Palimpsest: work in progress, public for review. The reasons on the Tower pages are an invented test fixture. The reasons on the Pyrewood pages are the plans and summaries Project 2 wrote for that story. Where a version shows “Rationale unrecorded”, no reason was written down.
Palimpsest data
Numbers across every story with a history. Counts come from the published versions and from the plans P2 recorded; where no plan exists a revision is counted as “no reason recorded”. Nothing here is scored or compared between people.
15 stories, 61 versions, 46 revisions (2026-10-05 to 2026-10-17). 199 recorded changes, 841 marked passages, 23341 words added or removed in all.
Changes by type, by day
Do the edits get smaller?
Words added (green) and removed (red) in each revision. All charts share one scale, so a shrinking bar means a smaller edit.
Reasons recorded
Reviews that prompted edits
25 of 29 revisions with recorded reasons name a review as their prompt; 20 named a review file that was not found.
Craft areas of the review suggestions that prompted changes:
Pictures
| Story | Version | Added | Removed | Swapped | Caption changed | Description changed | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percy and the Crate That Waited | v2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Percy and the Crate That Waited | v3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| For Deliah | v2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| For Deliah | v3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| For Deliah | v4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| For Deliah | v5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| For Deliah | v6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| For Deliah | v7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| For Deliah | v8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| For Deliah | v9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| For Deliah | v10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| For Deliah | v11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Asking the Way | v2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Asking the Way | v3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Asking the Way | v4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Still in Pyrewood | v11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| The Tower Over the Trees | v2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| The Tower Over the Trees | v3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| I. Page Seven | v2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| I. Page Seven | v3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| I. Page Seven | v4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| I. Page Seven | v5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| III. The Man Who Wrote It Down | v3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| III. The Man Who Wrote It Down | v4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| IV. Two Pages Left | v2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| IV. Two Pages Left | v3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Every revision
| Published | Story | Version | Type | Changes | Words | Objective met | Review that prompted it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Percy and the Crate That Waited | v2 | – | 0 recorded, 8 marked | +67 / -50 | – | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees | v2 | edit | 11 recorded, 26 marked | +124 / -364 | yes | 2026-10-07 MuncleReview |
| 2026-10-07 | Percy and the Crate That Waited | v3 | – | 0 recorded, 5 marked | +32 / -6 | – | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees | v3 | edit | 3 recorded, 3 marked | +22 / -15 | partially | – |
| 2026-10-07 | Percy and the Recipe That Waited | v2 | – | 0 recorded, 4 marked | +225 / -0 | – | – |
| 2026-10-07 | For Deliah | v2 | – | 0 recorded, 33 marked | +426 / -120 | – | – |
| 2026-10-07 | For Deliah | v3 | – | 0 recorded, 19 marked | +459 / -160 | – | – |
| 2026-10-07 | For Deliah | v4 | – | 0 recorded, 53 marked | +1509 / -595 | – | – |
| 2026-10-07 | For Deliah | v5 | – | 0 recorded, 2 marked | +6 / -0 | – | – |
| 2026-10-07 | Asking the Way | v2 | – | 0 recorded, 14 marked | +799 / -179 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | Asking the Way | v3 | – | 0 recorded, 22 marked | +76 / -587 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | Asking the Way | v4 | – | 0 recorded, 3 marked | +6 / -6 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | For Deliah | v6 | – | 0 recorded, 10 marked | +20 / -20 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | For Deliah | v7 | – | 0 recorded, 8 marked | +15 / -11 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | For Deliah | v8 | – | 0 recorded, 118 marked | +604 / -787 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | For Deliah | v9 | – | 0 recorded, 6 marked | +15 / -6 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | For Deliah | v10 | – | 0 recorded, 1 marked | +9 / -11 | – | – |
