CR_0160_krasue_ap.md

creatures/CR_0160_krasue_ap.md

CR_0160 — the krasue and the ap: the head that goes abroad, and the body this game never shows

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):
T0_Creature_Roster · T0_Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph · docs/spine/CH_05.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.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: PROPOSAL-TIER design sheet, written to docs/proposals/bestiary/BESTIARY_ELEVATION_DOCTRINE.md

and critic-gated against its ten refusal tests. It cites canon rows and writes none.

1. identity

dex WITNESS

the formal ELEVATED tier is scoped to the Cham/war surfaces (the west_baray combat-staging, the My Son

sanctuary, the modern-Cham-communities block), which this being is not [CH_05.md :12]

in that exclusive list, against realistic-ethnographic for the Khmer and Cham communities, monuments

and ports

see section 2

built rather than invented)

hold them" [CH_05.md :265]; combat_facing recorded FALSE in the ruled state because the row's

combat_permission cell is blank [CREATURE_DEMAND_RULED_STATE_L11.json § rows CR_0160]

:267, :287, :329 · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.md :100, :186-188, :521-522,

:838-840, :854-856, :991 · LINK_0186 as quoted in T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0160 and

angkor_khmer.md :991 (the link-graph registry row itself was not opened by this lane)

THE ONE THING THIS SHEET IS BUILT AROUND. The attested form has two halves — the head that detaches and

goes abroad, and THE BODY THAT REMAINS. This game builds the first and NEVER SHOWS THE SECOND. The body

is never rendered, never located, never named, never entered, never an objective and never a target,

because a body that remains belongs to a person, and the chapter's own care sentence rules that the kru

khmer healers and the community are protected and that SUSPICION IS NEVER ROUTED THROUGH A NAMED OR

LIVING PERSON [CH_05.md :252]. The malevolence seats in the spirit-evil and the harm it does, exactly

as the Flores wa precedent seats it in the bargain and its sent agent, and the game never offers an

accused villager as a target. Nothing is removed by that decision; the aim is moved, and what is left is

the more frightening design, because a hunt with no house to raid is a hunt that never ends anywhere but

in the dark with the thing itself.

2. base_species

NO SINGLE ANIMAL BASE. The archetype is COMPOSITE, and the composite is the tradition's own: a human

head carrying its own viscera and nothing else.

THE ANATOMY-TABLE COVERAGE STATEMENT, CHECKED RATHER THAN ASSUMED. build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/

is on disk and NO BUCKET IN IT COVERS THIS BODY. LIMBLESS.json is the one that looks close and it does

NOT reach: its single sub-plan is serpentine, a vertebral chain of 160-400+ precloacal vertebrae with

a rib pair on every one, a mobile quadrate and elastic mandibular ligament, and pelvic spurs — a

skeleton, where a visceral train is soft tissue with no vertebrae, no ribs and no axial skeleton at all,

and the two share only the word "chain." HUMANOID.json covers the SKULL and the cervical remnant and

is cited for those. The table's own scope line settles the rest: the PROVISIONAL folklore rows are

declared OUT OF SCOPE because their body plan is a canon decision already boarded, and a table that

guessed one would be inventing creature canon. So the train's block below is declared here, in full, as

the doctrine's §2.1 fallback, and it is superseded in place the day a bucket covers it.

and from that inlet a suspended VISCERAL TRAIN modelled as a segmented chain — oesophagus and trachea

as the first 4 segments, a heart-and-lung mass at segments 5 and 6, liver and stomach at 7 and 8, and

a small and large intestine running as 22 further segments to the terminal coil. Thirty-two segments,

and the count is a design fact rather than a texture.

in pitch. Each train segment carries about 25 degrees of bend in any direction against its neighbour

and about 30 degrees of axial twist, with no segment permitted to fold past its neighbour's tangent —

which is what makes the train a hanging chain rather than a whip. The terminal coil grips.

the design never pretends otherwise. It has no limbs, no torso, no shoulder and no pelvis. It rides at

a height its own state sets (section 4), and it moves by drift with the train hanging plumb, swinging

behind on a turn the way a hanging mass swings.

hanging under it. There is no idle pose in which the train is neat.

