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slaguru666andClaude Opus 5 1b2f9aa385 The warning reaches every surface; commit and concurrency are covered 
Still unreleased. Answering the three blockers.

The worksheet and play sheet never rendered the new field, and stripping
the prose meant they said nothing at all — the two surfaces the whole
two-surface design is about. All five renderers now go through one helper,
core/roster.mjs, which also recovers the warning for delve files generated
before the field existed and refuses to add a line the prose already
carries. Measured across four themes: 40 of 40 delves carrying a roster now
warn on worksheet, play sheet and markdown alike.

Twenty-three was the wrong set. The spelling was never the semantics:
barrow's nightmare Wraith, cave's nightmare Troll and forest's battle Troll
carry the same non-discoverable restriction without the word ONLY. Marked,
so 26. I audited all 64 rosters rather than trusting the count — the ones
left unmarked are discoverable by trying (an Ogre with 12 Grit, mooks that
keep coming until the necromancer stops), and damage works on all of them.

commit() was unprotected, so a failed settings write threw out of stageArea
with the scene already real. It is caught now and says plainly that a retry
will raise the area twice. enter() also has a single-flight guard: it is
bound to a button, it awaits the Forge for seconds, and two overlapping
calls both read the same index.

Also: packById checks the geometry is one VANITY can build rather than just
truthy; foeSection is exported and the suite holds the two renderers to
agreement on all four kinds; and the module README and the seams warning
said 0.10.5 where everything else says 0.10.4.

41 core tests, 54 adapter tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 00:35:15 +01:00

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{
"id": "forest",
"label": "Forest",
"forgeStageType": "forest",
"schema": 1,
"_model": "The wild kernel: the APPETITE belongs to the place itself. A wood wants to be entered, fed, spread, or left uncounted, and the ACCOMMODATION is what it did to whoever was here — took them, grew through them, let them wander. Claimants are the wood's own names for itself.",
"facetProgression": {
"approach": "institution",
"complication": "ritual",
"turn": "demand",
"descent": "wound",
"threshold": "anchor",
"ending": "demand"
},
"claimants": [
"Green Man",
"Antlered Thing",
"Lady of Thorns",
"First Tree",
"Wood's Own",
"Charcoal-Burner",
"Hunt That Does Not End"
],
"appetites": [
{
"id": "entered",
"want": "to be walked into and never out of",
"lack": "walked out of",
"purpose": "nobody would ever find the far side",
"motif": "paths",
"prize": "lantern",
"conscript": "the travellers",
"asks": "\"Which way did you think you were going?\"",
"appeasement": {
"move": "walk in deliberately, and say aloud that you mean to",
"attribute": "Poise",
"successes": 2,
"why": "someone came in on purpose",
"gain": {
"vanity": 1
},
"cost": {
"bane": 1
},
"repeatable": true
}
},
{
"id": "fed",
"want": "to be given something at the edge",
"lack": "unfed",
"purpose": "nobody would ever pass without paying",
"motif": "tithe",
"prize": "bowl",
"conscript": "the offerings",
"asks": "\"What have you brought me?\"",
"appeasement": {
"move": "leave something of value at a root, without asking anything",
"attribute": "Flair",
"successes": 2,
"why": "the wood has been given something",
"gain": {
"vanity": 1
},
"cost": {
"bane": 1
},
"repeatable": true
}
},
{
"id": "spreading",
"want": "to grow over everything that was ever cleared",
"lack": "held back",
"purpose": "nothing would ever stay cut",
"motif": "reclaiming",
"prize": "axe",
"conscript": "the woodsmen",
"asks": "\"Why do you cut me?\"",
"appeasement": {
"move": "let something of yours be taken and grown over",
"attribute": "Poise",
"successes": 2,
"why": "the wood has taken back a little more",
"gain": {
"vanity": 1
},
"cost": {
"bane": 1
},
"repeatable": true
}
},
{
"id": "uncounted",
"want": "never to be mapped or measured",
"lack": "surveyed",
"purpose": "nobody would ever say how big it is",
"motif": "trackless",
"prize": "chain",
"conscript": "the surveyors",
"asks": "\"Do you know where you are?\"",
"appeasement": {
"move": "admit aloud that you are lost, and mean it",
"attribute": "Wits",
"successes": 2,
"why": "nobody can say where they are",
"gain": {
