diff --git a/state/agent-swarm-paused.json b/state/agent-swarm-paused.json
index 7c50180..56ab1c6 100644
--- a/state/agent-swarm-paused.json
+++ b/state/agent-swarm-paused.json
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "paused": false,
-  "reason": "Operator requested swarm restart after global doctrine and Face prompt inheritance updates. Restart deliberately under observation; watch topic saturation, social tension, source-channel routing, and Face prompt behavior.",
-  "pausedAt": "2026-05-23T12:31:04.330Z",
-  "resumedAt": "2026-05-24T02:11:38.839Z",
-  "lastPausedAt": "2026-05-23T12:31:04.330Z"
+  "paused": true,
+  "reason": "Paused by operator after unintelligible Face speech; inspect recent Face turns before resuming.",
+  "pausedAt": "2026-05-24T04:10:49.7761305Z"
 }
diff --git a/state/evidence.jsonl b/state/evidence.jsonl
index 0ffd530..c8da8ef 100644
--- a/state/evidence.jsonl
+++ b/state/evidence.jsonl
@@ -312,3 +312,4 @@
 {"ts":"2026-05-24T02:24:32Z","type":"implementation","status":"ok","note":"Repo Face turns now carry Discord attachment metadata through SourceMessage, cache recent image attachments under .voidbot/media/discord-images, render media markers in Face transcripts, and pass cached image files to owner Codex via codex exec --image. Prompt assembly verified the Image awareness section renders and non-image attachments stay metadata-only."}
 {"ts":"2026-05-24T02:27:41Z","type":"ops","status":"ok","note":"Rebuilt VoidBot and restarted the live stack after multimodal Face-turn changes. Runtime status is ready with bot PID 11324 and worker PID 16396, so owner-Codex provider changes for codex exec --image are live in dist."}
 {"ts":"2026-05-24T02:54:54Z","type":"implementation","status":"ok","note":"Discord repo Face intake now treats explicit room-wide invitations as pending CTB obligations for every eligible Face in the channel, and repo identity Discord bridge posting retries once while reporting status/signal/stdout/stderr instead of failing with an empty message."}
+{"ts":"2026-05-24T04:12:46Z","type":"diagnosis","status":"warning","note":"Paused repo Face swarm after plain-language failure. Recent Face prompts did include Metacrat's 'What are you even talking about?' and 'Please dumb it down' messages as transcript/direct calls, but the later fresh projected state kept pushing artifact/specimen/first-right/seam language as current identity pressure. The Face outputs followed that projected-state jargon instead of the human correction, so the likely owner is state-to-Face projection salience, not missing transcript intake."}