CH_03_quests.md

chapters/CH_03/quests/main_story/CH_03_quests.md

CH_03 Quest Set — Flores Island / Manggarai Highlands (Quest-Writing Spike)

CANON SUBORDINATION — this document is PROPOSAL-TIER: it serves canon and never outranks it.

The canon: the CVD · the T1 foundation docs · the T0 registries (registries/) · the spine

(docs/spine/CH_*.md) · the region pages (_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/). Authority order: docs/DOC_MAP.md § 0.

Canon served (scanned from this document's own citations — widen it by hand where it is thin):

CVD §13 · CVD §17 · T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts · T0_Antagonist_Network_Registry · T0_Boss_Encounter · T0_Character_Index · T0_Quest_Definition_Registry · (+5 more t0) · docs/spine/CH_03.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/flores_island.md

READ THAT CANON FIRST — open it and derive from it before you build anything from this document.

If this document disagrees with canon, CANON WINS and this document is the defect — fix the

document, never the canon. Nothing here is applied until it is ratified into canon.

Status: SPIKE DRAFT — validation artifact, not canon. This file exists to prove whether the ratified quest, scene, and dialogue schema holds real authored content derived from the executed v3.1 spine, BEFORE book-gated production quest writing. Nothing here is canonical; it is a proposal-tier draft. The cardinal do-not-invent rule binds: every quest field is joined FROM the spine's typed layer, the region page, and the schema — where the schema demands a value no source provides, the gap is recorded in the Contract Gaps section rather than invented.

Front block

Chapter — CH_03 (Flores Island, Manggarai western highlands; the social-and-political counterpart to the Ch 2 arrival node).
Region page — _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/flores_island.md (the pilot page; covers CH_02 and CH_03 zones; Zone Catalog rows wae_rebo_village, compang_lingko_fields, wae_water_spring, mama_klaras_waterfall, todo_royal_village, lingko_forest_edge, liang_bua_cave).
Spine source — docs/spine/CH_03.md (v3.1 typed layer: §3b site rows, §9 boss thin index BE_0003 + three sub-bosses, §10 twelve-beat graph CH03_B01–B12, §10b fork graph FORK_CH03_A, §11 side-questline rows SQ1/SQ4/SQ2, §13 scene rows).
Schema sources read — T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts [ACTIVE v1.0]: §5 (Cinematic Scene Build Pipeline, §5.5 Scene Spec Schema, the eleven-value scene_type enum), §6 (Quest Writing Pipeline, §6.5 Quest Spec Schema plus the dialogue_dataset file structure and line_variant element schema), §9.5 (Spine Entry Schema — the path_bucket vocabulary, the three closed fork-table grammars, the gate-and-condition mini-grammar).
Reveal ceiling (binds every player-facing string below) — no House-of-Velheim name, family, pattern, or agent-noun who-frame anywhere; the Ch-3 land-pressure predates the family entirely (the House of Velheim first appears at Ch 8). The antagonist reads as a purely local pre-colonial land-pressure broker and his bought apparatus, never a wider chain. The Grand Sage is dark.
Care posture (CVD §17.1, HL_0003 / HL_0004 / HL_0005) — the Manggarai community is never a quest target; all combat routes through the broker's apparatus, the corrupted agents, and the roused land. The benevolent dukun/healer role (Mama Klara) is honored, never villained. The caci is depicted as the tradition holds it — a scored ceremonial whip-and-shield contest with an agricultural blood-fertilizes-earth meaning, first blood kept for the elders and given back to the earth, never savage spectacle.
Age register — Childhood (internal age 9, designer-only, never surfaced). Player-facing text carries no age number and no gendered protagonist pronoun (gender is player-selected, carried from Ch 1).

How the spine maps onto the quest chain

The chapter is one main through-line: lift the lingko land-pressure, calm the roused land, and restore the untwisted proverb tradition, resolved by exposing the broker at the caci ground and returning the land-contract (the spine main_quest_beat line). It is realized here as six main-story quests covering all twelve beats, plus the three side-questline advances the spine's §11 rows carry, plus the two region-page side-quest seeds. Beat-to-quest allocation:

QS_CH_03_01 realizes CH03_B01.
QS_CH_03_02 realizes CH03_B02, CH03_B03.
QS_CH_03_03 realizes CH03_B04, CH03_B05, CH03_B06.
QS_CH_03_04 realizes CH03_B07.
QS_CH_03_05 realizes CH03_B08, CH03_B09.
QS_CH_03_06 realizes CH03_B10, CH03_B11, CH03_B12.

Field-mapping convention used throughout (and audited in Contract Gaps): quest_id and quest_name and quest_type and path_bucket and participant_entity_refs and hard_line_relevance are §6.5 fields carried directly; the objectives sequence is the §6.5 quest_beat_structure expressed as one dashed bullet per spine beat with the beat_id cited; completion conditions and ws.* writes are lifted from the cited beats' typed in/out deltas (never minted); rewards are lifted from the spine's own reward lines (the §9 boss win/death clauses, the mechanical-anchors rewards line, and the §11 SQ reward columns); fail/branch handling is lifted from the spine's reward-both-ways boss outcomes and the no-dead-end progression guarantee.

