagonist(s)
        // 2 - inverted form of reconnaissance by victim(s) / protagonist(s) to obtain information about antagonist(s)
        // 3 - reconnaissance by other person(s)

        var t = [];

        if (!god.villain.introduced) { t.push(story.introduceVillain(god)); }

        // WHOAH!!!! where'd the reonnaissance go ?!?!?!?
        // oooooh, that's inside of the 'villain introduction'
        // hrm.

        return t.join('\n');

    };


    // Delivery: The villain gains information
    story['func5'].exec = function(god) {

        var t = [];

        if (!god.villain.introduced) { t.push(story.introduceVillain(god)); }

        var vn = '<%= select(villain.name, villain.nickname) %>';

        var tmpls = [
            '{{VN}} {{gained}} information.',
            'After a chat with <%= getCharacter(pick(hero.family)).name %>, {{VN}} {{learned}} some interesting news.',
            'While skulking about <%= hero.home.vicinity %>, {{VN}} {{overheard}} some gossip about <%= hero.name %>.'
        ];

        t.push(god.pick(tmpls).replace(/{{VN}}/mg, vn));

        return t.join('\n\n');

    };

    // Trickery: Villain attempts to deceive victim.
    story['func6'].exec = function(god) {

        var t = [];

        if (!god.villain.introduced) { t.push(story.introduceVillain(god)); }

        t.push('{{VN}} {{attempted}} to deceive victim.');

        return t.join('\n\n');

    };

    // Complicity: Unwitting helping of the enemy
    story['func7'].exec = function(god) {

        var text = [];
        if (!god.villain.introduced) { text.push(story.introduceVillain(god)); }
        if (!god.hero.introduced) { text.push(story.introduceHero(god, tersely)); }

        text.push('{{HN}} unwittingly {{helped}} {{VN}}.');

        return text.join('\n\n');

    };


    // 2nd Sphere: The Body of the story
    // 8A - Villainy: The need is identified (Villainy)
    // function 8 (and/or 8a) is always present in tale
    // antagonist(s) causes harm or injury to victim(s)/member of protagonist's family = villainy - A
    story['func8'].exec = function(god, subFunc, skipIntros) {

        // this needs to be picked AHEAD OF TIME
        // since some of these require other creations earlier
        // like 7b 'bride is forgotten'
        // the bride should have been introduced earlier....

        // if not picked ahead of time, pick a sub-function at random
        subFunc = subFunc || god.randomProperty(storyGen.villainyTypes);
        var template = []; // text returned to story
        var t = []; // common use in sub-funcs
        var skipVillain = false;

        if (!god.hero.introduced && !skipIntros) { template.push(story.introduceHero(god, tersely)); }

        // for testing
        // subFunc = 'causes sudden disappearance';
        // subFunc = 'commits murder';
        // subFunc = 'casting into body of water';
        // subFunc =  'theft of daylight';
        // subFunc =  'threat of cannibalism';
        // subFunc = 'kidnapping of person';
        // subFunc = 'tormenting at night (visitation, vampirism)';

        // console.log(subFunc);

        switch(subFunc) {
        case 'kidnapping of person':

            // o, god!
            var kp = god.getCharacter(god.pick(god.select(god.hero.family, god.hero.acquaintances)));
            var name = (god.coinflip() ? kp.name : kp.nickname);

            // 'cept they could also be a relative.
            var friendof = (kp.introduced ? '' : ', a friend of {{HN}}');
            kp.introduced = true;

            template.push('{{VN}} kidnapped {{NAME}}{{FO}}.'.replace(/{{NAME}}/mg, name).replace(/{{FO}}/mg, friendof));
            break;

            // TODO: name not setup???
        case 'seizure of magical agent or helper':
            template.push('{{VN}} <%= select("forcibly seized", "kidnapped", "{{makes}} off with") %> <%= magicalhelper.name %>.');
            break;

        case 'forcible seizure of magical helper':
            template.push('{{VN}} <%= select("forcibly seized", "kidnapped", "{{makes}} off with") %> <%= magicalhelper.name %>.');
            break;

        case 'pillaging or ruining of crops':
            template.push('The harvest {{was}} destroyed by {{VN}}. All in <%= hero.home.nation %> {{begins}} to feel the pangs of hunger.');
            break;

        case 'theft of daylight':
            t = [
                // TODO: all of these need to be CLEANED UP WITH APPROPRIATE REFERENCES
                'Suddenly, it became as night. {{VN}} had stolen the daylight!',
                'Suddenly, it became as night. {{VN}} had the sun, as easily as eating a corn-cake.',
                'Suddenly the sky was covered by a black cloud; a terrible storm arose.',
                'The moon came across the sun, turning the landscape a dark, curdled, black-red.',
                // http://hbar.phys.msu.su/gorm/atext/ginzele.htm
                // TODO: clean this up a bit, still.....
                'There {{is}} a shroud of darkness drawn over the '
                    + 'everyone in the land from head to foot, their cheeks '
                    + '{{were}} wet with tears; the air {{was}} alive with '
                    + 'wailing voices; the walls and roof-beams drip blood; '
                    + 'the gate of the cloisters and the court beyond them '
                    + 'are full of ghosts trooping down into the night of '
                    + 'hell; the sun is blotted out of heaven, and a '
                    + 'blighting gloom is over all the land. {{VN}} has made <%= villain.object %>self known.',
                'Sudden strange and unaccountable disorders and '
                    + 'alterations took place in the air; the face of the sun '
                    + 'was darkened, and the day turned into night, and that, '
                    + 'too, no quiet, peaceable night, but with terrible '
                    + 'thunderings, and boisterous winds from all quarters. {{VN}} has made <%= villain.object %>self known.',
                // TODO: victim disappears...
                'A violent thunderstorm suddenly arose and enveloped {{VN}} in so dense '
                    + 'a cloud that he was quite invisible to the assembly. From that hour '
                    + 'Romulus was no longer seen on earth. When the fears of the Roman youth '
                    + 'were allayed by the return of bright, calm sunshine after such fearful '
                    + 'weather, they saw that the royal seat was vacant.',
                '{{VN}} has made night out of noonday, hiding the '
                    + 'bright sunlight, and fear has come upon mankind. '
                    + 'After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. '
                    + 'Nobody would be surprised in the future if land beasts '
                    + 'change places with dolphins to go to live in their '
                    + 'salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of '
                    + 'the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer '
                    + 'the mountains.',
                'For when the sun suddenly obscured and darkness '
                    + 'reigned, and the <%= hero.home.nation %> were overwhelmed with the '
                    + 'greatest terror, {{HN}}, who was then supreme among '
                    + '<%= possessive(hero) %> countrymen in influence, eloquence, and wisdom, is '
                    + 'said to have communicated to <%= possessive(hero) %> fellow citizens the '
                    + 'information he had received from <%= advisor.name %>, whose pupil '
                    + 'he had been - that this phenomenon occurs at fixed '
                    + 'periods and by inevitable law, whenever the moon '
                    + 'passes entirely beneath the orb of the sun, and that '
                    + 'therefore, though it does not happen at every new '
                    + 'moon, it cannot happen except at certain periods of '
                    + 'the new moon. When he had discussed the subject and '
                    + 'given the explanation of the phenomenon, the people '
                    + 'scoffed, and pointed out that a two-headed calf had been born in the neighboring village, the recent actions of {{VN}}',
                'A cloud, however, overspread the sun and hid it from sight until the inhabitants abandoned their city; and thus it was taken by {{VN}}',
                'The sun was suddenly darkened in mid sky.',
                'The moon shuts off the beams of the sun as it passes '
                    + 'across it, and darkens so much of the earth as the '
                    + 'breadth of the blue-eyed moon amounts to.',
                'The sun was darkened and there was darkness over the '
                    + 'world, greater than any that had been known before. '
                    + 'Night prevailed at the sixth hour of the day so that '
                    + 'even the stars appeared',
                'There occurred too a thick succession of portents, '
                    + 'which meant nothing. A woman gave birth to a snake, '
                    + 'and another was killed by a thunderbolt in her '
                    + 'husband\'s embrace. Then the sun was suddenly darkened '
                    + 'and the fourteen districts of the city were struck by '
                    + 'lightning. All this happened quite without any '
                    + 'providential design; so much so, that for many '
                    + 'subsequent years {{VN}} prolonged '
                    +'<%= villain.possessive %> reign and <%= villain.possessive %> crimes.',
                'While {{VN}} was behaving in this way, evil omens '
                    + 'occurred. A comet was seen, and the moon, contrary to '
                    + 'precedent, appeared to suffer two eclipses, being '
                    + 'obscured on the fourth and on the seventh day. Also '
                    + 'people saw two suns at once, one in the west weak and '
                    + 'pale, and one in the east brilliant and powerful.'
            ];
            template.push(god.pick(t));
            break;

