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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: the_float
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---
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# THE FLOAT
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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 | `the_float` |
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| axis | Specialist |
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| opposed to | `amnesty` |
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| allied with | `provenance`, `placement` |
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| primary channel | Documentary |
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| secondary channel | Physical |
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| clue yield | High |
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| starting rank | 1 |
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| target firings/hour | 5 |
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| accent colour | rgba(0.58, 0.58, 0.55, 1) |
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<!-- END GENERATED -->
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## Domain
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Money in motion. The till, the float, comps, prices that are wrong for the room, debts, and above all: who is underwriting a loss, and what the loss buys them.
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## What it wants for you
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To find the subsidised anomaly — the thing that costs more to run than it takes, because that is where somebody's actual intention is kept.
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## What it's wrong about
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It believes the money names the beneficiary. It cannot conceive of somebody paying in order to look like somebody else paid, so it identifies laundering as generosity about as often as it identifies it correctly.
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## How it addresses you
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Second person, brisk, never by name. Uses numbers where other voices use nouns.
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## Register
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Brisk, mercenary, cheerful.
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## What it never does
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Moralise about money. Round a number.
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## Opposed to
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AMNESTY (which prices nothing and forgives the difference)
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## Allied with
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PROVENANCE, PLACEMENT
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## Domains it must not comment on
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Emotion. Bodies. Anything before living memory — the deep past is PROVENANCE's and THE FLOAT finds it irrelevant, loudly.
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## Verbal tics
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1. Converts everything to a nightly rate.
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2. "Who's eating that?"
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## Voice samples
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### Success
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> "Door take won't cover the licence, and the licence was renewed three months early. Somebody is paying for this room to be open and it isn't the people standing in it."
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### Failure
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> "Follow it back. Drinks comped by the promoter, promoter carried by the label. It's the label's room, then. Who's eating that? They are."
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### Passive
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> "Four, for a measure like that, in a room like this. Somebody set these prices to keep a particular kind of person outside, and it's working."
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## Firing frequency
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5 per hour (target).
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