Build specification

Decisions and Open Questions#

Decisions made#

• Arrival uses an autonomous launch into a physical harbor; no abrupt initial Portal.
• Portrait embodiments are default; no humanoid pawns.
• Orientation is four-dimensional, explainable, provisional, and player-correctable.
• Project expansion is table → workshop → compound; identity remains stable.
• Level 1 funding is sandbox-first; signals are not votes; family policy decides.
• The Second Bell is the complete first temporal quest and remains unresolved.
• Exact Dunacorn metric is Audited Qualifying Value Flow, not valuation.

Product-owner ratification before production#

1. Final legal/operator entities for Kinship Capital, The Apiary, and Bellwether.
2. Whether any real-money funding ships in Level 1; recommendation: no.
3. Approved cultural/geographic research and local creative review for Mozambique/Quirimbas references.
4. Family voice casting, ages/appearance, pronouns, and portrayal across time.
5. Retention defaults and training/evaluation consent text after legal/privacy review.
6. Safety/moderation policy and minimum age.
7. Level 2 destination and bridge visibility.

These are explicit gates, not missing mechanics; Level 1 can build and rehearse with fixtures while they are unresolved.