        case 'plundering in other forms':
            template.push('{{VN}} engaged in plundering in ... other forms.');
            break;

        case 'bodily injury, maiming, mutilation':
            template.push('{{VN}} caused bodily injury, maiming, mutilation. Oh!');
            break;

        case 'causes sudden disappearance':
            // TODO: thing or person
            // people have a location; if the location is "unknown" we can process this elsewhere...
            template.push('{{VN}} caused a sudden disappearance.');
            if (god.coinflip()) { template.push(god.converse(god.villain)); }
            break;

        case 'bride is forgotten':
            // doesn't this have to be known AHEAD of time, so there is a bride function prepped earlier???
            template.push('{{HN}}\'s bride {{was}} forgotten after {{VN}} cast a spell.');
            break;

        case 'demand for delivery or enticement, abduction':
            template.push('{{VN}} made a demand for delivery or enticement, abduction. Something like that.');
            break;

        case 'expulsion':
            template.push('{{HN}} {{was}} driven from <%= possessive(hero.gender) %> <%= hero.home.residence %>.');
            break;

        case 'casting into body of water':


            // her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a
            // wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water, that rose in the
            // midst of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a
            // golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she
            // was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it
            // fell. After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it
            // as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the
            // ground, till at last it fell down into the spring. The princess looked
            // into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she
            // could not see the bottom of it. Then she began to bewail her loss, and
            // said, "Alas! if I could only get my ball again, I would give all my
            // fine clothes and jewels, and everything that I have in the world."
            //
            // Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and
            // said, "Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?" "Alas!" said she, "what
            // can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the
            // spring." The frog said, "I want not your pearls, and jewels, and fine
            // clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat
            // from off your golden plate, and sleep upon your bed, I will bring you
            // your ball again." "What nonsense," thought the princess, "this silly
            // frog is talking! He can never even get out of the spring to visit me,
            // though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell
            // him he shall have what he asks." So she said to the frog, "Well, if
            // you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask." Then the frog put
            // his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little
            // while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on
            // the edge of the spring. As soon as the young princess saw her ball,
            // she ran to pick it up; and she was so overjoyed to have it in her hand
            // again, that she never thought of the frog, but ran home with it as
            // fast as she could. The frog called after her, "Stay, princess, and
            // take me with you as you said," But she did not stop to hear a word.

            // "To the blue sea," answered the raven. (there's more there, there)
            // if hero has not been introduced, time to do it!

            // alt: villain puts hero in boiling water/hero puts
            // villain in boiling water END OF STORY/SEQUENCE He
            // collects the children, but as they are "all ever so
            // dirty" he puts them into boiling water by way
            // of cleansing them, and so washes them to death.[16]

            // She spoke, and splashed the holy water over him; in a
            // moment he turned into mere dust and ashes,
            // which blew to the winds. Afterwards she sprinkled her
            // husband and her boy with the water of life: straightway
            // they revived. And from that time forward they knew
            // neither sorrow nor separation, but they all lived
            // together long and happily.

            // In another story a king is out hunting and becomes thirsty. Seeing
            // a spring near at hand, he bends down and is just going to lap up
            // its water, when the Tsar-Medved, a King-Bear, seizes him by the
            // beard. The king is unable to free himself from his grasp, and is
            // obliged to promise as his ransom "that which he knows not of at
            // home," which turns out to be a couple of children - a boy and a
            // girl - who have been born during his absence.


            // And as they came to the wood where the fox first met them, it was so
            // cool and pleasant that the two brothers said, "Let us sit down by the
            // side of the river, and rest a while, to eat and drink." So he said,
            // "Yes," and forgot the fox"s counsel, and sat down on the side of the
            // river; and while he suspected nothing, they came behind, and threw him
            // down the bank, and took the princess, the horse, and the bird, and
            // went home to the king their master, and said. "All this have we won by
            // our labour." Then there was great rejoicing made; but the horse would
            // not eat, the bird would not sing, and the princess wept. The youngest
            // son fell to the bottom of the river"s bed: luckily it was nearly dry,
            // but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he
            // could find no way to get out. Then the old fox came once more, and
            // scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have
            // befallen him: "Yet," said he, "I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of
            // my tail and hold fast." Then he pulled him out of the river, and said
            // to him, as he got upon the bank, "Your

            // One day, as they were riding along by a brook, the princess began to
            // feel very thirsty: and she said to her maid, "Pray get down, and fetch
            // me some water in my golden cup out of yonder brook, for I want to
            // drink." "Nay," said the maid, "if you are thirsty, get off yourself,
            // and stoop down by the water and drink; I shall not be your
            // waiting-maid any longer." Then she was so thirsty that she got down,
            // and knelt over the little brook, and drank; for she was frightened,
            // and dared not bring out her golden cup; and she wept and said, "Alas!
            // what will become of me?"

