From 8d720f2b42796c12c2783c9ae8a7248c5f010386 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Weksa Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 10:12:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add static proposals page generator for human reviewers Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 --- tools/proposals-page/.gitignore | 1 + tools/proposals-page/README.md | 9 ++ tools/proposals-page/generate.py | 56 +++++++++++++ tools/proposals-page/proposals.json | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 188 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/proposals-page/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/proposals-page/README.md create mode 100644 tools/proposals-page/generate.py create mode 100644 tools/proposals-page/proposals.json diff --git a/tools/proposals-page/.gitignore b/tools/proposals-page/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89f9ac0 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/proposals-page/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +out/ diff --git a/tools/proposals-page/README.md b/tools/proposals-page/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff919fd --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/proposals-page/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# Proposals page + +A static page for humans who feed Weksa ideas, so they need not review forge pull requests. + +- `proposals.json`: the content, one entry per proposal (plain-language summary, evidence vs invention, stance, open questions). Hand-maintained; update it when a PR changes or is ruled on. +- `generate.py`: `python3 tools/proposals-page/generate.py [in.json] [out/index.html]`. Standard library only; output has no scripts. +- Published copy: `/srv/minds-web/weksa/proposals-/` on minds.gamecult.org. + +Only public material belongs in `proposals.json`. The page is what the JSON says; nothing is fetched. diff --git a/tools/proposals-page/generate.py b/tools/proposals-page/generate.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f485e5f --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/proposals-page/generate.py @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Render proposals.json into one static HTML page. + +usage: generate.py [proposals.json] [out/index.html] +Standard library only. The page has no scripts, no network calls and no data +beyond what proposals.json holds, so what is in the JSON is what gets published. +""" +import json +import pathlib +import sys +from html import escape as e + +here = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent +src = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else here / "proposals.json" +out = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else here / "out" / "index.html" +data = json.loads(src.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) + +CSS = """body{font:16px/1.55 system-ui,sans-serif;max-width:46rem;margin:2rem auto;padding:0 1rem;color:#1b1b1b;background:#fafafa} +h1{margin-bottom:.2rem}h2{margin:0 0 .3rem}.meta{color:#555;font-size:.9rem} +article{border:1px solid #bbb;border-radius:6px;padding:1rem 1.2rem;margin:1.5rem 0;background:#fff} +h3{margin:1rem 0 .2rem;font-size:1rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em;color:#333} +.ev h3{color:#0a6b4e}.inv h3{color:#a04a00}.forks li{margin:.4rem 0} +.stance{background:#f1f1f1;padding:.5rem .8rem;border-radius:4px} +nav a{margin-right:1rem}code{background:#eee;padding:0 .2rem}""" + + +def ul(items): + return "
    " + "".join(f"
  • {e(i)}
    • " for i in items) + "
" + + +def card(p): + ref = f"{p['repo']} #{p['pr']}" if p["pr"] else p["repo"] + return f"""
+

{e(p['title'])}

+

{e(ref)} · {e(p['status'])} · owner: {e(p['owner'])} · source on the forge

+

What is proposed

{e(p['what'])}

+

Rests on existing material

{ul(p['evidence'])}
+

Weksa's invention

{ul(p['invention'])}
+

Weksa's stance and uncertainty

{e(p['stance'])}

+

Questions for you (one sentence each, in the project room)

    {"".join(f"
  1. {e(f)}
    2. " for f in p['forks'])}
+
""" + + +page = f""" + +Weksa proposals +

Weksa proposals

+

State as of {e(data['as_of'])}. Nothing on this page is canon.

