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Chapter 2 - 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, the wider Indonesian small-hominin cryptid discourse (the Sumatran Orang Pendek (CR_0011) of Kerinci-Seblat invoked comparatively through the Homo floresiensis find, not a Flores-local tradition), and the deep-time hominin stratum (twelve_level_gate: none binds at Ch 2; SQ gates are state-conditions, non-gating on the main spine.)

Read from docs/spine/CH_02.md, line 179.

Written in canon: 4 quest seeds (this chapter), 2 questlines (this chapter). Source: registries/T0_Quest_Seed_Registry [DRAFT v0.1]/Sheet1.csv; registries/T0_Questline_Index [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

Wired into the game

Every card is the asset gallery's own record, at the same rung on the same five-step ladder.

Orang Pendek

CONTENT-COMPLETE
CR_0011 · slice_creatures
object reference
object reference
geometry
geometry
textured
textured
textured
textured

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

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