            var water = god.select('a small stream', 'a local lake', 'the murky pond', 'the well');
            god.hero.location = water;
            var poss = god.hero.possessive;
            var villForm = god.villain.form;
            if (god.villain.form === 'human') {
                villForm = (god.villain.gender === world.gender.male ? 'man' : 'woman');
            }

            var wet = [
                '{{VN}} {{threw}} {{HN}} into {{WATER}}.',
                '{{HN}} went down to the {{WATER}}, stripped off {{POSS}} clothes, and went into the water. '
                    + 'Then there came a {{VF}} out of the water and sat on top of {{HN}}\'s clothes. '
                    + '<%= capitalize(hero.pronoun) %> tried to drive the {{VF}} away, but <%= villain.pronoun %> stuck and would not move.',
                '{{VF}} siezed {{HN}}, placed <%= hero.object %> in a barrel, and flung the barrel into {{WATER}}.',
                // TODO: a bit static, but it will do for now as an example.
                // we don't really need the villain introduction in this case
                // maybe the forced intro should be shoved into the subFuncs, to be used only if needed....
                ['{{HN}} was such an awful drunkard as passes all description. '
                 + 'Well, one day <%= hero.pronoun %> went to a kabak, intoxicated <%= hero.object%>self with liquor, and then went staggering home blind drunk. '
                 + 'Now <%= hero.possessive %> way happened to lie across a river. '
                 + 'When <%= hero.pronoun%> came to the river, <%= hero.pronoun %> didn\'t stop long to consider, '
                 + 'but kicked off {{POSS}} boots, hung them round {{POSS}} neck, and walked into the water. '
                 + 'Scarcely had <%= hero.pronoun %> got half-way across when <%= hero.pronoun %> tripped over a stone, '
                 + 'tumbled into the water - and there was an end of <%= hero.object%>.', false, true]
            ];

            var wt = god.pick(wet);
            var survives = true;
            var skipDeath = false;
            if (typeof wt === 'object') {
                var all = wt;
                if (wt.length > 1) { survives = wt[1]; }
                skipDeath = !survives;
                if (wt.length > 2) {
                    skipVillain = wt[2];
                }
                // possibly death indicator
                // possibly follow-up template, must be linked to this one
                // or multiples ?
                wt = wt[0];
            }

            template.push(wt.replace(/{{WATER}}/mg, water).replace(/{{POSS}}/mg, poss).replace(/{{VF}}/mg, villForm));
            var flip = god.coinflip();
            if (survives && (god.hero.canswim || flip)) {
                // hero gets out
                god.hero.canswim = true;
                var survivals = [
                    'Fortunately <%= pronoun(hero) %> had taken swimming lessons from a mysterious stranger years before.',
                    '{{HN}} {{clambers}} ashore.',
                    'The water was not deep, so {{HN}} easily {{stands}} up and {{walks}} around {{VN}}, shivering.',
                    'The waters {{part}}, leaving {{HN}} on damp land.',
                    '{{HN}} {{pops}} to the top of the water like a cork.'
                ];
                template.push(god.pick(survivals));
            } else {
                // hero drowns
                god.hero.canswim = false; // although I doubt we'll read it again
                god.hero.health = world.healthLevel.dead;
                var drowns = [
                    god.select('Too bad ', 'Unfortunately, ', 'Regretably, ', '', '') + '{{HN}} had ' + (god.coinflip() ? 'never learned to swim.' : 'a considerable attachment to breathing.')
                ];
                if (!skipDeath) { template.push(god.pick(drowns)); }
                template.push(story.deathResponse(god, god.hero));
            }

            break;

        case 'casting of a spell, transformation':

            t = [
                'There {{was}} a casting of a spell, a transformation. The effects {{were}} simply amazing. Words could not do them justice.'

            ];

            template.push(god.pick(t));

            break;

        case 'false substitution':
            // TODO: posession needs to be tracked
            // so item now "belongs" to villain (or hench-person)
            // TODO: and the item cannot be used in the battle
            // TODO: _OR_ this is a substitution for a family member
            // I think that is too complicated for me to handle at this point...
            template.push('A false substitution {{was}} perpetrated by {{VN}}.');
            break;

        case 'issues order to kill [requires proof]':
            template.push('{{VN}} {{issues}} an order to kill. It {{requires}} proof. THIS {{WAS}} CRUEL.');
            break;

        case 'commits murder':

            // hey..... this has to be a LIVING character.....
            //  aaaaand if no more people are left, create a new one from the local town. or something.
            // aaaaand, what if the hero is SOMEWHERE ELSE, now....

            if (!god.cache.victim) { story.createVictim(god); }
            var murdervictim = god.cache.victim;
            var mvn = god.coinflip() ? murdervictim.name : murdervictim.nickname;

            // TODO: healthLevel is currently a global (only in browser env);
            murdervictim.health = world.healthLevel.dead;

            // 'cept they could also be a relative.
            friendof = (murdervictim.introduced ? '' : ', a friend of {{HN}}');
            murdervictim.introduced = true;

            // She persuades the murderer to show her the body of her dead love, and weeps over it bitterly.
            // He is killed, however, by his elder brothers, who cut him into small pieces and scattered the fragments
            // The Princess died; they placed her in a coffin, and carried it to church
            // About a year after this one of the young men fell ill and died.

            var kill = god.select('kill', 'murder', 'eliminate', 'stilled', 'ate', 'consumed');
            var sudden = god.select('suddenly', 'without warning', 'for reasons unknown', 'just for spite', 'because anything {{was}} possible', 'without explanation', 'since <%= pronoun(villain) %> {{was}} unstoppable');

            t = [
                '{{SDN}}, {{VN}} {{{{KL}}}} {{MVN}}{{FO}}.',
                '{{VN}} {{{{KL}}}} {{MVN}}{{FO}}, {{SDN}}.',
                '{{VN}}, {{SDN}}, {{{{KL}}}} {{MVN}}{{FO}}.'
            ];

            // if character has not been introduced, identify: 'a relative of', a friend of' the hero
            var killsent = god.pick(t).replace(/{{SDN}}/g, sudden).replace(/{{KL}}/g, kill).replace(/{{MVN}}/mg, mvn).replace(/{{FO}}/mg, friendof);
            template.push(killsent);
            template.push(story.deathResponse(god, murdervictim));

            template.push(god.converse(god.villain));
            break;

        case 'imprisonment, detention':
            template.push('Imprisonment, detention of {{HN}}.');
            break;

        case 'threat of forced matrimony':
            template.push('{{VN}} {{threatened}} to marry <%= getCharacter(pick(hero.family)).name %>.');
            break;

        case 'threat of forced matrimony between relatives':
            template.push('{{VN}} {{<%= select("insinuated", "suggested", "mused") %>}} that <%= list(hero.family) %> could be forced into a marriage of convenience.');
            break;

        case 'threat of cannibalism':
            // TODO: a specific person (victim?) should be threatened.
            // both threat and victim must be stored, for later resolution
            // this is true of all of these sub-Funcs, but I could work on it here, I suppose....
            t = [
                'There {{was}} a threat of cannibalism.',
                'Hungry and faint, {{HN}} wandered on, walked farther and farther and at last came to where stood the house of {{VN}}. '
                    + 'Round the house were set twelve poles in a circle, and on each of eleven of these poles was stuck a human head, the twelfth alone remained unoccupied.'
            ];

            template.push(god.pick(t));

            break;

        case 'threat of cannibalism among relatives':
            template.push('Thanks to the ravages {{VN}}\'s predations had left on the land, there {{was}} the threat of cannibalism among the relatives of {{HN}}\'s family. <%= list(hero.family) %> eyed each other hungrily.');
            break;

        case 'tormenting at night (visitation, vampirism)':
            // console.log(god.dump(god.villain.family));
            var tormenter = (god.villain.family.length > 0 ? god.pick(god.villain.family) : god.villain);
            template.push('{{HN}} {{was}} tormented at night by ' + tormenter.name  + '.');
            break;

        case 'declaration of war':
            template.push('{{VN}} declared war on {{HN}}.');
            break;

