[SCRIPT RELEASE]🌑 ECHO VEIL — Living Narrative Engine

🌑 ECHO VEIL v3 — Living Narrative Engine Your story remembers what you do — including the things you thought it forgot. ECHO VEIL is a hidden narrative engine for AI Dungeon built to make long adventures feel less like separate AI responses and more like one continuous world. There is no fixed setting or forced plot. Use it with superhero, fantasy, horror, sci-fi, crime, romance, historical, post-apocalyptic, slice-of-life or your own mixture. Play normally. ECHO VEIL works underneath the story. 🦋 CAUSES CAN SURVIVE FOR DOZENS OF TURNS Threaten someone. Lie. Make a promise. Betray an ally. Steal something. Save a life. Start a fight. Make a deal. Important actions can become Causal Debt instead of disappearing after the next response. Consequences mature over time and are brought back when the people, place or current situation make them relevant. Major consequences can leave smaller ripples behind them too. 🎮 AN ATTEMPT ISN'T AUTOMATICALLY A SUCCESS > You stab Rook. ECHO VEIL does not immediately decide Rook was stabbed. Do-style actions are staged as attempts until the AI's response resolves what actually happened. Retry the response and the rejected outcome is rolled back. Undo the action and take another path, and ECHO VEIL can rewind its hidden state instead of carrying facts from the abandoned timeline. 🧠 MEMORIES RETURN WHEN THEY MATTER The engine stores a bounded stream of important events, then retrieves old memories using relevance, importance, recency, shared characters, location and causal connections. That means an event can disappear from immediate context without being erased from the story. 🕸️ EVENTS CAN CONNECT TO OTHER EVENTS ECHO VEIL builds a lightweight causal graph underneath the adventure. An old threat, secret, promise or discovery can become context for something happening much later instead of existing as an isolated note. 👁️ CHARACTERS DON'T SHARE ONE HIVE MIND World truth and character knowledge are separate. Secrets have holders. Discoveries and disclosures create character-specific beliefs. Being mentioned in a secret does not mean that character knows it. People should act on what they could plausibly know — not everything the AI has ever read. ❤️ RELATIONSHIPS HAVE DIRECTION Mara trusting Rook does not automatically mean Rook trusts Mara. Trust, hostility, affection, respect, obligation, fear and loyalty can develop separately in each direction. A hidden lie will not make its victim psychically distrust you before they discover it. Attraction is not automatically reciprocal. A threat can make somebody fear you without making both characters feel exactly the same thing. 👤 NPCs KEEP MOVING OFF-SCREEN Recurring characters and factions can accumulate off-screen agency. Their wants, fears, plans, intentions and refusals are remembered as motive clues. When they return, the world can show evidence of what they have been doing while you were somewhere else. 🌍 PHYSICAL CONTINUITY MATTERS Deaths, injuries, recovery, possessions, destroyed or locked environments, arrivals, departures, location and broad time changes can become continuity anchors. If the story contradicts a strong established fact, ECHO VEIL can prioritise repairing the inconsistency rather than silently resetting reality. 🧵 UNFINISHED THINGS STAY ALIVE Promises, debts, threats, secrets, mysteries, goals, wounds and evidence become Living Threads. They build pressure, but only the threads relevant to the current scene are likely to surface. 🎭 ONE STRONG STORY MOVE, NOT TEN RANDOM TWISTS Each generation gets a compact private attention packet. ECHO VEIL chooses one main priority: a consequence, callback, relationship shift, off-screen action, continuity repair, pacing change, inference or physical reality catching up. It deliberately avoids dumping a giant menu of twists into the prompt. 🎮 YOU STILL CONTROL YOU The player belongs to the player. ECHO VEIL tells the AI not to invent your unattempted choices, dialogue, thoughts or consent. It manages world pressure and consequences, not your character. No second AI call. No required genre. No random-event table. No constant Story Card rewriting. Just one goal: Action → memory → causality → changed world → new choice. Start any story you want. ECHO VEIL will remember the echoes. 🌑 GITHUB - https://github.com/amazingrand0mproductions-crypto/ECHO-VEIL-Living-Narrative-Engine