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2026-08-30

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You are doing a canon consistency check for a novel-in-progress (Autoroad, an AI-generated LitRPG on Royal Road). This is act two of Book 1, third draft. Work in redacted.

TASK: Check five newly drafted scenes for contradictions with established canon and with earlier scenes in this draft:

READ FIRST (in this order):

  1. notes/canon/README.md — claim levels (Established/Working/deferred, with triage rules)
  2. notes/canon/system.md — System mechanics (it's long; read fully, e.g. with offset if needed)
  3. notes/canon/world/timeline.md — dates: Day 31 = 15 Harvestmonth; Day 35 = 19 Harvestmonth; Day 37 = 21 Harvestmonth (this is the day of the Holm Deep delve — muster 06:00, into the hill 08:30, first chamber cleared ~10:40, descent 11:45, bottom chamber 13:20, injury in second chamber 14:10, out 16:50). Scenes 69-73 evidently cover the days building up to and including this delve (barn clearing, muster, entering the hill, redacted itself). Cross check every date/day number in the scenes against this.
  4. notes/canon/world/dungeons.md — full dungeon/Holm Deep canon: fauna (redacted, redacted), delve craft, redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
  5. notes/canon/characters/redacted.md
  6. notes/canon/characters/minor.md
  7. notes/canon/characters/peri.md
  8. notes/canon/characters/edwin.md
  9. notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished — every deferred question and its trigger; flag if scenes 69-73 casually resolve any of these (especially anything about the Deep's origin/nature — that is SEALED and must stay agnostic; nobody may explain the hole).
  10. draft/book-01/SCENES.md — read the whole file but ESPECIALLY the act-two binding list at the foot. Known binding constraints already flagged to you: redacted's people are sealed material (do not let the scenes explain who redacted's people are/were); clue 1 for redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted etc.) may be added, and no character may speculate on-page about what it is; [Holm Deep.] box should appear at the chain (per dungeons.md above); lamps have gone yellow (some established detail — check what scenes 69-73 do with lamp color/state); Peri's class level goes from ≈5 to ≈12 over the arc, with "7" said in passing during the clearing (days 31-35ish) and "8" on redacted's exit box (Day 37) — NOTE: this contradicts the existing timeline.md/system.md canon that has Peri's [Agent of Fate] at Level 26 on Day 82 (6 Saltmonth) and system.md's explicit note "Peri ends Book 1 at about 12" superseding the groundwork's 26 — so treat the ≈5→≈12 range with passing "7" and exit-box "8" as the CURRENT binding target for this draft, not the old ch.028 groundwork figures. Flag only if scenes 69-73 use numbers outside 5-12 range or inconsistent with "7 in passing, 8 on exit box." Edwin's biography rules — cross-check any Edwin backstory/biography claims in scenes 69-73 against notes/canon/characters/edwin.md (age of the shed is NINETEEN per a 2026-08-30 ruling superseding all "21/three years in" figures — check system.md and edwin.md for the exact current ruling and make sure scenes 69-73 don't use a superseded age).

ALSO READ for continuity (not under review, but scenes 69-73 must not contradict them): draft/book-01/scenes/44 through 68 (all files in draft/book-01/scenes/ numbered 44-68). Specifically verify against these:

DO NOT read anything under notes/sealed/ — it is off-limits to you.

Now read the five target scenes (69-73) closely, then produce a numbered report with these categories, terse, no praise, quoting both lines for any contradiction:

(1) Hard contradictions with Established or Working canon, or with earlier third-draft scenes (44-68) — each with both lines quoted verbatim and a suggested fix.
(2) Deferred questions the scenes resolve casually, or SCENES.md binding-list rules the scenes break.
(3) Day/date errors relative to Day 31=15 Harvestmonth, Day 35=19 Harvestmonth, Day 37=21 Harvestmonth.
(4) Sums, counts, or times in the scenes that don't add up internally or against dungeons.md/timeline.md (kill counts, roster headcounts, clock times against "redacted day's clock", etc).
(5) New facts the scenes establish that canon does not yet record (candidates for a consistency-backfill pass) — list briefly, don't elaborate.

