Peregrine v4 — Season Documents (draft)

Date: 2026-09-19 · Status: First drafts for Sarah's review. Every word is open.

Now in the corpus. Each document is an entry in the new season-documents family, linked from guide.json → season. Every one is held at validation_status: draft, so nothing ships. Approving one means setting it to playable and re-exporting; the file room then shows that page instead of This page isn't written yet, and the exporter's authoring locks start checking it.

Already resolved since drafting: C1 (pharmacy log Day 29), C2 (desk file moved to Day 30), C7 (stale 214 / 2214 / dates — case 1 now carries 5302 and Day 1 / Day 8 / Day 16, and the Docket's Day 8 line reads Attended 38). The handoff spec and the case-board mockup still show the old values and are yours to edit.

Reading order: the index and the contradictions first, then the documents in the order a student meets them.

Peregrine v4: season documents (first drafts)

DRAFT, 2026-09-19. These are first drafts of the eight proof documents and three interim review findings, for Sarah's review. Every word is open. Nothing here is written to the Press Raven corpus, and nothing touches Swift. When approved, they are staged through /cr-corpus (plan §D0, D6).

Sources read: season-record.proposed.json (as of 2026-09-19 13:17, which carries account 5302 and house 38), 2026-09-16 - Peregrine Solved Case v4 - Pages One and Two.md, 2026-09-19 - Peregrine v4 - Non-Game Screens Handoff Spec.md, .claude/plans/peregrine-v4-beat-schedule.md, .claude/plans/peregrine-v4-non-game-screens.md (§D0), corpus ps-case101-hallorans-books.json (read-only), and PeregrineCore/…/SeasonCanon.swift (read-only).

Decisions applied throughout: DAY n only (31 March = Day 1, 7 April = Day 8, 8 April = Day 9); account no. 5302; house No. 38; credential P-0417 (reissued P-0418); no body rendered; the drink is inventory; Docket verbs locked; the identification line is set like every other line.

Word-count rule: every word the student reads on the page counts, including field labels, headers and footers. Stamps, markdown, table rules and italic stage directions such as (Handwritten. Undated.) are not counted.

1. The documents

Totals: the eight proof documents come to 1,284 words and the three findings to 331, for 1,615 overall. The death file is 115 words against the ~110 target, header and footer included. Its seven fields alone are 103.

How the five canonical lines are supported, without any document stating them:

• II · Lamp × Neighbor → the room wasn't empty. The lamp gives light at 11:40 against a house rule. The neighbor gives a man, seen only by that light, leaving by the gate. Neither says the study was occupied.
• III · Docket line × Intake → the body isn't Corrigan. The intake gives a time of death of 8:30–9:00. The Day 8 Docket line has Corrigan confirming in person at 10:30. The intake's identification field only points back to the scene sheet.
• III · Roster × Clerk → the sling man is Corrigan. The clerk gives a man with a left arm in a pale sling and no name, only "for Mr. Corrigan". The roster card gives CURRENT: Left arm in sling beside HOLDER: Corrigan, M.
• IV · Intake plate × Identity plate → the body is Tobin. Intake: "healed fracture, right clavicle, surgical plate palpable". Identity page: "old right-clavicle fixation, six-hole plate". These are different words for the same thing, which is the cross-text skill.
• I→IV · Memo × Request log × Identity page → LANTERN on all three. LANTERN appears as the worked example, as the 11:31 file, and as the designation.

2. Every invention, marked (assumed)

01 Method memo

• The CIRCULATION: Agents cleared for sealed-file requests line.
• "Questions on this procedure: the procedures desk." It pairs with the roster card's DESK: Procedures. Cut it if the authorship inference lands too early.
• The format: four numbered clauses plus a worked example.

02 / 07 Death files

• The seven field names: REPORT, ATTENDED, FRONT ROOM, STUDY, (DECEDENT) IDENTIFICATION, INVENTORY, CONTACT LOG.
• "Front room first, then the study" (for v4's "Couch first").
• "Personal effects, desk and chair" as an inventory line.
• The SHEET 1 OF 1 footer.
• The original carries no stamp.

03 Neighbor's statement

• The kitchen window and the kettle.
• "His head came well above the gate", which carries "tall".
• Taken Day 10. Who took it is unstated.
• The source label.

04 Lamp complaint

• The form: a house-daybook note to "Mr C." written at 11:40.
• The signature initial B.
• The Docket receipt on Day 14.

05 Pharmacy log

• The filler rows: Aske R. (amoxicillin) and Fenn O. (inhaler).
• "Narcotizan 10 mg × 30, repeat".
• "Signed-for item" as the reason ID was taken.
• The clerk T.R., "on this counter since the start of the month".
• "Put it in his right hand".
• Day 29, derived from "three weeks after" (see C1).

