Need help on a time based quest.

[twistkill]

I realize this could be very simple for the gurus here, but any help will be much appreciated.

Scenario - John is taking a shower in the morning and he needs Yoko to get the towel from the bedroom asap. A map of the house opens up. Say there are 5 locations- Bedroom, Kitchen, Garage, Living room, Bathroom.

If Yoko goes to bedroom, clicks on the towels and comes back to bathroom, the quest is passed (label towel_quest_done). But if she clicks on another room, say- living room and watches TV, time will advance from morning to afternoon and the quest will fail (label towel_quest_failed).

I do realize I can create variables for quest_started, towel_found, towel_delivered, etc. But what I really want to know is how to make Ren'Py remember that the quest was initiated at day_time = "morning" and if the player does not deliver the towel in the same time period, it will fail. If it was initiated at evening, it will fail if the time advances to night.

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label towel_quest:
	john "Hey, can you get me a towel from the bedroom?"
	yoko "Sure!"
	jump house_map

label bedroom_towel:
	yoko "Alright, I am here. Now, where is that towel?"
	jump bedroom_layout #if she clicks on the right imagebutton, it will jump to label towel_found

label towel_found:
	yoko "Aah! There it is..."
	jump house_map
	
label towel_quest_done:
	yoko "There you go!"
	john "Thank you!"
	
label towel_quest_failed:
	yoko "Aargh! I got distracted...I am so sorry!"
	john "You know what, I just used your towel."
	yoko "Eeeeww, noooooooo!"
	

[trooper6]

There are lots and lots of different ways to do this.

But since you want information (time started & time finished) associated with a thing (quest)...and you seem to plan on having more than one quest...I'd just create a class for the quest with a time_initiated variable and a time_completed variable. There would also be some sort of advancing time system I'd make where the player would have to press a button to "go somewhere" "do something" etc...and after every 2-5 clicks (or whatever) it advances the day_time.

But really, this is one of those things that I can't write for you, because I don't know what your entire vision is. Think of how you want the entire game to work and then start thinking about objects and functions.

[twistkill]

Sadly, OOP is the bane of my life. I could scrape the code off some tutorial, but I was trying to do this myself by using simple (maybe tedious) code.
But your reply gave me an idea-

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$ time_started = "none"

label towel_quest:
	john "Hey, can you get me a towel from the bedroom?"
	yoko "Sure!"
	$ time_started = day_time
	jump house_map

label bedroom_towel:
	yoko "Alright, I am here. Now, where is that towel?"
	jump bedroom_layout #if she clicks on the right imagebutton, it will jump to label towel_found

label towel_found:
	yoko "Aah! There it is..."
	jump house_map
	
label towel_quest_done:
	if time_started == day_time:
		yoko "There you go!"
		john "Thank you!"
	else:
		yoko "Aargh! I got distracted...I am so sorry!"
		john "You know what, I just used your towel."
		yoko "Eeeeww, noooooooo!"