3. lore_source

trailing its own entrails WHILE THE BODY REMAINS — the tradition's OWN named and condemned being,

feared by the communities that tell it and answered by their own healers, the kru khmer

[T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0160 :: folklore_attribution_source]. THE ROSTER ROW CELL IS THE SOLE CANON

HOME OF THAT ATTESTATION, stated on the face of the sheet: angkor_khmer.md :186-188 names the being

and routes it and calls it the tradition's own condemned being, and it does NOT carry the detachment,

the trailing entrails or the body that remains. Every one of those three comes from the row cell and

from nowhere else in this corpus, which is why the row's own grounding-thinness note is inherited

below rather than dressed over.

BOSS — the excursion leg's boss stays the devaraja-court official [angkor_khmer.md :856;

CH_05.md :329]. It is nevertheless FACED: the asset anchors rule the folklore beings

"mythologically-stylized, faced as the traditions condemn or hold them" [CH_05.md :265], which is the

clause the L11 ruling turned on. The joint form of that sentence is carried honestly here — it covers

the begu ganjang, Naga Padoha and the krasue/ap together, and "condemn" is the half that belongs to

this row.

the Austroasiatic/Tai and Austronesian language boundary, recorded at LINK_0186 — and it is a DIFFERENT

sub-motif from the tall conjured begu ganjang of the Ch-5 anchor, which is never lumped with it

[CH_05.md :252, :287, :329; angkor_khmer.md :991]. Collapsing the two is the defect the row exists

to prevent.

[CH_05.md :219, :260; angkor_khmer.md :100, :854].

row's own note calls that a DERIVED call rather than a canon statement, resting on the landed CR_0154

token. This sheet uses it as the row uses it and claims no tradition source for it.

paragraph for this being — only the routing lines — so the fullest canon treatment is CH_05.md :252

plus the LINK_0186 row, and SRC_00322 MUST NOT be cited here [angkor_khmer.md :521-522]. There is

therefore NO SRC_ id available to this subject in this corpus, and this sheet asserts nothing about

the tradition beyond the four cited lines above. In particular: this corpus attests NO luminescence for

the being, so the sheet does not claim one — see section 4.

4. elevation

ONE-LINE SILHOUETTE READ: a human head at chest height in the dark with a wet rope of its own gut

hanging under it, riding higher the more it has taken tonight.

PRIMARY — A7 COMPOSITE AND HYBRID FORM, ATTESTED. The tradition supplies the hybrid, so this axis builds

rather than invents, and the doctrine's articulation law is at its strictest exactly here because a

composite is where an unarticulated seam hides. The seam is the thoracic inlet, and the sheet names it:

the train attaches at the inlet, the weight of thirty-two segments hangs from it, and the head's own

turn is what swings that weight. That single relation is the creature's whole physics. The western

horror version of this image is a serene floating head with a decorative streamer; the tradition's

condemned being is a head DRAGGING ITS OWN INSIDES, and the difference is entirely in whether the mass

is real.

MECHANISM FOR THE FLOAT, because a body that rides needs one. The being is a vital-force predator and

what it has taken is what carries it. Vril alters real physics rather than exempting a body from it: the

stomach and gut at segments 7 through 30 are the reservoir, and the fuller they are the higher the whole

assembly rides. THE RIDING HEIGHT IS THEREFORE THE STATE READOUT, and it is physical and HUD-free —

knee height and hauling itself along a beam by the terminal coil when it is empty, head height and free

of the ground when it has fed, and the player can read how the night has gone from across a flooded

field.

SUPPORTING — A4 HYPERTROPHY AND ATROPHY, and it is the axis that makes the image mean something. One

system is taken far past baseline and the rest is let go: the digestive train is hypertrophied into a

working machine with visible peristalsis running head-to-tail on a slow wave, while the heart-and-lung

mass at segments 5 and 6 is shrunken and inert — it does not breathe, and the empty chest-mass is the

proof. Nothing here is invented against the anatomy; it is the anatomy's own most frightening fact,

engineered up until it reads at encounter distance.

