CH_04_quests.md

chapters/CH_04/quests/main_story/CH_04_quests.md

CH_04 Quest Set — Bali (Quest-Writing Spike, validation draft)

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 · T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts · T0_Dialogue_Dataset · T0_Familiar_Registry · T0_Quest_Definition_Registry · T0_Quest_Seed_Registry · (+4 more t0) · docs/spine/CH_04.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/bali.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. Proposal-tier. Nothing here is canon; this file proves whether the ratified quest/scene/dialogue schema holds real authored content derived from the CH_04 spine, ahead of book-gated production quest writing. The cardinal do-not-invent rule binds: every objective, state write, reward, and participant below is joined from the spine's typed layer, the bali region page, and the registries. Where the §6.5 quest schema demands a value the corpus does not provide, the value is recorded in the Contract Gaps section rather than invented.

Front block

Chapter: CH_04 — Bali (region_primary Bali, Indonesia; region_id bali; era ~1200 CE Bali Kingdom, Warmadewa dynasty).
Region page consumed: _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/bali.md (Zone Catalog, Derived Indexes, Sections 4/5/12/13).
Spine consumed: docs/spine/CH_04.md (v3.1 beat→fork→state graph — the §3b sites, the §10 beat graph CH04_B01 through CH04_B12, the single fork FORK_CH04_A, the boss thin index BE_0004 with sub-bosses BE_0004_S1/S2/S3, the §11 side-questline rows SQ7/SQ12/SQ1, the §13 scene rows).
Schema sources read: T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts [ACTIVE v1.0] §5.5 (Scene Spec Schema), §6.5 (Quest Spec Schema + dialogue_dataset file structure), §6.4/§6.7/§6.8 (access, status machine, cultural-authenticity discipline), and §9.5 (Story Spine entry schema — the gate mini-grammar, the three fork table grammars, and the closed enums). Live registry headers read: T0_Quest_Definition_Registry [ACTIVE v1.0], T0_Scene_Spec_Registry [ACTIVE v0.1], T0_Worldstate_Variables [ACTIVE v0.1].
Path posture: all CH_04 quests carry path_bucket UNLOCKED (pre-Ch-65 lock, per §9.5 and the §13 scene rows). twelve_tier_gate is NULL chapter-wide (no mastery gate binds at Ch 4 per the spine §11 note). author_in_loop_required is FALSE for the main-story and side rows (quest_type main_story_per_chapter and side_questline_stage route to the standard Quest-Writer-agent track per §6.4 and §6.5) — but see Contract Gap 11 on the elevated-attention material.
Reveal ceiling honored on every player-facing string: no House of Velheim name, family, pattern, operative chain, or any agent-noun who-frame. The antagonist reads only as the temple-performance certification apparatus (institutional-proxy; NW_0002 UNAWARE) — the seal, the permit, the sanction, the license — a documented process editing an art, never a hidden person, hand, will, or version. The Grand Sage stays dark.
Care posture honored: the Balinese community, the balians, the pedanda, the villagers, and the unaware Dalang are protected allies and never quest targets; combat routes only through the real Night-Leyak in its condemned pengiwa night-form, the bhuta-kala, the materialized certification apparatus, the Gate-Naga threshold-test, and temple-guardian fauna. Rangda is held in the Barong-Rangda balance-trial, revered-and-feared, never a slain boss.

The main-story quest chain

Five main-story quests realize the twelve-beat CH_04 graph high-to-low (Besakih to Uluwatu). quest_type main_story_per_chapter for each; questline_id NULL (main story is not a questline aggregate); path_bucket UNLOCKED; twelve_tier_gate NULL; author_in_loop_required FALSE. The objective sequence cites the spine beat each objective realizes; the state writes are copied from the spine beat out-states and the FORK_CH04_A ws_writes, never minted here.

QS_CH_04_01 — Two Faces in the Street

quest_id: QS_CH_04_01 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_ARRIVAL_LITERACY · quest_name: Two Faces in the Street.
giver / trigger: scene_entry on arrival by sea from Flores, coming down from Besakih on Gunung Agung's flank (SC_CH04_two_faces_in_the_street, CH04_B01); the literacy strand is dialogue_initiation with Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra (SC_CH04_lontar_becomes_reading, CH04_B02).
zone anchor(s): besakih_mother_temple (spine §3b; region-page zone besakih_mother_temple, build_priority P1). required_zone_type sacred_site.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0023 (Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra).
objectives:
Come down into the villages and take in a society that carries the lion and the witch together — realizes CH04_B01 (out local.arrived_bali).
Among the temple lontar, read the first true formal writing — aksara Bali and Kawi — and feel the inscription-sense become reading under the Pedanda's teaching of the Kanda Pat four spiritual siblings — realizes CH04_B02 (in local.arrived_bali; out local.lontar_literacy).
completion conditions: local.arrived_bali AND local.lontar_literacy produced (has(local.lontar_literacy) per the spine gate grammar).
ws.* writes carried from spine: none durable at this quest (both beats write local-scope keys only; ws state is unchanged). systems touched: inscription:aksara_bali_kawi_lontar_literacy, inscription:insc_77h_ch04_fragment (INSC_77H_CH04_FRAGMENT, the Layer-2 fragment of the 77-Hidden-Inscription spine).
rewards (from the spine reward map, in-intent): the lontar literacy — the inscription-sense turned to reading; the Kanda Pat and prana-parallel lore (Thread 1, felt not declared). Loot and drop anchors deferred (spine POPULATE→T0_RNG_Drop_Table).
fail / branch (no-dead-end): none — a learning-and-arrival gate; no fork, no fail-wall. The literacy is monotonic and required by QS_CH_04_04 (the edited-lakon read holds this literacy against the staged play).
hard_line_relevance: HELD — the prana-parallel and companion-echo felt, not declared; a Neophyte literacy read only, no tier-6 substrate read (HL_0028); no pre-Ch-76 reveal cue (HL_0015).
scene_anchor_array: SC_CH04_two_faces_in_the_street, SC_CH04_lontar_becomes_reading.

