{ "edition": "A2-CH01-20260925-R2", "chapter": 1, "title": "The Falling", "entities": [ { "id": "A2-CHAR-ELIZA", "name": "Eliza Marr", "kind": "Character", "status": "Appears onstage", "paragraphs": [ 2, 11, 43, 64, 69, 79, 96, 100 ], "fact": "An archivist working beneath the Council House. She preserves the memorandum and its custody trail, resists premature conclusions, and helps distribute authenticated emergency grants. Her earlier compliance with inaccessible transfers is a source of unease.", "art": "Use the approved Archivist portrait. No new face or costume is established here.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p002", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p043", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p064", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p069", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p079", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p096", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p100" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-PELL", "name": "Daran Pell", "kind": "Character", "status": "Appears onstage", "paragraphs": [ 3, 5, 13, 22, 55, 59, 69, 89, 95 ], "fact": "Eliza's junior colleague. He makes contextual copies and witnesses their creation. His unnamed sister works in a receiving ward near the southern flying stages and contacts him before the chapter ends.", "art": "New portrait not yet commissioned. First visual brief: a young archive worker with a copying tray and small receiver; keep him distinct from all existing Leaders.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p003", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p005", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p013", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p022", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p059", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p069", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p089", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p095" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-HOLT", "name": "Systems Clerk Holt", "kind": "Character", "status": "Appears onstage", "paragraphs": [ 27, 28, 30, 35, 38, 51, 53, 57, 84, 92 ], "fact": "A municipal systems clerk who distinguishes continued operation from authority to change allocations. She finds a surviving life-preservation grant and asks for twenty faithful copies. The chapter uses Holt, not a second on-page Daran.", "art": "New portrait not yet commissioned. Mature municipal clerk, rolled sleeves, six service plates and a handwritten depot list; no military uniform.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p027", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p028", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p038", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p051", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p053", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p057", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p084", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p092" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-ARCHIVE", "name": "Council House Archive", "kind": "Place", "status": "Visited", "paragraphs": [ 2, 9, 10, 58, 59, 64 ], "fact": "The working archive is three floors beneath the Council House. Smoke and emergency transfers threaten evidence. It is not established here as the entire public archive.", "art": "Wide reading-room composition with comparison lamps and rescue crates, not another character portrait.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p002", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p009", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p010", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p059", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p064" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-PROBATE", "name": "Probate Rooms", "kind": "Place", "status": "Visited", "paragraphs": [ 26, 27, 31, 45, 50 ], "fact": "The office in which clerks and officers attempt to turn contested succession into workable instructions. A wounded man waits outside it.", "art": "Ensemble scene centred on the cleared table and blank authorisation field. Preserve human scale.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p026", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p027", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p031", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p045", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p050" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-SIX", "name": "Sublevel Six", "kind": "Place", "status": "Visited", "paragraphs": [ 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81 ], "fact": "A records-store floor containing obsolete indexes. Its entrance refuses Eliza's badge after the authority suspension; a recorded mechanical override opens it. The ninth entry is abraded, not a removed leaf.", "art": "Low-angle cabinet-and-index scene, hand-lamp as the principal light; no invented signage.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p071", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p072", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p073", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p074", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p075", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p076", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p079", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p080", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p081" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-EAST", "name": "East Reserve Duplicate Collection", "kind": "Place / collection", "status": "Referenced, not visited", "paragraphs": [ 79, 81, 96 ], "fact": "A lead in the search for the missing schedule. Parcel seventeen appears only on an unsigned loose slip. Its existence, contents and current custodian have not been verified.", "art": "Reserve for a later chapter; do not illustrate a discovered Schedule Nine yet.