From c062b7a2283d6eba68e4486ee2103aa3e0125faa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tandy <wowneato@cool.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:11:49 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Starting on opening dialogue

---
 project.godot         |  9 ++++++++-
 test/timeline.dtl     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 test/timeline.dtl.uid |  1 +
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 test/timeline.dtl
 create mode 100644 test/timeline.dtl.uid

diff --git a/project.godot b/project.godot
index 8f5f9d6..9f698a3 100644
--- a/project.godot
+++ b/project.godot
@@ -19,8 +19,15 @@ Dialogic="*uid://ds2q0uclmolvu"
 [dialogic]
 
 directories/dch_directory={}
-directories/dtl_directory={}
+directories/dtl_directory={
+"timeline": "res://test/timeline.dtl"
+}
 layout/style_directory={}
+variables={
+"player_goal": ""
+}
+layout/style_list=[]
+layout/default_style="Default"
 
 [display]
 
diff --git a/test/timeline.dtl b/test/timeline.dtl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16534bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/timeline.dtl
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Hello {player_name}! Welcome to the land of {land_name}!
+You, sire, are the ruler of {kingdom1_name}; the most glorious kingdom in all the lands!
+...Rivaled only of course by {kingdom2_name}, ruled by your sworn arch-nemesis {enemy_name}.
+You knew of course that your kingdom was superior, because you had far more...
+- Gold
+- Food
+- Rocks
+# Expand this section later; just give an option for most basic resource types in the game which allows you to start with slightly more of it.
+# Hopefully add some more choices in here; largely just pointless character building stuff, but at least some of them will have impacts towards the gameplay
+This came at great cost to your supples of this resource, but that was well worth it.
+- Gold
+- Food
+- Rocks
+# Same deal as the first, this is just to counter-balance it/add some more interesting options for play
+Your main goal as a ruler.. the thing you wanted more than anything else was\:
+[text_input var="player_goal"]
+# Display this in some sort of message at the end for the winner
+And you'd do whatever it took to force this onto {kingdom2_name} as well. No matter the price.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/timeline.dtl.uid b/test/timeline.dtl.uid
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d780ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/timeline.dtl.uid
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://bhd0eoskesfyy