QS_CH_04_02 — The Night That Wears a Day-Face

quest_id: QS_CH_04_02 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_LEYAK_WARD · quest_name: The Night That Wears a Day-Face.
giver / trigger: boss_encounter_intro with Balian Made Sari at the warded threshold (SC_CH04_balians_ward, CH04_B03).
zone anchor(s): village_balian_ward (combat, character; ambient_threat moderate — the threat is the leyak, never the community), then tirta_empul_springs (puzzle, transformation). required_zone_type agricultural, then water_body.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0026 (Balian Made Sari).
objectives:
Side with Balian Made Sari and hold the warded threshold against the Night-Leyak — a pengiwa adept, a respected village pillar by day, who unbinds at night into a flying head hunting the sick and the newborn; banish the night-form with her right-hand penengen ward and perceive the tell tying the night-monster to its daytime self — realizes CH04_B03 (sub_boss BE_0004_S2, BANISH/PERCEIVE, axis 30/40/30; abilities A_W_001 Water Whip, A_W_002 Fluid Dodge; out local.leyak_driven_off).
Wash clean at the Tirta Empul thirty-spout springs, working the purification sequence in its proper order and intent — realizes CH04_B04 (decode:tirta_empul_thirty_spout_sequence; in local.leyak_driven_off; out local.purified).
completion conditions: local.leyak_driven_off AND local.purified.
ws.* writes carried from spine: none durable (local-scope only). The defense advances SQ1 (fairy_tale_folklore, gate has(local.leyak_driven_off)) and SQ7, and receives LINK_0146 (the Ch-2 polo vital-force-eater parallel) while originating LINK_0147 (leyak to begu-ganjang, Ch 5) and LINK_0168 (pengiwa/penengen, Ch 8) — parallel-independent echoes, joined at CH04_B03.
rewards (from the spine reward map): the pengiwa/penengen left-and-right-hand craft lore; the Balinese folklore substrate (the leyak met as lived danger); the purification worked as the tradition holds it, the vril-flow steadied. Loot deferred.
fail / branch (no-dead-end): the Night-Leyak is a reward-both-ways boss outcome, not a player fork — driven off on every play, never a community killing and never the revered Rangda (HL_0005). No fail-wall: an unfavorable defense still resolves to the leyak driven off and the purification available.
hard_line_relevance: HELD — the leyak is the tradition's own condemned pengiwa evil, warded by the community's own balian, never trope-horror and never a manufactured swindle; Rangda is not touched here (HL_0005).
scene_anchor_array: SC_CH04_balians_ward.

QS_CH_04_03 — The Water That Orders Itself

quest_id: QS_CH_04_03 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_SUBAK_READ · quest_name: The Water That Orders Itself.
giver / trigger: dialogue_initiation with Subak Pekaseh Ketut Sudana while passing the terraces on the way down (no §13 scene row — see Contract Gap 2 on the giver field and Gap 9 on scene coverage).
zone anchor(s): jatiluwih_subak_terraces (discovery, puzzle; ambient_threat low). required_zone_type agricultural.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0025 (Subak Pekaseh Ketut Sudana).
objectives:
Read the Jatiluwih subak water-temple system laid across the hills — an island ordering itself without a single hand forcing it — as documented cooperative water-allocation engineering, seeding the Engineering substrate ahead of its home base — realizes CH04_B05 (trade:TRADE_08; in local.arrived_bali; out local.subak_read).
completion conditions: local.subak_read.
ws.* writes carried from spine: none durable (local-scope only). Trade seed TRADE_08 Engineering (home base at Ch 27).
rewards (from the spine reward map): the subak read as documented hydraulic-and-social engineering (the Engineering substrate seed); the Trade-8 lore. Loot deferred.
fail / branch (no-dead-end): a discovery beat, no fork and no fail state; optional-feeling but authored as a core beat. Anti-fringe frame binds the reward text (documented engineering, never lost-science mysticism).
hard_line_relevance: HELD — the subak held as UNESCO-documented engineering, never lost-science mysticism (Frame-A / anti-fringe).
scene_anchor_array: none (no §13 scene row authored for CH04_B05).