SUPPORTING — A9 THE MARK, and there is one. THE TRAIN IS WET AND THE WET IS THE MARK. Under any light

already in the scene — moon on flooded rice, a lamp in a doorway, a fire on a bank — the length of the

train returns a hard specular line along its top edge, so the being reads as a moving line of wet in the

dark long before the head resolves. One mark, instantly readable at any distance, and it is entirely

non-emissive: it is return from a light in the scene, exactly as the mata mbere is on the Flores

night-form. A creature carrying three marks carries none, so the head itself carries nothing.

EMISSION: NONE, AND THE SHEET STATES WHY DELIBERATELY. The light law admits emission only from the three

emitting families by their own named mechanism, and this row carries no element and no emitting family.

This corpus also attests NO night-glow for the being — the page has no paragraph for it at all and the

one available ethnography is excluded by name [angkor_khmer.md :521-522] — so the sheet does not

represent a luminescence as attested, which under cited-or-cut would be an invention wearing a

tradition's authority. THE CONDITIONAL IS RECORDED FOR THE LANE THAT LANDS THE SOURCE: if a Khmer or Thai

primary source is acquired and it attests luminescence, that is an ATTESTED MARK and it becomes usable —

and the only law-compliant route for it is a named mechanism with a fuel and a visible cost, carried on

the viscera rather than on the face, replacing the wet-specular mark rather than joining it. Until then

the wet mark stands and nothing in this design is self-lit.

5. articulation_delta

inlet to the hanging chain, and the chain's mass is what damps the head's turn — turn fast and the

train swings wide and late, which is the creature's single most exploitable fact.

neighbour's tangent is a solver failure, not a design intent, and the anatomy law refuses it.

post or a bank and pulls, which is how the empty being moves at all. Its grip is a contact state on

the last three segments with a declared purchase and a release.

rather than replacing their motion.

whole encounter — it does not react, it does not open, it does not speak. That is the horror and it is

also the care discipline, stated in section 7.

6. fight_grammar

THERE IS NO BE_ ROW AND THIS SHEET MINTS NONE. Canon rules the staging in both directions and the sheet

holds both: FACED [CH_05.md :265], NEVER A BOSS [angkor_khmer.md :856].

THE ROW SAYS SOMETHING STRONGER AND IT IS ADJUDICATED HERE RATHER THAN STEPPED AROUND. The roster note

reads, verbatim: "NO BE_ ROW AND NO ENCOUNTER BY DESIGN: angkor_khmer.md L854-856 rules 'the krasue/ap

an L2 touch, never a boss' and CH_05.md L329 records the same as a RESOLVED ruling"

[T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0160 :: notes]. Read closely, the note DERIVES "no encounter" from a citation

that says "never a boss," and those are not the same claim — neither cited line contains the words the

inference draws, and the row's own next sentence concedes the point by ruling that canon "is silent on

targetability." The spine settles it in the other direction on a line the note does not open: the asset

anchors stage these beings "faced as the traditions condemn or hold them" [CH_05.md :265], which is

the cite RULING_10 turned on when it ruled CONDEMNED into scope. So the adjudication this sheet works

under is: NEVER A BOSS is canon and binds absolutely; NO ENCOUNTER is the row note's inference and does

not, because the spine's own staging line outranks a registry note's derivation. The design below takes

exactly the room that leaves — faced, and not a boss — and the row's blank permission cell is left for

the registry lane rather than written by this one.

This is therefore designed as a NIGHT ENCOUNTER IN THE AMBIENT REGISTER: it hunts across open ground on

its own schedule, the pressure is the dark and the clock, and the whole read lives on the creature's body

rather than on any interface. It is a real lethal threat that comes to the player rather than waiting to

be visited.

PART ECONOMY HOME: BODY, and it is the train. Each break is a segment run severed, and the doctrine's

three currencies land as two here BY CANON DESIGN: a permanent subtraction from the live moveset (a

shortened train loses reach and loses lift, so the being drops a height band and cannot take the high

line again), and a legibility gain (a shorter train swings less and the head's turn stops being damped,

so its heading becomes readable). THE THIRD CURRENCY IS DELIBERATELY ABSENT: rng_drop_anchor is blank

BY DESIGN on this row and no folklore being takes drop-family membership, so the encounter yields

DOCUMENT completion and SQ1 lore rather than a material.