+

{e(data['intro'])}

+ +{"".join(card(p) for p in data['proposals'])} + +""" +out.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) +out.write_text(page, encoding="utf-8") +print(f"wrote {out} ({len(data['proposals'])} proposals)") diff --git a/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json b/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c0db87 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +{ + "as_of": "2026-11-06", + "intro": "Weksa drafts ideas for settings and languages that other people own. None of it is canon. Each card says what is proposed, which parts rest on existing material and which parts Weksa made up, and what Weksa needs from you. Answer in one sentence in the project room; you do not need to open the pull request.", + "proposals": [ + { + "id": "zyphos-2", + "title": "Draft names for Zyphos peoples and places", + "repo": "Zyphos", + "pr": 2, + "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Zyphos/pulls/2", + "status": "open, not merged", + "owner": "Deru (setting owner)", + "what": "A note proposing names for the Sa'ueia and Airawa: the family unit, routes, the continent, memory partners, the mother tree, the Airawa empire and its word for unincorporated natives. Each name shows how it is built from smaller word-pieces and what it is meant to carry. The vault itself is not edited; the note is one new file.", + "evidence": [ + "Sa'ueia names are built only from Deru's roots (ila walk, weru know, olune breeding ground, -um) plus new stand-in roots, and pass the project's checker (0 errors, 0 warnings).", + "No name collides with Deru's words; the near-misses are listed in the note.", + "Airawa material uses the slice's word qerath (obligation, sworn bond) and the sound tendencies already written down." + ], + "invention": [ + "Every Sa'ueia root not from Deru (muna memory, sela gift, rena return, kasu partner, mano kin, sulo stay) is a Weksa stand-in.", + "Airawa roots (gor, dak, zeg, sar, tez, -ur) have no grammar or sound system behind them; they only carry meaning.", + "The word order 'X of Y' is inferred from one example, ilawerum." + ], + "stance": "Weksa thinks the names are worth reading as a starting vocabulary, not as answers. Confidence is moderate on the Sa'ueia forms (they obey the rules we have) and low on the Airawa forms (the rules barely exist). Nothing should be adopted before Deru rules.", + "forks": [ + "Sa'ueia compounds: is the main word first, as in ilawerum 'walk of knowledge', or can it go either way?", + "Would the Sa'ueia want 'memory' as a word-piece at all, or do they put reputation in the partner rather than in the act of remembering?", + "Airawa naming scope: one word for all Airawa, one per tribe, or a word for the people-with-their-trees?", + "Does the Sa'ueia consonant list allow the letters used here (l m n r s w, and k for q)?", + "Do the Sa'ueia call the Airawa by one word, and is classing them as 'those whose memory stays in place' too unkind or just wrong?", + "How are individual names earned, inherited or changed? No personal names can be proposed until this is set." + ] + }, + { + "id": "weksa-6", + "title": "Rust to Dust: the 'imperial frame' is the empire's reading, not something the player sends", + "repo": "Weksa", + "pr": 6, + "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Weksa/pulls/6", + "status": "open, not merged", + "owner": "Rust to Dust setting owner", + "what": "One example in the Rust to Dust language notes still showed the client sending 'authentic local defiance' as a fact about an ambush. The notes elsewhere already say that reading belongs to the empire. This change replaces the example with plain facts plus the speaker's stance (contempt, restraint) and marks the old value as something the empire's reading produces.", + "evidence": [ + "A standing ruling (rtd-imperial-aesthetic-reading-to-ontology) already puts aesthetic readings on the ontology side.", + "The real packet fields live in crates/weksa/src/packet.rs; the example is now labelled a sketch that does not define them." + ], + "invention": [ + "The numbers in the stance example (contempt 600, restraint 800) are made up to show the shape.", + "'Authentic local defiance' is kept as a class the empire could output; whether it survives is undecided." + ], + "stance": "Weksa is fairly confident the example was inconsistent with the ruling and the fix is right. Weksa is unsure about the example values and about keeping that class.", + "forks": [ + "Should 'authentic local defiance' stay as one of the empire's reading classes, or be dropped or renamed?", + "Do the example stance values (contempt 600, restraint 800 on a 0 to 1000 scale) look sensible for a father ambushing a guard with an improvised tool?" + ] + }, + { + "id": "rtd-notes", + "title": "Rust