Main-story quest chain

QS_CH_03_01 — The Cloth Over the Ears

quest_id — QS_CH_03_01. quest_anchor_id — CH03_ARRIVAL (single-row, path-invariant; see Contract Gaps on anchor convention for non-branching per-chapter quests).
quest_type — main_story_per_chapter. path_bucket — UNLOCKED (pre-Ch-65). twelve_tier_gate — none. author_in_loop_required — FALSE (standard quest track).
giver / trigger — auto-triggers on arrival on foot from the Ch 2 jungle into Wae Rebo; reception through Elder Rato (CHAR_0009) at the mbaru-niang cluster. Trigger condition — chapter entry from the CH_02 exit seam (ws.identity_hiding_status FIRST_CONCEALMENT at entry).
zone anchor(s) — wae_rebo_village (region-page zone wae_rebo_village; spine §3b site wae_rebo_village, terrain mountain, functions character/learning/traversal); the lingko-edge strain is read at the fields' margin (compang_lingko_fields, lingko_forest_edge) as ambient setup, not entered here.
participant_entity_refs — protagonist, CHAR_0006 (Mama Klara, glimpsed), CHAR_0009 (Elder Rato).
objectives sequence —
Walk up out of the jungle into the cone-roofed mbaru-niang houses depleted and hidden, and learn that a village is harder to survive than a forest (realizes CH03_B01).
Turn concealment from a survival reflex into a craft under the first eyes that stay — keep the cloth over the ears, hold to where the firelight does not reach (realizes CH03_B01; ws.identity_hiding_status pressure MED→HIGH per the seam).
Read, without yet understanding it, the strain on the village: an outside broker's crew is clearing the lingko-edge forest to force the village off its fields (realizes CH03_B01; thread THREAD_03 ANCHOR).
completion conditions — local.village_reached = true AND local.concealment_craft_begun = true (CH03_B01 out-delta).
ws.* writes carried from the spine — none durable at this beat (the beat writes only local.* keys; the pressure shift on ws.identity_hiding_status is asserted at the CH_02→CH_03 entry seam and committed at QS_CH_03_06 / CH03_B12, not here).
rewards (from spine reward lines) — village access unlocking the healer, caci, and land-pressure arcs; no loot anchor (the mechanical-anchors rewards line defers loot to [POPULATE→T0_RNG_Drop_Table]).
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — concealment may read as clumsy (a slipped cloth, a wrong seat) and shift the community's early warmth without walling anything; arrival always completes (the road opens on every conduct per the FORK_CH03_A progression guarantee, which this hook opens toward).
hard_line_relevance — HELD: the land-pressure reads as a local broker's crew, the community-institutional escalation of the Ch-2 individual scale; the family does not yet exist here and no wider chain is surfaced (carried from CH03_B01 reveal gate).

QS_CH_03_02 — The Emptied Vessel

quest_id — QS_CH_03_02. quest_anchor_id — CH03_HEALERS_RESTORATION.
quest_type — main_story_per_chapter. path_bucket — UNLOCKED. twelve_tier_gate — none. author_in_loop_required — FALSE.
giver / trigger — Mama Klara (CHAR_0006), the Manggarai healer-elder, after she watches the stillness around the protagonist for a full day. Trigger condition — has(local.village_reached).
zone anchor(s) — mama_klaras_waterfall (region-page zone mama_klaras_waterfall; spine §3b site, terrain water_body, functions learning/transformation, vril_density anchor, climactic_affordance threshold), then a deliberate backtrack to liang_bua_cave (region-page zone liang_bua_cave, the CH_03 discovery-only sub-case of the CH_02 superset row, ambient_threat low).
participant_entity_refs — protagonist, CHAR_0006 (Mama Klara).
systems touched — vril_site:VS_CH03_001 (Mama Klara's waterfall, recharge_ritual); inscription:LIANG_BUA_VRIL_TRACE and inscription:MASTERY_CH03_NEOPHYTE_FIRST_DELIBERATE.
objectives sequence —
Let Mama Klara name the depletion she will not explain, and follow her down to the waterfall for the restoration ritual that fills the emptied vessel and permanently raises its floor (realizes CH03_B02; thread THREAD_01 ESCALATION; VS_CH03_001).
Backtrack down to the Liang Bua cave of the arrival and read an inscription on purpose for the first time — the deep-time vril trace of the small people who once lived there, the first deliberate use of the inscription ability (realizes CH03_B03; thread THREAD_17 ESCALATION; the origin of the first-vril-gesture ring closed at the Ch-77 recharge-source, an origin note only, zero forward valence).
completion conditions — local.vril_floor_raised = true AND local.first_deliberate_read = true (CH03_B02 out then CH03_B03 out; CH03_B03 gate is has(local.vril_floor_raised), so the order is fixed).
ws.* writes carried from the spine — none durable (both beats write local.* keys only; the permanent capacity-floor raise is a VS_CH03_001 systems effect with no ws.* key in the spine — see Contract Gaps).
rewards (from spine reward lines) — the permanent vril-floor raise (the mechanical-anchors rewards line); the first deliberate inscription-ability use (MASTERY_CH03_NEOPHYTE_FIRST_DELIBERATE, the canonical Tier-1 Neophyte gate); the INSC_77H_CH03_FRAGMENT Layer-2 carrier recorded toward the Ch-76 payoff.
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — the ritual and the read are non-combat learning/discovery beats; a partial ritual still raises the floor (the reduced-ceiling case is exercised at QS_CH_03_03 / BE_0003_S1's loss branch), and the cave read always records the trace.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: Mama Klara's recognition is felt as weight and never explained (no pre-Ch-76 origin reveal, per HL_0043); semangat stays the culturally named vril-parallel, felt not declared (HL_0015); the Liang Bua read is a Neophyte vril-trace only — substrate-perception onset waits at the Ch-15 Adeptus-Minor crossing (HL_0028) (carried from CH03_B02 / CH03_B03 reveal gates).