SILHOUETTE FRACTIONS at encounter distance, so the breaks are visible without a HUD: the head is roughly

one fifth of the silhouette's area and four fifths of its recognisability; the train is the other four

fifths of the area and carries the whole read of state. A severed run of six or more segments is a

visible change in the hanging line's length from across a field, which is the test that matters.

tell shapebody originone answercounter class worn on the body
the wet line rises and shortens as it gathersthe train is drawing up under the inlet, loadingback off the line it is on — a gathered train is a strike being wounddodge
the terminal coil takes a purchase on a beam or a bankthe empty being is about to pull itself, not driftcut the purchase, not the being — take the beam awaypositioning
the head turns fast and the train swings wide and latethe mass is behind the turn and the inlet is loaded across itstrike the train at the swing, which is the only window its own mass gives youstrike on commit
peristalsis runs the whole chain head-to-tailit has fed and the reservoir is fillingit will rise a band; break line of sight before it takes the high linestealth read
the line hangs slack and plumb and the head is stillit is listening, and the train is at resthold still; movement is what it is readingread
the whole assembly rides at head height and freeit is full and it is fast tonightgive ground and use light already in the scene to keep the wet line in viewpositioning

ONE SHAPE, ONE ANSWER. The chain of correct reads is what the encounter is; a mistake costs the run and

the being takes the high line, and the exact pip count and reveal threshold belong to the instrument

that declares its own band.

THE FAIL STATE IS A TIME, NOT A ROOM. It goes abroad AT NIGHT, so the night bounds it: when the sky

starts, the hunt is over and the being is gone, and a player who spent the dark badly gets nothing but

the knowledge that it is still out there. Where it goes is never shown and never followed — see the

sheet's spine sentence in section 1.

ESCALATION on the four channels. POSTURE — the riding height, which is the meter. BREATH — there is

none, and its absence is the channel: the empty chest-mass at segments 5 and 6 does not move, and the

only wet sound in the mix is the train dragging. VOCALIZATION — none from the head; what escalates is

the village dogs and the flood-forest birds going quiet in a widening ring, which is the world's response

in a radius and not the creature performing. NEW OPENER — the drag-and-pull of the empty being is

replaced by free drift, and the whole method the player built in the first hour stops working.

RELOCATION AND TURF: it owns the night and not a place. It enters along water and open ground where the

hanging line clears, leaves along the same, and does not defend a room.

7. care_read

antagonist, the kru khmer healers and the households are protected allies and never targets, and no

protected sacred site or ceremony is reproduced [CH_05.md :246, :252]. The one absolute in this

subject is the one this sheet is built around: SUSPICION IS NEVER ROUTED THROUGH A NAMED OR LIVING

PERSON. No NPC is ever hinted to be the being, no house is ever pointed at, the body that remains is

never shown or located, and no accusation is ever a quest objective on any route.

tradition condemns it — never softened and never Hollywood-monstered. The design checks both failures:

a head that hauls its own hypertrophied gut and rides on what it has taken is neither a sanitised

abstraction nor a western horror prop, and it is what the record this repo holds actually describes.

The mythologically-stylized register is a canon ruling on this being specifically [CH_05.md :267]

and it is held: stylized for this one, realistic-ethnographic for the communities and monuments beside

it.

take the wa's route of removing the face. Instead the face is fixed, unchanging and unreactive across

the whole encounter, rendered in the stylized register, and it is bound by two rules that a plate lane

must inherit: it is never the face of any NPC in this game, and it never carries a physiognomy that

reads as a portrait of a living community. A face that cannot react cannot be a person's face.

begu ganjang [CH_05.md :329], and the two are on separate chains (LINK_0186 against

LINK_0147/LINK_0148). Any plate, string or mesh that lets the Khmer being and the Batak being read as

one thing has broken the chapter's resolved weave.

routes through a photographic-wildlife template, and a subject with a human head belonging to a living

tradition's condemned-being story never routes through raw generation with negative prompts as the

control.

