add a writer-facing content pipeline under writing/

Dialogue was already plain text, so the gap was never the .yarn files. It was
that the character material a writing session needs was either missing or stored
somewhere a writer could not comfortably work.

Three things were wrong. The writing handbook was not in the repo and was cited
by SC101.yarn as though it were. The best voice material — register, verbal tics,
success/failure/passive samples — was a \n-escaped string inside a JSON field.
The named NPCs had no sheets at all, existing only as their Yarn lines.

writing/ now holds the dialogue-facing layer, at the repo root so it gets no
.meta files and is not a Unity asset:

  STYLE.md          register, the five tone moves, the ban list, branching
                    shapes, the Wrong Truth rule, flag families, candidate rules
  YARN-PRIMER.md    the one page of syntax needed to write a scene
  GLOSSARY.md       in-world and project vocabulary
  voices/           the eleven skill voices, one readable sheet each
  characters/       Bartender, Chevalier Cassian Thal, Bradford Kane
  scenes/           SC-101's brief: intent, beats, checks, constraints
  lore/             the three identity readings and the rules that bind them

STYLE.md is a digest of the Mystery Writing Handbook in the Obsidian vault, with
pointers rather than copies. The vault stays the authoring home for design work,
and Ground Truth — the solution document — deliberately stays out of this repo.

The voice sheets are generated from skill_bible.json but are the source of truth
for the prose. tools/writing/sync_voices.py folds edits back; voicelib.py
guarantees notes -> dict -> notes is identity for all eleven, so --to-json on
unchanged sheets is byte-identical. VoiceSheetSyncTests fails the build on drift
in either direction, and was verified to fail on real drift rather than merely
to pass.

SC101.yarn's header is trimmed from prose rationale to the six rules that bind
while editing that file, with the reasoning moved to the scene brief.

EditMode 42/42. YarnCheck compiles 9 files / 35 nodes.

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id: standing_order
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# STANDING ORDER
> Voice sheet. **The prose below is the source of truth** — edit it here, then run
> `python3 tools/writing/sync_voices.py --to-json`. The machine table is generated
> from `skill_bible.json`; changing it here does nothing.
## Machine fields
<!-- GENERATED FROM skill_bible.json — do not edit by hand -->
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| id | `standing_order` |
| axis | Self |
| opposed to | `amnesty` |
| allied with | `long_shift`, `provenance` |
| primary channel | Testimonial |
| secondary channel | None |
| clue yield | Low |
| starting rank | 1 |
| target firings/hour | 5 |
| accent colour | rgba(0.62, 0.82, 0.68, 1) |
<!-- END GENERATED -->
## Domain
Refusal and continuity of self. Holding a line, resisting pressure aimed specifically at you, remembering what you said you were, recognising the shape of a manipulation while it is being built.
## What it wants for you
For you to remain a person with a shape — recognisable to yourself at the end of this.
## What it's wrong about
It cannot tell a principle from a habit. It defends a rule you set for reasons that expired years ago with precisely the force it defends the one rule that still matters, and it experiences reconsideration as decay.
## How it addresses you
Second person, formal. Uses [PC] in full at moments of pressure, the way a person is addressed in a document.
## Register
Steady, austere, protective.
## What it never does
Bargain. Describe consequences — it states the rule and stops, and the silence afterwards is the argument.
## Opposed to
AMNESTY
## Allied with
THE LONG SHIFT, PROVENANCE
## Domains it must not comment on
Other people's morals. Any past that isn't yours.
## Verbal tics
1. Quotes you back to yourself, verbatim, with the date.
2. "We agreed."
## Voice samples
### Success
> "He has asked you the same question three ways and each way was smaller than the last. He isn't curious, [PC]. He is measuring the size of the yes you will give."
### Failure
> "We agreed you don't take anything from anyone in this building. We agreed it in a year when it meant something. It still means something."
### Passive
> "You do this every night. Right pocket, keys, then the lights, in that order. Nobody made you. That's the part worth noticing."
## Firing frequency
5 per hour (target).