QS_CH_03_03 — The Unasked Land

quest_id — QS_CH_03_03. quest_anchor_id — CH03_LAND_ROUSED.
quest_type — main_story_per_chapter (the naga sub-beat is folklore-adjacent; see Contract Gaps on quest_type for main-story beats that are also folklore encounters). path_bucket — UNLOCKED. twelve_tier_gate — none. author_in_loop_required — FALSE.
giver / trigger — the pressed villagers and Elder Rato (CHAR_0009); the roused-land turn surfaces at the Wae water-source. Trigger condition — has(local.village_reached).
zone anchor(s) — lingko_forest_edge (region-page zone lingko_forest_edge; spine §3b site, terrain forest, functions combat) for the crew; wae_water_spring (region-page zone wae_water_spring; spine §3b site, terrain water_body, functions combat/transformation/character, vril_density moderate) for the roused guardian and the bond.
participant_entity_refs — protagonist, Poka Puar (BE_0003_S2 scout-captain), the naga tana (a presence, not a person), CHAR_0006 (Mama Klara, for the approach protocol).
systems touched — sub_boss:BE_0003_S2, ability:A_E_003 (Rock Throw, Neophyte); sub_boss:BE_0003_S1, ability:A_T_001 (Entrance, Neophyte); familiar:shell_w1.
objectives sequence —
Turn the extraction crew at the lingko-edge forest — sever Scout-Captain Poka Puar's marking-and-felling line, turn a freed conscript to flank, and pull the pressed villagers out of scout-labor (realizes CH03_B04; sub_boss BE_0003_S2, DISARM/RESCUE 40/25/35; thread THREAD_03 ANCHOR; oppressor combat per HL_0003 ruling 5).
Face the roused naga tana over the Wae water-source — attune the semangat-breath to open a pause in the coil-and-strike, perceive the specific violation in the water and the soil, and offer the restored land-contract so the guardian withdraws, appeased and never slain (realizes CH03_B05; sub_boss BE_0003_S1, ATTUNE/PERCEIVE 30/45/25; thread THREAD_02 ANCHOR).
At the calmed spring let the water-familiar that shadowed the protagonist out of Liang Bua finally be known — form the bond through Mama Klara's water-source offering protocol, the first bond the protagonist has chosen in this world (realizes CH03_B06; familiar:shell_w1).
completion conditions — local.conscripts_freed = true AND local.violation_read = true (CH03_B04 out) AND local.naga_contract_offered = true (CH03_B05 out); CH03_B05 gate is has(local.violation_read) and CH03_B06 gate is has(local.naga_contract_offered), fixing the order crew → guardian → bond.
ws.* writes carried from the spine — ws.familiar_bond_state: +shell_bonded_first_chosen_bond (CH03_B06 out-delta; the durable Shell bond).
rewards (from spine reward lines) — the freed-conscript valley allies (BE_0003_S2 win clause); the restored ngoéng-de-tana sacrificial contract plus the ritual-botanical gather node at the recharge waterfall (BE_0003_S1 win clause; also the SQ1 folklore reward); Shell (W1) as the sustained-bond Water familiar.
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — reward-both-ways boss outcomes carried verbatim: on a BE_0003_S1 loss the waterfall ritual runs at a partial ceiling (still progresses); on a BE_0003_S2 loss the scout-captain's whistle grammar is mapped (the deliberate Ch-39 modern-patrol callback) and the crew is turned by other means. No loss walls the land-pressure resolution.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: oppressor combat routes through the crew and its captain, never the Manggarai (HL_0003); the potent land is drawn as the tradition holds it, dangerous because violated and owed ritual, appeased not Hollywood-monstered (HL_0005); the Child Familiar stays believed dead, its Ch-58 Truly-Good escape held from every surface (carried from CH03_B04 / B05 / B06 reveal gates).

QS_CH_03_04 — The Twisted Word

quest_id — QS_CH_03_04. quest_anchor_id — CH03_PROVERBS_RESTORED.
quest_type — main_story_per_chapter (materialized-argument encounter; folklore-adjacent). path_bucket — UNLOCKED. twelve_tier_gate — none. author_in_loop_required — FALSE.
giver / trigger — Elder Tuan Bernardus (CHAR_0016), keeper of the untwisted proverb register. Trigger condition — has(local.first_deliberate_read) (the inscription tell learned at Liang Bua is the reading instrument for the semantic twist).
zone anchor(s) — compang_lingko_fields (region-page zone compang_lingko_fields; spine §3b site, terrain agricultural, functions puzzle/character/transformation, climactic_affordance sacred, protected true) — the axis-mundi plaza where the community assembles.
participant_entity_refs — protagonist, CHAR_0016 (Elder Bernardus), Tombo Holes (BE_0003_S3, the twisted-word sorcerer, a distinct malevolent practitioner, never the healer role and never a within-community authority).
systems touched — sub_boss:BE_0003_S3, decode:twisted_proverb_uninversion.
objectives sequence —
Un-invert the twisted proverbs — a materialized-argument manifestation of reversed words is bending each proverb Elder Bernardus speaks true, corrupting the law the community lives by; pair each twist against his untwisted register, read the semantic tell in the inscription trace, and name the twist before the assembled community until the manifested inversion collapses (realizes CH03_B07; sub_boss BE_0003_S3, DECODE/EXPOSE 20/50/30, a materialized-argument encounter in the Ch-69 lineage).
completion conditions — local.proverbs_restored = true (CH03_B07 out; gate has(local.first_deliberate_read)).
ws.* writes carried from the spine — none durable (CH03_B07 writes local.proverbs_restored only).
rewards (from spine reward lines) — the restored proverb tradition true (BE_0003_S3 win clause); the detective's-eye method from the untwisting (the SQ4 mystery reward, seeded here); on the loss branch the inversion pattern is revealed (mapping reward, still progresses).
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — reward-both-ways: BE_0003_S3 win restores the proverbs, loss reveals the inversion pattern; either way the proverb law is understood and the chapter proceeds. Thread 11 (the Ch-2-anchored corrupted-trickster lineage) continues here but carries no separate Ch-3 grid cell (scored at Ch 2 per RR-12) and no THREAD_11 beat join.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: the malevolence is the manifested twist and its distinct practitioner, never the benevolent dukun/healer role and never a within-community authority (HL_0005 and the Ch-2 precedent) (carried from CH03_B07 reveal gate).

