{ "entities": [ { "id": "A2-CHAR-ELIZA", "name": "Eliza Marr", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 1, 5, 9, 20, 41, 54, 81, 92, 99, 107, 109, 112 ], "fact": "Eliza recognises the recording's emotional appeal before examining it. She publishes a limited, reproducible comparison, visits the receiving court, preserves intrusion evidence and publicly corrects an overstatement in her own release.", "art": "Retain her established likeness. No new portrait is approved by this chapter; hands or distant views can show the work without redesigning her.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p001", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p005", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p009", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p020", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p054", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p081", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p092", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p099", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p107", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p109", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p112" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-PELL", "name": "Daran Pell", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 4, 16, 23, 42, 61, 77, 79, 87, 101, 107 ], "fact": "Daran compares received copies, helps locate the channel test, records the findings and witnesses part of the archive intrusion. His sleeve is torn but he reports that he is not hurt. He challenges unclear public instructions.", "art": "Junior archive worker, not a senior registrar. Preserve the distinction between his direct observations and the porter's account.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p016", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p023", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p042", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p061", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p077", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p079", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p087", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p101", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p107" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-PERA", "name": "Pera Sol", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 7, 10, 11, 12, 50, 55, 60, 65, 72, 100 ], "fact": "The market-booth keeper brings a local capture after arranging relief. She preserves separate versions, plays the comparison and asks how other booths can check the archive's own package.", "art": "A receiver cartridge, dry cloth and a working booth establish her actions. No invented official badge or faction emblem.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p007", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p010", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p012", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p065", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p072", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p100" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-AMEL", "name": "Amel Ryn", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 10, 13, 15, 17, 21, 35, 39, 48, 70, 72 ], "fact": "Amel accompanies Pera with cups and bread. She hopes the apparent Graham speech is genuine, then takes copies of the finding to people she has already told he returned. Her initial belief is not equated with creating the alteration.", "art": "The insulated carrier and ordinary cups matter more than a heroic pose. No new face or costume has been established.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p010", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p013", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p015", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p017", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p021", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p039", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p048", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p070", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p072" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-TRESS", "name": "Lio Tress", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 27, 30, 33, 34, 40, 41, 44, 90, 100, 101 ], "fact": "An archive replay technician. He compares mundane visual events, obtains a separately retained camera view and makes the source comparison available for others to examine. He does not identify the forger or authenticate every received frame.", "art": "New character. Design separately from Daran: a working replay technician at a bench, not another figure in a long coat against a city.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p027", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p033", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p034", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p040", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p090", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p100", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p101" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-KEST", "name": "Iona Kest", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 45, 47, 82, 89 ], "fact": "Kest witnesses the release, distinguishes the finding from a succession decision and requires sources, rather than the number of copies, to be compared. The recording does not install or disqualify Marian by itself.", "art": "Use the existing examiner's role. No dramatic coronation, warrant of guilt or new faction identity.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p045", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p047", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p082", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p089" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-NARA", "name": "Nara Venn", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 50, 51, 53, 66, 71 ], "fact": "Nara hears the comparison without celebrating the destruction of her neighbours' hope. She asks about source trust and recirculation; she has not herself solved the recording or identified its maker.", "art": "A person listening in the working receiving court. Avoid the triumphant podium and invented slogans.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p051", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p053", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p066", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p071" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-VIADUCT-COURT", "name": "Eastern Viaduct Receiving Court", "kind": "Place", "paragraphs": [ 49, 50, 55, 56, 68, 72 ], "fact": "In daylight, the comparison plays above a lamp-oil queue. Work and daily needs continue while listeners disagree about the evidence. This is not a citywide acceptance of the archive's finding.", "art": "Wide scene brief: soot-stained arch, small public screen, oil cans, serving lane and modest market booth. Any picture is illustrative, not evidence of the fictional comparison.