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 # XENOMORPH CAPTIVE QUEEN - captor-side menu (xeno_qcaptive)
 # Non-explicit biological-horror baseline. DreamGen scenes can
 # extend/replace the .10/.20/.30 outcome descriptions later.
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 # Edict
 edict_xeno_visit_captive_queen:0 "Visit the Captive Queen"
 edict_xeno_visit_captive_queen_desc:0 "Descend to the holding where your captured Xenomorph Queen is kept, and decide how she is to be used. Each visit leaves her — and your handlers — needing time before the next."

 # Shared
 xeno_qcaptive.title:0 "The Captive Queen"
 xeno_qcaptive.exit:0 "Seal the holding and leave."
 xeno_qcaptive.continue:0 "Step back."

 # .5 No Queen held
 xeno_qcaptive.5.desc:0 "§YThe Holding Stands Empty§!\n\nNo Queen waits below. Take one from a broken hive, or begin with a holding already stocked, and there will be something here worth descending to."

 # .2 Approach hub
 xeno_qcaptive.2.desc:0 "§YThe Holding§!\n\nThe descent is the same every time — down past the inhabited levels, into the part of the facility that does not appear on tours, where the air turns warm and wet and her scent settles at the back of the throat. The last door draws back on acid-scored runners, and [event_target:xeno_browsed_queen.GetName] is already aware of you; she was aware of you at the second door. The long head turns, unhurried. She does not strain at the restraints. She watches you cross the threshold the way something watches a smaller thing decide to come closer.\n\nWhat is your will?"
 xeno_qcaptive.2.showoff:0 "Show her off to your court."
 xeno_qcaptive.2.private:0 "Have your fun in private."
 xeno_qcaptive.2.breed:0 "Take what she is worth."
 xeno_qcaptive.2.release:0 "Release her."

 # .10 Show off
 xeno_qcaptive.10.desc:0 "§YShown Off§!\n\nYou decide she should be seen — proof of what your people brought down and chained. The holding fills with witnesses, or she is hauled up to where they wait. She understands a crowd at once: more faces to file, more fear to read in the air. She does not perform distress, which would give them the wrong thing; she holds still and lets her size do the work, turning the long head slowly across the gathered shapes, pricing each one. Somewhere in the press a scent shifts, and her attention settles there — unhurried, marking it for later."

 # .20 Private
 xeno_qcaptive.20.desc:0 "§YIn Private§!\n\nYou send the handlers up and let the doors seal one by one, until it is only the heat, the scent, and her. The room gets smaller when there is no one else in it. The change is not lost on her: fewer witnesses, fewer variables — and a captor who has walked the rest of the herd out and stayed. The contempt banks down into something more patient. She lets her weight settle, lowers the head a fraction, and lets the quiet stretch, giving you room to come closer — because closer is the only direction this was ever going to go."

 # .30 Breed / extract
 xeno_qcaptive.30.desc:0 "§YHarvested§!\n\nThe apparatus along the wall was built for this. [event_target:xeno_browsed_queen.GetName] is a royal line, and a royal line is worth more bred or tapped than merely kept. She is positioned, restrained, and worked for what her biology will yield — clutches, secretions, viable strain-stock for the holding's ledgers. She registers the procedure as biological information, granting it no more meaning than that, and files it away with everything else she is learning about this place and the hands that run it."

 # .40 Release
 xeno_qcaptive.40.desc:0 "§YReleased§!\n\nThe order goes out to open the holding. [event_target:xeno_browsed_queen.GetName] is unsealed and let go — back to whatever brood still answers her, or out into the dark to begin again. Whether that is mercy or miscalculation, time will tell. A queen remembers every face that came down to her, and she does not forgive being caged."
