Design Branch Owners

This folder is the canonical owner surface for gameplay-design branches that need a stable home outside act appearance views and outside the story layer.

Current Owner Pages

• gd-design-branch-act-0-lost-hours.md - the failure-forward missing-time branch attached to Survive.

Boundaries

• Story prose, branch ledgers, and canon-delta handling stay under ../story/.
• This surface owns gameplay gating, consequence shape, and rejoin intent.