rpg skill: continuity-search and sequel-from-Tangent lessons

memory/MEMORY.md

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 - [MINI-S browser automation](infra_minis_browser_automation.md) — Playwright MCP (headless Chromium) lets Claude view/control web pages on the LAN incl. the Zyxel router; restart Claude after adding to load tools
 - [Local LLM agent stack](local-llm-agent-stack.md) — Hermes Agent + Ollama + Gemma 4 12B on the user's Mac; install gotchas (64K ctx, uv-managed Python 3.11)
 - [NotebookLM CLI setup](notebooklm-cli-setup.md) — notebooklm-py on the Mac; pin --python 3.12 (else silent 0.1.1 downgrade), browser login, launchd auth-refresh keepalive
+- [RPG skill](rpg-skill.md) — house scenario-writing skill at ~/.claude/skills/rpg, shared via claude-config; pull+install before sync, sync.sh after RPG work.
+- [Contingency 2027](contingency-2027.md) — 27–31 Jan 2027, Hunstanton; repo slaguru666/contingency2027, 10 slots, 8 games incl. the DEAD AIR CoC trilogy.

memory/contingency-2027.md

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+---
+name: contingency-2027
+description: "Contingency 2027 convention (27–31 Jan 2027, Hunstanton) — repo slaguru666/contingency2027, ten slots, eight games incl. the DEAD AIR CoC trilogy."
+metadata: 
+  node_type: memory
+  type: project
+  originSessionId: 4185da5c-dbd4-48dc-aeca-e46d1df04ce0
+  modified: 2026-07-31T20:45:41.869Z
+---
+
+Contingency 2027 runs **Wed 27 – Sun 31 January 2027** at Searles Leisure Resort,
+Hunstanton (Wyrd Sisters Games Club, members-only, Warhorn booking). Tim GMs
+**two games a day — afternoon and evening, 4-hour slots** = ten slots; eight
+booked, both Sunday slots held as reserve.
+
+Repo: `slaguru666/contingency2027`. Mirror:
+`~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/RPGS/Conventions/Contingency 2027`.
+
+The slate: Black Summer (TWDU, modified) · AFTERIMAGE (Blade Runner — a port of
+the finished Continuum 2026 v2.2, *not* a rewrite) · **DEAD AIR** I/II/III (Call
+of Cthulhu: Berlin 1946 → Soviet closed city 1962 → Berlin 2027) · The Favour
+(Dee Sanction) · Another Bloody Treasure Map (VANITY) · The Curious Case of
+Mr Parker's Diary (Vaesen).
+
+DEAD AIR runs the same afternoon slot on three consecutive days so a player can
+take the whole arc without a clash, and is produced as **one production with
+three outputs** — that is what makes eight games deliverable. See
+[[rpg-skill]] for the house format the repo is written to.
+
+Two things to check before drafting further: Witchfinder Garrett is described as
+*returning* but appears nowhere in earlier convention material, and the slot
+times in the repo are placeholders until Warhorn publishes.

skills/rpg/references/lessons.md

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   and no dependencies. Worth it: two of the "failures" it surfaced were the
   harness lying, which is itself the thing you want to find before a
   convention floor.
+## 2027-01 prep (2026-07) — continuity searches for returning NPCs
+
+- **Grep the role, not just the name.** A returning NPC brief said "Witchfinder
+  Garrett". Case-insensitive greps for `garrett` and `garret` both found
+  nothing across every convention folder — the character is **Garratt**, from
+  *The Princes Bride*. One wrong consonant nearly produced a scenario that
+  contradicted its own prequel. Search the *role* (`witch finder`, `witchfinder`,
+  `inquisitor`) and read the prior scenario's **NPC roster table** before
+  concluding a character is new. Report "not found" as provisional, never as
+  fact.
+- **The prequel's early-finish Tangent is the sequel's premise, already
+  written.** Every house scenario carries a bonus scene for tables that crack it
+  early. Those scenes are hooks with the cost already priced — *The Princes
+  Bride*'s crossroads offer (a ledger's blank column, a list of three villages,
+  and "teach me what the meadowsweet meant") gave the sequel its inciting
+  incident, its antagonist's arc, and its hardest ending, for free. **Check the
+  Tangent first when writing any follow-up.**
+- **A sequel that reuses the prequel's pregens should be built on their
+  documented seams, not on the plot.** The prequel's Sanction-rhyme table
+  already paired the forger with the evidence-making witch finder; building the
+  new case so that pairing is its best scene costs nothing and is the whole
+  payoff for returning players. Keep the house rule intact — every seam still
+  needs a written alternate route so new players lose nothing but the echo.