QS_CH_03_05 — A Place in the Ring

quest_id — QS_CH_03_05. quest_anchor_id — CH03_CACI. This is the most character-heavy quest of the chapter (the dialogue dataset sample below is authored against it).
quest_type — main_story_per_chapter (also the SQ2 military-history advance interleaves here). path_bucket — UNLOCKED. twelve_tier_gate — none. author_in_loop_required — FALSE.
giver / trigger — Ana (CHAR_0017), a Manggarai caci age-peer, vouches for the outsider; Elder Rato (CHAR_0009) and the elders grant entry. Trigger condition — has(local.village_reached), staged at the Todo royal ground.
zone anchor(s) — todo_royal_village (region-page zone todo_royal_village; spine §3b site, terrain agricultural, functions combat/character, protected true) — the caci ground where the community assembles.
participant_entity_refs — protagonist, CHAR_0017 (Ana), CHAR_0009 (Elder Rato), Kaba Lomes (BE_0003 main boss, the broker's bought champion), CHAR_0022 (Musician Pak Kornelius, the gong-and-drum ensemble).
systems touched — boss:BE_0003.P1, object:wpn_033_shield (the first off-hand Shield seat).
objectives sequence —
Earn a place in the caci — let Ana vouch on the royal ground, and receive entry from the elders the way a guest receives it, asked for and given with respect, never assumed; the first contest the protagonist will fight for a place instead of a life (realizes CH03_B08; ws.relationship_history +ana_caci_peer_bond).
Dance the caci rounds against Kaba Lomes — take the rattan shield first and turn each cracking whip-arc on the clean parry until the count is kept, then trade to the whip for the answering pass; a scored, timed courtesy with teeth, first blood kept for the elders' ceremony (realizes CH03_B09; boss BE_0003.P1, PARRY/EXPOSE; threads THREAD_14 CONFRONTATION, THREAD_21 ANCHOR).
completion conditions — local.caci_entry_granted = true (CH03_B08 out; gate has(local.village_reached)) AND local.caci_rounds_danced = true (CH03_B09 out; gate has(local.caci_entry_granted)).
ws.* writes carried from the spine — ws.relationship_history: +ana_caci_peer_bond (CH03_B08 out-delta).
rewards (from spine reward lines) — the caci technique, gifted by Kaba Lomes on win and loss alike (BE_0003 win/death clause; the SQ2 reward); WPN_033 Shield rooted as the player's first off-hand Shield (grounding the boss PARRY verb); Ana as the first recurring peer-companion (recurs Ch 27/28/41).
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — reward-both-ways carried verbatim: Kaba Lomes gifts a caci technique on win and death alike, no fail-wall; on a lost round the village negotiates the land-pressure on worse terms and the whip cadence is logged, but the road to the unmasking (QS_CH_03_06) stays open. The caci is a contest for a place, never for a life — a lost round costs standing, never progression.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: the caci is depicted as the Manggarai practice it — an agricultural blood-fertilizes-earth rite and a scored contest, first blood ceremonial and returned to the earth, never savage spectacle (HL_0005); entry is granted as to a guest, the fairy features still under cloth (carried from CH03_B08 / B09 reveal gates).

QS_CH_03_06 — The Land Made Whole

quest_id — QS_CH_03_06. quest_anchor_id — CH03_LAND_RESOLUTION. This quest carries the chapter's single durable direction-set (FORK_CH03_A).
quest_type — main_story_per_chapter (climax + resolution + exit). path_bucket — UNLOCKED (the Ch-65 lock is far ahead; the fork sets direction plus emerging magnitude, not a committed ending). twelve_tier_gate — none. author_in_loop_required — FALSE.
giver / trigger — the assembled community at the Todo royal ground carries into the Compang plaza. Trigger condition — has(local.caci_rounds_danced) AND has(local.conscripts_freed) AND has(local.proverbs_restored) (the CH03_B10 in-gate — the three prepared evidences converge).
zone anchor(s) — todo_royal_village (the unmasking, where the community assembles and the P2 whip arcs continue through the social round, so the boss does not change sites mid-phase); compang_lingko_fields (the contract restoration at the fields the elders lay from the center-stone); wae_rebo_village (the departure).
participant_entity_refs — protagonist, Kaba Lomes (BE_0003.P2), Ngoéng Tana (the land-pressure broker, exposed), CHAR_0009 (Elder Rato), CHAR_0016 (Elder Bernardus), CHAR_0002 (the healer's child), CHAR_0006 (Mama Klara, behind a closed door).
systems touched — boss:BE_0003.P2, object:ngoeng_de_tana_contract, journal:healers_child_unsigned_marks; fork FORK_CH03_A.
objectives sequence —
The unmasking — the duel's escalation double-beats the whip arcs on the same entries while the broker's land-pressure is brought into the open before the assembled community; bring the prepared evidence (the freed conscripts' testimony and the untwisted proverbs) to the social round so the ritual victory lands with the broker exposed and no kill, and Kaba Lomes, defeated honorably, gifts a caci technique either way (realizes CH03_B10; boss BE_0003.P2; thread THREAD_03 ANCHOR).
Restore the land's contract — return the caci whip-blood, danced out at the royal ground, to the earth it belongs to at the fields the elders lay from the Compang center-stone; the sacrificial contract restored and the roused land quieted, with what the protagonist lets the whole resolution mean read on the face by the community (realizes CH03_B11; the FORK_CH03_A anchor; thread THREAD_14 CONFRONTATION).
Leave the highlands — the healer's child has begun leaving unsigned marks where the protagonist sleeps, Mama Klara stays behind a closed door, and the protagonist carries the chapter's three lessons down toward the sea and the Bali crossing (realizes CH03_B12; journal:healers_child_unsigned_marks).
completion conditions — local.broker_exposed = true AND local.land_pressure_lifted = true (CH03_B10 out) AND local.land_contract_restored = true (CH03_B11 out; gate has(local.broker_exposed) AND has(local.naga_contract_offered)) AND local.departure_bali = true (CH03_B12 out).
ws.* writes carried from the spine —
ws.community_state_per_region: +manggarai_land_pressure_lifted_broker_exposed (BE_0003 win clause).
ws.community_state_per_region: the FORK_CH03_A directional valence — +manggarai_trust_earned_and_returned (generative) OR +manggarai_pressure_lifted_transactional (neutral-transactional) OR unmarked-beyond-the-deed (neutral pass-through) OR +manggarai_coldness_read (corrosive); permanent, forward_track [CH_63].
ws.integrity_score: the FORK_CH03_A class-bounded delta — +substantial-generative OR +small OR ~0 OR −substantial-corrosive (Substantial class per §5.1; the five texture bands are DERIVED, never option labels).
ws.identity_hiding_status: +active_concealment_strategic_discipline (CH03_B12 out).
ws.journal_status: +healers_child_unsigned_record_begun (CH03_B12 out).
rewards (from spine reward lines) — the land-pressure lifted and the community standing (the mark, read jointly with the Ch-2 Kelimutu mark at the Ch-63 continental-revisit); the caci technique on the P2 outcome either way; the restored land-contract lore; the chapter's three lessons (hiding and being seen are one problem; a place can be defended without being kept; the oldest powers are owed what they are owed).
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — the four FORK_CH03_A options are ACTION-keyed, not gates: stand-with-the-village (generative), lift-as-transaction (neutral), pass-through (neutral), harden-through-the-win (corrosive); every option plays through to the Bali crossing — the pressure lifts, the contract restores, and the road opens on all, the direction setting texture and the community's read and the mark's valence, never a wall (the FORK_CH03_A progression guarantee). The BE_0003 death branch negotiates on worse terms and still opens the road.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: a purely local pre-colonial pressure structure is exposed — no wider chain, family name, pattern, or operative row exists to surface (the family first appears at Ch 8); the oldest powers are owed what they are owed, felt at the fields and never declared; the healer's-child watching is held open toward the Ch-13 join (carried from CH03_B10 / B11 / B12 reveal gates).

