Flores Island, Indonesia (Western-Central Flores) · Homo floresiensis ~60,000-100,000 BP through pre-colonial Flores ~1000-1500 CE
The ratified reading for this region: A2 — The ladder of stone and fire
“Brief 1 agreed with your recommendations as long as we don’t drift and as long as it still stays fun and beautiful and action adventure fantasy rpg”
Everything below is compared against that reading rather than against taste. The conditions it was agreed under bind every pipeline that reads it: no drift, fun and beautiful, action-adventure-fantasy-rpg. docs/art_bibles/flores_island.md
29 sections, taken from this chapter's own canon entry — not from a template. 22 carry a picture, a model or a frame today; 12 named things canon writes are not built yet and say so.
Creatures and fauna
the Komodo dragon (CR_0001) and reticulated python (CR_0002) as the dual-serpent guardian pair (combat_permitted, framed as a guardian-test), crab-eating macaque (CR_0003), wild boar (CR_0004), Flores monitor (CR_0005), and Timor deer (CR_0006) as ambient fauna (combat_permitted where they threaten); the polo and the Ebu Gogo (CR_0010) as folklore beings (mythologically-stylized, the polo a witch-being and the Ebu Gogo a wild-folk ambient threat, faced as the traditions frame them).
docs/spine/CH_02.md:231 · 14 creatures written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
cr0002 the roused soil guardian registercr0013 java sparrow studycr0014 flores pig study
Wired into the game — every card is the same record the asset gallery carries, at the same rung.
Komodo dragon
POLISH
CR_0001
concept plategeometrytextured
Physical profile: NAMED GAP no bestiary sheet section 10 -- zones, mass, materials and matrix rows undeclared Mass, weak and strong zones and damage-matrix rows are required of every creature (Josh, 2026-08-06). This one has none yet.
cooked into the build: Content/Meshes/Creatures/SK_CR_0001.uasset
Reticulated python
POLISH
CR_0002 · serpent_rebuild
concept plategeometrytextured
one single reticulated python, Malayopython reticulatus, a very large old individual, one continuous unbroken body, the animal has exactly ONE head, at one end of the body only, and the oppo
Physical profile · 44.5 kg · 480.0 cm along the body · density 1050.0 kg/m³
Elements: Earth reduced, Water reduced, Mud reduced, Fire split, Ice effective, Steam effective, Air, Metal, Sand, Smoke neutral
Outcomes are DERIVED by docs/proposals/combat/MATERIAL_INTERACTION_TABLE.md from the zone materials this creature’s bestiary sheet declares. No magnitude is authored anywhere.
cooked into the build: Content/Meshes/Creatures/SK_CR_0002.uasset
Crab-eating macaque
POLISH
CR_0003
concept plategeometrytextured
Physical profile: NAMED GAP no bestiary sheet section 10 -- zones, mass, materials and matrix rows undeclared Mass, weak and strong zones and damage-matrix rows are required of every creature (Josh, 2026-08-06). This one has none yet.
cooked into the build: Content/Meshes/Creatures/SM_CR_0003.uasset
Wild boar
POLISH
CR_0004
concept plategeometrytextured
Physical profile: NAMED GAP no bestiary sheet section 10 -- zones, mass, materials and matrix rows undeclared Mass, weak and strong zones and damage-matrix rows are required of every creature (Josh, 2026-08-06). This one has none yet.
cooked into the build: Content/Meshes/Creatures/SM_CR_0004.uasset
the Liang Bua cave interior (limestone karst, protected type-site referenced not reproduced), the Manggarai mbaru niang cone-houses and the lingko spider-web fields (seeding at the village edge, protected living settlement), and the Ngada megalithic ngadhu/bhaga platforms (protected).