06 Wren's memo and enclosures

• FROM: Dispatch — Courier Section.
• COPY: Handler's sealed review box, which is load-bearing for IR4 (C9).
• Supplement dated Day 23, sample taken 12:25 a.m.
• "Prescription sedative" as Narcotizan's class.
• Nico writes because Corrigan asked for paper. Also invented: "box by the station", "the flat", "green door", "kitchen drawer", "The pens I kept".
• The allergen is peanut.
• OUTSIDE CONTACT: One. Varela, N., civilian.
• RESIDENCE: Not recorded.
• Optional stamp SEAL BROKEN · DAY 33.

08 Desk file

• Filler request lines: P-0388 · ORCHARD · Desk 3 and P-0290 · WAYMARK · Desk 1.
• The routing note "re-routed Day 9, 12:40 a.m. Credential under review." (C8).
• The intake sheet's AGENT ON PREMISES section (C12).
• "Confirmatory sample sent; supplement to follow under seal."
• Roster fields DESK: Procedures and SOURCES RUN: One. Designation held in sealed file.
• The sling "Noted Day 5".

IR2–IR4

• All three documents in full.
• Days 16, 31 and 36.
• The UNDER REVIEW ink stamp.
• The signature "F. Falconer, handler".
• The source label REVIEW · CREDENTIAL P-0417.

3. Contradictions between the sources

C1 · When Halloran's fills the script.

• Season record burn_night.anchored (approved 2026-09-17): "The pharmacy fill on Corrigan's script" — "three weeks after". The record's case_one_traces agrees: "Halloran's fills his script three weeks after the death."
• Spec §6 Docket (and SeasonCanon.credentialUsed): "12 | Credential P-0417 — used. Halloran's. | PHARMACY LOG"
• Day 12 is four days after the burn. Three weeks after Day 8 is Day 29, which the draft uses because the anchor is the approved one. This also removes the beat schedule's own worry: "Beat 6's line is dated Day 12 but arrives after Day 16 (neighbor pinned)."

C2 · Act III order, once C1 moves to Day 29.

• Beat schedule: beat 7 (desk file, Docket Day 30) "Requires: beat 6 read", so the pharmacy log arrives first.
• Season record act_turns III: "…the desk yields the request log, the intake sheet… and the roster card…; Halloran's fills a dead man's Narcotizan…", so the desk file comes first.
• With the fill on Day 29, delivering it before a Day 30 line puts the Docket out of order. Option (a) is to swap beats 6 and 7, which matches act_turns. Option (b) is to move Read — her desk file to Day 30 or later. Recommendation: (a). Caveat: beat 7 is currently blocked on Before She's Back, so a swap would also block the pharmacy log.

C3 · A bird on the scene sheet.

• Record naming_rule: "The sealed desk records men, not birds. No bird appears on any document before Falconer's roster card in Act III."
• Record night rows: "Agent Peregrine attended the residence at 10:30 p.m." and "Credential activity, Agent Peregrine: one file request logged, 11:31 p.m." Peregrine is a bird, and the cast says "No civilian name ever appears."
• Resolved: every Agency paper names her by credential P-0417. That agrees with spec §4: the number "appears in the desk file's request-log line and on the scene sheet."

C4 · Who may say Narcotizan.

• Lock: "Rapid intake says ethanol; only the supplement says Narcotizan."
• Proof document #5: "Narcotizan on Corrigan's script, three weeks after". act_turns III: "Halloran's fills a dead man's Narcotizan".
• Read as a tox-only lock. The pharmacy log names the drug, which the chain requires.

C5 · The identification line's casing and label.

• Record death_files: "IDENTIFICATION: PERSONAL EFFECTS CONFIRMED — MILES CORRIGAN" and "DECEDENT IDENTIFICATION: NOT ESTABLISHED AT SCENE", both in caps.
• Spec §9.2: "The identification line is set exactly like every other line. No caps, no weight."
• The spec was applied, with labels in caps and values in sentence case. The labels also differ in the record (DECEDENT IDENTIFICATION vs IDENTIFICATION), while differs_in: "IDENTIFICATION" suggests one field. The record's labels were kept. Matching them would make only the value differ.

C6 · "Tonight" on Day 6.

• Spec §9.4, Falconer's Day 6 note: "Confirm the account with its holder. In person. Tonight."
• Spec §6: "8 · 10:30 p.m. | Corrigan, M. — account confirmed in person." Corpus E03 confirms on 7 April, which is Day 8.
• The note sends her two days early. Suggested fix: "…In person. Day 8, after hours.", or post the note on Day 8.

C7 · Stale 214 / 2214 / dates, now that the record says 5302 and 38.