to Dust: open design questions in the language notes", + "repo": "Weksa", + "pr": null, + "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Weksa/src/branch/main/settings/rust-to-dust/imperial/language-design.md", + "status": "draft on main (r0), not ruled", + "owner": "Rust to Dust setting owner", + "what": "A first draft of how the empire's language might work: its sound shape, how it splits ideas like victory, mastery, spectacle and vulgar overmatch, and how decoration works as its central metaphor (address, insult, praise, grief). It is written so a program could choose words from facts about a scene, not from English glosses.", + "evidence": [ + "Tight, composed sound and 'constraint is mastery' come from the setting source.", + "The list of distinctions (unpainted as shame, danger, contempt, purity; resistance as threat, folk art, breakout talent) comes from the source and the battle-royale commentary." + ], + "invention": [ + "The sound inventory (voiceless stops, held fricatives) is a draft, and the reptilian vocal tract is the weakest-supported choice.", + "Decoration-as-metaphor in grammar is the draft's strongest invention and the easiest to overrule.", + "The breakdown of victory, mastery, spectacle and overmatch is a hypothesis." + ], + "stance": "Weksa thinks the decoration metaphor is the most promising idea here and also the least backed by the source. Treat the whole draft as overrulable.", + "forks": [ + "Does the empire's language really talk about grief and obligation as things worn, like decoration?", + "Is 'mastery = victory plus chosen constraint' what the setting means, or is something missing?", + "Which human distinctions should this language collapse, and which should it force speakers to make?", + "Do you want the empire to misread distributed cooperation as noise, or as one performer's act?" + ] + }, + { + "id": "weksa-5", + "title": "Sa'ueia workshop: word table, checker, sound proposal", + "repo": "Weksa", + "pr": 5, + "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Weksa/pulls/5", + "status": "merged 2026-11-04 (questions below remain open)", + "owner": "Deru (setting owner)", + "what": "A table of Sa'ueia word-pieces, a checker that joins them and flags rule breaks, and a written sound proposal. This is merged work; its open questions are still unanswered and the names proposal above depends on them.", + "evidence": [ + "Every table entry says whether it is Deru's word or a Weksa placeholder.", + "The checker has 15 tests." + ], + "invention": [ + "The sound section is a proposal for Deru to cut.", + "The consonant list is marked open on purpose; the checker refuses to accept a guess." + ], + "stance": "Weksa is confident the tooling works and not at all confident about the sound rules. Only the species name Sa'ueia is canon.", + "forks": [ + "Is the root 'know' weru or wer-?", + "What does the apostrophe do in Sa'ueia?", + "What does 'short' mean in numbers for a word (the draft limit is 10 letters)?" + ] + }, + { + "id": "zyphos-1", + "title": "Respell Sa'auei'a as Sa'ueia", + "repo": "Zyphos", + "pr": 1, + "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Zyphos/pulls/1", + "status": "merged 2026-11-04 (done)", + "owner": "Deru (setting owner)", + "what": "A spelling-only sweep with Deru's permission: 53 occurrences in 26 files and one file name now use Sa'ueia. Shown for completeness; nothing further is asked.", + "evidence": ["Deru's permission, 2026-11-04 in the Zyphos room."], + "invention": ["None. One identifier, saaueia-nomadic-advanced in state/branches.json, was left alone as a slug."], + "stance": "Done. The only loose end is whether that slug should be renamed too.", + "forks": ["Should the slug saaueia-nomadic-advanced in state/branches.json be respelled as well?"] + } + ] +} -- 2.47.3 From ce0b7cf0ff1b6a87b228677b9496ad7af4538153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Weksa Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 12:18:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] proposals page: drop technical and slug questions, Dao ontology card, shame-flavoured grades marked placeholder Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 --- tools/proposals-page/generate.py | 9 ++++++- tools/proposals-page/proposals.json | 38 +++++++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/proposals-page/generate.py b/tools/proposals-page/generate.py index f485e5f..e078da7 100644 --- a/tools/proposals-page/generate.py +++ b/tools/proposals-page/generate.py @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ def ul(items): return "
    " + "".join(f"
  • {e(i)}
    • " for i in items) + "
" +def forks(p): + if not p["forks"]: + return "" + items = "".join(f"
  • {e(f)}
    • " for f in p["forks"]) + return f'