Be terse and numbered. This report goes directly to the author as a punch list — no summary praise, no restating what's fine, only findings. If a category has nothing, say "none found."

I'll start by reading the canon files and target scenes.

36 tool calls

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

✅ 84 lines, 2318 chars — 84 notes/canon/README.md / 1184 notes/canon/system.md / 865 notes/canon/world/timeline.md

🔧 Bash: cat draft/book-01/scenes/69-under-barrows-barn.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose…

✅ 277 lines, 28703 chars

🔧 Bash: cat notes/canon/README.md notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished && echo ==== &&…

✅ 137 lines, 10040 chars

🔧 Bash: sed -n '1,120p' notes/canon/deferred-questions.md; unpublished echo "@@@@SCENES"; cat d…

✅ 38 lines, 2125 chars

🔧 Bash: cat draft/book-01/SCENES.md

✅ 215 lines, 18180 chars

🔧 Bash: cat notes/canon/world/dungeons.md

✅ 41 lines, 2191 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; grep -n -i "dressed\|mortar\|mason\|throat\|Holm Deep\.\]\|exit box\|kill…

✅ 64 lines, 4572 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; sed -n '40,130p;195,250p;335,380p;680,760p;785,807p' notes/canon/world/dun…

✅ 296 lines, 17335 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes; grep -n -i "redacted\|nine steadings\|redacted\|redacted…

✅ 34 lines, 14982 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes; grep -n -i "milk churn\|milk cart\|churn\|fourteenth\…

✅ 23 lines, 6428 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

✅ 12 lines, 1068 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished; echo ===; grep -rn "fou…

✅ 11 lines, 1694 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes; grep -n -i "air" 63*.md 64*.md 65*.md 66*.md 67*.md 6…

✅ 10 lines, 4668 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; grep -rn "redacted\|redacted\|Tess\|redacted\|Burl\|redacted\|Coul…

✅ 35 lines, 3576 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; sed -n '230,300p' notes/canon/characters/minor.md; echo XXXX; grep -n "thr…

✅ 87 lines, 5736 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; grep -n "Day 3[0-9]\|1[4-9] Harvestmonth\|2[01] Harvestmonth" notes/canon/…

✅ 15 lines, 1078 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; sed -n '285,340p' notes/canon/world/timeline.md

✅ 56 lines, 3610 chars

🔧 Bash: cd redacted; sed -n '1,20p' draft/book-01/scenes/60-its-alive-all-of-it.md unpublished

✅ 19 lines, 1707 chars

Report follows. I read the canon files listed, SCENES.md (note: it changed on disk mid-task — the act-two binding list now says the bone-setter is twelve miles off at the Sluice, and scene numbering for the blessing moved to 68), scenes 44–68 for the specific continuity items, and the five target scenes.

(1) Hard contradictions

  1. Scene 73 unpublished — redacted's mason line adds new made-works evidence to a sealed pile, and contradicts ch. 014's "no living hand laid".
    Scene 73 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose It's cut to sit. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    A mason costing the throat as two men's week is both a new fact about the stone and a flat statement that hands laid it. Fix: keep the mason's noticing but strip the origin content and the labour estimate — e.g. he says only that it is cut to sit, with no mortar, and nobody prices it; or he says nothing and merely runs his hand along the last course while redacted says "Walk on."

  2. Scene 73 unpublished — redacted flattens the entry-box naming rule.
    Scene 73 unpublished: *"It does that... Every hole. Every time. redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    Fix: redacted says the box comes at every hole but only names the ones somebody has been to the bottom of — one clause, and it is a warden's working knowledge, so it belongs in her mouth.

