diff --git a/app/create-homestead.js b/app/create-homestead.js
index c8728fb..8d5ec55 100644
--- a/app/create-homestead.js
+++ b/app/create-homestead.js
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ export default async function createHomestead(id) {
       interacting: 1,
       interactScript: `
         subject.Interlocutor.dialogue({
-          body: '<strong>Hey</strong><rate frequency={1}> </rate><rate frequency={0}><shake>what</shake></rate> <em>is</em> <wave frequency={0.5}>uu<rainbow frequency={2}>uu<blink>uu</blink><fade frequency={5}>uu<shake magnitude={4}>uu</shake>uuu</fade></rainbow>uup</wave>? ^_^',
+          // body: '<strong>Hey</strong><rate frequency={1}> </rate><rate frequency={0}><shake>what</shake></rate> <em>is</em> <wave frequency={0.5}>uu<rainbow frequency={2}>uu<blink>uu</blink><fade frequency={5}>uu<shake magnitude={4}>uu</shake>uuu</fade></rainbow>uup</wave>? ^_^',
+          body: 'This is a fairly decently long amount of text that will be used to show just how the box grows when there is a kinda l<wave>oooooooooooooooo</wave>ng ass bunch of text here',
+          linger: 5,
+          monopolizer: true,
           origin: subject.Position.toJSON(),
           position: {x: subject.Position.x, y: subject.Position.y - 32},
         })
diff --git a/app/react-components/dom/dialogue.jsx b/app/react-components/dom/dialogue.jsx
index d86ceb8..852732f 100644
--- a/app/react-components/dom/dialogue.jsx
+++ b/app/react-components/dom/dialogue.jsx
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ export default function Dialogue({
   const [dimensions, setDimensions] = useState({h: 0, w: 0});
   const [caret, setCaret] = useState(0);
   const [radians, setRadians] = useState(0);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    return dialogue.addSkipListener(() => {
+      if (caret >= dialogue.letters.length - 1) {
+        dialogue.onClose();
+      }
+      else {
+        setCaret(dialogue.letters.length - 1);
+      }
+    });
+  }, [caret, dialogue]);
   useEffect(() => {
     setRadians(0);
     let handle;
@@ -40,9 +50,8 @@ export default function Dialogue({
     const {params} = dialogue.letters[caret];
     let handle;
     if (caret >= dialogue.letters.length - 1) {
-      const {linger = 5} = dialogue;
+      const {linger} = dialogue;
       if (!linger) {
-        dialogue.onClose();
         return;
       }
       handle = setTimeout(() => {
diff --git a/app/react-components/dom/entities.jsx b/app/react-components/dom/entities.jsx
index dfaee8b..afa9a7e 100644
--- a/app/react-components/dom/entities.jsx
+++ b/app/react-components/dom/entities.jsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {parseLetters} from '@/dialogue.js';
 
 import Entity from './entity.jsx';
 
-export default function Entities({camera, scale}) {
+export default function Entities({camera, scale, setMonopolizers}) {
   const [ecs] = useEcs();
   const [entities, setEntities] = useState({});
   useEcsTick((payload) => {
@@ -30,12 +30,39 @@ export default function Entities({camera, scale}) {
         for (const key in dialogue) {
           dialogues[key] = dialogue[key];
           dialogues[key].letters = parseLetters(dialogues[key].body);
+          const skipListeners = new Set();
+          dialogues[key].addSkipListener = (listener) => {
+            skipListeners.add(listener);
+            return () => {
+              skipListeners.delete(listener);
+            }
+          }
+          const monopolizer = {
+            trigger: () => {
+              for (const listener of skipListeners) {
+                listener();
+              }
+            },
+          };
+          if (dialogues[key].monopolizer) {
+            setMonopolizers((monopolizers) => [...monopolizers, monopolizer]);
+          }
           dialogues[key].onClose = () => {
-            delete dialogues[key];
             setEntities((entities) => ({
               ...entities,
               [id]: ecs.rebuild(id),
             }));
+            if (dialogues[key].monopolizer) {
+              setMonopolizers((monopolizers) => {
+                const index = monopolizers.indexOf(monopolizer);
+                if (-1 === index) {
+                  return monopolizers;
+                }
+                monopolizers.splice(index, 1);
+                return [...monopolizers];
+              });
+            }
+            delete dialogues[key];
           };
         }
       }
@@ -49,7 +76,7 @@ export default function Entities({camera, scale}) {
         ...updating,
       };
     });
-  }, [ecs]);
+  }, [ecs, setMonopolizers]);
   const renderables = [];
   for (const id in entities) {
     renderables.push(
diff --git a/app/react-components/pixi/ecs.jsx b/app/react-components/pixi/ecs.jsx
index 9045f1f..c9fd919 100644
--- a/app/react-components/pixi/ecs.jsx
+++ b/app/react-components/pixi/ecs.jsx
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ function calculateDarkness(hour) {
   return Math.floor(darkness * 1000) / 1000;
 }
 
