chapters/CH_06/quests/main_story/CH_06.json
{
"node": "CH_06",
"quest_id": "QUEST_CH06_FALSE_NAGA_UNLOCKED",
"checker_issues": [
{
"kind": "NO_DECLARED_STATE",
"detail": "7 beats carry no in/out state markers -- flag reachability is UNCHECKED, not passed. Author beats with 'in: local.x -> out: local.y' to make this gradable."
},
{
"kind": "UNSATISFIABLE_COMPLETION",
"detail": "completion requires local.counterfeit_found, which no beat produces"
},
{
"kind": "UNSATISFIABLE_COMPLETION",
"detail": "completion requires local.muthu_bonded, which no beat produces"
},
{
"kind": "UNSATISFIABLE_COMPLETION",
"detail": "completion requires local.coat_broken, which no beat produces"
},
{
"kind": "CONJUNCTIVE_COMPLETION",
"detail": "completion joins conditions with AND while forks exist -- an unchosen branch's flags are never set, so the quest cannot close"
}
],
"checker_status": "DEAD_END_RISK",
"quest": {
"node": "CH_06",
"quest_id": "QUEST_CH06_FALSE_NAGA_UNLOCKED",
"quest_name": "The Held Blade",
"quest_type": "main_story_per_chapter",
"questline_id": "none — main-story row, not a questline member per T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts §6.5 L1451 (NULL for one-off quests). SQ4 rides three of these same beats as a SEPARATE side_questline_stage row (registries/T0_Quest_Seed_Registry SEED_0022; docs/spine/CH_06.md:193), and SQ1/SQ3 gate off beats this row does not claim (CH_06.md:194-195).",
"quest_giver": "environment — no named giver exists in canon. The premise is handed by the usurped shrine itself: offerings and dread being paid at a water-shrine to what the island takes for its genuine Naga (docs/spine/CH_06.md:29, :97, :137). Follows the live QUEST_CH02_ARRIVAL_UNLOCKED precedent for a giverless main row (registries/T0_Quest_Definition_Registry.csv quest_giver=environment), and the participant-ref grammar at §6.5 L1456 has no NPC to name here.",
"trigger_type": "environmental — CH06_B05 carries in:{none}, so the counterfeit line starts off the world rather than off the arrival chain or a giver (docs/spine/CH_06.md:139); enum per T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts §6.5 L1457.",
"participants": [
"protagonist",
"char:CHAR_0042 — Naga King Maniakkhika, the genuine conscious Naga, INVIOLATE and never a target; striking it is a designed failure state, never a win (CH_06.md:201, :226)",
"char:CHAR_0043 — the False Naga, a role-title-only self-arising deceiver-yaka, the ONLY target of the main line (CH_06.md:110, :299)",
"char:CHAR_0040 — Venerable Silaratana of Mahavihara, Cat-4 UNAWARE, protected, not a culprit (CH_06.md:202)",
"char:CHAR_0041 — Venerable Vimalaruci of Abhayagiri, Cat-4 UNAWARE, protected, not a culprit (CH_06.md:202)",
"antagonist:NW_0004 — Silaratana's passive-institutional-mechanism row, awareness UNAWARE (CH_06.md:258)",
"antagonist:NW_0005 — Vimalaruci's passive-institutional-mechanism row, awareness UNAWARE (CH_06.md:258)",
"boss:BE_0006 — the main encounter, perceive/break, axis 20/55/25, phases P1→B05 P2→B09 P3→B10 (registries/T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry)",
"boss:BE_0006_S1 — the Tovil / Sanni Yakuma expulsion, banish/perceive, 30/40/30 (CH_06.md:111)",
"boss:BE_0006_S2 — the Sigiriya Mirror-Wall Trial, perceive/steady, 15/60/25 (CH_06.md:111)",
"boss:BE_0006_S3 — the Adam's Peak Convergence-Ascent, endure/attune, 30/40/30 (CH_06.md:111)",
"char:CHAR_0044 — Mahout Bandula, runs the Muthu bond protocol at the exit beat (CH_06.md:204, :168)",
"familiar:muthu_g2 — Muthu the Sri Lankan Elephant, Ground slot G2 (CH_06.md:168, :256)",
"the village kattadiya/edura — the community's OWN exorcist-healer, the protagonist's ALLY at CH06_B06 and a protected practitioner, never a target; deliberately un-named at spine scope per ruling 6, so no CHAR_ id exists to FK (CH_06.md:203)"
],
"beats": [
{
"beat": "CH06_B05 · seq 5 · role core · mode investigation · site naga_water_shrine · boss BE_0006.P1",