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p049", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p050", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p056", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p068", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p072" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-REPLAY-BENCH", "name": "The Replay Bench", "kind": "Place / apparatus", "paragraphs": [ 22, 23, 27, 40, 41, 44, 101, 111 ], "fact": "Work plates allow retained channel tests and the received address to be compared. By evening three plates support a public, self-directed demonstration with explanatory instructions.", "art": "Overhead object-and-work composition. Do not invent measured waveforms, real forensic readouts or contradictory faces as though they were source evidence.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p022", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p023", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p027", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p040", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p101", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p111" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-GRAHAM-RECEIVED", "name": "The Forty-Three-Second Received Address", "kind": "Record / copied package", "paragraphs": [ 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 41, 43 ], "fact": "The local capture matches the transmitted package. A six-second passage reuses preserved test imagery with changed speech and mouth movement. The package cannot serve as an unaltered recording of the claimed address. Its maker and the provenance of every other second remain unknown.", "art": "Grey receiver cartridge in dry cloth with separate routing wrapper and receiving papers. Delivery time must not be labelled filming time. No invented wax seal is canonical.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p008", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p010", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p011", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p012", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p016", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p043" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-CHANNEL-TESTS", "name": "The Two Retained Channel Tests", "kind": "Records", "paragraphs": [ 22, 23, 27, 28, 31, 34, 38, 40, 41 ], "fact": "The archive and engineering control retain different views of the same test. Shared incidental motion connects them to six seconds of the received address, while the retained sound asks whether the channel is carrying. Their custody entries support the comparison without claiming that every custodian witnessed filming.", "art": "Two source views and one disputed passage. Future explanatory labels must be typeset separately; the artwork itself is not proof.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p022", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p023", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p027", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p028", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p031", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p034", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p038", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p040", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p041" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-LIMITED-FINDING", "name": "The Limited Comparison Finding", "kind": "Record", "paragraphs": [ 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54, 56, 58, 65 ], "fact": "The finding rejects the first received version as an unaltered record of that speech. It does not prove Graham never named Marian elsewhere, determine succession, establish survival or identify a culprit. Source attachments and version identity travel with it.", "art": "A documentary plate may state the six-second comparison and its limits; avoid a universal TRUE or FALSE seal.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p042", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p043", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p044", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p045", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p047", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p054", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p056", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p065" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-RESTORATION-CLAIM", "name": "The Revised Address", "kind": "Record / claim", "paragraphs": [ 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 73 ], "fact": "A later-received version omits the compared passage and claims restoration from damaged originals. Its production time is not established. The change does not undo the finding about the earlier version.", "art": "Distinct version labels, not a claim that the sender has been caught altering it live.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p061", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p062", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p064", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p065", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p073" ] }, { "id": "A2-EVENT-VIEWING-ROOM", "name": "The Viewing-Room Intrusion", "kind": "Event / evidence", "paragraphs": [ 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 90, 102, 106 ], "fact": "One man presents a transfer slip while another forces the inner access and photographs displayed Schedule Nine copies. Source material is not reported stolen. Accounts, damage and a new reflected lamp angle are retained. A seal does not establish the visitor's identity or the later editor's identity.", "art": "Forced lock, disturbed paper order and viewing glass. No identifiable culprit, weapon, attack on Rusk's original film or invented faction mark.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p074", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p075", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p077", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p079", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p080", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p081", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p082", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p090", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p102", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p106" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-TWELVE-PACKAGES", "name": "Twelve Claimed Schedule Copies", "kind": "Records", "paragraphs": [ 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90 ], "fact": "Twelve packages reach this archive: six retain the clause, four omit it, and two give different Heir-emergency wording. Several are recirculations of the same source. This is a local count, not twelve independent witnesses or a census of all London copies. The retained photographed duplicate remains distinct from the unrecovered executed instrument.", "art": "Document grouping with editable labels. Do not draw the disputed clauses as established legal text.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p084", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p085", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p086", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p088", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p089", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p090" ] }, { "id": "A2-SYS-PUBLIC-COMPARISON", "name": "The Public Comparison Register", "kind": "System / records practice", "paragraphs": [ 92, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112 ], "fact": "The register binds findings to exact received versions and accessible sources, retains corrections and excludes unrelated private files. Its first correction changes Eliza's description of a storage receipt mislabelled as a camera certificate. A matching reference value proves copy identity, not the truth of a statement.", "art": "Keep public finding, source and correction visibly distinct. Do not invent an infallible authentication machine or imply that personal files are opened.