HTH Dialog Developers Group

I don't quite understand the first question.

Regarding response, the sentence "I was going to follow that up with a glitter bomb, but I'm fresh out."  fits, just 2 more characters would fit too. But I can make it one or two words wider, it's not much work.
The character's text is not an issue as it's multiline.

I hoped you can run the updated game with XML file and modify it to see immediate results. That is one of major point of doing it in XML.

Edit: Maybe I get it now. XML file viewed in web browser may resemble links because it looks same as HTML which is form of XML too.
You can edit XML file by simple text editor.
The manual for HTH game XML tags is in developers update patch. You can get patches and guidelines in Updates section of this forum or if you use Tor, you can simply download current version from me.