"vanity": 1
},
"cost": {
"bane": 1
},
"repeatable": true
}
}
],
"accommodations": [
{
"id": "took",
"text": "took {conscript} one at a time and did not give them back",
"cruelty": 3,
"fits": [
"entered",
"fed",
"uncounted"
]
},
{
"id": "grewthrough",
"text": "grew through {conscript} until there was more wood than not",
"cruelty": 3,
"fits": [
"spreading",
"fed",
"entered"
]
},
{
"id": "wandered",
"text": "let {conscript} wander until they stopped wanting to leave",
"cruelty": 2,
"fits": [
"entered",
"uncounted",
"spreading"
]
},
{
"id": "traded",
"text": "took {conscript} for a season and returned something else",
"cruelty": 2,
"fits": [
"fed",
"entered",
"uncounted"
]
},
{
"id": "edged",
"text": "kept {conscript} at the treeline, facing out, as a warning",
"cruelty": 3,
"fits": [
"spreading",
"fed",
"uncounted"
]
},
{
"id": "rooted",
"text": "let {conscript} put down roots where they stood",
"cruelty": 1,
"fits": [
"spreading",
"entered",
"fed"
]
}
],
"prizes": {
"lantern": {
"label": "the lantern that still shows the way out",
"function": "the only thing here that knows a direction"
},
"bowl": {
"label": "the bowl the offerings were left in",
"function": "the only place the wood has ever been satisfied"
},
"axe": {
"label": "the axe that held the treeline for a century",
"function": "the only thing that ever cut and stayed cut"
},
"chain": {
"label": "a surveyor's chain, complete",
"function": "the only honest measurement anyone took"
}
},
"placeNames": {
"first": [
"The Wood of the",
"The Green of the",
"Under the",
"The Thicket of the",
"The Old Wood of the"
]
},
"areaNames": {
"approach": [
"The Treeline",
"The Ride",
"The Verge",
"The Coppice Edge",
"The Old Track"
],
"complication": [
"The Coppice",
"The Charcoal Burns",
"The Deer Lawn",
"The Hollow Way",
"The Bramble Break"
],
"turn": [
"The Clearing",
"The Standing Stones",
"The Green Ride",
"The Crossways",
"The Sunken Glade"
],
"descent": [
"The Deep Wood",
"The Blackthorn",
"The Fallen Ground",
"The Wet Wood",
"The Root Hollow"
],
"threshold": [
"The Grove",
"The Ring of Oaks",
"The Last Clearing",
"The Thorn Gate",
"The Still Place"
],
"ending": [
"The First Tree",
"The Heart of the Wood",
"Where the Green Man Waits",
"The Oldest Clearing"
]
},
"factions": [
{
"id": "taken",
"name": "the Taken",
"kind": "undead",
"essence": "still walking the paths they were lost on",
"handledBy": "courtesy"
},
{
"id": "foresters",
"name": "charcoal-burners",
"kind": "living",
"essence": "working a wood that is working on them",
"handledBy": "trade"
},
{
"id": "hunt",
"name": "the Hunt",
"kind": "beast",
"essence": "running something down, and has been for a long time",
"handledBy": "standing still"
},
{
"id": "thorns",
"name": "what grew over the rest",
"kind": "beast",
"essence": "neither knows nor cares who came through",
"handledBy": "force"
}
],
"triggerGlossary": {
"announced": "came in by the ride, singing or talking, as travellers do",
"seenTwice": "passed the same tree twice, or were watched from two sides",
"loud": "an axe, a shout, a horn — the wood minds all three",
"lingering": "stopped moving long enough for the wood to catch up",
"disturbed": "cut, broke or took something growing"
},
"rosters": {
"skirmish": {
"line": "a Bat Swarm and 2 Giant Rats in the leaf-litter",
"foes": [
{
"n": 1,
"name": "Bat Swarm",
"atk": 3,
"def": 3,
"grit": 1,
"nerve": 2,
"note": "disperses to nothing and re-forms"
},
{
"n": 2,
"name": "Giant Rat",
"atk": 2,
"def": 2,
"grit": 1,
"nerve": 2,
"note": "flees from fire"
}
],
"harmedBy": "anything; fire scatters all of it",
"avoid": "stand still and they pass around you"
},
"fight": {
"line": "2 Dire Wolves",
"foes": [
{
"n": 2,
"name": "Dire Wolf",
"atk": 4,
"def": 3,
"grit": 5,
"nerve": 3,
"note": "circles; takes the one who runs"
}
],
"harmedBy": "anything",
"avoid": "nobody runs and they will not commit"
},
"battle": {
"line": "1 Troll under the roots and 2 Dire Wolves",
"foes": [
{
"n": 1,
"name": "Troll",
"atk": 5,
"def": 3,
"grit": 12,
"nerve": 4,
"note": "regrows unless the wound is burned"
},
{
"n": 2,
"name": "Dire Wolf",
"atk": 4,
"def": 3,
"grit": 5,
"nerve": 3,
"note": "circles"
}
],
"harmedBy": "anything, but the Troll only stays down if fire closes the wound",
"avoid": "it is territorial and will not follow past the treeline",
"beforeInitiative": "Say so before initiative."
},
"nightmare": {
"line": "the Hunt: 1 Wraith mounted, 1 Troll and 4 Dire Wolves",
