MARY 1 — Date with Mary the mermaid

MARY 1 on PS1 at night: Johnny and Mary the mermaid sit together at a small table under the palm tree on the island, mid-dinner-date, the moon overhead and the raft beside them. — MARY 1 on PS1, captured during the v0.8.4-ps1 chapter-select grind. The canonical Mary scene that the entire MARY.ADS file is named for: Johnny and Mary the mermaid sit together at a small table on the island, mid-date. (For the rest of the Mary saga, see MARY 2 boot-instead-of-fish, MARY 3, MARY 4 raft-heartbreak, and MARY 5.)

Validated

Validated on PS1/DuckStation on 2026-05-03 after visual and audible signoff on the historical MARY1 validation route:

fgpilot mary1 lowtide 0 night 1 holiday 0 raft-stage 5 island-pos -124 37 seed 1

No pack or runtime change was required.

Pack identifiers

ADS dispatch: MARY.ADS scene 1
Slug: mary1
High-tide pack: FG/MARY1.FG2
Low-tide pack: FG/MARY1LOW.FG2

What this scene is

Johnny meets Mary the mermaid at the shoreline and the two go on a date — the canonical Mary scene that the ADS file is named for. Confirmed by direct on-PS1 playback observation while capturing the chapter-select thumbnail; the prior “fancy dinner” caption-mapping had the date right but missed the mermaid character.

Validation Notes

The validated route uses the historical scene placement x=-124,y=37 and raft-stage 5. That value is recorded as validation evidence; this promotion does not add a runtime placement pin or alter the foreground pack.