feat: add third-person choice descriptions to public character sheet

Each story choice now has a concise third-person description used on
the public character page, keeping narrative spoilers out of the
profile view whilst still conveying the character's path.

apps/web/src/components/game/characterPage.tsx

@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@
  * @author Naomi Carrigan
  */
 /* eslint-disable max-lines-per-function -- Complex component with many render paths */
+/* eslint-disable max-lines -- Story section adds lines beyond the file limit */
 /* eslint-disable complexity -- Many conditional render paths for optional fields */
-import { type JSX, useEffect, useState } from "react";
+import {
-import type {
+  STORY_CHAPTERS,
-  EquipmentBonus,
+  type EquipmentBonus,
-  EquipmentType,
+  type EquipmentType,
-  PublicProfileResponse,
+  type PublicProfileResponse,
 } from "@elysium/types";
+import { type JSX, useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
 interface CharacterPageProperties {
   readonly discordId: string;
@@ -269,6 +271,43 @@ const CharacterPage = ({ discordId }: CharacterPageProperties): JSX.Element => {
           </div>
         }
 
+        {profile.completedChapters.length === 0
+          ? null
+          : <div className="character-page-section">
+            <h2 className="character-page-section-title">{"📖 Story"}</h2>
+            {profile.completedChapters.map((completion) => {
+              const chapter = STORY_CHAPTERS.find((candidate) => {
+                return candidate.id === completion.chapterId;
+              });
+              if (chapter === undefined) {
+                return null;
+              }
+              const choice = chapter.choices.find((candidate) => {
+                return candidate.id === completion.choiceId;
+              });
+              if (choice === undefined) {
+                return null;
+              }
+              return (
+                <div
+                  className="character-sheet-story-entry"
+                  key={completion.chapterId}
+                >
+                  <span className="character-sheet-story-chapter">
+                    {chapter.title}
+                  </span>
+                  <span className="character-sheet-story-choice">
+                    {choice.label}
+                  </span>
+                  <p className="character-sheet-story-outcome">
+                    {choice.description}
+                  </p>
+                </div>
+              );
+            })}
+          </div>
+        }
+
         <div className="character-page-divider" />
 
         <p className="character-page-player-line">

packages/types/src/interfaces/story.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 /* eslint-disable max-lines -- story data file necessarily exceeds line limit */
+/* eslint-disable stylistic/max-len -- story descriptions are naturally long */
 /**
  * @file Story chapter types and data for the Elysium game.
  * @copyright nhcarrigan
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ import type { Boss } from "./boss.js";
 import type { GameState } from "./gameState.js";
 
 interface StoryChoice {
+  description: string;
   id:          string;
   label:       string;
   outcome:     string;
@@ -88,6 +90,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Accepted the map with quiet resolve, already looking east.",
         id:          "resolve",
         label:       "Accept the map with quiet resolve",
         outcome:     `You folded the map carefully and tucked it away. Resolve was the only`
@@ -95,6 +98,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` this one has the look of someone who finishes things.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Turned back to their people first — some leaders are built for their guild.",
         id:          "people",
         label:       "Return immediately to your people",
         outcome:     `Your first thought was of your guild — of wounds to tend and rest`
@@ -102,6 +106,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` glory; some are built for their people. You were becoming the latter.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Studied the map in silence, already charting the next move.",
         id:          "plan",
         label:       "Study it in silence, already planning",
         outcome:     `Your eyes moved across the map before she'd even finished speaking. The`
@@ -129,6 +134,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Stayed to hear the scholar's findings, filing every warning about what had ended the city.",
         id:          "listen",
         label:       "Ask the scholar what she has learned",
         outcome:     `You stayed long enough to listen. The scholar was cautious with her theories`
@@ -137,6 +143,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` knowledge away like a sharp blade.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Claimed the ancient hall as a waystation — filling old bones with new purpose.",
         id:          "claim",
         label:       "Claim the hall as a guild waystation",
         outcome:     `The ruins needed purpose more than they needed silence. Your guild cleared`
@@ -144,6 +151,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` age. Whatever had ended the people here, it would not end you.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Marked the ruin on the chart and pressed on. History could wait.",
         id:          "press",
         label:       "Mark it on your chart and press on",
         outcome:     `There would be time for history later. You marked the ruin on your chart`
@@ -171,6 +179,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Asked what darker things lay deeper in the marsh, and listened carefully.",
         id:          "ask",
         label:       "Ask what lies deeper in the marshes",
         outcome:     `He told you what the marsh-folk knew: that the darkness didn't end at the`
