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Chapter 2 - 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.

Read from docs/spine/CH_02.md, line 254.

Written in canon: 4 quest seeds (this chapter). Source: registries/T0_Quest_Seed_Registry [DRAFT v0.1]/Sheet1.csv.

The concept, one picked plate per subject

beat b03 guardian test key frame

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the cell this row's line puts at 2x is answered - the child's tunic is one plain undyed handspun cloth, a single flat natural tone across the whole chest with its creasing and its mud staining the only marking anywhere on it, and the RENDERED LETTERING 'FL' that rejected the rung-4 plate outright is

this chapter's own

beat b07 tracker meeting key frame

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the white European man in a Roman-style tunic is replaced by a barefoot highland-Flores Manggarai adult in hand-spun cotton with a bamboo shaft and a matte knapped point, on matte oxidised red scoria under flat overcast, both figures upright in a meeting rather than a downed child under a spearpoint

this chapter's own

beat b09 carving the mark key frame

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - REGISTER REGISTER: O1 is the ONLY plate on this row with a rounded human ear (verified at crop — O2's ear is pointed, contradicting the prior REC note that O2 was clean) while also keeping the mark a non-linguistic crossed scratch rather than O3's composed asterisk or O4's bind-rune-with-logo-swoosh, and its

this chapter's own

sq1 folklore seed point key frame

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the avoidance the row exists for finally reads - a worn foot track curves visibly aside around the seed point and rejoins beyond it, and the child stands off-centre at the bend looking along it rather than sitting dead-centre - and the tussock is plain grass, ash and volcanic gravel with no blue fra

this chapter's own

sq9 cryptid seed point key frame

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON at 3x the cut cane stub is raw split bamboo fibre, weathered and frayed and dark-stained at the break, with no white manufactured cap on it and no white fragments in the ash below - the zone reads craft-free, which is what the care line declares

this chapter's own

fork ch02a corrosive the first permission to distrust

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the legible capital letters on the cave wall, the cloned children and the non-physical blue luminescence are all gone - a single crouched child cutting a hard overworked gouged cluster with stone dust thrown from the grooves

this chapter's own

fork ch02a generative the wound carried whole

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the rune-like sigils printed on the garment and the pointed-ear leak are both gone - the crossed non-linguistic mark is the subject, the child's hand laid flat beside it and his head bowed to it

this chapter's own

fork ch02a neutral swallowed unfelt

full plate: 1344px wide — opens on click

PICKED - CANON the four-panel contact sheets, the cloned second child and the waterless quarry site are gone - ONE frame at the wet cavern beside the falls, one child, and a non-linguistic scratch

this chapter's own

In the running build

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