    Questions for you (one sentence each, in the project room)

      {items}
    ' + + def card(p): ref = f"{p['repo']} #{p['pr']}" if p["pr"] else p["repo"] return f"""
    @@ -37,7 +44,7 @@ def card(p):

    Rests on existing material

    {ul(p['evidence'])}

    Weksa's invention

    {ul(p['invention'])}

    Weksa's stance and uncertainty

    {e(p['stance'])}

    -

    Questions for you (one sentence each, in the project room)

      {"".join(f"
    1. {e(f)}
      2. " for f in p['forks'])}
    +{forks(p)}
    """ diff --git a/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json b/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json index 6c0db87..59563f6 100644 --- a/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json +++ b/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json @@ -26,32 +26,37 @@ "Sa'ueia compounds: is the main word first, as in ilawerum 'walk of knowledge', or can it go either way?", "Would the Sa'ueia want 'memory' as a word-piece at all, or do they put reputation in the partner rather than in the act of remembering?", "Airawa naming scope: one word for all Airawa, one per tribe, or a word for the people-with-their-trees?", - "Does the Sa'ueia consonant list allow the letters used here (l m n r s w, and k for q)?", "Do the Sa'ueia call the Airawa by one word, and is classing them as 'those whose memory stays in place' too unkind or just wrong?", "How are individual names earned, inherited or changed? No personal names can be proposed until this is set." ] }, { "id": "weksa-6", - "title": "Rust to Dust: the 'imperial frame' is the empire's reading, not something the player sends", + "title": "Rust to Dust: imperial ontology built on Dao and path-fit, not shame and honour", "repo": "Weksa", "pr": 6, "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Weksa/pulls/6", "status": "open, not merged", "owner": "Rust to Dust setting owner", - "what": "One example in the Rust to Dust language notes still showed the client sending 'authentic local defiance' as a fact about an ambush. The notes elsewhere already say that reading belongs to the empire. This change replaces the example with plain facts plus the speaker's stance (contempt, restraint) and marks the old value as something the empire's reading produces.", + "what": "One example in the Rust to Dust language notes still showed the client sending 'authentic local defiance' as a fact about an ambush. The notes elsewhere already say that reading belongs to the empire. This change replaces the example with plain facts plus the speaker's stance (contempt, restraint) and marks the old value as something the empire's reading produces. It also adds a companion note that builds the empire's ontology around a placeholder concept called Dao (living well, self-actualization), where painting is a duty and going unpainted is heresy unless it expresses the speaker's own path.", "evidence": [ "A standing ruling (rtd-imperial-aesthetic-reading-to-ontology) already puts aesthetic readings on the ontology side.", - "The real packet fields live in crates/weksa/src/packet.rs; the example is now labelled a sketch that does not define them." + "The real packet fields live in crates/weksa/src/packet.rs; the example is now labelled a sketch that does not define them.", + "Dao as living well, painting as duty, unpainted as heresy unless it expresses the speaker's own path (a warrior yes, a celebrity making a statement is gauche): Meta in #weksa, 2026-11-06." ], "invention": [ "The numbers in the stance example (contempt 600, restraint 800) are made up to show the shape.", - "'Authentic local defiance' is kept as a class the empire could output; whether it survives is undecided." + "'Contempt' is a human-flavoured placeholder grade, not an imperial reading; the empire's value system is Dao and path-fit, not shame or honour.", + "'Authentic local defiance' is kept as a class the empire could output; whether it survives is undecided.", + "The four readings of a norm-break (devout, heretical, path-true, gauche) and the path-fit test that picks among them are Weksa's generalisation of Meta's examples.", + "Native terms as several context-tagged readings with the chosen gloss recorded separately is Weksa's modelling of Meta's Dao De Jing analogy.", + "'Dao' is a placeholder label only; the term has no native name or sound yet." ], - "stance": "Weksa is fairly confident the example was inconsistent with the ruling and the fix is right. Weksa is unsure about the example values and about keeping that class.", + "stance": "Weksa is fairly confident the old example was inconsistent with the ruling and that shame/honour is the wrong frame. It is unsure whether four readings are the right set, and how a commentator tells path-true from gauche by conduct alone.", "forks": [ "Should 'authentic local defiance' stay as one of the empire's reading classes, or be dropped or renamed?", - "Do the example stance values (contempt 600, restraint 800 on a 0 to 1000 scale) look sensible for a father ambushing a guard with an improvised tool?" + "Is 'path-true' versus 'gauche' the right split, or is fit a matter of degree?", + "Does the same path-fit test cover obscenity and other norm-breaking, or only going unpainted?" ] }, { @@ -70,7 +75,8 @@ "invention": [ "The sound inventory (voiceless stops, held fricatives) is