"what_happens": "The false thing is found at the usurped water-shrine, wearing a revered form and taking what is left there. Phase 1 of the main encounter is the temptation: it plays for a hasty strike, and the whole danger is that to strike without certainty is to wound the real. The blade is held. The two monks are UNAWARE, neither is a culprit, and the counterfeit is self-arising with no summoner and no operative chain — nothing of the antagonist family exists here to surface.",
"player_verb": "perceive (primary); withhold",
"cite": "docs/spine/CH_06.md:136-140; registries/T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry BE_0006 phase_breakdown_object"
},
{
"beat": "CH06_B06 · seq 6 · role core · mode combat · site village_edura_ward · boss BE_0006_S1",
"what_happens": "A sickness in a tank-country village has a shape: a malevolent Tovil disease-demon of the tradition's own condemned register, fastened on the ill and the traveler. The protagonist does not stand alone — the village's own kattadiya/edura leads the drummed, masked, chanted night of the healing rite and the protagonist holds the warded ground beside them until the demon is named, faced, and driven back out. Two phases; it multiplies its afflicting forms rather than adding attacks. The ward the player holds is built on the documented commentarial procedure: a shut room, an armed ring, a chant begun in love and not in anger, escalation to a sacred courtyard, a courteous address at the end. The malevolent Tovil yakku are villain material; the revered Vedda Nae Yaku are NOT, and the two are never staged in the same category.",
"player_verb": "banish (primary); perceive — name which yaka afflicts",
"cite": "docs/spine/CH_06.md:141-145, :111, :221; _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sri_lanka.md:645-655"
},
{
"beat": "CH06_B07 · seq 7 · role core · mode puzzle · site sigiriya_rock_fortress · boss BE_0006_S2",
"what_happens": "The 180 m granite ascent — the chapter's agility course, past the fresco gallery — to the plastered mirror wall that gives a face back. The wall shows flattering and fearful distortions and clears only when the true reflection is held without flinching. The island's true-from-false lesson turned inward on a child who is a true thing dressed as an ordinary one. A ruined, non-living site, so the puzzle-dungeon licence applies.",
"player_verb": "perceive (primary); steady",
"cite": "docs/spine/CH_06.md:146-150, :101, :111, :249; T0_Hard_Lines HL_0005, HL_0079"
},
{
"beat": "CH06_B08 · seq 8 · role transformation · site adams_peak · boss BE_0006_S3",
"what_happens": "The station-by-station ascent of the mountain four traditions climb by four names, each observance kept on the path. The climb hardens against a disrespectful or depleted approach and the summit opens once the path is held in balance. At the footprint where the four ways converge, something is felt that cannot yet be named — carried as a pressure at the edge of the chest, never as a statement. Each of the four traditions is honored in its own terms; no syncretic flattening, no hidden-unity claim, and no declared thesis.",
"player_verb": "endure (primary); attune",
"cite": "docs/spine/CH_06.md:151-155, :103, :111; T0_Hard_Lines HL_0043"
},
{
"beat": "CH06_B09 · seq 9 · role core · mode investigation · site naga_water_shrine · boss BE_0006.P2",
"what_happens": "Phase 2. The counterfeit deepens its mimicry against a sharpened eye, and the protagonist reads it the way one reads a forged manifest — against the reverence-response and the chronicle-documented marks a true conscious Naga answers to and a coat cannot fake, plus the behavioral tells. Every read at the Neophyte register: reverence-response, inscription, lore, behavior. Never a substrate or vril-signature read — that onset is far ahead at the Ch 15 Adeptus-Minor crossing. The strike is withheld until the eye is sure.",
"player_verb": "perceive (primary); withhold",
"cite": "docs/spine/CH_06.md:156-160; _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sri_lanka.md:540-549; T0_Hard_Lines HL_0028, HL_0017"
},
{
"beat": "CH06_B10 · seq 10 · role climax · mode combat · site naga_water_shrine · boss BE_0006.P3 · fork FORK_CH06_A",