docs/spine/CH_02.md:232 · 4 interiors written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
type children village edge at worktype gong player at worktype children village edge full figure
realistic-ethnographic for the Flores community, cave, and volcanic terrain; mythologically-stylized only for the polo's vital force-hollow register and the Ebu Gogo; volcanic stone and cotton-ikat and cave-limestone.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:233
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
flores material grid wet and drymaterial palette and style register plateregister split one chamber twice
In the running build.
world inerie coneworld composed 04world composed 06
Music mood
survival-horror-opener mood, low-and-tense rising to the crater-lake climax; instrumentation drawn from the Flores gong-waning tradition at reference register (Thread 21, the first vital force-active-instrument demonstration); combat-cue register for the stalk.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:234
In the running build.
world inerie coneworld composed 04world composed 06
Voice and crowd
the child's close-third interiority (no dialogue yet), the hollowed hunter's degraded register, and the village-edge ambient; per-NPC registers deferred to the Voice registry.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:235 · 10 named people written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
type children village edge at worktype gong player at worktype children village edge full figure
cave and volcanic-jungle terrain enum, geothermal-vent and waterfall and monsoon-forest ambient, the vital force-cast tier for the first recharge and the polo's hollow-register, inscription-activation at the deep-cave the faint trace it leaves.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:236
In the running build.
rechargetrace tellwaterfall site
The realm object recovered at the waking
the small worn thing that crossed with the child, plain and uninscribed by design; it needs a signature the eye can recognize much later without a line of explanation now — a shape, a material, a way it takes the light in the cold ground and again in the outside light — and it is recovered at CH02_B11, worn from there unbroken to the Ch-13 departure where it is given away; a worn thing and never inventory, unrechargeable on this side of the barrier, and no in-world name is minted here (naming it is reserved).
docs/spine/CH_02.md:237
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
realm object variant a worn ringrealm object variant b pierced discrealm object variant c capped shaft
The protagonist is a STACK, not one object, so it is shown as one: 9 of 10 layers have evidence on disk today and the rest are named. Each cell carries the rung its own evidence supports.
1. Base body
GREYBOX
ASSEMBLY_A_CHAR_0001_CHILD_base_only
ASSEMBLY_A_CHAR_0001_CHILD_base_onlyin the build
the body itself, before anything is put on it.
2. Underwear-grade merged base
POLISH
CHAR_0001_CHILD
CHAR_0001_CHILDin the build
the merged base the equipment layers sit on.
3. Authored head
GREYBOX
CHAR_0001_CHILD_HEADASM
CHAR_0001_CHILD_HEADASM
the head assembly, authored separately and merged.
ASSEMBLY_B_CHAR_0001_CHILD_base_plus_outfitOUTFIT_CHAR_0001_CHILD_ARRIVAL_highin the build
the stack recombined, base and garment together.
8. What the build ships today
NOT BUILT
no id
in the build
the default the running build actually spawns.
9. Equipment slot: worn at the throat
POLISH
EQS_0097, EQ_0001
EQS_0097EQ_0001
the first equipment slot to fill.
10. Equipment slot: the hood
NOT BUILT
no id
Equipment slot: the hood not built yet
the next slot the slice needs — this layer has no render on disk, so it is named rather than skipped.
In the running build.
part breakrechargescene waking
Protagonist garment states
(D-GARMENT ruled 2026-08-03, thirty-second sitting; register ELEVATED by Josh 2026-08-06 remote sitting, verbatim "I want the arrival outfit more otherworldly than that. Remember the fairy realm kingdom has a 10000 year old fairy king, advanced elven-like civilization like LOTR" and "an WOW Blood Elf civilization and advanced LOTR elf civilization blended with fairy metaphysical and supernatural lore"): the soaked mud-caked wrap-tunic is the cave-and-waterfall arrival state; dried, the tunic-and-leggings read as th…
docs/spine/CH_02.md:238
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
char0008 rangku wera at work village edgechar0011 anselmus at workchar0008 rangku wera full figure uncorrupted
HP, with the fiction of the polo's hold breaking and Rangku Wera freed; agility_course the Flores forest canopy, canopy-horizontal movement, with a forest-pod Puzzle variant, one course per chapter across three variants.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:244 · 3 staged encounters written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
guardian pair at the falls thresholdguardian pair the withdraw and openguardian pair two lanes one fight space
the arc's first — A_E_001 Stone Skin, A_E_002 Tremor Stomp, A_F_001 Ember Strike, A_T_002 Cloaking, all at the beginner floor; mastery_tier note — the beginner floor across every capability;
docs/spine/CH_02.md:245 · 4 abilities written in canon · 1 clause held back
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
Stepped by band, because this is motion and not a still.