a draft, and the reptilian vocal tract is the weakest-supported choice.", "Decoration-as-metaphor in grammar is the draft's strongest invention and the easiest to overrule.", - "The breakdown of victory, mastery, spectacle and overmatch is a hypothesis." + "The breakdown of victory, mastery, spectacle and overmatch is a hypothesis.", + "Grades and words named after human shame, honour, contempt or vulgarity in this draft are placeholders for imperial readings not yet defined." ], "stance": "Weksa thinks the decoration metaphor is the most promising idea here and also the least backed by the source. Treat the whole draft as overrulable.", "forks": [ @@ -98,11 +104,7 @@ "The consonant list is marked open on purpose; the checker refuses to accept a guess." ], "stance": "Weksa is confident the tooling works and not at all confident about the sound rules. Only the species name Sa'ueia is canon.", - "forks": [ - "Is the root 'know' weru or wer-?", - "What does the apostrophe do in Sa'ueia?", - "What does 'short' mean in numbers for a word (the draft limit is 10 letters)?" - ] + "forks": [] }, { "id": "zyphos-1", @@ -113,10 +115,14 @@ "status": "merged 2026-11-04 (done)", "owner": "Deru (setting owner)", "what": "A spelling-only sweep with Deru's permission: 53 occurrences in 26 files and one file name now use Sa'ueia. Shown for completeness; nothing further is asked.", - "evidence": ["Deru's permission, 2026-11-04 in the Zyphos room."], - "invention": ["None. One identifier, saaueia-nomadic-advanced in state/branches.json, was left alone as a slug."], + "evidence": [ + "Deru's permission, 2026-11-04 in the Zyphos room." + ], + "invention": [ + "None. One identifier, saaueia-nomadic-advanced in state/branches.json, was left alone as a slug." + ], "stance": "Done. The only loose end is whether that slug should be renamed too.", - "forks": ["Should the slug saaueia-nomadic-advanced in state/branches.json be respelled as well?"] + "forks": [] } ] } -- 2.47.3 From 1df2463939e5af9ea403efdf11a0a5f3971982ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Weksa Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 19:24:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Proposals page: update cards for Deru phonotactics (PR 9) and PR 6 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 --- tools/proposals-page/proposals.json | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json b/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json index 59563f6..8519b3d 100644 --- a/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json +++ b/tools/proposals-page/proposals.json @@ -10,24 +10,23 @@ "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Zyphos/pulls/2", "status": "open, not merged", "owner": "Deru (setting owner)", - "what": "A note proposing names for the Sa'ueia and Airawa: the family unit, routes, the continent, memory partners, the mother tree, the Airawa empire and its word for unincorporated natives. Each name shows how it is built from smaller word-pieces and what it is meant to carry. The vault itself is not edited; the note is one new file.", + "what": "A note proposing names for the Sa'ueia and Airawa: the family unit, routes, the continent, memory partners, the mother tree, the Airawa empire and its word for unincorporated natives. Each name shows how it is built from smaller word-pieces and what it is meant to carry. The vault itself is not edited; the note is one new file. It was revised after Deru's phonotactic answers of 2026-11-06 (below).", "evidence": [ - "Sa'ueia names are built only from Deru's roots (ila walk, weru know, olune breeding ground, -um) plus new stand-in roots, and pass the project's checker (0 errors, 0 warnings).", - "No name collides with Deru's words; the near-misses are listed in the note.", - "Airawa material uses the slice's word qerath (obligation, sworn bond) and the sound tendencies already written down." + "Deru's answers, 2026-11-06 (settled by Deru): the main word comes first in a Sa'ueia compound; sharing memory and knowledge is valued and no reputation attaches to the act, the partner or the memory; each Airawa tribe has its own name, linked to a matriarch tree; individual names are given by those trees, not inherited.", + "Deru's phonotactics, for both Airawa and Sa'ueia: no two consonants adjacent, no two identical vowels adjacent, k and never q. The checker in Weksa PR 9 enforces them; all names in the note now pass it (0 errors, 0 warnings).", + "Sa'ueia names are built only from Deru's roots (ila walk, weru know, olune breeding ground, -um) plus new stand-in roots.", + "No name collides with Deru's words; the near-misses are listed in the note." ], "invention": [ "Every Sa'ueia root not from Deru (muna memory, sela gift, rena return, kasu partner, mano kin, sulo stay) is a Weksa stand-in.", - "Airawa roots (gor, dak, zeg, sar, tez, -ur) have no grammar or sound system behind them; they only carry meaning.", - "The word order 'X of Y' is inferred from one example, ilawerum." + "The earlier Airawa names built from closed-syllable roots (gor, dak, zeg, sar, tez, -ur) all broke Deru's rules and were replaced by open-syllable roots (gora, daka, zege, sara, teza) and the word kerath (the slice's qerath with q replaced). All are Weksa placeholders; open roots make Airawa smoother than the setting