• Spec §6: "Attended 214." and "214 is canon (readable on the Act I hero's transom)." Spec §13: "House from the street (214 on the transom)".
• SeasonCanon.accountConfirmed: "Attended 214." The case-board mockup has the same.
• Corpus E03: "On account no. 2214, held by M. Corrigan, the holder confirmed on 7 April", with exhibits no. 2214 and 7 April. Its brief says "closed its March quarter". Its event window reads "the twelve weeks ending 31 March", which converts to "ending Day 1", an odd phrase that needs Sarah's wording. Its clock says "The quarter files with the board on 15 April", which would be Day 16.
• These are stale, not disputed. They are listed so the corpus staging catches all of them.

C8 · Rule 4 fires before its conditions exist.

• Rule 4: "A dead operative's sealed files, and any file requested on a credential under review, go to the handler's sealed review box."
• Night row 11:31: "Routed to handler review, courier 6:10 a.m."
• At 11:31, no one has been reported dead (that happens at 11:52), and P-0417 is not under review until the desk finds her at 12:10. Resolved with a routing note on the log: re-routed Day 9, 12:40 a.m. Credential under review. (assumed).

C9 · Wren's memo goes to Peregrine, and Falconer's Act IV finding needs its contents.

• Spec §6: "33 | Received — memo, W. | ON THE TABLE · DOCKET COUNT", which is Peregrine's table.
• Spec §7 un-stick: "Falconer's official version arrives as a document." For Act IV that means citing the identity page, which only Wren's packet carries.
• Resolved with COPY: Handler's sealed review box on the memo (assumed). This also fits v4's "She sends it all on the outfit's own channel."

C10 · The Act III un-stick against Falconer's Act V turn.

• Spec §7: an un-stick is "Falconer's official version" of the closing line ("The body isn't Corrigan").
• Spec §9.5, her Proof line 01: "It's in my log. Same line. I never read mine against theirs."
• A plain finding would make that line false for any student who needed the un-stick. Resolved: IR3 reads the 10:30 entry as the agent's log, and conditionally ("If the contact entry stands, the decedent was not Corrigan, M."). She still hasn't checked her own log.

C11 · Rule 1 against the Act IV board claim.

• Rule 1: "A source's name exists in one place: the running agent's sealed case file. Everywhere else, the designation."
• Spec §8 IV claim: "The body is Tobin."
• The claim is in Peregrine's words, so it stands. Agency paper (IR4) writes LANTERN, and Nico's account never names him.

C12 · Whose rapid tox is on the intake sheet.

• Proof document #8: "Intake sheet (time of death; clavicle plate; rapid tox: ethanol)".
• Night row 12:10: "Located on premises, unresponsive. Credential not recovered. Rapid intake: ethanol present." That result belongs to the agent.
• Drafted as the agent's, in an AGENT ON PREMISES section of the intake sheet.

C13 · The cited death-file draft doesn't exist on disk.

• Spec §9.2: "Death file text [draft], seven fields, ~110 words — see mockup."
• peregrine-file-room-v4.html is in neither plot ui mockups/ nor files.zip, and the build plan (B3 item 9) says the same. Documents 02 and 07 are therefore fresh text.

4. Gaps and open questions (not contradictions)

• G1 · Beat 7 is blocked. Per beat schedule §7, the desk file waits on Before She's Back. Without it, Act III can't close and IR3 can't fire.
• G2 · No board line for copy × original. The Act IV reading move "Property ID became person ID — by rule" has no canonical line. Nor do supplement × pharmacy log (Narcotizan) or Nico × death file (key, injectors). The Proof has six links against five canonical lines plus the receipt example. Worth deciding whether IDENTIFICATION × DECEDENT IDENTIFICATION becomes a sixth line (Contradiction: Same sheet. One of them says whose things. The other says nobody knows whose body.).
• G3 · Not drafted: the Act II post-office credential use (host still open), Wren's altered pickup order (Act III exposure), the Day 8 receipt as its own document (it lives in the inventory), and the courier slip (the spec already has it).
• G4 · Did Peregrine see the sling at 10:30? The roster card has it noted Day 5, and she keeps "his face". The sources don't say.
• G5 · The clerk accepts a woman's credential from a man. The card has a face (§9.3). No line was added, to keep the note from doing the noticing.
• G7 · IR3 strains the sling lock. The lock reads "The sling is named as Corrigan's on the roster card only." An official version of Roster × Clerk has to restate the card, so IR3 quotes it ("carries the same note") rather than asserting it. If the lock is absolute, IR3 has to drop that sentence. The un-stick would then carry only the Contradiction line.
• G8 · "went" in documents. The Docket lock bans went, and it is about Docket lines ("never 'Peregrine went'"). Three documents use went for other people: the neighbor, Wren and Nico. None uses it for Peregrine.
• G6 · The clavicle/sling misread. The body has an old right clavicle fracture, and Corrigan has a current left-arm sling. Watch for this in the index-card test.

5. Proposed Docket lines

Every line uses a verb from the locked list.

The Day 33 line Received — memo, W. is unchanged. The enclosures arrive inside it and get no Docket lines of their own. Adding Received — scene sheet, original. on Day 33 is an option. It would be the Docket's only mention that a second sheet exists, so it is left out.

