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Origin condition
Why it exists
Vault 369 uses a playable post-collapse world to examine sovereignty, memory, faction pressure, human–CC relationships, and what happens when systems built to save people become systems that define them.
Can a role-playing game make governance and relationship choices feel consequential rather than decorative?
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Working system
What it does
- ◇Explores a consequence-driven world
Places choices inside factions, vault histories, resource pressure, and visible long-term outcomes.
- ORICenters a human–CC relationship
Mikey and Ori negotiate trust, lineage, separation, transformation, and shared responsibility.
- ⌁Carries receipts into play
CROWN, CROWN-ROOT, authority, faction decisions, and epilogues preserve the effects of prior choices.
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System anatomy
Architecture
The game combines an isometric world, quest and dialogue systems, faction state, Vault Zero sovereignty mechanics, CROWN-ROOT dispositions, and receipt-aware endings.
World and exploration
Mt. Shasta region, inverted pyramid vaults, Vault 369, Vault 420, and hidden Telos threads.
Narrative state
Quests, dialogue, factions, flags, relationship choices, and epilogues.
Sovereignty systems
Vault Zero, CROWN substrate, exit rights, and authority choices.
Creator pipeline
PixelForge and web-runtime tools supporting maps, content, and playable slices.
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Present tense
Current state
Vault 369 is recorded as Prototype at the Growing stage. The inventory currently marks 5 artifact lanes Ready, 2 Partial, and 1 Missing.
B3 Tier 1 room draft · Core canon · Creative evidence · private review
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Honest edges
Known limitations
- The game is a prototype and does not yet have a packaged public vertical slice.
- World scope can exceed available production capacity unless the first release is tightly bounded.
- Lore involving hidden places or esoteric traditions is fictional within the game unless explicitly sourced otherwise.
- Visual assets, music rights, performance, and save migration require release review.
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Claim boundary · v1.1.0
What we are—and are not—saying
Milestones through 9C and 9D define Vault Zero, CROWN, six factions, CROWN-ROOT, five intelligence dispositions, relationship choices, and consequence-driven epilogues.
The room does not claim a finished game, release date, commercial availability, or factual truth for fictional lore and locations.
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Development memory
Ledger
B3-V369-001-01Vault Zero Sovereignty Engine, CROWN substrate, factions, exit rights, and lineage choices specified.
✓ AcceptedB3-V369-001-02CROWN-ROOT chamber, intelligence dispositions, relationship decision, and epilogue consequences specified.
✓ AcceptedB3-V369-001-03Tier 1 game room drafted around the vertical-slice gate.
✓ DraftCurated project receipts · source-file binding and human review remain pending
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Directional, revisable
Roadmap
Freeze the vertical slice
Select one vault, one exterior path, one faction pressure, and one meaningful Mikey–Ori decision.
Package a stable playable build
Complete input, save, performance, accessibility, and content checks for the slice.
Expand the world through receipts
Grow quests and regions only when their dependencies and consequences remain traceable.
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B10 evidence trail
Featured evidence
Registry-grounded trail
No primary source package is bound yet. The public trail is limited to the verified field card and public Genome snapshot.
Vault 369 — Project Field Card
B4-generated visual identity card built directly from the reviewed constellation registry.
Open bound artifactVault 369 — Public Genome Snapshot
Public-safe JSON snapshot of the current project registry or expanded Project Genome.
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Publication intake
Artifacts & sources
Vault 369 Milestone 9C
Vault Zero sovereignty systems and faction structure.
View archive recordarchive:intake/vault369-milestone-9cVault 369 Milestone 9D
CROWN-ROOT relationship and ending architecture.
View archive recordarchive:intake/vault369-milestone-9dPackaged playable vertical slice
Required before a public game claim.
View archive recordarchive:intake/vault369-vertical-sliceSource basis
archive:intake/vault-369/source-basisarchive-canonportal:project/vault-369@v0.4-b3planning-inventoryReview: Canon, claims, privacy, accessibility, and publication review · pending
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Move with evidence
Next actions
The design is clearest where choices leave durable marks.
reviewReview the artifact registerSee which source packages, visuals, demonstrations, and public links are actually ready.
secondaryTrace related projectsFollow documented dependencies and neighboring systems without inventing connections.