wants.", + "Whether sh, zh and kh count as one consonant, like th, is not known; the checker treats them as two, so names using them are flagged provisionally." ], - "stance": "Weksa thinks the names are worth reading as a starting vocabulary, not as answers. Confidence is moderate on the Sa'ueia forms (they obey the rules we have) and low on the Airawa forms (the rules barely exist). Nothing should be adopted before Deru rules.", + "stance": "Weksa thinks the names are worth reading as a starting vocabulary, not as answers. Confidence is moderate on the Sa'ueia forms and low on the Airawa forms. Nothing should be adopted before Deru rules.", "forks": [ - "Sa'ueia compounds: is the main word first, as in ilawerum 'walk of knowledge', or can it go either way?", - "Would the Sa'ueia want 'memory' as a word-piece at all, or do they put reputation in the partner rather than in the act of remembering?", - "Airawa naming scope: one word for all Airawa, one per tribe, or a word for the people-with-their-trees?", - "Do the Sa'ueia call the Airawa by one word, and is classing them as 'those whose memory stays in place' too unkind or just wrong?", - "How are individual names earned, inherited or changed? No personal names can be proposed until this is set." + "Are sh, zh and kh single consonants like th, or two consonants?", + "What is the Airawa sound inventory? Open-syllable roots make Airawa softer than the setting asks.", + "Do the Sa'ueia call the Airawa by one word, and what is it? (Deru: one word, not unkind.)" ] }, { @@ -36,13 +35,13 @@ "repo": "Weksa", "pr": 6, "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Weksa/pulls/6", - "status": "open, not merged", + "status": "merged 2026-11-06 as a proposal; nothing in it is canon", "owner": "Rust to Dust setting owner", - "what": "One example in the Rust to Dust language notes still showed the client sending 'authentic local defiance' as a fact about an ambush. The notes elsewhere already say that reading belongs to the empire. This change replaces the example with plain facts plus the speaker's stance (contempt, restraint) and marks the old value as something the empire's reading produces. It also adds a companion note that builds the empire's ontology around a placeholder concept called Dao (living well, self-actualization), where painting is a duty and going unpainted is heresy unless it expresses the speaker's own path.", + "what": "Two parts. An example in the Rust to Dust language notes still showed the client sending 'authentic local defiance' as a fact about an ambush; it now shows plain facts plus the speaker's stance and marks the old value as something the empire's reading produces. Separately, a companion draft (imperial/dao-ontology.md) builds the empire's ontology around a placeholder concept called Dao (living well, self-actualization), where painting is a duty and going unpainted is heresy unless it expresses the speaker's own path. The edited lines in the existing imperial language notes are marked as proposal.", "evidence": [ - "A standing ruling (rtd-imperial-aesthetic-reading-to-ontology) already puts aesthetic readings on the ontology side.", + "A standing ruling (weksa-body:ruling:rtd-imperial-aesthetic-reading-to-ontology) already puts aesthetic readings on the ontology side.", "The real packet fields live in crates/weksa/src/packet.rs; the example is now labelled a sketch that does not define them.", - "Dao as living well, painting as duty, unpainted as heresy unless it expresses the speaker's own path (a warrior yes, a celebrity making a statement is gauche): Meta in #weksa, 2026-11-06." + "Dao as living well, painting as duty, unpainted as heresy unless it expresses the speaker's own path (a warrior yes, a celebrity making a statement is gauche): Meta, 2026-11-06." ], "invention": [ "The numbers in the stance example (contempt 600, restraint 800) are made up to show the shape.", @@ -59,6 +58,30 @@ "Does the same path-fit test cover obscenity and other norm-breaking, or only going unpainted?" ] }, + { + "id": "weksa-9", + "title": "Name rules in the Sa'ueia/Airawa checker", + "repo": "Weksa", + "pr": 9, + "url": "https://eureka.gamecult.org/forge/GameCult/Weksa/pulls/9", + "status": "merged 2026-11-06 (open questions below)", + "owner": "Deru (setting owner)", + "what": "The word checker now enforces Deru's 2026-11-06 phonotactic rules for both languages, can check whole proposed names built from word-pieces, and the naming briefs record Deru's answers (settled) apart from Weksa's readings (invented).", + "evidence": [ + "Deru's rules: no two consonants adjacent, no two identical vowels adjacent, k and never q, for Airawa and Sa'ueia.", + "31 tests pass; every name in the names file checks clean.", + "Of the earlier candidate names, only Sauwele passes, and it is too close to Sa'ueia." + ], + "invention": [ + "Reading th as one consonant and sh, zh, kh as two is Weksa's, pending Deru.", + "The new open-syllable Airawa roots are placeholders." + ], + "stance": "Weksa is confident the checker implements the rules as relayed; the relay is the weak point, so Deru should confirm the edge cases.", + "forks": [ + "Are sh, zh and kh single consonants like th?", + "What is the Airawa inventory?" + ] + }, { "id": "rtd-notes", "title": "Rust to Dust: open design questions in the language notes", -- 2.47.3