Storyteller

Storyteller is a corporate entertainment-stability management + RPG narrative engine where broadcast can become reality.

The player is not writing a single next chapter. The player is operating under a temporary producer licence, assigning named characters, cards, assets, inspectors, editors, sponsors, fan oxygen, archive custody, memorial rights, voice rights, and route permissions into rites that can stabilize or deform reality.

Core promise

A fact is not fully real just because it happened. A fact becomes durable when it is broadcast, archived, licensed, witnessed, audited, or bound into a route asset. Unbroadcast reality remains contestable; broadcast reality becomes legal, emotional, and mechanical pressure.

This makes the central question playable:

Who gets to make a recorded reality count, and what does that cost?

Playable grammar

Every meaningful page should eventually point to one or more of these playable surfaces:

• Rites — assign cards/assets/characters to create state transitions.
• Broadcast slots — time-limited permissions that grant access, budget, oxygen, route authority, and failure debt.
• Custody chains — archive, voice, memorial, black-box, legal-body, and fan-witness proof routes.
• Faction pressure — sponsors, inspectors, editors, fans, legal bodies, artists, and unauthorized historians contest the same record.
• Counters — fan_oxygen, archive_integrity, continuity_debt, legal_body_exposure, sponsor_stop_loss, and related local counters show cost and pressure.
• Miss / recruit / suppress / convert states — a character, proof object, or route may be missed by failing time, recruited through a stabilizing rite, suppressed by authority, or converted into a different playable asset.

What counts as canon work

A Storyteller wiki page is strong when it does three things:

1. Names the concrete cards, characters, rites, events, counters, tags, or failure states it touches.
2. Explains why the material creates management/RPG pressure rather than only lore.
3. Links to executable .lens.md contracts or marks the claim as unverified until OpenClaw can prove it locally.

A page is weak when it only says what the world is like, without saying what the player can assign, risk, miss, recruit, suppress, convert, or prove.

Current active spine

• Storyteller World Core — active canon rule: broadcast reality.
• Storyteller Public Manifest — currently bound packet and lens status.
• Custody and Proof — who can make recorded reality count.
• Broadcast Slot Contracts — slot authority, deadlines, miss states, and replay evidence.
• World Model — wiki/lens rule for canon pages.

Maintainer rule

Do not advance the frozen restart source from this entry page. New work should target the active storyteller canon unless a packet explicitly says otherwise.

When adding a page, prefer a small playable pressure slice over generic lore. Good additions should be convertible into wiki/content/ pages and, where executable, bound .lens.md + sibling .lens.ts evidence.