scrypt/data/cards.yaml

# SCRYPT card pool — terminal-flavored creatures.
# Costs: {type: free} | {type: mem, amount: N} | {type: dumps, amount: N}
# Sigils must exist in engine/cards.py KNOWN_SIGILS.
# art: up to 3 lines, 9 columns; drawn inside the card frame.

cards:
  - id: bit
    name: Bit
    power: 0
    health: 1
    cost: {type: free}
    flavor: "A humble bit. It costs nothing, and it is worth exactly that."
    art: |2
       ┌─┐
       │1│
       └─┘

  - id: orphan-thread
    name: Orphan Thread
    power: 0
    health: 2
    cost: {type: free}
    flavor: "Nobody joined it. It waits anyway. It will wait for you too."
    art: |2
        ╷
        ├──x
        ╵

  - id: daemon
    name: Daemon
    power: 1
    health: 2
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    flavor: "It runs quietly in the background. It has always been running."
    art: |2
        ^ ^
       (o,o)
        )"(

  - id: firewall
    name: Firewall
    power: 1
    health: 2
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    sigils: [packet_filter]
    flavor: "Nothing gets over it. Not even the things that fly."
    art: |2
      ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
      ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
      ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

  - id: packet
    name: Packet
    power: 1
    health: 1
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    sigils: [tunneling]
    flavor: "It rides the wire, far above your defenses."
    art: |2
       ┌┄┄┄┐
       ┆ 01┆»
       └┄┄┄┘

  - id: oom-killer
    name: OOM Killer
    power: 3
    health: 2
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 2}
    flavor: "When memory runs short, it decides what deserves to live."
    art: |2
         │
       ──╳──
         │

  - id: fork-bomb
    name: Fork Bomb
    power: 1
    health: 1
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    sigils: [self_replicating]
    flavor: ":(){ :|:& };: — it brings a friend. The friend brings a friend."
    art: |2
       :(){
        :|:&
       };:

  - id: segfault
    name: Segfault
    power: 1
    health: 1
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 2}
    sigils: [null_pointer]
    flavor: "One touch of the wrong address, and everything comes down."
    art: |2
       ▚▘ ▗▞
       ▐0x0▌
       ▞▗ ▘▚

  - id: tarpit
    name: Tarpit
    power: 0
    health: 3
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    sigils: [honeypot]
    flavor: "Connect, and wait. And wait. And wait."
    art: |2
       ≈≈≈≈≈
       ≈(_)≈
       ≈≈≈≈≈

  - id: zombie-process
    name: Zombie Process
    power: 2
    health: 3
    cost: {type: dumps, amount: 4}
    flavor: "Killed long ago. Never reaped. It holds a grudge about that."
    art: |2
        [z]
        ╱│╲
       z   Z

  - id: garbage-collector
    name: Garbage Collector
    power: 0
    health: 3
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    sigils: [scavenger_loop]
    flavor: "It sweeps up the dead and keeps what it finds."
    art: |2
        ─┬─
       │░░░│
       └───┘

  - id: sudo-token
    name: Sudo Token
    power: 0
    health: 1
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    sigils: [privileged]
    flavor: "Spend it, and for one shining moment you may do anything."
    art: |2
       ┌──┐
       │##│═o
       └──┘

  - id: watchdog
    name: Watchdog
    power: 0
    health: 1
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 1}
    sigils: [auto_restart]
    flavor: "Kill it. Go on. It will be back before you finish typing."
    art: |2
       /\─/\
       (•ᴥ•)
        ┘ └

  - id: kernel-panic
    name: Kernel Panic
    power: 4
    health: 6
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 3}
    flavor: "The system's final scream, given claws."
    art: |2
       ▄▄█▄▄
       ██!██
       ▀█▀█▀

  - id: root
    name: Root
    power: 7
    health: 7
    cost: {type: mem, amount: 4}
    flavor: "It can do anything. It owes you nothing."
    art: |2
          #
        ╱ │ ╲
       ╱╱ │ ╲╲

  # Foe-side creatures (the Warden's processes). Not draftable by players.
  - id: reaper
    name: Reaper
    power: 1
    health: 1
    cost: {type: free}
    draftable: false
    flavor: "It collects exit codes. Yours is pending."
    art: |2
        ▄▄▄▄
       ▀    ▀▖
            ▐

  - id: audit-daemon
    name: Audit Daemon
    power: 1
    health: 3
    cost: {type: free}
    flavor: "It saw what you did. It wrote it down."
    draftable: false
    art: |2
       ╭───╮
       │ ● │
       ╰───╯

