Tracks how overlapping authorities affect ordinary actions, keeps public maps open to correction, resists territorialising administrative lines and insists that the live Graham event be recorded before it is interpreted. Her assembly remains one authority among several, not a citywide sovereign.
Use the established Organiser continuity only if needed. Stronger chapter compositions are the layered map wall, relay-station bread cart or market screen crowd.
A2-CHAR-MEREL · Character
Merel Vann
A lodging-house resident and courtyard messenger who carries four valid papers serving different functions and asks which one is real. Her question makes the chapter's overlapping-authority problem concrete without making any paper fraudulent.
Four mismatched papers in one hand on a stair landing; no fixed portrait needed.
A2-CHAR-SEN · Character
Sen Dorr
A local receiving-court messenger at the first relay station who asks whether lift alarms still pass through the disabled command path and how long the bread route can wait. She represents service continuity rather than either armed side.
Messenger beside bread cart and relay doors, not a faction uniform.
A2-CHAR-MARIAN · Character
Marian Vale
Uses her succession office primarily to refuse enforcement of claims that depend specifically on her prospective authority. Her notices do not cancel debts or command third parties; they remove one asserted source of coercion while leaving other legal and administrative claims intact.
Desk with refusal notices and an old dressmaker sign outside; no ownership symbolism.
A2-CHAR-ARUN · Character
Arun Vey
Maintains technical authority over relays and service systems while refusing both custodial and black-seal attempts to turn machinery into factional control. His crews disable remote command for both sides when necessary, even when that causes temporary service costs.
Relay key and systems map; avoid depicting him as armed security.
A2-CHAR-ELIZA · Character
Eliza Marr
Maps provenance rather than territory, builds a current-authorities wall with explicit DOES NOT ESTABLISH limits, and treats the responsive Graham feed as an event to preserve and compare rather than immediate proof of identity.
Current-authorities wall or recorder table; no oracle imagery.
A2-CHAR-PERA · Character
Pera Sol
Maintains the market booth, preserves the sleeping-eye screen event, records local receiver behavior and keeps capturing the feed while different authorities argue over whether they can disconnect it. Her work establishes custody, not authenticity.
Receiver booth with local recorder and timestamp notes; no surveillance-control console.
A2-OBJ-LAYERED-PAPERS · Authority records
The Four Valid Papers
Food, lift access, housing appeal and district-messenger papers are all valid for different actions. Their coexistence demonstrates functional rather than territorial division of authority.
Four distinct paper forms without a hierarchy crown or universal master pass.
A2-OBJ-FOUR-MAPS · Public map set
The Maps of London
Custodial districts, assembly mandates, engineering systems, air corridors and provenance/control histories describe overlapping Londons. Later public annotations turn the maps into arguments rather than neutral territorial truth.
Layered wall of differently structured maps with handwritten public annotations; avoid one merged authoritative map.
A2-PLACE-RELAY-STATIONS · Places / events
The Contested Relay Stations
At two relay stations custodians, black-seal credential holders and engineers hold different kinds of control. Engineers remove or lock command paths for both armed sides while preserving essential service where possible.
Relay doors, police line, occupied room and bread cart or switching boards; no simple two-army battlefield.
A2-OBJ-ACTUATOR-KEYS · Technical control artifact
The Removed Actuator Keys
Engineers physically remove the keys needed for remote relay command, preventing either custodians or black-seal occupants from converting possession of paperwork or rooms into machine control.
Industrial key ring and relay mechanism; do not turn the key into a mystical master key.
A2-OBJ-CURRENT-AUTHORITY-WALL · Archive comparison system
The Current Authorities Wall
Eliza displays current custodial notices, district mandates, engineering compacts, Rook's air agreement, Marian's refusal notices and black-seal receipts with source, duration and explicit limits. It maps documents, not a single hierarchy.
Wall of heterogeneous records with DOES NOT ESTABLISH fields; editorial, not futuristic.
A2-OBJ-REFUSAL-NOTICES · Legal position records
Marian's Refusal Notices
The succession office states which estate-dependent claims Marian will not enforce while title and public-use questions remain unresolved. The notices do not erase all debts or command third parties, but they change behavior by removing her prospective authority from selected claims.
Claim list with ENFORCEMENT DECLINED or UNDER REVIEW fields; do not invent a sweeping renunciation deed.
A2-OBJ-RENEWAL-COLUMN · Public renewal record
Government by Expiry
Rook's temporary air arrangement expires and is renewed for another forty-eight hours. Pera posts each renewal date publicly; the growing column makes visible how temporary authority can acquire habitual continuity.
Simple dated renewal column with explicit expiries; no permanent ministry seal.
A2-OBJ-SLEEPING-EYE · Broadcast symbol
The Sleeping Eye Beneath a Black Sun
A simple symbol appears across public receivers at slightly different times before the new Graham image. Its display is established; who originated it and whether it identifies the bombing network are not.
A Graham likeness appears across distributed public screens, answers reporter questions and appears to respond to a locally voiced question. The chapter establishes responsive behavior and distribution but does not establish a surviving Graham, synthetic identity, single operator or specific technical mechanism.
A2-C15-P01 · Place / Record hybrid candidate · Knowledge / Influence
Four Maps of London
Shows multiple valid control relationships over the same board state. A player may inspect one additional authority source but no map becomes the master state.
Open design question: Prefer a Record if Place/Record hybrid types are unsupported by live rules.
Records a symbol and its reception timing without assigning authorship. It can support later comparison effects but cannot identify a faction by itself.
Open design question: Keep the card useful without rewarding unsupported attribution.
Introduces a responsive authority claim whose identity remains unverified. Players can preserve or challenge the feed, but cannot treat responsiveness alone as authentication.
Open design question: This should seed Chapter 16 mechanics without revealing its conclusion or creating a free universal command.
Chapter 15 follows Chapter 14's temporary air-command arrangement and the Chapter 13 bombing aftermath.
The city divides by function and overlapping authority rather than neat territorial borders. A single building can be governed differently for food, lifts, housing, airspace and representation.
Custodian, engineering, assembly, succession, air-service and archive authority remain distinct. None becomes the uncontested city government in this chapter.
At the relay stations, black-seal credentials and custodial claims do not give either side total machine control; engineers physically remove or lock command paths.
The two relay occupations are not proven to belong to one organisation merely because both use black-seal credentials.
Marian's negative power consists of declining to enforce selected estate-dependent claims. She does not issue general orders cancelling debts or transferring property.
The second water-related refusal is narrower because much of the charge does not depend on Marian's succession claim; the water continues moving.
Rook's air agreement is renewed for another forty-eight hours and remains temporary. Renewal itself becomes a visible continuity risk.
The sleeping-eye symbol is displayed before the responsive Graham feed. Its origin is unknown.
The responsive Graham feed appears distributed and interactive. Chapter 15 does not decide whether it is Graham, a synthetic system, a live operator network or another mechanism.
Graham's statements about the bombing and black seal are claims within an unverified feed, not narrator-confirmed facts.
Arun and Rook each isolate parts of the communications system, but the feed persists through other receivers; there is no single citywide off switch.
The woman whose brother died is not given a name in this chapter. Do not invent one in canon or art.
Chapter 16 must begin from an apparently responsive Graham that can answer questions, while retaining the Archive's evidence discipline.
Existing Chapter 9 artwork, Chapter 5 notes, Archive 001 content and live game rules remain unchanged.