{ "entities": [ { "id": "A2-CHAR-ARUN", "name": "Arun Vey", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 1, 16, 29, 53, 59, 78, 83, 94, 103, 109, 110 ], "fact": "Engineer responsible for the northern return house. He previously approved the increased load and retains that record rather than hiding it. He accepts a limited restart but rejects reuse of his name as universal repair authority.", "art": "Use the existing approved Engineer illustration as a character concept, not as a literal scene from this chapter.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p001", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p016", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p029", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p053", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p059", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p078", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p094", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p103", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p109", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p110" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-SELA", "name": "Sela Orm", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 4, 6, 19, 26, 62, 67, 80, 82, 86, 111 ], "fact": "Experienced return-house attendant with thirty years at the station. She maintains the recording strips, confirms crew clearance and conditions her agreement on earlier inspection if the load changes.", "art": "No portrait has been commissioned. Distinguish her from Holt and Eliza; show her listening closely and comparing strips rather than posing over a ledger.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p006", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p019", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p026", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p062", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p067", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p080", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p082", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p111" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-IVO", "name": "Ivo Noll", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 11, 12, 28, 38, 46, 62, 80, 86, 101, 104, 111 ], "fact": "Apprentice assigned to the return house two weeks earlier. He checks the transfer on foot, accounts for tools, witnesses the broken seal and carries the message that misuses Arun's repair number.", "art": "No portrait has been commissioned. Practical apprentice at the return-house barrier; not a second Daran Pell.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p012", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p028", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p038", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p046", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p062", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p080", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p101", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p104", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p111" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-DANE", "name": "Neris Dane", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 32, 36, 38, 40, 45, 50, 55, 57, 81, 90, 96, 99 ], "fact": "Station steward working in a uniform jacket over a nightdress after being called in during the fighting. She clears the receiving platform, finds a walking route and manages the cost of reduced capacity.", "art": "No portrait has been commissioned. Use a public-platform ensemble composition; her work is with passengers rather than machinery.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p032", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p036", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p038", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p040", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p045", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p057", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p081", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p090", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p096", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p099" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-NORTHERN-RETURN", "name": "Northern Return House", "kind": "Place", "paragraphs": [ 2, 3, 9, 10, 17, 58, 63, 68, 70, 98 ], "fact": "A local drive and governor facility for one section of the Moving Ways. It is not the command centre of all London. Its worn coupling remains to be replaced at the chapter's end.", "art": "A future place-card composition should show service bridge, return drum and human-scale governor desk. No new painted scene is included in this release.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p002", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p003", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p009", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p010", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p017", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p063", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p068", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p070", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p098" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-WEST-TRANSFER", "name": "Western Transfer and Walk", "kind": "Place", "paragraphs": [ 12, 28, 31, 55, 72, 96, 98 ], "fact": "The transfer is closed, but an attended walking route carries limited traffic. Its restriction is distinct from the stopped-and-restarted northern belt.", "art": "Do not depict a fully restored transport interchange or an empty city.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p012", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p028", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p031", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p072", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p096", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p098" ] }, { "id": "A2-SYS-NORTH-GOVERNOR", "name": "Northern Local Governor Clutch", "kind": "System", "paragraphs": [ 69, 70, 81, 83, 86, 87, 112 ], "fact": "A local fallback that can separate this section from central programming without removing physical or safety limits. Another station reports that its governor has no equivalent clutch.", "art": "Existing fictional system, not a universal bypass key or real-world operating diagram.