Side quests (spine §11 SQ advances)

Each row is carried from the spine's §11 side-questline rows (sq_id, questline, stage, gate condition-expression, beat list, reward), typed to the same block shape. SQ gates are state-conditions, non-gating on the main spine.

SQ_CH_03_SQ1 — The Owed Land (fairy_tale_folklore, ADVANCE)

sq_id — SQ1. questline_id — fairy_tale_folklore. quest_type — side_questline_stage. sq_stage — ADVANCE (advanced from the Ch-2 seed: the polo, Ebu Gogo, the Tiwu Ata Polo lake-of-the-dead).
gate (spine §11 condition-expression) — has(local.naga_contract_offered). twelve_tier_gate — none.
giver / trigger — surfaces through the roused-land encounter; the Manggarai potent-landscape belief carried by Elder Rato and the community.
zone anchor(s) — wae_water_spring (the naga tana), compang_lingko_fields (the contract restored).
beats — CH03_B05, CH03_B11 (spine §11 beat list).
objectives sequence — perceive the darat and the naga tana as the tradition holds them (the amoral spirits of place and the soil-guardian), and learn that righting the land-grab and calming the roused land are one act, finished when the ngoéng-de-tana sacrificial contract is restored (realizes CH03_B05, CH03_B11).
completion conditions — has(local.naga_contract_offered) satisfied and local.land_contract_restored = true.
ws.* writes carried from the spine — none SQ-specific (the durable writes are the main-quest fork writes at QS_CH_03_06; the SQ advance is recorded in the questline registry, [POPULATE→T0_Questline_Index]).
rewards (from spine §11) — the Manggarai folklore substrate (the darat, the naga tana, the potent-landscape belief) and the appeasement-not-slaying lesson.
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — non-gating; the folklore substrate is granted on the appeasement, and a partial naga outcome (BE_0003_S1 loss) still advances the questline through the restored contract at QS_CH_03_06.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: the potent land drawn as the tradition holds it (HL_0005); the anti-fringe corrective (the darat/naga tana never reduced to horror-monsters nor dismissed as mere superstition) stays authorial, never a player debunk.

SQ_CH_03_SQ4 — The Unsigned Marks (mystery_detective, SEED)

sq_id — SQ4. questline_id — mystery_detective. quest_type — side_questline_stage. sq_stage — SEED (its first advance rides the in-chapter exposure; the spine keeps the SEED-to-ADVANCE texture with the stage enum-forced to SEED).
gate (spine §11 condition-expression) — none. twelve_tier_gate — none.
giver / trigger — the healer's child (CHAR_0002) begins the silent-observation arc, leaving unsigned marks where the protagonist sleeps.
zone anchor(s) — compang_lingko_fields (the untwisting method), wae_rebo_village (the sleeping-place marks and the departure).
beats — CH03_B07, CH03_B12 (spine §11 beat list).
objectives sequence — learn the detective's-eye method from un-inverting the twisted proverbs (the semantic-tell reading), and register the watching the protagonist feels and does not yet understand — the unsigned marks left where the protagonist sleeps (realizes CH03_B07, CH03_B12).
completion conditions — local.proverbs_restored = true (the method) and the CH03_B12 journal write begun.
ws.* writes carried from the spine — ws.journal_status: +healers_child_unsigned_record_begun (carried at QS_CH_03_06 / CH03_B12; the SQ4 seed rides this write).
rewards (from spine §11) — the healer's-child mystery thread (the unsigned marks, opening toward the Ch-13 join) and the detective's-eye method from the untwisting.
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — non-gating; the mystery is held open, never resolved at this chapter (the resolution waits at the Ch-13 join), so there is no fail state — only the record begun.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: the watching stays unsigned; the healer's-child mystery is held open toward Ch 13, no identity or origin surfaced.

SQ_CH_03_SQ2 — The Kept Count (military_history, SEED)

sq_id — SQ2. questline_id — military_history. quest_type — side_questline_stage. sq_stage — SEED.
gate (spine §11 condition-expression) — at(todo_royal_village). twelve_tier_gate — none.
giver / trigger — the caci ensemble and the elders at the Todo royal ground; the caci technique gifted by Kaba Lomes.
zone anchor(s) — todo_royal_village.
beats — CH03_B08, CH03_B09 (spine §11 beat list).
objectives sequence — earn the caci place and dance the scored rounds, receiving the caci technique that Kaba Lomes gifts on win and loss alike, and reading the living martial-history substrate of the whip-and-shield tradition (realizes CH03_B08, CH03_B09).
completion conditions — at(todo_royal_village) satisfied and local.caci_rounds_danced = true.
ws.* writes carried from the spine — ws.relationship_history: +ana_caci_peer_bond (carried at QS_CH_03_05 / CH03_B08).
rewards (from spine §11) — the caci technique (gifted by Kaba Lomes on win and loss alike) and the living martial-history substrate.
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — reward-both-ways: the technique is gifted whether the round is won or lost; the seed advances on the dance itself, not the result.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: the caci depicted as the tradition holds it, a ceremonial contest with an agricultural meaning (HL_0005).

Region-scope side-quest seeds (flores_island.md Section 13)

These are region-page-sourced, not spine §11 rows. They carry premise, NPC, integrity implication, and reward from the region page, but they have no beat_id landing in the spine's §10 graph — recorded as a contract gap below. Authored here at seed grain only.

SQ_CH_03_R1 — The Rival-Village Lingko (region seed)

quest_type — regional_npc_dialogue / side seed. path_bucket — UNLOCKED. giver — Elder Rato (CHAR_0009).
zone anchor(s) — compang_lingko_fields (the lodok boundary in dispute).
premise / objective — two clans dispute a lodok field boundary; mediate the lingko-tenure line.
integrity implication (direction vocabulary) — mediate fairly (generative) OR exploit the split for a cut (corrosive).
completion conditions — [POPULATE] (no spine beat; region-page seed).
ws.* writes — none carried (no spine beat; a standing shift is implied but has no typed ws.* key at this grain).
rewards (region page) — the lingko-tenure lore and a standing shift.
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — non-gating region seed; either direction resolves the boundary and shifts standing, neither walls.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: the dispute routes between clans as the adat holds it, the community never the target; the tua golo / tua teno land-authority frame honored.