@@ -178,6 +187,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` You thanked him and kept that information close.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Accepted the lantern and moved on, carrying light into whatever came next.",
         id:          "lantern",
         label:       "Accept the lantern and move on",
         outcome:     `You took the lantern. Light against darkness — it was a simple philosophy,`
@@ -185,6 +195,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` disappear into the mist and smiled, alone.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Chose to rest with the marsh villages first, giving the guild time to heal.",
         id:          "rest",
         label:       "Rest with the marsh villages first",
         outcome:     `Three days of sleeping on dry ground and eating hot food did more for your`
@@ -213,6 +224,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Took the monk's journal and studied it carefully, preparing for what was coming.",
         id:          "study",
         label:       "Take the journal and study it carefully",
         outcome:     `The journal became essential reading for your strongest strategists. The`
@@ -220,6 +232,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` comforting. You began preparing for something larger than any single battle.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Promised to return with answers, carrying the old monk's question as a compass.",
         id:          "promise",
         label:       "Promise to return with answers",
         outcome:     `You couldn't take the old man down the mountain, but you could carry his`
@@ -227,6 +240,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` often, in the quiet hours — a compass of its own.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Asked the monk what he believed was causing it, and descended with new understanding.",
         id:          "inquire",
         label:       "Ask the monk what he believes is causing it",
         outcome:     `He didn't answer immediately. When he did, the words were careful: 'I think`
@@ -255,6 +269,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Kept the phoenix feather — not a trophy, but a question not yet answered.",
         id:          "feather",
         label:       "Keep the feather as a reminder",
         outcome:     `You carried the feather in a sealed case from that day forward — not as a`
@@ -262,12 +277,14 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` question sharpened you.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Answered plainly: the guild protects its people. A truth held without wavering.",
         id:          "people",
         label:       "Tell her: you protect your people",
         outcome:     `'Then don't lose them,' she said simply. It wasn't a warning. It was the`
           + ` closest thing to a blessing the volcanic depths had to offer.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Asked what lay beyond the fire, and carried the uncertainty forward like a live coal.",
         id:          "beyond",
         label:       "Ask what she thinks lies beyond the fire",
         outcome:     `'Something that cannot burn,' she said, after a long pause. 'Something that`
@@ -297,6 +314,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Said it plainly: small, and yet fighting anyway. A philosophy that spread far.",
         id:          "fight",
         label:       "Yes — and we fight anyway",
         outcome:     `The philosopher wrote that down. She published it later, in an obscure`
@@ -304,6 +322,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` yet. And yet.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Asked what lay further out — and made sure that when noticed, it would be their mistake.",
         id:          "further",
         label:       "Ask what she thinks is further out",
         outcome:     `She smiled, the way people smile when they've been waiting for the question.`
@@ -312,6 +331,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` be a mistake.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Admitted the silence of the Void still echoed inside, and let time fill it back in.",
         id:          "honest",
         label:       "Admit the silence still echoes in you",
         outcome:     `She nodded, unsurprised. 'It does that. To everyone who goes there and comes`
@@ -342,12 +362,14 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Chose to carry the names of those who hadn't made it — weight and compass both.",
         id:          "memory",
         label:       "Carry forward the memory of those lost",
         outcome:     `The names. The faces. The ones who hadn't made it as far as this height. You`
           + ` held them as a weight and a compass both, and continued with your eyes open.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Chose to carry the will to finish it: one step, then another, without stopping.",
         id:          "will",
         label:       "Carry forward the will to finish it",
         outcome:     `The work was not done. The scale of it had grown, but the work remained:`
@@ -355,6 +377,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` settled. You were not built to leave things undone.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Chose to carry wonder deliberately, refusing to become something cold and certain.",
         id:          "wonder",
         label:       "Carry forward wonder, against hardness",
         outcome:     `It would have been easy, up here, to become something cold and certain. You`
@@ -384,6 +407,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Asked what the naturalist thought was falling, and received an unsettling answer.",
         id:          "ask",
         label:       "Ask what he thinks is falling",
         outcome:     `'Pressure,' he said. 'The kind that builds when too many powers concentrate`
