Congo Basin (DRC, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Central African Republic, Cameroon regional reach) · Pre-civilizational continuous Baka and Mbuti forest-knowledge tradition
25 sections, taken from this chapter's own canon entry — not from a template. 1 carry a picture, a model or a frame today; 19 named things canon writes are not built yet and say so.
the Congo forest python (an ecological participant, permitted combat only as the river-crossing guardian, never a target of malice), the okapi (Iyenge's tracking), the greater honeyguide bird (Bokumbo's documented human-bird mutualism), and forest elephant and duiker as ambient presences; Msafiri (F3) ranging the African inland.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:234 · 11 creatures written in canon
11 creatures written, nothing drawn yet — next: Creatures and fauna - species base (345 planned); Folklore and mythological beings (186 planned); and 1 more kind
the closed Ituri canopy, the Baka camp and molimo ground, the Bwiti ceremony ground (protected sacred practice, referenced not reproduced), the Iroko axis-mundi tree, and the Free State river-station and ledger-house.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:235 · 4 interiors written in canon
4 interiors written, nothing drawn yet — next: Architecture kits per culture (134 planned); Dwelling variation within a settlement (226 planned); and 2 more kinds
realistic-ethnographic for the Baka, Mbuti, and Fang-Bwiti peoples; Free State period-material iron and canvas for the station; forest-interior green light, river ochre, rubber-latex and ledger-paper for the extraction apparatus.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:236
nothing drawn yet — next: Mood / lighting / weather sets (56 planned); Motif imagery (1 planned)
the Baka and Aka polyphonic yodeled counterpoint and the liquindi water-drumming and the molimo forest-song, drawn from the documented tradition at reference register with no reproduction of protected sacred music; the station's incongruous European gramophone as the extraction machine's tell.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:237
canon writes this and nothing has been drawn or built for it yet
Ndumu's and Apenda's and Molonge's teaching registers, the camp at the molimo, and Dupont's three-register colonial voice (French colonial / Flemish background / clipped command, the category-8 affiliation tell); per-NPC registers deferred to the Voice registry.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:238 · 12 named people written in canon
12 named people written, nothing drawn yet — next: NPCs - ambient crowd buckets (240 planned)
canopy, river-rapids, net-hunt, and station terrain enum; forest-interior ambient, the molimo song, the honeyguide call, and the station machinery; the vital force-cast tier for the relational-field read and the canopy traverse.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:239
canon writes this and nothing has been drawn or built for it yet
sacred_objects include the Bwiti ceremonial substrate and the molimo instrument, referenced not reproduced and never player consumables.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:240 · 1 inscription written in canon · 1 clause held back
1 inscription written, nothing drawn yet — next: Inscription and script glyph plates (21 planned); Folklore and mythological beings (186 planned)
part-break the colonial extraction apparatus into a pacify or HP finish, combat framing the institution and never the Baka or Mbuti; agility_course an Ituri three-dimensional canopy traverse, arboreal vertical-and-lateral movement biome-rotated against Ch 10's ravine descent, with a net-hunting-cooperative Puzzle variant, one course per chapter across three variants.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:245 · 4 staged encounters written in canon
Canon names BE_0011 here, and the factory has not built it yet. Named rather than left out.
4 staged encounters written, nothing drawn yet — next: Bosses - main (180 planned); Bosses - sub and environmental (144 planned)
none new at Ch 11 — the kit carried from Ch 2-10 holds and no Ability_Tree row anchors here;
docs/spine/CH_11.md:246 · 1 clause held back
Stepped by band, because this is motion and not a still.