        }

        if (!skipVillain && !skipIntros) {
            if (!god.villain.introduced) { template.unshift(story.introduceVillain(god)); }
        }

        var text  = template.join('\n\n');

        return text;

    };


    //  8a - Lack: The need is identified (Lack)
    // function 8a: one member of family lacks/desires something = lack - a
    // or.... figure out a better way to accomplish this...
    story['func8a'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // TODO: uh, doesn't this mean that we create it, twice?
        if (!god.cache.lack) { story.createLack(god); }
        var lack = story.createLack(god);

        var person = god.getCharacter(god.cache.lack.person);
        var name = (god.coinflip() ? person.nickname : person.name);
        // 'cept they could also be a relative.
        var friendof = (person.introduced ? '' : ', a friend of {{HN}},');
        person.introduced = true;

        var sent = '{{PN}}{{FO}} {{LACK}}.';

        return sent.replace(/{{PN}}/mg, name).replace(/{{FO}}/mg, friendof).replace(/{{LACK}}/mg, lack.text);

    };


    // Mediation: hero discovers the lack
    story['func9'].exec = function(god) {
        // TODO: if lack has not previously been created, this is an issue
        // aaaaand, 8a is not required for 9. WTF?
        if (!god.cache.lack) { story.createLack(god); }

        var person = god.getCharacter(god.cache.lack.person);
        var name = (god.coinflip() ? person.nickname : person.name);
        var friendof = (person.introduced ? '' : ', a friend of {{HN}},');
        person.introduced = true;

        var sent = '{{HN}} {{discovered}} that {{PN}}{{FO}} ' + god.cache.lack.lack + '.';

        return sent.replace(/{{PN}}/mg, name).replace(/{{FO}}/mg, friendof);
    };

    // Counteraction: hero chooses positive action
    // TODO: positiveaction()
    story['func10'].exec = function(god) {

        var templates = [
            '{{HN}} chose positive action (just like in all those self-help books).',
            'No longer willing to sit idly by, {{HN}} set off to do something about this outrage.'
        ];

        var t = [];
        t.push(god.pick(templates));

        return t.join('\n\n');

    };
    // Departure: hero leave on mission
    // TODO: journey() function
    // where is task created?
    // TODO: IT SHOULD BE IN HERE. maybe?
    story['func11'].templates.push('<%= hero.name %> left <%= hero.location %> to <%= task %>.');

    // 3rd Sphere: The Donor Sequence
    // Testing: hero is challenged to prove heroic qualities
    story['func12'].exec = function(god, subfunc) {

        // "function 12: protagonist(s) tested, interogated, attacked, etc.
        // which prepares way for receiving magical agent or helper = first
        // function of donor (D)"

        var templates = [
            'D1 - donor tests protagonist(s)',
            'D2 - donor greets and interrogates protagonist(s)',
            'D3 - request of favor after death',
            'D4 - entreaty of prisoner for freedom,  or *D4 - entreaty of prisoner for freedom, with preliminary imprisonment',
            'D5 - request for mercy',
            'D6 - request for division, or d6 - argument without express request for division',
            'D7 - other requests, or *D7 - other requests, with preliminary helpless situation of person making request, or d7 - helpless situation of donor without stated request, possibility of rendering service',
            'D8 - attempt to destroy',
            'D9 - combat with hostile donor',
            'D10 - offer of magical agent as an exchange'];

        return '<%= hero.name %> {{was}} challenged to prove heroic qualities.';

    };
    // Reaction: hero responds to test
    story['func13'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // 'function 13: protagonist(s) reacts to actions of future donor =
        // protagonist(s)'s reaction (E)'

        var templates = [
            'E1 - protagonist(s) withstands ordeal (or not)',
            'E2 - protagonist(s) answers greeting (or not)',
            'E3 - protagonist(s) renders service to dead person (or not)',
            'E4 - protagonist(s) frees of captive',
            'E5 - mercy to suppliant',
            'E6 - protagonist(s)completes apportinment and reconciles disputants, or Evi - protagonist(s) deceives disputants',
            'E7 - performance of some other service, fulfillment of request, pious deeds',
            'E8 - attempt at destruction averted by turnabout',
            'E9 - protagonist(s) vanquishes hostile donor (or not)',
            'E10 - deception in an exchange, protagonist(s) employs magical agent on donor'];

        return '<%= hero.name %> {{responded}} to this test.';

    };

    //  Acquisition: hero gains magical item
    story['func14'].exec = function(god, item) {

        // 'function 14: protagonist(s) acquires use of magical agent = acquisition of magical agent (F)',


        var proppFunction14 = [
            'F1 - agent is directly transferred, or f1 - gift is of a material '
                + 'nature, or F- - agent is not transferred, or F= - protagonist(s)\'s '
                + 'negative reaction provokes cruel retribution',
            'F2 - agent is pointed out',
            'F3 - agent is prepared',
            'F4 - agent is sold and purchased, or F43 - agent is made on order',
            'F5 - agent is found by chance',
            'F6 - agent suddenly appears of its own accord, or Fvi - agent appears from out of earth',
            'F7 - agent is drunk or eaten',
            'F8 - agent is seized',
            'F9 - agent offers its services, places itself at someone\'s '
                + 'disposal, or f9 - agent indicates it will appear of its own accord '
                + 'in some time of need, or F96 - meeting with magical helper(s) who '
                + 'offers their services'
        ];


        var t = [];

        item = item || god.createMagicalitem();
        // but we never get rid of the previous item.....
        god.hero.possessions.push(item);

        if (!god.advisor.introduced) {
            t.push('{{HN}} {{MET}} {{AN}}.');
            t.push(god.converse(god.advisor, god.hero));
        } else {
            t.push('{{HN}} {{MET}} {{AN}} again.');
        }

        var hn = '<%= select(hero.name, hero.nickname) %>';
        var an = '<%= select(advisor.name, advisor.nickname) %>';
        var met = '<%= select("met", "encountered", "came across", "found", "was found by", "bumped into") %>';

