SQ1 · questline fairy_tale_folklore · stage ADVANCE · gate has(local.naga_contract_offered) · beats [CH03_B05, CH03_B11] · reward the Manggarai folklore substrate (the darat, the naga tana, the potent-landscape belief) and the appeasement-not-slaying lesson — advanced from the Ch-2 seed SQ4 · questline mystery_detective · stage SEED · gate none · beats [CH03_B07, CH03_B12] · reward the healer's-child mystery thread (the unsigned marks, opening toward the Ch-13 join) and the detective's-eye method from the untwisting — the v2.5 SEED-to-ADVANCE texture kept: seeded here, its first advance rides the in-chapter exposure SQ2 · questline military_history · stage SEED · gate at(todo_royal_village) · beats [CH03_B08, CH03_B09] · reward the caci technique (gifted by Kaba Lomes on win and loss alike) and the living martial-history substrate SQ9 · questline cryptids · stage ADVANCE · gate none · beats [CH03_B03] · reward the Ebu Gogo three-tellings substrate and the who-says-which method — Hunter Anselmus at the village hub gives the little-ones account as his grandfather's telling and names its rivals (the Nage account of the ending at the cave mouth, held as the Nage's own to tell; the highland fireside talk that the deep forest still keeps a few), and the deliberate Liang Bua read at CH03_B03 adds the deep-time trace as a third telling, the three held side by side and never collapsed into one; advanced from the Ch-2 seed. The anti-fringe posture stays authorial: the player collects who says which, never a debunk, and the folklore is never asserted to BE the hominins. The beat list is the dialogue census rather than an intention: both SQ9-hooked player options in the Ch-2/Ch-3 set sit on the one row DL_CH03_HUB_ANSELMUS_D16, whose trigger_beat is CH03_B03, and the whole ebu-gogo telling around it (DL_CH03_HUB_ANSELMUS_D15 to D17, which also carry the two Liang Bua extraction refs) points at that same beat, so CH03_B03 is the only beat the set backs and the CH03_B01 an earlier version of this row carried is retired as unbacked (twelve_level_gate: none binds at Ch 3; SQ gates are state-conditions, non-gating on the main spine.)
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Written in canon: 4 quest seeds (this chapter), 4 questlines (this chapter). Source: registries/T0_Quest_Seed_Registry [DRAFT v0.1]/Sheet1.csv; registries/T0_Questline_Index [DRAFT v0.1]/Sheet1.csv.
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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis authenticity. O4 is the only arrival with no painted blue joinery, no plastic vessel and no poured path: thatch cones, an earth tra
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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis canon. O3 is the only candidate with one animal and one head - the body draped down the rock to drink while the child stands and wa
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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis authenticity. O4 is the only interior carrying nothing manufactured: maize and drying bundles on the rafter, a stone-ringed hearth
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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict PICK_READY, deciding axis register. The rock is lit by ordinary daylight from the cave mouth with nothing glowing under the hand, and the flat palm and
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PICKED - canon FOUR-AXIS PICK PASS 2026-08-04: every candidate on this row was opened and scored comparatively on canon, authenticity, register and craft. Verdict MIXED, deciding axis register. O4 is the only candidate where the mark on the post is a physical cut catching ordinary window light rather than a patch
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harness/site/build_progress_site.py from canon 6e9092e7 and build 0a7fbe3. Every status line on this site is computed from those two repositories; nothing is asserted by hand.