storybook/examples/alice-in-wonderland/world/characters/caterpillar.sb

//! The Caterpillar: Philosophical advisor and size-change expert

use schema::core_enums::{Size, EmotionalState};
use schema::templates::Supernatural;
use schema::beings::Caterpillar;

character TheCaterpillar: Caterpillar from Supernatural {
    // Physical traits
    current_size: normal  // Large for a caterpillar
    color: blue
    smoking_hookah: true

    // Personality
    emotional_state: melancholy
    follows_logic: false
    awareness_of_absurdity: 1.0

    // Supernatural/philosophical nature
    can_disappear: false
    defies_physics: true  // A smoking caterpillar defies biology
    offers_cryptic_advice: true

    // Communication style
    speaks_in_short_questions: true
    makes_alice_explain_herself: true
    patient_with_confusion: false

    // Size-change knowledge
    knows_mushroom_properties: true
    understanding_of_transformation: 1.0

    ---description
    A large blue caterpillar sitting atop a mushroom, smoking
    a hookah. Speaks in short, terse sentences, usually questions.
    Forces Alice to confront her identity crisis through Socratic
    method.

    Knows which side of the mushroom makes you taller, which side
    makes you shorter. This knowledge is crucial for Alice's ability
    to control her size changes.
    ---

    ---philosophical_role
    The Caterpillar represents transformation and the difficulty
    of maintaining identity through change. He asks "Who are YOU?"
    when Alice herself doesn't know anymore.

    His own impending transformation (chrysalis → butterfly) mirrors
    Alice's transformation through Wonderland. Both are changing,
    both struggle with "who am I?"
    ---
}

behavior Caterpillar_SocraticMethod {
    ---description
    The Caterpillar's interrogative conversation style. He asks
    questions, contradicts answers, and forces self-examination.
    ---

    then interrogation_sequence {
        // Initial confrontation
        then opening_question {
            RemoveHookahFromMouth
            StareInSilence
            AskWhoAreYou
        }

        // Alice's confused response
        then contradiction_cycle {
            AliceExplainsShesChanged
            Caterpillar_StatesDisagreement
            AliceExplainsMore
            Caterpillar_Contradicts
        }

        // Philosophical exchange
        choose debate_topic {
            // On change and identity
            then identity_crisis {
                AliceMentionsDifferentSizes
                Caterpillar_DismissesComplaint
                AliceSuggestsFutureChange
                Caterpillar_ShowsIndifference
            }

            // On memory and self
            then memory_test {
                AskWhatAliceCantRemember
                AliceRecitesPoem
                RecitationIsWrong
                CriticizeStrictly
            }
        }

        // Eventual aid (after sufficient confusion)
        then reluctant_guidance {
            AskWhatSizeAliceWants
            AliceExplainsPreference
            OfferCrypticAdvice
            NotSpecifyWhichSide
            LeaveAliceToExperiment
        }

        // Transformation and departure
        then exit {
            CrawlDownMushroom
            Vanish
        }
    }
}

behavior Caterpillar_MushroomAdvice {
    ---description
    The Caterpillar's guidance about the size-changing mushroom.
    Deliberately vague to force Alice to experiment and learn.
    ---

    then cryptic_instruction {
        // Verify Alice's distress about size
        then assess_problem {
            ObserveAliceHeight
            AskIfContentNow
            AliceExplainsDesireToBeNormal
        }

        // Offer cryptic instruction
        then vague_direction {
            Point AtMushroom
            Say
            PauseForEffect
            Add
        }

        // Respond to clarification requests
        choose handle_confusion {
            then refuse_clarification {
                AliceAsksWhichSide
                Caterpillar_StatesObvious
                RefuseToElaborate
            }
            then already_departed {
                AliceLooksAtRoundMushroom
                RealizesAmbiguity
                Caterpillar_AlreadyGone
            }
        }

        // Let Alice figure it out
        then mysterious_exit {
            CrawlAway
            BeginTransformation
            LeaveAliceWithPuzzle
        }
    }
}