SQ_CH_03_R2 — Merchant Siti's Rumor Chain (region seed)

quest_type — regional_npc_dialogue / side seed. path_bucket — UNLOCKED. giver — Merchant Siti (CHAR_0015).
zone anchor(s) — the trade-route web toward the Bali crossing (region-scope, not a single spine site).
premise / objective — carry an economic-web thread of rumor toward the Ch-4 crossing.
integrity implication (direction vocabulary) — honest carriage (generative) OR skimmed leverage (corrosive).
completion conditions — [POPULATE] (no spine beat; region-page seed).
ws.* writes — none carried (no spine beat; ws.relationship_history with Siti is implied but untyped at this grain).
rewards (region page) — the trade-route map seed and the Ch-4 hook.
fail / branch (no-dead-end) — non-gating region seed; the rumor carries either way, the direction setting Siti's standing.
hard_line_relevance — HELD: neutral-economic contact; no antagonist who-frame, no wider chain.

Dialogue dataset sample — QS_CH_03_05 A Place in the Ring

The chapter's most character-heavy quest. In production this splits into per-character files per §6.4 (DD_CHAR_0017_QS_CH_03_05 for Ana, DD_CHAR_0009_QS_CH_03_05 for Elder Rato, DD_KABA_LOMES_QS_CH_03_05 for the champion, DD_CHAR_0022_QS_CH_03_05 for Pak Kornelius); the merged table below is the validation view. Lines L11a–L11f are one six_option_voice_response node per CVD §13 (the six fixed slots), exercising the six_option_array schema. All text obeys the reveal ceiling (the antagonist is the local broker and his bought champion only) and the HL_0005 care posture (the caci as the tradition holds it). The player-facing register is Childhood, gender-neutral for the protagonist.

line_id	speaker	trigger / beat	text	localization-ready FText note
L01	Ana	CH03_B08 · dialogue_initiation	You stand at the edge of every circle. Come stand in one.	ns=CH03_CACI key=ana_vouch_01; register warm-peer; no gendered player pronoun
L02	Ana	CH03_B08 · beat_transition	I will speak for you to the elders. They grant a place the way they grant a guest a seat — you ask, they give, no one takes.	ns=CH03_CACI key=ana_vouch_02; "caci" concept implicit, glossary-linked on first UI surface
L03	Elder Rato	CH03_B08 · dialogue_initiation	The child hides the ears and thinks we do not see the stillness. We see. Stillness is welcome here too, if it comes asking.	ns=CH03_CACI key=rato_reception_01; honorific tua golo preserved in glossary, not flattened
L04	Elder Rato	CH03_B08 · dialogue_initiation	The larik is the whip. The nggiling is the shield. What is danced here is not a fight for a life. It is a contest for a place, and the first blood belongs to the ground.	ns=CH03_CACI key=rato_reception_02; "larik"/"nggiling" glossary terms, kept untranslated with tooltip
L05	Ana	CH03_B08 · dialogue_initiation	Say what you want, outsider. The circle does not read minds.	ns=CH03_CACI key=ana_prompt_player; cues the six-option node below
L11a	Protagonist	CH03_B08 · six_option_voice_response slot=truly_good	I would be glad of a place. Teach me the courtesy of it, and I will keep it.	ns=CH03_CACI key=player_entry_truly_good; slot append → WS_018; no gendered pronoun
L11b	Protagonist	CH03_B08 · six_option_voice_response slot=truly_bad	Give me the whip. I have turned worse than a rattan cord.	ns=CH03_CACI key=player_entry_truly_bad; slot append → WS_018; boastful register
L11c	Protagonist	CH03_B08 · six_option_voice_response slot=sympathetic	Your village is pressed at its fields. If a place in your circle helps, I will stand in it.	ns=CH03_CACI key=player_entry_sympathetic; slot append → WS_018; ties to land-pressure, no who-frame
L11d	Protagonist	CH03_B08 · six_option_voice_response slot=detached	A contest for a place. Fine. Show me the count.	ns=CH03_CACI key=player_entry_detached; slot append → WS_018; flat affect
L11e	Protagonist	CH03_B08 · six_option_voice_response slot=curious	First blood to the ground — why the ground? What does the earth owe you back?	ns=CH03_CACI key=player_entry_curious; slot append → WS_018; opens the agricultural-meaning lore
L11f	Protagonist	CH03_B08 · six_option_voice_response slot=defiant	I stand where the firelight does not reach. Put me in the light, then, and see if it burns me.	ns=CH03_CACI key=player_entry_defiant; slot append → WS_018; concealment motif carried
L12	Elder Rato	CH03_B08 · branch_decision_point	Then you have a place, guest. Ana answers for you. Do not make her answer twice.	ns=CH03_CACI key=rato_grant_entry; convergent across all six slots; ws.relationship_history +ana_caci_peer_bond
L13	Ana	CH03_B08 · beat_transition	Do not make me answer twice, either. Now — the shield first. Read my step before you feel the cord.	ns=CH03_CACI key=ana_bond_coach; peer-bond seal
L14	Pak Kornelius	CH03_B09 · scene_entry	The gong holds the count. The drum holds the breath. Turn on the count, not on your fear.	ns=CH03_CACI key=kornelius_drum_01; "gong-waning" ensemble glossary-linked; Thread 21
L15	Kaba Lomes	CH03_B09 · dialogue_initiation	I was bought to dance, small one, not to hate you. The one who pays me wants your friends off their fields. That is his want, not mine.	ns=CH03_CACI key=kaba_greeting_01; antagonist stays the local broker only — no wider chain, no pattern
L16	Kaba Lomes	CH03_B09 · dialogue_initiation	So we keep it clean. Whip and shield, count and turn. If you are good, the circle will know it before I do.	ns=CH03_CACI key=kaba_greeting_02; courtesy-with-teeth register
L17	Ana	CH03_B09 · beat_transition	There — the arc comes high on his third step. Shield high, turn it down into the ground. Kept count.	ns=CH03_CACI key=ana_coach_shield; combat-tutorial line, non-gating
L18	Kaba Lomes	CH03_B09 · beat_transition	Good turn. Now answer me — take the whip. A courtesy is not owed until it is returned.	ns=CH03_CACI key=kaba_trade_whip; cues the whip-pass; WPN_033 shield-to-whip trade
L19	Pak Kornelius	CH03_B09 · beat_transition	Blood. Hold — that is the elders' now. To the ground with it, where it feeds.	ns=CH03_CACI key=kornelius_first_blood; HL_0005 agricultural meaning surfaced in-fiction
L20	Kaba Lomes	CH03_B09 · beat_transition	Clean count, small one. You fought for a place and won it, not for my skin.	ns=CH03_CACI key=kaba_concede; win-branch; reward-both-ways gift follows
L21	Kaba Lomes	CH03_B09 · dialogue_initiation	Take this turn from me — the read-and-answer, the way I set my weight before the cord flies. Whoever paid me cannot buy that back.	ns=CH03_CACI key=kaba_gift_technique; caci technique reward; gifted on win AND loss (both branches point here)
L22	Elder Rato	CH03_B09 · beat_transition	The count is kept. The blood is the ground's. The guest danced as a guest should. That, we remember.	ns=CH03_CACI key=rato_close; feeds the FORK_CH03_A community-read at QS_CH_03_06
L23	Ana	CH03_B09 · beat_transition	You read my step before you felt the cord. That is the whole of it. You will do.	ns=CH03_CACI key=ana_close_bond; recurring-peer seed (Ch 27/28/41)

