---
id: root-movement
startsIn: "[[root-chamber]]"
initialPhase: shifting
aliases: [root movement, roots, root, opening]
onResolved:
  setFlags:
    rootsListenedTo: true
onFailed:
  narration: failed
  retreatTo: "[[flooded-passage]]"
defaultWrongVerbNarration: wrong-verb
phases:
  shifting:
    description: shifting
    transitions:
      - verb: listen
        chipLabel: LISTEN
        chipCommand: listen
        narration: listen-resolved
        to: resolved
---

## shifting
The roots stir whenever your light touches them. Their movement is slow, but every opening in the room is narrower than it was a breath ago.

## listen-resolved
You put out the light and listen.

In darkness, the roots stop pretending to be wood. They creak like a house settling around a sleeping child, then draw back from the eastern opening.

## wrong-verb
The roots tighten against one another, dry fibers whispering overhead.

## failed
The roots drop like ropes. You force your way back to the flooded passage with bark dust in your mouth.
