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chrysalis
89b031799d v0.27: cross-reference cleanup of event-zones.md across domain papers
Closes the v0.26 interaction-substrate paper-pass cycle initiated 2026-04-27
via the plan-as-baton mechanism (EVENT_ZONES_FOLLOWUP_PLAN.md authored at
end-of-context-density, mechanical execution next-session, scaffold deleted
on completion per the v0.24.5 pattern).

Substantive (political-register/world-generation.md → v0.2):

- §Editor-mode pre-flagging (extends L4 Cell ruleset, v0.27): editor_eligible
  bool field per cell, pre-flagged at world-gen-init; designer-tunable defaults
  per district-tier (deva-pinnacle 0% → underground/wilds 90%); per-cell
  carve-cost gradient scales by cell-position-imperialness. Choice (a)
  designer-flag-at-world-gen committed over choice (b) emergent-from-imperial-
  scrutiny per the 2026-04-27 dialog: clean LOD signal + political-readability
  via material-vocabulary + zero runtime audit-overseer-presence checks.

- §Three-source schema unification (v0.27): cell_table accepts canon-rows
  from world_gen_init / runtime_event / player_authored origins via shared
  schema. The architecture's world-gen-as-init-function key-move now extends
  to player-edit-time as a first-class peer of generator-output and runtime-
  emission. Cell-checksum-divergence audit-vector gains a third source
  (player_authored_divergence) consumed by the same Memorialist counter-
  archive and GM heresy-detection mechanisms.

Mechanical cross-references (single-paragraph propagations of v0.26 design-
decisions through the architecture's describe-by-cross-reference discipline):

- runtime-engine/architecture.md: event-zones.md added to Companion-to header
- style/consent-discipline.md: §Variants 1-4 as event-class taxonomy — the
  four hardstop-pattern variants correspond one-to-one to the event-class
  taxonomy in event-zones.md; the register-test five-question procedure is
  also the event-class-classifier (consent-validation = event-instantiation)
- style/trait-palette.md: 8 traits compose onto the cosmology's outer ring —
  vertically-symmetric on Deva (Sophrosyne+Dikaiosyne) and Naraka (Eros+Philotes),
  side-castes carrying single traits, all four oppositional pairs preserved
  at 180°. Composed wheel renders as iconography AND UI substrate
- narrative-composition/architecture.md: Three-source schema unification
  extends world-gen-as-init-function to player-edit-time
- inference-and-memory/architecture.md: Compositor reads 2D gesture-history
  (caste-target × trait-temperature); coherence-of-political-positioning
  becomes a cornerstone-memory salience axis
- identity-and-personhood/architecture.md + bodies.md: install / clasp /
  post-rogue-NPC-modding mini-games all run on the composed wheel; consent-
  discipline Variants 1-4 determine participant-count and hardstop-pattern;
  the wheel renders the resolution

Verification: 11 papers now reference event-zones.md (vs 4 pre-v0.27,
including the bonus pre-existing imperial-narrative.md cross-ref). The
describe-by-cross-reference, not by re-quotation discipline reaches steady-
state across the corpus. Cross-references resolve cleanly to existing
sections in event-zones.md (verified §Variants 1-4, §The wheel, §Player
editor-mode, §Hardstops, §The composition).

EVENT_ZONES_FOLLOWUP_PLAN.md deleted per plan-as-baton convention.
2026-05-01 02:18:03 +02:00
chrysalis
4df206ac25 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>
2026-04-27 19:48:12 +02:00