{
  "title": "World workshop v2: text-first writer gate",
  "date": "2026-10-11",
  "reviewed": "Design/World/World_Workshop_20261011_v2.json",
  "verdict": "PASS",
  "overall_severity": "No blocking text contradiction found. Three local clarifications are recommended; they do not require another world expansion.",
  "scope": "Text only. No generated world image was inspected or used to reach this verdict. The foundation is Chapter 1 and the liked Chapter 2 entrance. Later chapter explorations supply no approved evidence. All new world material remains a proposal.",
  "readiness": "I would write adventures in this version. It is sufficiently connected, inhabited and pressured to develop a game/manga story and prepare focused visual briefs. This passes the world-concept text gate, not final canon approval, a complete chapter script, finished level design or the later atlas/art/map gate.",
  "why_it_passes": [
    "Secrecy is now structural. Surface maintenance maps, public accusations, trade, lower livelihoods and the archive all work differently because the inhabited lower world is unknown. A bounded knowledge matrix prevents every parent or guard becoming a conspirator.",
    "History now has a usable causal skeleton: shared roads, a closing, the separately remembered Chapter 1 war, maintained quiet and a stolen relay this season. Watches and seals explain ordinary life; a specific theft explains why old protections fail now.",
    "The world has people rather than only institutions. Nari wants certification and departure; Moru wants his garden and proof of the bright coast; Seo wants command disguised as rescue; Ryeon wants authorship and authority. Euna and Biro leave contested material traces.",
    "Advancement connects work, teachers, access, practical milestones and combat. Four Ink styles have different shapes, uses and exploitable weaknesses. Common craft, uncommon mastery, rare compatibility and disputed legend are useful distinctions without pretending a census or rigid birth-class system is settled.",
    "Roof moths, rhythmic fruit, shell-message mistakes and sleeping lantern blooms offer experiences worth visiting. Natural creatures, craftspeople and ordinary ambitions keep the entire world from being a water puzzle or a conspiracy.",
    "Meok actively positions, baits, reaches and commits. Sumbi observes, scouts, supports and hears people whose supposed duty may hide coercion. Their beliefs can conflict without either being an oracle or a helpless emotional audience.",
    "The small fight, restricted archive and Ima/Gon case have motives, alternatives and consequences. A temporary command interruption supports hope without establishing universal restoration; evacuation costs a market and ongoing labour. The world can push back after a good choice."
  ],
  "r1_resolution": {
    "history_and_peace": "Resolved sufficiently for concept development. The exact original disaster remains an appropriate mystery; see the secrecy clarification below.",
    "recurring_cast": "Resolved. Friends, antagonist, lieutenant and historical figures have wants, traces and distinct silhouettes to brief.",
    "magic_delight": "Resolved. Independent wonders now create play and daily work, not only solutions to the main crisis.",
    "belief_cases": "Resolved at proposal level. The case gives each conviction visible evidence, a competing need and a cost. It need not decide the series' moral answer.",
    "first_arc_pressure": "Resolved. The staged breaches, wrong alarm and controlled-war plan give a meaningful direction if nobody intervenes.",
    "art_and_map": "Deferred to the later visual gate, not passed by this text review. The owner requested text before drawing."
  },
  "blocking_issues": [],
  "targeted_clarifications": [
    {
      "severity": "medium, nonblocking",
      "location": "history: The Long Closing / knowledge_matrix: Surface public",
      "issue": "About a century is a short interval for an ordinary trading partner to become only monster folklore. 'Records lose context' is thin if a later scene depends on the public having no reliable account. This is not an impossible history, but give it a concrete transmission failure instead of relying on elapsed time alone.",
      "suggested_text": "During the route disaster, the working route archives were lost or sealed with the stations. Ordinary family stories survived as tales of impossible visitors, without a usable destination or means to verify them. Generations of inaccessible roads, reused buildings and the later war's devil imagery turned those stories into folklore. A few bounded insiders now possess fragments, not a public map.",
      "limit": "This replacement is a working explanation to test. Do not add universal memory erasure or secretly informed townspeople. Alternatively move the Closing further into the past and keep the named figures near its final generation."