"what_happens": "Phase 3. The coat is broken without touching what it stole. The substitution collapses, the passive quarrel it fed on is laid bare and cooled, and the genuine Naga and both unaware monks are untouched. The counterfeit leaves nothing behind — no faction, no apparatus, no summoner. How the doubt was handled sets the chapter's weight and anchors the chapter's one durable direction-set.",
"player_verb": "break (secondary verb, on a perceive-gated win)",
"cite": "docs/spine/CH_06.md:161-165, :110; _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sri_lanka.md:858-859"
},
{
"beat": "CH06_B11 · seq 11 · role exit · mode character · site anuradhapura_sacred_city",
"what_happens": "The island's gift is carried down: to see clearly is to be responsible for what you see. A young elephant of the tank-country, met at the healing, walks a little way and bonds at the Sri Maha Bodhi before the road turns for the sea and the South-India crossing. The bond is an in-beat familiar write on its host beat, not a dedicated bond quest.",
"player_verb": "bond (character)",
"cite": "docs/spine/CH_06.md:166-170, :256, :276; T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts §6.5 L1466 (CG-27)"
}
],
"objectives": [
"OBJ_01 · beat CH06_B05 · \"Find what is taking the offerings at the water-shrine. Do not strike it.\" · completion flag(local.counterfeit_found) · [CH_06.md:137-139]",
"OBJ_02 · beat CH06_B06 · \"Hold the warded ground beside the village's healer through the night, until the demon is named and driven back out.\" · completion flag(local.tovil_warded) · [CH_06.md:142-144]",
"OBJ_03 · beat CH06_B07 · \"Climb the rock to the mirror wall, and hold your own reflection without flinching.\" · completion flag(local.mirror_faced) · [CH_06.md:147-149]",
"OBJ_04 · beat CH06_B08 · \"Climb the peak station by station, keeping every tradition's observance that shares the path.\" · completion flag(local.convergence_felt) · [CH_06.md:152-154]",
"OBJ_05 · beat CH06_B09 · \"Read the thing at the shrine against the marks a true Naga answers to. Hold the strike until the eye is sure.\" · completion flag(local.counterfeit_read) · [CH_06.md:157-159]",
"OBJ_06 · beat CH06_B10 · \"Break the coat without touching what it stole.\" · completion flag(local.coat_broken) · [CH_06.md:162-164]",
"OBJ_07 · beat CH06_B11 · \"Come down to the great tree. The young elephant that followed you from the healing is waiting there.\" · completion flag(local.muthu_bonded) · [CH_06.md:167-169]"
],
"completion_condition": "flag(local.coat_broken) & flag(local.muthu_bonded) — §9.5 mini-grammar, both keys carried verbatim from the beats' own out-blocks (CH_06.md:164, :169). The exit beat is entered off the climax (CH06_B11 in:{local.coat_broken:true}), and the CH_06→CH_07 seam assertion machine-checks familiar_bond_state as shell_sustained_kira_khan_muthu_bonded AT EXIT (CH_06.md:290), which is why the bond sits inside completion rather than beside it. OBJ_02, OBJ_03 and OBJ_04 are deliberately NOT in the expression: CH06_B09 gates on local.counterfeit_found alone (CH_06.md:159), so the three sub-boss trials are non-gating on the climax chain.",
"fail_state": "retry_with_bank — the spine's death branch is a RESET that banks knowledge: \"if a wrong read desecrates the real it resets with the true-from-false tell now marked\" (CH_06.md:110), and BE_0006's death_reward row says the same plus \"discernment lore fragment either way\". Both retry_with_bank and reward_on_death are literally true of this row and canon does not rank them; retry_with_bank is chosen because the reset-with-marked-tell is this encounter's distinguishing mechanic, while the lore-fragment payout is the arc-wide reward-on-win-and-death invariant that every boss carries (CH_06.md:108). Enum per §6.5 L1462. Filed as named gap 7.",
