lower left / inciting pin
The Inciting Pin
A brass point drops through vellum, fixing the first disturbance to the table. From it, teal ink pulls itself into a causal river: not a timeline, but the pressure mark beneath one.
folio 00 / event id: E-001 / Interaction diegetic—lenses
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The Story Graph Room
One ember-red event waits in the dark. Touch the scroll and the pin will remember where the story began.
marginal legend · motive vectors · rupture heat
node delta / motive weather
The Motive Delta
Every want splits into tributaries. A vow turns gold, a hunger stains plum, and the unsaid thing leaves a violet shadow offset from the official account.
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crossing arcs / conflict braid
The Conflict Braids
Rival threads cross without merging. Betrayal, devotion, and misread prophecy pull against one another until the graph resembles a cord tied by nervous hands.
red thread: rupture
violet thread: foreshadow
gold thread: promise
terminal mark? / provisional ending
The False Ending
The ink pretends to stop. A neat seal closes over the page, but the lens catches ghost lines slipping beyond the fold—subplots refusing burial.
upper quadrant / revelation lens
The Revelation Lens
Move the glass across the room. Hidden annotations brighten where cause and confession overlap, and the old graph admits it has been telling two stories at once.
reveal
the narrator knew the map was folded
appendix / afterimage index
The Afterimage Index
Unresolved threads drift after the last page, each one a small moth circling the revelation. Hover an afterimage to illuminate where it first entered the room.