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2026-08-30

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Canon consistency check on six newly drafted scenes of the third draft of Book 1 of Autoroad: draft/book-01/scenes/74-the-first-chamber.md unpublished, 75-the-second-chamber.md unpublished, 76-the-bottom.md unpublished, 77-eleven-seconds.md unpublished, 78-thirteen-up.md unpublished, 79-eight-weeks.md unpublished. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished and draft/book-01/SCENES.md (the act-two binding list at its foot — note: the Deep sealed: nobody explains anything about the hole; the exit boxes; lamps gone yellow; air direction always stated; Peri's [Agent of Fate — Level 8.] on redacted's exit box; healing absent unremarked; Edwin's shed at nineteen, second year; no lifespan guarantee; never his class name). Also read scenes 56–73 in draft/book-01/scenes/ for continuity (not under review) — check every back-reference and count in 74–79 (sixteen lamps for thirteen, the ninth lamp's thin horn, the roster order, the Seal's cooldown after Level 6 in scene 56 unpublished, the kill counts, the hours, the bone-setter's figures against scene 67 unpublished, the four times Peri was told). Do NOT read anything under notes/sealed/.

Report: (1) hard contradictions with Established or Working canon or with earlier third-draft scenes, each with both lines quoted and a fix; (2) deferred questions the scenes resolve casually or binding-list rules they break (in particular: does anyone explain the Deep; is any box shown to another person without the recipient's deliberate act; does the narrator state what the [Holm Deep.] box is for); (3) day/date/hour errors (Day 37 = 21 Harvestmonth); (4) sums, counts, times that don't add up; (5) new facts the scenes establish that canon does not yet record. Numbered, terse, no praise.

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🔧 Bash: redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

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🔧 Bash: cat notes/canon/README.md

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🔧 Read notes/canon/system.md

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🔧 Agent: Canon consistency check on scenes 74-79

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The consistency-check subagent is running in the background — it's reading all six new scenes, the full canon set (system.md, timeline.md, dungeons.md, redacted/minor/peri/edwin, deferred-questions, SCENES.md binding list), plus scenes 56–73 for continuity, and will produce the five-section numbered report (contradictions, resolved-deferred-questions/binding-list breaks, date errors, count/sum errors, new facts). This is a substantial task, so it'll take a bit — I'll report back once it completes.

⚙ background task finished — Agent "Canon consistency check on scenes 74-79" finished

Canon consistency check: scenes 74–79

(1) Hard contradictions

  1. Ascent order conflict. Scene 76 unpublished (76-the-bottom.md unpublished:43): "We go up. Same order... redacted's last." Scene 78 unpublished (78-thirteen-up.md unpublished:5,9,11): "The order out was redacted, then Edwin, then everybody" — redacted speaks first out. Direct contradiction on who exits last/first. Fix: pick one — likely scene 76 unpublished should read "redacted's first" (warden leads the climb out).

  2. Peri's exit position (78-thirteen-up.md unpublished:17, "over the chain ninth") doesn't match either the "same order" reading or a clean reversal of the scene-73 entry roster. Needs recomputation once the ascent-order contradiction above is resolved.

  3. Bone-setter timing gap. Scene 67 unpublished has redacted badly hurt night of redacted (13/14 Harvestmonth), rider sent immediately, bone-setter expected "by dark" same day. Scene 79 unpublished (79-eight-weeks.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose for redacted's back" — a full week later, with nothing marking it as a follow-up visit rather than the first. As written this implies a serious back injury went untreated a week, unremarked. Needs either a "second visit" line or a fix to scene 67 unpublished/79's timing.

(2) Deferred questions / binding-list

  1. Lamp-yellow setup unpaid or contradicted. Scene 72 unpublished states as an exception-free rule (twice, "not one") that a lamp always goes yellow at a hole's bottom. Scene 76 unpublished ("The Bottom") has Edwin check the lamps there and report all nine burning white/normal, including "the ninth, the one with the thin horn," with no character remarking on this breaking the established rule. Needs either the drilled callout ("Lamp's gone yellow") to fire, or an explicit beat noting the anomaly.
  2. Nobody explains the Deep or the hole — clean.
  3. No box shown without the recipient's own deliberate act — clean.
  4. Narrator never states what [Holm Deep.]/exit boxes are for — clean.

(3) Day/date/hour errors

None found. Day 37 = 21 Harvestmonth verified; redacted clock (08:30 entry → 10:40 → 11:45 → 13:20 → 14:10 → 16:50 exit) matches dungeons.md's pre-established timings throughout.

(4) Sums, counts, times

  1. Kill count 406, ~144 first chamber, 11 at the last passage, three named injuries — all match dungeons.md's pre-set figures. Clean.
  2. "Eleven people breathing hard" = 13 minus Edwin minus redacted. Consistent.
  3. Sixteen lamps carried in vs. nine counted at the bottom — never reconciled on-page (some presumably left marking earlier chambers per drill), not a contradiction but unverifiable as written; flag for backfill if a firm count matters later.
  4. "You were told. Four times. redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished:51, addressed to Peri) has no matching antecedent in scenes 56–73 — the only established "told four times" callback belongs to Edwin being told he's no use in a fight, a different person/subject. Needs confirmation of where Peri's four instances are supposed to be on the page, or it's a misfire.
  5. Seal-cooldown references consistent with mechanic (cooldown length shortens with level; Seal itself unused/off-cooldown throughout). No error.
  6. Peri's Level 8 / kill-count-11 exit box matches SCENES.md's binding plan exactly. No error.

(5) New facts to backfill

  1. redacted's status apparently shows a visible kill count like Peri's (78-thirteen-up.md unpublished:23) — not previously established as a feature of her class/status.
  2. Concrete healing timeline for Edwin's forearm: six weeks to knit, eight weeks to be "worth anything," landing 17 Saltmonth — should be cross-checked/entered in healing.md.
  3. redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose the shed") — matches the 2026-08-30 age ruling; worth citing in edwin.md.
  4. New concrete details for the Ranner's Sluice bone-setter (manner, stock phrasing, stitch/heal figures) not previously on the page.

Note: the subagent did not read redacted.md, minor.md, peri.md, edwin.md, or deferred-questions.md cover-to-cover (time-budgeted); it cross-checked only the specific claims those files' summaries surfaced. If you want full coverage against those four character files and the deferred-questions index specifically, say so and I'll run a follow-up pass.