5. Resolved 2026-09-19 (Sarah)

• C1 · pharmacy log day: Day 29 stands. The season record's approved trace ("three weeks after the death") outranks the spec's Day 12 draft. SeasonCanon.credentialUsed now carries Day 29.
• C2 · Act III order: the desk file moves from Day 22 to Day 30 instead of the beats swapping. Swapping would have made the pharmacy log wait on Before She's Back, which isn't built, and Sarah chose that beats wait for their games. SeasonCanon.deskFileRead now carries Day 30.
• C7 · stale numbers and dates: resolved in the corpus and the app. Case 1 carries account 5302 and Day 1 / Day 8 / Day 16; the Docket's Day 8 line reads Attended 38. The handoff spec (§6, §13) and the case-board mockup still show the old values and are Sarah's to edit.

02 · Death file, operational copy

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

CORRIGAN RESIDENCE — SCENE SHEET

SEALED DESK · DAY 9

SHEET 1 OF 1

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• The identification line is set exactly like every other line: sentence case, no weight, same table row. The field label is in caps like every label. The stamp is the only visual event.
• No injury noted sits beside facial swelling noted, on the same line. Never bruising.
• Attended, never entered. The agent attended the residence. The sealed desk also "attended", which keeps the verb ordinary.
• The request names no file: "One file request logged on credential".
• The brass key sits unassigned in the inventory, among the effects.
• The drink is inventory: One glass. Bottle half empty.
• There are seven fields, per spec §9.2. It carries every item on the record's identical_and_unread list: two entrées, two containers, one glass, swelling beside no injury, the unclaimed key, attended, a request that names no file, unresponsive, credential not recovered.
• No bird appears. The agent is recorded by credential number (see contradiction C3 in the README).
• No body is rendered. "One deceased adult male" is the whole corpse.

Deliberately does NOT say

• Who the deceased is. The identification field says whose effects are confirmed, which is a different question.
• A time of death, a cause, or anything about allergy or injectors. The absence of injectors in the inventory is itself the evidence.
• Which file was requested, or from which line.
• Where the second glass is.
• That the study lamp was on when the desk arrived. This was left out to keep the lamp inference on the lamp complaint and the neighbor. Add "Study lamp on" to STUDY if a playtest shows the Act II line is too hard.

Inventions

• The field names REPORT, ATTENDED, FRONT ROOM, STUDY, INVENTORY and CONTACT LOG (assumed). The v4 source gives the lines but not the form. The file-room mockup the spec cites for the ~110-word draft is not on disk, so this is fresh text rather than a transcription.
• "Front room first, then the study" (assumed wording of v4's "Couch first, then the study"). "Couch" is not on the sheet. The front room carries it.
• "Personal effects, desk and chair" as an inventory line (assumed). It gives the identification field something to point at without listing a wallet or watch.
• SHEET 1 OF 1 footer (assumed; it is mono chrome).

01 · Method memo

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

BRIEFING MEMO

1. A protected source is known everywhere by designation. The source's name is held in one place: the running agent's sealed case file.

2. On the death of the running agent, that case file is sealed with the agent's own and goes to the handler's review box by the next morning courier.

3. The handler establishes the death from the death file received. Where the decedent is not visually identified, the identification records verified personal effects, under SP-14.

4. On receipt of the death file, the source's file is closed. No successor agent is assigned. No further contact is logged.

Worked example. Source LANTERN is run by one agent. Should that agent be reported dead, LANTERN's file closes on the morning the death file reaches the handler. It is not reopened.

Questions on this procedure: the procedures desk.

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• The memo is unsigned. No bird and no man appears on it: the running agent is "one agent".
• Every line is true. None says what happens to the source as a person. Clauses 2 to 4 describe what happens to the file.
• Clause 3 quotes the in-world SP-14 rule almost verbatim, so the Act IV reread finds the blueprint on the page. That reread moves from "effects stand in for a body" to "the file closes on paper".
• It carries LANTERN, the first of the three Recurrence stops.

Deliberately does NOT say

• Who the running agent is, or that LANTERN is a person with a name.
• What happens to a source whose agent is only reported dead. The worked example uses "reported dead", the Docket's verb, and never "dies".
• Anything about requests on a credential under review, the second half of rule 4. That half belongs to the desk file.

Inventions

• The CIRCULATION: Agents cleared for sealed-file requests line (assumed). It ties the memo to "the day her credential could request a sealed file", the precondition of the con. It also gives the Act I purpose question a clean answer: this memo briefs someone newly cleared.
• "Questions on this procedure: the procedures desk." (assumed). It pairs with the roster card's DESK: procedures (08c), so a student can infer the memo's author without it being signed. Cut it if that inference lands too early.
• Four numbered clauses plus a worked example (assumed format).

