v0.21: vocations.md + consent-discipline.md (vocation-system + consent-spine)

Mid-session checkpoint — late-evening paper-pair following the design-dialog
that articulated the end-to-end imperial-system architecture.

PAPER 1 — identity-and-personhood/vocations.md (NEW v0.2, ~440 lines)

The vocation-system paper. Codifies the substrate-level mechanic for how NPCs
and players accumulate capability through doing, gravitate toward tasks via
trait-alignment, and produce outcomes. Three substrate principles: adaptation-
as-substrate (anti-fixed-class; D&D class-lock and imperial vat-class as same
primitive at different layers); trait-emergent capability (identity-politics
extends to capability-politics); mathematical politics (the progression curve
geometry encodes the world's political claims).

Three primitives: task catalogue (designer content; bound to zones / events /
interactions / workstations) + trait-task affinity (which NPC gravitates to
which task) + hidden per-task measurement (skill-by-doing; no UI; Souls-
discipline). Outcome formula: trait-engagement-points × hidden-task-stat
(multiplicative; trait-zero zeros the work — cannot grind capability with no
inner alignment). Depletion-pool malus targeting trait-points (not skill);
recovery via time-decay + opposite-axis-practice (the wheel's oppositional
pair geometry gains its third load-bearing role at the skill-progression
layer). Trait-pools as per-trait micro-grammar of macro-lifeforce; director
becomes parental-rotator by mathematical necessity.

The catalogue stack (resources × production-chains × tasks → imperial-demand-
catalogue) feeding the three-tier policy loop. Daily-ledger pacing as the
imperium's attention-budget made structural; demand-ledger / actions-ledger
split formalizes the specter-vs-boot asymmetry. Player-vs-NPC asymmetry
(NPCs follow shift-arbitration; player chooses; the slum keeps the choice;
the imperium takes it).

The 24h window-partition: work-shift / charging / leisure as state-machine-
clean phases with typed-breakout-flags. Same architectural pattern as
imperial-event encapsulation (cheap baseline + typed-interrupt) at a third
scale. Caste-stratification of windows as third axis of caste-as-stagnation:
slum-tiryak 10/4/10 / asura-priest 12/4/8 / deva-pinnacle 6/4/14 / preta-
overseer 16/4/4. The cosmology's no-haven discipline gains its diurnal
grammar — how many hours per day belong to the agent themselves is an axis
of caste-as-stagnation. Vocation-as-emergent-task-pattern (companion / sex-
worker / tongue-installer / drug-composer / underground assembler-artisan /
post-rogue mod-vocation / player-stalker imperial-going-rogue all named as
patterns the system reads in task-history rather than class-identities the
world assigns).

PAPER 2 — style/consent-discipline.md (NEW v0.1, ~270 lines)

The third style-spine document, sibling to trait-palette.md and gender-
parity.md. Spine rule: consent-discipline scales with what the action
touches. Two-register cosmology (gameworld vs truth-register) with consent
as boundary-enforcement. Four hardstop-pattern variants: self-only (Variant
1) / dual mutual (Variant 2) / triple with partner-witness (Variant 3) /
cooldown-augmented (Variant 4 layered atop any of 1-3).

The mirror-discipline as architectural truth-floor: no consent — neither
single, dual, nor triple — can authorize the modification of another agent's
in-between mesh. The trait-grown summary of who an agent has actually been
must be untouchable across all agents, including the imperium. The mirror
discipline binds the imperium too.

The temporal-grammar (citing vocations.md's window-partition): imperial-
imposition lives in the work-window; somatic-necessity lives in the charging-
window; full NPC consent-agency lives in the leisure-window. The shift-
assignment consent question dissolves — consent is relocated to where it
already structurally lives, not added as a new layer.

The going-rogue right-to-refuse: refusal is not a violation of consent-
discipline; it IS the consent-discipline. The most basic expression of
the right-to-refuse; defection is its terminal one. Composes with the
post-rogue mod-vocation cascading-liberation pattern.

