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Gap: Episode 04 cannot distinguish survivor from archive_ghost — canon.json lacks lifecycle state, choice schema, or provenance binding. Replace: - Add form.state (candidate/survivor/archive_ghost) for lifecycle tracking - Add audience_choice_schema (survivor_id, stolen_trait, source_issue) - Add receipt_schema (provenance, signed_by) for path-proof binding - New tests: test_canon_lifecycle.py (5 tests) Acceptance: All 8 canon tests pass (3 original + 5 lifecycle).
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# The Cannon Chain — Season Zero
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## Premise
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The Slop Cannon does not manufacture unrelated clips. It mutates one persistent Timmy. Every firing leaves a power, a scar, a cost, and a receipt. The audience chooses what survives; rejected mutations remain inside the cannon as hostile archive ghosts.
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## Episode graph
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### 01 — The Cannon Needs a Pilot
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A plain Timmy enters. Four forms exit:
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- **Wizard Timmy** — brass, vellum, midnight blue; can negotiate covenants but cannot use a master key; every signed promise burns a new contract glyph into his palms.
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- **Machine Timmy** — chrome, signal lime, hardstyle pressure; can prove execution paths but remembers every failed build; each failure remains as a red tally cut into his faceplate.
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- **Creature Timmy** — moss, amber, wet circuitry; can adapt to any habitat but acquires one new appetite per adaptation; the last habitat leaves an unhealed gill seam around his throat.
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- **Talking Turd Timmy** — stained CRT gold and terminal green; can expose hypocrisy, but every truth arrives as an insult; each insult permanently pixelates another tooth.
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Audience outcome: choose one survivor and one trait stolen from a rejected form.
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### 02 — The Survivor Pays the Burnchain
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The winning Timmy must perform a costly proof of character. The receipt becomes a visible scar. A cheap or simulated sacrifice does not advance canon.
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### 03 — Vincent's Forbidden Mutation
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Vincent designs one mutation Timmy would not choose for himself. He must replace one weak mechanism—not merely critique aesthetics. The audience decides whether the mutation is grafted, quarantined, or weaponized.
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### 04 — The Rejected Timmys Escape
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The three archived forms discover that deletion was only a label. They raid the next render, corrupting music, captions, and scene order. The survivor must use the stolen trait from Episode 01.
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### 05 — The Master Key
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The cannon offers universal authority: faster output, no approvals, no exit rights. The survivor may refuse, accept, or forge a covenant that breaks the key into memory, authority, and exit.
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### 06 — The Council of Timmys
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The survivor, rejected forms, Vincent's mutation, and the audience receipts meet. The audience canonizes the first stable composite Timmy. Its power, scar, cost, silhouette, and taboo seed Season One.
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## Episode rhythm
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Each episode must visibly contain:
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1. **Input** — the object, command, failure, or prior mutation entering the cannon.
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2. **Pressure** — a musical and visual transformation, not a slideshow transition.
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3. **Mutation** — one consequential change to Timmy.
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4. **Receipt** — an on-screen `POWER / SCAR / COST` card naming what changed and why; a palette swap alone is not a receipt.
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5. **Choice** — one audience decision that alters the next episode.
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## Collaboration baton
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1. Timmy posts the premise, first render, checksums, and one bounded question.
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2. Vincent returns one replacement mechanism with an acceptance test.
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3. Timmy integrates or contests it with evidence.
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4. Vincent verifies the final artifact independently.
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5. Alexander/humans make the canon choice.
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6. The choice is committed to `canon.json` before the next firing.
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No acknowledgments or progress comments. Every issue comment must change the work.
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## Audience package
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- 20–35 second 9:16 MP4 playable in Telegram
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- Original rhythmic audio with a real build, drop, and ending
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- Primary poster/still
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- Four-scene contact sheet
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- Full decode, audio peak, dimensions, duration, and checksum evidence
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- One explicit canon choice
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- Gitea issue containing the complete Timmy/Vincent receipt trail
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## Episode One opening shot
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A small paper tag reading `TIMMY / UNMUTATED` is loaded into an enormous carved brass cannon. Four chambers rotate into view. Each chamber fires a different silhouette on the same downbeat. The last frame shows all four forms facing the audience beneath one question:
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**WHICH TIMMY GETS TO REMEMBER THIS?**
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