"foes": [
{
"n": 1,
"name": "Wraith",
"atk": 5,
"def": 3,
"grit": 10,
"nerve": 5,
"note": "INCORPOREAL — chill touch ignores armour, drains 1 max Grit"
},
{
"n": 1,
"name": "Troll",
"atk": 5,
"def": 3,
"grit": 12,
"nerve": 4,
"note": "regrows unless burned"
},
{
"n": 4,
"name": "Dire Wolf",
"atk": 4,
"def": 3,
"grit": 5,
"nerve": 3,
"note": "runs down anything that flees"
}
],
"harmedBy": "blessed, silvered or magical weapons for the Wraith ONLY; fire for the Troll; anything for the wolves",
"avoid": "the Hunt passes over anyone standing perfectly still",
"beforeInitiative": "Say so before initiative."
}
},
"motifs": {
"paths": {
"danger": "straying",
"dangerLine": "the wood is still taking people in, and it is patient about it",
"trigger": "lingering",
"facets": {
"institution": [
"a ride cut straight for a mile and going nowhere",
"waymarks nailed to trees, all of them facing inward",
"a stile into the wood with no stile out"
],
"ritual": [
"boots left in a row at the treeline, toes pointing in",
"a path swept clear of leaf-fall by nothing at all",
"a lantern lit at dusk on a post with no road"
],
"demand": [
"a path that widens invitingly wherever you slow down",
"a clearing you keep arriving at from different directions",
"a track that is easier walking than the way back"
],
"wound": [
"one boot, worn through, a long way from any road",
"waymarks prised off and stacked at a root",
"a track worn deep by someone walking it for years"
],
"anchor": [
"a lantern still burning on a post at a crossway",
"a walking-staff planted upright, worn to the grain",
"a map-case, empty, hanging on a branch"
]
},
"features": [
"a fresh blaze cut into bark, this season",
"a campfire cold but recent, with nobody's gear taken",
"a hat on a branch at head height",
"a path that was not there when you looked before",
"a coat folded neatly at a root",
"cart-ruts leading in and none leading out"
],
"decisions": [
{
"cue": "two paths, one plainly easier walking than the other",
"cost": "the wood made one of them easy on purpose",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you read the leaf-fall and take the true path, losing no time",
"failure": "you take the easy path and it costs a Turn more than it should",
"orElse": "take the hard path deliberately: one Turn, but you know where you are"
}
},
{
"cue": "a lantern burning on a post at a crossway",
"cost": "carrying it means the wood can see you coming",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you take it and it shows the way — the party does not stray this delve",
"failure": "you take it and something starts walking toward the light",
"orElse": "leave it burning: no guidance, and no attention"
}
},
{
"cue": "waymarks prised off and stacked at a root",
"cost": "resetting them is a service to whoever comes next",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Brawn 2",
"success": "you reset them and the Taken are grateful — they will guide you once",
"failure": "you are seen doing it and the wood closes a path behind you",
"orElse": "leave them stacked; you are not the wood's problem to solve"
}
},
{
"cue": "a stranger's coat folded at a root, still dry",
"cost": "taking it is theft from someone probably still walking",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you find the mark inside and learn who is still on these paths",
"failure": "you take it and something begins following at coat-distance",
"orElse": "leave it folded; you will pass it again"
}
},
{
"cue": "a clearing you have now arrived at twice",
"cost": "the third time will not be a coincidence",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you break the loop by leaving a mark and walking off it",
"failure": "you arrive a third time: lose a Turn and roll the clock",
"orElse": "walk out in a straight line whatever the ground does: one Turn, hard going"
}
},
{
"cue": "a track worn deep by long use, going the wrong way",
"cost": "following it finds whoever wore it",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you follow it and find them, and they can still be spoken to",
"failure": "you follow it and join it — the party walks it a Turn before noticing",
"orElse": "ignore it; the walker keeps walking"
}
}
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "one of the Taken",
"doing": "walking a path it has walked for a very long time",
"onArrival": "it falls into step beside you without a word",
