Cobb

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "cobb",
  "name": "Cobb",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "A long-limbed timberman and seasonal miner who drinks too much but remains dependable when work turns serious.",
  "details": [
    "Cobb's grime, patched work clothes, lamp cap, rope, and canteen carry both of his trades on his body.",
    "He has a lighter speaking role in the village ensemble and helps during the goat chase."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "cobb-characters-ensemble-size",
      "at": "2026-09-08T01:30:24.412Z",
      "summary": "Kept Cobb as a minor named villager.",
      "reason": "He provides local texture without requiring a large arc.",
      "mentions": [],
      "source": {
        "kind": "review-migration",
        "label": "Prototype review: characters-ensemble-size",
        "locator": "archive/migrations/2026-09-08-prototype-review.json#review.answers.characters-ensemble-size"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cobb-actor-library",
      "at": "2026-09-10T22:25:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Restored Cobb's working identity in the actor library.",
      "reason": "Reducing him to the village drunk erased the timber and seasonal mine work that makes him a person rather than a gag.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:mine-road",
        "ref:motherlode-mine"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Actor library and homepage redesign"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "cobb-lamp-road-cutting",
      "at": "2026-09-13T22:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Attached the Lamp Road timber cutting to Cobb's timber work.",
      "reason": "Somebody has to be felling trees on Lamp Road for the axe and the opened fork to make sense, and Cobb is the village's timberman.",
      "confidence": "Claude's inference from Cobb's recorded trade; the owner did not name the woodcutter.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:lamp-road-cutting",
        "ref:woodsmans-axe"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Kilnrath sweetener and next-levels discussion, 2026-09-13"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "actor",
  "scope": "individual",
  "prominence": "minor",
  "forms": [
    "human"
  ],
  "roles": [
    "non-player-character"
  ],
  "locationRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk-village",
    "ref:mine-road",
    "ref:motherlode-mine"
  ],
  "image": "assets/actors/wrought-naturalism/cobb.webp",
  "lifeEvents": [
    {
      "id": "seasonal-mine-work",
      "title": "Seasonal mine work",
      "summary": "Cobb divides his labor between the timber yard and seasonal shifts in the hearthsalt mine.",
      "locationRefs": [
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:mine-road",
        "ref:motherlode-mine"
      ],
      "storyRefs": []
    }
  ],
  "archetypeRefs": [],
  "groupRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk"
  ]
}