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
A synthetic disposition-gate specimen: the shape a guarded-then-warm NPC takes in the bible, with an ascending knowledge chain — one reveal the player earns at
warm, and anever-gated core the NPC knows and no disposition ever unlocks. Authoredstatus: candidate, so the build VALIDATES it (--checkresolves its gates against the ladder) but emits NOTHING tocontent/worldorcontent/server. This is a teaching example for the world-building skill, not part of the Margreave. Do not wire real content to these ids.
id: place.specimen-wharf
type: place
status: candidate
secrecy: 0
related: []
body: >
A generic river wharf, here only to anchor the specimen NPC. Not a real place
in the Margreave.
id: person.specimen-teague
type: person
status: candidate
secrecy: 0
related: [place.specimen-wharf]
body: >
Teague, oldest hand on the wharf. Mends nets he no longer sails with. Watches
everything off the water and says almost none of it.
id: fact.specimen-foreign-coin
type: fact
status: candidate
secrecy: 2
related: [place.specimen-wharf, person.specimen-teague]
body: >
The dock hands are paid in coin from outside the charter. Someone is buying the
wharf's silence, a little at a time.
id: secret.specimen-drowned-clerk
type: secret
status: candidate
secrecy: 4
related: [place.specimen-wharf, person.specimen-teague, fact.specimen-foreign-coin]
body: >
The charter clerk who came asking after the coin went into the river in the
spring. Teague held his legs. He has not been out on the water since and tells
anyone who asks that it is his knees.
id: npc.specimen-teague
type: person
status: candidate
secrecy: 0
start_disposition: cold
related:
[person.specimen-teague, fact.specimen-foreign-coin,
secret.specimen-drowned-clerk]
body: >
Same man as person.specimen-teague; his interactive layer. Curt with strangers,
not from malice but from a lifetime of watching talkers end up face-down in the
river. Warms slowly, and when he does the dryness turns to something almost
fond.
knows:
- {fact: fact.specimen-foreign-coin, gate: warm}
- {fact: secret.specimen-drowned-clerk, gate: never}
disposition_notes: >
Starts cold. Buying his catch, not his story, is what moves him. At warm he
names the coin; he never speculates aloud about who mints it. The clerk is the
one thing no rung buys — saying it aloud would hang him, and he knows it. He
reasons around it, steers off it, and takes it to the ground.