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    "Every firing leaves a power, scar, cost, and receipt.",
    "Only an audience choice advances canon.",
    "Rejected mutations persist as archive ghosts.",
    "No master key may silently combine memory, authority, and exit."
  ],
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        "tarnished brass",
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        "amber",
        "wet copper"
      ],
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        "soot"
      ],
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      "title": "The Survivor Pays the Burnchain",
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      "id": "03-vincent",
      "title": "Vincent's Forbidden Mutation",
      "state": "locked"
    },
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      "id": "04-escape",
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      "state": "locked"
    },
    {
      "id": "05-master-key",
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    },
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    }
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