"because": "it was never told it could stop",
"offer": "tell it the way out and it will show you a shortcut in return"
},
{
"occupant": "a lantern on a post",
"doing": "burning steadily with nothing to burn",
"onArrival": "the flame turns toward you as you approach",
"because": "it was lit for someone who never came",
"offer": "carry it and the paths behave for one area"
},
{
"occupant": "a living charcoal-burner",
"doing": "recutting a blaze the wood keeps growing over",
"onArrival": "they nod and keep working",
"because": "the marks must be kept or the burn cannot be found",
"offer": "help them cut and they will mark your route out"
},
{
"occupant": "two of the Taken",
"doing": "standing at a fork, each facing a different way",
"onArrival": "they both turn to you to settle it",
"because": "they disagreed once and have not moved since",
"offer": "choose a path for them and both will walk it with you"
},
{
"occupant": "the path",
"doing": "widening ahead of you into easy walking",
"onArrival": "the going becomes noticeably pleasant",
"because": "the wood is being welcoming",
"offer": "refuse the easy way aloud and the wood respects it"
},
{
"occupant": "a walking-staff",
"doing": "standing upright where it was planted",
"onArrival": "the leaves around it are undisturbed",
"because": "whoever planted it meant to come back",
"offer": "take it up and the wood counts you a traveller, not a trespasser"
}
],
"temptations": [
{
"id": "lantern",
"cue": "a lantern that burns without fuel",
"benefit": "the party never loses its way",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "everything in the wood knows where you are"
},
{
"id": "waymark",
"cue": "a waymark prised off a tree",
"benefit": "once, make a path lead where you say",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the path you displaced has to go somewhere"
},
{
"id": "staff",
"cue": "a walking-staff worn to the grain",
"benefit": "once, walk out of anywhere in a straight line",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "you cannot stop walking while you hold it"
},
{
"id": "bootlace",
"cue": "a boot-lace from the row at the treeline",
"benefit": "once, retrace your steps exactly, however far",
"useCost": {
"bane": 2
},
"standingDrawback": "you retrace someone else's too",
"acceptanceCost": {
"vice": "Pride"
}
},
{
"id": "mapcase",
"cue": "an empty map-case, oiled",
"benefit": "once, know the way to somewhere you have never been",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the wood learns where you wanted to go"
}
]
},
"tithe": {
"danger": "debt",
"dangerLine": "the wood is owed something, and it remembers who has not paid",
"trigger": "disturbed",
"facets": {
"institution": [
"a stone at the treeline worn hollow by things set down on it",
"offerings nailed to a trunk at every height",
"a bowl at a root, never quite empty"
],
"ritual": [
"bread left out, untouched but not stale",
"a first cut of every coppice stacked and unburned",
"a horn sounded at the edge before anyone enters"
],
"demand": [
"a root grown across the path at exactly waist height",
"a hollow in a trunk at the height of an outstretched hand",
"a clearing where everything you carry feels heavier"
],
"wound": [
"offerings taken back, and the trees around them dead",
"a bowl smashed and the pieces kept in place",
"a treeline that has moved a field's width since the wall was built"
],
"anchor": [
"the offering-bowl itself, at the oldest root",
"a stone table with a hollow worn in the centre",
"a hoard of small given things in a hollow trunk"
]
},
"features": [
"a fresh offering, still wet",
"a hollow tree stuffed with things nobody wanted",
"bread on a stone, untouched and not old",
"a coin pressed into bark and grown half over",
"a dead animal laid out deliberately, not eaten",
"a stack of first-cuttings, unburned"
],
"decisions": [
{
"cue": "a bowl at a root that is not quite empty",
"cost": "leaving something is cheap; taking something is not",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Flair 2",
"success": "you leave something well-chosen and the wood eases — no clock roll in this area",
"failure": "you leave something worthless and it is noticed: +1 Bane",
"orElse": "leave nothing and walk on; the wood keeps count"
}
},
{
"cue": "a hollow trunk full of small given things",
"cost": "one of them is exactly what you need",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you take one and leave one, and the exchange is accepted",
