Wake the Mine

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "wake-the-mine",
  "name": "Wake the Mine",
  "aliases": [
    "The Mine Lighting"
  ],
  "summary": "Hob sends Kip to relight the out-of-season hearthsalt mine ahead of the Kilnrath surveyor: the third level, the first interior, and the first real dark.",
  "details": [
    "The mine is not worked in summer, so nobody has been up for weeks and its lamp chain is cold. Kip is the one who goes because lighting is his job and the surveyor cannot see the workings without light.",
    "Kip runs through the village in daylight, climbs the Mine Road, passes the gate, and the dark begins at the adit. He plays the level with the pole only: its caged light is why he needs no lantern, and its mister is the tool he already knows.",
    "He lights the chain down through the workings and clears what moved in over the empty months: drift rats and pit timber voles, with hearth newts clinging above the wet workings and chamber approach. At the wet bottom he meets Old Siltclaw, an oversized crawfish that came up the flooded drain and partly chokes the pump intake, as the regional boss. Boars and moths stay on the surface.",
    "The deep-hearth door is seen, shut, and left shut. The village does not cross it and the deal has not yet asked anyone to.",
    "The miner's pick is found near the end, after the dark stretches, as the weapon for what comes next.",
    "Leveling is introduced afterwards at the village hub, not inside the mine."
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "kind": "supports",
      "targetRef": "ref:motherlode-conflict",
      "note": "The survey is how the Kilnrath first see how much hearthsalt there is."
    }
  ],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "wake-the-mine-created",
      "at": "2026-09-13T22:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Made the out-of-season mine lighting the third level and the first interior.",
      "reason": "The owner chose this framing over a guided survey: the seasonal mine gives a grounded reason for Kip to go alone and first, the pole's light makes the dark playable without a new item, and the level keeps the pole as the weapon while placing the pick at the end for later.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:hob",
        "ref:kip",
        "ref:mine-road",
        "ref:motherlode-mine",
        "ref:lamp-pole",
        "ref:miners-pick",
        "ref:river-rat",
        "ref:glimmer-vole"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Kilnrath sweetener and next-levels discussion, 2026-09-13"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "wake-the-mine-fourth-iteration-roster",
      "at": "2026-09-14T16:35:58.000Z",
      "summary": "Added the hearth newt to the wet workings and replaced the sump-rat climax with Old Siltclaw.",
      "reason": "The fourth-iteration brief gives the interior a wall-and-ceiling rhythm and a regional boss whose crawfish habitat explains the shallow sump, pier and dry crescent. The crawfish echoes Lamp Road's last-lamp encounter while its partly blocked intake connects the fight to the lower working's dependence on pumping. The pole-only journey, late pick and shut deep-hearth door retain their existing roles.",
      "confidence": "This is the planning session's recommendation on the owner's instruction; the owner has not confirmed it.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:hearth-newt",
        "ref:old-siltclaw",
        "ref:sump-rat",
        "ref:crawfish",
        "ref:motherlode-mine",
        "ref:lamp-pole",
        "ref:miners-pick"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Codex brief: the mine, fourth iteration, 2026-09-14"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "story",
  "storyType": "sequence",
  "parentStoryRefs": [
    "ref:motherlode-conflict"
  ],
  "actorRoles": [
    {
      "actorRef": "ref:kip",
      "roles": [
        "protagonist"
      ]
    },
    {
      "actorRef": "ref:hob",
      "roles": [
        "quest-giver"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "locationRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk-village",
    "ref:mine-road",
    "ref:motherlode-mine"
  ],
  "itemRefs": [
    "ref:lamp-pole",
    "ref:miners-pick"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    {
      "kind": "story-completed",
      "storyRef": "ref:goat-fair"
    }
  ],
  "effects": [
    {
      "kind": "grant-item",
      "itemRef": "ref:miners-pick"
    }
  ]
}