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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Something along those lines, or maybe like this:
Rachel Darkwood drops into the seat, her hair the colour of a shark's smile. She places an unlit cigarette between her lips and bats her eyelids at you. You step forward, a wry smile on your face.
Do you offer Rachel a light
Ask Rachel where she was at midnight
Slap the cigarette from Rachel's mouth
Of course, I like Hardboiled/40's Noir type mysteries so that's where my example would lead. But it would work with cozy's or whatever genre. I'd think every junction would be related to a clue, perhaps, or the asking of questions to a suspect.
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Hmmmm... the problem with this sort of thing is that once you've done one of those actions, you ought not to be returned to the same page again. Not so?
In an eBook that is static, how would you deal with that?
Unless your source file does actually specify some logic, and your "compiled" eBook whose size (unlike that of paper books) ultimately can be thousands of pages for all it matters, would contain a lot of duplicate numbered paragraphs with only their linked destinations differing in order to accommodate portions of the book that mix "scenes" that are always the same (an empty hall) versus ones that may change (a room with Rachel, wherein interaction will lastingly alter things therein).
That wasn't totally clear... but do you understand what I mean?
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