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# Character State: Ch2
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# Character State: Ch3
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## Lena Duval
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## Lena Duval
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Location: The Duval ancestral cabin, Cypress Bend bayou
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Location: The "Widow’s Deep" (secluded swamp interior)
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Physical: Feverish; right hand is bandaged and throbbing from the blood-oath; persistent cough.
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Physical: Heightened fever; tremors; right hand bleeding through bandages from the cypress roots.
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Emotional: Violated and resolute.
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Emotional: Terrified but defiant.
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Active obligations:
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Active obligations:
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- Owes the land a "balancing of scales" for the fog (Ch1) -- UNPAID
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- Owes the land a "balancing of scales" for the fog (Ch1) -- UNPAID
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- Owes Aunt Maribelle an audience regarding the "inheritance" (Ch1) -- UNPAID
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- Owes Aunt Maribelle an audience regarding the "inheritance" (Ch1) -- PAID
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- Owes Jax Harlan a conversation about the "unnatural" events (Ch2) -- UNPAID
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- Owes Jax Harlan a conversation about the "unnatural" events (Ch2) -- UNPAID
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Open loops:
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Open loops:
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- Lena and the "Whisper": The potential consciousness within the cypress roots (Ch1) -- UNRESOLVED
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- Lena and the "Whisper": The consciousness within the roots (Ch1) -- UNRESOLVED
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- Lena and the surveyors: Physical removal of markers from her property (Ch2) -- UNRESOLVED
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- Lena and the surveyors: Physical removal of markers (Ch2) -- UNRESOLVED
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- Lena and the Rite: The consequences of interrupting the "Rite of the First Sap" (Ch3) -- UNRESOLVED
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Known secrets:
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Known secrets:
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- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows she intends to flee to New Orleans within the week -- Aunt Maribelle does not know.
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- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows she intends to flee to New Orleans within the week -- Aunt Maribelle does not know.
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- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the "whisper" in the cypress roots sounded like her mother's voice -- No one else knows.
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- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the "whisper" sounded like her mother's voice -- No one else knows.
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- Knows she found a survey marker labeled "Project Phlegethon" deep in the restricted grove -- Jax and Maribelle do not know.
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- CARRIED (Ch2--unresolved): Knows she found a survey marker labeled "Project Phlegethon" -- Jax and Maribelle do not know.
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Arc: 10% -- Lena transitioned from passive avoidance to active resistance by physically removing the developers' markers, though it triggered a spike in her magical sickness.
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Arc: 25% -- Lena confronted Maribelle directly and physically disrupted a coven ritual, choosing to protect the cypress over the coven's traditions.
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Permanent: YES
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## Jax Harlan
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Location: The Duval pier / cabin porch
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Physical: Exhausted but stable.
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Emotional: Protective and increasingly suspicious of the town's silence.
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Active obligations:
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- Owes Lena a "quick exit" (Ch1) -- UNPAID
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Open loops:
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- Jax and the developers: His discovery of the high-end sonar equipment in the shallows (Ch2) -- UNRESOLVED
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Known secrets:
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- Knows he took a bribe from a developer contact for "navigation assistance" three months ago -- Lena does not know.
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Arc: 15% -- Jax has moved from a skeptical observer to a co-conspirator by helping Lena hide the evidence of her interference with the survey site.
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Permanent: YES
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Permanent: YES
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## Aunt Maribelle Duval
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## Aunt Maribelle Duval
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Location: The "Widow’s Deep" (secluded swamp interior)
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Location: The "Widow’s Deep" (shores of the black pool)
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Physical: No injuries.
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Physical: No injuries; eyes filmed with ritualistic milky-white haze.
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Emotional: Impatient and ritualistic.
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Emotional: Furiously determined and increasingly authoritarian.
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Active obligations: None.
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Active obligations: None.
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Open loops:
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Open loops:
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- Maribelle and the Coven: Preparing the "Rite of the First Sap" (Ch2) -- UNRESOLVED
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- Maribelle and the Coven: Completing the "Rite of the First Sap" (Ch2) -- UNRESOLVED
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Known secrets:
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Known secrets:
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- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the exact date the developers plan to clear-cut the Eastern bend -- Lena does not know.
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- CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the exact date the developers plan to clear-cut the Eastern bend -- Lena does not know.
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- Knows the developers are paying the local sheriff to ignore the "swamp fever" cases -- Lena and Jax do not know.
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- CARRIED (Ch2--unresolved): Knows the developers are paying the local sheriff -- Lena and Jax do not know.
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Arc: 5% -- Maribelle has begun the ritual process to "tether" Lena to the land permanently, heightening Lena's fever.
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- Knows the "Blackening" is a defense mechanism she is actively triggering -- Lena does not know.
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Arc: 10% -- Maribelle has dropped her maternal facade, revealing her willingness to sacrifice Lena's health for the land's power.
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Permanent: YES
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Permanent: YES
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# World State: Ch2
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# World State: Ch3
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## NPC Memory
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## NPC Memory
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- Sheriff Miller (The Parish Office): DISMISSIVE -- Ignored Lena’s report of trespassing on her land.
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- The Coven (Widow’s Deep): AGITATED -- Witnessed Lena disrupt the ritual; they view her as a "blight" on the lineage.
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- "Gator" Pete (The Docks): TERRIFIED -- Claimed the fish are turning belly-up with "black eyes."
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## Faction Attitudes
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## Faction Attitudes
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- Terrebonne Development Corp: Escalating -- They have moved from surveying to placing sonar buoys in the bayou.
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- The Duval Coven: Hostile -- Lena’s refusal to complete the Rite has caused a magical backlash that shook the grove.
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- The Duval Coven: Restless -- They are beginning the "humming," a collective magical vibration Lena can feel in her teeth.
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- Terrebonne Development Corp: Threatening -- Their presence is felt through the "unnatural" silence and the acceleration of the Blackening.
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## Active World Events
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## Active World Events
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- The Blackening: The cypress sap is turning from amber to an oily black, tainting the local water supply.
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- The Humming: The magical vibration has intensified into a physical thrum that makes the swamp water ripple.
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- Project Phlegethon: The codename for the development project discovered on the markers found by Lena.
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- The Blackening: The oily black sap is now weeping from the cypress bark in the Widow’s Deep.
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- Project Phlegethon: Development plans continue; Lena found tangible evidence of their intent to dredge the deep.
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