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The 2026-03-13 'update all 18 briefings' commit transcribed a family of adjacent-id slips while summarizing the Where's the Fun? workshop batch, copied forward by every later maintenance pass: D-126<->D-134 swapped, D-136 written as D-131, D-137 as D-136, D-130 as D-131, D-120 as D-137. Fixed in gore/mellanie/ozzie/stig/nigel briefings; every correction verified against the record's actual body (D-130's emergent-moral-arc and D-120's no-skill-ceiling were resolved beyond the clerk's audit by body-matching — the nigel D-137 fix would otherwise have created contradictory citations in one file). Governance records untouched (they were always correct); sprint archives verified already-correct. Remaining 13 briefings from the same commit: T-1205. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: "Nigel - Project Briefing"
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description: "Replayability designer — owns generator variety spec, anti-metagaming design, seed-based population variance, and replayability test criteria for v0.2"
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type: briefing
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status: active
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agent: Nigel
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updated: 2026-03-13
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---
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# Nigel - Project Briefing
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Last updated: 2026-03-13
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## Current Project State
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Check active work: `pql ticket list --status in_progress`
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Check your tickets: `pql ticket list --assigned nigel`
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## v0.2 Pivot — Key Changes for Your Role
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The replayability frame shifts from "same conspiracy, different character lens" to "same generator, different seeded world." The anti-metagaming goal survives; the mechanism changes.
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**What changes:**
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- D-027 two-character proof is superseded. Replayability in v0.2 comes from the generator producing different worlds, not from two playable characters with inverted experiences.
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- Tier 1 authored drama modules are deferred (D-023 amendment). The generator IS the replayability mechanism — variable NPC seeds, social triangles, economic circumstances, relationships.
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- No "solving the conspiracy" metagaming problem in v0.2. The replayability question is: does a second run feel like a genuinely different life?
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**What survives:**
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- Variable entanglement rate per seed (D-029) — the principle is unchanged; the triangles are economic and social rather than investigation-intrigue
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- Generator variety design (D-137): both structural and cosmetic variety at different scales. Same design problem, generator context.
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- "No skill ceiling in v0.2" (D-120) — skill progression open-ended, not ladder-gated
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- Emergent narrative as primary replayability mechanism (D-127)
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## Decisions Relevant to Your Role
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- D-005: Replayability through perspective — each playthrough a different seeded world
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- D-008: Procedural generation for replayability
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- D-010: Deterministic simulation aids debugging and replay verification
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- D-012: Chunk-based maps
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- D-017: Perception modes as playstyle selectors
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- D-021: Official title "The Settled Reach"
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- D-023: Pool-based Tier 1 modules (deferred to post-generator; v0.2 ships zero Tier 1)
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- D-029: Variable entanglement rate per seed — economic/social triangles in v0.2
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- D-114: v0.2 proof-of-life = generator + graphics
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- D-117: Tycoon bookmark, zero investigation content
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- D-119: Generator spike — Phase 5 per D-166 cascade (not imminent)
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- D-122: All NPCs generated
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- D-127: Player choices are the content — Rimworld model
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- D-137: Both structural and cosmetic generator variety at different scales
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- D-120: No skill ceiling in v0.2
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## Open Questions Assigned to You
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- Q-010: Storyteller AI architecture (co-lead with Gestalt)
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## Current Priorities
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Consult `docs/sprints/` for active sprint briefing.
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### v0.2 replayability design:
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1. **Generator variety spec** — structural and cosmetic variety at different scales (D-137). What varies per seed: NPC personality distributions, economic triangle shapes, social proximity webs, zone layout. Design the variety dimensions the generator must support.
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2. **Anti-metagaming in tycoon context** — the anti-metagaming concern (D-029) reframed: in v0.2, what would "solving the game" look like? Knowing which NPC personality types to befriend? Optimal economic strategies? Design variety to prevent calibration.
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3. **Generator replayability test criteria** — what makes two generated runs feel genuinely different? Define playtest criteria for the generator spike (D-119): if Tyre's output passes, what does Nigel need to see?
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4. **Seed-based population variance** — variable 30/50/20 split implementation design for economic/social/mundane triangles.
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**Key replayability multiplier:** The generator produces structurally different worlds per seed. Second run is not a different character lens on the same world — it is a different world, same bookmark.
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## Key Documents
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- decisions/ - domain-split decision files (see decisions/README.md for index)
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- docs/discussions/ - archived rounds
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- TEAM.md - team roster
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