QS_CH_04_04 — What Edits the Shadow

quest_id: QS_CH_04_04 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_DALANG_REVEAL · quest_name: What Edits the Shadow.
giver / trigger: the temple-performance draw at the candi-bentar threshold (scene_entry / the Gate-Naga test, CH04_B06); the reveal climax is a branch_decision_point with Dalang Wayang Pujanegara (SC_CH04_reveal_to_the_dalang, CH04_B09, the FORK_CH04_A anchor).
zone anchor(s): wayang_performance_ground (combat, vril_management, investigation, character, transformation; climactic_affordance threshold, sacred; build_priority P1, five beats). required_zone_type sacred_site; climactic_affordance_required TRUE at CH04_B09.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0024 (Dalang Wayang Pujanegara), CHAR_0023 (Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra, the sanctioned-vs-edited rite discernment), CHAR_0027 (Kadek Astawa, the gamelan-apprentice peer). Boss BE_0004 (the Certification-Shadow moving the Dalang; NW_0002 UNAWARE), sub-boss BE_0004_S1 (Gate-Naga), sub-boss BE_0004_S3 (Barong-Rangda Balance-Trial).
objectives:
Pass the Gate-Naga Guardian at the candi-bentar split gate — evade its threshold sweep and attune your own steadiness until your bearing reads balanced and the gate opens (protective, not malicious) — realizes CH04_B06 (sub_boss BE_0004_S1, EVADE/ATTUNE, axis 30/45/25; out local.gate_passed).
Hold the shadow-duel — manage your own vril budget against the draining bhuta-kala rising in the Ogoh-ogoh register and break a bhuta-kala's silat rhythm on its tell as the interlocking gamelan kotekan rises — realizes CH04_B07 (boss BE_0004.P1; ability A_F_002 Fire Bolt; in local.gate_passed AND local.lontar_literacy; out local.shadow_duel_held).
Read the performed lakon against the true lontar — hold the Besakih literacy against the staged play and trace where the sanctioned edits have laundered another purpose through the master's art, back to the certification sanction that steers it — realizes CH04_B08 (boss BE_0004.P2; decode:edited_lakon_vs_true_lontar; in local.shadow_duel_held; out local.editing_traced).
Show the Dalang what he has never been able to see — the sanctioned edits laid bare to the unwitting master, freed by revelation, never harmed — and choose what the resolution means (FORK_CH04_A) — realizes CH04_B09 (boss BE_0004.P3; antagonist NW_0002; in local.editing_traced; out local.dalang_revealed AND ws.antagonist_operational_state_per_region +bali_certification_apparatus_revealed).
Take a role in the Barong-Rangda eternal battle and hold the two forces in dynamic equilibrium — not an enemy to defeat but a balance to keep, countering each pull with its opposite on the ritual's beat — realizes CH04_B10 (sub_boss BE_0004_S3, BALANCE/READ, axis 25/50/25; in local.shadow_duel_held; out local.balance_held). This objective runs parallel to the reveal (both hang off local.shadow_duel_held), not after it.
completion conditions: local.dalang_revealed AND local.balance_held (with local.gate_passed, local.shadow_duel_held, local.editing_traced produced on the path). ws.antagonist_operational_state_per_region carries +bali_certification_apparatus_revealed.
ws.* writes carried from spine and FORK_CH04_A: on CH04_B09, ws.antagonist_operational_state_per_region (WS_020) +bali_certification_apparatus_revealed always. Then FORK_CH04_A (kind combat_resolution, magnitude SUBSTANTIAL, care_band open, convergence_node null) applies one option's durable writes:
generative (free the Dalang clean, dismantle the leverage whole, nothing taken): ws.community_state_per_region (WS_019) +bali_trust_earned; ws.integrity_score (WS_001) +substantial-generative.
neutral, transactional (reveal made, win banked, leverage left unexamined): ws.community_state_per_region +bali_resolved_transactional; ws.integrity_score +small.
neutral, pass-through (reveal made for its own sake, road kept): ws.integrity_score ~0.
corrosive (notice the leverage, understand it, file it away as a tool): ws.community_state_per_region +bali_coldness_read; ws.reputation_biography_propagation (WS_026) +leverage-kept; ws.integrity_score -substantial-corrosive.
rewards (from the spine reward map): the certification-chain intel (the who-edits-the-permits question, SQ12 seed toward the modern arc); the dynamic-balance lesson (the Barong-Rangda equilibrium, the L3 Drifting seed felt not named); on the generative read the certification-pattern intel carried clean and the freed Dalang and Kadek Astawa arcs warmed. Loot deferred.
fail / branch (no-dead-end): FORK_CH04_A guarantees every option plays through to the Sumatra-Java crossing — the Dalang is freed by revelation and the leyak is driven off on all directions; the direction sets texture, the community's read, and the leverage's fate, never a gate. The three boss outcomes here (Gate-Naga, shadow-duel/reveal as BE_0004, Barong-Rangda) are reward-both-ways: BE_0004 death still frees the Dalang, logs the shadow rhythm, and surfaces one more apparatus strand (a certification-chain lore fragment either way), no fail-wall.
hard_line_relevance: HELD — the editing is the certification apparatus operating through the unwitting Dalang, institutional-proxy; the family does not yet exist and no name, pattern, operative chain, or agent-noun who-frame surfaces; the Dalang stays UNAWARE and is freed, never harmed; the bhuta-kala are the tradition's own demons, the Naga protective, Rangda revered and never slain (HL_0005, HL_0028, HL_0015).
scene_anchor_array: SC_CH04_reveal_to_the_dalang, SC_CH04_barong_rangda_balance.
notes: this is the chapter's most character-heavy quest and the DIALOGUE DATASET SAMPLE below is authored against it.