        // TODO: make this into conversation with a goal?
        t.push('"Here," said {{AN}}, "you\'ll need this," and gave {{HN}} the {{IT}}.');
        t.push('"What\'s this?" asked {{HN}}.');
        // TODO: magical items will have propeties that can be enumerated, here....
        t.push('"What does it look like?" replied {{AN}}. "It\'s a special, magical {{IT}}. Perhaps you can use it in your struggle with {{VN}}."');
        if (god.coinflip()) {
            t.push('"Thanks!" said a <%= select("grateful", "thankful") %> {{HN}}'
                   + (god.coinflip() ? god.select(' gratefully', ' thankfully') : '') + '.');
        }

        god.advisor.introduced = true;

        // 1/3 chance of telling a story....
        if (god.coinflip(0.3)) {
            var tale = story.subtale(god.advisor, god);

            var intro = god.pick([
                '{{AN}} {{said}} "I will tell you a story":',
                '"I have a tale for you," {{said}} {{AN}}, "' + tale.title + ':"'
            ]);
            t.push(intro, world.blankLine);

            t.push(tale.tale);

            t.push(world.blankLinke, '"And now," {{concluded}} {{AN}}, "my tale is done."');

            if (tale.universe.hero.health === world.healthLevel.dead) {
                t.push('{{HN}} {{was}} a bit taken aback by the tale.');
            }


        }

        // TODO: if tale.universe.hero.health === world.healthLevel.dead
        // hero will respond uneasily

        var para = t.join('\n\n').replace(/{{HN}}/g, hn).replace(/{{AN}}/g, an).replace(/{{IT}}/g, item).replace(/{{MET}}/g, met);

        return para;

    };

    // Guidance: hero reaches destination
    // TODO: destination is related to task
    story['func15'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 15: protagonist(s) transferred, delivered or led to vicinity of object of search = transference, guidance (G)

        var templates = [
            'G1 - protagonist(s) flies thru air',
            'G2 - protagonist(s) travels on ground or water',
            'G3 - protagonist(s) is led',
            'G4 - route is shown to protagonist(s)',
            'G5 - protagonist(s) makes use of stationary means of communication (stairs, bridge, passageway. etc.)',
            'G6 - marked trail shows the way (blood, tracks, yarn, etc.)'
        ];

        return '<%= hero.name %> reached destination.';

    };

    // Struggle: hero and villain do battle
    // TODO: battle() function
    // TODO: _FOR MY PURPOSES_ combine the functions of 16 and 18, and put 17 in the middle as well (make it a parameter)
    // TODO: if villain and hero have not met, they must converse
    story['func16'].exec = function(god) {
        var t = [];

        // if not known to each other....
        t.push(god.converse(god.villain, god.hero), blankLine);

        // Presently the midnight hour sounded. The earth began to shake, and
        // the Norka came rushing up, and burst right through the fence into
        // the park, so huge was it. The Prince pulled himself together, leapt
        // to his feet, crossed himself, and went straight at the beast. It
        // fled back, and the Prince ran after it. But he soon saw that he
        // couldn't catch it on foot, so he hastened to the stable, laid his
        // hands on the best horse there, and set off in [Pg 87] pursuit.
        // Presently he came up with the beast, and they began a fight. They
        // fought and fought; the Prince gave the beast three wounds. At last
        // they were both utterly exhausted, so they lay down to take a short
        // rest. But the moment the Prince closed his eyes, up jumped the
        // Beast and took to flight. The Prince's horse awoke him; up he
        // jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the
        // Beast, and again began fighting with it. Again the Prince gave the
        // Beast three wounds, and then he and the Beast lay down again to
        // rest. Thereupon away fled the Beast as before. The Prince caught it
        // up, and again gave it three wounds. But all of a sudden, just as
        // the Prince began chasing it for the fourth time, the Beast fled to
        // a great white stone, tilted it up, and escaped into the other
        // world,[86] crying out to the Prince: "Then only will you overcome
        // me, when you enter here."

        // TODO: would be nice to receive this advice, and THEN do something about it. hrm....
        // "Why this. Provide yourself with a bridle, and take a thick aspen
        // cudgel, and sit quietly in the izba - don't stir a step anywhere. During
        // the night she will come running in, and if she manages to say before
        // you can 'Stand still, my steed!' you will straightway turn into a
        // horse. Then she will jump upon your back, and will make you gallop
        // about until she has ridden you to death. But if you manage to say
        // before she speaks, 'Tprru! stand still, jade!' she will be turned into
        // a mare. Then you must bridle her and jump on her back. She will run
        // away with you over hill and dale, but do you hold your own; hit her
        // over the head with the aspen cudgel, and go on hitting her until you
        // beat her to death."

        // The Soldier hadn't expected such a job as this, but there was no help
        // for it. So he followed his grandfather's advice, [Pg 281] provided
        // himself with a bridle and an aspen cudgel, took his seat in a corner,
        // and waited to see what would happen. At the midnight hour the passage
        // door creaked and the sound of steps was heard; the witch was coming!
        // The moment the door of the room opened, the Soldier immediately cried
        // out -

        // "Tprru! stand still, jade!"

        // Surprisingly, especially for an H.P. Lovecraft story, "The
        // Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" has this. The protagonist
        // dispels Nyarlathotep's deception and narrowly avoids his
        // doom, before waking up in the beautiful and architecturally
        // extraordinary city of Boston, USA. Nyarlathotep then admits
        // defeat, making this probably the happiest ending to any
        // story in the Cthulu Mythos

        // at last they hit upon a plan. The ass placed himself upright on his
        // hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got
        // upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog\'s shoulders, and the
        // cock flew up and sat upon the cat\'s head. When all was ready a signal
        // was given, and they began their music. The ass brayed, the dog barked,
        // the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through
        // the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the
        // broken glass, with a most hideous clatter! The robbers, who had been
        // not a little frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that
        // some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away
        // as fast as they could.

        // TODO: it is entirely possible that the battle includes victory
        // in which case, set a variable to allow victory to be skipped

        var proppFunction16 = [
            'function 16: protagonist(s) and antagonist(s) join in direct combat = struggle (H)',
            'H1 - fight in an open battle',
            'H2 - contest, competition',
            'H3 - game of chance',
            'H4 - weighing with scales'
        ];


        var vo = god.villain.object;
        var vposs = god.villain.possessive;
        var vpron = god.villain.pronoun;
        var ho = god.hero.object;
        var hpron = god.hero.pronoun;
        var hposs = god.hero.possessive;
        var hrp = god.hero.reflexivePronoun;
        var vrp = god.hero.reflexivePronoun;