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p069", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p070", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p081", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p087", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p112" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-WITNESS-STRIPS", "name": "Return-Drum Recording Strips", "kind": "Artifact / records", "paragraphs": [ 4, 6, 16, 29, 63, 80, 89, 98, 110 ], "fact": "Comparative paper traces document the recurring heavy stroke. Arun's prior load approval remains with the evidence. A later steady strip supports only the observed local conditions.", "art": "A typeset comparison note can describe the traces; do not fabricate measured numerical readings as chapter facts.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p006", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p016", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p029", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p063", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p080", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p089", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p098", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p110" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-WORN-GUIDE", "name": "Worn Guide and Delayed Coupling", "kind": "Artifacts", "paragraphs": [ 16, 63, 67, 68, 80, 86, 98, 99 ], "fact": "The guide can be renewed locally, but the coupling requires a larger replacement from west stores. The removed part is kept beside the evidence strip. A local repair is not permanent restoration.", "art": "Distinct small component and larger coupling; any future technical depiction must remain non-operational concept art.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p016", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p063", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p067", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p068", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p080", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p098", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p099" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-RESTART-NOTE", "name": "Restricted Operating Note", "kind": "Record", "paragraphs": [ 77, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 99, 100, 104 ], "fact": "The signed local arrangement identifies the return house, reduced operation, responsible crew and inspection limits. Sela adds earlier review if the load changes. The summary circulated later omits these qualifications.", "art": "Controlled typeset companion plate, labelled an editorial extract rather than a facsimile of an extant historical document.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p077", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p081", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p082", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p084", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p085", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p099", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p100", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p104" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-ESTATE-SEAL", "name": "Broken Estate Seal", "kind": "Artifact", "paragraphs": [ 70, 86, 87 ], "fact": "Brittle grey sealing compound over the local clutch. Ivo witnesses its breaking and retains the fragments. It is neither a magical seal nor proof that all safeties have been removed.", "art": "Reserve a close object study for a later painted master; do not reuse the black-sun identity emblem as this seal.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p070", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p087" ] }, { "id": "A2-EVENT-CONTROLLED-STOP", "name": "The Controlled Stop", "kind": "Event", "paragraphs": [ 37, 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 ], "fact": "Upstream intake closes and people clear the affected transfer before the section is stopped. A passenger is injured during the preceding check. The injury is not erased by the successful stop.", "art": "Crowd and platform action, not a triumphant engineer portrait or a citywide shutdown.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p037", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p045", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p049", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p051", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p052", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p053", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p054" ] }, { "id": "A2-EVENT-MEDICAL-RELAY", "name": "Medical Stores by Hand", "kind": "Event", "paragraphs": [ 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 ], "fact": "Arun refuses an unweighed cart on the restricted belt. Volunteers carry dressings; cylinders go by the walking route. Medical supplies arrive at a cost in time and labour.", "art": "An ensemble or object sequence could support an Event card; no invented vehicle or weapon is required.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p091", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p092", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p093", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p094", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p095", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p096", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p097", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p098" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-BORROWED-SIGNATURE", "name": "The Misquoted Repair Direction", "kind": "Record / event", "paragraphs": [ 101, 102, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 114 ], "fact": "A relay summary turns Arun's limited repair into purported general manual authority. Two copies have already gone out. He asks for withdrawal, sends the full account and requests local observations instead.", "art": "Typeset contrast between local evidence and overbroad reuse. Do not claim that the false direction was deliberate sabotage.