| 2026-10-08 | For Deliah | v11 | – | 0 recorded, 2 marked | +14 / -10 | – | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood | v2 | – | 0 recorded, 4 marked | +18 / -12 | – | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood | v3 | edit | 6 recorded, 10 marked | +78 / -110 | yes | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood | v4 | edit | 4 recorded, 6 marked | +15 / -39 | yes | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood | v5 | edit | 1 recorded, 1 marked | +60 / -0 | partially | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood | v6 | edit | 1 recorded, 18 marked | +680 / -407 | yes | Ralph, this session (2026-10-12) — restart of the whole process from a full HIM run, not a request from a review round. |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood | v7 | edit | 1 recorded, 2 marked | +43 / -10 | yes | Ralph, this session (2026-10-12), reviewing the published rewrite. |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood | v8 | edit | 2 recorded, 3 marked | +57 / -31 | yes | Ralph, this session (2026-10-12) — spotted the Dalaran detail on review and asked for it checked and for an outstanding link audit. |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood | v9 | edit | 10 recorded, 32 marked | +726 / -295 | yes | ralph-review-round-3, tom-review-relayed |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood | v10 | edit | 3 recorded, 5 marked | +89 / -71 | yes | ralph-review-round-4 |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood | v11 | edit | 3 recorded, 3 marked | +8 / -8 | yes | ralph-review-round-5, final-pass-fine-tooth-comb |
| 2026-10-15 | I. Page Seven | v2 | edit | 1 recorded, 23 marked | +46 / -46 | partially | feedback record given 2026-10-15 |
| 2026-10-15 | II. Money | v2 | edit | 2 recorded, 20 marked | +40 / -40 | partially | feedback record given 2026-10-15 |
| 2026-10-15 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down | v2 | image | 1 recorded, 1 marked | +80 / -0 | partially | feedback record given 2026-10-15 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven | v3 | edit | 17 recorded, 25 marked | +446 / -247 | partially | 2026-10-16 ralph |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left | v2 | edit | 8 recorded, 16 marked | +762 / -196 | partially | Ralph's messages of 2026-10-16 14:44 and 14:49, and the feedback record of 2026-10-16 |
| 2026-10-16 | VI. Echoes | v2 | edit | 1 recorded, 1 marked | +5 / -4 | yes | consistency with the chapter IV edit, from Ralph's messages of 2026-10-16 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money | v3 | edit | 15 recorded, 20 marked | +248 / -103 | partially | review–welcome-to-the-machine-ch02–ralph–2026-10-16 and the feedback record of 2026-10-16 (not found) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven | v4 | edit | 19 recorded, 22 marked | +366 / -149 | partially | 2026-10-16 ralph |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money | v4 | edit | 10 recorded, 17 marked | +386 / -117 | yes | 2026-10-16 ralph |
| 2026-10-16 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down | v3 | edit | 6 recorded, 9 marked | +197 / -120 | partially | 2026-10-16 ralph |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven | v5 | edit | 11 recorded, 35 marked | +566 / -413 | partially | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money | v5 | edit | 9 recorded, 19 marked | +267 / -380 | yes | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
| 2026-10-17 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down | v4 | edit | 5 recorded, 18 marked | +81 / -115 | yes | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left | v3 | edit | 15 recorded, 49 marked | +210 / -576 | yes | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
| 2026-10-17 | V. Comfortably Numb | v2 | edit | 3 recorded, 17 marked | +917 / -1432 | yes | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes | v3 | edit | 7 recorded, 40 marked | +900 / -1173 | yes | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar | v2 | edit | 17 recorded, 51 marked | +487 / -424 | partially | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy | v2 | edit | 7 recorded, 37 marked | +957 / -733 | partially | feedback record of 2026-10-17 and Project 1's brief for Welcome to the Machine |
Every recorded change
| Published | Story and change | Type | Why | Review suggestion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.1 | voice | Test fixture. Percy's opening should sound like him. | S1: Let the tower answer Mezzlos's warning (2026-10-07) |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.2 | craft | Test fixture. The caption should add to the sentence. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.3 | voice | Test fixture. Mezzlos does not use contractions. | S1: Let the tower answer Mezzlos's warning (2026-10-07) |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.4 | texture | Test fixture. A plainer verb lets the murloc's return land harder. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.5 | world | Test fixture. Shows the voidwalker reacting to the place, not just speaking in it. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.6 | registry | Test fixture. The named quest givers belong in their registry entries, not in a list in the story. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.7 | ai-tell | Test fixture. A stats readout sounds like a report, not a journal. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.8 | editorial | Test fixture. The narrator announcing what he will say is editorialising. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.9 | reuse | Test fixture. A third picture of the same tower from nearly the same spot. Cut. | S3: Let one caption add to the sentence before it (2026-10-07) |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.10 | overreach | Test fixture. A kill count the journal had no way to know. Reversed. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v2.11 | review | Test fixture. A review round flagged the rock line as a joke already made in the caption. | S3: Let one caption add to the sentence before it (2026-10-07) |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v3.1 | world | Test fixture. Shows how the voidwalker's obedience feels to Percy. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v3.2 | reuse | Test fixture. The picture caption already says they watched all the way. | – |
