Enhanced experience

app.py

@@ -32,6 +32,39 @@ ZONE_PROFILES = [
     "hotel corridors with patterned wallpaper and no visible stairs",
 ]
 
+ENTITY_PRESSURES = [
+    {
+        "name": "acoustic mismatch",
+        "hint": "the room tone drops out for half a second, then returns too loud",
+        "instruction": "Use a subtle change in sound or silence; avoid saying anything is watching.",
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "impossible maintenance",
+        "hint": "a fresh wet-floor sign stands where the floor is bone dry",
+        "instruction": "Use a mundane object that is newly wrong; do not make the threat visible.",
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "light lag",
+        "hint": "the fluorescent panels brighten one corridor behind the player",
+        "instruction": "Use delayed light or shadow behavior; keep it ambiguous.",
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "spatial edit",
+        "hint": "a doorway seems to have been moved a few inches while no one looked",
+        "instruction": "Use architecture changing by a small amount; avoid direct pursuit language.",
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "borrowed voice",
+        "hint": "a voice repeats the last word the player thought, not the last one spoken",
+        "instruction": "Use a brief auditory intrusion; do not identify a speaker.",
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "texture error",
+        "hint": "the wallpaper pattern misaligns like a copied image pasted over itself",
+        "instruction": "Use a visual flaw in the environment; make it quietly disturbing.",
+    },
+]
+
 DIRECTIONS = {
     "north": (0, 1),
     "n": (0, 1),
@@ -187,6 +220,7 @@ def apply_turn(state: dict[str, Any], user_input: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
 
     encounter_chance = min(0.45, max(0.03, (100 - state["sanity"]) / 260))
     entity_present = rng.random() < encounter_chance
+    pressure = rng.choice(ENTITY_PRESSURES) if entity_present else None
     if entity_present:
         base_loss += rng.choice([2, 3, 4])
 
@@ -201,17 +235,9 @@ def apply_turn(state: dict[str, Any], user_input: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
         "action": action,
         "moved": delta != (0, 0),
         "entity_present": entity_present,
-        "encounter_hint": rng.choice(
-            [
-                "none",
-                "a soft impact behind the wall",
-                "footsteps that stop when you stop",
-                "a shape glimpsed through a doorway",
-                "breathing from an unlit corridor",
-            ]
-        )
-        if entity_present
-        else "none",
+        "encounter_hint": pressure["hint"] if pressure else "none",
+        "encounter_mode": pressure["name"] if pressure else "none",
+        "encounter_instruction": pressure["instruction"] if pressure else "none",
         "sanity_loss": base_loss,
         "zone": zone_profile(state["x"], state["y"]),
     }
@@ -238,13 +264,16 @@ Hidden state:
 - Player action: {user_input!r}
 - Action classification: {turn["action"]}
 - Entity encounter: {turn["encounter_hint"]}
+- Encounter mode: {turn["encounter_mode"]}
+- Encounter narration note: {turn["encounter_instruction"]}
 - Sanity erosion this turn: {turn["sanity_loss"]}
 - Prior event: {state["last_event"]}
 
 Narration task:
 Write 2-5 sentences in second person.
 Describe the immediate result of the action and the environment.
-If an entity encounter is not "none", imply danger without explaining the mechanic.
+If an entity encounter is not "none", imply danger using the encounter narration
+note. Do not repeat stock phrases like "it is watching" or "you are getting closer."
 If sanity is low, make perception less reliable without naming sanity.
 Do not invent inventory, explicit exits, UI commands, or system facts.
 End with a subtle opening for the next action.