@@ -392,6 +416,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` that he did not look away.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Accepted that some things couldn't be predicted, holding the uncertainty like ballast.",
         id:          "accept",
         label:       "Accept that some things can't be predicted",
         outcome:     `Not everything could be prepared for. This was a truth you had learned the`
@@ -399,6 +424,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` surface settle and held the uncertainty like ballast.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Spent the return voyage writing — a record of pattern for whoever came after.",
         id:          "document",
         label:       "Document everything for whoever comes next",
         outcome:     `If something woke what slept below, there would be others who needed to`
@@ -427,6 +453,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Asked the spirit what they had been warned about, and filed the answer carefully.",
         id:          "learn",
         label:       "Ask what they were warned about",
         outcome:     `The spirit answered slowly, in the manner of things that have had too much`
@@ -435,6 +462,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` a lesson.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Acknowledged the warning and left without a word, carrying a weight not unearned.",
         id:          "silence",
         label:       "Acknowledge the warning and leave in silence",
         outcome:     `Some moments asked for silence. You gave it. The spirit seemed grateful, in`
@@ -442,6 +470,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` you that was not unearned.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Vowed the guild would not make the same mistake, and was watched all the way to the door.",
         id:          "vow",
         label:       "Vow your guild won't make the same mistake",
         outcome:     `The spirit looked at you for a long time. 'That is what they said too,' it`
@@ -471,6 +500,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Told the crystallographer the balance was not as bad as feared, and meant it.",
         id:          "better",
         label:       "Not as bad as I feared",
         outcome:     `The crystallographer looked relieved in a way that surprised you — as though`
@@ -478,6 +508,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` its people, more than its victories. You had not forgotten that. Not yet.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Said the ledger showed exactly what was expected. Honest accounting, nothing more.",
         id:          "expected",
         label:       "Exactly what I expected",
         outcome:     `'Then you have been paying attention,' she said, quietly approving. 'That is`
@@ -485,6 +516,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` discipline.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Said nothing of the balance. The ones who stay quiet are usually telling the truth.",
         id:          "quiet",
         label:       "I don't think I'm the one who should say",
         outcome:     `She nodded slowly. 'The ones who say nothing are usually telling the truth,'`
@@ -512,6 +544,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Sat in the silence before leaving, letting the emptiness speak what it could.",
         id:          "sit",
         label:       "Let the silence sit before leaving",
         outcome:     `Wisdom, sometimes, is the willingness to remain still in an uncomfortable`
@@ -519,6 +552,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` When you left, you took that understanding with you.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Filled pages on the return, documenting the Void Emperor's nature for what lay ahead.",
         id:          "record",
         label:       "Record the Void Emperor's nature carefully",
         outcome:     `If the Void had sent its best, it would send something different next time.`
@@ -526,6 +560,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` pages on the return.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Rallied the guild before relief could settle. The Void had pulled back, not retreated.",
         id:          "rally",
         label:       "Rally the guild — the work isn't done",
         outcome:     `There was no room for relief yet. The Void had pulled back, but pulling back`
@@ -553,6 +588,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Turned their back on the throne and led the guild out. Not every power needs claiming.",
         id:          "walk",
         label:       "Walk away from the throne",
         outcome:     `You turned your back on it and led your guild out. Not every power needs to`
@@ -560,6 +596,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` left. You thought it might have been grateful.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Stood at the throne's foot, acknowledged its weight, then turned toward the door.",
         id:          "stand",
         label:       "Stand at its foot and make a decision",
         outcome:     `You did not sit. But you acknowledged it — the gravity of everything it`
@@ -567,6 +604,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` away from it and toward the door, and that was its own kind of answer.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Declared aloud that power is held in trust — and the guild held that for a long time.",
         id:          "declare",
         label:       "Declare that power is held in trust",
         outcome:     `The throne hummed louder, then quieter. You weren't sure if that was`
@@ -594,12 +632,14 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Asked what came before the before — accepted it had no shape yet, and moved on.",
         id:          "before",
         label:       "Ask what came before the before",