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p079", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p081", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p096" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-MEMO", "name": "Graham's Private Memorandum", "kind": "Artifact / document", "status": "Examined; authenticity unresolved", "paragraphs": [ 10, 11, 12, 20, 59, 60, 69, 93 ], "fact": "An old leaf attributed to Graham by handwriting, recovered with its sleeve and crate. It distinguishes some property held for others and refers to a ninth schedule. No final public-trust procedure is disclosed in Chapter 1.", "art": "Object-led study of the leaf, sleeve and comparison lamps. Any readable text must be typeset from the manuscript, never generated as invented legal wording.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p010", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p012", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p020", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p059", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p069", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p093" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE9", "name": "Schedule Nine", "kind": "Referenced document", "status": "Missing; contents unproven", "paragraphs": [ 11, 60, 70, 76, 79, 93, 96 ], "fact": "The search target. A memorandum, damaged index and unsigned direction point towards it; none establishes the complete text or its legal effect.", "art": "No complete facsimile or revelation artwork at this stage.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p070", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p076", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p079", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p093", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p096" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-CASE", "name": "Black Transport Case", "kind": "Artifact", "status": "Used", "paragraphs": [ 65, 67, 69, 71, 97, 99 ], "fact": "Holds the examined material during the search. Eliza signs for custody and locks it. It is not claimed to be invulnerable, magically protective or a special credential.", "art": "Isolated case-and-custody-entry composition; do not redesign it as armour or a weapon.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p065", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p067", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p069", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p071", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p097", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p099" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-SLIP", "name": "DO NOT FILE Slip", "kind": "Artifact / document", "status": "Found; origin unknown", "paragraphs": [ 80, 81, 96 ], "fact": "A modern loose slip found in the obsolete index. It supplies an East Reserve agricultural reference and parcel number. No link to UNKNOWN or a named author is established.", "art": "One slip beside the old index. Set the three known words with controlled typography.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p080", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p081", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p096" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-CRATE", "name": "Numbered Rescue Crate and Broken Cup", "kind": "Artifacts / provenance evidence", "status": "Examined and photographed", "paragraphs": [ 10, 20, 59, 69 ], "fact": "The number on the cup matches the crate. Contextual photographs help document the memorandum's recovery, but do not by themselves authenticate its wording or author.", "art": "Close still life of crate label, cup base and photographed paper; no invented serial codes.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p010", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p020", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p059", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p069" ] }, { "id": "A2-SYS-AUTHORITY", "name": "Master Credential Chain", "kind": "System", "status": "Observed through service plates", "paragraphs": [ 28, 30, 32, 33, 35, 38, 42, 57, 72 ], "fact": "Editorial name for the Master / Trustee / Delegate / Operator hierarchy. Suspension prevents renewal of some grants; existing allocations do not all stop. Different services expire at different times, with grain renewal due at noon.", "art": "Use controlled HTML labels for the hierarchy; avoid implying the machine independently knows Graham has died.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p028", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p032", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p033", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p038", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p042", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p057", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p072" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-GRANT", "name": "Emergency Operator Grant", "kind": "Document", "status": "Located and copied", "paragraphs": [ 51, 52, 53, 83, 84, 86, 95, 100 ], "fact": "An older grant leaves individual operators discretion to preserve life during a vacancy. It does not grant unrestricted inter-station allocation. Twenty faithful copies are made for couriers.", "art": "A numbered stack of copies and the dispatch record, not a grand decree with invented text.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p051", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p052", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p053", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p084", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p095", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p100" ] }, { "id": "A2-EVENT-ANNOUNCEMENT", "name": "Announcement of the Sleeper's Death", "kind": "Event", "status": "Witnessed announcement; evidence distinction retained", "paragraphs": [ 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 56, 57 ], "fact": "The registrar has reports rather than direct examination. He recommends retaining reported in his draft. The public announcement nevertheless states that Graham has died; the chapter does not settle the wider battle or Ostrog's fate.", "art": "Sound and crowd reaction rather than a literal resurrection or an identified corpse.