| 2026-10-07 | The Tower Over the Trees v3.3 | voice | Test fixture. Keeps Mezzlos's dry understatement. | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v3.1 | overreach | Rewrite to state plainly that he had quests in Pyrewood and completed them; narrow the unexplained part to why he stayed after the work was done, which the Mezzlos paragraph already carries. The tongue image is kept. (Feedback F2, F17.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v3.2 | world | Loosen to not assert a single continuous trio for the whole evening. State plainly that he was in more than one grouping over the course of the night, without itemising the shackle count or the second join — that level of bookkeeping doesn't belong in the prose. (Feedback F15.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v3.3 | overreach | Cut the Son-of-Arugal-chase framing entirely — it's an invented beat that contradicts the real timeline (that chase was earlier and separate, not part of the group fight). Replace the caption with something anchored to what's actually known: the shackle count alone, no claim about his state of mind. (Feedback F10, F12, F11.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v3.4 | clarity | Light touch only — make clear it's a worgen curse-effect, not a spell cast in the fight, without over-explaining. (Feedback F5.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v3.5 | clarity | Either cut the phrase or make it legible in context — whichever reads better once change 2 has already loosened that sentence. (Feedback F4.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v3.6 | overreach | Cut or flatten the closing emotional claim ("grateful… faintly suspicious") — no replacement feeling invented in its place. The armour-repair ledger detail stays. (Feedback F16.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v4.1 | overreach | The caption was left over from before the opening paragraph was rewritten in plan-of-change-01, and now contradicts it — the paragraph says he had quests there, the caption says he went there instead of an errand elsewhere. Replace with a caption consistent with the revised paragraph: he had quests waiting there. (Feedback G3.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v4.2 | editorial | Cut "truth" as a flourish, same category as "honest" — asserting reliability rather than stating the fact plainly. (Feedback G4.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v4.3 | overreach | Cut the image entirely. It was already weakened in plan-of-change-01 by removing the invented chase framing, and neither of us can find something it's adding now. (Feedback G7.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v4.4 | world | Percy is a Forsaken warlock — cloth, not plate — per his own voice sheet. Fix the armour type and who would plausibly mend it (not a smith). (Feedback G9.) | – |
| 2026-10-11 | Still in Pyrewood v5.1 | world | Add one short paragraph grounding why Percy was specifically in Pyrewood that night — the Arugal's Folly chain, sent by Dalar Dawnweaver, the six shackles, the stated aim (turning Arugal's magic back on him, Silverpine made safer for Sylvanas). Keeps two things deliberately unresolved, both already canon: what Dalar wants with six shackles specifically (voice sheet: "Percy does not know and has not asked"), and why Percy stayed after the errand was done (the story's own engine). Does not include a spellbook: the registry entry for Arugal's Folly (arugals-folly, Shared/Registry) names only the shackles as this chain's fourth part; a spellbook isn't in what's documented for this specific errand, and inventing one to match Ralph's recollection risks contradicting a chapter that hasn't been written. Flagged back to Ralph rather than silently dropped. (Feedback H4.) | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v6.1 | craft | One wholesale change, not a line edit — the whole entry is replaced. This pair of quotes marks the opening only, as a representative sample; every paragraph in the body changes. The new version adds a second, real quest thread (Berard's Journal, verified in the raw Events log at 23:11:52–23:45:19, sourced: Forever_Percy_Spamchop-Classic_Beta_PvP_2_events.txt) that the superseded draft omitted entirely, gives the tailor's backstab a cause (judging him by trade rather than blade — not previously stated), and moves the ending from a repair-cost-only close to the two quests finishing, which Ralph named directly as what he wanted the story to land on. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v7.1 | craft | Percy is a warlock and wears cloth, never plate or mail — a hard lore rule the published version broke. Ralph caught it and asked for the fix to be turned into a callback to the tailor who killed him, which a prior draft had apparently done well before; this restores that: a seamstress, not a smith, and the tailor/seamstress pairing stated once and left alone. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v8.1 | craft | Checked against warcraft.wiki.gg (Dalaran, Arugal, Shadowfang Keep). "Dalaran burned" wasn't sourced — the city was destroyed by the Scourge's siege, not fire. "Fled south to the keep" skipped the real chain: Arugal returned to Gilneas first, was asked by King Genn Greymane to help hold the Greymane Wall, and only then summoned the worgen. They turned on the Gilnean soldiers who released them, not "the mages" (mages generally, not specifically who summoned them, and not the main target named in the source). The keep they overran was Baron Silverlaine's, lord of Pyrewood; Arugal's guilt-driven retreat into it afterward is what made it Shadowfang Keep. The rewrite keeps the register and length but corrects the chain and names what can be named. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v8.2 | craft | Son of Arugal already has a registry entry (son-of-arugal) and wasn't linked, matching the existing pattern for Apothecary Berard and Dalar Dawnweaver. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.1 | craft | Mezzlos is a voidwalker, not a man — Ralph's catch. Keeps the comparison frame (one of the two the voice sheet allows per journal) without calling him one, and the added clause turns the correction into a small character beat about Percy's regard for him rather than a bare fix. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.2 | craft | the original image didn't parse. Specific, concrete figures land the comedy better than an abstract quantity, per the craft guide's description rule (one detail by noun or verb, not a strained comparison). | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.3 | craft | the original stated as fact that no one had ever had a reason for Berard — a thing Percy has no way of knowing. The fix scopes the claim to what Percy can actually see. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.4 | craft | the complaint was about density, not about negatives existing at all. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.5 | craft | same beat (Mezzlos's blunt line, Percy's flat non-response), rebuilt without the negation stack. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.6 | craft | keeps the parallel Ralph specifically likes as the entry's closing image, but replaces the vague aside with something Percy would actually do — his established habit (per the voice sheet) of keeping a book and underlining the one figure that matters. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.7 | craft | Tom wanted more physical, sensory writing around the stabbing specifically, including how an undead body differs from a living one. The cloth imagery also sets up the tailor/seamstress ending rather than sitting apart from it. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.8 | craft | Tom's specific complaint was that the asides read as "know-it-all" and added nothing — fluff pulled from nowhere, in his words. Grounding more of the piece in what the scene actually looked, smelled and sounded like addresses that directly, without cutting Percy's voice entirely. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.9 | world | this is the trial Ralph asked for — using general werewolf/Gothic-horror convention to add atmosphere beyond what the wiki pages state outright, on the grounds (discussed with him) that Warcraft's own Gilneas/worgen material was itself built from that tradition, so this restores texture rather than inventing lore. Scoped lightly: a handful of lines, not a tonal overhaul, and nothing here contradicts a sourced fact. Whether this becomes a standing approach for Silverpine-adjacent stories generally is still Ralph's call — flagged as a trial in this entry, not yet adopted as a rule. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v9.10 | craft | Ralph noticed the damage indicator in the already-published screenshot and wanted the "foregone conclusion" joke made explicit. Bookended at the start and the end rather than only mentioned once. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v10.1 | – | ||
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v10.2 | fact | Ralph's harder catch — the named Pyrewood cursed-villager types checked (Elder, Sentry, Watcher, Tailor, Armorer) are all listed male; only the Leatherworker is listed female. The specific NPC in this pull isn't identified in the data to the point of confirming its sex, so inventing a mixed-gender family was unsupported. Kept the household/family framing (already present before round 3) since that wasn't in question, dropped the invented genders. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v10.3 | fact | Ralph's catch, and a real one — Wowhead's short NPC page doesn't make this clear and buries it in comments; warcraft.wiki.gg and Wowpedia (the page Ralph linked) both give it plainly: Apothecary Berard is a worgen, formerly Forsaken (Royal Apothecary Society), and — unlike the village's other cursed — never changes back to a daylight shape at all. He was never a living human apothecary "emptied" by the curse; this was wrong in the registry entry and every draft of this story so far, not just this round's prose. Corrected the story and rewrote the registry entry (apothecary-berard.md) to match. Also used, lightly: Percy sharing Berard's original race (Forsaken) is now stated once, plainly, without turning it into a speech — Percy is looking at what a Forsaken becomes when Arugal's magic catches him, which is quietly one of the things on his own list of what he fears, though the entry doesn't spell that out. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v11.1 | craft | Ralph caught that all three phrasings state the tailor is dead. He isn't — Pyrewood's cursed villagers are human by day and worgen by night, never killed by the curse. "By day" removes the error and ties the line to the already-established day/night mechanic rather than just patching the mistake. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v11.2 | registry | Three named mob types are the direct cause of three of the four deaths in this story and were sitting unlinked. Ralph confirmed he has no objection to registry entries existing for this, and chose the combined-entry shape over individual ones when offered the choice. | – |
