SR-W · section record · 3 entries
Work
Systems for making a model hold a world steady. Built in live play, extracted into law, released whole.
SR-W1
Persistent-World GM
Public · CC BY 4.0
A behavioral framework for running long-horizon RPG campaigns with LLMs — extracted from a single persistent campaign run for months, long enough for every failure mode to show up more than once. Each rule exists because something specific broke without it.
It is not writing advice. It is the harder layer underneath: keeping a model behaved across hundreds of turns, dozens of context resets, and multiple model versions — without voice drift, canon contamination, silent state corruption, or the slow erosion of player agency. The player is never paraphrased. Behavior and lore live in separate documents because they age differently. Numbers the model tracks are named, and corrections happen in the open. State you can paste is state you can trust.
TYPE — behavioral contract · system prompt with template slots
CONTENTS — framework · worked demo setting · design essay
COMPATIBILITY — written for Claude Opus 4.8 · rules are model-agnostic
SR-W2
Vespergate
Worked example
A vertical city that buried its sky. Gothic-cyberpunk: cathedral-corporate Houses of Record, secondhand rain, and the restless digital dead — echoes — settled by licensed Requiemists. Built as the framework's worked example, with every template slot filled: the hard negatives, the never-bench rule and its escape valve, the restricted names, the quantities the world refuses to measure.
It exists so a stranger can see the machinery running before building their own world on it. Paste the framework into a fresh chat, paste the city after it, and play.
TYPE — demo campaign setting · every framework slot filled
CAST — a Requiemist, a Canoness, an unlicensed rival, a roost-keeper
OPEN THREAD — the Testament of Aldous Vane, rewriting itself nightly
SR-W3
Strata
Public cosmology
The rules of the sky, filed for public reading: deep time stacked like sediment, a Jump that keeps distance honest, minds that rose and leveled, frames and the vanishingly rare uploaded, makers whose work behaves like it is waiting, and ships large enough to be jurisdictions.
It is a cosmology, not a story — the founding statutes a story would have to obey. Everything below the universe layer stays sealed.
TYPE — setting bible · universe layer only
SEAL — houses, named ships, and persons withheld
USE — read for pleasure · build on the framework, not the world