Story Branch Ledger

Tracks whether a story entry is linear or branch-sensitive, where divergence begins, and what consequence surfaces must remain synchronized with that branch state. Every accepted entry should appear here, even when the branch value is linear.

Branch Key	Entry ID	Decision Boundary	Branch State	Preconditions	Authority Sources	Exposure Control	Downstream Consequence	Rejoin Plan	Audit Status	Notes
linear	act0-day1-i-woke-alone	None (Day Opening)	Linear	first-launch new game	../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-cosmology-hooks.md	hinted	opens act0.survive.get-up and seeds the Journal	n/a	pass	First Day-1 entry; no decision point.
linear	act0-day1-water-first	None (Objective Shift)	Linear	act0-day1-i-woke-alone authored	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-game1-demon-remains.md, ../lore/universe/ud-world-law.md	revealed	resolves act0.survive.find-water; opens act0.survive.prepare-for-night ; first anomaly observation registers as a passive Journal-note entity so later entries can reference the green patch by the stream without re-explaining	n/a	pass	Demon presence revealed via observed effect only.
linear	act0-day1-before-dark	None (Decision)	Linear	act0-day1-water-first authored	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/universe/ud-world-law.md	revealed	resolves act0.survive.prepare-for-night; opens act0.survive.search-for-food; arms act0.survive.survive-the-first-night ; site entity "first shelter" registers so later entries can reference the shelter under the outcrop without re-describing it	n/a	pass	MC commits shelter and fire plan; night risk revealed.
linear	act0-day1-food-or-trouble	Fork point to the Lost Hours arc (fork annotation only; flag is recorded on act0-day1-condition-pre-blackout)	Linear with fork annotation	act0-day1-before-dark authored	../lore/local/gl-game1-demon-remains.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md	hinted	resolves act0.survive.search-for-food on linear; flags Lost Hours fork on foreshadowed route ; second anomaly observation joins the green-patch observation from act0-day1-water-first so later entries can reference "the wrongness" pattern in MC voice without naming a cause	rejoins via act0-day2-morning-came	pass	Linear by default; the fork to Lost Hours is owned by the next entry's branch key.
lost-hours-foreshadowed	act0-day1-condition-pre-blackout	Foreshadowing route engaged before search-for-food resolves	Conditional	act0-day1-food-or-trouble authored, foreshadowing route engaged	../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md	hinted	registers the "I had a warning" anchor for the Lost Hours reconstruction	rejoins via act0-day1-the-missing-hours and ultimately act0-day2-morning-came	pass	Only appears on the foreshadowing route; absent on linear.
lost-hours	act0-day1-the-missing-hours	Lost Hours arc opens; Journal-gap device fires	Branch parent	act0-day1-food-or-trouble authored	../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md	hinted	opens act0.survive.recover-the-lost-hours and seeds the arc	rejoins via act0-day2-morning-came	pass	Parent of the Lost Hours arc; truncated-line device in body prose.
lost-hours	act0-day1-tracks-in-camp	None (Observation in-arc)	Branch child	act0-day1-the-missing-hours authored	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md	revealed	contributes to act0.survive.recover-the-lost-hours via the evidence inventory ; first explicit "a thing was here while I was not" beat registers as a passive "visitor" entity so later entries can refer to "the visitor" or "the thing in the camp" without elaborating	rejoins via act0-day2-morning-came	pass	Evidence catalogue; no cause named for any item.
lost-hours	act0-day1-condition-post-blackout	None (Condition Record in-arc)	Branch child	act0-day1-tracks-in-camp authored	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md	hinted	feeds the recover-the-lost-hours reconstruction; pairs with act0-day1-condition-pre-blackout on the foreshadowed route ; registers the "after the gap, the body still hurts" beat as a passive observation so Act 0 carries the symptom continuity into later first-night scenes without re-explaining	rejoins via act0-day2-morning-came	pass	Symptom continuity entry.
lost-hours	act0-day1-dream-fragment	Lost Hours route engaged	Conditional branch child	act0-day1-condition-post-blackout authored, Lost Hours route engaged	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-cosmology-hooks.md	hinted	registers a 'fragment from the gap' for later return; no objective resolves here	rejoins via act0-day2-morning-came	pass	Pure sensory fragment; no named entity; ends short.
linear	act0-day1-old-stones-first-notice	Fork annotation: unlocks the Old Stones thread without forking the survive thread	Linear with fork annotation	act0-day1-food-or-trouble authored	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/local/gl-game1-old-hero-traces.md	revealed	unlocks the Old Stones quest thread as the first post-night investigation lead; registers 'the stone line' site entity	n/a (Old Stones thread is a separate parallel thread)	pass	Survive thread stays linear; Old Stones thread becomes the first parallel lead once the first-night survive pressure clears. Precondition sits on the linear survive-thread spine (food-or-trouble is the most recent linear antecedent before the lost-hours fork).
linear	act0-day2-morning-came	None (Outcome and handoff)	Linear	act0-day1-before-dark authored; act0.survive.survive-the-first-night mission armed or completed	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/universe/ud-world-law.md	revealed	resolves act0.survive.survive-the-first-night; hands off to the Old Stones clue as the first post-night continuation	rejoin point for the Lost Hours arc; Old Stones thread runs in parallel and does not gate this entry	pass	Closes the first-night survive thread for all routes. Preconditions sit on the survive-thread backbone so the entry is reachable on the pure linear path; the Lost Hours arc rejoins via this row, not via a lost-hours-child precondition.
linear	act0-day2-inspect-the-old-stones	None (Observation / Objective Shift within the already-unlocked Old Stones thread)	Linear	act0-day2-morning-came authored; act0-day1-old-stones-first-notice authored	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-game1-old-hero-traces.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md	revealed (site and marks); hinted (cause of the local difference)	activates Inspect The Old Stones; records the repeated marks, thinner ash, and odd quiet as follow-up evidence	n/a (parallel investigation thread; no branch divergence)	pass	State-gated by surviving the night and being able to make the climb, not by a calendar rollover.