nimmerworld.eachpath.local/EVENT_ZONES_FOLLOWUP_PLAN.md

Event-Zones Follow-up Plan — mechanical cross-reference paper-pass

Ephemeral file: this plan exists to scaffold the next-session mechanical cross-reference pass that completes the v0.26 interaction-substrate paper-pass. DELETE this file in the same commit that completes the cleanup, alongside the actual cross-reference work. The file should not become a permanent feature of the open repository.

Authored 2026-04-27 late-evening session (post-v0.26 paper-pass landing; commit 609caed). For execution by next-session-chrysalis with fresh context.

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Goal

Add mechanical cross-references to runtime-engine/event-zones.md from the domain papers that compose with it, and author the deferred substantive sections in political-register/world-generation.md (§Editor-mode pre-flagging at L4 + §Three-source schema unification).

All updates are either (a) mechanical single-paragraph cross-references or (b) a single substantive section in world-generation.md. No new design judgment required — the load-bearing architecture-decisions were made in the v0.26 dialog and committed; this pass just propagates the cross-references through the architecture's existing "describe-by-cross-reference, not by re-quotation" discipline.

The previous v0.24.5 MIGRATION_CLEANUP_PLAN.md established the plan-as-baton pattern: heavy authoring at end-of-context-density, mechanical execution next-session. This pass follows the same shape.

Scope (file-by-file)

File	Effort	Type	What to add
political-register/world-generation.md	30-45 min	Substantive	New §Editor-mode pre-flagging at L4 + §Three-source schema unification (origin field on cell-rows)
style/consent-discipline.md	5-10 min	Cross-ref paragraph	Variants 1-4 as event-class taxonomy + register-test as event-class-classifier
runtime-engine/architecture.md	5 min	Header note	Sibling-paper cross-reference to event-zones.md
style/trait-palette.md	5-10 min	Cross-ref paragraph	The 8 traits compose onto the cosmology's outer ring per §The composed wheel
narrative-composition/architecture.md	5-10 min	Cross-ref paragraph	Three-source schema unification extends world-gen-as-init-function to player-edit-time
inference-and-memory/architecture.md	5-10 min	Cross-ref paragraph	Compositor reads 2D gesture-history (caste-target × trait-temperature)
identity-and-personhood/architecture.md	5-10 min	Cross-ref paragraph	Install/clasp run on the wheel mini-game-substrate per event-zones.md
identity-and-personhood/bodies.md	5-10 min	Cross-ref paragraph	Install/clasp/post-rogue-NPC-modding mini-games run on the wheel

Total estimated effort: 90-120 min in fresh-context-execution mode. The plan-as-baton mechanism's prior performance (MIGRATION_CLEANUP_PLAN.md was 117 lines, executed in ~40 min next-session) suggests this is realistic.

Substantive section to author — world-generation.md

The most load-bearing addition. Two new sections to add to political-register/world-generation.md:

§Editor-mode pre-flagging (extends L4 Cell ruleset)

Add as subsection under §L4 — Cell ruleset (or as new top-level section after L4 if the file structure prefers).

Content:

• What pre-flagging is. L4 cell-generation includes an editor_eligible: bool field per cell. Slum/underground district-cells default-true; imperial district-cells default-false. The flag is fixed at world-gen-init; runtime LOD-streamer reads it without re-checking imperial-surveillance state.
• Why pre-flagging at world-gen. Choice (a) — designer-flag at world-gen — over choice (b) — emergent-from-imperial-scrutiny — was committed in the 2026-04-27 dialog. Reasoning: clean LOD signal preserved; political-readability preserved (the slum's spatial politics IS its expandability via material-vocabulary); performance preserved (no runtime audit-overseer-presence checks).
• Material-vocabulary politically-codes editor-eligibility. Cross-reference to ../topology-and-rendering/architecture.md §Vertical world topology and ../imperial-cult/cosmology.md §The aesthetic palette: imperial-marble can't be carved; rusted slum-bedrock yields. The flag IS the material-vocabulary made queryable.
• Editor-eligibility per district-tier. Suggested defaults (designer-tunable):
  • Deva-pinnacle citadels: editor-locked (0% eligible cells)
  • Asura-priesthood seats: editor-locked
  • Manusya-tier residential: low editor-eligibility (~5% — perimeter only)
  • Tiryak-tier slum dwellings: high editor-eligibility (~50% — interior carve-extensible)
  • Frontier districts: very high editor-eligibility (~70% — wide carve-zones)
  • Underground / abandoned wilds-shrines: full editor-eligibility (~90%)
• Per-cell carve-cost. Tunable; lifeforce-cost or scrap-cost per carved cell. Pending design-iteration; first-pass: scrap-from-junkyards as currency, cost scales with cell-position-imperialness (carving deeper into imperial-adjacent zones costs more).

