docs(skills): repoint world-building off Duncarrow (specimen + cosmology); rewrite evals
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HuHRPE7VfppUJEaoGBEUqZ
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@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ Dry. Economical. Observational. States what is, lets the reader feel the weight.
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It never editorializes, never reassures, never jokes. A good body reads like
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someone who has seen a lot and is not impressed, telling you the truth plainly.
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Look at the `duncarrow.md` bodies: "prosperous and orderly place, which is exactly
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the reputation its mayor has spent fifteen years building and depends on." The
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menace is in the plain statement, not in adjectives.
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Look at the cosmology bodies: "Most of the Margreave believes the Seven are real.
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Most of the Margreave is right." The weight is in the plain statement, not in
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adjectives.
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## NPCs: hard by default, warm when earned
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ own troubles and no reason to spend them on you. Mechanically:
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- `start_disposition` is usually `cold` or `neutral`, rarely `warm`.
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- A frightened or burned NPC withholds **more** than a stranger would expect, not
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less (fear reads as prickliness — Mera Fenn is the model). `hostile` is a
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less (fear reads as prickliness). `hostile` is a
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reachable floor: push them, threaten, side against them, and they close entirely.
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- What they reveal is gated. Low rungs get you surface; the personal and the
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dangerous sit higher up.
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@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ When the player climbs the ladder, two things change together:
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1. **They reveal more** — deeper `knows` gates unlock.
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2. **Their manner softens** — write the persona and `disposition_notes` so that at
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`warm`/`trusted` the dryness turns to something human: fondness, relief at being
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heard, blunt loyalty. Old Teague's "dryness turns to something almost fond."
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heard, blunt loyalty — the specimen NPC's "dryness turns to something almost
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fond."
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The warmth is never sycophantic and never a personality transplant — a hard person
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stays recognizably themselves, just no longer guarded against *you*. That's more
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