{ "entities": [ { "id": "A2-CHAR-ELIZA", "name": "Eliza Marr", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 11, 12, 13, 48, 83, 85, 86, 87, 111 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "Use the existing approved Archivist concept only. No new face or costume is established.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p012", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p013", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p048", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p085", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p087", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p111" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-PELL", "name": "Daran Pell", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 4, 7, 23, 35, 44, 47, 49, 90, 107, 108 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "No new portrait commissioned. A copying or carrying action should distinguish him from the established Leaders.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p007", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p023", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p047", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p049", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p090", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p107", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p108" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-RUSK", "name": "Tavin Rusk", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 2, 4, 9, 14, 17, 19, 24, 27, 40, 42, 58, 60, 96, 99, 104, 106 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "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.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p002", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p009", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p014", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p017", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p019", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p024", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p027", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p040", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p042", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p096", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p099", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p104", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p106" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-KEST", "name": "Iona Kest", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 62, 65, 67, 71, 74, 75, 86, 89 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "Retain the Chapter 2 examiner identity. A working evidence-table scene is preferable to a ceremonial judge portrait.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p062", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p065", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p067", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p071", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p074", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p075", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p089" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-EAST", "name": "Transferred East Reserve Collection", "kind": "Place / collection", "paragraphs": [ 4, 7, 15, 17, 18, 20, 24, 42, 58, 60, 79, 80 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "Object-led setting with layered crate labels, steel tins, old desk and space shared with meal storage.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p007", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p015", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p017", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p018", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p020", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p024", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p042", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p079", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p080" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-DELIVERY-LEDGER", "name": "Rusk's Delivery Ledger", "kind": "Record / artifact", "paragraphs": [ 14, 15, 17, 22, 50, 58, 60, 90 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "Typeset editorial ledger study only; do not invent numeric inventories or claim a historical facsimile.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p014", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p015", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p017", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p022", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p090" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE-FILM", "name": "Photographic Schedule Tin", "kind": "Artifact / document carrier", "paragraphs": [ 20, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 50, 59 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "An independent future still-life master can show tin, film and viewer with no generated wording. This release uses controlled typeset source distinctions.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p020", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p023", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p024", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p025", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p029", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p059" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-COMPARISON-CERT", "name": "Certificate of Comparison", "kind": "Record", "paragraphs": [ 29, 30, 43, 44, 49, 64, 65, 76, 89 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "Set only chapter-established wording in HTML; do not invent signatures, dates or an original certificate design.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p029", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p043", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p049", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p064", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p065", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p076", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p089" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE9", "name": "Schedule Nine", "kind": "Record", "paragraphs": [ 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33, 39, 64, 67, 71, 74, 89 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "The disclosed clause may now be typeset exactly. Do not present an invented full facsimile as the executed original.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p025", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p026", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p029", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p031", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p033", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p039", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p064", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p067", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p071", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p074", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p089" ] }, { "id": "A2-CONCEPT-PUBLIC-USE", "name": "Indispensable to Public Provision", "kind": "Principle / recorded instruction", "paragraphs": [ 31, 33, 34, 36, 39, 42, 67, 71, 75, 89, 91, 93, 112 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "A restrained exact-text clause study, clearly labelled original fiction and editorial typesetting.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p031", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p033", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p034", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p036", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p039", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p042", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p067", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p071", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p075", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p089", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p091", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p093", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p112" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-HOLD-NOTICE", "name": "Referral Hold Instruction", "kind": "Record / event", "paragraphs": [ 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 58, 78, 79 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "An editorial custody note, not a new black-sun master credential.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p051", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p053", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p056", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p078", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p079" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-CATALOGUE-CORRECTION", "name": "The Archivist's Correction", "kind": "Record", "paragraphs": [ 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 48, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "A paired old-entry/correction study, with no invented forgery or additional confession.