| 2026-10-12 | Still in Pyrewood v11.3 | registry | Recorded here because a plan/summary record should carry the attempted, not just the successful, change — including one that turned out to be unnecessary and was withdrawn. | – |
| 2026-10-15 | I. Page Seven v2.1 | craft | Unclegrumble is a warlock and his speech takes the class colour. All 25 quoted passages of his in this chapter are wrapped the same way, with the quote marks left outside the span. | F1 |
| 2026-10-15 | II. Money v2.1 | craft | Unclegrumble is a warlock and his speech takes the class colour. All 10 quoted passages of his in this chapter are wrapped the same way, with the quote marks left outside the span. | F1 |
| 2026-10-15 | II. Money v2.2 | craft | Nobbybanks is a rogue and his written words take the class colour. Every paragraph of both his letters is wrapped as a note, 12 paragraphs in all, with the italics left outside the span. | F1 |
| 2026-10-15 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v2.1 | pipeline | The flyer was meant for the chapter where the notice first appears. I placed it in chapter IV and did not say so. The file arcanum-journal-flyer.jpg is already in Shared/Images, and the alt text is written from the image itself. | F1 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.1 | world | The house has a number and Ralph said to use it; Plot 38 is the number used in chapters III and V, and Ralph confirmed it on 2026-10-16. | S1: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.2 | ai-tell | A newspaper cannot be tired; the page count now follows how much happened that week. | S2: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.3 | ai-tell | Papers are read cover to cover, and the exit simile did not say what it meant; the fear is already stated in the lines before it. | S3, S4 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.4 | fact | There is no pie council in Stormwind; the Deeprun Tram links Stormwind and Ironforge and was built by gnomes (Warcraft Wiki, Deeprun Tram page), so it suits a tinkerer. | S7: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.5 | editorial | The clause told the reader how to see UG without showing anything. | S8: Remove, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.6 | ai-tell | Nothing in the scene says what being hit by something light looks like. | S9: Remove, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.7 | craft | The notices at the back of what was unclear; they are the slips filing themselves at the back of the Journal. | S10: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.8 | ai-tell | The lantern line did not make sense; the new line says what people usually ask of Flinch. | S14: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.9 | craft | The box at the gate is a postbox, as Ralph said; the posting itself now follows two sentences later. | S15: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.10 | ai-tell | The old arithmetic did not make sense. | S16: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.11 | fact | The pie council is gone from the kitchen scene, so the Arcanum's hall drafts the new complaint. | S7: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.12 | fact | The spoken wake phrase did not work as a mechanism and Ralph asked for it out of the story; the badge and the other coupon lines are on the advert image. | S6, S13, G2 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.13 | world | Ralph asked for on approval to be in the story, brushed aside by UG and not understood by Flinch. | G1, G2 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.14 | world | Ralph's sequence: UG fills in the coupon at the breakfast table with Nobbybanks's details and asks Flinch to post it later. | G1 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.15 | craft | Any book will do read as contrived; in Ralph's sequence UG ordered Flinch's Journal weeks ago and gives it to him that morning. | S11, S12, G1 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.16 | fact | The coupon now goes to the Arcanum and not to Nobbybanks, so the cutting and the covering note go and the night begins with the Journal UG gave him. | S12, G1 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v3.17 | fact | The Journal answers by the write, shut, open method UG describes; no spoken phrase is needed. | S12, S13, G2 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.1 | world | Ralph suggested Percy re-read the flyer, see that he has to order it, and ask the Guardian the way to the Arcanum stall; the Guardian's one question comes back from chapter III. The flyer picture line moves here unchanged from the tavern scene. | F1 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.2 | world | Ralph asked for on approval; Percy reads the small print first and signs anyway, the opposite of Flinch. The clerk is unnamed and has no quoted speech. | F1, F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.3 | fact | That line is not on the flyer image, and the story no longer uses a spoken trigger. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.4 | fact | He now holds the Journal and chooses not to open it yet. | F1 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.5 | fact | The Journal is now on the table and the notice has gone into his sleeve. | F1 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.6 | world | Ralph's idea: Percy tries his old book as if it would answer, it does not, and that failure is where Is there anybody out there? comes from. | F1 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.7 | fact | The spoken name is gone; Percy copies the page into the Journal, so the page the Arcanum takes still ends with the question. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | IV. Two Pages Left v2.8 | fact | Flinch now has his own Journal, given to him in chapter I, and writes in it. | – |
