Rare escape

app.py

@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ REVELATIONS = [
     "the player realizes the corridor is arranging itself around a thing they refuse to name",
 ]
 
+ESCAPE_EVENTS = [
+    "an exit door opens onto the player's own bedroom, but the wallpaper continues across the ceiling",
+    "a fire escape stairwell appears, descending into warm daylight that smells like wet carpet",
+    "a service elevator arrives with the player's name taped over every floor button",
+    "a glass storefront shows an empty street outside, though the reflection does not match the player",
+    "a loading dock door rises to reveal a night sky with no stars and a familiar parked car",
+    "a stairwell landing contains a phone booth already ringing with the player's home number",
+]
+
 DIRECTIONS = {
     "north": (0, 1),
     "n": (0, 1),
@@ -247,10 +256,14 @@ def apply_turn(state: dict[str, Any], user_input: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
     entity_present = rng.random() < encounter_chance
     pressure = rng.choice(ENTITY_PRESSURES) if entity_present else None
     revelation = rng.choice(REVELATIONS) if entity_present and rng.randint(1, 4) == 1 else "none"
+    escape_chance = 0.015 if state["turn"] >= 8 else 0.0
+    escape_event = rng.choice(ESCAPE_EVENTS) if rng.random() < escape_chance else "none"
     if entity_present:
         base_loss += rng.choice([2, 3, 4])
     if revelation != "none":
         base_loss += 1
+    if escape_event != "none":
+        base_loss += 2
 
     state["sanity"] = max(0, min(100, state["sanity"] - base_loss))
     state["last_event"] = (
@@ -267,6 +280,7 @@ def apply_turn(state: dict[str, Any], user_input: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
         "encounter_mode": pressure["name"] if pressure else "none",
         "encounter_instruction": pressure["instruction"] if pressure else "none",
         "revelation": revelation,
+        "escape_event": escape_event,
         "ambient_noise": ambient_noise,
         "sanity_loss": base_loss,
         "zone": zone_profile(state["x"], state["y"]),
@@ -297,6 +311,7 @@ Hidden state:
 - Encounter mode: {turn["encounter_mode"]}
 - Encounter narration note: {turn["encounter_instruction"]}
 - Psychological revelation: {turn["revelation"]}
+- Possible escape: {turn["escape_event"]}
 - Ambient unexplained noise: {turn["ambient_noise"]}
 - Sanity erosion this turn: {turn["sanity_loss"]}
 - Prior event: {state["last_event"]}
@@ -309,6 +324,8 @@ note. Do not repeat stock phrases like "it is watching" or "you are getting clos
 If psychological revelation is not "none", make it the emotional turn of the
 scene: reveal it obliquely as a realization, memory, or pattern. Do not fully
 explain it.
+If possible escape is not "none", treat it as a rare climax: show the apparent
+way out, but make it unsettling and ambiguous rather than triumphant.
 If ambient unexplained noise is not "none", weave it into the scene as a small
 unsettling detail without making it the whole turn.
 If sanity is low, make perception less reliable without naming sanity.