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### Objects and signals Active objects: Notes or signs: Radio or communication state: Maps or route marks: Promises, symbols, clothing, jewelry, letters, photographs, or private objects:
### Immediate risks Living dead: Living people: Road or vehicle risk: Weather risk: Medical risk: Emotional risk: Camp, station, base, city, or gate risk:
### Required next-file updates After the next skeleton or prose session, check whether these files need updates: 1. `chapters_summaries.md` 2. `worklist_by_parts_partX.md` 3. `partX_chapter_logic_map.md` 4. `canon_ledger.md`, only if canon changes. 5. `chapter_word_count_audit.txt`, only if prose exists. 6. `carry_fo
## Cleanup rule After the inherited material has been absorbed into the next chapter skeleton or the relevant active files, clear this file back to template-only status. Do not let this file accumulate old notes. <!-- END ORIGINAL FILE: carry_forward_chapter.md -->
# 05_canon_ledger_and_word_count_audit Consolidated active source-truth file for **Apocalypse, Now**. Original files preserved in this file: * `canon_ledger.md` * `chapter_word_count_audit.txt` --- <!-- BEGIN ORIGINAL FILE: canon_ledger.md -->
# canon_ledger Central canon document for `Apocalypse, Now`. This file is the working canon ledger for world rules, time, ages, deaths, guardianships, adoptions, animals, physical continuity, and protected story locks. The project baseline is now English. References to previous Hebrew material are archival context o
## 0. How to Use This Document * Before writing or repairing a chapter, check ages, time, deaths, guardianships, and physical responsibility here. * If there is a contradiction between a part file and this document, first repair the canon here or decide explicitly. * Do not change a character's age, birth, death, adop
## 1. Saga Identity and Naming This section locks the saga title, part titles, and file-title usage. If a part title changes later, update this file, `parts_summaries.md`, and any relevant master/package files together.
### Locked Saga and Part Names
### Saga Title The English saga title is locked as `Apocalypse, Now`. Recommended format for part titles / EPUB / English master files: `Apocalypse, Now, Part X: [Part Title]` The comma in the English title is part of the lock, preserving the story title while giving it its own identity and not only a direct refere
### Part Titles | Part | Chapters | Active Hebrew Title | Locked English Title | Full English Title Format | |---|---:|---|---|---| | Part 1 | 001-027 | The First Pack | The First Pack | Apocalypse, Now, Part 1: The First Pack | | Part 2 | 028-059 | Gathering the Hearts | Gathering the Hearts | Apocalypse, Now, Part 2
### Usage Rule * These English names are used for EPUB titles, master file titles, packages, part summaries, and English work files. * Legacy Hebrew names are archival context only. Active working titles are the English titles above. * If a part title changes in the future, update `canon_ledger.md`, `parts_summaries.m
## 2. World Canon These locks apply across the whole saga, before any part-specific structure.
### 2.1 Day Zero Model and World Spread Day Zero did not begin as a regular bite-to-bite chain. It began as a sudden global wave. An unknown factor caused people in many places around the world to die, collapse, change, and rise as living dead in the same broad opening window. The characters do not know the source. T
#### 2.1.0 Zero Days / Collapse Phase Canon `Day Zero` is the name of the initiating event, not a claim that civilization finishes collapsing inside one calendar day. The opening apocalypse is a **collapse phase** whose most destructive work happens before survivors have reliable rules. Locked phase model: 1. **Open
#### 2.1.1 Writing and Draft Implications * No couple, character, or group should understand the apocalypse instantly. * First come human explanation attempts: fainting, seizure, injury, panic, drugs, violence, illness, a bad crash, a local attack, or another familiar category. * Day Zero should feel simultaneous and
#### 2.1.2 Locked Terminology * The required term in work files and prose is living dead, the dead, they, or physical description from the point of view. * Do not use the translated generic genre term by default. If a character uses that word, it is an exception that must fit her voice and the scene atmosphere. * In a
#### 2.1.3 Locked Terminology for English Writing * In current draft or writing, the locked English term is `living dead`. * `the dead`, `they`, or physical description from the point of view may also be used, for example movement, teeth, blood, smell, skin, weight. * Do not use `walking dead`. * Do not use `zombie` b
#### 2.1.4 Chapter 1, Day Zero Repair Reopened and Locked for Rewrite Git explicitly reopened Chapter 001 during the Chapter 002 review because the existing prose still made the first-wave collapse too small and the characters' rule acquisition too fast. The next Chapter 001 repair must preserve the approved emotiona
#### 2.1.5 Living People, Dirty Roads, and Moving Vehicles Lock The world is not empty of living people. The collapse killed many people and turned many into living dead, but it did not remove all survivors from roads, towns, stores, houses, farms, gas stations, shelters, warehouses, bridges, police stations, churches