"progression_guarantee": "plays_through — FORK_CH06_A's own guarantee clause: \"every option plays through to the South-India crossing — the direction sets texture and the discernment's cost, never a gate\" (CH_06.md:177). Reinforcing facts, each canon-fixed: the counterfeit dispels on EVERY path, so the climax is a reward-both-ways boss outcome rather than a pass/fail wall (CH_06.md:110, :179); the corrosive limb closes nothing — \"nothing walls — the hardened-rivalry reception opens instead\" (CH_06.md:185); the SQ gates are state-conditions and non-gating on the main spine (§9.5, CH_06.md:196); refusing the read, mis-reading, or never finding the tell costs texture, standing and the deeper reconciliation, never progress toward the crossing (SEED_0022 canonical_outcomes); no twelve_tier_gate binds at Ch 6 (CH_06.md:196, :250); the three sub-boss trials are off the required chain; and striking what proves genuine is a designed reset with the tell banked, never a dead end (CH_06.md:177). No NPC in this quest is killable-and-load-bearing: every human participant is a protected non-target, so the kill-never-hard-gates law has no exposure here (CH_06.md:221; T0_Hard_Lines HL_0123).",
"branching_logic": "One fork, FORK_CH06_A, anchored at CH06_B10; kind combat_resolution, magnitude SUBSTANTIAL, care_band open, convergence_node null; coverage {generative, neutral, corrosive} all reachable (CH_06.md:176-187). Options are ACTION-keyed with a direction — the five texture bands are the DERIVED axis (§18) and are never option labels, and the retired truly_good/good_enough/neutral/evil vocabulary is not used (CH_06.md:187, :305). path_bucket stays UNLOCKED; the lock-in is far ahead at Ch 65 (CH_06.md:268). Not a fork: the counterfeit's dispelling itself, which is a boss outcome that rewards on win and on death (CH_06.md:110, :179). Not a valid option: striking what proves genuine — a designed reset, never a win (CH_06.md:177, :226). Chain structure — CH06_B09 gates on local.counterfeit_found only, so CH06_B06 (the ward), CH06_B07 (the mirror wall) and CH06_B08 (the ascent) branch off the found-state in parallel and rejoin nothing; each pays its own reward and none is a prerequisite of the climax (CH_06.md:139, :144, :149, :154, :159). Faction consequence is symmetrical by construction: neither monastic house is the culprit and neither is the favoured party, so the generative limb improves BOTH houses and the corrosive limb degrades both (sri_lanka.md:838-845). Ability availability branches on threshold rather than on this quest: A_W_003 and A_C_002 take \"Sri Lanka chapter\", A_W_005 takes Water 30-49 Theoricus, A_W_007 takes Herbalism 30-49 plus an L1/L2 integrity band — so they become available FROM Ch 6 rather than all unlocking at first play (CH_06.md:250; T0_Ability_Tree_Registry).",
"fork_options": [
"FORK_CH06_A · option \"hold the blade until sure — break only the coat and spare the genuine Naga and reconcile the two monasteries\" · direction generative · delta +Substantial · mark_write {sri_lanka: generative-valence via the monastic reconciliation, high-persistence, forward_track none} · ws.relationship_history: the two monasteries reconciled and the edura-healer alliance honored · ws.integrity_score: +substantial-generative · opportunity opens: the discernment boon and the read-a-forgery method carried forward [CH_06.md:183]",
"FORK_CH06_A · option \"break the counterfeit but leave the deeper monastic reconciliation unmade\" · direction neutral · delta ~0 · mark_write {sri_lanka: neutral-valence via the counterfeit dispelled, moderate-persistence, forward_track none} · no relationship write · ws.integrity_score: ~0 [CH_06.md:184]",
"FORK_CH06_A · option \"strike first and let certainty catch up — something true pays and the old quarrel hardens\" · direction corrosive · delta −Substantial · mark_write {sri_lanka: corrosive-valence via the haste-cost, high-persistence, forward_track none} · ws.relationship_history: the monastic rivalry hardened and trust damaged · ws.integrity_score: −substantial-corrosive · opportunity closes nothing — the hardened-rivalry reception opens instead [CH_06.md:185]"
],