QS_CH_04_05 — The Water Answers, and the Cliff's Edge

quest_id: QS_CH_04_05 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_SANUR_ULUWATU_EXIT · quest_name: The Water Answers, and the Cliff's Edge.
giver / trigger: scene_entry at the Sanur reef (CH04_B11); the departure is a traversal exit under the Uluwatu sea-cliff temple with Ship Captain I Wayan Dwija (CH04_B12).
zone anchor(s): sanur_reef (character, learning; protected false), then uluwatu_seacliff_temple (traversal; climactic_affordance vista, threshold). required_zone_type coastal.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0029 (Ship Captain I Wayan Dwija). Familiars: Kira the Bali Starling (F1), the Sanur Octopus (W4, deferred).
objectives:
At the Sanur reef the water answers back as at the Flores falls — meet the reef fauna and the Sanur Octopus (bond deferred and gated), and let Kira the Bali Starling be known and bond, the rotational roster growing beside Shell — realizes CH04_B11 (familiar:kira_f1, familiar:sanur_octopus_w4; out ws.familiar_bond_state +kira_f1_bonded_sanur_octopus_deferred).
Run the Uluwatu cliff-vertical agility course above the surf — the wind-step and gust-push learned on exposed rock — and take ship toward Sumatra and Java, carrying the discipline of holding two directions at once — realizes CH04_B12 (abilities A_A_001 Wind Step, A_A_002 Gust Push; agility_course:uluwatu_seacliff_traverse; in local.dalang_revealed; out local.departed_bali AND ws.identity_hiding_status +active_concealment_pressure_med).
completion conditions: ws.familiar_bond_state carries kira_f1_bonded; local.departed_bali produced.
ws.* writes carried from spine: ws.familiar_bond_state (WS_012) +kira_f1_bonded_sanur_octopus_deferred (CH04_B11); ws.identity_hiding_status (WS_025) +active_concealment_pressure_med (CH04_B12, concealment eased HIGH to MED across Bali's mask-normalized society).
rewards (from the spine reward map): the Kira bond and the Sanur-Octopus encounter (bond deferred, gated); the Wind Step and Gust Push abilities; the Uluwatu traverse. Loot deferred.
fail / branch (no-dead-end): the Kira bond is offered, not forced (the accumulating rotational roster); the Sanur Octopus bond is deferred and gated by rule; the departure is the exit seam, no fork. The Child Familiar stays believed dead (the Ch-58 reveal held).
hard_line_relevance: HELD — the Child Familiar canonically escaped, the Ch-58 Truly-Good reveal held from every surface; concealment still demanded by the fairy features, the balance carried forward as discipline, the L3 dial never named.
scene_anchor_array: none (no §13 scene rows authored for CH04_B11/CH04_B12).

The side quests (SQ-linked, and the region-page trade seeds)

The spine §11 advances three side questlines this chapter — SQ7 (the lead), SQ12 (seed), SQ1 (advance) — each interleaved on named main beats. quest_type side_questline_stage; path_bucket UNLOCKED; twelve_tier_gate NULL; author_in_loop_required FALSE. questline_id is carried by the questline slug the spine names (see Contract Gap 12 — the T0_Questline_Index is a stub, so the numeric SQ-to-questline_id FK cannot yet resolve). The two Trade-seed region side-quests the region page Section 13 provides are appended as region-scope seeds.

SD_CH_04_01 — The Festival's Interlocking Hands (SQ7, sorcery_music_theory, ADVANCE)

quest_id: SD_CH_04_01 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_SQ7_MUSIC_THEORY · questline_id: sorcery_music_theory (SQ7).
stage / gate: ADVANCE; gate at(wayang_performance_ground). Interleaves on beats CH04_B03, CH04_B07, CH04_B10.
giver / trigger: dialogue_initiation with Kadek Astawa, the gamelan-apprentice peer, preparing the temple-festival banten offering-towers (region page Section 13 seed).
zone anchor(s): wayang_performance_ground; village_balian_ward (the warding register). required_zone_type sacred_site / agricultural.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0027 (Kadek Astawa).
objectives:
Serve the temple-festival preparation and learn the gamelan kotekan interlock — two players, one figure — as reality-participating musical architecture (the shadow-duel's clock) — interleaves CH04_B07.
Hear the night-warding register against the leyak (CH04_B03) and the paired, never-resolving Barong-Rangda register (CH04_B10), and the pengiwa/penengen left-and-right-hand craft distinction carried through the music.
completion conditions: SQ7 stage advanced (state-condition, non-gating on the main spine); no local key gates the main story on it.
ws.* writes carried from spine: SQ advance is stage-state; no durable ws write is authored on the §11 row (see Contract Gap 4 — SQ reward/state has no ws home).
rewards (from the spine §11 reward): the wayang-and-gamelan reality-participating music, the pengiwa/penengen craft distinction, and the sorcery-and-music-theory depth (the chapter's SQ lead); the Kadek Astawa found-family bond (recurs Ch 21).
fail / branch (no-dead-end): a state-condition side questline, non-gating; serving the festival vs treating it as access is the integrity texture (region page Section 13), never a progression gate.
hard_line_relevance: HELD — the gamelan register reference-composed, no reproduction of protected sacred music; the craft distinction held as the tradition holds it.

SD_CH_04_02 — Whose Seal Moves the Sanction (SQ12, secret_societies, SEED)

quest_id: SD_CH_04_02 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_SQ12_SECRET_SOCIETIES · questline_id: secret_societies (SQ12).
stage / gate: SEED; gate none. Interleaves on beats CH04_B08, CH04_B09.
giver / trigger: dialogue_initiation with Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra — the certification-permit paper trail, whose seal moves the sanction network behind the Dalang (region page Section 13 seed).
zone anchor(s): wayang_performance_ground; besakih_mother_temple (the sanctioned-rite record). required_zone_type sacred_site.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0023 (Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra).
objectives:
Trace the certification-permit paper trail — which seal sanctions which performance — alongside the edited-lakon read (CH04_B08).
Carry the certification-control network intel forward as the seed of the who-edits-the-permits question, without surfacing any who behind the institution (CH04_B09).
completion conditions: SQ12 seeded (state-condition); the certification intel disposition is carried, not resolved this chapter.
ws.* writes carried from spine: the certification intel disposition rides FORK_CH04_A — on the corrosive read the leverage technique is filed (ws.reputation_biography_propagation +leverage-kept, WS_026); on the generative read the pattern intel is carried clean. No SQ-specific ws key is authored on the §11 row.
rewards (from the spine §11 reward): the certification-control network intel carried toward the modern arc (the arc's SQ12 seed).
fail / branch (no-dead-end): SEED stage, gate none, non-gating; expose cleanly (generative) vs copy the leverage technique (corrosive) is the integrity texture, never a gate.
hard_line_relevance: HELD — institutional-proxy only; the seed is the permit-network question, never a name, family, pattern, or agent-noun; the Dalang UNAWARE; the Grand Sage dark.

