THE LEEPER ARCHIVE

ARCHIVE 002 · CHAPTER 04 · CANON PACK

THE LEDGER
OPENS.

A recovered text, its chain of copies, and the limits of what it proves.

15 CANON ENTRIES · 7 UNTESTED TCG CANDIDATES · A2-CH04-20260926-R1

Characters, places and evidence

A2-CHAR-ELIZA · Character

Eliza Marr

Finds a photographed version of Schedule Nine and submits a correction to the catalogue consolidation she signed seven years earlier. She preserves the limits of the discovery rather than removing her own mistaken record.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 11, paragraph 12, paragraph 13, paragraph 48, paragraph 83, paragraph 85, paragraph 86, paragraph 87, paragraph 111

Art direction and continuity

Use the existing approved Archivist concept only. No new face or costume is established.

A2-CHAR-PELL · Character

Daran Pell

Assists with film reading, contextual copying and delivery. He initially wants to send the public-trust clause ahead of its qualifications, then carries a complete packet to municipal clearing.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 4, paragraph 7, paragraph 23, paragraph 35, paragraph 44, paragraph 47, paragraph 49, paragraph 90, paragraph 107, paragraph 108

Art direction and continuity

No new portrait commissioned. A copying or carrying action should distinguish him from the established Leaders.

A2-CHAR-RUSK · Character

Tavin Rusk

Keeper of transferred instruments within the grain administration; the current staff list says he counts sacks. He has worked with abandoned office material for twenty-seven years, retained the delivery ledgers and remains custodian of the film after copies leave.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 2, paragraph 4, paragraph 9, paragraph 14, paragraph 17, paragraph 19, paragraph 24, paragraph 27, paragraph 40, paragraph 42, paragraph 58, paragraph 60, paragraph 96, paragraph 99, paragraph 104, paragraph 106

Art direction and continuity

A future character master should show a stockroom worker beside a reused crate and film reader, not another aristocrat in a library. No new painted portrait in this release.

A2-CHAR-KEST · Character

Iona Kest

Receives the discovery as evidence and requires it to be considered in the succession examination. She distinguishes the text's existence from its present legal force and the classification of particular assets.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 62, paragraph 65, paragraph 67, paragraph 71, paragraph 74, paragraph 75, paragraph 86, paragraph 89

Art direction and continuity

Retain the Chapter 2 examiner identity. A working evidence-table scene is preferable to a ceremonial judge portrait.

A2-PLACE-EAST · Place / collection

Transferred East Reserve Collection

The sought East Reserve material survives in a grain-administration stockroom after flood transfers. Parcel and case numbers no longer map cleanly to the central catalogue. This is not a newly discovered intact coastal vault.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 4, paragraph 7, paragraph 15, paragraph 17, paragraph 18, paragraph 20, paragraph 24, paragraph 42, paragraph 58, paragraph 60, paragraph 79, paragraph 80

Art direction and continuity

Object-led setting with layered crate labels, steel tins, old desk and space shared with meal storage.

A2-OBJ-DELIVERY-LEDGER · Record / artifact

Rusk's Delivery Ledger

Separates what was sent, what arrived and what remained readable. The different meanings of seventeen explain why a clean catalogue entry can mislead. It does not establish authenticity of every instrument by itself.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 14, paragraph 15, paragraph 17, paragraph 22, paragraph 50, paragraph 58, paragraph 60, paragraph 90

Art direction and continuity

Typeset editorial ledger study only; do not invent numeric inventories or claim a historical facsimile.

A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE-FILM · Artifact / document carrier

Photographic Schedule Tin

A flat tin contains reduced photographs made after the flood-copying process. The recovered version is a later photograph of a certified office duplicate, not the executed original and not Graham's handwritten memorandum.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 20, paragraph 23, paragraph 24, paragraph 25, paragraph 29, paragraph 30, paragraph 50, paragraph 59

Art direction and continuity

An independent future still-life master can show tin, film and viewer with no generated wording. This release uses controlled typeset source distinctions.

A2-OBJ-COMPARISON-CERT · Record

Certificate of Comparison

Precedes the schedule images and records examination of an office duplicate against an executed schedule. The source comparison, later copying and film reproduction are distinct stages.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 29, paragraph 30, paragraph 43, paragraph 44, paragraph 49, paragraph 64, paragraph 65, paragraph 76, paragraph 89

Art direction and continuity

Set only chapter-established wording in HTML; do not invent signatures, dates or an original certificate design.

A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE9 · Record

Schedule Nine

A photographed office duplicate establishes a text separating qualifying public-use assets from ordinary inheritance and calling for independent public trusts. Current force, later amendments and asset coverage remain to be examined. Earlier chapter entries remain accurate as time-limited knowledge states.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 25, paragraph 26, paragraph 29, paragraph 30, paragraph 31, paragraph 33, paragraph 39, paragraph 64, paragraph 67, paragraph 71, paragraph 74, paragraph 89

Art direction and continuity

The disclosed clause may now be typeset exactly. Do not present an invented full facsimile as the executed original.

A2-CONCEPT-PUBLIC-USE · Principle / recorded instruction

Indispensable to Public Provision

The schedule's category concerns the use of assets and their treatment at succession. It is not proof that all assets qualify, a settled constitution or an instruction making food free immediately.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 31, paragraph 33, paragraph 34, paragraph 36, paragraph 39, paragraph 42, paragraph 67, paragraph 71, paragraph 75, paragraph 89, paragraph 91, paragraph 93, paragraph 112

Art direction and continuity

A restrained exact-text clause study, clearly labelled original fiction and editorial typesetting.

