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name: dialogue-beat
description: Generic talk. Choices are verbs or flavor. Do not freeze a combat clock for a paragraph.
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# Dialogue beat

Ask: flavor-only | verb-choice | timed-press | none.
A choice that changes a quest-graph node is a verb. A choice that only changes a line is flavor. Label them.
Skip exists after the first pass. Voice may play over locomotion; it may not steal jump.

Accept: a player who skipped text still knows the next hook.