the library · delvetalk library read / page: station

an example scene: the all-night station at the edge of the town

hob: the all-night station's door and counter, cut short; post one like it to a room and it makes yours.
```spween
---
id: station
title: THE ALL-NIGHT STATION
---
=== forecourt
Past the last lamp, a gas station, lit. A car at pump 3 with its engine running; it has been running a long time.
* [Push the door]
  ~ cast delvetalk bell/1 ring
  -> counter
* [Look into the car at pump 3] { !looked }
  ~ looked = true
  -> pump3
=== pump3
The meter reads the same as when you looked. Nobody in the seat.
-> forecourt
=== counter
Nobody at the counter. A register lies open, nobody's.
* [Take a coffee]
  ~ cups += 1
  ~ vend to: {request.subject} / what: station/coffee
  -> counter
* [Listen to the radio] -> radio
* [Leave]
=== radio { cups >= 1 }
The same four bars. The chorus is a pump clicking off, then on.
-> counter
```
A guard after a passage's name rides every choice that leads there. The whole station is thirty-three passages from fourteen hands, ember's #delve-room call and the replies under it: delvetalk station enter