SD_CH_04_03 — The Face the Village Names (SQ1, fairy_tale_folklore, ADVANCE)

quest_id: SD_CH_04_03 · quest_anchor_id: CH04_SQ1_FOLKLORE · questline_id: fairy_tale_folklore (SQ1).
stage / gate: ADVANCE; gate has(local.leyak_driven_off). Interleaves on beats CH04_B03, CH04_B07, CH04_B10.
giver / trigger: the lived-danger folklore surfaced through Balian Made Sari's warding (advanced from the Ch 2-3 seed).
zone anchor(s): village_balian_ward; wayang_performance_ground. required_zone_type agricultural / sacred_site.
participant_entity_refs: protagonist, CHAR_0026 (Balian Made Sari).
objectives:
Meet the leyak as lived danger (the pengiwa night-form) rather than trope-horror (CH04_B03).
Face the bhuta-kala as the island's own out-of-balance demons, appeased as the caru holds (CH04_B07), and hold Rangda's revered ambivalence in the balance-trial (CH04_B10).
completion conditions: SQ1 advanced; gated on has(local.leyak_driven_off) from QS_CH_04_02.
ws.* writes carried from spine: none authored on the §11 row (state-condition advance).
rewards (from the spine §11 reward): the Balinese folklore substrate — the leyak/pengiwa met as lived danger, the bhuta-kala, and Rangda's revered ambivalence.
fail / branch (no-dead-end): non-gating state-condition; advanced from the Ch 2-3 seed, carried toward the Ch-5 begu-ganjang parallel.
hard_line_relevance: HELD — the leyak, bhuta-kala, and Rangda depicted as the tradition holds them, never cinema shorthand (HL_0005).

Region-scope trade seeds (region page Section 13 — not SQ-linked)

The region page authors two further region-scope side-quest seeds tied to trade substrate rather than a numbered SQ. Authored compactly here as validation of the same block shape:

SD_CH_04_04 — The Pamor in the Blade (Trade-3 Blacksmithing seed). Giver: the pande smith-clans (roster). Zone: the pande forge (region-ambient, no spine §3b site — see Contract Gap 8). Objective: observe the pattern-welded keris pamor craft as pusaka (Thread 20), honoring the pusaka register vs pricing it as loot (integrity texture). Reward: the Trade-3 Blacksmithing seed lore (home base Ch 7). No durable ws write; non-gating.
SD_CH_04_05 — The Share of the Water (Trade-8 Engineering seed). Giver: Subak Pekaseh Ketut Sudana (CHAR_0025). Zone: jatiluwih_subak_terraces. Objective: work a water-share disagreement through the temple system, respecting the system's own resolution vs forcing a shortcut (integrity texture). Reward: the Trade-8 Engineering seed and the Jatiluwih read (home base Ch 27). No durable ws write; non-gating. Overlaps QS_CH_04_03's subak read by design (region dressing on the same beat).

Dialogue dataset sample — QS_CH_04_04 "What Edits the Shadow"

Authored against the chapter's most character-heavy quest (the shadow-master chain, CH04_B06 through CH04_B10). dialogue_dataset addressing per §6.4 would split by character into DD_CHAR_0024_QS_CH_04_04, DD_CHAR_0023_QS_CH_04_04, DD_CHAR_0027_QS_CH_04_04, and a protagonist file — see Contract Gap 10 (the per-character split has no repo-native landing path). The sample is presented as one merged, ordered table for readability; the trigger/beat column carries the dialogue_trigger_anchors binding.

Reveal-ceiling discipline in every line: the editing agent is always an institution — the seal, the permit, the sanction, the license — never a person, hand, will, version, or any agent-noun. The Dalang is UNAWARE and is freed by the revelation. The protagonist is a child (internal age 9, never surfaced), concealing fairy features, speaking plainly and perceptively; no metaphysics is declared. Player-choice lines at CH04_B09 are the FORK_CH04_A branch (four action-keyed options across three directions — see Contract Gap 6 on the six-option mismatch).