"irreversible_choice": "The discernment at the shrine, forced the moment the marks fail to answer: strike now, or hold and be sure first. Hold the blade until the eye is sure — the coat breaks and only the coat, the genuine Naga is spared, and the two houses are brought back into correspondence; the cost is the slower read, the nights the counterfeit keeps feeding while the marks are checked, and reconciliation work with two institutions that each believe themselves wronged. Strike first and let certainty catch up — the counterfeit still breaks, but something true pays for the haste and the old quarrel hardens into a wall and separate approaches that the island keeps. Between them sits the unremarkable limb: break the counterfeit and leave the deeper work undone, which buys a quiet coexistence and nothing else. The world keeps whichever was done; no limb walls progression, and the corrosive one opens a hardened-rivalry reception rather than closing a door. [CH_06.md:161-165, :176-187; sri_lanka.md:1506-1511]",
"state_writes": [
"ws.antagonist_operational_state_per_region: +false_naga_dispelled_sri_lanka — written at CH06_B10 on every path (boss outcome, not the fork) · resolves to T0_Worldstate_Variables WS_020 [CH_06.md:164, :110]",
"ws.familiar_bond_state: +muthu_g2_bonded — written at CH06_B11; in-beat familiar bond as a WS_012 write on its host beat per CG-27, not a dedicated bond quest · resolves to WS_012 [CH_06.md:169; §6.5 L1466]",
"ws.integrity_score: +substantial-generative | ~0 | −substantial-corrosive per the FORK_CH06_A option taken; the LEVEL is derived, never written · resolves to WS_001 [CH_06.md:183-185, :261]",
"ws.community_state_per_region: mark_write {community_id sri_lanka, valence per option direction, persistence high|moderate|high} — WS_019 is the RATIFIED mark_write home (D-COMBAT-TD R8, Josh 2026-07-19, in WS_019's own notes cell); forward_track is a build-time index and gets no runtime key [CH_06.md:183-185; sri_lanka.md:116]",
"ws.relationship_history: the two monasteries reconciled and the edura-healer alliance honored (generative) | the monastic rivalry hardened and trust damaged (corrosive) · resolves to WS_008 [CH_06.md:183, :185]"
],
"reward_class": "mixed — the payload crosses ability_unlock, loot_drop, seed_unlock and substrate_narrative classes (§6.5 L1472). ability_unlock_refs: [\"ability:A_W_003\" Mist Screen (systems list at CH06_B05), \"ability:A_C_002\" Vril Healing and \"ability:A_W_007\" Healing Current (CH06_B06), \"ability:A_W_005\" Cool Surge (CH06_B10)] — all four carry unlock_chapter_ref Ch_06 in T0_Ability_Tree_Registry and each is threshold-gated, not quest-gated [CH_06.md:138, :143, :163, :250]. reward_drop_refs: [DROP_CH06_DISCERNMENT_LORE_FRAGMENT (linked BE_0006, awarded on win AND on death), DROP_CH06_TOVIL_DEMONOLOGY_LORE (linked BE_0006_S1), DROP_CH06_SELF_PERCEPTION_BOON (linked BE_0006_S2), DROP_CH06_CONVERGENCE_SENSATION (linked BE_0006_S3), DROP_CH06_AGILITY_LETTER_FRAGMENT (the Sigiriya ascent, the chapter's one agility course per HL_0079), DROP_CH06_MUTHU_BOND] — every one a live T0_RNG_Drop_Table drop_id. Deliberately NOT claimed: DROP_CH06_NAGA_COSMOLOGY_LORE, DROP_CH06_PALI_SINHALA_LITERACY, DROP_CH06_TANK_CASCADE_HYDRAULIC_LORE and DROP_CH06_FA_HIEN_DEEP_TIME_RECORD, which the spine assigns to the SQ3 lane at CH06_B02/B03 (CH_06.md:194) — beats this row does not realize. reward_seed_refs: [SEED_0022 (the SQ4 ADVANCE lane riding CH06_B05/B09/B10), SEED_0027 (the Muthu bond-seed at CH06_B11)]. Substrate-narrative half: the discernment boon and the read-a-forgery method carried forward on the generative limb (CH_06.md:183, :193).",
"hard_line_refs": [
"HL_0003 — §17.1 collective protection: combat NEVER routes through the Sinhalese, Vedda or Tamil communities, the Buddhist sangha, the edura healers, the physicians, the villagers, or the two unaware monks. All combat routes at the counterfeit deceiver-yaka, the tradition's own condemned Tovil disease-demons, and the two trial-guardians [CH_06.md:221]",
"HL_0004 — a culturally protected space still delivers a REAL fight: village_edura_ward is protected=true and hosts a genuine boss, sourced from the tradition's OWN condemned agent rather than a manufactured raid [CH_06.md:99, :221]",
"HL_0005 — the yakku, the Naga and the Nae Yaku are depicted as the traditions hold them; no Hollywood shorthand, no generic movie demons; the ruined, non-living Sigiriya carries the puzzle-dungeon licence [CH_06.md:221, :225-226]",
