Phillip Tarrant
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The purge left `gate: never` — the rung no disposition unlocks — demonstrated nowhere. Duncarrow's Crell chain had taught it; specimen.md only taught `warm`. Adds secret.specimen-drowned-clerk (secrecy 4, gate: never), so the specimen now shows an ascending 2 -> 4 chain and a reason `never` exists: the NPC holds it, but saying it aloud would hang him. Mirrored in the skill's worked example, which now states the rule — if any rung *should* buy the secret, gate it at `trusted` instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# SPECIMEN — format example, NOT game canon
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> A synthetic disposition-gate specimen: the shape a guarded-then-warm NPC takes
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> in the bible, with an ascending knowledge chain — one reveal the player earns at
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> `warm`, and a `never`-gated core the NPC knows and no disposition ever unlocks.
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> Authored `status: candidate`, so the build VALIDATES it (`--check` resolves its
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> gates against the ladder) but emits NOTHING to `content/world` or
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> `content/server`. This is a teaching example for the world-building skill, not
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> part of the Margreave. Do not wire real content to these ids.
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```yaml
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id: place.specimen-wharf
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type: place
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status: candidate
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secrecy: 0
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related: []
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body: >
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A generic river wharf, here only to anchor the specimen NPC. Not a real place
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in the Margreave.
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```
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```yaml
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id: person.specimen-teague
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type: person
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status: candidate
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secrecy: 0
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related: [place.specimen-wharf]
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body: >
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Teague, oldest hand on the wharf. Mends nets he no longer sails with. Watches
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everything off the water and says almost none of it.
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```
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```yaml
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id: fact.specimen-foreign-coin
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type: fact
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status: candidate
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secrecy: 2
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related: [place.specimen-wharf, person.specimen-teague]
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body: >
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The dock hands are paid in coin from outside the charter. Someone is buying the
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wharf's silence, a little at a time.
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```
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```yaml
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id: secret.specimen-drowned-clerk
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type: secret
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status: candidate
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secrecy: 4
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related: [place.specimen-wharf, person.specimen-teague, fact.specimen-foreign-coin]
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body: >
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The charter clerk who came asking after the coin went into the river in the
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spring. Teague held his legs. He has not been out on the water since and tells
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anyone who asks that it is his knees.
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```
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```yaml
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id: npc.specimen-teague
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type: person
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status: candidate
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secrecy: 0
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start_disposition: cold
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related:
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[person.specimen-teague, fact.specimen-foreign-coin,
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secret.specimen-drowned-clerk]
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body: >
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Same man as person.specimen-teague; his interactive layer. Curt with strangers,
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not from malice but from a lifetime of watching talkers end up face-down in the
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river. Warms slowly, and when he does the dryness turns to something almost
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fond.
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knows:
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- {fact: fact.specimen-foreign-coin, gate: warm}
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- {fact: secret.specimen-drowned-clerk, gate: never}
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disposition_notes: >
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Starts cold. Buying his catch, not his story, is what moves him. At warm he
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names the coin; he never speculates aloud about who mints it. The clerk is the
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one thing no rung buys — saying it aloud would hang him, and he knows it. He
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reasons around it, steers off it, and takes it to the ground.
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```
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