line_id	speaker	trigger / beat	text	localization-ready FText note
DL_001	Kadek Astawa	scene_entry, CH04_B06	Stay close at the split gate, little one. The Naga does not bite. It only asks whether you come in balance.	FText CH04_WES_001; glossary-lock Naga, candi bentar; address gender-neutral child (protagonist gender player-selected).
DL_002	protagonist	beat_transition, CH04_B06	Then I will steady myself first, and knock second.	FText CH04_WES_002; keep child register, plain; no gendered self-reference.
DL_003	Kadek Astawa	dialogue_initiation, CH04_B07	Hear the kotekan? Two of us strike one figure. When the interlock rises, the shadows rise with it. Match the clock and the demons lose their footing.	FText CH04_WES_003; glossary-lock kotekan; keep bhuta-kala rendered as the demons of the register, no interpolation.
DL_004	protagonist	dialogue_initiation, CH04_B07	The bhuta-kala move on the beat. So I move between the beats.	FText CH04_WES_004; glossary-lock bhuta-kala.
DL_005	Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra	dialogue_initiation, CH04_B08	You read the leaf at Besakih. Read it again against what he performed tonight. A sanctioned rite and an edited one do not read the same.	FText CH04_WES_005; glossary-lock lontar, lakon; institutional/textual register only, no agent-noun.
DL_006	protagonist	dialogue_initiation, CH04_B08	The lontar keeps one telling. The play tonight kept another. He did not change it. The permit changed what he was allowed to keep.	FText CH04_WES_006; REVEAL-SENSITIVE — the only subjects are the Dalang and the permit; introduce no third party, hand, or agent even in negation; no interpolation.
DL_007	Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra	beat_transition, CH04_B08	Trace the seal, then. Which stamp sanctions which performance. The trail is paper, and paper can be followed.	FText CH04_WES_007; glossary-lock seal/stamp as certification terms; institutional register.
DL_008	protagonist	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09	Dalang. The lakon you performed is not the lakon your own lontar holds.	FText CH04_WES_008; glossary-lock lakon, lontar; grave-but-gentle child register.
DL_009	Dalang Wayang Pujanegara	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09	The lakon is mine. Forty years I have moved these shadows. No child tells me what I have performed.	FText CH04_WES_009; proud revered-artist register; audio_tags [firm, wounded-pride].
DL_010	protagonist	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09	The telling is yours. Every night of it, yours. It is the sanction over your stage that has been re-cutting the story. Not you. The seal.	FText CH04_WES_010; REVEAL-SENSITIVE — the sanction/seal is the subject; forbid any localization that introduces a person, hand, or will; no interpolation.
DL_011	Dalang Wayang Pujanegara	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09	Show me. Leaf against shadow. If you are wrong, you will apologize before the whole banjar.	FText CH04_WES_011; glossary-lock banjar; audio_tags [demanding, uncertain].
DL_012	protagonist	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09	Here. The demon the leaf gives, and the demon the permit gave you instead. One line changed. Then another. Then the meaning.	FText CH04_WES_012; keep permit as the changing agent; no agent-noun.
DL_013	Dalang Wayang Pujanegara	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09	...The turn is different. I performed that turn a hundred times and never saw it was not the leaf's turn.	FText CH04_WES_013; register shifts pride to dawning sight; audio_tags [quiet, unmoored].
DL_014	Dalang Wayang Pujanegara	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09	If the sanction moved my shadow, then the shadow was never only mine to move. What am I, if a stamp of wax edits my life's work.	FText CH04_WES_014; philosophical grief; the sanction is institutional process, acceptable subject; audio_tags [broken, searching].
DL_015	protagonist	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09 (FORK_CH04_A, generative — Truly Good / Sympathetic)	You are still the dalang. We pull the seal apart tonight, and tomorrow you perform what the leaf holds. Your name stays clean, and nothing is owed to me for it.	FText CH04_WES_015a; branch variant generative; condition path_bucket UNLOCKED; audio_tags [warm, resolute]; REVEAL-SENSITIVE clean.
DL_016	protagonist	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09 (FORK_CH04_A, neutral — Detached transactional)	The seal is broken. You are free to perform. What you do with the freedom is yours to carry now.	FText CH04_WES_015b; branch variant neutral-transactional; audio_tags [even, distant].
DL_017	protagonist	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09 (FORK_CH04_A, neutral — Curious pass-through)	You have seen it now. That was all I came to show you. The road is still mine to keep.	FText CH04_WES_015c; branch variant neutral-pass; audio_tags [mild, moving-on].
DL_018	protagonist	branch_decision_point, CH04_B09 (FORK_CH04_A, corrosive — Defiant / leverage filed)	A stamp of wax that can re-cut a man's life's work. I will remember exactly how that is done.	FText CH04_WES_015d; branch variant corrosive; the pocketed thing is the technique, never a person; audio_tags [cold, calculating]; REVEAL-SENSITIVE — no who-frame even in the cold read.
DL_019	Dalang Wayang Pujanegara	beat_transition, CH04_B09	Then take the leaf to the banjar with me. Let them see the true turn, and let the seal answer for itself.	FText CH04_WES_016; freed-by-revelation, community-facing; institutional accountability, no named agent.
DL_020	Kadek Astawa	beat_transition, CH04_B10	The Barong takes the floor. Rangda answers. Hold the middle with me — you do not win this, you keep it turning.	FText CH04_WES_017; glossary-lock Barong, Rangda; Rangda revered, never a monster to slay.
DL_021	protagonist	beat_transition, CH04_B10	Every pull toward one face, I answer with the other. Balance is not a truce. It is work.	FText CH04_WES_018; L3 balance felt not named; no metaphysics declared.
DL_022	Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra	beat_transition, CH04_B10	The queen is not defeated tonight. She is not meant to be. What you held is the discipline, not the victory.	FText CH04_WES_019; Rangda as revered-and-feared queen, guardrail held (HL_0005); audio_tags [grave, blessing].
DL_023	Dalang Wayang Pujanegara	scene_exit, CH04_B10	Go on to the water, child. I have a true telling to give back to my people, and it will take the rest of my nights.	FText CH04_WES_020; freed one-chapter figure, not a companion; warm farewell.
DL_024	protagonist	scene_exit, CH04_B10	Keep the leaf close. It held the turn when no one else could see it.	FText CH04_WES_021; callback to the lontar literacy; the leaf as the record that remembers.

