{
  "date": "2026-10-12",
  "status": "Version B and the broad two-world direction are accepted. Past and future travel interests the owner, but the detailed time model has not been read or approved and may be too complex. Exact eras, routes, offsets and causality remain working proposals for review. Chapter 1 artwork is unchanged.",
  "owner_statement": "3. Definitely B. OK your proposals are all accepted.",
  "latest_owner_additions": [
    "Armour against Ink petrification can break and requires mana maintenance.",
    "The protection should work only against low-level threats.",
    "The armour tradition gives the other world's inhabitants a distinct visual identity.",
    "Meok arrives in the human world through water, floating in a shell that comes from the other world. This connects with Sumbi's later crossing.",
    "Hu pushes hostile Ink away without knowing the destination. It can arrive in the distant past or future.",
    "Sumbi and Meok travel back and forth among present, past and future. Past encounters make legends human; future religions can condemn Hu.",
    "The other world has extensive books and accumulated knowledge about Ink. Its people are not uniformly ignorant.",
    "The bible must supply enough author information for a writer to proceed. A writer agent asks questions and the bible answers them.",
    "Meok's specialness centres on an unsealed Ink who can absorb other Ink; gathering them all is a compelling destiny people may expect of him.",
    "Absorption gradually costs Meok his sense of self. He wants an ordinary human life while others need or demand something much larger.",
    "He discovers the greater power later. Attempts can fail because he is not yet strong enough; increased control does not erase the identity price.",
    "A Kirby-like drawing-in and visible-change mechanic interests the owner. Exact gameplay and any borrowed abilities remain the owner's design work.",
    "Sumbi can be haunted by dreams or visions of lifelong conscious ritual confinement; direct witnessing is unnecessary.",
    "Explore a pleasant future world whose protection depends on a cared-for, praised but trapped Sumbi. Actually meeting a future Sumbi and how that fits time travel are undecided.",
    "The owner has not yet reviewed the detailed past/present/future implementation and is concerned about complexity. Broad interest in time travel does not approve the existing route table."
  ],
  "current_direction": [
    "Version B: the other dimension belongs to other peoples experienced at fighting Ink as demons. It is not an Ink homeland by default.",
    "Sumbi is the first human traveller. No independent human expeditions or established human inhabitants precede her; her own journeys can put her earlier on the local calendar.",
    "Its lamps, towns, ward stations, legends and ordinary lives exist independently of the protagonists.",
    "Demon is a local classification with a history of real attacks. It does not establish that all Ink are evil or settle their biological origin.",
    "Meok's kindness and capacity for danger both matter. His ordinary touch is safe; petrification belongs to hostile weaponised binding Ink.",
    "Hu’s full Return stroke sends living threats to the other world’s Return Fields in a distant past or future. He does not understand the temporal destination. Ordinary local containment remains a different operation.",
    "Court command craft weaponises living Ink. The Unfinished Choir recovers that craft while claiming liberation for rejected Ink. The Chapter 1 stamp-holder's identity is still a mystery.",
    "Meok's unsealed condition and early drawing from a closed stroke foreshadow later whole-Ink absorption. Strength and resistance limit attempts; successful absorption threatens his individual identity. Being needed can feel like acceptance, which makes refusal hard.",
    "Sumbi's fairy accidentally activates a prepared dimensional threshold while scouting missing water. Interrupted contact closes it. Later controlled return uses known paired anchors, sustained spirit contact and a stable destination.",
    "Sumbi's shared sight, weakness revelation and healing or support develop gradually. The shell is a family keepsake, not evidence of inherited gifts.",
    "Resonance, brush binding, vital weaving, spirit accord and Ink-body fighting traditions form the accepted starting magic vocabulary.",
    "Oru and Iseul's Wardens are historical figures of the local civilisation. Sae remains the disputed story of an Ink seeking humanity. Their surviving conflicts matter in the present.",
    "Only Chapter 1 and the liked Chapter 2 entrance establish approved chapter pages. Accepting world lore does not approve the weak later chapter explorations or replace existing panels.",
    "The owner leads game design. Combat rules here establish story behaviour and visual clarity, not damage numbers or a gameplay contract."
  ],
  "armour_direction": {
    "scope": "Mana-fed engraved armour resists low-level petrifying binding Ink. Stronger demons can overwhelm a complete, fully charged ward.",
    "maintenance": "The wearer or a trained ward specialist replenishes and sustains its mana. Physical repair and mana restoration are separate tasks.",
    "failure": "Contact spends protection. Broken plates or interrupted channels create local gaps. Exhaustion dims the ward; stronger binding can breach it without waiting for the whole suit to break.",
    "limits": "Armour prevents weaker petrifying exposure. It does not cure existing petrification, nullify Meok's stretchy attacks or neutralise every Ink power.",
    "appearance": "Repeated engraved channels, replaceable ward plates and visible charge make a shared visual craft. Guards, couriers, merchants and craftspeople adapt it to different species and duties rather than wearing identical uniforms."
