[page="start"]
[if_pflag richard_joined][goto="joined"]
[iftime "0800-0900"][goto="church"]

[colour="#808080"]
You see a handsome lad in his mid-teens.
[colour="#ffffff"]

"Well met, good $Sir."

[link="Who are you?"]
[linkto="name"]
[link="Tell me about your job."]
[linkto="job"]
[link="Goodbye."]
[linkto="bye"]
[endpage]


[page="startname"]
[if_pflag richard_joined][goto="joined"]
[iftime "0800-0900"][goto="church"]

[colour="#808080"]
You see $NAME, the dairy farmer's son.
[colour="#ffffff"]

[link="Tell me about your job."]
[linkto="job"]
[if_pflag richard_wants_action][link="I'd like you to join my quest."]
[if_pflag richard_wants_action][linkto="join"]
[link="Goodbye."]
[linkto="bye"]
[endpage]


[page="church"]

"Hush!  Please wait until the Service is finished."

[nextpage="exit"]
[endpage]


[page="name"]
[learn_name]

"I am $NAME, son of Karl the farmer.

 Right now I am just a farmer's son, but I aim to make
 my name known throughout the land!"

[colour="#808080"]
 He looks a little glum.
[colour="#ffffff"]

"But I haven't worked out how, yet."

[link="Tell me about your job."]
[linkto="job"]
[link="Tell me about your father."]
[linkto="karl"]
[link="Goodbye."]
[linkto="bye"]
[endpage]


[page="karl"]

"He is a hard-working man, and a good father to me.
 All I can say against him is that he knows little else
 than farming, and I shall have to travel away to learn
 more of the world."

[link="Who are you?"]
[linkto="name"]
[link="Tell me about your job."]
[linkto="job"]
[if_knowname][link="Would you be interested in joining my quest?"]
[if_knowname][linkto="join"]
[link="Goodbye."]
[linkto="bye"]
[endpage]


[page="job"]
[if_knowname][set_pflag richard_wants_action]

"I tend the beeves for my father.  Sometimes I help uncle
 Ramirez to butcher them.  It is a messy business, but it
 provides us with find meat.

 It's okay, I guess, but I would sooner be off to seek my
 fortune.  Ramirez has taught me a little swordplay, and
 I have had the chance to practice upon our beeves, too!"

[link="Tell me about your father."]
[linkto="karl"]
[if_knowname][link="Would you be interested in joining my quest?"]
[if_knowname][linkto="join"]
[link="Goodbye."]
[linkto="bye"]
[endpage]


[page="join"]
[if karl_consent][goto="join2"]
[set richard_joining]

"Would you truly have me?  I will not let you down!

 You would have to seek the consent of my father first,
 mark you.."

[link="Tell me about your father."]
[linkto="karl"]
[link="Goodbye."]
[linkto="bye"]
[endpage]


[page="join2"]
[set_pflag richard_joined]
[call="join_party"]

"Oh thank you!  Yes, indeed I will!

 Thank you, kind $Sir!"

[nextpage="exit"]
[endpage]


[page="bye"]

"Good morrow to you."

[nextpage="exit"]
[endpage]


[page="joined"]

[colour="#808080"]
You see $NAME, ex-dairy farmer's son, now adventurer.
[colour="#ffffff"]

[link="Tell me again about your job."]
[linkto="j_job"]
[link="Tell me more about this rabbit business."]
[linkto="j_bunny"]
[link="I think you should leave the party."]
[linkto="j_leave"]
[link="Bye."]
[linkto="j_bye"]
[endpage]


[page="j_bunny"]

"It has been a curse upon me for as long as I can
 remember, and it is the reason we keep no bunnies
 ourselves.

 Whenever I see one, they die in a most strange and
 terrible way!"

[link="Can you be more specific?"]
[linkto="j_bunny2"]
[link="Tell me again about your job."]
[linkto="j_job"]
[link="Bye."]
[linkto="j_bye"]
[endpage]


[page="j_bunny2"]

"I fear not.  Although should we find some, you shall
 doubtless see for yourself."

[link="Tell me again about your job."]
[linkto="j_job"]
[link="Bye."]
[linkto="j_bye"]
[endpage]


[page="j_job"]

"I am a farm-hand, as you recall.  Though I am far more
 eager to learn what lies elsewhere in the world than to
 care for the beeves on my father's farm."

[link="Bye."]
[linkto="j_bye"]
[endpage]


[page="j_leave"]
[clear_pflag richard_joined]
[call="leave_party"]

[colour="#808080"]
He looks dejected.
[colour="#ffffff"]

"Very well, though I hope you change your mind.

 Fair you well in your quest!"

[nextpage="exit"]
[endpage]



[page="j_bye"]

"Yes, let us return to the quest!"

[nextpage="exit"]
[endpage]