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.
baseline recharge carries from Ch 3's floor.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:247 · 1 clause held back
nothing drawn yet — next: vital force sites (6 planned); Region key art (180 planned); and 1 more kind
no new roster acquisition; chapter_anchored_weapon_add none — the first canonical Brute chapter-anchored weapon was placed at the Ch 9-10 slot.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:248 · 1 weapon written in canon
1 weapon written, nothing drawn yet — next: Weapons - type silhouette (195 planned); Weapons - grade variants (165 planned); and 2 more kinds
no home base here;
docs/spine/CH_11.md:249 · 1 clause held back
nothing drawn yet — next: Trade physical presence per settlement (265 planned)
no new bond at Ch 11 — Msafiri (Flying, slot F3) continues from its Ch 8 bond, ranging the African inland chapters (Ch 11-13); Shell (W1) remains the sustained-bond Water familiar and Desta (G3) carries its Ch 9-10 bond; Kira (F1), Khan (G1), Muthu (G2), and Kasa (W5) carried; the Sanur Octopus (W4) and Paravani the peacock (F2) stay deferred and gated;
docs/spine/CH_11.md:250 · 1 clause held back
nothing drawn yet — next: Familiars (30 planned)
the canonical Ch 11 figures — Ndumu (CHAR_0078, the Baka Jengi elder, reframed off Moke); Molonge (CHAR_0079, the Baka herbalist); Sange (CHAR_0080, the liquindi ensemble leader); Apenda (CHAR_0081, the Mbuti net-hunting leader, reframed off Kenge); Metogo (CHAR_0082, the Bwiti initiate-guide); Baron Alexandre Dupont (CHAR_0083, the colonial station-master boss); Bokumbo (CHAR_0084, the honey-guide-bird holder); Iyenge (CHAR_0085, the Mbuti okapi-tracker who bridges to the Baka); and the carried Healer's Child (CHA…
docs/spine/CH_11.md:251 · 12 named people written in canon
Canon names CHAR_0002, CHAR_0078, CHAR_0079, CHAR_0080, CHAR_0081, CHAR_0082, CHAR_0083, CHAR_0084, CHAR_0085 here, and the factory has not built them yet. Named rather than left out.
12 named people written, nothing drawn yet — next: NPCs - named persona (358 planned); Companions - base look (6 planned); and 1 more kind
docs/spine/CH_11.md:253 · 1 inscription written in canon · 1 clause held back
1 inscription written, nothing drawn yet — next: Inscription and script glyph plates (21 planned)
BAKA_MBUTI_FOREST_SIGN, the Baka and Mbuti forest-as-text, a performative Theoricus-tier register (inscription_application_class PERFORMATIVE, decipherment_status ORAL_NOT_SCRIPT, system_type PROTO_SYMBOLIC) in which the living forest itself is the readable inscription, deeper and other than writing — a pre-writing oral-not-script substrate deliberately outside the Thread-17 script run: the Thread-17 catalog and the Thread_Grid both step Ch 10 San rock-art to Ch 12 Akan and Nsibidi and score no Ch 11 cell, so no TH…
docs/spine/CH_11.md:254 · 1 script written in canon
1 script written, nothing drawn yet — next: Inscription and script glyph plates (21 planned)
confront the colonial extraction apparatus and meet its defeat via FORK_CH11_A (§10b), witnessing the first mechanism to fully fail; side_questlines: SQ2 Military History advances through the Force Publique extraction apparatus, and SQ5 Astrology and Psychology advances through the Bwiti death-rebirth phenomenology.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:256 · 9 quest seeds written in canon
9 quest seeds written, nothing drawn yet — next: Cinematic key frames (4 planned)
departure west toward the Ch 12 West-African coast, the Iroko axis-mundi lineage pointing the way.
docs/spine/CH_11.md:74 · 1 region written in canon · 1 clause held back
1 region written, nothing drawn yet — next: Layouts - climactic sites (126 planned); Layouts - ordinary sites (46 planned); and 1 more kind
BE_0011 "Baron Alexandre Dupont, the Free State station-master" (CHAR_0083; Thread 3, the first mechanism to fully fail) · primary traverse · secondary strike · axis 40/25/35 · phases [P1→CH11_B07, P2→CH11_B10, P3→CH11_B11] · win {ws.antagonist_operational_state_per_region: +free_state_extraction_broken_baka_mbuti_intact} · death {the station's method partially mapped for the retry — the Baka and Mbuti thread advances on win and death alike, no fail-wall} sub-bosses (each a beat): BE_0011_S1 Adjudant Corneille Depr…
docs/spine/CH_11.md:94 · 4 staged encounters written in canon
Canon names BE_0011, CHAR_0083 here, and the factory has not built them yet. Named rather than left out.
