Build specification

Bellwether Island#

Bellwether is one coherent physical island, not a menu of rooms. coral harbor and mangrove eastern inlet; basalt central ridge; Lantern saddle; high northern observatory; western water terraces; southern grove and ruins; tidal under-island caves; Apiary work valley.

Spatial logic#

• The Lantern is the return landmark and shortest path between arrival, family, Pitch, and orientation.
• The ridge gives Stella visual and conceptual horizon.
• The eastern working shore connects Orson and Ruby to tools, weather, logistics, and arrivals.
• The western terrace connects Vesper to water, voice, and public/private gathering.
• Cadillac’s Harbor House sits between incoming resources and The Apiary rather than above either.
• The Apiary occupies a valley that can visually expand from isolated tables to compounds and portal-linked districts.
• Psy’s Underways physically connect low-tide harbor caves, Grove ruins, and the anomaly chamber while their Portals can violate expected adjacency.

Travel budgets#

Critical adjacent journeys take 20–90 seconds at normal movement. Long routes offer discovered Portals or a semantic travel action. Weather may change a route but must never strand a player without an equivalent path. Accessibility alternatives preserve destination, consequence, and orientation; they do not teleport the player to a different version of the Scene.

Source assets#

• Concept reference: assets/reference/generated/bellwether-island-concept.png
• Normative map: assets/maps/bellwether-island-map.svg
• Machine graph: data/island.json