"failure": "you take without leaving, and the wood follows you the rest of the delve",
"orElse": "take nothing: the need goes unmet"
}
},
{
"cue": "a root grown across the path at waist height",
"cost": "stepping over is trespass; going under is submission",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you go under, which the wood counts as courtesy, and it lets you by",
"failure": "you step over and the wood treats you as a woodsman from here",
"orElse": "cut it: loud, roll the clock, and the wood remembers the cut"
}
},
{
"cue": "a dead animal laid out deliberately at a crossway",
"cost": "it was left for something that has not come",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you read what it was left for, and what that thing wants instead",
"failure": "you disturb it and whatever it was for arrives hungry",
"orElse": "leave it and go round: one Turn"
}
},
{
"cue": "bread on a stone, fresh, in a wood with nobody in it",
"cost": "eating it accepts the wood's hospitality",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you eat and are a guest — the Taken will not touch you this delve",
"failure": "you eat and are fed by the wood, which means you belong to it: +1 Bane",
"orElse": "do not eat; you stay hungry and free"
}
},
{
"cue": "a coin pressed into bark and half grown over",
"cost": "prising it out takes back an offering",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Brawn 2",
"success": "you free it cleanly and the tree does not seem to mind",
"failure": "the bark tears and the wood takes something of yours instead",
"orElse": "leave it; it will be gone entirely in another century"
}
}
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "a living family",
"doing": "leaving bread on a stone and backing away from it",
"onArrival": "they gesture at you to be quiet, and to wait",
"because": "the tithe must be left and not watched",
"offer": "wait with them and they will share what the wood accepts"
},
{
"occupant": "the offering-bowl",
"doing": "filling with rainwater that is not rain",
"onArrival": "the surface stills as you approach",
"because": "the bowl must not be empty",
"offer": "put something in it and the wood grants you one passage unmolested"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Taken",
"doing": "carrying an armful of small things toward a hollow trunk",
"onArrival": "it offers you the armful to hold",
"because": "the offerings must be collected and never are",
"offer": "help it carry and it will let you keep one"
},
{
"occupant": "a charcoal-burner",
"doing": "stacking a first-cutting that will not be burned",
"onArrival": "they hand you an axe, handle first",
"because": "the first cut is owed and they cannot bring themselves to burn it",
"offer": "burn it for them and the wood counts the debt paid"
},
{
"occupant": "the trees",
"doing": "closing a little around a stone with nothing on it",
"onArrival": "the gap you came through narrows",
"because": "something was due and was not left",
"offer": "leave anything at all and the gap opens"
},
{
"occupant": "a horn",
"doing": "sounding at the treeline behind you",
"onArrival": "the note holds far longer than a horn should",
"because": "nobody announced themselves on the way in",
"offer": "answer it — shout back — and the wood treats you as expected"
}
],
"temptations": [
{
"id": "bowl",
"cue": "a shallow bowl worn smooth at the rim",
"benefit": "leave anything in it and the wood is satisfied, once",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "it must be filled again before you leave the wood"
},
{
"id": "givenring",
"cue": "a ring from the hollow trunk, someone's offering",
"benefit": "once, be owed a favour by something in the wood",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "whoever gave it originally still wants it"
},
{
"id": "firstcut",
"cue": "a bundle of first-cutting, unburned",
"benefit": "once, burn it to buy safe passage for a scene",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the smoke tells the wood exactly where you are"
},
{
"id": "stonebread",
"cue": "bread from the offering-stone, still soft",
"benefit": "eat it and nothing in the wood will touch you",
"useCost": {
"bane": 2
},
"standingDrawback": "you are fed by the wood, and it counts you as its own",
"acceptanceCost": {
"vice": "Greed"
}
},
{
"id": "barkcoin",