"HL_0002 — claims about the living traditions trace to primary-source record (Wirz, Kapferer, Obeyesekere, Sarachchandra on the Tovil; the Mahavamsa and Coningham on the Naga and the sacred city; Seligmann on the Vedda; Brohier on the hydraulics), while the mythic monster carries fantasy licence [CH_06.md:262]",
"HL_0028 / HL_0017 — every perception in this quest sits at the Neophyte register: reverence-response, inscription, lore and behavioral tells. NEVER a tier-6 vril-signature or substrate read; that onset is far ahead at the Ch 15 Adeptus-Minor crossing [CH_06.md:160, :250]",
"HL_0043 — no thesis declaration anywhere: the convergence at the summit is a wordless L3 sensation, each of the four traditions honored in its own terms, with no syncretic flattening and no hidden-unity super-claim [CH_06.md:155, :234]",
"HL_0044 — no pre-Ch-76 Grand Sage hint. The reveal-authority reference row that applies at chapter scope is deliberately not named, is not a participant here, and is not a dialogue node [CH_06.md:257]",
"REVEAL LADDER — no House-of-Velheim name, family or PATTERN exists to the player at Ch 6. The counterfeit is SELF-ARISING with no summoner and no operative chain, its foothold a passive institutional rivalry; the family first appears at Ch 8. Nothing in premise_as_given, the objective strings, the fork options or the branching logic reaches for it, and no negated agent-noun is used on any player-facing surface [CH_06.md:112, :258; sri_lanka.md:33, :987]",
"THE INVIOLATE — the genuine Naga (CHAR_0042) is a conscious sacred people and is never the boss; striking it is a designed FAILURE STATE, never a win [CH_06.md:226, :110]",
"THE STRICT LINE — the malevolent Tovil yakku (Mahasona, Riri Yaka, the Daha-ata Sanniya) are the Sinhalese tradition's OWN condemned disease-demons and are villain material; the revered Vedda Nae Yaku are venerated ancestral spirits of a living community and are NOT. Never conflated, never pooled under one word, never staged in the same category [CH_06.md:225; sri_lanka.md:651-655]",
"NAMING FLAG — the Ch-5 vital-force term has NO attestation as a Vedda word under a positive-controlled scan; the parallel is carried descriptively and never written as a Vedda word on any player-facing or substrate surface [sri_lanka.md:335-349]",
"HL_0032 — the twelve SQ names are locked; this row claims none of them (SQ4/SQ3/SQ1 are separate side_questline_stage rows) [CH_06.md:191]",
"HL_0078 — blended, three-axis, phase-escalating boss with at least two counters per signature attack and a reward on win and on death; BE_0006 evolves the counterfeit's mimicry rather than swapping movesets [CH_06.md:108; T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry]",
"HL_0079 — one agility course per chapter: the Sigiriya 180 m ascent, biome-rotated against Ch 5's volcanic slope, with a mirror-wall-reflection Puzzle variant [CH_06.md:249]",
"HL_0049 — dominant_combat_mode environmental, holding the no-consecutive-repeat rule against Ch 4 vril_management and Ch 5 puzzle_routed [CH_06.md:248]",
"HL_0047 — the L1 surface track reads complete with zero metaphysics; L2 is the documented investigatable substrate; L3 is never declared [CH_06.md:232-234]",
"HL_0123 — lethal violence against humans is core arc-wide, but this node has NO human antagonist: every human participant is a protected non-target, so nothing here is kill-gated [CH_06.md:221]"
],
"completion_condition_note_unused": "n/a",
"named_gaps": [
"NO QUEST GIVER EXISTS IN CANON. The spine authors no NPC who hands the premise; CH06_B05 opens on in:{none}. quest_giver=environment is the honest read, not a discovered fact. Whether a village or monastic voice should carry the rumour is unauthored — the region page's Section 13 gives carriers for every REGION-scope seed and none for the main line (sri_lanka.md:1107-1158).",