A2-OBJ-HOLD-NOTICE · Record / event

Referral Hold Instruction

Generated in response to Eliza's copy request. It requires retention of material and review before further distribution. Its timing alone does not prove deliberate suppression or an ambush; Rusk keeps the film and signs for the copies sent for examination.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 50, paragraph 51, paragraph 53, paragraph 55, paragraph 56, paragraph 58, paragraph 78, paragraph 79

Art direction and continuity

An editorial custody note, not a new black-sun master credential.

A2-OBJ-CATALOGUE-CORRECTION · Record

The Archivist's Correction

Eliza states that her seven-year-old signature confirmed a catalogue transfer, not personal inspection of the parcel contents. The old entry is retained with the correction instead of erased.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 11, paragraph 12, paragraph 13, paragraph 18, paragraph 19, paragraph 48, paragraph 83, paragraph 84, paragraph 85, paragraph 86, paragraph 87

Art direction and continuity

A paired old-entry/correction study, with no invented forgery or additional confession.

A2-OBJ-EVIDENCE-PACKET · Record / artifact group

The Complete Evidence Packet

The clause travels with certificate, continuation provisions, evidence number and limitations. Copies go to municipal clearing, Kest and the archive; the film remains with Rusk.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 44, paragraph 47, paragraph 49, paragraph 58, paragraph 59, paragraph 64, paragraph 76, paragraph 88, paragraph 89, paragraph 90, paragraph 92

Art direction and continuity

Future artifact set should keep copy labels separate from the original art. Do not imply unrestricted public verification is already complete.

A2-OBJ-SUCCESSION-QUALIFICATION · Record / event

Notice to the Succession Delegation

Senn notifies the delegation that descriptions of the inheritance must not presume every estate asset passes privately. Marian has not yet answered the questions or accepted succession.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 76, paragraph 89, paragraph 91, paragraph 92

Art direction and continuity

A controlled notice excerpt, not a coronation or completed transfer charter.

A2-OBJ-EARLIER-REQUEST · Record / mystery

Eleven Minutes Earlier

The same terminal record shows a title-specific search at 10:35 and Eliza's request at 10:46. A reference response was completed to a succession service address through the old certificate channel, but no officer is named and no film viewing is established. Eliza requests attribution rather than assuming a culprit.

Chapter evidence: paragraph 96, paragraph 97, paragraph 99, paragraph 101, paragraph 102, paragraph 104, paragraph 106, paragraph 108, paragraph 111, paragraph 113

Art direction and continuity

Two typeset receipt times with an explicitly unassigned officer field; do not identify UNKNOWN, Ostrog or the slip's author.

TCG candidates

Untested design candidates only. No costs, statistics, rarities or new keywords are approved; the live V0.3 rules remain unchanged.

A2-C04-F01 · Figure · Knowledge / Infrastructure

Tavin Rusk, Keeper of Transfers

Makes a previously inaccessible Record available by preserving its transfer context, with a bounded opportunity cost.

Open design question: Can this use an existing recovery action without creating repeatable discard-and-retrieve value?

Sources: Tavin Rusk, Rusk's Delivery Ledger

A2-C04-F02 · Figure · Knowledge / Authority

Iona Kest, Examiner of Claims

Challenges one overbroad authority effect while leaving its narrower lawful target intact.

Open design question: Define eligible effects and the response window; avoid a universal counter that locks out an opponent.

Sources: Iona Kest, Notice to the Succession Delegation

A2-C04-P01 · Place · Knowledge

East Reserve, Transferred Collection

Supports searching for a Record only when the player commits a Figure or gives up another development option.

Open design question: The benefit should require an investment and must not produce repeated unrestricted deck searches.

Sources: Transferred East Reserve Collection, Photographic Schedule Tin

A2-C04-R01 · Record · Knowledge / Authority

The Ninth Schedule

Creates visible pressure to reconsider control or ownership under specified conditions. Keep its power separate from an instant victory or unrestricted seizure of all Systems.

Open design question: Control-transfer timing and verification remain under review. The fiction's public trust is not itself an approved new game subsystem.

Sources: Schedule Nine, Indispensable to Public Provision

A2-C04-R02 · Record · Knowledge

The Archivist's Correction

Restores use of a challenged Record at a cost while preserving evidence of the previous mistake.

Open design question: Do not reward repeated self-disputing and re-verifying of the same Record without limit.

Sources: The Archivist's Correction

A2-C04-E01 · Event · Knowledge

Keep the Certificate

Protects a copied effect's original limitations rather than strengthening the copy or granting general immunity.

Open design question: Identify an existing copying interaction to test before adding new provenance counters or statuses.

Sources: Certificate of Comparison, The Complete Evidence Packet

A2-C04-R03 · Record · Knowledge / Influence

Eleven Minutes Earlier

Offers bounded information about a prior declared action. A suspicious sequence creates a question, not automatic removal of an opponent's card.

Open design question: Use public game history or a clearly defined reveal; do not require hidden retrospective bookkeeping.

Sources: Eleven Minutes Earlier

Continuity locks