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#### 5.4.4 Route-clue and elapsed-time proof A short lead cannot become a months-long gap through generic roadblocks, weather, or slow driving alone. When a search route stretches across weeks or months, distinguish on-page between: 1. proof that the searched group passed through, 2. a transfer or relay point, 3. a b
#### 5.4.5 Weapon continuity For every recurring firearm, track: 1. source and original owner, 2. who knows how to handle it and how that knowledge was learned, 3. chamber / magazine state when relevant, 4. ammunition source and count or honest approximate quantity, 5. custody and physical storage, 6. every shot fire
#### 5.4.6 Relationship baseline versus payoff A later emotional scene may pay off a relationship fact, but it must not invent a baseline that the reader needed earlier. * State materially relevant facts when they first shape how the reader understands the scene, for example that two characters are exes. * Preserve a
#### 5.4.7 Compatible-version and master-build gate When several sibling repair files exist, never assume the newest filename contains every earlier accepted repair. Before building a master or writing the next chapter: 1. list the exact source file used for each chapter, 2. compare sibling versions for independent f
### Special Vauseman Chapter 030 lock In the first apartment/peephole sequence: 1. Alex cannot know detailed living-dead rules immediately. 2. Alex cannot see impossible details through the peephole. 3. Sound-attraction must be learned gradually through observed cause/effect. 4. Neighbors must stay geographically con
## 6. Living-world realism skill The apocalypse is not empty. The living dead broke the world, but living people make the road morally dangerous. Every chapter involving roads, vehicles, stores, houses, shelters, depots, schools, clinics, farms, bridges, gates, scouting, supply runs, rescue, or intake must check for
## 7. World-canon skill
### 7.0 Source-canon activation, family-status, and harm-boundary locks Source canon informs voice, history, wounds, relationships, objects, and emotional logic, but it does not automatically import every relative, ex, sibling, parent, child, friend, side character, power, or fantasy mechanic into `Apocalypse, Now`.
### 7.1 Day Zero Day Zero is a sudden global wave, not a simple bite-chain outbreak. Characters experience it through: 1. contradictory reports 2. emergency alerts 3. radio 4. television 5. phone calls 6. sirens 7. police/hospital collapse 8. neighbors 9. bodies moving wrong 10. failed institutions No one instantly
### 7.2 Terminology Default prose terms: 1. `living dead` 2. `the dead` 3. `they` 4. physical POV description: teeth, weight, blood, skin, breath, smell, sound, movement Do not use `walking dead`. Do not use `zombie` by default. If used, it must be a conscious character word that fits the moment.
### 7.3 Technology baseline Do not collapse all communication instantly unless the chapter earns it. In early Day Zero, depending on time and location, the following may still exist temporarily: 1. radio 2. television 3. landline/mobile phone attempts 4. computer/internet attempts, unstable or slow depending on era/
### 7.3.1 Obvious-information-channel exhaustion Before a chapter removes an information channel that ordinary people would obviously try, show the attempt or provide a concrete reason it cannot happen. This applies especially during Day Zero and the first day of collapse. Check, in era-appropriate order: 1. landlin
### 7.4 Infrastructure collapse timeline canon When building or repairing Day Zero, first-week, first-month, or long-road chapters, use this timeline unless a specific active canon entry overrides it. This lock controls electricity, water, landlines, mobile phones, television, radio, internet, fuel pumps, refrigeratio
### 7.5 Light, darkness, weather, and seasonal survival canon After public infrastructure collapses, darkness and weather are active story systems. They are not background decoration. Every chapter must know what light exists, what the weather is doing, and what the season costs the body. Core lock: the end of electr
## 8. Packaging skill When Git asks for chapters to read: 1. Return a TXT for the specific chapter. 2. Return a cumulative EPUB containing all chapters in the current reading block so far. 3. EPUB must be iPhone / Apple Books friendly. 4. EPUB must be reflowable, not fixed-width. 5. Split chapters into separate XHTML
# 9. Couple skill cards These cards are not a substitute for the research and voice files. They are quick operational guards. ---
## 9.1 Ronance — Nancy Wheeler / Robin Buckley Core dynamic: order versus chaos, control versus overflow, competence-to-intimacy, grief carrying Steve without becoming a triangle. Write them through: 1. investigation/body/action before confession 2. Nancy compressing fear into plans 3. Robin talking too much until s
## 9.2 Clexa — Clarke Griffin / Lexa Core dynamic: recognition, restraint, body-control, grief, almosts, care as danger, love as the thing Lexa fears and Clarke refuses to reduce. Write them through: 1. Lexa's control, silence, responsibility, Costia wound 2. Clarke's medical body, trauma, stubborn life-force, Octav
## 9.3 SwanQueen — Emma Swan / Regina Mills Core dynamic: savior/pragmatist, sheriff/queen, loose/formal register, shared child, parenting as architecture, kitchen/home as battlefield and sanctuary. In this saga they are already a marriage without the word before the apocalypse forces them to stop resisting the realit
## 9.4 Vauseman — Alex Vause / Piper Chapman / Theo Core dynamic: poison and devotion, old damage, criminal logistics, moral argument, desire, parenting as accidental truth. Project decision: Vauseman are currently **canon-aware AU**. Do not imply exact Orange Is the New Black canon unless verified. Prison/marriage/