"T0_Scene_Spec_Registry CARRIES ZERO CH_06 ROWS (27 rows total, chapters 2, 3, 55, 58, 76, 77, Prologue, Epilogue only). The six SC_CH06_* anchor ids are minted by spine §13 (CH_06.md:212-217) and echoed at sri_lanka.md:113, and the spine tags the block [POPULATE→T0_Scene_Spec_Registry]. scene_anchor_array = [SC_CH06_warded_night, SC_CH06_four_names, SC_CH06_held_hand, SC_CH06_coat_breaks] is therefore authored against the spine's mint and the FK is OWED, not resolved. The intent trio (thematic_anchor / audio_priority_layer / scene_audio_intent) defers by rule to that population pass.",
"T0_Promise_Ledger HAS NO CH_06 EDGE AT ALL — zero of 125 rows name CH_06 as promise_node or payoff_node (48 rows carry a blank promise_node). This node opens and pays no LEDGERED promise. What canon states in prose but has never been rowed: the discernment boon and read-a-forgery method carried forward (CH_06.md:183), the Vimana precursor seed set at CH06_B03 for the Ch 55 payoff (CH_06.md:15, :130 — a beat this row does not realize), and the Ch-60 Asia-revisit read of the monastic write (sri_lanka.md:116, :1506-1511). No promise field is filled here because filling one would mint an edge rather than cite one.",
"NO DIALOGUE LAYER EXISTS. docs/quest_dialogue/DD_QUEST_CH06_FALSE_NAGA_UNLOCKED.csv does not exist; T0_Dialogue_Line carries no CH_06 lines; T0_SFX_Registry returns ZERO CH_06 rows, so quest_dialogue_sfx_id_ref_array is left EMPTY rather than filled with the ability-cast SFX ids (SFX_00087-00097, SFX_00038-00041) that belong to the abilities, not to this quest's dialogue. The six-option voice wheel is unauthored for this node.",
"THE EDURA HAS NO CHAR_ ID. The village kattadiya/edura is deliberately un-named at spine scope per ruling 6 (CH_06.md:203), so the protagonist's ALLY in the CH06_B06 fight cannot be FK'd in participant_entity_refs. Carried as a prose participant.",
"T0_Creature_Roster CARRIES NO ROW for the counterfeit, the Tovil yakku, or the genuine Naga — only CR_0035 (Nittaewo) sits on the sri_lanka folklore lane, and the region page rules the Nittaewo out of staging entirely pending a source carrying the tradition's own voice (sri_lanka.md:291-300). No creature: FK is citable; a value would be a dangling FK on the SEED_0017 precedent.",
"fail_state IS GENUINELY AMBIGUOUS between retry_with_bank and reward_on_death — BE_0006's death branch is both a reset-with-marked-tell and a reward-either-way, and the single-valued enum forces a pick that canon does not rank (CH_06.md:110).",
"THE MUTHU BOND HAS NO REFUSAL PATH. The CH_06→CH_07 seam assertion machine-checks the bond as present at exit (CH_06.md:290) while the region page stages the elephant's water route as an OPT-IN seed with a fork (sri_lanka.md:1141-1143). Whether the bond can be declined, and what the seam asserts if it is, is unauthored. Resolved here in the required direction because the seam is the machine-checkable surface.",
"WHICH TOVIL YAKA APPEARS AT CH06_B06 IS UNRULED. The spine offers a Mahasona-register graveyard-and-crossroads demon OR Riri Yaka OR one of the Daha-ata Sanniya (CH_06.md:111), and the region page records ZERO corpus attestation for kattadiya, tovil, the named yakku, the diagnostic system, the mask iconography and the rite sequence (sri_lanka.md:1345-1349), ruling that the names ride SPINE authority with NO invention around them. So the objective text names no specific yaka and no diagnostic system, and the ward staged is only the documented commentarial procedure. Picking one is a canon task, not an authoring liberty.",
"NO PATH-BUCKET VARIANT ROWS AND NO twelve_tier_gate. path_bucket UNLOCKED pre-Ch-65 (CH_06.md:268); no mastery gate binds anywhere in the node (CH_06.md:196, :250).",
"THE MIRROR-WALL SIGNING CHOICE IS REGION-SCOPE ONLY. sri_lanka.md:1134-1140 stages 'the verse on the wall' — read and pass on, answer one, or sign it, and for a child who is hiding, a choice about what name to write — and calls it the self-recognition trial's quiet twin. It is not typed on any spine beat, so it is NOT claimed as an objective here despite sitting inside CH06_B07's site. Owed as a side row.",
"THREADS 4 AND 20 HAVE NO CARRIER BEAT. Flood Memory and Sacred Objects (the kastane substrate) advance at chapter-ambient level only, deliberately per CH_06.md:172 — so no objective in this quest can realize them."