    },
    {
      "severity": "medium, nonblocking",
      "location": "scene_probes: A discovery: an ordinary visit in an impossible history / action",
      "issue": "The preceding fight features a natural Bloomback, while the archive's 'familiar creature silhouette' is a paid courier. The intended insight concerns Ink belonging, but the sentence can accidentally turn that beetle into an Ink person or imply that every monster is a citizen.",
      "suggested_text": "Architecture, a permit and a family letter converge. The permit depicts an Ink courier with Biro's distinctive shoulder-ring, clearly different from the natural Bloomback. A fare receipt names visiting Ink passengers; the letter records an ordinary promised return the next summer.",
      "limit": "Biro's image need not prove every account of his life. Keep natural fauna, Ink people and imposed command states separate."
    },
    {
      "severity": "low, nonblocking",
      "location": "belief_case: status",
      "issue": "Nari appears in Lantern Exchange, although her profile correctly says lower-world knowledge must be earned. The later-case label should explicitly include that prerequisite so a future writer does not treat her as a pre-existing insider.",
      "suggested_text": "Concrete later scene test, not an approved chapter. Assumes the pair has already discovered the lower town, Nari has subsequently learned of it and chosen to come through an on-page encounter, and spirit perception, the ward and relevant Meok abilities have been introduced."
    }
  ],
  "residual_weaknesses_not_gate_failures": [
    "The first threshold and safe return need a selected local working rule before writing a traversal-dependent chapter. Preserve the liked entrance; the profile does not require deciding every portal or the shell's function now.",
    "Several antagonistic positions concern control and ownership. That is a coherent theme, but vary scenes through prestige, pleasure, mistakes, ecology and competing honest duties. The non-water hooks already supply useful alternatives.",
    "Sumbi's fairy still lacks an individual preference and voice. World readiness does not solve that character-development decision.",
    "A first teacher and milestone for each lead should be selected for the first developed adventure. The current menu is enough for a workshop, not a mandate to unlock every discipline.",
    "Euna and Biro should be placed near a specific part of the broad Open Roads era when a historical scene is drafted. The ranges currently allow a coherent chronology; do not infer extraordinary human longevity by accident.",
    "The hidden town must remain attractive after the first rescue: return for a game, friend or desired lesson, not only another crisis. The written pleasures need scene testing with the owner."
  ],
  "stories_i_want_to_write": [
    {
      "title": "The race no one wins cleanly",
      "appeal": "Nari's certification matters to her. Meok invents an absurd shortcut; Sumbi wants a fair contest and a reef view before the tide. A rescue interrupts the run, but helping does not automatically earn the certificate. This is an enjoyable way to introduce a friend with her own future and useful competence."
    },
    {
      "title": "A lesson in the hidden market",
      "appeal": "Meok enjoys an Ink technique while chasing a rumoured human remedy. Sumbi is distracted by a ghost performer's last act. Their separate wants can make a lively market episode, a bad purchase, a practical stretch challenge and a friendship that survives disagreement. Not every strange vendor needs to be a cult agent."
    },
    {
      "title": "The person who takes the watch",
      "appeal": "Ima wants release, Gon shows a moment of choice, and Moru refuses to let a moral victory erase the work somebody living must do. Meok can fight and protect while Sumbi argues for a limit. Their costly evacuation creates gratitude, resentment and a new obligation rather than a triumphant speech ending the problem."
    }
  ],
  "continuity_guards": [
    "Sumbi first knows Meok is Ink at Chapter 1's deliberate reveal. No spirit diagnostic, witnessed stretch or retrospective childhood recognition changes it.",
    "The inhabited lower world stays unknown to ordinary surface people until a specifically chosen public discovery. Nari, an official or a parent needs an earned change of knowledge.",
    "No historic figure becomes Sumbi's ancestor, no shell causes her gift, and no destiny model, cure, universal biology or compulsory sacrifice is selected by passing this gate.",
    "This review does not validate generated art or unapproved later chapters. Text readiness and visual continuity are separate later checks."
  ]
}