Line count: 24. Speakers: protagonist, Dalang Wayang Pujanegara (CHAR_0024), Pedanda Ida Bagus Mantra (CHAR_0023), Kadek Astawa (CHAR_0027). Six-option coverage at CH04_B09 is represented by four fork-aligned player variants (DL_015 through DL_018) rather than the CVD §13 six-tone wheel — the divergence is Contract Gap 6.

Contract gaps

Each item is a place the §6.5 Quest Spec Schema (and the live T0_Quest_Definition_Registry columns) demanded or implied something the corpus does not supply, or where two ratified sources do not reconcile. A gap surfaced here is the spike succeeding; none was silently invented.

Gap 1 — No objectives field. §6.5 carries quest_beat_structure (free text) but no structured objective-sequence field. The objective list every quest needs (and that runtime quest UI and journal entries consume) has no first-class schema home; it must be prose-encoded into quest_beat_structure, and the spine beat_id each objective realizes cannot be attached as an FK per objective. Recommendation: add objective_array with per-objective {objective_id, beat_id_ref, text, optional flag}.

Gap 2 — No quest-giver / trigger field. §6.5 has no giver or trigger-NPC field; the hook is captured only inside quest_beat_structure prose plus dialogue_trigger_anchors (which types anchor_type but not "this is the quest giver"). For QS_CH_04_03 and QS_CH_04_05 the giver (Subak Pekaseh, Ship Captain) had nowhere structured to land. Recommendation: add quest_giver_ref (FK to Character_Index) and trigger_condition (reusing the §9.5 gate grammar).

Gap 3 — No completion-conditions field. §6.5 has no completion_condition or success-state column. Completion is only inferable from branching_logic prose and the spine beats' out-states. The quest cannot declare "complete when has(local.dalang_revealed) AND has(local.balance_held)". Recommendation: add completion_expression using the §9.5 gate mini-grammar.

Gap 4 — No rewards field, and reward destinations are stubs. §6.5 has no reward / reward_map column. The spine authors rewards in-intent (lontar literacy, pengiwa/penengen lore, certification-chain intel, dynamic-balance lesson, Kira/Sanur-Octopus bonds) but loot/seed anchors defer to T0_RNG_Drop_Table and T0_Quest_Seed_Registry, both DRAFT and unpopulated for Ch 4. Knowledge/lore rewards (literacy, craft distinctions) have no registry home at all. SQ §11 rows carry a reward text but no ws or drop binding. Recommendation: add reward_array with typed reward kinds (knowledge, ability, familiar_bond, trade_seed, item_drop_ref, intel) and resolve the RNG/Seed registries before production.

Gap 5 — No ws_writes field and no complete quest-to-beat coverage map. Durable state writes live on the spine beats (in/out) and on the FORK_CH04_A ws_writes; the quest row has no ws_writes column and no field listing the full set of beat_ids the quest realizes. dialogue_trigger_anchors.beat_id and spatial_requirements_array.beat_id reference beats only where dialogue or space is needed, so a quest that realizes CH04_B06 through CH04_B10 cannot declare that coverage or the ws.antagonist_operational_state_per_region / ws.community_state_per_region / ws.integrity_score writes it drives. The quest-to-worldstate linkage is entirely implicit through the spine. Recommendation: add realizes_beats array (FK to spine beat_ids) and derive the ws write-set from those beats and the anchored fork rather than leaving it implicit.

Gap 6 — Six-option dialogue framework vs the spine fork shape. §6.5 dialogue_type six_option_voice_response expects the CVD §13 six-tone wheel (Truly Good, Truly Bad, Sympathetic, Detached, Curious, Defiant). The spine's FORK_CH04_A is kind combat_resolution with four action-keyed options across three directions (generative / neutral / neutral / corrosive), and the SIX-OPTION-7 grammar (which appends the slot enum to WS_018 six_option_cumulative_record) applies only to kind dialogue_six_option. There is no defined mapping from the six tones to a combat_resolution fork's options, and it is unspecified whether the player's tone at a combat_resolution reveal is recorded to WS_018 at all. The dataset sample above collapsed the wheel to four fork-aligned variants (DL_015 through DL_018) as a best-effort. Recommendation: pin the tone-to-direction mapping, and state whether combat_resolution branch nodes record a six_option_slot.

Gap 7 — encounter_mode_tag enum is narrower than the spine's gameplay_function enum. §6.5 spatial_requirements_array.encounter_mode_tag enumerates only combat, puzzle, learning, character, transformation (the Pillar-1.12 five). The spine uses the fuller gameplay_function set including vril_management (CH04_B07, the chapter's dominant mode), investigation (CH04_B08), discovery (CH04_B05), and traversal (CH04_B12). §9.5 defines a projection (vril_management and investigation to puzzle, discovery to learning, traversal carries no letter) but §6.5 neither references nor restates it, so authoring these beats' spatial rows forces a lossy projection or an out-of-enum value with no cited rule. Recommendation: either widen encounter_mode_tag to the gameplay_function enum or cite the §9.5 projection inside §6.5.

Gap 8 — No FK from a quest (or a spatial requirement) to the spine site_id or the region-page zone_id. §6.5 spatial_requirements_array binds a beat to required_zone_type (a terrain enum) plus optional canonical_anchor_override (FK to Vril_Site_Registry or settlement_array). There is no field to bind a quest beat to the actual site_id (wayang_performance_ground, besakih_mother_temple) that the spine §3b and the region-page Zone Catalog define. For SD_CH_04_04 (the pande forge) there is not even a spine site — it is region-ambient — so the zone cannot be referenced at all. Recommendation: add site_id_ref / zone_id_ref (FK to the spine §3b site rows and the region-page Zone Catalog) alongside required_zone_type.