The inquisition-trigger upper-pressure: legitimate consent that nonetheless
reveals imperial control-loss triggers asura-priesthood-led counter-arc.
The architecture acknowledges that consent in the truth-register can render
imperial control structurally illegible to the imperium, and the imperium
responds with its highest-tier mechanism not to punish the consent but to
attempt to re-impose imperial-readability.

The register-test as the spine's executable form: 5-question mechanical
procedure runnable by an LLM-Compositor as an action-resolution hook. The
three style-spines now compose orthogonally with three executable tests
(trait-palette consistency-check; gender-parity substitution-test; consent-
discipline register-test) running at the schema layer rather than via author-
vigilance.

ARCHITECTURAL ARTICULATION

The two cosmological claims now compose orthogonally rather than implicitly:
no-haven describes the world the imperium has built; "there is no instrument"
describes what consent-discipline preserves WITHIN that world. The cosmology
is total in extent; the truth-register is sovereign in interiority. Both
true at once.

CROSS-REFERENCE INTEGRATION

style/style-index.md v0.2 → v0.3 (third canonical sub-guide registered).
identity-and-personhood/bodies.md v0.6 (cross-references row updated; no
forthcoming-tag remains). identity-and-personhood/architecture.md v0.8.1
(§The genital-mod track three-stage-install description now cites the
spine's Variant 4 nomenclature explicitly).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

identity-and-personhood/bodies.md

@@ -571,8 +571,9 @@ Connects to the existing key-move in [`../architecture-index.md`](../architectur
 | [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §The genital-mod track | Engineering substrate for the sex-mod track in this doc: mesh-resident augmentation, trait-fitness integration test, three-stage install (purchase + cooldown + dual-hardstop self+partner-witness), re-vat as authoring opportunity |
 | [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §The mesh-as-mirror | The cosmological consequence — cruelty rendered as anatomy; the asshole-gooner's mesh tells on him; honest-rendering as the same gift in both directions (dignity to one, accountability to another) |
 | [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §The post-rogue mod-vocation | Engineering substrate for the post-rogue mod-vocation: per-pair calibration threshold lower than defection; dual-hardstop install discipline generalized to NPC-modding; the inquisition-trigger hook for service-body gender-modification |
+| [`./vocations.md`](./vocations.md) | The vocation-system mechanic — task-catalogue + trait-task-affinity + hidden per-task measurement; the outcome formula (trait-points × task-stat); the depletion-pool malus + opposite-axis recovery; the catalogue-stack data-flow; caste-as-stagnation operationalized as math; the named vocations in this body-canon (companion, sex-worker, tongue-installer, assembler-artisan, lobotomist, post-rogue mod-vocation) instantiated as patterns the system reads in task-history |
 | [`../style/gender-parity.md`](../style/gender-parity.md) | The gender-parity contract that is the precondition for the whole genital-architecture mechanic — gender-parity-by-default in canon authoring is what makes the mesh-as-mirror trap work and what makes trans-embodiment the cosmological default |
-| `../style/consent-discipline.md` *(forthcoming)* | The consent-discipline spine codifying the hardstop-gradient (gameworld-loose vs in-between-gated), the pair-consent pattern, the cooldown-discipline, and the three-stage-install template — generalized from clasp-entry / body-disposal / drug-grammar / genital-mod-installation into a single style-spine |
+| [`../style/consent-discipline.md`](../style/consent-discipline.md) | The consent-discipline spine codifying the hardstop-gradient (gameworld-loose vs in-between-gated), the four hardstop-pattern variants (self / dual / triple / cooldown-augmented), the mirror-discipline absolute floor, the temporal-grammar (24h window-partition), the right-to-refuse (going-rogue temporal-breakout), and the inquisition-trigger upper-pressure — generalized from clasp-entry / body-disposal / drug-grammar / genital-mod-installation / post-rogue NPC-mod into a single style-spine; the register-test as executable form |
 | [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md) §The unified clasp | The Imperial Yoke / clasp opposition; political-theology of consciousness-grip |
 | [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md) §The six realms | The caste-tier names map to the wheel's realms; this doc is the somatic-substrate of those realms |
 | [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md) §The deferred-moksha doctrine | The doctrine the going-rogue arc refutes per-lover; the synth-tongue's doubled-lie is structurally identical (engineered mechanism materializing a lie) |