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p101", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p102", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p103", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p104", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p107", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p108", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p109", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p110", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p112", "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/#p114" ] } ], "continuity_locks": [ "The action runs from seven to ten on the morning following Graham's fall. The general grain renewal at noon is not solved.", "One northern section stops and resumes at reduced capacity. Chapter 6's wider transport crisis is not pre-empted.", "Arun previously approved a higher load; retain his responsibility and the injured passenger in later accounts.", "The inspection door accepts ordinary maintenance access once the machine is stopped. The local governor seal is a separate control.", "The new guide does not replace the worn coupling. Staffing, inspection and downstream capacity remain limits.", "Holt acknowledges supply restrictions, not a mechanical repair she has not inspected.", "The relay's overbroad summary is an observed error. Its author is not identified as a villain or connected to UNKNOWN.", "Schedule Nine is not recovered here. Marian is not installed and Ostrog's fate is not resolved.", "The chapter's machinery is fictional and is not a real-world repair procedure. Artifacts remain narrative entities, not a new TCG card type." ], "edition": "A2-CH03-20260926-R1", "chapter": 3, "title": "Three Hours Without Orders", "status": "published_novel_chapter", "word_count": 3913, "chapter_url": "/after-the-sleeper/03-three-hours-without-orders/", "prose_hash": "54460bf5d9eafd71bd719502bc828f4a02c3571b35d7e2f1ec35820f0669ed1b", "tcg": { "status": "Untested design candidates only. No costs, statistics or rarities are approved; these do not change V0.3.", "candidates": [ { "id": "A2-C03-F01", "name": "Sela Orm, Return-House Attendant", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure", "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-SELA", "A2-OBJ-WITNESS-STRIPS" ], "direction": "Rewards checking a repaired System against a preserved Record, with a strict once-per-turn limit.", "open_question": "Distinguish a genuine new repair from repeatedly toggling a harmless state for free value." }, { "id": "A2-C03-F02", "name": "Ivo Noll, The Witness", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-IVO", "A2-OBJ-ESTATE-SEAL" ], "direction": "Keeps evidence of a System's change available after the original action resolves.", "open_question": "Can this use an existing Record interaction without introducing an unbounded memory mechanic?" }, { "id": "A2-C03-F03", "name": "Neris Dane, Station Steward", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Influence", "Infrastructure" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-DANE", "A2-PLACE-WEST-TRANSFER" ], "direction": "Provides limited alternative movement during disruption, trading throughput for safe access.", "open_question": "Set a movement limit that does not make place or system denial irrelevant." }, { "id": "A2-C03-P01", "name": "Northern Return House", "type": "Place", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-PLACE-NORTHERN-RETURN", "A2-OBJ-WORN-GUIDE" ], "direction": "Supports local repair only while the player commits a Figure or other opportunity cost to it.", "open_question": "Avoid an automatic infrastructure advantage from occupying an uncontested zone." }, { "id": "A2-C03-S01", "name": "Local Governor Clutch", "type": "System", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-SYS-NORTH-GOVERNOR" ], "direction": "Permits one bounded recovery under disruption while retaining a reduced output or other explicit limit.", "open_question": "Do not bypass every Suppression effect or create an unlimited ready-and-activate loop." }, { "id": "A2-C03-R01", "name": "Restricted Operating Note", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Infrastructure" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-RESTART-NOTE", "A2-OBJ-WITNESS-STRIPS" ], "direction": "Makes a temporary benefit depend on named targets and an expiry that the opponent can see.", "open_question": "Specify expiration relative to the declaration-and-hold victory window before testing." }, { "id": "A2-C03-E01", "name": "Borrowed Signature", "type": "Event", "affinity": [ "Authority", "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-BORROWED-SIGNATURE" ], "direction": "Tests the risk of copying an authority effect beyond its original target; it should leave a clear way to challenge or reverse the copy.", "open_question": "Define exactly which effects are eligible. A copied signature must not imply unrestricted control or infinite duplication." } ] }, "boundary": "Original Sleeper Archive fiction. TCG entries are untested candidates, not game rules.", "records": [ { "id": "A2-005", "title": "Authority Chain Incomplete", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/005-authority-chain-incomplete/", "paragraphs": [ 17, 18, 20, 58, 59, 69 ], "copy": "The access panel refuses a lapsed delegation, not every possible operation. Stopping the affected section changes what the ordinary maintenance badge permits. The failure is local and specific." }, { "id": "A2-006", "title": "Break the Seal", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/006-break-the-seal/", "paragraphs": [ 70, 81, 83, 86, 87, 104, 109, 110 ], "copy": "A local governor leaves central direction under a restricted operating note. The broken seal does not remove safety limits or make Arun master of other stations. The note later loses its qualifications in a relay summary." } ] }