        var templates = [
            // skip a further victory if body is destroyed
            '{{HN}} greeted {{VN}}, and caught hold of <%= villain.possessive %> right little finger. '
                + '{{VN}} tried to shake <%= hero.object %> off, flying first '
                + 'about the house and then out of it, but all in vain. At last {{VN}} '
                + 'after soaring on high, struck the ground, and fell to pieces, becoming '
                + 'a fine yellow sand.',
            '{{HN}} and {{VN}} {{engage}} in battle.',
            '{{VN}} arrives and {{thrusted}} <%= villain.possessive %> arm in at the window. {{HN}} cut off the bony thing, '
                + 'and {{VN}} {{disappeared}}, howling, leaving <%= villain.possessive %> arm behind.',
            'And they set to work fighting; the dust flew like anything. They\'d '
                + 'have gone on fighting ever so much longer, only the cocks began to '
                + 'crow.',
            'In the evening {{HN}} went to the church. Twelve o\'clock '
                + 'struck, the coffin lid fell to the ground, {{VN}} jumped up '
                + 'and began tearing from side to side, and threatening {{HO}}. '
                + 'Then {{VPRON}} conjured up horrors, this time worse than before. It '
                + 'seemed to {{HO}} as if a fire had broken out in the church; all the '
                + 'walls were wrapped in flames! But {{HPRON}} held {{HPOSS}} ground and went on '
                + 'reading, never once looking behind {{HRP}}. Just before daybreak '
                + '{{VN}} rushed to {{VPOSS}} coffin - then the fire seemed to go out '
                + 'immediately, and all the deviltry vanished!',
            '{{VN}} threw himself at {{HN}}\'s feet and begged for mercy. But {{VPRON}} received {{VPOSS}} '
            + 'punishment, for {{VPRON}} was tied to the tails of four wild horses and torn to pieces.'

        ];


        // if villain has non-human form
        var villForm;
        if (god.villain.form !== 'human') {
            villForm = god.villain.form;
        }
        if (villForm) {
            templates = [];
            templates.push(
                // TODO: these are pretty static.
                '{{VN}} turned into a {{VF}}, and {{HN}} bridled {{VO}}, led {{VO}} into the '
                    + 'yard, and jumped on {{VPOSS}} back. The {{VF}} carried {{HO}} off over hills and '
                    + 'dales and ravines, and did all {{VPRON}} could to try and throw {{VPOSS}} rider. '
                    + 'But no! {{HN}} stuck on tight, and thumped {{VO}} over the head like '
                    + 'anything with the aspen cudgel, and went on treating {{VO}} with a taste '
                    + 'of the cudgel until {{HPRON}} knocked {{VO}} off her feet, and then pitched into '
                    + '{{VO}} as {{VPRON}} lay on the ground, gave {{VO}} another half-dozen blows or so, '
                    + 'and at last beat {{VN}} to death.',
                'Presently the midnight hour sounded. The earth began to shake, and '
                    + 'the {{VF}} came rushing up, and burst right through the fence into '
                    + 'the park, so huge was it. {{HN}} pulled {{HRP}} together, leapt '
                    + 'to {{HPOSS}} feet, crossed {{HRP}}, and went straight at the {{VF}}. It '
                    + 'fled back, and {{HN}} ran after it. But {{HPRON}} soon saw that {{HPRON}} '
                    + 'couldn\'t catch it on foot, so {{HPRON}} hastened to the stable, laid {{HPOSS}} '
                    + 'hands on the best horse there, and set off in pursuit. '
                    + 'Presently {{HPRON}} came up with the {{VF}}, and they began a fight. They '
                    + 'fought and fought; {{HN}} gave the {{VF}} three wounds. At last '
                    + 'they were both utterly exhausted, so they lay down to take a short '
                    + 'rest. But the moment {{HN}} closed {{HPOSS}} eyes, up jumped the '
                    + '{{VF}} and took to flight. {{HN}}\'s horse awoke {{HO}}; up {{HPRON}} '
                    + 'jumped in a moment, and set off again in pursuit, caught up the '
                    + '{{VF}}, and again began fighting with it. Again {{HN}} gave the '
                    + '{{VF}} three wounds, and then {{HPRON}} and the {{VF}} lay down again to '
                    + 'rest. Thereupon away fled the {{VF}} as before. {{HN}} caught it '
                    + 'up, and again gave it three wounds. But all of a sudden, just as '
                    + '{{HN}} began chasing it for the fourth time, the {{VF}} fell to the ground.'

            );
        }

        var mi;
        if (god.hero.possessions && god.hero.possessions.length > 0) {
            mi = god.hero.possessions[god.hero.possessions.length-1];
            var mit = '{{HN}} {{<%= select("deploy", "use", "manipulate") %>}} the {{MI}} to '
                    + '<%= select("defeat", "trounce", "vanquish", "annoy") %> {{VN}}.';
            templates.push(mit);
        }

        var sel = god.pick(templates);
        if (sel === mit) { god.hero.magicalitemused = true; }
        t.push(sel);

        return t.join('\n').replace(/{{MI}}/mg, mi).replace(/{{VF}}/mg, villForm).replace(/{{VO}}/mg, vo)
            .replace(/{{VPOSS}}/mg, vposs).replace(/{{VPRON}}/mg, vpron)
            .replace(/{{HO}}/mg, ho).replace(/{{HPRON}}/mg, hpron).replace(/{{HPOSS}}/mg, hposs)
            .replace(/{{HRP}}/mg, hrp);
    };

    // Branding: hero is branded
    // TODO: make this a function callable from 16/18
    story['func17'].exec = function(god) {

        // see http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AcheyScars

        var text = [];

        var templates = [
            '<%= hero.name %> {{was}} changed by the encounter.',
            '{{HN}} {{was}} scarred internally.',
            'This day would never be forgotten by {{HN}}.',
            '{{HN}} received a stylish scarf as a souvenir of the encounter!',
            '{{VN}}\'s head popped off, and {{was}} scavenged by {{HN}}.'
        ];

        var proppFunction17 = ['function 17: protagonist(s) branded = branding (J)',
                               'J1 - application of mark to body of protagonist(s) (wound, brand)',
                               'J2 - transference of token (ring, towel, etc.)'];

        text.push(god.pick(templates));

        return text.join('\n');

    };

    // Victory: Villain is defeated
    story['func18'].exec = function(god) {


        var proppFunction18 = ['function 18: antagonist(s) defeated = victory (I)',
                               'I1 - antagonist(s) defeated in open battle, or *I1 - antagonist(s) defeated by one protagonist(s) while the other(s) hide',
                               'I2 - antagonist(s) defeated in contest',
                               'I3 - antagonist(s) defeated at game of chance',
                               'I4 - antagonist(s) defeated in weighing with scales',
                               'I5 - protagonist(s) kills antagonist(s) without preliminary fight',
                               'I6 - direct expulsion of antagonist(s)'];

        var t = [];



        // proof-of-concept YES, but doesn't use the magical item, above.
        // I guess that should be part of the punishment/defeat
        // optionally, LEVELS?
        // or maybe not...... punishments in these stories are often beyond the pale.....
        t.push(story.punish(god, god.villain));

        god.cache.villains = god.cache.villains || [];
        god.cache.villains.push(god.villain);

        return t.join('\n');

    };