  },
  "shell_direction": {
    "accepted": "Meok's shell originates in the other world and carries him through a water threshold toward the human sea. Sumbi later carries that same object through the reverse journey.",
    "continuity": "An earlier crossing before Meok's capture preserves the existing vessel rescue, dry quay and later shell shelter. The crossing and capture are new connective history, not already depicted facts.",
    "staging_to_develop": "The precise sender, capture and shell custody require a later origin scene. Do not silently replace the approved Chapter 1 pages or treat Sumbi's mother as a prior visitor.",
    "function": "The shell can be recognised as otherworld material and echo the first crossing. It is not a universal portal and does not make a spirit gift hereditary. Any additional magical shell power needs a separate concrete scene."
  },
  "unresolved_mysteries_or_exclusive_options": [
    "Unknown to characters, answered in the working writer bible: Ink formation, Meok’s rare core, Sae’s rescue, Ryeon’s stamp-holder identity, the cradle route and the future religion’s false account.",
    "New author answers remain revisable by the owner. They are usable writing defaults rather than unanswered questions.",
    "The working story does not make Meok a hereditary prince. His exceptional ability matters independently of a royal title."
  ],
  "production": "Maintain the writer bible, answered question ledger and visual pitch together. Preserve approved art. New scenes and new armour illustrations follow their specific agreed descriptions. Game implementation remains with the owner.",
  "supersedes": [
    "The Version A Ink-homeland branch in the pre-acceptance pitch.",
    "Old physical-underworld geography, shared human roads and prior human visitors.",
    "Any interpretation that all new lore remains unselected after the owner's approval; detailed temporal implementation is specifically still awaiting review.",
    "The two differently timed nursery currents as the settled explanation for Meok's specialness. The origin remains to develop around the simpler unsealed absorber premise."
  ],
  "time_direction": {
    "owner_direction": "Two worlds are retained. Known crossings can reach the other world in different eras. Hu’s inherited banishment transfers a living danger across time without his understanding.",
    "review_status": "The owner has not yet read or decided the detailed time model and is concerned about complexity. Keep three eras, named routes, exact offsets and causality visibly provisional until reviewed.",
    "working_author_model": "Earlier working proposal, not owner-ratified: one self-consistent history, no reset, branches or accessible second Sumbi/Meok. Named physical anchors have particular paired endpoints, not arbitrary date selection. The existing offsets remain unchanged for comparison; no alternate model has been adopted.",
    "hu": "Hu is called Bu in the legacy Chapter 1 script. He is one grandfather. He protects his people, prepares Dol and preserves records; other eras bear the consequences of his unknown destinations.",
    "past_and_future": "Meet the legends as people in the past; confront religions, contested books and Hu’s condemned reputation in the future. New story option: a beautiful, apparently kind future is maintained by Sumbi's conscious captivity. Historical claims may be wrong without making all believers dishonest.",
    "sumbi_visions": "Owner likes recurring haunting dreams or visions; she need not directly witness the ritual. Lifelong conscious confinement, care and praise alongside denied freedom are the direction to explore, not an inevitable ending.",
    "future_sumbi_option": "Actually encountering a future Sumbi already trapped is an open option. It conflicts with the earlier no-accessible-second-Sumbi rule and needs a mechanics review. Dreams do not by themselves establish a second Sumbi, an inevitable future or a revised timeline.",
    "knowledge": "Local societies have libraries, field manuals, medical cases, arrival ledgers, religious works and Ink-authored testimony. Expertise is distributed and institutions can disagree or censor interpretation."
  },
  "working_author_answer_source": "Writer_Questions_Answered_20261012.json and Design/StoryBible.md. Sixteen writer questions have concrete answers and reveal plans; new specificity is not mislabelled as prior owner approval.",
  "meok_absorption": {
    "owner_direction": "He wants to be human, but may be the one expected to absorb them all. Absorption is discovered gradually, can fail through insufficient power, and costs his sense of self.",
    "destiny": "Gathering them all is a contested claim, not confirmed cosmic truth. Its first speaker and exact historical origin remain author development.",
    "working_rules": "Command extraction differs from holding a whole living Ink. An intact contained core remains a person. Separation and body reformation require a safe deliberate process; release does not guarantee reversal of Meok's lasting identity changes.",
    "progression": "Early extraction and refusal remain in Chapter 1. Later accidental drawing, resisted attempts, first costly success and growing public expectations reveal the larger ability.",
    "game_inspiration": "Readable drawing-in and visible bodily change. Possible borrowed traits are for owner exploration; absorption grants no automatic mastery.",
    "new_exploration": "The same power could mean salvation to protected humans and catastrophe to Ink fearing loss of individuality. Ancient human saviour accounts and the later demon classification need a historical source; no ancient Meok journey or inevitable erasure is established.",
    "combat": "An opening and sustained contact allow Meok to draw protective living body Ink. Enough covering removed exposes a vulnerable, resisting core. Body tissue, imposed binding and whole core are distinct targets. The intact person stays outside until the core enters; exposure does not guarantee success.",
    "learning": "An early frightening extraction, accidental clue, later body/core discovery, failed containment and costly first success lead to separate lessons about release and identity. What Meok and the reader know progresses through observed events."
  }
}