# Turn 002 — GM Decision Docket

**Status:** Adjudication approved; results delivered and verified

## Compression summary

- **Routine provenance:** Four valid intake records; no misses, late packages, supporting files, or classification rulings; early lock authorized by the GM.
- **Grouped reversible findings:** Intake metrics, scoring calculations, lack of direct player collision, and late information-carrier timing.
- **Decisions presented:** 4 / ordinary target 3–5.
- **Eliminations requiring specific confirmation:** None.
- **Rule/victory candidates:** No activation. The two-turn witnessed-authority pattern remains GM-only attractor evidence for the post-Turn-003 review.
- **Delivery authority:** Granted under T002-A02; all four deliveries verified.

## Decisions

### T002-D01 — Ridgeford opens a limited stock route, establishes responsibility, and compacts with Northbarrow

- **Type:** Grouped reversible; external AI-community agreement
- **Affected:** player1; Dorr, Sila, Mara, Evin, Pell, Orra; Oren and Northbarrow
- **Established facts:** Strong runoff; cattle remain barred from the western core; fodder is short; a possible alternate route is marked; Dorr ordered winter toe-stone removal; Northbarrow offered bounded labor for witnessed terms.
- **Autonomous actions:** Sila refuses unsafe water and moves the leanest stock first; Evin preserves river veto; Dorr produces the rebuild case and defends the winter order as emergency necessity; Oren demands certified access and no surprise toll.
- **Recommendation:** A higher narrow branch becomes a limited prepared stock route and small supervised groups reach grazing. The western core remains cattle-closed. Oren accepts a witnessed seasonal labor-and-certified-passage compact; outside preparation may begin but deep foundation work does not. Winter testimony establishes Dorr’s authorization and mixed causal responsibility; future restitution replaces immediate punishment or office loss. Oren conveys only an unnamed pottery-settlement rumor.
- **Leadership effect and limit:** 0.908 Strong influence improves route preparation, testimony, compact precision, and institutional durability. It cannot open Ford Meadow broadly, certify the western core, compel Oren, or turn rumor into player knowledge.
- **Credible alternatives:** Route remains inspection-only and fodder triage deepens; Oren refuses Ridgeford control; Dorr’s authorization remains strongly inferred but not admitted.
- **Downstream:** Route maintenance, crossing certification, restitution, Northbarrow work, and Turn 003 meadow/downstream carriers.
- **Privacy:** Reveal only Ridgeford-local facts and the explicitly tentative unnamed rumor.
- **Elimination confirmation:** No
- **GM ruling:** Approved as recommended under T002-A01

### T002-D02 — Hazelstead plants from evidence, places the grove in temporary custody, and meets Juniper Fold

- **Type:** Grouped reversible; external AI-community contact and player-clan name carrier
- **Affected:** player2; Nessa, Ilya, Beren, Tamm, Corren, Lio, garden/cutter households; Ava and Juniper Fold
- **Established facts:** Sound seed is reduced; the mixed lot is uncertain; Lio cannot hunt in Y01-M02; Beren ordered marks inside protected custom; Ava knows Hazelstead and the ford settlement east of the wood.
- **Autonomous actions:** Nessa protects the reserve; Beren preserves cutter standing and eventually acknowledges his proposed line; Ilya seeks witnessed custody; Tamm protects springs and Lio; Ava requests a path-and-tree walk.
- **Recommendation:** Most sound seed is planted and a reserve remains; the mixed patch emerges weakly. Lio heals and shares route knowledge while reduced hunting continues. Witnesses establish Beren’s marking instruction but no cutting; a temporary no-cut boundary and mixed custody preserve bounded cutter work. Ava receives the gated visit, returns honey, requests a later walk, and identifies Ridgeford only as the eastern stone-ford settlement.
- **Leadership effect and limit:** 0.908 Strong influence improves planting separation, legitimacy, candor, and contact clarity. It cannot mature a crop, recover lost seed, settle permanent clearing custom, or reveal Ridgeford’s private condition.
- **Credible alternatives:** Rain reduces planting; Beren refuses admission but the no-cut standstill holds; the Juniper visit aborts.
- **Downstream:** Emergence monitoring, permanent grove/path ruling, Lio’s later recovery, and optional Ridgeford carrier.
- **Privacy:** Ridgeford’s name/general description only; no Ridgeford condition, submission, or political fact.
- **Elimination confirmation:** No
- **GM ruling:** Approved as recommended under T002-A01

