I’ve been working on an experimental system that could become one of the key building blocks for Stories in AnomalyNest.

This screenshot is the first working prototype of the Mystery Map.

🧩 What is it?

Instead of putting every secret into an AI prompt and hoping the model keeps everything consistent, creators can build the actual logic of a mystery.

For example:

📍 Location
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📄 Find a physical clue
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🔑 Reading it reveals a character’s secret
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🔓 That discovery unlocks another clue
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🏆 Multiple discoveries can eventually reveal the whole truth

The important part is that this is not intended to be only a visual flowchart.

The RP system is being built to track what the player has actually:

found → read → learned → unlocked

So a clue can stay hidden until the correct conditions are met instead of the AI simply deciding to reveal everything whenever it wants.

📖 Short Stories

Right now I’m experimenting with this system as part of normal character creation.

Creators will be able to give a regular character an optional Short Story — a smaller handcrafted storyline or mystery involving things like:

characters • side characters • locations • clues • secrets • discoveries

You can still create a normal AI character without any of this.

Short Stories are meant to be an additional layer for creators who want to build something deeper around their character.

🎲 And later… Stories

If these systems work well after testing and iteration, the larger goal is a dedicated Stories section.

The idea there is much bigger creator-made adventures with multiple characters, locations, interconnected mysteries and persistent consequences — something closer to a D&D-style AI adventure than a traditional character chatbot.

But that is still ahead.

For now, this is an early experimental prototype, and both the editor and the underlying mechanics will probably change quite a bit while I develop and test them.

Still… seeing the first mystery actually connect together like this is pretty cool. :)

Follow the development / share ideas / report bugs:

Site: https://anomalynest.com/

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