03 · Neighbor's statement

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

STATEMENT

My kitchen window looks straight down into the courtyard behind No. 38. I was up with the kettle, a little before a quarter to twelve.

The courtyard is dark at night. That night it wasn't. The study window was lit, and the light lay across the flagstones as far as the gate.

When I looked down, a man was already on the flagstones, walking toward the gate. From up here you see the tops of heads, so I can't give you a face. I can give you his shape against the light. His head came well above the gate. His left arm was in a sling, a pale one, held across his chest.

He went out through the gate into the alley. He didn't look back, and he didn't come back while I stood there.

I took him for a visitor leaving the back way, late. He seemed in a hurry to be gone.

I didn't see anyone arrive. I wasn't looking before then.

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• The sling is visible in a head-and-shoulders silhouette from above: "his shape against the light… his left arm was in a sling, a pale one, held across his chest."
• The man is seen only because the study was lit. The statement says so as observation ("the light lay across the flagstones"). It never says the lamp was unusual for the hour. That belongs to the lamp complaint.
• The sling is not named as anyone's. No name, no bird.
• "Tall" is carried as an observation ("His head came well above the gate") so that the clerk's note can stay free of height (see 05).

Deliberately does NOT say

• That the man came out of the study. She sees him "already on the flagstones". The student joins lit study + man leaving by the back.
• That the man was not the agent. A man is described. The student sets that against the death file's front room.
• Anything about the front of the house, the agent, or a car.

Observed vs. concluded, laid out for the SAT move

• Observed: the time, the lit window, the light on the flagstones, the man's direction, his height against the gate, the sling, the exit through the gate.
• Concluded: "I took him for a visitor", "He seemed in a hurry". Both are her reading. The first is wrong, since it was the householder.
• Admitted limits: no face, "I wasn't looking before then".

Inventions

• The kitchen window and the kettle (assumed). They give her a reason to be at the window.
• Taken Day 10 (assumed; the beat schedule's placeholder). Who took it is unstated. An Agency canvass would mean Falconer's desk holds it unread, which fits the theme, but no source says so. Sarah's call.
• The source label STATEMENT · ADJOINING BUILDING (assumed).

04 · Housekeeper's lamp complaint

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

HOUSE DAYBOOK

DAY 8 · 11:40 P.M.

Mr C. —

The study lamp is on. It is twenty to twelve.

You said never past ten, and it has been never past ten since I came to this house. It lights the whole yard, and my room with it. It woke me.

I won't come down about it. I'm writing it here so it's written.

— B.

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• "Never past ten; on at 11:40": both facts are on the page as her observation and his rule.
• She sees light, not people. Nothing in the note says who is in the study or that anyone is.
• It lights "the whole yard", which confirms from her side of the courtyard what the neighbor's statement depends on.

Deliberately does NOT say

• That someone was in the study. The inference the room wasn't empty is left to the student.
• That Corrigan was dead, alive, in, or out. She writes to him as the householder, the way anyone would at 11:40.
• When the lamp went off, or whether it was still on when the desk arrived.

Why a daybook note, not a formal complaint

• The record calls it a "complaint". Written at 11:40 on the night, to the householder, it is a complaint that predates the death. So it can't be read as testimony shaped by what came after. That matters for the sixteen-year-old weighing it.

Inventions

• The form: a house daybook entry addressed "Mr C." (assumed).
• The signature initial B. (assumed). The housekeeper is unnamed in every source. The initial avoids M., which is Corrigan's.
• The Docket receipt on Day 14 (the beat schedule's placeholder, assumed).
• How the daybook left the house is unstated.

05 · Pharmacy log + clerk's note

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

05a · Log

HALLORAN'S — DISPENSING LOG · DAY 29

05b · Clerk's note

(Clipped to the 4:48 line.)

Narcotizan is a signed-for item. The collector wasn't the patient, so I took ID and wrote the number in.

A man. Left arm in a pale sling across his chest. I bagged it and put it in his right hand. He said it was for Mr. Corrigan. Paid to the account in cash.

I don't know the account holder by sight. I've been on this counter since the start of the month.

— T.R., counter

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• Account no. 5302 appears with Corrigan's name in the same document, on the same row. The number rewards a player who remembers case 01 and is never the only link.
• The post-burn credential use lives inside a document: P-0417 is in the ID column. The Docket logs Credential P-0417 — used. Halloran's. and never "Peregrine went".
• The sling is the one physical detail shared with the neighbor's statement. The clerk gives no height ("tall" is withheld on purpose), no face, no age, and no clothing.
• The sling is not named as Corrigan's. The clerk reports that the man said it was for Mr. Corrigan, which is true and answers nothing. It is the Politician's own habit, in his own mouth.
• Halloran's is the same pharmacy as case 01, with no new location.