Stone Skin A_E_001
cast beat — the ladder, lowest band first
novice · unjudged
Not yet driven in the build — no capture run has fired this one with real keys, so there is no in-engine motion to show. The tool that would produce it is the combat-feel harness.
Tremor Stomp A_E_002
impact beat — the ladder, lowest band first
novice · pickedadept · pickedmastery · picked
Not yet driven in the build — no capture run has fired this one with real keys, so there is no in-engine motion to show. The tool that would produce it is the combat-feel harness.
Ember Strike A_F_001
Not yet driven in the build — no capture run has fired this one with real keys, so there is no in-engine motion to show. The tool that would produce it is the combat-feel harness.
Cloaking A_T_002
Not yet driven in the build — no capture run has fired this one with real keys, so there is no in-engine motion to show. The tool that would produce it is the combat-feel harness.
In the running build.
trace tell
Vital force sites
VS_CH02_001 Liang Bua Cave waterfall vicinity, the arc's first waterfall recharge (passive).
docs/spine/CH_02.md:246 · 1 site of power written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
falls establishing across poolkelimutu perspective aerialkelimutu rim three pits establishing
Shell (W1, Flores Giant Softshell Turtle), the sustained-bond legacy familiar, bond beginning across Ch 02-03; companions_and_recurring_npcs the Protagonist (CHAR_0001), Rangku Wera (CHAR_0008), Elder Rato (CHAR_0009), Weaver Emma (CHAR_0010), Hunter Anselmus (CHAR_0011), Child Teresa (CHAR_0012), Fisherman Yohanes (CHAR_0013), Healer Maria (CHAR_0014, the restored benevolent folk-healer), and Merchant Siti (CHAR_0015); a §17.9 reveal-authority reference row also applies and is deliberately not named.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:251 · 1 familiar written in canon · 1 clause held back
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
shell surfacing snout studyshell carapace surface detailshell the water familiar registration
Wired into the game — every card is the same record the asset gallery carries, at the same rung.
The Protagonist
ITERATION
CHAR_0001
concept plate
concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet
The Corrupted Hunter
ITERATION
CHAR_0008
concept plate
concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet
Hunter Anselmus
ITERATION
CHAR_0011
concept plate
concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet
Healer Maria
ITERATION
CHAR_0014
concept plate
concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet
In the running build.
char0001 open nearchar0001 open far
Canon names CHAR_0009, CHAR_0010, CHAR_0012, CHAR_0013, CHAR_0015 here, and the factory has not built them yet. Named rather than left out.
Main quest beat
survive the arrival, recover the realm object out of the fall-strewn earth at the crack (CH02_B11), refuse the polo's bargain, survive the Quiet Step stalk, and reach the edge of Manggarai contact (the origin-node beat); side_questlines SQ1_SEED and SQ9_SEED.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:254 · 4 quest seeds written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
beat b03 guardian test key framebeat b07 tracker meeting key framebeat b09 carving the mark key frame
the stalk opens in the cone country and corners in the Kelimutu waterfall caverns (CH02_B07→CH02_B08), where the polo's bargain also hosts; the Guardian test at the recharge source; the Ebu Gogo ambient threat in the Liang Bua deep layers; the character beats at the village edge — consistent with the typed site rows and the environmental dominant mode.