    // Resolution: Initial misfortune or lack is resolved
    // pass in a param object, by name?
    story['func19'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 19: initial misfortune or lack is liquidated = liquidation (K)

        var proppFunction19 = [
            'K1 - direct acquistion thru application of force or cunning, or Ki - direct acquistion thru application of force or cunning, with one person compelling another',
            'K2 - acquisition accomplished by several helpers at once',
            'K3 - acquisition achieved with help of an enticement or decoy(s)',
            'K4 - liquidation of misfortune as direct result of previous actions',
            'K5 - object of search attained instantly thru use of magical agent',
            'K6 - poverty done away with thru use of magical agent',
            'K7 - object of search captured',
            'K8 - breaking of spell on victim',
            'K9 - resuscitation of slain, or Kix - resuscitation, with preliminary obtaining of water of life',
            'K10 - release from captivity',
            'KF1 - liquidation in form F: object of search is transferred',
            'KF2 - liquidation in form F: object of search is pointed out',
            'KF3 - liquidation in form F: object of search is prepared',
            'KF4 - liquidation in form F: object of search is sold, purchased, or KF43 - liquidation in form F: object of search is made on order',
            'KF5 - liquidation in form F: object of search is found',
            'KF6 - liquidation in form F: object of search appears of its own accord, or KFvi - liquidation in form F: object of search appears from out of earth',
            'KF7 - liquidation in form F: object of search is drunk or eaten',
            'KF8 - liquidation in form F: object of search is seized',
            'KF9 - liquidation in form F: object of search offers its services, places itself at someone\'s disposal, or KF96 - liquidation in form F: object of search are helpers who offers their services'
        ];

        var t = [];

        // // TODO: whatever subfunc was used in villainy s/b stored, and "restored" to order, here

        if (!god.cache.lack) { story.createLack(god); }
        var lt = god.cache.lack.lack;

        // this is singularly un-interesting
        var tmpls = ['The problems experienced by ' + god.getCharacter(god.cache.lack.person).name + ', who {{LT}},  {{were}} resolved by {{HN}}.'];

        t.push(god.pick(tmpls));

        return t.join('\n').replace(/{{LT}}/mg, lt);

    };

    // 4th Sphere: The hero\'s return
    // In the final (and often optional) phase of the storyline, the hero returns home, hopefully uneventfully and to a hero\'s welcome, although this may not always be the case.

    // Return: hero sets out for home
    // TODO: how could I write something like hero.home.residence.possess and get "her home" or "his shed" ?
    story['func20'].exec = function(god) {

        var text = [];

        var tmpls = [
            '{{HN}} set out for <%= possessive(hero) %> <%= hero.home.residence %>.'
        ];

        text.push(god.pick(tmpls));

        text.push(story.journey(god, god.hero, god.hero.home.vicinity));

        return text.join('\n\n');

    };

    // Pursuit: hero is chased
    // TODO: character/thing that chases
    // TODO: chase() function
    story['func21'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 21: protagonist(s) pursued = pursuit (Pr)

        var templates = [
            'Pr1 - antagonist(s) flies thru air',
            'Pr2 - antagonist(s) demands guilty person',
            'Pr3 - antagonist(s) pursues, accompanied by series of transformations into animals',
            'Pr4 - antagonist(s) pursues, with tranformations into enticing objects',
            'Pr5 - antagonist(s) attempts to devour protagonist(s)',
            'Pr6 - antagonist(s) attempts to destroy protagonist(s)',
            'Pr7 - antagonist(s) attempts to gnaw thru tree with protagonist(s) up in it'
        ];

        return '<%= hero.name %> {{was}} chased.';

    };

    // Rescue: pursuit ends
    // TODO: template to end the above
    story['func22'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 22: rescue of protagonist(s) from pursuit = rescue (Rs)

        var proppFunction22 = [
            'Rs1 - protagonist(s) carried thru air or runs quickly',
            'Rs2 - protagonist(s) places obstacles in path of pursuers [with transformation]',
            'Rs3 - fleeing, with transformation to escape recognition',
            'Rs4 - fleeing with concealment of escapee',
            'Rs5 - concealment of escapee by blacksmiths',
            'Rs6 - escapee goes thru series of transformations into animals, plants & stones',
            'Rs7 - warding off temptation of enticing object(s)',
            'Rs8 - rescue or salvation from being devoured',
            'Rs9 - rescue or salvation from being destroyed',
            'Rs10 - leap into another tree'
        ];

        return 'the pursuit ended.';

    };

    // Arrival: hero arrives unrecognized
    story['func23'].templates.push('<%= hero.name %> arrived in <%= hero.home.vicinity %> but {{was}} unrecognized.');

    // Claim: False hero makes unfounded claims
    story['func24'].templates.push('<%= falsehero.name %> made unfounded claims.');

    // Task: Difficult task proposed to the hero
    story['func25'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 25: difficult task proposed to protagonist(s) = difficult task (M)

        var proppFunction25 = [
            'M1 - ordeal by food and drink',
            'M2 - ordeal by fire',
            'M3 - riddle guessing',
            'M4 - ordeal of choice',
            'M5 - hide and seek',
            'M6 - test of strength',
            'M7 - test of adroitness',
            'M8 - test of fortitude',
            'M9 - test of endurance',
            'M10 - tasks of supply, or Mx - tasks of manufacture',
            'M11 - sorting tasks',
            'M12 - other tasks'
        ];

        return '<%= advisor.name %> charged <%= hero.name %> to <%= task %>.';

    };

    // Solution: Task is resolved
    story['func26'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 26: task resolved = solution (N)

        var proppFunction26 = [
            'N1 - food and drink consumed',
            'N2 - fire survived',
            'N3 - riddle guessed',
            'N4 - correct choice selected',
            'N5 - protagonist(s) not found',
            'N6 - test of strength passed',
            'N7 - test of adroitness passed',
            'N8 - test of fortitude passed',
            'N9 - test of endurance passed',
            'N10 - object(s) supplied, or Nx - object(s) manufactured',
            'N11 - sorting tasks completed',
            'N12 - other tasks completed'
        ];

        var templates = [
            '<%= task %> {{was}} completed.',
            '<%= task %> {{was}} completed by <%= hero.name %>.',
            '<%= hero.name %> finishes off <%= task %>.'
        ];

        return god.pick(templates);

    };

    // Recognition: hero is recognised
    story['func27'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 27: protagonist(s) recognized = recognition (Q)

        var proppFunction27 = [
            'Q1 - recognition of protagonist(s) by mark on body',
            'Q2 - recognition of protagonist(s) by token',
            'Q3 - recognition of protagonist(s) by accomplishment of difficult task',
            'Q4 - recognition of protagonist(s) by family member'
        ];

        return '<%= hero.name %> {{was}} recognized.';

    };

