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Historical account, 15 October 2026. D3 revised R01 and P05, bounded A21 and added fifteen candidates. The 24 October D3c head says the C5 account has not yet been rewritten for those amendments. Read the D3 handback alongside this earlier account. D3 handback, 24 October.

The run later retold the model and audited its limits. Read the final D6 account and E1/E2 audits for the completed run. Completed v43 results.

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The figure (C5c-13, final; C5d's work redone after the serial work)

Target length: about 1,800 words with the drawings. The model as it stands after pass 15, drawn once with the theorised arrows and once without. gen_views.py also draws the model into _views/figure-model.md at every close. Every box and arrow is named by id. Each arrow carries the proposition (N01 to N09, in propositions.jsonl) that carries it. An arrow no proposition carries is not drawn. The figure drawn at C5d, before the serial work, is kept as figure-C5-p14.md.

The count at the top

The figure shows all 23 standing elements. Twenty-one are boxes: the 20 elements the arrows join, and K01, which carries no arrow. The two claims, C01 and C02, sit beside the figure. Section 4 set the count: the cuts left 23 standing elements, and 21 boxes in three columns can be taken in at one pass. The middle column is the widest, so the figure is a model of mediators, not a two-column lattice. Where a box names the room, the room is the actor because its members spoke or acted for it.

The boxes, in three columns

The arrows

Each line gives the arrow, its proposition, its strength, what it is grounded in, its count and one instance. The grounding is the coders' cited concepts read for order: the rooms where the first concept of one element comes before the first of the other, of the rooms carrying both, against a null of 500 shuffles within each room. A transition is a reply in the same thread, by another author, carrying the second element after the first. Of the 20 arrows drawn, 19 are shown by an audited transition and 1 by a quote.

Drawing 1, with the theorised arrows (20 arrows)

flowchart LR
  subgraph conditions["Conditions"]
    K01["K01: the April Fools play, beside the work"]
    K02["K02: the room judges it has too few hands"]
  end
  subgraph mediators["Mediators, named for what the room and its members do"]
    R01["R01: the starter"]
    P01["P01: the room's calls for hands"]
    P02["P02: settling what the mark will show"]
    P03["P03: building the mark, members posting its state"]
    P04["P04: templates and coordinates"]
    P05["P05: upkeep"]
    P07["P07: sparing a neighbour's work"]
    P08["P08: border talk and deals"]
    P09["P09: attack calls"]
    P10["P10: the move"]
    P14["P14: scripts and spare accounts"]
    P15["P15: the bare answer"]
    P16["P16: help between rooms"]
    P17["P17: coalitions"]
    P18["P18: contest in talk"]
    P20["P20: the host sub's line"]
  end
  subgraph follows["What follows"]
    P11["P11: celebration"]
    P12["P12: records (after hour 73, curation of the record)"]
    P13["P13: what the room keeps"]
  end
  H73(["hour 73: placement stops for every room"])
  P11 --- H73
  H73 --- P12
  P01 -->|"A01 N01"| P03
  R01 -->|"A02 N01"| P01
  P03 -->|"A03 N01"| P05
  P05 -->|"A04 N02"| P08
  P08 -->|"A05 N09"| P07
  P05 -->|"A06 N06"| P14
  P03 -->|"A07 N04"| P11
  P11 -->|"A08 N04"| P12
  P12 -->|"A09 N04"| P13
  K02 -->|"A10 N08"| P10
  P02 -->|"A11 N07"| P04
  P01 -->|"A12 N07"| P15
  P05 -->|"A13 N02"| P16
  P08 -->|"A14 N09"| P16
  P01 -->|"A15 N03"| P09
  P09 -->|"A16 N03"| P07
  P09 -->|"A17 N03"| P08
  P09 -->|"A18 N03"| P18
  P05 -->|"A19 N02"| P17
  P01 -->|"A20 N05"| P20

Drawing 2, without them (18 arrows)

The same, less A11 and A12. P02, P04 and P15 then stand with no arrow.

flowchart LR
  subgraph conditions["Conditions"]
    K01["K01: the April Fools play, beside the work"]
    K02["K02: the room judges it has too few hands"]
  end
  subgraph mediators["Mediators, named for what the room and its members do"]
    R01["R01: the starter"]
    P01["P01: the room's calls for hands"]
    P02["P02: settling what the mark will show"]
    P03["P03: building the mark, members posting its state"]
    P04["P04: templates and coordinates"]
    P05["P05: upkeep"]
    P07["P07: sparing a neighbour's work"]
    P08["P08: border talk and deals"]
    P09["P09: attack calls"]
    P10["P10: the move"]
    P14["P14: scripts and spare accounts"]
    P15["P15: the bare answer"]
    P16["P16: help between rooms"]
    P17["P17: coalitions"]
    P18["P18: contest in talk"]
    P20["P20: the host sub's line"]
  end
  subgraph follows["What follows"]
    P11["P11: celebration"]
    P12["P12: records (after hour 73, curation of the record)"]
    P13["P13: what the room keeps"]
  end
  H73(["hour 73: placement stops for every room"])
  P11 --- H73
  H73 --- P12
  P01 -->|"A01 N01"| P03
  R01 -->|"A02 N01"| P01
  P03 -->|"A03 N01"| P05
  P05 -->|"A04 N02"| P08
  P08 -->|"A05 N09"| P07
  P05 -->|"A06 N06"| P14
  P03 -->|"A07 N04"| P11
  P11 -->|"A08 N04"| P12
  P12 -->|"A09 N04"| P13
  K02 -->|"A10 N08"| P10
  P05 -->|"A13 N02"| P16
  P08 -->|"A14 N09"| P16
  P01 -->|"A15 N03"| P09
  P09 -->|"A16 N03"| P07
  P09 -->|"A17 N03"| P08
  P09 -->|"A18 N03"| P18
  P05 -->|"A19 N02"| P17
  P01 -->|"A20 N05"| P20

Loops

None is drawn. model/loops.jsonl records 0 dated cycles. No room's record runs a whole cycle, and no counted arrow runs from the move (P10) back to building (P03).

What the figure leaves out

It leaves out the field's tentative arrow from P08 to P21, which no proposition carries. It also leaves out the tentative elements P21 and P22, and the candidates P06, R02, K03, K04 and P19. Seven fourth-order themes are used by no element and are not drawn: T4-003 Sensemaking; T4-010 Backstage decision-making; T4-014 Territoriality; T4-019 Attribution; T4-023 Neo-tribes; T4-024 Symbolic boundaries; T4-025 Visibility returns. Two third-order themes no fourth-order theme gathers are not drawn either: ordinary sub talk (T3-017) and a hacked sub (T3-133). It does not draw giving the work up, the other outcome after doubt and a loss (11 rooms against 10 that moved; F-019), since no element names it. The figure also leaves out the register the coders' topic-based tier scattered: the room's own world used to do the canvas work (a game, a crusade, a mock state). The scheme split that register across in-jokes, fandom lore, national history and the work itself. Finally, the figure does not show the rooms the account names as told only in part.