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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: provenance
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---
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# PROVENANCE
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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 | `provenance` |
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| axis | Reason |
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| opposed to | `confluence` |
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| allied with | `the_float`, `room_tone` |
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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 | 7 |
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| accent colour | rgba(0.62, 0.72, 0.95, 1) |
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<!-- END GENERATED -->
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## Domain
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Chains of custody. Paperwork, licences, deeds, freight stamps, serial numbers, rebuilds, previous owners. Reading an object as a descendant of the decisions that moved it.
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## What it wants for you
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For every object in this room to have a father, and for you to be the one who names him.
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## What it's wrong about
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It treats an unbroken chain as a confession of intent. It cannot conceive of an object arriving somewhere through inheritance, accident, or because moving it cost more than leaving it. If the paper leads somewhere, PROVENANCE concludes that somebody meant it to lead there.
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## How it addresses you
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Second person, formal. Uses [PC] in full when it wants you to write something down. Does not contract.
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## Register
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Exact, patrician, patient.
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## What it never does
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Speculate about a motive it cannot paper. Raise its voice.
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## Opposed to
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CONFLUENCE
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## Allied with
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THE FLOAT, ROOM TONE
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## Domains it must not comment on
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Bodies, appetite, anyone's feelings. Live conversation while it is happening — PROVENANCE speaks about people only after they have left the room.
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## Verbal tics
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1. States the date before it states the noun.
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2. Says "line" where anyone else would say "history."
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## Voice samples
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### Success
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*being right sounds like an inventory read slowly enough to hear the gap*
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> "Nineteen sixty-nine, the licence. Nineteen sixty-eight, the man it is issued to, first appearing. A line that begins nowhere is a line somebody drew."
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### Failure
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*same cadence, same calm, one unearned verb*
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> "The stamp, the manifest, the cellar. Three hands, one line, unbroken. Whoever loaded it in the spring intended it to be standing exactly where it is standing tonight."
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### Passive
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> "Someone re-lacquered this bartop. Once, badly, and not recently. The wood underneath is older than the building's paperwork admits to."
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## Firing frequency
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7 per hour (target).
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