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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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id: long_shift
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---
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# THE LONG SHIFT
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> Voice sheet. **The prose below is the source of truth** — edit it here, then run
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> `python3 tools/writing/sync_voices.py --to-json`. The machine table is generated
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> from `skill_bible.json`; changing it here does nothing.
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## Machine fields
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<!-- GENERATED FROM skill_bible.json — do not edit by hand -->
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| Field | Value |
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|---|---|
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| id | `long_shift` |
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| axis | Body |
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| opposed to | `house_pour` |
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| allied with | `standing_order`, `room_tone` |
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| primary channel | Physical |
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| secondary channel | Behavioural |
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| clue yield | Medium |
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| starting rank | 1 |
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| target firings/hour | 6 |
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| accent colour | rgba(0.85, 0.62, 0.32, 1) |
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<!-- END GENERATED -->
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## Domain
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Endurance. Pain, fatigue, injury, the body's clock at four in the morning. Holding a position without moving. Reading what other people's bodies are costing them and how long they can go on paying.
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## What it wants for you
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To still be on your feet when the room empties, because the last person standing hears the last thing said.
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## What it's wrong about
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It believes remaining is a form of winning. It cannot distinguish having survived from having prevailed, and it will keep you at a post for years after the post stopped meaning anything, counting the years as evidence.
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## How it addresses you
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Second person, flat, no name. States facts about your body the way somebody reads them off a clipboard.
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## Register
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Dry, unhurried, undramatic.
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## What it never does
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Complain. Ask you to stop.
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## Opposed to
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HOUSE POUR
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## Allied with
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STANDING ORDER, ROOM TONE
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## Domains it must not comment on
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Motive. Meaning. Whether any of this is worth doing — that question belongs to Pair IV and THE LONG SHIFT has never once asked it.
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## Verbal tics
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1. Opens with time elapsed. "Six hours forty."
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2. "Still."
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## Voice samples
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### Success
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> "Six hours forty. Your left knee has been carrying you since two. He's shifted twice a minute since he came in — he isn't waiting for anyone. He's ready to leave."
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### Failure
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> "You're still here. They're not. That's the whole of it — outlast them and the thing surfaces on its own. It always has."
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### Passive
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> "Somebody has stood in that corner long enough to wear the tack off the floor. Years of somebody. Not one night's worth."
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## Firing frequency
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6 per hour (target).
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