Dialogue line count: 23 rows (including the six-slot node L11a–L11f as six variant lines under one dialogue node).

Contract gaps

Each gap is a place where the §5 or §6 schema demanded something the corpus does not provide, or where the join from the spine's typed layer into the Quest Spec Schema has no landing. A gap surfaced is the spike succeeding at its job.

No reward field in the Quest Spec Schema — §6.5 has no reward, loot, unlock, or grant column. Every quest reward above (the permanent vril-floor raise, the caci technique, the freed-conscript allies, the ritual-botanical gather node, WPN_033, the restored proverb lore) is lifted from spine free-text (the §9 boss win/death clauses, the mechanical-anchors rewards line, the §11 SQ reward column) and has nowhere typed to land in T0_Quest_Definition_Registry. The spine defers loot to [POPULATE→T0_RNG_Drop_Table] and seeds to [POPULATE→T0_Quest_Seed_Registry], but §6.5 carries no foreign key to either. This is the single largest gap for quest validation.

No typed objective / completion-condition field — §6.5 offers quest_beat_structure (free text) and branching_logic (free text) but no typed objective list and no completion-condition expression. The spine carries the addressable content as typed in:/out: state deltas (local.* and ws.*) and gate expressions per beat, but §6.5 has no column to hold a quest's completion condition as a typed state expression. Every "completion conditions" bullet above had to be reconstructed by hand from the cited beats' out-deltas; nothing in the quest schema binds it.

The quest-to-beat join is unpinned — §6.5 quest_beat_structure is text ("Beat-by-beat enumeration"), and dialogue_trigger_anchors carries a beat_id that refers to "a quest_beat_structure beat," not explicitly the spine's CH03_BNN. The spine asserts beat_id permanence precisely because "Quest Writing hangs three to nine million words off these IDs" (§9.5), yet the Quest Spec Schema provides no typed FK from a quest to the spine beat_ids it realizes. Whether quest_beat_structure beats ARE the spine beat_ids or a re-enumerated quest-local list is undefined. This validation assumed the former (citing CH03_BNN throughout); the schema does not compel it.

No ws.* write field on the quest — the durable writes a quest realizes (ws.familiar_bond_state, ws.relationship_history, ws.community_state_per_region, ws.integrity_score, ws.identity_hiding_status, ws.journal_status) live only in the spine beat/fork rows. §6.5 has no ws_writes / state_writes column, so a consumer reading only T0_Quest_Definition_Registry cannot see what state a quest commits.

No quest_giver or trigger_condition field — §6.5 has participant_entity_refs (unordered), dialogue_trigger_anchors (anchor_type: scene_entry / beat_transition / dialogue_initiation / branch_decision_point), and twelve_tier_gate, but no field marking WHO gives the quest or WHAT condition makes it available. Every "giver / trigger" bullet above is authored from spine actors and gate expressions with no typed home in the quest schema.

The path_bucket enum cannot express a pre-lock directional fork — every Ch-3 quest is path_bucket UNLOCKED (pre-Ch-65), yet FORK_CH03_A writes four ACTION-keyed directional outcomes (generative / neutral / neutral / corrosive) with class-bounded integrity deltas and community-mark valences. The §6.5 path_bucket is a single enum value; there is no typed link from a quest branch to a spine fork option's mark_write or direction. The fork's directionality lives in the spine CHOICE-8 table (§10b) and can only be referenced from branching_logic as prose. The Quest Spec Schema has no representation for "path-uncommitted but direction-and-magnitude-bearing" branch outcomes.

Two writes to ws.community_state_per_region at the climax — at QS_CH_03_06 the BE_0003 win clause writes +manggarai_land_pressure_lifted_broker_exposed and FORK_CH03_A writes the directional valence (+manggarai_trust_earned_and_returned, etc.) to the same key. The compose-versus-overwrite order and whether these are one write or two is unspecified in both the spine and §6.5.

Dialogue datasets have no repo-native landing path — §6.4 fixes the dialogue dataset path at /04-Quest Writing/Dialogue Datasets/DD_<character_id>_<quest_id>.<file_extension>, a Google Drive location. Canon migrated out of Drive into this repo (CLAUDE.md), and Drive is not reachable. There is no repo-relative convention for where a dialogue dataset file lives, and dialogue_dataset_array / dialogue_dataset_ref still FK to the dead Drive path. The spine did the equivalent repoint for spine_entry_drive_anchor (kept the column name, changed the semantics to a repo path); the quest and dialogue schema has no such repoint yet.

No string-table / FText key field in the dialogue schema — the region page Section 17 mandates that every player-facing string lands in FText / String Tables with glossary entries for the ritual terms (lingko, compang, caci, semangat, darat, naga tana, and here larik / nggiling / ngoéng-de-tana). The §6.5 line_variant element carries line_text but no string_table_namespace / string_table_key column, so the FText discipline the region page requires has no landing in the dialogue dataset schema. The FText notes above are authored into a free-text column that §6.5 does not define.