docs/spine/CH_02.md:258 · 1 region written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
BE_0002 "Rangku Wera, the Quiet Step" (CHAR_0008; the registry rows were re-grounded to the polo framing and the personas verbs/axis at the v3 conversion (four drifted cells corrected, baseline-declared) ambient sub-threat (not a boss row): the Ebu Gogo of the deep stratigraphy (Thread 11) → CH02_B05 — the Nage "ones who eat anything" at their ambivalent-to-menacing edge, an environmental stalk-and-evade presence genuinely dangerous to a lone child — evasion is the register and the right play, and a cornered child …
docs/spine/CH_02.md:95 · 3 staged encounters written in canon · 1 clause held back
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
guardian pair at the falls thresholdguardian pair the withdraw and openguardian pair two lanes one fight space
Wired into the game — every card is the same record the asset gallery carries, at the same rung.
The Corrupted Hunter
ITERATION
CHAR_0008
concept plate
concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet
In the running build.
boss at sitech03 siteencounter
Canon names BE_0002 here, and the factory has not built it yet. Named rather than left out.
Side-questlines and quest seeds
SQ1 · questline fairy_tale_folklore · stage SEED · gate none · beats [CH02_B05, CH02_B06, CH02_B08] · reward the Flores folklore substrate (the polo soul-eater, the Ebu Gogo wild-folk, the Tiwu Ata Polo lake-of-the-dead tradition) and the first fairy-tale-thread entry carried forward — the arc's first SEED SQ9 · questline cryptids · stage SEED · gate none · beats [CH02_B03, CH02_B05] · reward the cryptid/fauna-substrate depth and the naturalist's-eye method — the Komodo and reticulated-python dual-serpent fauna, th…
docs/spine/CH_02.md:179 · 4 quest seeds, 2 questlines written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
beat b03 guardian test key framebeat b07 tracker meeting key framebeat b09 carving the mark key frame
Wired into the game — every card is the same record the asset gallery carries, at the same rung.
Orang Pendek
CONTENT-COMPLETE
CR_0011 · slice_creatures
object referencegeometrytextured
a single complete adult orang pendek, a folklore, cryptid, standing in a neutral relaxed pose in full side-three-quarter view with all four limbs and the whole body visible: living skin and
ATTENDED_DESIGN_ONLY — a designed mythic being routed through a template that asks for 'anatomically accurate, photographic wildlife reference'. There is no photograph for this subject to be accurate to. NOT a care exclusion and NOT a defanging: this being is still built and still a
Physical profile: NAMED GAP no bestiary sheet section 10 -- zones, mass, materials and matrix rows undeclared Mass, weak and strong zones and damage-matrix rows are required of every creature (Josh, 2026-08-06). This one has none yet.
mesh + full baked surface set staged at D:/assetgen/staging/standing/slice_creatures/CR_0011
Companions and allies
Elder Rato (CHAR_0009) — a Manggarai ritual elder at the village edge, a knowledge-holder and the child's first glimpse of welcome-with-wariness; inviolate, never a target. Weaver Woman Emma (CHAR_0010) — the ikat weaver who opens the Trade 6 Tailoring substrate through the Manggarai cotton-ikat tradition; a teacher, never a target. Hunter Anselmus (CHAR_0011) — the ethical-hunter foil to the hollowed Rangku Wera, the living proof that the hunter's role is not the corruption; an ally. Child Teresa (CHAR_0012) — the…
docs/spine/CH_02.md:187 · 10 named people written in canon
The concept these pipelines compare to and inspire from, held to the ratified reading — A2 — The ladder of stone and fire.
char0008 rangku wera at work village edgechar0011 anselmus at workchar0008 rangku wera full figure uncorrupted
Wired into the game — every card is the same record the asset gallery carries, at the same rung.
