rpg skill: lessons — Silvery Moon salvage (canonize vs correct, margin pregens, reconcile contradictions)

memory/MEMORY.md

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 - [Blueprint News](blueprint-news.md) — engine-agnostic SLA BPN briefing generator at `~/blueprint-news/`; reusable component + standalone app, seeded procedural SVG art, Player/GM split, NPC seam for a separate module.
 - [clipsync](clipsync.md) — CouchDB-backed clipboard history for the Macs; `clipsync-setup` to install, `clip` to browse.
 - [AFTERIMAGE scenario](afterimage-scenario.md) — 4-player Blade Runner game for Continuum 2026, Fri 24 July, Slot 2; repo slaguru666/Continuum2026; convention-ready.
+- [Princes Bride scenario](princes-bride-scenario.md) — Dee Sanction game for Continuum 2026, Sun 26 July, Slot 7; reconciled canon + real rules (ignore old quick-ref); convention-ready.
+- Continuum 2026 slate complete in slaguru666/Continuum2026: Day One (Fri S1), AFTERIMAGE (Fri S2), Vain Crown (Sat S4), Another Fine Mess — Pulp Cthulhu chopper sequel (Sun S6), Princes Bride (Sun S7).
 - [Plugin sync](project_plugin_sync.md) — keep Claude Code plugins identical across all servers via the claude-config repo (settings.json enabledPlugins); run sync.sh after install/remove
 - [MINI-S remote access](infra_minis_remote_access.md) — timevans-MINI-S: static 192.168.1.6, key-only SSH + fail2ban, Zyxel DX3301-T0 port-forward 2222->22 (Voneus)
 - [MINI-S Docker stacks](infra_minis_docker_stacks.md) — homelab (Portainer/Gitea/Obsidian/Stirling-PDF/Nextcloud) + Seafile cloud drive; ports, data paths, secrets locations

memory/princes-bride-scenario.md

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+---
+name: princes-bride-scenario
+description: THE PRINCES BRIDE — Dee Sanction game for Continuum 2026 Sunday Slot 7 (14:00–18:00); v1.1 convention-ready in slaguru666/Continuum2026
+metadata: 
+  node_type: memory
+  type: project
+  originSessionId: 445b61b6-6e68-4f8e-8caa-28bf213400e9
+  modified: 2026-07-19T14:05:10.686Z
+---
+
+THE PRINCES BRIDE (The Dee Sanction) is Tim's Continuum 2026 **Sunday Slot 7** game (26 July, 14:00–18:00, Arkham room). v1.1 convention-ready, built from the January materials at `/Volumes/Mac 2TB/Convention/contingency-2026/dee-sanction`. Repo: `slaguru666/Continuum2026` (shared-folder convention: `scenarios/sun-slot7-dee-sanction-princes-bride.md`, `gm-utility/princes-bride/`, art in `scenarios/art/princes-bride/`); local: `RPGS/Conventions/Continuum 2026/03 Sunday/Slot 7 Afternoon Dee Sanction/PRINCES-BRIDE/`.
+
+**Canon (reconciled — the January drafts contradicted each other):** Mary Fletcher made the planted poppet; the real fae charm came from the late Agatha Thorne; Garratt is a persuadable pragmatist; McShay's rejected proposal was to Eleanor Patterson; the Prince is **Sigismund** (not Henry — PC name collision); the village is **Faversholme**, Yorkshire, October **1586**. Table conventions: pregens are "Meg", "Nell", "Lynton" — never Margaret/Eleanor/Thomas.
+
+**Real Dee Sanction rules** (the old gm-quick-reference.html was a different game's system — ignore it): roll one Ability die (Physicall/Intellectuall/Supernaturall, d4–d12); 3+ succeeds, 1–2 Falters (success at cost); Expertise steps the die up; Fortune = one re-roll; Unravelling track steps down on uncanny Falters.
+
+**Set-pieces:** the Trial at dawn on an open **Verdict Die** (evidence steps it up, d10+ = acquittal without rolling, Falter = water ordeal) and the Bargain at the stones (courtesies; no roll wins the parley). Console: THE SANCTION DESK. Tim runs FOUR Continuum slots: Day One (Fri S1), AFTERIMAGE (Fri S2), Vain Crown (Sat S4), Princes Bride (Sun S7). Related: [[afterimage-scenario]], [[rpg-skill]].

skills/rpg/references/lessons.md

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   are printed and well-made but generic, don't rebuild — print per-agent
   mission inserts (private seam + dice crib + table-name conventions) that
   slip inside the sheets. Cheaper, and the sheets stay canon.
+
+## 2026-07 — Silvery Moon rebuild (inherited-draft salvage)
+
+- **Verify a period scenario's real-world facts, then decide: correct or
+  canonize.** Silvery Moon's eclipse was astronomically impossible (new moon
+  that night — checked against the real 1892 record). Correcting it would
+  have cost the climax; canonizing the wrongness AS the horror (the moon that
+  should not be there, proven by an almanac handout and an astronomer pregen)
+  turned the draft's worst error into its best clue. Always check which move
+  the fiction wants before reaching for the eraser.
+- **Mine the draft's own margins for pregens.** The strongest pregen is often
+  already in the text as a named-but-unused NPC (Dr. Lyle was the draft's own
+  "recent collaborator"). Lift them before inventing.
+- **When two source layers contradict (prose vs app data), reconcile so both
+  are true** — Braddock "too afraid to act" AND "cult member" became a
+  coerced member, which was stronger than either. Contradictions are usually
+  two halves of a better fact.