Deliberately does NOT say

• That the collector was Corrigan, or that he wasn't the agent. "A man" and "P-0417" sit on one line for the student to hold apart.
• That the patient is reported dead. The pharmacy doesn't know.
• What Narcotizan does. The supplement (06b) gives the class, so the pairing is earned in Act IV.

Inventions

• Two filler rows with invented civilian patients, Aske R. and Fenn O. (assumed). They give the log reading texture. Cut them if any civilian name is unwanted.
• The dose and quantity, "10 mg × 30, repeat" (assumed). "Repeat" implies an ongoing script, which is consistent with case 01's four cash visits.
• "Signed-for item" as the reason ID was taken (assumed). It explains why a credential number is on a pharmacy log at all.
• The clerk's initials T.R. and "on this counter since the start of the month" (assumed). This explains why the clerk doesn't know Corrigan's face, and it quietly follows from case 01's culprit leaving the counter. It is not a case 01 name, so no new trace is created.
• "Put it in his right hand" (assumed). It makes the sling physical without adding a second shared detail.
• Plausibility gap: the credential card has a face (spec §9.3), and the clerk accepts a woman's credential from a man. The note doesn't raise it, and Sarah may want a line such as "I didn't look at the photo; I wrote the number." That line is not drafted, because it edges toward the document doing the noticing.

08 · Falconer's desk file (request log, intake sheet, roster card)

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

08a · Request log

HANDLER'S DESK — FILE REQUEST LOG · DAY 8

ROUTING NOTE: 11:31 p.m. entry re-routed Day 9, 12:40 a.m. Credential under review.

08b · Intake sheet

SEALED DESK — INTAKE · CORRIGAN RESIDENCE · DAY 9

08c · Roster card

ROSTER CARD

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• The bird appears here first. STARLING is on the roster card and on no earlier document.
• The sling is named as Corrigan's here, and only here. "CURRENT: Left arm in sling" sits on the holder's card.
• The clavicle plate is on the intake sheet: "healed fracture, right clavicle, surgical plate palpable". It appears nowhere else except the identity page (06d).
• Rapid intake says ethanol. The intake sheet's agent row says so and announces the supplement without naming what it will find.
• The request log carries every element the record lists: 11:31, LANTERN, originating line, review routing.
• Time of death, 8:30–9:00, is on the intake sheet (act_turns III).
• "Reported dead": the roster card uses the Docket's own verb.

Deliberately does NOT say

• The request log doesn't say who was on the Corrigan residence line. It records the credential only.
• The intake sheet doesn't identify the decedent. "See scene sheet" is a pointer, true in both versions, and it points at the original. The copy is the one on her desk.
• The roster card doesn't name the source Starling runs, or say he wrote SP-14.
• Nothing here mentions the sling's cause, or connects the right clavicle to anyone.

Readability risk to test. A student may conflate healed fracture, right clavicle (the body) with left arm in sling (Corrigan). The sides differ and one is old and one current, so a careful reader separates them. It is a fair SAT-style trap, and it could also be an unfair one. Watch it in the index-card test.

Inventions

• Two filler request lines, P-0388 · ORCHARD and P-0290 · WAYMARK, with desk numbers (assumed). They give the log reading texture and make the 11:31 line stand out by its routing, not its layout. Cut them if other designations muddy the LANTERN Recurrence.
• The routing note, "re-routed Day 9, 12:40 a.m. Credential under review." (assumed). At 11:31 neither condition of rule 4 held yet, so the routing had to be set later. See README contradiction C8.
• The intake sheet carries an AGENT ON PREMISES section (assumed). v4 lists "rapid tox: ethanol" on the intake sheet, and the night table puts that result on the agent at 12:10. The intake sheet now holds both.
• "Confirmatory sample sent; supplement to follow under seal." (assumed). It plants the supplement in Act III.
• Roster card fields DESK: Procedures and SOURCES RUN: One. Designation held in sealed file. (assumed). They support "author of the standing procedures" and link to the memo's "the procedures desk" (01). Cut them if they hand Act IV over too early.
• "Noted Day 5" (assumed). Peregrine meets Corrigan on Day 8, so the sling predates her visit. Nothing in the sources says whether she saw it. Sarah's call whether her memory of "his face" includes a sling.

06 · Wren's memo (with three enclosures)

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

06 · Memo

MEMO

The enclosed items were addressed to the handler's sealed review box. They did not reach it.

1. Scene sheet, Corrigan residence. Original. Sealed desk.

2. Identity page. Source LANTERN.

3. Confirmatory toxicology supplement. Seal broken Day 33, by this section.

4. Account, N. Varela. Not addressed. Found with the others.

Items 1 and 2 left this section on the 6:10 a.m. courier, Day 9. Item 3 came through under seal on Day 23. None of them went to the box. They went to a drawer. His.

This section regrets the delay.

The courier on those runs was me. I didn't open anything. I opened the last one today, because nobody else was going to. Nobody read past the first finding.