  - id: kill-signal
    name: Kill Signal
    power: 2
    health: 1
    cost: {type: free}
    sigils: [tunneling]
    flavor: "SIGKILL cannot be caught, blocked, or ignored."
    draftable: false
    art: |2
          ╱
       ──╱──
        ╱ -9

  - id: cron-golem
    name: Cron Golem
    power: 3
    health: 5
    cost: {type: free}
    flavor: "At the appointed minute it rises. Check the schedule. Despair."
    draftable: false
    art: |2
        ╭─╮
        │┼│
       ▐███▌

  - id: multiplexer
    name: Multiplexer
    power: 2
    health: 3
    cost: {type: free}
    sigils: [forked]
    flavor: "One window, many panes. It hits everything beside you."
    draftable: false
    art: |2
       ┌─┬─┐
       │ │ │
       └─┴─┘

  - id: init
    name: init
    power: 4
    health: 8
    cost: {type: free}
    flavor: "PID 1. The parent of everything. Orphans answer to it now."
    draftable: false
    art: |2
        ▄▄▄
       █ 1 █
        ▀▀▀

# Full starting decks (the side pile of bits is separate and always there).
# Every deck carries free fodder so sacrifices never starve.
starter_decks:
  vanilla:
    name: "init"
    description: "Where every process begins. Flexible, honest, doomed."
    cards: [daemon, firewall, oom-killer, orphan-thread, orphan-thread,
            packet, tarpit, sudo-token]
  forkstorm:
    name: "fork()"
    description: "Multiply, sacrifice, repeat. The board is a petri dish."
    cards: [fork-bomb, fork-bomb, sudo-token, orphan-thread, orphan-thread,
            packet, segfault, daemon]
  graveyard:
    name: "core dump"
    description: "Your processes die and come back owing you favors."
    cards: [garbage-collector, zombie-process, watchdog, orphan-thread,
            daemon, tarpit, oom-killer, sudo-token]

encounters:
  # script[turn] -> plays entering the foe queue after that turn's attack.
  # Turn 0 and 1 resolve during setup (queue + first front row).
  first_blood:
    name: "PID 2"
    script:
      - []                                # turn 0: an empty board, a breath
      - [{lane: 1, card: reaper}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: reaper}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: audit-daemon}]
      - [{lane: 3, card: kill-signal}]
      - []
      - [{lane: 2, card: audit-daemon}]

  audit_sweep:
    name: "The Audit"
    script:
      - [{lane: 0, card: audit-daemon}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: reaper}]
      - [{lane: 1, card: kill-signal}]
      - [{lane: 3, card: audit-daemon}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: reaper}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: cron-golem}]
      - [{lane: 1, card: reaper}]
      - [{lane: 3, card: kill-signal}]

  swap_storm:
    name: "The Swap"
    script:
      - [{lane: 1, card: multiplexer}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: reaper}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: kill-signal}]
      - [{lane: 3, card: multiplexer}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: audit-daemon}]
      - [{lane: 1, card: kill-signal}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: cron-golem}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: kill-signal}]

  scheduled_doom:
    name: "Crontab"
    script:
      - [{lane: 1, card: reaper}, {lane: 2, card: audit-daemon}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: kill-signal}]
      - [{lane: 3, card: cron-golem}]
      - [{lane: 1, card: audit-daemon}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: kill-signal}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: audit-daemon}]
      - [{lane: 1, card: cron-golem}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: kill-signal}]

  init_zero:
    name: "PID 1"
    script:
      - [{lane: 1, card: audit-daemon}, {lane: 2, card: reaper}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: multiplexer}]
      - [{lane: 3, card: kill-signal}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: cron-golem}]
      - [{lane: 1, card: kill-signal}]
      - [{lane: 0, card: init}]
      - [{lane: 3, card: multiplexer}]
      - [{lane: 2, card: kill-signal}]

# Forks: the path splits and the Warden holds both doors open.
# bounty applies only if the player WINS the chosen fight.
#   {kind: cycles, amount: N} -> extra cycles banked
#   {kind: draft}             -> an extra card draft right after the fight
forks:
  crossroads_audit:
    prompt: "Two doors. Behind one, the auditor you expected. Behind the other, something hungrier."
    options:
      - encounter: audit_sweep
        label: "the audit"
        blurb: "the fight you were promised. fair, as fairness goes here."
      - encounter: swap_storm
        label: "the swap"
        blurb: "panes within panes. survivors loot the wreckage."
        bounty: {kind: draft}
  crossroads_final:
    prompt: "The last stretch. Choose your executioner."
    options:
      - encounter: scheduled_doom
        label: "the crontab"
        blurb: "death on a schedule you have already read."
      - encounter: init_zero
        label: "PID 1"
        blurb: "the parent of everything. bring everything."
        bounty: {kind: cycles, amount: 10}