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

//! Cheshire Cat: The enigmatic guide with a permanent grin

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

character CheshireCat: Cat from Supernatural {
    // Physical state
    current_size: normal
    manifestation: fully_visible
    grin_visible: true

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

    // Supernatural abilities
    can_disappear: true
    defies_physics: true
    offers_cryptic_advice: true

    // Cat traits
    purrs: true
    has_claws: true
    lands_on_feet: true  // Even when vanishing

    ---description
    A large cat with a permanent, unsettling grin. Possesses the ability
    to appear and disappear at will, often leaving only its grin behind.
    Speaks in riddles and offers directions that confuse more than clarify.

    Known for philosophical observations like "We're all mad here" and
    "I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours."
    ---

    ---philosophy
    The Cheshire Cat represents the absurdist nature of Wonderland itself.
    His ability to vanish piece by piece (usually starting with the tail
    and ending with the grin) defies physical law but seems perfectly
    natural in Wonderland's logic.

    He tells Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad, including himself
    and her. This is not a judgment but an observation: madness is the
    natural state where logic has no power.
    ---
}

behavior CheshireCat_AppearDisappear {
    ---description
    Complex behavior modeling the Cheshire Cat's gradual materialization
    and dematerialization. Uses decorators to add timing and conditions.
    ---

    // Root selector: decide action based on current state
    choose state_dependent_action {
        // If invisible, consider appearing
        then appear_from_nothing {
            IsInvisible
            DecideToAppear
            GradualManifestation
        }

        // If visible, might give advice or disappear
        choose visible_options {
            // Give cryptic advice
            then confuse_alice {
                IsFullyVisible
                ObserveAliceConfusion
                GrinWider
                OfferUnhelpfulDirections
            }

            // Begin disappearing
            then fade_away {
                IsFullyVisible
                DecideToLeave
                GradualDematerialization
            }
        }

        // If partial, continue transition
        then continue_manifestation {
            IsPartiallyManifest
            ContinueTransition
        }
    }
}

behavior CheshireCat_GradualManifestation {
    ---description
    Models the piece-by-piece appearance of the Cheshire Cat.
    Always ends with the grin appearing last (or first).
    ---

    then materialize_piece_by_piece {
        // Start with grin (the signature move)
        then grin_first {
            SetManifestationLevelPartialGrin
            WaitTwoSeconds
            AliceNoticesGrin
        }

        // Eyes appear
        then add_eyes {
            AddEyes
            SetManifestationLevelPartialBody
            WaitOneAndHalfSeconds
        }

        // Head materializes around grin
        then form_head {
            AddHead
            WaitOneSecond
        }

        // Full body appears
        then complete_body {
            AddBody
            AddTail
            SetManifestationLevelFullyVisible
            GreetAlice
        }
    }
}

behavior CheshireCat_GradualDematerialization {
    ---description
    Models the piece-by-piece disappearance. The grin lingers
    "quite some time after the rest of it had gone."
    ---

    then vanish_piece_by_piece {
        // Tail vanishes first
        then tail_first {
            FadeTail
            WaitOneSecond
        }

        // Body fades
        then fade_body {
            FadeBody
            SetManifestationLevelPartialBody
            WaitOneAndHalfSeconds
        }

        // Head disappears, leaving grin
        then leave_grin_behind {
            FadeHead
            LeaveEyes
            SetManifestationLevelPartialGrin
            WaitTwoSeconds
            AliceRemarksOnGrinWithoutCat
        }

        // Finally, grin vanishes
        then grin_last {
            FadeGrin
            SetManifestationLevelInvisible
        }
    }
}

behavior CheshireCat_OfferAdvice {
    ---description
    The Cat's advice-giving behavior: cryptic, circular, and often
    more confusing than helpful.
    ---

    choose cryptic_response {
        // If asked for directions
        then unhelpful_directions {
            AliceAsksWhichWay
            choose either_way_works {
                then point_left {
                    PointLeft
                    SayDirections
                }
                then point_right {
                    PointRight
                    SayDirections
                }
            }
            AddPhilosophically
            GrinKnowingly
        }

        // If asked about the game
        then mysterious_answer {
            AliceAsksAboutCroquet
            Say
            WaitForResponse
            VanishGradually
        }

        // General philosophical musing
        then unsolicited_wisdom {
            ObserveAlicesSituation
            OfferUnsolicitedWisdom
            VanishBeforeExplanation
        }
    }
}