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### Day Zero Entrance Law Every new couple, character, or group must arrive with four layers before they reach the convoy, camp, base, or city: 1. Who they were before the end: work, family, routine, wound, relationship, power balance, avoidance, home, habits. 2. How Day Zero reached them: partial information, radio,
### Standalone Entry Arc Law Every entrance block must be able to stand on its own as a complete fanfic arc if the reader stops at the moment that couple, character, or group meets the main pack, convoy, camp, base, or city. This does not mean every entrance block is the same size. It means every entrance block needs
## Entry Arc Scale Guide This guide controls the expected depth of standalone entrance blocks. It does not create a hard maximum word count. It prevents major arrivals from being compressed into summary and prevents smaller arrivals from stealing the structural weight of the core saga.
### Major standalone entry arcs Major standalone entry arcs may require 10,000 to 15,000 words per chapter when the story weight requires it. Use this scale for: * Lexa / Costia / Anya, * Ronance / Steve, * Clarke / Raven / Octavia / Steve, * Vauseman / Theo, * SwanQueen / Henry, * Avalance, * Steve / Anya / Hawkins
### Medium standalone entry arcs Medium standalone entry arcs may require 7,000 to 12,000 words per chapter when needed. Use this scale for: * Finchel, * Shoni, * Seth / Summer, * Maya / Carina, * Runaways, * Sarah Walker / Chuck, * Callie / Arizona, * Cosima / Delphine, * Bo / Lauren. These arcs still need lived p
### Smaller intake arcs Smaller intake arcs are still real story, but they are more compressed. Use this scale for later city arrivals, support families, minor rescue groups, single-purpose civic arrivals, and survivor cells that change the city without carrying a full independent block. They still need enough old-w
### Scale warning If an entrance block cannot be read with emotional satisfaction up to the meeting point, it is underbuilt. If a smaller entrance block starts pushing the four core couples or the active part engine off the page, it is overbuilt. The meeting point with the main group should feel like the ending of on
### Living People, Roads, and Moving Vehicles Law The saga world is not an empty stage populated only by the living dead. Living people remain present across every phase of the story: hidden, moving, scavenging, guarding, fleeing, hunting, trading, threatening, refusing contact, asking for help, or building their own
### World Period, Technology, and Media Law The world is locked to a period roughly parallel to 2003. Available technology and culture: * DVDs, VHS tapes, CDs, burned CDs, Discman players, early MP3 players, rare iPods. * Radio, television, car tape decks, simple projectors, small generators. * Old digital cameras,
### Infrastructure Collapse Timeline Law The 2003 technology lock also controls how infrastructure dies. Electricity, water, landlines, mobile phones, television, radio, internet/news access, refrigeration, fuel pumps, sewer and generators must follow the active canon timeline in `05_canon_ledger_and_word_count_audit.
### Light, Darkness, Weather, and Seasonal Survival Law After infrastructure collapses, darkness and weather become saga systems, not scenery. Night is not neutral. Without public power, the characters live by daylight, dusk, moonlight, fire, candles, flashlights, lanterns, vehicle lights, batteries, generators, and
### Death, Grief, and Continuing-Life Law A death, confirmed loss, apparent death, or irreversible separation is not a one-scene event. It creates a continuing state in the people who remain. Whole-saga requirements: * Every meaningful loss receives immediate reaction, delayed reaction, recurring triggers or consequ
### Terminology Law The locked English term for the dead is `living dead`. Allowed alternatives: * `the dead` * `they` * physical descriptions from point of view, such as teeth, weight, breath, blood, skin, smell, sound, movement Avoid: * `walking dead` * `zombie` as a default system term A character may say `zom
### Scene and Voice Law The saga is written from canon and outline, not by converting older material sentence by sentence. Every chapter must build scenes in natural English, with character voice, dialogue, body, action, intimacy, blocking, and lived consequence. Avoid future-explaining lines in prose. Do not write
### Intimacy, Desire, Sex, and Smut Law This is romantic fanfic. Intimacy is not decoration. Each part must hold kisses, touch, desire, sex, sexual tension, close sleep, jealousy, aftercare, private couple conversations, and body moments according to each couple's stage. Logistics, vehicles, water, food, battle, cou
### Food, Water, Hunting, Fishing, Livestock, and Preservation Law The world did not empty in one day. There are cans, pantries, stores, warehouses, kitchens, farms, gardens, fields, fishing, hunting, foraging, livestock, and food left in closed places. The difficulty is not that food stopped existing. The difficulty
### Forward Vision Law Every part must be written with two directions in mind: * What is alive inside the part itself. * What the part prepares for the following parts. Every part plan must check: * Steve's parallel axis, the signs, recovery, and road back toward Ronance. * Which ability the core lacks at this stag
### Steve Route Signs Law Before the full reunion with Steve, especially in Parts 2-3, Robin/Nancy/Raven's signs for Steve are a parallel plot line, not decoration. * Every meaningful movement of the pack or convoy leaves a small route sign, usually every day or two or at every direction change. * A small sign does n
### Source Canon Activation, Harm Boundary, and Family Status Law Source canon informs voice, history, wounds, relationships, objects, and emotional logic, but a source-canon character or mechanic is active only if Git explicitly locks it for `Apocalypse, Now`. Every meaningful family or close-character line must res
### Calendar and Region Spine Law Day Zero is early summer. The saga shares one broad calendar, while each region creates different weather, road, water, darkness, body, baby, child, animal, and hygiene pressure. Do not force an artificial seasonal problem. Track the actual region, season, infrastructure state, and b