"cue": "a coin half grown into bark",
"benefit": "once, pay a debt you have not the means to pay",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the tree it came from is looking for it"
}
]
},
"reclaiming": {
"danger": "encroachment",
"dangerLine": "the wood is taking the ground back, and it does not stop while you watch",
"trigger": "lingering",
"facets": {
"institution": [
"a field wall with trees growing out of the top of it",
"furrows still visible under twenty years of bramble",
"a gate standing on its own with wood on both sides"
],
"ritual": [
"coppice stools cut on a rotation nobody is keeping",
"a hedge laid by hands, thirty years ago, still holding",
"boundary trees marked and the marks grown shut"
],
"demand": [
"a clearing that is smaller than it was this morning",
"saplings standing in a doorway in a line",
"a path narrowing behind you as you walk it"
],
"wound": [
"a plough left in a furrow with a tree through it",
"a cottage with the roof gone and an oak in the hearth",
"an orchard gone feral, the grafts thrown off"
],
"anchor": [
"an axe in a stump, handle still sound",
"a hedging bill hung on a nail in a wall that is now a tree",
"a ring of stumps cut clean, and nothing regrown"
]
},
"features": [
"a wall pushed over from the wood side, recently",
"a sapling in a doorway, this year's growth",
"a plough share polished by roots",
"a fence post with a living branch",
"a chimney standing alone in a thicket",
"a wheel-rut with a tree in the middle of it"
],
"decisions": [
{
"cue": "a clearing that is measurably smaller than the map says",
"cost": "the wood will not stop while you are watching it",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you mark the edge and can tell how fast it is moving, which is useful",
"failure": "you lose the edge and the clearing closes a little around you",
"orElse": "move through fast and do not measure: one Turn, no knowledge"
}
},
{
"cue": "an axe standing in a stump, handle sound",
"cost": "using it is a declaration; leaving it is a concession",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Brawn 2",
"success": "you cut what needs cutting and the ground stays open behind you",
"failure": "the cut does not take and the wood closes the way you came: lose a Turn",
"orElse": "leave the axe; the way narrows but nothing is provoked"
}
},
{
"cue": "a cottage with an oak growing in the hearth",
"cost": "what is inside was never cleared out",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you get in and out through the roots, and find what was left",
"failure": "the roots shift and the doorway closes: +1 Bane and a Turn to dig out",
"orElse": "leave it; whatever is inside stays inside"
}
},
{
"cue": "a hedge laid by human hands, still holding, blocking the way",
"cost": "breaking it undoes a good piece of work",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you find the layer's gap and pass without breaking a stem",
"failure": "you force through and the hedge is ruined: the wood counts it",
"orElse": "go round the hedge: two Turns"
}
},
{
"cue": "saplings standing in a doorway in a deliberate line",
"cost": "pulling them is easy and will be noticed",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Brawn 2",
"success": "you pull them cleanly and replant them outside — the wood accepts the trade",
"failure": "you pull them and drop them: the wood takes something of yours in exchange",
"orElse": "step over them; the doorway is half closed and you are half through"
}
},
{
"cue": "an orchard gone feral, and one tree still bearing",
"cost": "the fruit is good and it is not yours",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Flair 2",
"success": "you take fruit in a way the orchard permits, and are the better for it",
"failure": "you take too much and the orchard remembers the hand",
"orElse": "take none: you go hungry and unremarked"
}
}
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "a living farmer",
"doing": "cutting back a hedge that grew again behind them",
"onArrival": "they do not look up, and ask if you have a bill-hook",
"because": "the hedge must be kept and cannot be",
"offer": "cut with them and they will tell you where the old road ran"
},
{
"occupant": "saplings",
"doing": "standing in a doorway in a straight line",
"onArrival": "the line shifts, very slightly, as you look at it",
"because": "the doorway is being closed",