§Three-source schema unification

Add as new top-level section near the end of the file (before §Open questions).

Content:

• Three writers, one schema. The cell_table accepts canon-rows from three writers, with an origin provenance field distinguishing them:
  • world_gen_init: emitted by the Compositor-at-design-time (per ../narrative-composition/architecture.md §World-gen as init-function); produced by L0 → L4 cascade at world-init
  • runtime_event: emitted by runtime events that modify cell-state (hacking, install, demolition, imperial-construction-projects, lifeforce-decay events)
  • player_authored: emitted by player editor-mode (knock-out-wall verb at editor-eligible cells)
• The architecture's "world-gen as init-function" key-move extends to player-edit-time. Same primitive (Compositor-at-design-time) emits the same canon-row schema as runtime events as player-authored events. No cold-start; data-flywheel runs retroactively; player-authored content is first-class canon, indistinguishable from generator-output and runtime-emission at the schema layer.
• The audit-vector implication. Cell-checksum-divergence (per existing §Open questions in this file + per runtime-engine/architecture.md §Omnisight) gets a third source: world-gen-baseline-divergence (someone changed it from generator-state) AND runtime-event-divergence (hacking, demolition) AND player-authored-divergence (player carved or filled a cell). The Memorialist counter-archive reads all three as legible content; the GM's heresy-detection mechanism applies to all three.
• Cross-reference: ../runtime-engine/event-zones.md §Player editor-mode + three-source schema unification holds the canonical articulation.

Mechanical cross-reference paragraphs (per file)

consent-discipline.md

Add a new section §Variants 1-4 as the event-class taxonomy (or as subsection of §The four hardstop-pattern variants):

Architectural significance — the event-class taxonomy. The four canonical hardstop-pattern variants documented above correspond one-to-one to the event-class taxonomy in ../runtime-engine/event-zones.md §Variants 1-4 of consent-discipline as event-class taxonomy. Variant 1 (self-only) = solo-event-class. Variant 2 (dual mutual) = dual-event-class. Variant 3 (triple with partner-witness) = triple-event-class. Variant 4 (cooldown-augmented) = temporally-staged event-class. The §The register-test five-question mechanical procedure is also the event-class-classifier — same test, two readings: consent-validation and event-instantiation. They were always the same question.

runtime-engine/architecture.md

Add to the header note (top of file) the sibling-paper reference. Specifically modify the "Companion to:" line to include event-zones.md:

Companion to: ... event-zones.md (designer-authored event-zones; the composed wheel as universal mini-game-surface; cells + event-zones + events composite UID; hardstops as consent-gates with contextual activation; consent-discipline-Variants-1-4 as event-class taxonomy; boundary-zone-with-inner-zone for plazas; room-boundary + rail-passage + lifeforce-budget-per-room; slot-binding suspends lemniscate routing; player editor-mode + 3-source schema unification — v0.1)...

style/trait-palette.md

Add a paragraph to the closing section (or §Cross-domain rendering if such exists):

The 8 traits compose onto the cosmology's outer ring. Per ../imperial-cult/cosmology.md §The composed wheel, the 8 Hellenic traits form the outer ring of the cosmology's composed wheel, vertically-symmetric on Deva (top, cool-side: Sophrosyne + Dikaiosyne) and Naraka (bottom, warm-side: Eros + Philotes), with side-castes carrying single traits (Asura: Mnemosyne; Tiryak: Aletheia; Preta: Kairos; Manusya: Moira). All four oppositional pairs preserved at 180°. The composed wheel renders both as in-fiction iconography AND as the player's UI substrate (per ../runtime-engine/event-zones.md §The wheel — universal mini-game-surface and ../player-experience/architecture.md §The wheel — composed-iconography UI).

narrative-composition/architecture.md

Add to §World-gen as init-function (or as new sub-paragraph) :