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p012", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p013", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p018", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p019", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p048", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p084", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p085", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p087" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-EVIDENCE-PACKET", "name": "The Complete Evidence Packet", "kind": "Record / artifact group", "paragraphs": [ 44, 47, 49, 58, 59, 64, 76, 88, 89, 90, 92 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "Future artifact set should keep copy labels separate from the original art. Do not imply unrestricted public verification is already complete.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p047", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p049", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p059", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p064", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p076", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p088", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p089", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p090", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p092" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-SUCCESSION-QUALIFICATION", "name": "Notice to the Succession Delegation", "kind": "Record / event", "paragraphs": [ 76, 89, 91, 92 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "A controlled notice excerpt, not a coronation or completed transfer charter.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p076", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p089", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p091", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p092" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-EARLIER-REQUEST", "name": "Eleven Minutes Earlier", "kind": "Record / mystery", "paragraphs": [ 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 104, 106, 108, 111, 113 ], "fact": "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.", "art": "Two typeset receipt times with an explicitly unassigned officer field; do not identify UNKNOWN, Ostrog or the slip's author.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p096", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p097", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p099", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p101", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p102", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p104", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p106", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p108", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p111", "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/#p113" ] } ], "continuity_locks": [ "The action follows the restricted northern restart and precedes noon; the grain renewal crisis remains unresolved.", "The recovered object is a photographed certified office duplicate. The executed original has not been recovered.", "The public-trust clause is original sequel fiction, not a quotation or legal fact from Wells.", "Recovery establishes the content of a source, not the final validity or reach of its provisions after two centuries.", "The film remains with Rusk. Three complete reading packets have separate destinations and receipts.", "Eliza corrects her earlier transfer record without deleting it. This does not yet prove a two-century deliberate suppression policy.", "Marian remains a candidate. The delegation confirms an occupied address; no acceptance or installed heir occurs here.", "10:35 and 10:46 come from one terminal log. A reference response is not proof of reading or copying the film.", "Do not connect the earlier query, hold notice or unsigned slip to a named antagonist or UNKNOWN without later evidence.", "Chapter 1–3 canon remains chapter-local knowledge. Do not rewrite earlier uncertainty with later discoveries." ], "edition": "A2-CH04-20260926-R1", "chapter": 4, "title": "The Ledger Opens", "status": "published_novel_chapter", "word_count": 3836, "chapter_url": "/after-the-sleeper/04-the-ledger-opens/", "prose_hash": "157539bad14f64e50eb7ddf15deb67cd46fa878fae3fb267d809b9b349a6a4d2", "tcg": { "status": "Untested design candidates only. No costs, statistics, rarities or new keywords are approved; the live V0.3 rules remain unchanged.", "candidates": [ { "id": "A2-C04-F01", "name": "Tavin Rusk, Keeper of Transfers", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Infrastructure" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-RUSK", "A2-OBJ-DELIVERY-LEDGER" ], "direction": "Makes a previously inaccessible Record available by preserving its transfer context, with a bounded opportunity cost.", "open_question": "Can this use an existing recovery action without creating repeatable discard-and-retrieve value?" }, { "id": "A2-C04-F02", "name": "Iona Kest, Examiner of Claims", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Authority" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-KEST", "A2-OBJ-SUCCESSION-QUALIFICATION" ], "direction": "Challenges one overbroad authority effect while leaving its narrower lawful target intact.", "open_question": "Define eligible effects and the response window; avoid a universal counter that locks out an opponent." }, { "id": "A2-C04-P01", "name": "East Reserve, Transferred Collection", "type": "Place", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-PLACE-EAST", "A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE-FILM" ], "direction": "Supports searching for a Record only when the player commits a Figure or gives up another development option.", "open_question": "The benefit should require an investment and must not produce repeated unrestricted deck searches." }, { "id": "A2-C04-R01", "name": "The Ninth Schedule", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Authority" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-SCHEDULE9", "A2-CONCEPT-PUBLIC-USE" ], "direction": "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_question": "Control-transfer timing and verification remain under review. The fiction's public trust is not itself an approved new game subsystem." }, { "id": "A2-C04-R02", "name": "The Archivist's Correction", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-CATALOGUE-CORRECTION" ], "direction": "Restores use of a challenged Record at a cost while preserving evidence of the previous mistake.", "open_question": "Do not reward repeated self-disputing and re-verifying of the same Record without limit." }, { "id": "A2-C04-E01", "name": "Keep the Certificate", "type": "Event", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-COMPARISON-CERT", "A2-OBJ-EVIDENCE-PACKET" ], "direction": "Protects a copied effect's original limitations rather than strengthening the copy or granting general immunity.", "open_question": "Identify an existing copying interaction to test before adding new provenance counters or statuses." }, { "id": "A2-C04-R03", "name": "Eleven Minutes Earlier", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Influence" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-EARLIER-REQUEST" ], "direction": "Offers bounded information about a prior declared action. A suspicious sequence creates a question, not automatic removal of an opponent's card.", "open_question": "Use public game history or a clearly defined reveal; do not require hidden retrospective bookkeeping." } ] }, "boundary": "Original Sleeper Archive fiction. All quoted estate clauses are invented for this sequel, not historical legal documents or Wells quotations. TCG ideas are untested candidates, not live rules.", "records": [ { "id": "A2-007", "title": "Schedule Nine", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/007-schedule-nine/", "paragraphs": [ 25, 26, 29, 30, 39, 64, 71 ], "copy": "The discovered source is a photographed, certified office duplicate. The executed original and later amendments have not been examined. Eliza makes the evidence usable without pretending those gaps have disappeared." }, { "id": "A2-008", "title": "Indispensable to Public Provision", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/008-indispensable-to-public-provision/", "paragraphs": [ 31, 33, 34, 39, 67, 71, 75, 89, 93, 112 ], "copy": "The clause calls for qualifying public-use property to be separated from ordinary inheritance. It changes the succession question, but does not identify every qualifying asset or release the grain by itself." } ] }