],
"grounding": "PRIMARY: docs/spine/CH_06.md — header/hard-line binding :7-17; continuity anchor :21; body prose :25-35; threads :41-55; site rows :90-104; boss structure :108-112; beat graph :136-170 (CH06_B05 :136-140, B06 :141-145, B07 :146-150, B08 :151-155, B09 :156-160, B10 :161-165, B11 :166-170); mode-variety fold :172; FORK_CH06_A :176-187; side-questlines :191-196; ally NPCs :200-204; scene anchors :210-217; protected-chapter combat framing :221; anti-fringe :225-228; three-layer surfacing :232-234; mechanical anchors :248-264; derived axes :268-269; end-state carry-forward :273-280; seams :286-290; decisions :296-305. REGION: _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/sri_lanka.md — reveal ladder :8, :33, :987; scene index :113; mark/ws surface :115-117; zone catalog :57-63; naming flag :335-349; care posture :483-495; the Naga's documented sovereign-court marks :540-549; Vedda Nae Yaku separation :551-562; documented ward procedure :645-649; the strict line :651-655; monastic conflict as substrate :700-710; faction table :838-859; Section 13 quest framework :1101-1158; corpus-attestation zeros :1340-1355; Ch-60 revisit read :1500-1513. SCHEMA: _source/01_Tier_1_Foundation/T1_Build_Pipeline_Contracts [ACTIVE v1.0].md §6.5 L1444-1479 (quest_id L1444, quest_type L1447, encounter_facet L1448, chapter L1449, path_bucket L1450, questline_id L1451, participant_entity_refs L1455, quest_giver L1456, trigger_type L1457, quest_beat_structure L1458, realized_beat_refs L1459, objectives_array L1460, completion_condition L1461, fail_state L1462, progression_guarantee L1463, state_writes L1464-1466, branching_logic L1467, fork_option_refs L1468, dialogue_trigger_anchors L1469, spatial_requirements_array L1470, scene_anchor_array L1471, reward_class L1472, ability/drop/seed refs L1473-1475, dialogue_dataset_array L1478, hard_line_relevance L1479). TURN DOCTRINE: docs/registry_extensions.json _column_doctrine/quest-turn (the W3 chain framing→investigation→falsifier→irreversible choice priced in world memory; Q2 key-resolution, Q3 all-or-none, Q1 per-chapter arming); gate harness/check_quest_turn.py. EXEMPLAR PRECEDENT: registries/T0_Quest_Definition_Registry [ACTIVE v1.0]/T0_Quest_Definition_Registry.csv row QUEST_CH02_ARRIVAL_UNLOCKED (the only >half-populated row, 36/48 cells); docs/proposals/QUEST_EXEMPLAR_CH02_OPENER.md:430-458 (the turn-clause arithmetic). SEEDS: registries/T0_Quest_Seed_Registry SEED_0022 (SQ4 lane on CH06_B05/B09/B10), SEED_0023, SEED_0024, SEED_0025, SEED_0026, SEED_0027. REGISTRIES JOINED: T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry BE_0006 / BE_0006_S1 / BE_0006_S2 / BE_0006_S3 (phases, verbs, axis splits, counters, win_reward, death_reward); T0_RNG_Drop_Table 10 DROP_CH06_* rows; T0_Ability_Tree_Registry A_W_003, A_W_005, A_W_007, A_C_002 (unlock_chapter_ref Ch_06 and their prerequisite gates); T0_Worldstate_Variables WS_001, WS_008, WS_012, WS_019 (mark_write home, ratified in its own notes cell), WS_020; T0_Hard_Lines HL_0002, HL_0003, HL_0004, HL_0005, HL_0017, HL_0028, HL_0032, HL_0043, HL_0044, HL_0047, HL_0049, HL_0078, HL_0079, HL_0123; T0_Questline_Index SQ3 row (source_anchor docs/spine/CH_06.md:194). CONSUMER-SIDE CALLBACK (QW-10, every world_memory_write needs a downstream surfaced read): satisfied at sri_lanka.md:1506-1511 — the monastic write reads at a distance at the Ch-60 Asia revisit, and the edura's village remembers whether the ward was held. VERIFIED ABSENCES, each positive-controlled by a query that returns rows for other chapters: T0_Promise_Ledger 0 CH_06 edges of 125; T0_Scene_Spec_Registry 0 CH_06 rows of 27; T0_SFX_Registry 0 CH_06 rows; T0_Creature_Roster no folklore row for the counterfeit, the yakku or the Naga.",
"progression_guarantee_STATUS": "UNVERIFIED -- critic demolished the stated guarantee"
}
}