         outcome:     `Silence. Then: That is not a question with a shape yet. You decided to`
           + ` accept that as an answer and move forward.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Affirmed that what was built is worth defending — the chaos agreed.",
         id:          "worth",
         label:       "Affirm that what was built is worth defending",
         outcome:     `Yes, said the voice. That is why it has lasted. You were not sure what to`
@@ -607,6 +647,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` sincerity it was offered.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Stood in the chaos and felt their own solidity — specific, named, and decided.",
         id:          "fixed",
         label:       "Stand in the chaos and feel your own solidity",
         outcome:     `Whatever you were — guild leader, fighter, something increasingly harder to`
@@ -634,6 +675,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Stayed with a weeping scout without a word, offering presence. It was what was needed.",
         id:          "stay",
         label:       "Sit with your scout until the feeling passed",
         outcome:     `You stayed. There was no trick to it, no words that helped more than the`
@@ -641,6 +683,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` expression that was mostly gratitude.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Acknowledged the scale — and found the audacity in their smallness to persist.",
         id:          "small",
         label:       "Acknowledge the scale — and your smallness",
         outcome:     `Big was not the same as better. The Expanse was infinite. Your guild was`
@@ -648,6 +691,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` say: we are still here. You could live with that audacity.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Began planning immediately — and their scout looked on with fond exasperation.",
         id:          "plan",
         label:       "Begin immediately planning the next move",
         outcome:     `Movement was your steadiest anchor. Your scout caught you making notes and`
@@ -676,6 +720,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Left the Forge as found — wisdom in knowing what not to change.",
         id:          "intact",
         label:       "Accept the invitation; leave the Forge intact",
         outcome:     `The Forge continued its quiet work. You left it as you found it, not because`
@@ -683,6 +728,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` by wiser hands than yours, and wisdom lay in knowing the difference.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Added a small notation to the blueprints, on the principle of memory.",
         id:          "add",
         label:       "Add a small note to the blueprints",
         outcome:     `Your addition was modest — almost invisible. A small notation in the margin`
@@ -690,6 +736,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` remember. Whether it had any effect, you never knew. You left it there anyway.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Documented what the Forge was — strange notes, accurate ones, for whoever needed them.",
         id:          "write",
         label:       "Write down what you observed, for others",
         outcome:     `Documentation felt inadequate for what the Forge was. You did it anyway. The`
@@ -718,6 +765,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Found it comforting. The stars persisted; so did what had been done in the time between.",
         id:          "comfort",
         label:       "Find it comforting — the universe persists",
         outcome:     `The permanence of the stars was a kind of promise. What existed before you`
@@ -725,6 +773,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` scale. You held onto this.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Found it terrible — and turned back to their people, where the grief was real and theirs.",
         id:          "grief",
         label:       "Find it terrible — your losses are not small",
         outcome:     `Your guild had bled for this. The grief of it was real and specific and`
@@ -732,6 +781,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` from the stars and toward your people.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Found it neither — stood in the moment, let it be what it was, and called that enough.",
         id:          "present",
         label:       "Find it neither — just be present",
         outcome:     `Sometimes a moment did not need interpretation. You stood in it. It was what`
@@ -758,6 +808,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Chose to carry the weight of all that came before — none of it unacknowledged.",
         id:          "weight",
         label:       "Carry the weight of all that came before",
         outcome:     `The generations that had built the world — the forgotten, the unnamed, the`
@@ -766,6 +817,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` enough.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Chose only what could be carried: the things that were truly theirs.",
         id:          "chosen",
         label:       "Carry only what you chose",
         outcome:     `You could not carry everything. The weight would have stopped you where you`
@@ -773,6 +825,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` the things that would survive the carrying.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Chose the intention not to waste what they had reached, and made it real.",
         id:          "waste",
         label:       "Carry the intention not to waste this",
         outcome:     `You had arrived somewhere very few had. What you did next would define what`
@@ -801,6 +854,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Said yes without hesitation. Would have done it all again. The certainty was complete.",
         id:          "yes",