Nothing was removed. The AIM was moved — off the person the tradition's accusation would fall on and

onto the thing itself — and the encounter is built so there is no house at the end of it to raid.

being a pure L2 lore read, seen only in a bark and a manuscript. REFUSED: the spine's own asset anchor

rules it FACED [CH_05.md :265], and Southeast Asia's most famous night horror rendered as a footnote

is the timid option the standing law names as usually wrong. (2) The over-boldness check FOUND

something and it is the reason this sheet stops where it does: the bold instinct is to make it a boss

and give it a phase structure, and CANON FORBIDS THAT IN TERMS — "an L2 touch, never a boss"

[angkor_khmer.md :856]. The row wins, the sheet builds an ambient night encounter instead, and the

boldness is spent on lethality and on the hunt rather than on a health bar. (3) The sheet does NOT

rule the being un-killable and it does not write a permission: canon rules the staging and is silent on

targetability, so a token would be an invention. The body designed here is genuinely fightable — a

severable train, a purchase to cut, a swing window — and whether a lethal end is permitted is the

registry lane's call, boarded in section 9 rather than decided here.

weight path, the reservoir-and-riding-height mechanism, the peristalsis wave, the atrophied chest-mass,

the terminal coil's grip, the wet-specular mark, the fixed unreactive face, the six tell shapes, the

quiet-ring escalation and the night-bounded fail state are INVENTED BY THIS SHEET as the game's own

design and are named as ours. CITED are: the detaching head, the trailing entrails, the body that

remains, the night register, the condemned status, the kru khmer answer, the L2-touch-never-a-boss

staging, the faced clause, and the LINK_0186 cognate ruling.

design blocks only. The constraint inherits forward to every lane that writes one from this material:

the chapter's reveal state is HELD, the excursion's official is un-briefed and this being is not an

operative, so any display name, dex entry, bark or item text authored downstream carries no family

name, pattern or who-frame token.

8. plate_brief

Written affirmatively. Every line names what IS in frame.

hanging beneath it as a long wet chain, the moon on the water behind it lighting the top edge of the

train as a single hard line. Stylized register.

train drawn taut where it pulls, a doorway lamp behind it in the frame as the only light.

peristalsis visible as a swell running down the chain.

above it, wet.

that establishes the strike window as a physical fact.

hanging length shown at full and at severed.

9. boarded_debts

IMPLICATION: the row likely wants FOLKLORE_FACED, because its spine node already stages it faced

[CH_05.md :265; DIRECTOR_RULING_L11.json § boarded_by_the_ruling]. The row's own note refuses the

token until a spine pass stages an encounter. This sheet writes nothing and records the implication

from the design side: the encounter designed here is exactly the staging that would discharge it.

deciding cell was ontology_class and the permission cell is blank. That is internally consistent and

it is worth naming: this sheet designs a faced encounter for a row the state machine cannot see as

combat-facing, and the two will disagree until the permission cell resolves.

typed sites are the flood-forest and reversing-lake night at west_baray and the household night at

bayon_taprohm [CH_05.md :100-103]; SQ1's excursion payload rides CH05_B10, which is the My Son

beat and Cham ground while this being is Khmer [angkor_khmer.md :100]. Naming candidates is not

minting a key. SPINE LANE.

for the being and SRC_00322 is excluded by name [angkor_khmer.md :521-522]. A Khmer or Thai

primary source is an acquisition target, and the luminescence question in section 4 is held open

behind it. Until it lands, the citation floor for this row is canon prose rather than primary

attestation, and this sheet says so rather than dressing the gap.

deliberately EMPTY per the cryptid-firewall reasoning and the third is a DERIVED token the row itself

labels as such. Correct, and named so a later enrichment does not read them as holes.

have drifted from their targets: THIS ROW's L838-840 now resolves at angkor_khmer.md :856 and its

L975 at :991; CR_0162's L713 resolves at :729; CR_0171's L2818-2824 now lands on the riddle-master

elder entry while the Haji Guru persona sits at sumatra_java.md :2832-2847. Every citation in this

sheet uses the verified current line, so the sheet and the row disagree on anchors until the rows are

repaired. REGISTRY LANE, with its own gate and baseline.

encounter with no BE_ row has no rail to sit on at all.

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