Staging

The camera of THE EIGHTH KETYL, and the moments it attends to. It sits on the Staging host entity in still.scene and is the only thing in the game that moves the camera.

What it does

The playing shot. On the first frame it can, it installs staging.KetylCam on the player's CameraRig as that camera's behavior, in place of the orbital rig the scene ships with, and points it at whatever Camera.follow names. That component owns the framing; this one owns getting it there and getting it back after a cinematic.

The moments. Five cutscenes out of staging.Beats, each triggered by an event the core slice emits:

Event	Moment	Runs for
runStart / phase("intro")	the opening — the still, before you may move	the core slice's own INTRO_SECONDS
plateCleared(n)	the push onto the riser as it lights (plates 1–7)	2.7 s
ascend(n, to)	up through the riser onto the plate above	2.6 s
sealed()	the win — in on the ketyl, then the whole column	11.6 s
quenched()	the loss — close, then away and down	6.6 s

Plate 8 gets no clear beat: the seal is arriving a moment later and two cinematics on one beat cut each other off.

The lines. It cues spoken lines by id through staging.Voice and never writes the words — the sound slice owns those. The opening cues v_open_1..3, an ascent cues that plate's v_plate_n, a clear cues v_clear, the endings cue v_quench and v_seal_1 / v_seal_2. Wetness crossing 72% of maximum cues v_wet and charge falling under 18% cues v_low, each once per crossing.

Its own sound. Three clips under staging/audio play under the beats, below whatever the sound slice plays on the same moment: stg_frame when a moment takes the frame, stg_rise on an ascent, stg_reveal on the seal.

Events

Emits shot(name) when a moment takes the camera — "opening", "plateClear", "ascend", "sealed", "quenched" — and shot("free") when one gives it back. A screen that should not land on top of a resolution waits for "free" rather than for the phase, which changes while the shot is still running.

Emits line(id, text, speaker) and lineEnd(id) through staging.Voice.

Listens for runStart, phase, plateEnter, plateCleared, ascend, sealed, quenched, wetness and charge.

Skipping

Every moment but the opening can be skipped from all three device families: for the length of a moment this component holds the console input map, whose confirm, back and resume each carry a key, a pad button and an on-screen button. Map holders are refcounted, so this takes nothing from the slice that owns that map for menus.

The opening is the core slice's to end — its pause control leaves the intro phase, and this component skips the camera when the phase moves to play, so the two clocks cannot disagree.

Fields

Field	Default	What it does
cinematics	true	Off, the game plays with no moments at all. The playing camera still works — for filming the loop with nothing in the way.
beatVolume · riseVolume · revealVolume	0.55 · 0.62 · 0.50	The camera's own sounds, under the mix.
wetWarnAt / wetRearmAt	0.72 / 0.55	Where v_wet fires and re-arms.
lowWarnAt / lowRearmAt	0.18 / 0.38	Where v_low fires and re-arms.

Rehearsing

local staging = require("Still").anchor("Staging").component.get("Staging")
staging:rehearse("sealed")          -- watch a moment now
staging:rehearse("plateClear", 5)   -- ... on a particular plate
staging:release()                   -- take it off and give the shot back
staging:report()                    -- the moment, the rig, the live framing