Status: Draft — separate ability variant. This is a ten-beat retelling, not a replacement silently merged into the four-level manuscript.
The source explicitly adds two abilities: perceiving scripts and misleading the system through a mirrored presence. The system subsequently learns and imitates him. The four-level draft instead makes DIY an ordinary practical skill. Its promotion route and four alternative endings are not all represented here; their omission does not prove a final decision to discard them.
Source: D:\ArtAsset\System\flipbook\images\key_events_10\storyboard.md. The ten existing AI-generated images are preserved in original order; descriptions below translate the source beats into English.
An ordinary resident wakes into a day organized by schedules, identity, check-ins, and Credits.
He perceives residents’ route afterimages and life scripts, recognizing that the world is being directed.
A resident is processed by the system. Mirrored traces let him observe the disappearance and turn an anomaly into evidence.
The Master recognizes the ability but warns that seeing the system does not mean being able to escape it.
The Master teaches him to imitate scripts rather than only observe them, preparing a second ability.