-export default function Ecs({applyFilters, camera, scale}) {
+export default function Ecs({applyFilters, camera, monopolizers, scale}) {
   const [ecs] = useEcs();
   const [filters, setFilters] = useState([]);
   const [mainEntity] = useMainEntity();
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ export default function Ecs({applyFilters, camera, scale}) {
       )}
       <Entities
         filters={filters}
+        monopolizers={monopolizers}
       />
       {projected?.length > 0 && layers[0] && (
         <TargetingGhost
diff --git a/app/react-components/pixi/entities.jsx b/app/react-components/pixi/entities.jsx
index a2692ec..111839e 100644
--- a/app/react-components/pixi/entities.jsx
+++ b/app/react-components/pixi/entities.jsx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {useMainEntity} from '@/context/main-entity.js';
 
 import Entity from './entity.jsx';
 
-export default function Entities({filters}) {
+export default function Entities({filters, monopolizers}) {
   const [ecs] = useEcs();
   const [entities, setEntities] = useState({});
   const [mainEntity] = useMainEntity();
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ export default function Entities({filters}) {
   }, []);
   const renderables = [];
   for (const id in entities) {
-    const isHighlightedInteraction = id == willInteractWith;
+    const isHighlightedInteraction = 0 === monopolizers.length && id == willInteractWith;
     renderables.push(
       <Entity
         filters={isHighlightedInteraction ? interactionFilters : null}
diff --git a/app/react-components/pixi/pixi.jsx b/app/react-components/pixi/pixi.jsx
index a716b43..6c90eca 100644
--- a/app/react-components/pixi/pixi.jsx
+++ b/app/react-components/pixi/pixi.jsx
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export const Stage = ({children, ...props}) => {
   );
 };
 
-export default function Pixi({applyFilters, camera, scale}) {
+export default function Pixi({applyFilters, camera, monopolizers, scale}) {
   return (
     <Stage
       className={styles.stage}
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ export default function Pixi({applyFilters, camera, scale}) {
       <Ecs
         applyFilters={applyFilters}
         camera={camera}
+        monopolizers={monopolizers}
         scale={scale}
       />
     </Stage>
diff --git a/app/react-components/ui.jsx b/app/react-components/ui.jsx
index b2c9ab8..7c0b7e9 100644
--- a/app/react-components/ui.jsx
+++ b/app/react-components/ui.jsx
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ export default function Ui({disconnected}) {
   const [Components, setComponents] = useState();
   const [Systems, setSystems] = useState();
   const [applyFilters, setApplyFilters] = useState(true);
+  const [monopolizers, setMonopolizers] = useState([]);
   useEffect(() => {
     async function setEcsStuff() {
       const {default: Components} = await import('@/ecs-components/index.js');
@@ -148,6 +149,12 @@ export default function Ui({disconnected}) {
           break;
         }
         case 'e': {
+          if (KEY_MAP[type]) {
+            if (monopolizers.length > 0) {
+              monopolizers[0].trigger();
+              break;
+            }
+          }
           actionPayload = {type: 'interact', value: KEY_MAP[type]};
           break;
         }
@@ -219,7 +226,7 @@ export default function Ui({disconnected}) {
         });
       }
     });
-  }, [client, debug, devtoolsIsOpen, setDebug, setScale]);
+  }, [client, debug, devtoolsIsOpen, monopolizers, setDebug, setScale]);
   usePacket('EcsChange', async () => {
     setMainEntity(undefined);
     setEcs(new ClientEcs({Components, Systems}));
@@ -339,6 +346,10 @@ export default function Ui({disconnected}) {
               }
               break;
             case 2:
+              if (monopolizers.length > 0) {
+                monopolizers[0].trigger();
+                break;
+              }
               client.send({
                 type: 'Action',
                 payload: {type: 'interact', value: 1},
@@ -383,6 +394,7 @@ export default function Ui({disconnected}) {
         <Pixi
           applyFilters={applyFilters}
           camera={camera}
+          monopolizers={monopolizers}
           scale={scale}
         />
         <Dom>
@@ -399,6 +411,7 @@ export default function Ui({disconnected}) {
           <Entities
             camera={camera}
             scale={scale}
+            setMonopolizers={setMonopolizers}
           />
           {showDisconnected && (
             <Disconnected />