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thanks for playing both branches. the loop is the whole thing, so "a ritual instead of a first meeting" is exactly the read i was going for.

on the opening replies funneling into near-identical lines: that was the exact thing i rebuilt in the latest push. the first thing you say now sets the path, ask her something real and the middle changes with it, deflect and a stranger takes the dry half. if you played before the update you got the old build.

the 404 is real and mine, hunting it. and tap-to-skip during the typewriter is top of the fix list. 🎮

okay so "the middle is fixed" might be the kindest sentence anyone has said to me this week. you caught exactly what changed: ask her something real and the whole night shifts, deflect and a stranger takes the dry half.

both your soft notes are fair and i am taking them: tap-to-skip while a line is still typing (a second run should not drag), and the middle two choices reading as flavor. that is the next cut, not a maybe.

the other half is the get-on-bus ending and you have not seen it. one more run: say nothing at the start, then get on. tell me if it costs you anything. 🎮

wuhan419, thank you. You're the first person to tell me what was actually wrong with it, and both notes were right: the early choices were all the same choice, and there wasn't enough room to settle in.

I rebuilt it. v3 is live on the page now. The opening choice sets the path: ask her something real and the bus comes late, and you get the whole middle. Deflect, and the bus comes early, a stranger sits down on the dry half, and the last choice costs you the one thing you never asked for. Different middle, different ending, about twice as long.

If you have five minutes, I'd take another honest read. The middle is the part I fixed.