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# Character State: ch-03 # Character State: ch-03
## Liora Voss ## Liora Voss
Location: The Loom Floor, core drive-spindle. - **Location:** The Loom Floor, core drive-spindle.
Physical: Indigo brand has crested the elbow; left palm is a weeping aperture of obsidian ink. Vision is heavily sepia-mottled; experiencing stage-two frayback (tremors, sensory bleed). - **Physical:** Indigo branding reaches the elbow; left palm is an active aperture of obsidian ink. Stage-two frayback (tremors, sensory bleed); vision is sepia-mottled.
Emotional: Clinical detachment via the "Dirty Circuit"; fatalistic resolve. - **Emotional:** Fatalistic resolve; clinical detachment via the "Dirty Circuit."
Active obligations: Stabilize the Loom for Maros — UNPAID; Conceal "Stainer" status — UNPAID (Failing). - **Active Obligations:** Stabilize the Loom for Maros — UNPAID; Conceal "Stainer" status — FAILED.
Open loops: Thorne sensory bleed — UNRESOLVED; Dirty Circuit feedback loop — UNRESOLVED; The weight of her parents' ritual failure — CARRIED. - **Open Loops:** Thorne sensory bleed — UNRESOLVED; Dirty Circuit feedback loop — UNRESOLVED; Parents' ritual failure (Ch-01) — CARRIED.
Arc: 20% — Has fully committed to heresy as a functional necessity. - **Arc:** 20% — Committed to heresy (Dirty Circuit) as a functional necessity to prevent mechanical collapse.
Permanent: YES
## Thorne Quill ## Thorne Quill
Location: Center of the Weaving Chamber, restraint chair. - **Location:** Weaving Chamber, restraint chair.
Physical: Coated in Liora's ink-blood; internal vibration synchronized to the Loom's "dead-tone." - **Physical:** Coated in Liora's ink-blood; internal vibrations synchronized to the Loom's "dead-tone."
Emotional: Predatory, manipulative, yet grounded; transitioning from victim to symbiotic anchor. - **Emotional:** Predatory yet grounded; transitioning from victim to symbiotic anchor.
Active obligations: Act as Liora's grounding rod — PAID. - **Active Obligations:** Act as Liora's grounding rod — PAID.
Open loops: Thirteenth Strand variable — UNRESOLVED; Intention behind the "Stain" synchronization — UNRESOLVED. - **Open Loops:** Thirteenth Strand variable — UNRESOLVED; Intention behind the "Stain" synchronization — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED: The "Thirteenth Strand" technique. - **Arc:** 20% — Actively manipulating the link's boundaries to ensure mutual survival.
Arc: 20% — Actively manipulating the link's boundaries.
Permanent: YES
## Elder Maros ## Elder Maros
Location: High Observation Gallery. - **Location:** High Observation Gallery.
Physical: Heavily reliant on a bone-white cane; visibly aged by the Loom's instability. - **Physical:** Heavily reliant on a bone-white cane; visibly aged by the Loom’s instability.
Emotional: Calculating; views Liora as an expendable but necessary tool for preservation. - **Emotional:** Calculating; views Liora as an expendable but necessary tool.
Active obligations: Maintain Loom functionality — UNPAID. - **Active Obligations:** Maintain Loom functionality — UNPAID.
Open loops: Managing the Purist backlash — UNRESOLVED. - **Open Loops:** Managing Purist backlash — UNRESOLVED.
Arc: 15% — Formally sanctioned heresy to prevent mechanical collapse. - **Arc:** 15% — Formally sanctioned heresy to prevent total Loom collapse.
Permanent: YES
# World State: ch-03 # World State: ch-03
## NPC Memory ## NPC Memory
- Junior Binders: TRAUMATIZED — Witnessed the "Black-Thread Jump"; Liora is now a social and spiritual pariah (The Contagion). - **Junior Binders:** TRAUMATIZED — Witnessed the "Black-Thread Jump" and Liora’s ink-blood; Liora is now a spiritual pariah.
- Archival Guards: AT READY — Safety thresholds have been bypassed; weapons are trained on the Loom core. - **Archival Guards:** AT READY — Weapons trained on the Loom core; thresholds bypassed.
## Faction Attitudes ## Faction Attitudes
- Conclave Purists: MILITANT — The "Dirty Circuit" is an unforgivable theological breach. - **Conclave Purists:** MILITANT — The "Dirty Circuit" is viewed as an unforgivable theological breach.
- Conclave Opportunists: CAUTIOUS — Closely monitoring the success of the heresy for future exploitation. - **Conclave Opportunists:** CAUTIOUS — Monitoring the success of the heresy for potential exploitation.
## Active World Events ## Active World Events
- The Dirty Circuit: An unsanctified, high-bandwidth soul-link bypassing all safety dampeners; creates mutual soul-fray. - **The Dirty Circuit:** An unsanctified, high-bandwidth soul-link bypassing safety dampeners; causing mutual soul-fray.
- Loom Decay: Critical structural failure; emitting a "dead-tone" frequency that causes nausea in non-binders. - **Loom Decay:** Critical structural failure at 12% integrity; emitting a "dead-tone" frequency.
- Terminus Frequency: The vibration of the Loom's impending collapse, warping local gravity and sound. - **Indigo Contagion:** Rapid spread of branding marks as a reactive defense against ink-blood exposure.
- Indigo Contagion: Rapid spread of the branding marks as a reactive defense against the ink-blood. - **Terminus Frequency:** Loom vibrations warping local gravity and sound within the chamber.
## Global Variables
- Loom Integrity: 12% (Critical)
- Frayback Threshold: 85% (Liora)
- Stainer Visibility: HIGH (The ink is no longer concealable)