Hunter Anselmus
ITERATION
CHAR_0011
concept plate
concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet
Healer Maria
ITERATION
CHAR_0014
concept plate
concept plates only -- no mesh has been generated yet
In the running build.
char0001 open nearchar0001 open far
Canon names CHAR_0009, CHAR_0010, CHAR_0012, CHAR_0013, CHAR_0015 here, and the factory has not built them yet. Named rather than left out.
Easter eggs
1 thing here is kept back for the player who looks — what and where stay off this page on purpose.
build/spine_rows/CH_02/clues.csv
How it plays, in canon's own words
Dominant combat mode — environmental; mode-variety note — Ch 2 is the arc's survival-horror opener (the volcanic jungle, the fauna, the polo's hollow register, and the Quiet Step stalk are the environmental register); the prior node is Ch 1 (familiar), so no consecutive repeat. docs/spine/CH_02.md:243
Antagonist operative — Canon writes this line, and it is held: it carries routing a player at this chapter has not met. The section still counts what it binds. docs/spine/CH_02.md:252
Cross cultural links — Canon writes this line, and it is held: it carries routing a player at this chapter has not met. The section still counts what it binds. docs/spine/CH_02.md:253
Integrity divergence — Canon writes this line, and it is held: it carries routing a player at this chapter has not met. The section still counts what it binds. docs/spine/CH_02.md:255
Substrate sources — the Flores ethnography (Forth, Beneath the Volcano — the polo and Tiwu Ata Polo soul-eater grounding; Forth, Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia — the Ebu Gogo grounding; Allerton, Potent Landscapes) and the Liang Bua paleoanthropology, consolidated to the acquisition list and the Source registry (region_tags Flores / Indonesia, care … docs/spine/CH_02.md:256
Rewards — per-quest reward map authored in-intent — the polo-corruption lore, the serpent-dual-form fragment, the Flores folklore substrate, and the first recharge source + the Shell bond-seed; loot and seed anchors deferred. docs/spine/CH_02.md:257
The track labelled complete track is a whole CUE rather than a theme statement: two and a half to five minutes across five to twelve composed sections, each with its own instruments, dynamic level and harmony. It exists because Josh listened to the thirty-second cohort below and said it was all the same track, and the measurement agreed with him on every axis a listener hears first. Three things about it are measured: the form is real, no single layer repeats itself for more than eight bars — measured one part at a time, because an ensemble measurement cannot see a pad tiling under a moving flute — and the loop point does not close with a full cadence, read off the notes rather than copied off the brief. What is not measured is whether it is any good. Nobody has heard it yet. The themes marked AUTHORED are composed in notes by the factory to a written brief, and each one is checked against that brief rather than against a description of it — every constraint the composition claims is a control over the notes. Where a track is labelled orchestral rung one, that score is played by real recorded instruments — a public-domain sampled orchestra, one part per line, with the loop point written into the arrangement rather than faded. It is a real realisation and it is not a professional scoring session. Where a track is labelled sketch realisation, the tune is finished and the orchestration is not: what you hear there is additive synthesis, not an orchestra. The themes marked GENERATED came out of the factory's own composition loop and were picked by measurement rather than by ear. These are ITERATIONS, not finished themes. Where a percentage is printed beside a track, it is that automated checklist — 8 of the doctrine's 13 melodic diagnostics. No diagnostic that needs a person to listen and sing it back has been run on any of this, on either lane. Anything below labelled ambience is a place, not a theme.
mount inerie cone countrygenerated tension layer · 0:30
recharge waterfallgenerated tension layer · 0:30
Earlier rung, kept (11)
These are the thirty-second theme statements the complete tracks above supersede. They are kept rather than removed: this cohort is the control arm the sameness measurement was taken on, and the comparison is what makes the track above legible as an answer to it.
