# Character State: ch-03

## Liora Voss
- **Location:** The Loom Floor, slumped against the primary drive-spindle.
- **Physical:** "Frayback" in full effect—vision is sepia-toned and flickering. Left palm brand is leaking obsidian ink that pulses in sync with Thorne’s heartbeat. Smells of ozone and lanolin.
- **Emotional:** Dissociative calm masking a core of jagged terror; she has accepted the "Dirty Circuit" as a survival necessity.
- **Active obligations:** Must stabilize the Loom for Maros (UNPAID); must conceal the "rot" from the Junior Binders.
- **Open loops:** The resonance with Thorne is deepening, granting her access to his sensory input while bleeding her own memories into him.
- **Known secrets:** Has seen the structural rot in the Loom’s core—a heresy that proves the Conclave’s "eternal" machine is failing.
- **Arc:** 20% — Transition from accidental binder to active heretic. She no longer seeks to fix the bond, but to use it.

## Thorne Quill
- **Location:** Center of the Weaving Chamber, strapped to the lead-lined restraint chair.
- **Physical:** Skin stained with Liora’s ink-blood; chest vibrating with the Loom's "dead-tone." He is experiencing Liora’s physical exhaustion through the link.
- **Emotional:** Predatorily observant. He is no longer fighting the restraints, but testing the mental boundaries of the link to influence Liora.
- **Active obligations:** Acting as a grounding rod/battery for Liora’s power (UNPAID).
- **Open loops:** His status as the "Thirteenth Strand"—a variable the Loom cannot categorize.
- **Known secrets:** Witnessed Liora’s memory of her parents’ unbinding; knows her fatal flaw is the need to "fix" every thread.
- **Arc:** 20% — Moving from passive prisoner to an active manipulator of the Dirty Circuit.

## Elder Maros
- **Location:** High Observation Gallery.
- **Physical:** Leaning heavily on a bone-white cane, eyes reflecting the indigo glow of the brand.
- **Emotional:** Calculating; has decided that Liora’s "stain" is more useful as a weapon than a reason for execution.
- **Active obligations:** Protecting Liora from the Purist faction’s immediate "cleansing" (UNPAID).
- **Arc:** 15% — Commits to weaponizing heresy.

# World State: ch-03

## NPC Memory
- **Junior Binders:** Terrified. They saw Liora’s red thread turn black and "leap" to Thorne. They view her as a "Stainer."
- **Archival Guards:** On high alert, weapons drawn, waiting for a signal from the Gallery to terminate both Liora and Thorne.

## Faction Attitudes
- **Conclave Purists:** View the "Dirty Circuit" as a metaphysical contagion that must be excised via execution.
- **Conclave Opportunists (Maros):** See the decay of the Loom as inevitable and Liora as the only "bypass" available.

## Active World Events
- **The Dirty Circuit:** An unsanctified link established. It bypasses Conclave safety dampeners, allowing raw power transfer but causing rapid soul-fraying.
- **Loom Decay:** The Great Loom is emitting a "dead-tone," a low-frequency vibration that signals structural failure of the Binding Thread.
- **Indigo Contagion:** The brand on Liora is spreading toward her elbow, reacting to Thorne’s proximity with violent energy spikes.