# Ripple Audit After Major Revision - Phase 8 Batch 4 Middle / Tasker Repairs

## Change Manifest

Revised chapters: Ch06, Ch18, Ch20, Ch23.

Substantive deltas:

1. Ch06 Priya care formula changed.
   - Before: "`Did you eat? You came straight from work.` / `Sort of.` / `That means no.`"
   - After: "put it in June's hand without asking anything at all" / "`I had a sesame stick,` June said, to the not-asking" / "`I'm not counting the sesame stick.`"

2. Ch06 Sam formula changed.
   - Before: "`Stand here. Not symbolically. You can actually see all three from here.`"
   - After: "`Stand here. It's the one spot where you can see all three at once. Took me the first lap to find it.`"

3. Ch18 Tasker deliberation compressed.
   - Before: explicit Tasker and New York columns re-listing salary, benefits, Kessler, Dana, and dates.
   - After: "She didn't recopy the terms; she knew them cold, both sides" and "The New York one was mostly Asha holding a Kessler slot and Dana holding a cold room."

4. Ch18 Mara care question changed.
   - Before: "`Are you eating?` / `I'm painting.`"
   - After: "`Painting day?` / `Painting.`"

5. Ch18 Monday motive sharpened.
   - Before: "The Tasker terms hadn't moved. $49,500, the bay, the ninety days, Friday noon."
   - After: "The only new fact in the whole ledger was Theo's, and if she sent Nia a yes tonight, that fact would be inside it."

6. Ch20 Asha/Nia offscreen motion added.
   - Before: after June texted Asha and emailed Kessler, the chapter moved directly to Dana.
   - After: Asha texts that she emailed Nia, Nia answered in nine minutes, wants her down before leaving town, and treats the gripper-bar diagnosis as effectively the interview.

7. Ch23 Asha follow-through de-telemetered.
   - Before: "`Asha called this morning. Tasker flew her out Friday. They offered her the keys I turned down.`"
   - After: "`Asha got it. The keys I turned down, in her hand by January.`"

## Reference Sweep

Mechanical terms swept across chapters and trackers: `Did you eat`, `Not symbolically`, `Tasker flew`, `flown to Tasker`, `Asha called this morning`, `Are you eating`, `ventilation question`, `gripper bar`, `Asha got it`, `keys I turned down`, `studio-access form`, `Nia`, `Asha`, `Kessler`, `Dana`.

## Scope Verdicts

FACTS: INTACT - swept Ch15 gripper setup ("There's a Vandercook with a gripper bar that sticks on the return"), Ch20 adopted payoff ("gripper bar's probably a stripped set screw"), Ch23 repaired result ("The keys I turned down, in her hand by January"), `canon_sheet.md` row 111, `continuity.md` Ch20/Ch23, `timeline.md` rows 20/23, `thread_ledger.md` S-ASHA-REF-01, and `npc_goals.md` Nia/Asha entries. Nearest-to-broken case: `event_ripple_tracker.md` still says "ripples that take time: Asha's Tasker outcome" under the Ch20 event; that is intact because from Ch20's time horizon the final outcome is still future, while Ch23 now pays it.

STATES: INTACT - June's state remains self-owned decision rather than Theo-driven: Ch18 says she will not let Theo's fact choose the next thing; Ch20 says she declines before confession; Ch23 says "I'm not sorry I'm not going." Asha's state advances from candidate to active/offscreen Tasker path. Nearest-to-broken case: Ch23 line "Good. It should" could sound like June needs Asha's outcome to validate her own no, but the surrounding line "I'm not sorry I'm not going" preserves the independent state.

OBJECTS: INTACT - clementine remains local Ch06 object; Mara's scarf/blue dish continuity unchanged; Ch18 floor-plan draft remains unsent; Ch20 Tasker receipt / W-9 / Dana text / index card unchanged; Ch23 studio-access form remains the Asha proof object. Nearest-to-broken case: Ch18 summary previously mentioned a deleted ventilation question; `continuity.md` and `rolling_summaries/chapter_18.md` were corrected to the surviving floor-plan question.

SEEDS: INTACT - Ch15 Asha/gripper seed now pays through Asha's Ch20 text rather than only an old Ch23 flight summary; Priya food-care and Sam room-making seeds remain character traits without repeated formulas; Tasker-referral seed pays without making Asha magical. Nearest-to-broken case: Ch06 removal of `Did you eat?` does not erase Priya's care seed because the clementine/sesame-stick exchange still performs it.

TIMELINES: INTACT - Ch18 still runs Nov 25-30 before the Dec 4 deadline; Ch20 remains Friday before noon; Asha's email/answer happens between June's 10:52 text and Dana's 11:20 text; Ch23 result is by Dec 8 and phrased as "by January" rather than an exact Friday flight. Nearest-to-broken case: the old tracker phrase "Tasker flew her out Friday" contradicted the de-telemetry repair and was removed from `canon_sheet.md`, `continuity.md`, `npc_goals.md`, and `rolling_summaries/chapter_23.md`.

PROMISES: INTACT - June's promise to decide before Dec 4 remains; Asha's qualification boundary remains; Ch23 still pays Asha's outcome and June's no. Nearest-to-broken case: Ch18 compressed columns could weaken the reader's memory of Tasker terms, but Ch15 and Ch20 still carry the full numbers and `canon_sheet.md` row 78 preserves the deadline.

MYSTERIES: INTACT - fake-couple public truth, nephew public truth, and Odile knew-all-along remain protected. Tasker is not a mystery after Ch20. Nearest-to-broken case: adding Asha's fast Nia motion could read as too much offscreen resolution, but Ch23 keeps it to June's private report and no public/coda thread depends on Nia's judgment.

PAYOFFS: INTACT - S-ASHA-REF-01 now has a stronger two-step payoff: Ch20 immediate action and Ch23 durable result; S-NY-01 remains materially precarious through Dana/Kessler; Priya/Sam formula removal pays tic cleanup without deleting care functions. Nearest-to-broken case: Ch23 "studio-access form like it was a sonogram" survived from the old payoff and remains because it is the proof object, not a new offer term.

## Break Map

- revised Ch06 -> no breaks in downstream chapters. Care functions remain in `story_bible.md` and `style_and_voice.md`; only formula repetition changed.
- revised Ch18 -> stale tracker line fixed in `continuity.md` and `rolling_summaries/chapter_18.md`; no downstream chapter break.
- revised Ch20 -> tracker amendments required and applied in `canon_sheet.md`, `continuity.md`, `timeline.md`, `thread_ledger.md`, `event_ripple_tracker.md`, `npc_goals.md`, and `rolling_summaries/chapter_20.md`.
- revised Ch23 -> stale "flew Friday" tracker language required replacement and was applied in `canon_sheet.md`, `continuity.md`, `npc_goals.md`, and `rolling_summaries/chapter_23.md`.

## Revision Orders

1. Keep the tracker updates applied in this batch; do not revert to "Tasker flew her out Friday" in future summaries or final report.
2. In final assembly, describe Asha's payoff as "keys/studio-access path by January" rather than a flight itinerary.
3. If a later line pass touches Ch20, preserve Asha's independent motion and gripper-bar competence. Do not soften it into June managing Asha's outcome.

## Verdict

NO-RIPPLE-DAMAGE. Stale tracker entries found during the audit were corrected in the same batch.