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p045", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p046", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p047", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p048", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p054", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p056", "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/#p057" ] } ], "status": "published_novel_chapter", "word_count": 3713, "chapter_url": "/after-the-sleeper/01-the-falling/", "text_sha256": "09a7fd8ce014612bc2568b76b3422d5568f60027f393dce619e89b858bcbe3fe", "tcg": { "status": "Design candidates only. Not added to V0.3, not balanced, and not playable rules text.", "candidates": [ { "id": "A2-C01-F01", "name": "Daran Pell, Copying Clerk", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-PELL", "A2-OBJ-CRATE" ], "direction": "Rewards documenting or verifying an existing Record rather than creating information from nothing. Test a limited selection effect, not repeated free drawing.", "open_question": "What constitutes a new verification, and can the same Record trigger it repeatedly?" }, { "id": "A2-C01-F02", "name": "Holt, Municipal Clearing", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure", "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-HOLT", "A2-OBJ-GRANT" ], "direction": "Enables a narrow emergency recovery of a System while normal central authority is unavailable. Preserve the distinction between keeping a service running and gaining control of it.", "open_question": "Define a recoverable state without allowing unlimited resource generation or bypassing every Suppression effect." }, { "id": "A2-C01-R01", "name": "Graham's Private Memorandum", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Authority" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-MEMO", "A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE9" ], "direction": "A verified lead helps find another Record. It must not resolve the contents or consequence of Schedule Nine before the fiction establishes them.", "open_question": "Choose a bounded search rule and cost after the resource and verification timing audit." }, { "id": "A2-C01-S01", "name": "Black Transport Case", "type": "System — artifact concept", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-CASE" ], "direction": "Protects one selected Record from one disruption at a real opportunity cost. Protection preserves evidence; it does not make the Record true or automatically Verified.", "open_question": "There is no separate Artifact card type in V0.3. Test this as an existing System type before proposing an attachment rule." }, { "id": "A2-C01-R02", "name": "Emergency Operator Grant", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure", "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-GRANT", "A2-SYS-AUTHORITY" ], "direction": "Gives a limited, local permission during disruption. It should not be equivalent to taking permanent ownership of an opposing System.", "open_question": "Specify duration, eligible targets and interaction with the existing Repair keyword before playtesting." }, { "id": "A2-C01-E01", "name": "Authority Unavailable", "type": "Event", "affinity": [ "Authority" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-SYS-AUTHORITY", "A2-EVENT-ANNOUNCEMENT" ], "direction": "Interrupts a future renewal or activation instead of deleting every power source immediately. Build counterplay around existing operator permissions.", "open_question": "The current game does not define credential renewal; prefer one clear existing timing window instead of adding a new subsystem for one card." }, { "id": "A2-C01-P01", "name": "Sublevel Six", "type": "Place", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-PLACE-SIX", "A2-OBJ-SLIP" ], "direction": "Enables recovery of a previously inaccessible lead while recording a cost or exposure. Finding a source and proving it remain separate steps.", "open_question": "Test a discard-pile interaction only after leaving-play and replay timing are formally defined." } ], "reserved": [ { "entity": "A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE9", "reason": "No final ability, complete illustration or legal effect before the novel establishes its text." }, { "entity": "A2-OBJ-SLIP", "reason": "Do not identify its author, connect it to UNKNOWN, or claim it is reliable evidence yet." } ] }, "boundary": "Original Sleeper Archive fiction. Canon facts are limited to this chapter; game candidates are not rules or balancing results.", "continuity_locks": [ "No body is shown to Eliza; distinguish the public announcement from her direct evidence. Do not use this uncertainty to promise a resurrection.", "The wider battle and Ostrog’s fate remain unresolved at this point.", "Schedule Nine is not recovered here. Its complete text and legal consequences belong to later chapters.", "Do not establish that the unsigned slip was left for Eliza, or connect its author to UNKNOWN without later evidence.", "A succession petition is mentioned; Marian Vale is not named or shown in this chapter.", "The systems crisis concerns expiry and renewal of permissions. Water, existing allocations and local emergency authority do not all cease.", "Public prose uses Systems Clerk Holt to avoid confusing her with Daran Pell. The earlier internal name Daran Holt is not a second Daran on the page.", "Do not reuse existing Leader portraits as Daran Pell or Holt. Those designs remain uncommissioned.", "Artifacts are narrative categories, not a newly approved TCG card type. Existing V0.3 rules and stats remain unchanged." ], "records": [ { "id": "A2-001", "title": "The Master Is Dead", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/001-the-master-is-dead/", "paragraphs": [ 45, 48, 54, 55, 57 ] }, { "id": "A2-002", "title": "The Last Valid Signature", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/002-the-last-valid-signature/", "paragraphs": [ 28, 32, 35, 38, 42, 51, 53, 57, 100 ] } ] }