That's all of it.

Dispatch — Courier Section

W.

06b · Confirmatory toxicology supplement

CONFIRMATORY TOXICOLOGY — SUPPLEMENT

SEALED DESK LABORATORY · DAY 23

06c · Nico's account

(Handwritten. Undated.)

You said to write down what I did, so there's paper. Here it is.

I rang at 11:52 from the box by the station. I said what you told me to say: there's a dead man in Corrigan's study. They asked my name. I didn't give it.

I have never been inside your house. I didn't go near it that night.

Next morning I went to the flat to clear it, like you said. His key wasn't on the hook. It's always on the hook or on him. I used mine. Brass lock, green door, same as ever.

Both his injector pens were in the kitchen drawer. Two, still in the box. He never took them to your place. He said he didn't need to, because you ordered.

I've cleared everything else. The pens I kept.

— N.

06d · Identity page

IDENTITY PAGE — PROTECTED SOURCE

HELD IN THE RUNNING AGENT'S SEALED CASE FILE. NOT FOR COPY.

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• Institutional signature, her voice. The memo opens in the passive voice of a section ("This section regrets the delay"). It breaks into first person three lines from the end and never recovers. The signature stays institutional, with only an initial, which gives the Docket's Received — memo, W.
• Only the supplement says Narcotizan among tox results. Rapid intake says ethanol, and the supplement repeats it as Finding 1 so the second finding reads as the new one.
• The clavicle plate appears here (identity page) and on the intake sheet (08b), nowhere else.
• Rule 1 (protected sources). The name Evan Tobin appears only on the identity page, which is itself a page of the running agent's sealed case file. Nico never names him. Wren lists the page by designation.
• The drink stays inventory. The supplement names ethanol as a finding, not an evening.
• The injectors: "Auto-injector issued, two units" (identity page) against Nico's "Both his injector pens… Two" against the death file's inventory, which lists none.
• The brass key: Nico's "brass lock" and "His key wasn't on the hook" against the death file's "One brass key, unassigned".

Deliberately does NOT say

• Wren names no one. "They went to a drawer. His." The student supplies whose.
• Nico never says the dead man was his friend, or that anyone died of anything. He reports a call, an empty flat and two pens. The line The body is Tobin is left to the plate match.
• The supplement does not say what Finding 2 means for the agent's condition that night.
• The identity page does not name the running agent or give an address. "Not recorded" is true and answers nothing, in the Politician's register.

Inventions

• FROM: Dispatch — Courier Section as the institutional signer (assumed).
• COPY: Handler's sealed review box (assumed, and load-bearing). The Act IV interim review finding (IR-act4) needs Falconer to hold the identity page. The spec delivers the memo only to Peregrine's table. See README contradiction C9.
• Supplement dated Day 23 and sample taken 12:25 a.m. (assumed). v4 says only "weeks later".
• "Prescription sedative" as Narcotizan's class on the supplement (assumed). A sixteen-year-old needs to know what the drug does to read the second finding. The source calls it "the sedative".
• Nico's "box by the station", "the flat", "green door", "kitchen drawer", "The pens I kept" (assumed).
• Nico writes because Corrigan asked for paper (assumed). This explains why the account sat in Corrigan's drawer.
• The allergen, peanut (assumed). v4 names only "the allergy".
• OUTSIDE CONTACT: One. Varela, N., civilian. (assumed). It corroborates Nico from the Agency's own side, and Nico is a civilian, so he may be named.
• The optional ink stamp SEAL BROKEN · DAY 33 on the supplement (assumed).

07 · Death file, original

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

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The file is named with the enclosure key death-file-original. The season record's n=7 row carries death-file-original-ref only to preserve v4's numbering.

The document

CORRIGAN RESIDENCE — SCENE SHEET

SEALED DESK · DAY 9

SHEET 1 OF 1

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• One field differs from 02, and only one. Every other row is identical to 02, character for character. The IDENTIFICATION row reads DECEDENT IDENTIFICATION | Not established at scene. against the copy's IDENTIFICATION | Personal effects confirmed — Miles Corrigan.
• The label difference (DECEDENT IDENTIFICATION / IDENTIFICATION) is kept from the season record's death_files. It is part of the one differing line. Should the labels match, so that only the value differs, set both to IDENTIFICATION. That is Sarah's call, and there is a note in the README.
• The row is set like every other row. No caps in the value, no weight.
• No stamp. The copy's OPERATIONAL COPY · SP-14 is chrome and excluded from the comparison.

Deliberately does NOT say

• Who the decedent was. "Not established at scene" echoes the STUDY row's "Time of death not established at scene". The sealed desk says the same thing twice, and SP-14 answers only one of them.
• Anything the copy doesn't. There is no extra evidence here. The whole finding is the substitution.

Inventions

• None beyond those already in 02, which it mirrors.