"offer": "step through and say aloud that you are passing, and they let you"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Taken",
"doing": "laying a hedge with hands that are mostly root",
"onArrival": "it holds out a stem for you to bend",
"because": "the work was begun and must be finished",
"offer": "bend the stem and it will lay you a gap through anything"
},
{
"occupant": "the clearing",
"doing": "closing by a hand's breadth while you stand in it",
"onArrival": "the light changes",
"because": "nothing cleared is permitted to stay cleared",
"offer": "cut one sapling and the clearing holds for the delve"
},
{
"occupant": "an old orchard",
"doing": "dropping fruit in front of you as you pass",
"onArrival": "the fruit lands and does not roll",
"because": "the trees were tended once and remember it",
"offer": "eat, and the orchard will show you where the house was"
},
{
"occupant": "two charcoal-burners",
"doing": "arguing over a coppice stool cut out of rotation",
"onArrival": "they appeal to you as a third opinion",
"because": "the rotation was lost and the wood is taking the difference",
"offer": "settle it and they will burn a path for you"
}
],
"temptations": [
{
"id": "axe",
"cue": "an axe with a sound handle",
"benefit": "once, cut a way through anything growing",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the wood counts every cut you make and settles later"
},
{
"id": "hedgingbill",
"cue": "a hedging bill, oiled",
"benefit": "once, close a way behind you that nothing follows through",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the way stays shut for you too"
},
{
"id": "graft",
"cue": "a graft from the last bearing tree",
"benefit": "once, make something grow where it should not",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "whatever you grow is the wood's, not yours"
},
{
"id": "boundarystone",
"cue": "a boundary stone the wood has not yet swallowed",
"benefit": "once, hold a piece of ground against the wood for a scene",
"useCost": {
"bane": 2
},
"standingDrawback": "the wood takes twice that ground afterwards",
"acceptanceCost": {
"vice": "Greed"
}
},
{
"id": "plough",
"cue": "an iron share off a buried plough",
"benefit": "once, break new ground and have it stay broken",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the wood knows there is iron in the party"
}
]
},
"trackless": {
"danger": "measurement",
"dangerLine": "the wood will not be counted, and it notices anyone trying",
"trigger": "seenTwice",
"facets": {
"institution": [
"survey pegs driven in rows and every one at a different angle",
"a chain hung in a tree, complete, at head height",
"cairns built to mark a line that does not run straight"
],
"ritual": [
"a perambulation walked yearly and never finishing",
"a tally cut into a post, the count restarting",
"a rope measured out and coiled and measured again"
],
"demand": [
"ground that is longer walking than looking",
"a stand of trees that is not the same number twice",
"a distance that changes depending which way you go"
],
"wound": [
"a map torn into strips and nailed to six trees",
"a surveyor's theodolite smashed against its own tripod",
"a chain snapped and the links scattered along a mile"
],
"anchor": [
"a surveyor's chain, complete and coiled",
"a field-book with the last page filled in a shaking hand",
"a cairn with a brass plate under the top stone"
]
},
"features": [
"survey pegs pulled and re-driven wrongly",
"a tally-post with the count started over",
"a rope coiled at a root, measured and unmeasured",
"a cairn built this season",
"a page of a field-book pinned to bark",
"chain-links scattered in a line through the leaf-litter"
],
"decisions": [
{
"cue": "a surveyor's chain hung complete in a tree",
"cost": "measuring anything here is the one thing the wood minds",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you measure one distance honestly and it holds — you can trust that route",
"failure": "the measurement comes out different twice and you lose a Turn to it",
"orElse": "leave the chain hanging: no measurements, no offence"
}
},
{
"cue": "a field-book with the last entry in a shaking hand",
"cost": "reading it tells you what the surveyor found",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 1",
"success": "you read it and learn one true thing about the wood's shape",
"failure": "you read it aloud, and the wood hears itself described: +1 Bane",
"orElse": "leave it; the finding stays lost"