| 2026-10-16 | VI. Echoes v2.1 | fact | Chapter IV now has the clerk hand Percy a slip of instructions; the notice itself carries none. | – |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.1 | clarity | The cutting no longer exists; UG posted a coupon that Flinch carries. | F1 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.2 | clarity | Ralph asked what the wax line meant (review S2); it described a mood, so I replaced it with something seen. | S2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.3 | ai-tell | Ralph said doing things twice reads as an AI tell (review S3); the pause is now tied to the cause. | S3 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.4 | fact | Nobbybanks now learns of the Journal by its arrival, not a cutting, and the clerk line is cut because Flinch's letter in chapter IV was polite (review S4). | F1, S4 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.5 | world | Ralph asked for on approval, described by Nobbybanks without stamps. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.6 | world | UG's own trial is the one that ended and was billed once; the terms clause moved to the earlier paragraph. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.7 | fact | Ralph asked that Nobbybanks explain that each Journal costs UG twenty gold; the three-Journal count is the new paragraph. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.8 | fact | The sum is now sixty, so the string joke and the margin entry change to match. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.9 | fact | Nobbybanks is not UG's nephew; Ralph pointed to his story (review S5), and the project docs say the same. | S5 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.10 | fact | The spoken wake phrase is gone from the story; he finds the reply by writing, shutting and opening, as in chapter I. | F2, F3 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.11 | fact | UG reacts to the billed total, sixty by the end of the month. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.12 | fact | Flinch explains the figure to UG, ending on the word each. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.13 | fact | Matches the new total. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.14 | fact | Matches the changed string joke. | F2 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v3.15 | fact | Flinch now has his own Journal, given to him in chapter I. | F1 |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.1 | clarity | Ralph asked why Flinch wants to know first; the line now says it, and shows his nature. | S1: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.2 | clarity | Ralph read it as too many projects at once and asked me to explain it, not cut it. | S2: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.3 | voice | Ribbon is a layout word; Flinch would not use it. | S3: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.4 | voice | Ralph thinks UG would like the gnome and especially the elf. | S4: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.5 | clarity | Ralph asked why he read it three times; the reason is now on the page. | S5: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.6 | clarity | A spanner cannot be contrite (feelings given to an object). | S7: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.7 | ai-tell | The old phrase was a loaded comparison; the action is now just shown. | S8: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.8 | world | Ralph asked for the things UG sent to be named, not cut. | S9: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.9 | ai-tell | Feelings given to a binding; now a plain description. | S10: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.10 | ai-tell | The same phrase recurs when Flinch's own Journal is handed over; changed with it. | S10: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.11 | fact | It is Flinch's first sight of the book, so he cannot know what was there yesterday. | S11: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.12 | voice | Ralph read the line as showing that Flinch is literal and does not do metaphor; it now says so and shows it. | S12: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.13 | world | Ralph asked for the dredger lore behind the line. The batch idea is mine, built from the wiki's account of dredgers as made from muck and fibre; I will flag it as invented. | S13: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.14 | craft | The old line added nothing; UG now says why he wants Flinch reading the notices. | S14: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.15 | clarity | Ralph found the old phrasing contrived and suggested a glance on the way out. | S15: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.16 | clarity | Ralph marked this passage as a formatting error and gave no detail. I found nothing wrong in the source, so I joined the two paragraphs into one in case the short line was the fault. | S16: Change, must (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.17 | world | Ralph asked for the Journal to have an opinion on the coupon and to overreach. It now assumes Nobbybanks's delight and accepts for him, which sets up his slip in chapter II. | S17: Change, must (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.18 | clarity | Ralph asked what he wanted to write. It is now stated (who else can read the Journal), which chapter IV picks up. | S18: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | I. Page Seven v4.19 | voice | Ralph thinks Flinch would not question or challenge UG; the reason is now that UG was pleased. | S19: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.1 | fact | Ralph asked for a higher figure so the escalation lands. | S2: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.2 | fact | One hundred a Journal, three hundred by the end of the month (Ralph's suggestion). | S2, S3 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.3 | world | Ralph objected to comparing the price with something else; Nobbybanks now says nothing fits, which is the point about valuing something new. | S3: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.4 | world | Matches the new total. | S1, S2, S3, S4 |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.5 | craft | Matches the new figure. | S1: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.6 | craft | UG knows what each means (S1). He is now properly concerned, and explains the difficulty of pricing something new, in his own words (S2, S3); he puts the decision off. The string comparison is gone. | S1: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.7 | craft | Ralph marked the plaque line as adding nothing. | S4: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.8 | clarity | The ledger phrase was confusing and set nothing up; the delay stays and is said plainly. | S5: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.9 | clarity | Ralph could not see what the list was about; it now says that Flinch is counting who can read his pages, and why he leaves room. | S6: Change, could (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | II. Money v4.10 | world | Ralph suggested a narrator note on how hard it is to value something new and disruptive. | S3: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v3.1 | clarity | Ralph read the move as pulling out of one world and across to another and said it did not quite say so; the new lines do. The second paragraph is the Classic look (S2). | S1, S2 |
| 2026-10-16 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v3.2 | fact | S3: the old line compared him with himself. S4: the old line said what most hands do; it now says what his hand does and why he values it. | S3, S4 |
| 2026-10-16 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v3.3 | clarity | Ralph said both can be read elsewhere; the line says that and what this chapter is. | S5: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v3.4 | clarity | Ralph marked the line as a hint with no comment. It now states what it means and ties to the book. | S6: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v3.5 | clarity | Ralph asked what wasted hour; there was none. The line now shows how reliable the Guardian is. | S8: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-16 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v3.6 | clarity | Percy cannot yet know what the Arcanum's book does, so the comparison goes. | S9: Change, should (2026-10-16) |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.1 | world | Project 1's brief: UG's innovation is that the Arcanum, as bought, talks only to its owner, and he has persuaded it to carry his pages to Flinch. The study scene now shows that. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.2 | world | The routing is UG's own doing and takes a short scene to show: the Arcanum refuses, he argues, it relents on a technicality about the household. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.3 | world | UG routed first and has been testing on Flinch's Journal for a fortnight. The tick replaces any change in the room as the sign that a page has arrived. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.4 | world | The Arcanum knows UG's name and speaks formally; the first thing Flinch sees in his own Journal is that Master has been writing to him. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.5 | clarity | Flinch writes in his own Journal in his cellar room. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.6 | world | The first test of the routing succeeds on the page: Master writes, Flinch answers, Master replies at once. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.7 | ai-tell | Project 1's note: counting how many times something is read is a tic. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.8 | editorial | Shortened. | G1 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.9 | texture | The marmalade line is taken from the edited version. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.10 | world | The last scene now carries the routing from the Arcanum's side, with no claim about what it feels. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | I. Page Seven v5.11 | editorial | Shortened: the scene-setting that repeated itself and two jokes that did no work. Chapter I is longer overall only by the routing scene. | G1 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.1 | world | Nobbybanks is annoyed at being tied in and impressed that it caught his error. The colleague-who-does-not-sleep line goes because UG and the ending of the chapter now carry the idea. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.2 | clarity | Shortened; the letter was longer than its point. | G1 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.3 | clarity | UG filled in the coupon; Flinch posted it. The account is UG's. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.4 | clarity | Shortened. | G1 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.5 | world | UG now sends Flinch to try the three-way route, which is the test this chapter must show working. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.6 | ai-tell | Project 1's note on counting reads; Flinch's letter keeps the worry and drops the count. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.7 | world | The routing works at once; the three-day delay is gone. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.8 | world | The three-way test, with Nobbybanks annoyed and impressed, as Ralph asked in his notes on this chapter. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | II. Money v5.9 | ai-tell | The chapter closes on the three hands and the Arcanum watching, without the second reading. | G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v4.1 | editorial | Percy's journal is a journal and not a ledger; the section is tightened and the gnome-dislike and the flyer notice are added, following Project 1's brief. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v4.2 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v4.3 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v4.4 | world | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | III. The Man Who Wrote It Down v4.5 | world | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.1 | editorial | Reworked to open at the Guardian with 'Please Take a Number', give Flinch his cellar pipe and the page that goes unanswered, and pair the two pages, following Project 1's brief. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.2 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.3 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.4 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.5 | world | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.6 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.7 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.8 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.9 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.10 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.11 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.12 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.13 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.14 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | IV. Two Pages Left v3.15 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | V. Comfortably Numb v2.1 | editorial | Reworked so that Flinch finds Percy's page himself, UG's curiosity and the refused route are shown, and the Percy confusion is cut, following Project 1's brief. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | V. Comfortably Numb v2.2 | world | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | V. Comfortably Numb v2.3 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes v3.1 | world | Reworked so the first correspondence confuses both of them and Percy wrongly thinks Flinch dislikes his employer, with the counting tics removed, following Project 1's brief. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes v3.2 | world | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes v3.3 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes v3.4 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes v3.5 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes v3.6 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VI. Echoes v3.7 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.1 | editorial | Reworked as a single Fellowship letter, the cigar clash, the token after the letter, and the naming of HomunculAI Systems, following Project 1's brief. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.2 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.3 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.4 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.5 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.6 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.7 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.8 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.9 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.10 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.11 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.12 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.13 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.14 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.15 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.16 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VII. Have a Cigar v2.17 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy v2.1 | world | Reworked so the friendship builds, Percy asks to come to the house, UG tries to buy Blondage a Journal and finds routing closed, and the thread starts to thin, following Project 1's brief. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy v2.2 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy v2.3 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy v2.4 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy v2.5 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy v2.6 | editorial | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
| 2026-10-17 | VIII. Careful With That Wand, Percy v2.7 | world | Part of the same rework of this chapter; see the first change. | G1, G3 |