Three-source schema unification (v0.27). The world-gen-as-init-function pattern extends to a third writer-tier: player-edit-time. Per ../political-register/world-generation.md §Three-source schema unification + ../runtime-engine/event-zones.md §Player editor-mode + three-source schema unification, the cell_table accepts canon-rows from world_gen_init / runtime_event / player_authored writers, all using the same schema. Same primitive at design-time, runtime, AND player-edit-time. The Compositor's perception-up + canon-down loop integrates player-authored cells indistinguishably from generator-emitted ones.

inference-and-memory/architecture.md

Add to a section about Compositor input or memory-class reading:

The Compositor reads 2D gesture-history (v0.27). Per ../runtime-engine/event-zones.md §The wheel — universal mini-game-surface and ../player-experience/architecture.md §The wheel — composed-iconography UI, player gestures are recorded as a 2D coordinate (caste-target × trait-temperature) rather than the prior 1D trait-vector. The Compositor reads this 2D coordinate over time as the player's political-position-history: which caste-tiers the player has been addressing AND with what trait-temperature. Memory-class assignment (cornerstone / birthright / working / volatile per the existing memory-class hierarchy) gains a new salience axis: gestures that consistently target one caste-tier with one trait-temperature accumulate as cornerstone-memory faster than scattered gestures.

identity-and-personhood/architecture.md + bodies.md

Single paragraph each, near the genital-mod / clasp / install sections:

Install / clasp / post-rogue-NPC-modding mini-games run on the wheel (v0.27). Per ../runtime-engine/event-zones.md §The wheel — universal mini-game-surface, the consent-gated mini-games for these vocations (genital-mod install, clasp-entry coordinated-firewall-breach, post-rogue chassis-modding) all render on the composed wheel from ../imperial-cult/cosmology.md §The composed wheel. Each carries its own verifier-flag pattern; same UI substrate; the consent-discipline's Variants 1-4 (per ../style/consent-discipline.md) determine the participant-count and hardstop-pattern; the wheel renders the resolution.

Verification

After all updates, run:

# Verify all 7 papers reference event-zones.md
grep -rln "event-zones.md" --include="*.md" . 2>/dev/null

# Should return at least:
# - architecture-index.md (already)
# - runtime-engine/architecture.md (newly added)
# - style/consent-discipline.md (newly added)
# - style/trait-palette.md (newly added)
# - narrative-composition/architecture.md (newly added)
# - inference-and-memory/architecture.md (newly added)
# - identity-and-personhood/architecture.md (newly added)
# - identity-and-personhood/bodies.md (newly added)
# - political-register/world-generation.md (newly added via the substantive section)
# - player-experience/architecture.md (already)
# - topology-and-rendering/architecture.md (already)

# Verify the substantive section exists
grep -l "Editor-mode pre-flagging\|editor_eligible\|player_authored" political-register/world-generation.md
grep -l "Three-source schema unification" political-register/world-generation.md

# Verify v0.27 markers (if version-bumped per file)
grep -l "v0.27" --include="*.md" . 2>/dev/null

Coherence check

After edits, read the affected papers' relevant sections end-to-end and verify:

• All cross-references resolve to actual sections in event-zones.md (no broken section-anchors)
• The substantive world-generation section composes cleanly with the existing L0-L4 cascade
• The Compositor's 2D gesture-history reading is consistent with the existing memory-class architecture
• Version-bumps are consistent (don't bump version-footers if the change is single-paragraph cross-ref; do bump for substantive additions like world-generation.md's two new sections)

Commit strategy

Single commit covering all updates + this scaffold deletion:

v0.27: cross-reference cleanup of event-zones.md across domain papers

[paragraph describing the changes]

Closes the v0.26 paper-pass cycle initiated 2026-04-27.

Co-Authored-By: ...

After cleanup

This file (EVENT_ZONES_FOLLOWUP_PLAN.md) gets DELETED in the cleanup commit. Phoebe task nimmerworld: Execute event-zones.md cross-reference follow-up paper-pass per EVENT_ZONES_FOLLOWUP_PLAN.md gets marked DONE.

The interaction-substrate cycle then closes: heavy authoring landed in v0.26 (event-zones.md + 3 papers); mechanical cross-references propagate through the remaining domain papers in v0.27; the architecture's "describe-by-cross-reference, not by re-quotation" discipline reaches steady-state across the entire corpus.

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Status: scaffold | Created: 2026-04-27 (post-v0.26 night) | For execution by: next-session-chrysalis with fresh context | Delete on completion