}
},
{
"cue": "cairns marking a line that does not run straight",
"cost": "following the cairns is following someone else's error",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you spot where the line was corrected and follow the true one",
"failure": "you follow the error and arrive somewhere you did not intend",
"orElse": "ignore the cairns entirely: one Turn, your own reckoning"
}
},
{
"cue": "a stand of trees you have counted twice and got two answers",
"cost": "counting a third time is a challenge",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you accept aloud that it cannot be counted, and the stand lets you through",
"failure": "you insist on a number and the stand does not open: lose a Turn",
"orElse": "do not count; walk through without looking too hard"
}
},
{
"cue": "a map torn into strips and nailed to six trees",
"cost": "assembling it is possible and slow",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Wits 2",
"success": "you assemble enough of it to know where the far side is",
"failure": "you assemble it wrongly and are confidently mistaken for a Turn",
"orElse": "take one strip and go: you know a fragment, and no more"
}
},
{
"cue": "a perambulation the Taken are still walking, and a gap in the line",
"cost": "joining the walk means walking it to the end",
"resolve": {
"roll": "Poise 2",
"success": "you join, walk one leg, and are let out at a place you chose",
"failure": "you join and the walk does not end where you hoped: lose a Turn",
"orElse": "let them pass: they nod, and the wood notes that you did not join"
}
}
],
"situations": [
{
"occupant": "a surveyor",
"doing": "measuring the same distance for the fourth time",
"onArrival": "it asks you to hold the far end of a chain",
"because": "the survey must close and has never closed",
"offer": "hold the chain and it will tell you the one distance it trusts"
},
{
"occupant": "the trees",
"doing": "standing in a number that is not the same twice",
"onArrival": "the count you began comes out differently",
"because": "the wood will not be enumerated",
"offer": "stop counting aloud and the stand opens"
},
{
"occupant": "one of the Taken",
"doing": "walking a perambulation with a gap in the line where someone dropped out",
"onArrival": "it beckons you into the gap",
"because": "the bounds must be walked by a full company",
"offer": "walk one leg with them and they will set you down wherever you name"
},
{
"occupant": "a living cartographer",
"doing": "tearing up their own map, carefully, into strips",
"onArrival": "they offer you a strip without explanation",
"because": "the map was wrong and they would rather it were nowhere",
"offer": "take the strip and it shows one true thing"
},
{
"occupant": "a cairn",
"doing": "standing where no cairn was a moment ago",
"onArrival": "the top stone is warm",
"because": "the line must be marked and the line keeps moving",
"offer": "add a stone and the cairns lead you somewhere useful, once"
},
{
"occupant": "a tally-post",
"doing": "carrying a count that has restarted many times",
"onArrival": "the fresh cut is very fresh",
"because": "something is still counting and cannot finish",
"offer": "cut the next tally yourself and the wood accepts the number"
}
],
"temptations": [
{
"id": "chain",
"cue": "a surveyor's chain, complete",
"benefit": "once, know a true distance in the wood",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "the wood knows you measured it"
},
{
"id": "fieldbook",
"cue": "a field-book with one honest page",
"benefit": "once, know exactly where you are",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "you cannot be lost, and the wood dislikes that"
},
{
"id": "brassplate",
"cue": "a brass plate from under a cairn",
"benefit": "once, fix a place so it stays where it is",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "everything around that place moves instead"
},
{
"id": "mapstrip",
"cue": "a strip of a torn map",
"benefit": "once, find the far side of anything",
"useCost": {
"bane": 2
},
"standingDrawback": "the rest of the map wants to be reassembled",
"acceptanceCost": {
"vice": "Pride"
}
},
{
"id": "tallypost",
"cue": "a section of tally-post",
"benefit": "once, make a count come out the same twice",
"useCost": {
"bane": 1
},
"standingDrawback": "something begins counting you"
}
]
}
},
"placeNameStyle": "claimant"
}
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