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The Salt House · Draft 2

16 · RELATION WEB

RELATION WEB — the dramatis personae, folded at a tick · relation chords + stance edges (a stance can be about an edge) · communities derive from memberOf · scrub and the web re-knits, the seating never moves

AS OF4 250 · D30 · 12:207 relations · 5 stance edges · 2 communities
THE HARBOR BOARDTHE NELLIE’S CREWUNALIGNEDbk?kf!the Harbor BoardMarlowWidow Carrickthe Nellie’s crewKellBrodyElspethTamthe knifethe will
THE CASTING
derived from memberOf at the settled fold — no engine structure holds this
the Harbor Board
the Nellie’s crew
unaligned

click a name — or a mark on the ring — for its fold

▪ person · ▪ collective (large) · ● object — solid relation chords (arrow = directed by lexicon) · dashed stance chords, mono glyph = modality (b believes · k knows · ? doubts · f! fears · w wants · i intends · o obligated) · red = impossible acquisition · scrub and the web re-knits; the seating never moves

the cast as a deterministic ring — never force-directed: seats are the settled casting, sectors are communities derived from memberOf (the engine has no grouping structure; a collective is an ordinary entity and membership is an edge) · solid chords are the fold's EdgeRecords, arrowheads only where the lexicon says directed (the snapshot drops it) · dashed chords are stances about edges (§2.2 relation propositions) with mono modality glyphs — Elspeth's red “believes” is the impossible acquisition every widget carries · scrub: the betrothal ends, the knife changes hands twice, Brody leaves the crew, the will transfers — chords develop in and drop, the seating never moves · relations carry no since/setBy in the snapshot — the rail answers “appeared by tick N” from a fold diff and says so · text-proposition stances (Tam wants the debt kept quiet) hold in the rail, off the web · discharged intents land struck with their disposition (satisfied · thwarted) — never silently gone