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Document metadata
type: template
status: active
scope: non-canon story exploration run

NON-CANON STORY EXPLORATION

NON-CANON STORY EXPLORATION — inspiration only. Nothing below is established unless promoted by the author through the main Story Loop.

Run metadata

  • Date:
  • Exploration mode: Targeted Inspiration / Story Miner
  • Token mode: Micro / Standard / Deep / Cascade
  • Current scale: era / arc / sequence / chapter / scene / prototype
  • Story area:
  • Exploration question:
  • Explicit exclusions:
  • Stop condition:

Gap packet

  • Highest-value gap:
  • Why it matters:
  • Authority needed:
  • Downstream dependencies:

Retrieved story state

Established

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Working

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Unresolved

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Hard constraints

-

Candidate generation

Candidate 1 —

  • Premise:
  • Causal chain:
  • Character pressure:
  • Key scene/reveal:
  • Why interesting:
  • Existing material used:
  • New assumptions required:
  • Downstream consequences:

Candidate 2 —

Candidate 3 —

Candidate 4 —

Candidate 5 —

Critic passes

Causality Critic

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Character Critic

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Continuity Critic

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System Critic

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Creative Interest Critic

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Distinctiveness Critic

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Problem-Solving / Listener-Clarity Critic

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Cost Critic

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Ranked shortlist

CandidateStory FitCharacter PressureCausal StrengthCreative InterestScene PotentialObjective ClarityProblem SolvingEscalationAudio LegibilitySolution/ConsequencePayoffFew New AssumptionsStatus

Mutation round

Mutation A

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Mutation B

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Mutation C

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Hidden implications discovered

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Better questions revealed by the run

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Required character functions

Use lightweight packets only for shortlisted candidates.

Optional representative prototype

  • Candidate tested:
  • Question tested:
  • Provisional inventions:
  • Result:

Author promotion gate

  • [ ] Reject
  • [ ] Park for later
  • [ ] Rerun with new constraints
  • [ ] Combine candidates
  • [ ] Interactive brainstorm
  • [ ] Promote selected candidate to 08 Story Loop/

Author decision

Pending.