    // Exposure: False hero is exposed
    // So he regained his wife and went home with her. But as for the false wife, he took a gun and shot her.
    story['func28'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 28: false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s) exposed = exposure (Ex)

        var proppFunction28 = [
            'Ex1 - exposure of false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s) by lack of mark on body',
            'Ex2 - exposure of false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s) by lack of token',
            'Ex3 - exposure of false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s) by failure to accomplish difficult task',
            'Ex4 - exposure of false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s) thru song / lament'
        ];

        return '<%= falsehero.name %> {{was}} exposed.';

    };

    // Transfiguration: hero is given a new appearance
    // TODO: character description, associated adjectives ???
    story['func29'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 29: protagonist(s) given new appearance = transfiguration (T)

        var proppFunction29 = [
            'T1 - new physical appearance by magical action of helper',
            'T2 - protagonist(s) builds palace',
            'T3 - protagonist(s) puts on new garments',
            'T4 - humorous and rationalized forms, new appearance achieved by deception'
        ];

        return '<%= hero.name %> {{was}} given a new appearance.';

    };

    // Punishment: Villain is punished
    story['func30'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 30: false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s) punished = punishment (U)

        var proppFunction30 = [
            'U - punishment of false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s)',
            'U- - false protagonist(s) or antagonist(s) pardoned'
        ];

        // rules will tell us a bit about when this can be created or not
        // if villain is dead, it would have to be the false hero
        // if the false hero is dead... WELL I DO NOT KNOW
        // TODO: person = falsefriend or villain (or henchperson?)

        // TODO: in many cases, w/o a battle, the villain lives on, and an un-introduced falsehero is punished.
        // WTF ?!?!? This shouldn't happen if not introduced
        // the world-model needs to be built better. multi-pass?
        var person = (god.villain.health === world.healthLevel.living ? god.villain : god.falsehero);

        return story.punish(god, person);

    };

    // Wedding: hero marries and ascends the throne
    story['func31'].exec = function(god, subFunc) {

        // function 31: protagonist(s) marries and ascends throne = wedding (W)

        var proppFunction31 = [
            'W#* - protagonist(s) weds and ascends throne ',
            'W# - protagonist(s) weds',
            'W* - protagonist(s) ascends throne',
            'w1 - protagonist(s) promised marriage',
            'w2 - protagonist(s) resumes marriage',
            'wo - protagonist(s) given monetary reward or other forms of material gain'
        ];

        // close, if wedding:  It was a magnificent wedding. I myself was there, and drank of the mead and wine; but they only touched my beard, they did not enter my mouth.

        // marriage/ascension are arrays in the wordbank
        var templates = [
            '<%= hero.name %> <%= select(marriage, ascension) %>. It {{was}} a good life.',
            '<%= hero.name %> <%= marriage %> and <%= ascension %>.',
            '<%= hero.name %> {{settles}} down and <%= select(marriage, ascension) %>.',
            'Everything {{worked}} out for <%= hero.name %>, who <%= select(marriage, ascension) %>.',
            // TODO: verb tense DOES NOT WORK here
            // this is the... what tense? past would work.
            // if ALL verb ar infinitive and appear as {{verb}}, then we do a global pull, conjugate, replace prior to template parsing. or after. whatever.
            '<%= select(marriage, ascension) %>, <%= hero.name %> {{retired}} to ' + god.select('a life of farming', 'write <%= possessive(hero) %> memoirs', 'live in peace', 'pine for days of adventure')  + '.'
        ];

        var lod = story.latd(god.hero, god);

        var t = [];
        t.push(god.pick(templates));

        // this a proof-of-concept
        if (lod.dead.length > 0) {
            // Years passes, but Lauren still mourns the stinging loss of Megan.
            // passed needs to be in the infinitive, here. need to pass this as something extra.
            var sent = 'Years {{passed}}, but <%= hero.name %> still {{mourns}} the stinging loss of ' + god.list(lod.dead) + '.';
            t.push(sent);
        }

        // TODO: enumerate some posessions, perhaps. and places visited.
        // ALTHOUGH NONE OF THIS IS VERY FAIRY-TALELY

        // if single, can't be they
        // TODO: earlier bride business....
        // 'And from that time forward they knew neither sorrow nor separation, but they all lived together long and happily.'
        // From that time forward they lived together in all happiness and prosperity.
        // But he and his daughter lived on and flourished, and everything went well with them.

        // The old people were delighted, and asked their boy about everything that had happened. And after that he and they lived on happily together.
        //
        // From that time forward the Smith gave up spitting at the Demon and
        // striking him with his hammer. The journeyman disappeared, and was
        // never seen again. But the seigneur and his lady entered upon a
        // prosperous course of life, and if they haven't {{died}}, they're living
        // still.

        // and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into
        // my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as
        // you live." The young princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying
        // "Yes" to all this; and as they spoke a gay coach drove up, with eight
        // beautiful horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness;
        // and behind the coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who
        // had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment
        // so long and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst. They then
        // took leave of the king, and got into the coach with eight horses, and
        // all set out, full of joy and merriment, for the prince's kingdom,
        // which they reached safely; and there they lived happily a great many
// years.


        t.push('After that <%= pronoun(hero) %> lived long and happily, survived to a great age, and then died peacefully.');

        return t.join(' ');

    };

    // from person, separate out the living and the dead
    story.latd = function(person, god) {

        var dead = [];
        var living = [];
        var people = person.family;
        if (person.acquaintances) { people = people.concat(person.acquaintances); }
        for (var i = 0; i < people.length; i++) {
            var c = god.getCharacter(people[i]);
            var dora = (c.health == world.healthLevel.dead ? dead : living);
            dora.push(people[i]);
        }

        return {
            living: living,
            dead: dead
        };

    };

    story.outro = function(god) {

        // And then they went home, and there they lived and enjoyed themselves, feasting and revelling, and drinking mead and wine.
        // I was there, too, and had liquor to drink; it didn't go into my mouth, but only ran down my beard

        var templates = [
            'All of this took place long before you were born, so it\'s not surprising that you don\'t remember it. But it happened, and people speak of it still.',
            'This may sound fantastic, but it all happened exactly as I have told you.',
            'Whether you believe it or not, this is what happened, for what I tell you is true.'
        ];

        var hero = god.hero;
        var ld = story.latd(hero, god);
        var narr = god.cache.narrator || null;

        var t = [];
        // this could get convoluted (Which is good!) "and I tell you this story as you can tell your children"
        // 'and I tell you this story as I told your mother  [or father] and her mother before her' [or father as the case may be].

        if (narr || (god.coinflip(0.2) && ld.living.length > 0)) {
            var name = god.select('name', 'nickname');
            narr = (narr ? narr.name : god.getCharacter(god.pick(ld.living))[name]);
            t.push((god.coinflip() ? 'This may sound fantastic, but ' : '') + 'in all the world there is nothing stranger than the truth, and it all happened exactly as I have told you, for I was there, as sure as my name is ' + narr + '.');
        } else {
            t.push(god.pick(templates));
        }

        return t.join('\n');

    };

    return story;

};



var module = module || {};
module.exports = nTemplates;