4 staged encounters written, nothing drawn yet — next: Bosses - main (180 planned); Bosses - sub and environmental (144 planned)
SQ2 · questline military_history · stage ADVANCE · gate at(free_state_rubber_station) · beats [CH11_B07, CH11_B08, CH11_B09, CH11_B10, CH11_B11] · reward the Free State extraction-apparatus lore and the anti-extraction resistance-chain branch (community-standing outcomes) SQ5 · questline astrology_psychology · stage ADVANCE · gate at(lope_bwiti_ceremony_ground) · beats [CH11_B04] · reward the initiatory-psychology substrate, resolved entirely through the witness-and-support role, never player ingestion
docs/spine/CH_11.md:187 · 9 quest seeds, 10 questlines written in canon
9 quest seeds, 10 questlines written, nothing drawn yet — next: Cinematic key frames (4 planned)
Ndumu, the Baka elder (canonical, CHAR_0078) — a keeper of the Jengi forest-spirit ceremony, a UNESCO intangible-heritage tradition, and a teacher of the forest-as-relationship, inviolate and never a target; reframed off the near-homophone Moko to a constructed Baka-register name at RR-12. Apenda, the Mbuti net-hunting leader (canonical, CHAR_0081) — the hunter whose ecosystem-relational-field perception grounds the chapter's recognition-via-land, a teaching NPC and never a target; reframed off the Turnbull-atteste…
docs/spine/CH_11.md:194 · 12 named people written in canon
Canon names CHAR_0078, CHAR_0079, CHAR_0080, CHAR_0081, CHAR_0082, CHAR_0084, CHAR_0085 here, and the factory has not built them yet. Named rather than left out.
12 named people written, nothing drawn yet — next: NPCs - named persona (358 planned); Companions - base look (6 planned); and 1 more kind
Dominant combat mode — docs/spine/CH_11.md:244
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_11.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_11.md:255
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_11.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.
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.
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.
As a child the protagonist follows the rivers west and north out of the great valley, up across the equator, until the sky closes over and the world becomes a single green interior, a forest that is less a place than a mind. Here knowledge is not written or spoken but lived as relationship: a Mbuti hunter reads the whole net of the ecosystem the way the protagonist reads a page, and the oldest lesson in the forest is that you do not own it, you belong to it. After a run of chapters spent learning to hide among people, the forest offers the opposite — a way of being that has no need to hide because it has nothing to defend, only to tend.
They come first to the net-hunt, where a whole camp moves as one body: the long looped nets strung between the trees, the beaters and the women driving the game, the shared kill divided by a law older than any market. Apenda, who leads the hunt, does not so much track the forest as belong to its attention, and it is at his shoulder that the protagonist first feels vital force not as a substance to be gathered but as the living field between beings — the relational net itself. In the camp the protagonist learns the deeper thing the Mbuti hold: that the forest is good, a parent that gives, and that when sickness or grief or a bad hunt comes it is not because some evil thing has entered the trees but because the forest has fallen asleep. So the people sing. The molimo rises from the camp at night, the great forest-song that wakes the sleeping forest and reminds it to attend to its children, and there is no devil anywhere in it — only a good world that must, now and then, be sung awake. The protagonist, who has crossed continents full of things that press in from the dark, stands at the edge of a firelight that fears nothing.
harness/site/build_progress_site.py from canon 521b6c6e and build 0a7fbe3. Every status line on this site is computed from those two repositories; nothing is asserted by hand.