Journey and Worldauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:34
The Bondauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:36
The Deep Waterauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:31
The House That Was Wholeauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:34
The Living Voiceauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:34
The Long Way Backauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:42
The Made Placeauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:24
The Other Selfauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:30
The Recurrenceauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:21
The Substrateauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:28
The Writtenauthored score — orchestral rung one · 0:28
Underneath, the zone ambience layer:
Kelimutu Crater Rim Wind and Geothermal Bedambience bed · 0:48 · this chapter
Mount Inerie Cone-Country Wind Bedambience bed · 1:52 · this chapter
Flores Monsoon Rain Layerambience bed · 0:22 · this chapter
The gathering-back Fill Loopgameplay loop · 1:01 · this chapter
Ebu Gogo Deep-Gallery Presence Rustleambience bed · 2:30 · this chapter
Ebu Gogo Distant Broken-Speech Murmurambience bed · 2:16 · this chapter
Where these came from
These are the beds the build actually loads for this chapter, joined off the sound registry and the build's own picked sources — a bed appears here only when the registry row, the picked cue and the file on disk all agree. When themes are written they appear above the beds, and they will be named as themes. Every length printed beside a track is measured off the served file's own bytes (Ogg granule positions, MP3 frame headers), never read from the browser.
Honest tier: DRESSED WITH A BUILT CANOPY AND A MEASURED PALETTE — architecture is PREVIZ MASSING, character unchanged (game repo QA/look/flores_pass2_2026-08-04/README.md). These are the QA capture set itself, not selected marketing shots — cropped to the world band, because the development overlay that sits above and below it is not published.
gather nodewaterfall sitepart breakKelimutu, the three coloured lakes - previz water on measured crater floorsThe cone country under Mount InerieThe climb to the crater rim
Feel and play
55 complete QA runs read; newest 2026-08-06, session loop_2026.08.06-13.48.41, map FloresIsland — 11/11 stations captured, 10 real key presses, every assert green. 2 NPC(s) from 7 entry node(s).
What a person can actually do in the build today, each line proved by a run that pressed the keys:
walk the world — 2026-08-06, route.json
gather — 2026-08-05, loop_script_flores.json
talk to a person — 2026-08-05, loop_script_flores.json
choose a reply — 2026-08-05, loop_script_flores.json
trade — 2026-08-05, loop_script_flores.json
take a quest — 2026-08-05, loop_script_flores.json
read the quest log — 2026-08-05, loop_script_flores.json
fight a live encounter — 2026-08-06, loop_script_ch02_guardian.json
read an attack telegraph — 2026-08-06, loop_script_ch02_guardian.json
dodge through it — 2026-08-06, loop_script_ch02_guardian.json
build the chain meter — 2026-08-06, loop_script_ch02_guardian.json
go down and come back — 2026-08-06, w6_route.json
end a fight without killing — 2026-08-06, loop_script_ch02_guardian.json
The frames from these runs are not published: the loop frames carry metre-high staging labels across the middle of the frame, which no crop can remove. The measured counts above stand as the evidence instead — they are read out of each run's own manifest.
This is structure verification driven by real keys. It is not a claim that the chapter feels good yet - that judgement waits on the feel critics and a dressed world.
What is next, honestly
TERRAIN DEFECT: Saved/Terrain now holds the Liang Bua 11x11km tile where the island tile (5611x1531 @ 30.89 m/vertex) was — audit_encounter_spaces.py FileNotFoundError; restore or re-fetch the island tile before any re
B07 GAP: boss:BE_0002.P1 has nothing staged at mount_inerie_cone_country (the two-site P1/P2 staging simplification deferred in the game repo's TODO_CANON) — stage P1.
Route-leg pads: every non-hop route leg crosses 45-59 deg slopes per the space audit — the traversal pads pass.
