DELVE is an authoring system now, so the module's job changed: it no longer
generates at the table, it stages what the GM finished at the desk.
game.delve.loadFile('name') reads a finished working file from the world's
delves/ folder; load() takes an object; draft() still generates in-world but
announces itself as unfinished. outstanding() and ready() report what is
missing, and an unfinished delve says so on load rather than pretending.
The important change is two audiences. The read-aloud is what players are
there for, so it is posted publicly, spoken by the area's name. The truth,
the numbers, the situation and the leverage point stay whispered to the GM.
Everything used to be whispered, which meant the one thing written for the
table never reached it.
Verified live in the-vain-crown: a finished five-area delve loaded, reported
zero outstanding, and staged in 5.8s — six public read-alouds, six GM whispers,
nine actors in one delve folder, zero loose Encounter folders. Test debris
swept afterwards; the world is back to its original 8 scenes and 30 actors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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