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-# Character State: Ch4
+# Character State: Ch3
 
 ## Lena Duval
-Location: The Widow’s Deep (secluded swamp interior)
+Location: The Widow’s Deep (shores of the black pool)
 Physical: Heightened fever; tremors; right hand bleeding through bandages from cypress roots.
 Emotional: Terrified but defiant.
 Active obligations: 
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 ## Aunt Maribelle Duval
 Location: The Widow’s Deep (shores of the black pool)
-Physical: Eyes filmed with ritualistic milky-white haze.
+Physical: Eyes filmed with ritualistic milky-white haze; exhausted from channeling.
 Emotional: Furiously determined and increasingly authoritarian.
 Active obligations: None.
 Open loops: 
@@ -28,20 +28,20 @@ Open loops:
 Known secrets: 
 - CARRIED (Ch1--unresolved): Knows the exact 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.
-- CARRIED (Ch3--unresolved): Knows the "Blackening" is a defense mechanism she is actively triggering -- Lena does 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.
 Permanent: YES
 
-# World State: Ch4
+# 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.
 
 ## Faction Attitudes
-- The Duval Coven: Hostile -- Lena’s refusal to complete the Rite caused a magical backlash.
+- 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.
 
 ## 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.
-- Project Phlegethon: Development plans to dredge the deep are confirmed via physical markers.
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+- The Blackening: Oily black sap weeping from cypress bark in the Widow’s Deep, triggered by Maribelle’s ritual.
+- Project Phlegethon: Development plans to dredge the deep are confirmed via physical markers found by Lena.
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