Chapter 2 - Key sites

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PICKED - CANON the only frame that carries the whole cone at establishing scale together with the scree corridor AND the documented monsoon-forest edge (bamboo culms, fan palms, tree ferns, crop-verified), with the shoulder cloth covering the torso and no structure, terrace or graded track anywhere.

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PICKED - CANON at 3x the ash field is unbroken wind-braided drift and scree with no graded pale road and no defined road edge anywhere across it, and the cone sits off-axis toward the upper left with an asymmetric shoulder line rather than dead-centred and symmetric

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PICKED - CRAFT O1 and O2 both deliver the canonical three mutually-distinct waterlines in one caldera (turquoise / dark-olive / blood-red with sulphur crust rims), but O1 has a legible text string burned into the dark lake, so O2 takes it artifact-clean.

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PICKED - CANON the row's own subject finally lands - THREE separate crater lakes in one frame at turquoise, olive and blood red, divided by knife-edge ash ridges - and the rim is wild: no modern-dressed figure, no white structure, no graded road, with tropical broadleaf, palm and tree-fern cover where conifer scru

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PICKED - CANON the haloed sun is off the summit and diffused whole into the haze so the light reads as flat ambient daylight, the eruption plume and the molten-lava trench are gone, the walkway slabs are gone, the cone sits off the frame centre over black ash and scree, and the ridge carries tropical broadleaf, tr

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PICKED - CRAFT off-axis cone with raking dawn light running the length of a genuine scree corridor, and the only frame whose valley floor reads as a natural braided dry wash rather than a crowned roadbed or a centred symmetric axis (row-wide caveat: all four skew arid ochre and omit the lower-slope forest band).

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PICKED - AUTHENTICITY the only frame with no road, shoulder line or bench-cut terrace anywhere on the slope, and the wind is carried physically by bent tussock and drifting ash off an off-centre cone rather than by decorative curls.

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PICKED - REGISTER the impossible-light clause reads NONE PROPOSED and O3 is the only dusk that holds the ash column and haze on physical light alone, with muted sulfur-ochre rim rock and no incandescence on a lake that is not erupting.

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PICKED - CANON the rim carries continuous tropical broadleaf, palm and tree-fern cover right down to the treeline with no red-roofed or white building standing on it, and the crater wall is one continuous weathered face of layered ash, scoria and mineral staining rather than the collage of flat manufactured-lookin

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PICKED - CRAFT all four are physically lit, so legibility decides: O3 alone resolves the dawn as a readable landscape (sun sitting in the rim notch, atmospheric range layers behind, steam plume clearly rising off the waterline) while O1/O2 bury the read under faceted-collage foregrounds.

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PICKED - CANON at 2x the strands hanging from the upper limb are aerial roots and vines with fine irregular tendrils, growing out of moss, bark and epiphytes on the limb itself, and nothing loops around the lower limb - the made cordage the care line ordered removed is gone rather than softened

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PICKED - CANON the built structure is gone - behind him the ground rises as raw volcanic earth, loose scoria and tree-fern cover, wild and unworked right to the frame edge, with no concrete kerb and no wall panel running across it - and the hearth stays split green bamboo on bare ground

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PICKED - CANON both named cells answer - the poles are storm-fallen limbs with torn splintered ends and bark still on them rather than clean flat sawn end-cuts, and the cover is tropical tree fern and broadleaf over dark volcanic rock rather than temperate broadleaf on grey granite

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PICKED - CANON O1 is the only plate whose plain mud-stained tunic actually covers the back as well as the front to mid-thigh (the others render a one-shoulder halter leaving the back bare), set in a clean botanical pod of arching limbs and buttress roots with no cordage, craft or manufactured object; pointed ear c

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PICKED - AUTHENTICITY the only frame that holds the row's STAGING_AT_THE_ATTESTED_FLOOR dress route: the hunter is turned fully away in plain undyed cloth with no woven pattern legible and no face asserted, staged upslope on the ash corridor above the child's track line exactly where CH_02.md:141 plays BE_0002.P1.

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PICKED - CANON the fallen trunk is bare weathered hardwood, silvered and split along its own grain end to end, with no bright riveted plate fitted to it, and the rocks around it are plain wet basalt and river-worn cobble with no dark glossy sheet fragment - the zone reads wild and unworked, which is what this row

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PICKED - CANON the only plan where the beat's three named geometries all read at once (the fall, the plunge pool and concentric spray rings) with no manufactured object in frame; O2 stages a wooden pallet and hard hats, O4 a built staircase and boardwalk.

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PICKED - REGISTER the only option where the threshold is a real body of moving air (a mist column rising off the plunge, no energy-field arcs) and the child stands in a vernacular pale wrap-tunic; O2 puts a modern tank top and shorts on the figure under embossed pseudo-lettering, O4 renders the spray as decorative ri

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PICKED - CANON the unfinished WHITE FRAME BORDER this row's line named is gone - the painted terrain now runs to all four edges and into every corner as one continuous full-bleed wash of ash, scree, lava-block field and tree-fern cover, with paint carried right up to the rectangle's boundary on every side - and th

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PICKED - CANON three separate pit basins with divide ridges replace the single centred radial sunburst, and the invented waterfall, the radial roads, boardwalks, staircases, buildings and map-legend artifacts are all absent

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PICKED - CANON the steel handsaw the token 'fire-saw' produced is gone - a split-bamboo edge worked into a charred notch cut through the culm wall, fibre tinder lashed at the junction, ember alight and smoking

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PICKED - CANON tightest single-read material set the row exists to deliver: ash tread corridor, black scoria blocks, grit and bleached wood all sampleable in one frame, and free of the modern intrusion that sinks O4 (tourists in coloured jackets along the top edge) and the coastal desert plain that loses the corri

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PICKED - CRAFT all four carry the same correct material canon (black scoria, sulphur-and-white crust, steaming yellow mineral water), and O3 is the only one with no manufactured object, text or floating artifact anywhere in frame, under the dry-season ash-haze overcast rather than blue sky.

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PICKED - CANON the only plate delivering all three material reads the row names and delivering them cleanly: horizontal tidemark banding above the waterline, a sulfur vent with radial cracks and yellow deposit, and an oxide crust band, with no text, props, figures or unfinished gutters.

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