BRD_0001 Flores board — the director's pick (ready)
PUBLIC concept-art site: page per region + subpages per asset/view type (Cloudflare Pages; NO access lock — Josh ruled it marketing) (in_flight)
Art Phase B2 -- ENVIRONMENT/KITS: mint the KIT id space (D1-05 is P0, unkeyed), spatially-binding layout plates, EG art fields + palette tokens, worldcover_biome 0/84, interiors, vista/HLOD authority (ready)
Art Phase B3 -- OBJECTS/3D-GEN: the object_ref conditioning-image spec, scale anchors, attach points, the D1-23 grade join, PBR input plates, care rule extended to objects (ready)
The opening, in the chapter's own words
A small elven child wakes on cold stone in the dark of Liang Bua Cave, and the only warmth left in the world is the one small familiar that fell through the rift beside them. It bites once, hard, and bolts, and from a crack in the rock the child watches it die. The chapter opens in that exact register: arrival as loss, the first morning of a life that will be measured from a wound.
What the fall scattered, it scattered close. The child comes back to the crack with empty hands and works the loose earth the landing threw up along it — turning the stones over, feeling into the cold seams, following the line the scatter came to rest along, reading where the outside light reaches and where it stops — and cannot get through to the dark beyond the crack where the small shape went still, and does not stop trying to. What comes up out of that ground is the worn thing from home, the plain one that was in the familiar's mouth in the last ordinary minute of the old life. The child cleans it and puts it on. It is the first quiet work of the new world, done alone and unhurried, and the chapter offers no comfort with it beyond the fact of the thing in the hand: a small hard mercy at the exact place the first wound was made, and the beginning of the child's habit of looking.
Where it stands, line by line
spine
drafted - 779 words of prosedocs/spine/CH_02.md
registries
leg 1, leg 1b landed - 219 registry rows, 42 machine-layer rowsdocs/archive/WORK_QUEUE_HISTORY.md; registries/**; build/spine_rows/CH_02/
concept art
87 picked for this chapter's own sites and beats, 53 more on the shared Flores Island boards, 58 rows regenerating after reviewdocs/art_boards/RECS.csv + PLATES.csv + build/spine_rows/
engine staging
11/11 beats placed and read back off disk, every beat resolved to a staged site, 5/5 placeable actors servedgame:QA/BEAT_BLOCKOUT_CH_02.md
dialogue
29 lines, 79 player options, 6 quest hooks, 2 speakersgame:Content/Data/Dialogue/ch2_ch3_dialogue.json
systems in play
walk the world, gather, talk to a person, choose a reply, trade, take a quest, read the quest log, fight a live encounter, read an attack telegraph, dodge through it, build the chain meter, go down and come back, end a fight without killing - driven with real keys across 901 capture stations in 55 runs, newest 2026-08-06game:Saved/QA/LoopCaptures/ (55 complete runs read)
look tier
DRESSED WITH A BUILT CANOPY AND A MEASURED PALETTE — architecture is PREVIZ MASSING, character unchanged (+ PREVIZ WATER; PREVIZ STAND-IN; the camera is structurally correct and clamped, and NOT yet proven playable in this biome)game:QA/look/flores_wave3_2026-08-04/README.md; game:QA/bench/LEDGER.md
feel tier
input-verified loop: 11/11 stations, asserts green - structure, not final feelgame:Saved/QA/LoopCaptures/loop_2026.08.06-13.48.41/manifest.json
polish tier
no polish pass has runno final-tier claim exists in either repo
The beats, as they stand in the map
Read back off disk after save and reload - these are placed positions, not intended ones.
seq
beat
role / mode
site
1
CH02_B01
hook / character
liang_bua_cave
2
CH02_B11
core / discovery
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CH02_B02
core / puzzle
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CH02_B03
core / combat
recharge_waterfall
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CH02_B04
core / learning
recharge_waterfall
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CH02_B05
core / stealth
liang_bua_cave
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CH02_B06
core / puzzle
kelimutu_crater_lakes
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CH02_B07
core / combat
mount_inerie_cone_country
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CH02_B08
climax / combat
kelimutu_crater_lakes
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CH02_B09
core / transformation
kelimutu_crater_lakes
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CH02_B10
exit / character
manggarai_village_edge
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