SPLIT

SPLIT is the ripple. It sends one source out to several targets at once — one cause branching into many parallel consequences.

The SPLIT node as it appears on the StoryGraph canvas — Left: the palette icon you drag from. Right: the node as it looks on the canvas.

SPLITOperator

Fans one cause out into several parallel consequences.

SPLIT takes a single source and triggers several targets together — the moment one act sets off multiple simultaneous fallouts or forks the story into parallel threads.

AffectsBranches one beat into several parallel threads at once.

Wire itWire one source into SPLIT and out to the several beats it should trigger together.

Use-case variants

Ripple effect — one act with many simultaneous fallouts
Fork — one event splits into parallel storylines

Too many splits and the reader loses the thread — keep the parallel branches few and legible.

In the editor

The SPLIT parameter editor in the StoryGraph inspector — Select the node and its parameters open in the inspector on the right.

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