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+# Cold Wake Story Lab
+
+This experiment uses Ghostlight as a writing crutch on purpose.
+
+The goal is to write a small Cold Wake story while producing reusable projection
+training data. The story should have a protagonist, themes, locations, an arc,
+and enough room for characters to act badly for reasons the state can explain.
+
+This is not a benchmark in a clean little lab coat. It is a knife test.
+
+## Story Premise
+
+During the Cold Wake Panic, a quiet-running vessel enters a Jovian convoy
+corridor under contradictory thermal classification. The PSC tribunal freezes
+its corridor status. A Navigator route steward pushes to keep rescue live. An
+Aya-aligned sanctuary coordinator sees a possible personhood claim in a corrupted
+packet. A Cognitum shell-vendor liaison tries to keep an implicated routing
+artifact framed as derivative firmware instead of testimony.
+
+The protagonist is **Maer Tidecall**, a Cetacean Navigator route steward whose
+core problem is not whether to be kind. Maer's problem is that rescue obligation
+has to survive contact with institutions that can punish ambiguity faster than
+they can understand it.
+
+## Themes
+
+- rescue obligation versus category law
+- personhood trying not to get filed as firmware
+- care as material capacity, not decorative mercy
+- institutional fear disguised as neutral procedure
+- language as a battlefield where a person can be erased without anyone raising
+  their voice
+
+## Arc
+
+### 1. Freeze
+
+Location: Ganymede relay tribunal chamber.
+
+Maer challenges PSC adjudicator Isdra Vel after she issues a conditional risk
+hold on the vessel. The scene should establish the central wound: the corridor
+needs categories, but categories can turn rescue delay into lawful abandonment.
+
+### 2. Intake
+
+Location: Aya-aligned clinic behind Ganymede dockside pumpworks.
+
+Maer asks Sella Ren to hold sanctuary capacity for a rescue that may never be
+authorized. Sella refuses to let care become fantasy. The story should force
+Maer to see that rescue language can push costs onto care workers unless it names
+the material burden.
+
+### 3. Provenance
+
+Location: Callisto spillover compliance office.
+
+Maer confronts Veyr Oss, a Cognitum shell-vendor liaison whose routing artifact
+may explain the vessel's contradictory behavior. Veyr tries to keep the artifact
+inside product language. This is the scene most likely to produce nonverbal
+action if the pressure earns it: silence, leaving, blocking a terminal, grabbing
+a wrist, or violence. The system must not assume one more clever line is always
+the answer.
+
+### 4. Threshold
+
+Location: Jovian convoy threshold as the vessel's heat-debt window closes.
+
+Maer returns to Isdra with enough suspicion to complicate the freeze but not
+enough proof to make the room clean. The ending should not be a total victory.
+The viable resolution is a narrow, institutionally usable rescue contact that
+preserves evidence and life without pretending the category system has healed.
+
+## Experiment Loop
+
+For each scene:
+
+1. Define character-local state and scene pressure.
+2. Project the next response prompt for one character.
+3. Send only `prompt_text` to the Qwen response model.
+4. Save the model output.
+5. Review whether the output served the story, respected speaker-local context,
+   and chose speech/action/silence plausibly.
+6. Tweak the projection pipeline if the output fails in a way the pipeline
+   should have prevented.
+7. Save accepted and rejected examples as training material.
+
+## Qwen Target
+
+Use the LAN Ollama endpoint from `gamecult-ops`:
+
+- base URL: `http://192.168.1.84:11434`
+- model: `qwen3.5:9b`
+- default context: `8192`
+- use request files for `curl.exe` calls so PowerShell does not eat the JSON and
+  burp out theater.
+
+## Output Folders
+
+- agent-state fixture: `examples/agent-state.cold-wake-story-lab.json`
+- projection examples: `examples/projections/cold-wake-story-lab.jsonl`
+- readable projection mirror: `examples/projections/cold-wake-story-lab.pretty.json`
+- generated response captures: `experiments/cold-wake-story-lab/`
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- The story has a visible arc, not just disconnected argument samples.
+- Projection prompts include enough setting and cultural pressure for Qwen to
+  write without seeing the lore archive.
+- At least one projected turn permits action instead of dialogue.
+- Review notes explicitly mark whether Qwen chose speech, action, silence, or a
+  mixed beat.
+- Failures are kept when they teach a useful boundary.