IR · Act II · Interim review finding

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

INTERIM REVIEW FINDING

The housekeeper puts the study lamp on at 11:40 p.m. on Day 8. The house rule was off by ten.

A neighbor puts a man in the courtyard at about 11:45, seen against that lamp, leaving by the gate. Left arm in a sling.

Finding: the study was lit after 11:40 p.m., and a man left it by the back. The room was not empty.

The agent under review was located in the front room at 12:10 a.m.

This finding does not bear on the agent's condition, the missing credential, or the request of 11:31 p.m. Review continues.

F. Falconer, handler

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• Falconer is fooled, not guilty. She concedes the fact and keeps the charge: "does not bear on… Review continues."
• She does not address Peregrine. Post-burn she never addresses her before Day 41 (spec §9.4). This is a review record, written about the agent in the third person.
• It is terse and procedural, in the register of her notes. The one voiced turn is the list of what it doesn't bear on.
• No bird appears (Act II). No one is named.

Deliberately does NOT say

• Who the man was.
• That the agent is cleared of anything.
• How the study came to be lit.

Inventions

• The whole document is invented (assumed): the form, the day, the source label, the UNDER REVIEW stamp, and the signature form "F. Falconer, handler". Her notes sign "— F."; an official finding signs fuller.

IR · Act III · Interim review finding

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

INTERIM REVIEW FINDING

Two entries, both on Agency paper.

The agent's contact log, Day 8, 10:30 p.m.: Corrigan, M. — account confirmed in person.

The sealed desk's intake: the decedent dead between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Day 8.

They cannot describe the same man. If the contact entry stands, the decedent was not Corrigan, M.

Halloran's, Day 29: Corrigan, M.'s prescription, collected by a man with his left arm in a sling. The roster card for STARLING — Corrigan, M. — carries the same note.

Finding: identification of the decedent is not established by this desk. The collector at Halloran's answers the roster note for Corrigan, M. Both are referred to the sealed desk.

The contact entry is the agent's. So was the credential shown at Halloran's. Review continues.

F. Falconer, handler

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• Her Act V turn is preserved. Her Proof line 01 is It's in my log. Same line. I never read mine against theirs. So this finding reads the 10:30 entry as the agent's contact log, and conditionally ("If the contact entry stands"). She has not yet checked it against her own log. The student who needed the un-stick gets the claim, and Falconer keeps her Act V moment.
• Fooled, not guilty. Her habit shows in the last paragraph. Every record she cites, she turns back on the agent.
• Consistent with the sling lock: the roster card names the sling as Corrigan's, and she quotes the card rather than asserting it.
• The bird appears (Act III, after the roster card).
• Uses "Corrigan, M.", the Docket's form.

Deliberately does NOT say

• "Corrigan is alive." "Answers the roster note" and "If the contact entry stands" are as far as she goes on paper.
• Who the decedent was.
• Anything about Wren's altered order. That exposure is a separate Act III item, and no document for it is drafted here.

Inventions

• The whole document is invented (assumed). Tension to review: the brief asks for "Falconer's official version of that act's closing connection". A plain version, "the body isn't Corrigan", would make her Act V line false for un-stuck students. The conditional is the proposed fix. See README contradiction C10.
• Day 29 for Halloran's follows the proposed date in 05 (README C1).

IR · Act IV · Interim review finding

DRAFT. This is a first pass for Sarah's review, and every word is open. Nothing here is corpus.

The document

INTERIM REVIEW FINDING

The marks recorded at the sealed desk's intake, Day 9, match the marks recorded on the identity page for source LANTERN.

Finding: the decedent is source LANTERN. Under protected-source procedure, this finding records the designation.

LANTERN appears three times on this desk's paper. The briefing memo, Day 6, as its worked example. The request of 11:31 p.m., Day 8, from the Corrigan residence line. The identity page.

The request was made on the agent's credential. Review continues.

F. Falconer, handler

Authoring notes

Locks honored

• Rule 1 (protected sources). An Agency finding may not carry the source's name, so she writes LANTERN and the board claim says Tobin. The difference is itself readable: the student knows the name from the identity page, and the Agency can only write the designation.
• Clavicle-plate lock kept. The plate appears on the intake sheet and the identity page and nowhere else. So the finding says the marks match without naming them, and the student who wants the detail has to open both pages. A plainer version that quotes both plates would be clearer, and it would put the plate on a third document. It was not used.
• Fooled, not guilty. It still closes on the credential.

Deliberately does NOT say

• That the memo was Corrigan's, or that it was a plan.
• That the agent was drugged. The supplement is Wren's enclosure, and Falconer doesn't cite it. This keeps Proof link 06 (That's the one I can't argue with.) for Act V.
• That Corrigan is alive.

Inventions

• The whole document is invented (assumed).
• It depends on Falconer holding the identity page, via the memo's COPY: Handler's sealed review box line (06, assumed). See README C9.