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p092", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p096", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p098", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p099", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p100", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p101", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p107", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p108", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p109", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p110", "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/#p112" ] } ], "continuity_locks": [ "Begins just after the fourth evening's broadcast and continues through the following day; it does not return to the first morning after Graham's fall.", "Industrial Spine already exists in the story. Its wording is not used as proof of posthumous fabrication.", "The test imagery and separately retained second view support a specific six-second alteration finding. No claim is made that visual similarity alone identifies a source or forger.", "The first and revised received addresses stay separate. Arrival order does not establish the time or motive of production.", "The apparent address neither installs Marian nor proves Graham survived. Marian's Chapter 5 decisions remain intact.", "The intruders photograph displayed copies, not an executed original of Schedule Nine. Rusk's film and the original instruction are not retconned into this room.", "The twelve schedule packages are the archive's observed sample; repeated forwarding does not create independent evidence.", "No link to UNKNOWN, Ostrog or a named culprit is established. The transfer slip's seal is not yet explained as the Black Seal.", "The public register exposes source comparisons and corrections, not witness home addresses, personnel records or all estate secrets.", "Eliza's storage-receipt correction remains visible. A copy-integrity check is never equated with a universal truth guarantee.", "TCG material remains design candidates. New painting attempts were not accepted as chapter art; generated mockups must not be used as publication evidence." ], "edition": "A2-CH09-20260926-R1", "chapter": 9, "title": "The First False Record", "status": "published_novel_chapter", "word_count": 4022, "chapter_url": "/after-the-sleeper/09-the-first-false-record/", "prose_hash": "1184e42ef5dbec5642e9698547c1227c65d7adcd07bf1ec8e27704ccca348aea", "tcg": { "status": "Untested design candidates only. No card cost, statistic or rarity is approved. These ideas do not change the live game rules.", "candidates": [ { "id": "A2-C09-F01", "name": "Lio Tress, Replay Technician", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-TRESS", "A2-OBJ-CHANNEL-TESTS" ], "direction": "Helps compare one declared Record with a distinct preserved source. Commit the Figure so the comparison competes with other uses of the turn.", "open_question": "What existing state represents a distinct source without requiring every player to remember an unlimited history of copies?" }, { "id": "A2-C09-F02", "name": "Pera Sol, Keeper of the Received Copy", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Influence" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-PERA", "A2-OBJ-GRAHAM-RECEIVED" ], "direction": "Retains one named version when another Record replaces a public effect. Retention preserves the possibility of a challenge, not automatic victory in that challenge.", "open_question": "Define the replacement timing and where the retained card sits without creating an extra hidden zone." }, { "id": "A2-C09-R01", "name": "Six Seconds in Common", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-CHANNEL-TESTS", "A2-OBJ-LIMITED-FINDING" ], "direction": "Supports a bounded challenge to one specific authority claim. A successful comparison does not cancel every effect controlled by the opponent.", "open_question": "Use the existing Verify vocabulary only after checking its current timing and target rules; no new verified status is silently approved here." }, { "id": "A2-C09-P01", "name": "The Replay Bench", "type": "Place", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-PLACE-REPLAY-BENCH" ], "direction": "Provides comparison access while a Figure is committed, with a visible opportunity cost and a limited number of source slots.", "open_question": "Prevent two benches repeatedly returning the same Record for free draw or verification triggers." }, { "id": "A2-C09-E01", "name": "The Corrected Reading", "type": "Event", "affinity": [ "Authority", "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-RESTORATION-CLAIM", "A2-OBJ-TWELVE-PACKAGES" ], "direction": "Models a claim changing after a challenge without erasing the previous version. Leave a visible response window before the replacement authority takes effect.", "open_question": "How can the replacement use an existing public card state without putting arbitrary text on a copied card?" }, { "id": "A2-C09-R02", "name": "A Correction Beside the Finding", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Influence" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-SYS-PUBLIC-COMPARISON", "A2-CHAR-ELIZA" ], "direction": "Rewards correcting a bounded claim at a real cost rather than erasing a failed verification. It should not reward repeatedly declaring deliberate errors.", "open_question": "Require an opponent challenge or another non-repeatable condition; self-generated correction loops must not be profitable." }, { "id": "A2-C09-S01", "name": "Public Comparison Register", "type": "System", "affinity": [ "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-SYS-PUBLIC-COMPARISON", "A2-OBJ-LIMITED-FINDING" ], "direction": "Makes the source of a declared Record effect visible and lets a limited challenge remain possible. It does not reveal every hidden card or grant omniscience.", "open_question": "Keep disclosure narrow and compare the effect with existing information-control cards before assigning any cost." } ] }, "boundary": "Original Sleeper Archive fiction. Game concepts are untested candidates, not live rules.", "records": [ { "id": "A2-017", "title": "Forty-Three Seconds", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/017-forty-three-seconds/", "paragraphs": [ 16, 28, 40, 41, 43, 60, 65 ], "copy": "Two independently retained views expose a reused six-second passage with altered speech. The finding applies to a particular received address; it does not identify its maker or decide the succession." }, { "id": "A2-018", "title": "The Archive Must Teach Doubt", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/018-the-archive-must-teach-doubt/", "paragraphs": [ 88, 89, 92, 99, 100, 107, 109, 112 ], "copy": "Public access means making the sources, the limits and the corrections available. The register begins by preserving a correction to Eliza’s own account, rather than asking readers to trust a new seal." } ] }