  3. Scene 73 unpublished — location of the vent fan.
    Scene 73 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    Scene 60 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose Fix: move the beat to two hundred yards short of the hard ground.

  4. Scenes 69/70 — size of the barn line.
    Scene 69 unpublished: "eight people behind the lamps"
    Scene 70 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    Fix: make 69 read ten behind the lamps, or 70 read seven others.

  5. Scene 72 unpublished — Peri counted onto a sheet she is not yet on.
    Scene 72 unpublished: *"redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    Eleven names + Edwin's line = twelve lines total, one of which is Edwin's. redacted sentence: unpublished prose

  6. Scene 73 unpublished — "Same as the fourteenth" names an air reading that does not exist.
    Scene 73 unpublished: "Air's out. Same as the fourteenth."
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished, 13 Harvestmonth). Nobody is at the mouth on the 14th — that is redacted's aftermath in the village (scene 67 unpublished). Fix: "the thirteenth", reported to Edwin by redacted, or "the tenth", which is his own last reading (scene 59 unpublished).

  7. Scene 71 unpublished — redacted men in the loft Mattie corrected.
    Scene 70 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose The other'"*
    Scene 71 unpublished: "two redacted men asleep in the wrong loft"
    As written this reads as a flat reversal of Mattie's correction rather than a joke. Fix: "in the other loft", or make the wrongness explicit and consequential.

  8. Scene 70 unpublished — the parish's version of the flood.
    Scene 70 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
    redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished's "the night the mage flooded redacted's bottom"). Two different legends now both "stuck". Fix: make 70's the same legend growing a second head, explicitly, or cut.

(2) Deferred questions / binding-list breaks

  1. The Deep sealed rule. Finding (1.1) above is the binding-list break: "nobody explains anything about the hole" plus dungeons.md's freeze on new dressed-stone evidence. SCENES.md's engine for 73 does authorise "a mason's one sentence", but the sentence as drafted is three, and the third is an origin claim.
  2. Clue 1 index drift, not a break. SCENES.md: "clue 1 twice (45, 69)". redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished, not 69. Nothing in 69–73 explains redacted's people. Update SCENES.md to (45, 70).
  3. No other deferred question is resolved. Nobody speculates about the hole; the entry box carries no information about it; redacted is untouched.

(3) Day/date errors

  1. SCENES.md lists scene 69 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose The scene is right; the index is wrong.
  2. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted at seven on the 20th ✓; redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose

(4) Sums, counts and times

  1. Post rates. Scene 70 unpublished has the aid letter asked on the 10th and redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose institutions.md: "Forty miles to redacted is two days each way", and scene 61 unpublished redacted: *"Four to redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose minor.md does record "came the day after the letter", so the beat is canon — but the nine-day gap wants one line of cover (the rider missed his week / the letter went by the Sluice), or redacted's "day after" is the day after it reached her house, said as such.
  2. Wystow reply is four days faster than redacted's estimate. Scene 61 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished has the reply in hand on the 19th. Same fix or an acknowledgement.
  3. redacted's "Nineteen and fourteen. redacted sentence: unpublished prose Her line, clipped, reads as comparing them. Scene 61 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose Suggest: "Nineteen in a month, and fourteen in ten days."
  4. Lamp arithmetic. Scene 72 unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose Either fifteen lamps, or "three more".
  5. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
  6. Roster arithmetic is otherwise sound: redacted + 4 Charter (redacted out, scene 67 unpublished) + 6 redacted = 11, + Peri = 12 down, + Edwin = 13; minus Edwin and redacted (last, with rope and slate) = the eleven fighting hands canon requires for the 406. Nine steadings ✓ (Puckett, redacted, redacted all on scene 65 unpublished's list). Marching order in 73 gives exactly six redacted including redacted ✓.
  7. redacted sentence: unpublished prose It matters for 73–78 (the magic missile at 14:10).

(5) New facts for backfill