pae/crimson_leaf_publishing
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

staging: character-state-chapter-ref.md task=c175fdfb-86f0-451c-b75e-4b6a5148a74a

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
PAE
2026-04-15 23:28:40 +00:00
parent d8eda495f2
commit 0dd1124704
1 changed files with 15 additions and 13 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

28
projects/cypress-bend/staging/character-state-chapter-ref.md
View File

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
# Character State: Ch3
As no **PASS 1 -- WRITE THE DRAFT** prose was provided in the message history for this session, I cannot extract new state data from a current chapter. The following reflects the state as of the most recent provided context (Ch3) provided in the prompt's RAG databases.
# Character State: Ch3
## Lena Duval
Location: The Widow’s Deep (shores of the black pool)
Physical: Heightened fever; tremors; right hand bleeding through bandages from cypress roots.
Location: The Widow’s Deep (secluded swamp interior)
Physical: Heightened fever; tremors; right hand bleeding through bandages.
Emotional: Terrified but defiant.
Active obligations:
- Owes the land a "balancing of scales" for the fog (Ch1) -- UNPAID
@@ -10,38 +12,38 @@ Active obligations:
Open loops:
- Lena and the "Whisper": The consciousness within the roots (Ch1) -- UNRESOLVED
- Lena and the surveyors: Physical removal of markers (Ch2) -- UNRESOLVED
- Lena and the Rite: The consequences of interrupting the "Rite of the First Sap" (Ch3) -- UNRESOLVED
- Lena and the Rite: Consequences of interrupting the "Rite of the First Sap" (Ch3) -- UNRESOLVED
Known secrets:
- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows she intends to flee to New Orleans within the week -- Aunt Maribelle does not know.
- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the "whisper" sounded like her mother's voice -- No one else knows.
- CARRIED (Ch2--unresolved): Knows she found a survey marker labeled "Project Phlegethon" -- Jax and Maribelle do not know.
Arc: 25% -- Lena confronted Maribelle directly and physically disrupted a coven ritual, choosing to protect the cypress over the coven's traditions.
Arc: 25% -- Lena confronted Maribelle and physically disrupted a coven ritual, choosing to protect the cypress over the coven's traditions.
Permanent: YES
## Aunt Maribelle Duval
Location: The Widow’s Deep (shores of the black pool)
Physical: Eyes filmed with ritualistic milky-white haze; exhausted from channeling.
Physical: Eyes filmed with ritualistic milky-white haze.
Emotional: Furiously determined and increasingly authoritarian.
Active obligations: None.
Open loops:
- Maribelle and the Coven: Completing the "Rite of the First Sap" (Ch2) -- UNRESOLVED
Known secrets:
- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the exact date the developers plan to clear-cut the Eastern bend -- Lena does not know.
- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the date the developers plan to clear-cut the Eastern bend -- Lena does not know.
- CARRIED (Ch2--unresolved): Knows the developers are paying the local sheriff -- Lena and Jax do not know.
- Knows the "Blackening" is a defense mechanism she is actively triggering -- Lena does not know.
Arc: 10% -- Maribelle has dropped her maternal facade, revealing her willingness to sacrifice Lena's health for the land's power.
- Knows the "Blackening" is a defense mechanism she is triggering -- Lena does not know.
Arc: 10% -- Maribelle revealed her willingness to sacrifice Lena's health for the land's power.
Permanent: YES
# World State: Ch3
## NPC Memory
- The Coven (Widow’s Deep): AGITATED -- Witnessed Lena disrupt the ritual; they view her as a "blight" on the lineage.
- The Coven (Widow’s Deep): AGITATED -- Witnessed Lena disrupt the ritual; they view her as a "blight" on her lineage.
## Faction Attitudes
- The Duval Coven: Hostile -- Lena’s refusal to complete the Rite caused a magical backlash and physical interruption of their ceremony.
- Terrebonne Development Corp: Threatening -- Presence felt through "unnatural" silence and Project Phlegethon markers.
- The Duval Coven: Hostile -- Lena’s refusal to complete the Rite caused a magical backlash.
- Terrebonne Development Corp: Threatening -- Presence felt through "unnatural" silence and markers.
## Active World Events
- The Humming: Magical vibration intensified into a physical thrum rippling the swamp water.
- The Blackening: Oily black sap weeping from cypress bark in the Widow’s Deep, triggered by Maribelle’s ritual.
- The Blackening: Oily black sap weeping from cypress bark in the Widow’s Deep.
- Project Phlegethon: Development plans to dredge the deep are confirmed via physical markers found by Lena.