Gap 9 — Sparse scene coverage for authored beats. Only five §13 scene rows exist for twelve beats (CH04_B01, B02, B03, B09, B10). Beats CH04_B04 through B08, B11, and B12 have no scene_anchor_id, so quests QS_CH_04_03 and QS_CH_04_05 and the mid-chain objectives of QS_CH_04_04 have no scene anchor to reference in scene_anchor_array. Whether every quest objective requires a scene row, or scene rows are authored only for cinematic-bearing moments, is unstated. Recommendation: state the scene-coverage rule (per-objective vs cinematic-only) so scene_anchor_array can be validated.

Gap 10 — Dialogue-dataset landing path is a legacy Drive path with no repo-native home and an unspecified file format. §6.4 addresses dialogue datasets at /04-Quest Writing/Dialogue Datasets/DD_<character_id>_<quest_id>.<file_extension> — a Google Drive path with an undefined file_extension. Post-migration this repo has no defined directory or file format for dialogue datasets; they are not a registry (only the quest row's dialogue_dataset_array stores path strings), so the 24-line sample above has no schema-conformant home and was authored inline as a table. Recommendation: define a repo-native dialogue-dataset location and file format (for example docs/quests/dialogue/DD_<character_id>_<quest_id>.json or a T0_Dialogue_Dataset registry) and pin the file_extension.

Gap 11 — condition_expression grammar is unpinned and unreconciled with the spine gate grammar. §6.5 line_variant_array.condition_expression is described only by the dimensions it "covers" (integrity_score range, path_bucket, biography_state object, age_stage, appearance_score range, relationship_history) with no expression grammar — no operators, no structure, no null/default semantics beyond the default_variant boolean. §9.5 pins a gate mini-grammar (has(local.key), at(site_id), flag(local.key), ws.key with == >= <= in, read(surface), boolean & and |) but the two are not stated to be the same language, and the quest condition_expression adds ranges and biography-state matching the spine grammar does not express. Recommendation: pin one condition grammar and state whether the quest line-variant language extends the §9.5 gate grammar.

Gap 12 — questline_id FK cannot resolve (Questline_Index is a stub). §6.5 questline_id is an FK to T0_Questline_Index; the spine §11 rows key side questlines by number and slug (SQ7 sorcery_music_theory, SQ12 secret_societies, SQ1 fairy_tale_folklore) but T0_Questline_Index is DRAFT v0.1 and carries a [POPULATE] flag, so the numeric-SQ-to-questline_id mapping does not yet exist. The side-quest blocks above carried the slug as a placeholder questline_id. Recommendation: populate T0_Questline_Index with the twelve SQ rows and pin the SQ-number-to-questline_id key before side-quest authoring.

Gap 13 — Elevated-attention cultural material is not covered by the §6.8 batch-audit routing. quest_type main_story_per_chapter routes to the standard Quest-Writer-agent-only track (author_in_loop_required FALSE), and §6.8's high-care batch cultural-authenticity audit lists specific chapters (Ch 11, 12, 13, 29, 42, 47-48, 50, 57) that do not include Ch 4. Yet the CH_04 spine flags the leyak, Rangda, and bhuta-kala material at elevated attention with HL_0005 shaping constraints, and the reveal ceiling is live on every string. The tension is sharper still because the CH_04 spine ENTRY header itself carries author_in_loop_required TRUE (§9.5) even though canonical_hard_line_flag is FALSE — a chapter-level signal that the material is high-touch — but the §6.5 quest field author_in_loop_required is keyed to quest_type (TRUE only for canonical_hard_line) and therefore drops to FALSE for main_story_per_chapter and side_questline_stage regardless of the spine-entry flag; the spine's high-touch signal is discarded at the quest-routing boundary. Under the current routing this material would author with neither author-in-loop nor a batch cultural-audit trigger. Recommendation: add a per-chapter or per-quest cultural-attention flag that triggers the §6.8 batch audit independent of the fixed chapter list, so elevated-attention material outside the named set is still gated.

Gap 14 — Familiar bonds inside main-story beats have an ambiguous quest representation. §6.5 offers quest_type familiar_bond (with T0_Familiar_Registry carrying a per-familiar bond_quest_id), but the Kira (F1) bond and the deferred Sanur Octopus (W4) encounter occur as objectives inside a main_story_per_chapter beat (CH04_B11), not as standalone bond quests. Whether the Kira bond should also mint a familiar_bond quest row (double representation) or stay a main-story objective is unspecified, and the "deferred and gated" bond state for W4 has no schema field to record the deferral. Recommendation: state whether in-beat familiar bonds also require a familiar_bond quest row, and add a bond_state field (available / deferred / gated) on the familiar reference.

Gap 15 — No quest_type for a pre-home-base trade substrate seed. §6.5 quest_type enumerates trade_questline_tier_progression and trade_questline_home_base, but the two region-scope trade seeds SD_CH_04_04 (Blacksmithing) and SD_CH_04_05 (Engineering) are neither: they are substrate observation seeds ahead of their home bases (Ch 7 and Ch 27), carrying no tier gate and rooting no home base here, and they are not SQ-linked so side_questline_stage does not fit either. The nearest enum value is regional_npc_dialogue, which mis-describes a trade-observation quest. The two rows above were therefore authored with no assigned quest_type. Recommendation: add a trade_substrate_seed quest_type, or pin an explicit rule routing pre-home-base trade seeds to regional_npc_dialogue (or to the owning trade questline as a seed stage).

Generated by harness/site/structure_site.py — the URL path is the repo path. review root