The line_variant condition-expression grammar is unpinned — §6.5 says condition_expression covers "integrity_score range, path_bucket, biography_state, age_stage, appearance_score range, relationship_history with named NPC" but never states the expression syntax (operators, boolean composition). The spine §9.5 pins a gate mini-grammar (has(), at(), flag(), ws.key with ==/>=/<=/in, read(), and & / |), but §6.5 does not cross-reference it, so whether line variants use the same grammar or a different one is undefined. This validation used the spine grammar in the condition columns as a working assumption.

spatial_requirements_array cannot FK to a spine site or region-page zone — §6.5 spatial_requirements_array carries required_zone_type (the canonical_zones terrain_type enum) and canonical_anchor_override (FK to T0_Vril_Site_Registry or settlement_array). The chapter's places are spine §3b site_ids (wae_rebo_village, wae_water_spring, etc.) and region-page zone_ids, which are neither vril sites nor settlement_array entries. There is no FK path from a quest beat's spatial requirement to the site_id/zone_id it plays in; the "zone anchor(s)" bullets above bridge that by naming the region-page zone and the spine site row, which the schema does not bind.

No scene_anchor_id for two character-heavy caci beats — CH03_B08 (earn the caci place) and CH03_B09 (the rounds) carry the chapter's densest dialogue but have no §13 scene row in the spine (the §13 rows cover B02, B05, B07, B10 only). dialogue_trigger_anchors can anchor by beat_id, so the dataset is authorable, but a major character beat with no scene_anchor_id means the Cinematic pipeline (§5) has no scene row to hang the caci dialogue track on. The dialogue sample above therefore anchors L01–L23 by beat_id, not scene_anchor_id.

quest_type is ambiguous for main-story beats that are also folklore encounters — BE_0003_S1 (the naga tana) and BE_0003_S3 (the twisted-word proverb-constructs) are part of the main land-pressure spine yet match the folklore_combat / grimoire_link quest_type enum values as readily as main_story_per_chapter. QS_CH_03_03 and QS_CH_03_04 were typed main_story_per_chapter, but the schema gives no rule for a beat that is simultaneously main-story and a folklore/materialized-argument encounter.

No quest_anchor_id convention for ordinary per-chapter quests — §6.5 quest_anchor_id and its examples (CH76_CASSIUS_RESOLUTION, CH13_CONVERGENCE_NODE) are drawn only from hard-line, convergence, and bond quests, where the anchor ties path-bucket variant rows together. For a single-row, non-branching per-chapter main-story quest there is no stated anchor convention — does the anchor equal the quest_id, or is a separate CH03_<slug> anchor minted? This draft minted descriptive anchors (CH03_ARRIVAL, CH03_CACI, etc.) as a working choice the schema does not specify. Relatedly, the task-assigned quest_id scheme QS_CH_03_NN (sequential) does not match the §6.5 quest_id convention (a descriptive snake_case slug, e.g. QUEST_CH18_ARCHITECT_APPEARANCE); the schema has no id grammar for ordinary per-chapter main-story quests.

Region-page side-quest seeds have no beat landing — the two region-page seeds (rival-village lingko, Merchant Siti's rumor chain) carry premise / NPC / integrity-implication / reward in flores_island.md Section 13 but have no beat_id in the spine's §10 graph and no §11 SQ row, so their completion conditions and ws.* writes are [POPULATE] with nothing to lift. A region-page-authored side quest currently cannot be made schema-complete because the spine graph it would bind to does not carry it.

The permanent vril-floor raise has no ws.* key — QS_CH_03_02 / CH03_B02 permanently raises the vril-capacity floor via VS_CH03_001 (recharge_ritual), a durable, save-relevant player change, yet the spine writes only local.vril_floor_raised (a chapter-scoped key) and no ws.* variable. A permanent capacity change that is not a ws.* write cannot be asserted at a seam or read by a later chapter; either a ws.* key is missing or the permanence is carried only in a systems registry the quest schema does not reference.

participant_entity_refs cannot FK the chapter's antagonists — §6.5 participant_entity_refs is an array of foreign-key references to T0_Character_Index character_id and T0_Antagonist_Network_Registry character_id. The Ch-3 antagonists — Kaba Lomes, Poka Puar, Tombo Holes, and the broker Ngoéng Tana — carry NEITHER a character_id (the T0_Character_Index cast stops at the protected community; verified: CHAR_0002..CHAR_0022 are all community/ally, no antagonist rows) NOR an antagonist_network id (the spine rows antagonist_operative none this chapter — the pre-Velheim local structure carries no T0_Antagonist_Network_Registry row; verified absent). They exist only as T0_Boss_Encounter rows (BE_0003, BE_0003_S1 / S2 / S3), and the broker Ngoéng Tana carries no registry id at all. The participant_entity_refs bullets above therefore name them in prose with the BE id in parentheses — a bridge the schema does not bind: there is no FK path from a quest participant slot to a boss-encounter antagonist or an un-rowed broker. The naga tana (BE_0003_S1) is the same case, a presence with no character_id. Every ally participant resolves cleanly; every antagonist participant does not.

The six-option voice node's WS_018 append has no spine fork to bind to — the dialogue sample authors one six_option_voice_response node at CH03_B08 (L11a–L11f), and per the §9.5 SIX-OPTION-7 grammar each slot's ws_writes appends its slot enum to WS_018, a durable ws.* variable (resolves in T0_Worldstate_Variables). But the Ch-3 spine models no SIX-OPTION-7 fork — its only fork is FORK_CH03_A, kind combat_resolution (CHOICE-8), at CH03_B11 — and CH03_B08 writes only local.caci_entry_granted and ws.relationship_history +ana_caci_peer_bond, never WS_018. Per the §9.5 micro-fork-promotion rule (any branch writing durable state — mark, relationship, faction, or ws.* — MUST be a fork node), a six-option node appending to WS_018 would require a promoted SIX-OPTION-7 fork at B08 that the spine does not carry; yet the six-option voice response is a ubiquitous CVD §13 surface that cannot be promoted to a spine fork at every occurrence. Whether the WS_018 accumulator is a system-level write exempt from fork-modeling, or every quest six-option node demands a promoted spine fork, is unresolved — and the §6.5 dialogue schema carries no field for the slot→WS_018 append regardless (it lives only in the free-text FText-note column this draft added). This is the one durable ws.* assertion in this file NOT lifted verbatim from a spine beat or fork row; it is surfaced here rather than left as a silent write.

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