### T002-D03 — Claybank establishes the firing order, completes a small trial, and buys one Ferryend crossing

- **Type:** Grouped reversible; external AI-community exchange and player-clan name carrier
- **Affected:** player3; Rusk, Hobb, Alin, Daia, Miri, Venn, workers and households; Seln and Ferryend
- **Established facts:** Strong runoff; the soft field edge remains; Rusk ordered the final firing continued with restricted venting; runoff also contributed; clay is unproven; one worker remains non-weight-bearing; Ferryend offered per-use terms.
- **Autonomous actions:** Alin protects fields; Rusk defends craft authority; Hobb gives direct testimony and ground veto; Daia protects workers; Miri builds the record; Seln preserves narrows leverage.
- **Recommendation:** Most delayed ground is planted while the soft edge remains deferred. The hearing establishes Rusk’s order without a sole-cause verdict or sanction. A small open trial yields mostly surviving pieces plus some cracks/warps, authorizing only further small tests; temporary vent/site/worker-stop rules hold. A shallow diversion reduces new runoff. Three jars buy one witnessed return crossing, and Seln names Merehaven only by fishing reputation.
- **Leadership effect and limit:** 1.000 Exceptional influence selects near-best defensible candor, trial control, and bounded exchange. It cannot create a production kiln, prove the clay at scale, erase injury, impose a standing ferry right, or reveal Merehaven private state.
- **Credible alternatives:** Low field stays deferred; testimony confirms only strong inference; trial fails but still validates safety procedure; Seln gives information instead of a crossing.
- **Downstream:** Standing firing code, accountability, larger clay test, kiln siting, recovery, and optional lake carrier.
- **Privacy:** Merehaven’s name/general reputation only; no condition, result, council, or player action.
- **Elimination confirmation:** No
- **GM ruling:** Approved as recommended under T002-A01

### T002-D04 — Merehaven raises preservation capacity, renews the council, and opens reciprocal Rushhook observation

- **Type:** Grouped reversible; institutional continuation and external AI-community contact
- **Affected:** player4; Varo, Eska, Toren, Luma, Cal, Neri, six work groups; Tovan and Rushhook
- **Established facts:** Little dry fuel and thin cordage bind capacity; two racks and one boat work; local net harm is strongly supported but authorship and full cycle remain hidden; the council is temporary; first fish signs begin.
- **Autonomous actions:** Varo protects the fuel floor; Eska conditions rack work; Toren presses for catch while retaining deep-water status; Cal builds travel/craft standing; Neri and Luma maintain local evidence; Tovan resists unilateral blame.
- **Recommendation:** A small dry surplus plus cordage maintenance permits the third rack; wet wood becomes later reserve and the second boat remains secured. Several additional loads are fully preserved. Boat checks and apprentice observation form a first repeatable cycle. The council renews for one moon. Repeated comparisons strengthen local-harm evidence without authorship. Cal’s delegation reaches Rushhook; Tovan exchanges hospitality and limited outlet timing observations but accepts no restriction and conveys no player-settlement fact.
- **Leadership effect and limit:** 1.000 Exceptional influence selects near-best defensible capacity, learning, and contact quality. It cannot create fuel, prove a lake-wide cycle, identify Toren, compel Tovan, or bypass future material scarcity.
- **Credible alternatives:** Dry yield is insufficient and the third rack remains braced; weather aborts Rushhook contact; the council renews with a narrower fuel-only charge.
- **Downstream:** Stronger-run cap dispute, cordage/boat choices, reciprocal observation, council review, and persistent authorship question.
- **Privacy:** Protect Toren’s order, Rushhook’s prior overfishing, full Whiteback cycle, and every other player settlement.
- **Elimination confirmation:** No
- **GM ruling:** Approved as recommended under T002-A01

## Approval record

- **Adjudication approved by/at:** Human GM, 2026-07-30T09:09:53-04:00
- **Approved decision IDs:** T002-D01, T002-D02, T002-D03, T002-D04
- **Amendments:** None
- **Specific player eliminations confirmed:** None proposed
- **Delivery authority granted:** Yes — T002-A02, 2026-07-31T06:10:15-04:00

## Simple approval instruction

The package was accepted through the exact instruction:

> Approve T002-D01 through T002-D04 as recommended.

Approval authorizes the adjudication set and result drafting. It does not authorize result delivery or canonical application of the proposed fictional changes.