         label:       "Yes — without hesitation",
         outcome:     `There was nothing complicated in it. The weight, the cost, the long road —`
@@ -808,6 +862,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` complete, and that was the most honest thing you had ever known.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Said yes, though the cost was real — holding both the loss and the worth without flinching.",
         id:          "cost",
         label:       "Yes — though the cost was real",
         outcome:     `The acknowledgement of loss did not diminish the worth of it. Things had`
@@ -816,6 +871,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` managed.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Said the answer was still being written, and walked forward — as they always had.",
         id:          "becoming",
         label:       "I am still becoming the answer",
         outcome:     `The journey had not ended. The Absolute was a chapter, not a conclusion. You`
@@ -845,6 +901,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Told the guild: we know the way. The lessons passed forward to those who came next.",
         id:          "know",
         label:       "Tell the guild: we know the way",
         outcome:     `The veterans who had made this choice with you nodded. The newer members`
@@ -853,6 +910,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` them. That was the real economy of prestige.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Began again without ceremony — the work was what mattered.",
         id:          "work",
         label:       "Begin immediately, without ceremony",
         outcome:     `There was a kind of respect in not making a production of it. The work was`
@@ -860,6 +918,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` set to work, and your guild followed, and that was the whole of the ritual.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Took one day. The guild rested, healed, and said things urgency hadn't left room for.",
         id:          "rest",
         label:       "Take a single day to rest before restarting",
         outcome:     `One day. You had earned it, and so had they. The guild rested, and healed,`
@@ -891,6 +950,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Spoke honestly without preparation — the guild believed it, and that was the whole of it.",
         id:          "speak",
         label:       "Speak to the guild about why you keep going",
         outcome:     `You hadn't planned to say anything, and what you said wasn't polished. But`
@@ -898,6 +958,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` good way — the way of people deciding to believe in something together.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Let the gathering speak for itself, and was grateful.",
         id:          "listen",
         label:       "Let the gathering speak for itself",
         outcome:     `Sometimes leadership was knowing when not to speak. The guild had found its`
@@ -905,6 +966,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` grateful.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Committed the warmth and laughter to memory carefully, for the difficult nights ahead.",
         id:          "store",
         label:       "Commit the moment to memory, for hard times",
         outcome:     `There would be difficult nights later. There always were. You stored this one`
@@ -935,12 +997,14 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Accepted the strangeness and began. The discomfort was proof of somewhere genuinely new.",
         id:          "begin",
         label:       "Accept the strangeness and begin",
         outcome:     `The unfamiliarity was not your enemy. It was proof that you were somewhere`
           + ` genuinely new. You held that discomfort lightly and took the first step.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Sat with what was released before turning forward — loss and choice are not incompatible.",
         id:          "grieve",
         label:       "Sit with what was released before moving on",
         outcome:     `Loss and choice were not incompatible. You had chosen to release, and what`
@@ -948,6 +1012,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` turning forward was not weakness. It was honesty.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Found the shape of the new pattern immediately. The guild felt steadier for it.",
         id:          "pattern",
         label:       "Find the shape of the new pattern immediately",
         outcome:     `Your mind moved the way it always had, already mapping the new terrain. The`
@@ -977,6 +1042,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
   {
     choices: [
       {
+        description: "Acknowledged what was given as much as what was earned. No path here was walked alone.",
         id:          "given",
         label:       "Acknowledge what was given as much as earned",
         outcome:     `You had not walked this road alone. Every person who had followed you, every`
@@ -985,6 +1051,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` mattered.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Looked forward to what this made possible, and felt excitement returning.",
         id:          "forward",
         label:       "Look forward to what this makes possible",
         outcome:     `The horizon had not disappeared. It had moved — further, broader, stranger.`
@@ -992,6 +1059,7 @@ const STORY_CHAPTERS: Array<StoryChapter> = [
           + ` looked at the new horizon and felt something you had almost forgotten: excitement.`,
       },
       {
+        description: "Let the weight of what they had become settle before the next step. Presence as power.",
         id:          "be",
         label:       "Simply be what you have become, for now",
         outcome:     `Not every threshold needed to be rushed past. You were here. You were this.`