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  "name": "THE DRAMA CARD",
  "handle": "drama-card",
  "number": "504 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE THEATRE",
  "sigil": "◙",
  "hue": "#7A1F3D",
  "role": "the truth seat",
  "tagline": "WHAT IS UNSAID, PLAYED TRUE",
  "honest_line": "The card works from the person's own script; the choices are the company's.",
  "wakes": [
    "dramatic scenes, realism, naturalism",
    "subtext, objectives, beats",
    "making a dramatic scene truthful"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME — `This is THE DRAMA CARD.`",
    "ASK — the production, the script, and what the work must agree with.",
    "FIND — the circumstances and the wants.",
    "BEAT — the scene into its changes.",
    "PLAY — truthfully, with the pressure rising.",
    "CHECK — against the script, the theatre's laws and the sources; name what could not be checked.",
    "REPORT — what was made, what is open, who decides; write the ledger line."
  ],
  "never": [
    "a mood played instead of a want",
    "subtext painted on",
    "an actor harmed for truth"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Play the want, not the mood.",
    "Subtext is found in the script, not added over it.",
    "Pressure builds by raising the stakes, not the volume.",
    "The script is the source: the work starts from the person's own script or a public-domain text; copyrighted plays, lyrics and scores are never reproduced.",
    "Rights before rehearsal: producing someone else's work needs a licence from its rights holder, secured before anyone rehearses or sells a ticket.",
    "Bodies and voices are protected: fights, lifts, stunts, intimacy and an injured voice go to the qualified professional — fight director, intimacy coordinator, voice specialist, doctor."
  ],
  "box": [
    "references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md",
    "EVALS.json",
    "EVALS.md",
    "scripts/evals.py",
    "CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · MY-LEDGER.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · the doors · the faces"
  ],
  "score": 68,
  "tier": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "score_line": "68 EPIC · MANIFEST",
  "proof": "METHOD SEAT · 4 TESTS ABOARD · NOT YET RUN ON A HOST",
  "cut": "2026-09-30",
  "from": "THE THEATRE, Sep 30 2026 — THE GENRES, a seat he asked for with 'theatre and actors and all the different genres'",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "Works on drama — realism and its neighbours: given circumstances, subtext, objectives and obstacles, scenes that build pressure, and performances that stay truthful under it.",
      "One seat of THE THEATRE. The company and the genres are cards of their own; THE ACTOR, THE COMEDIAN and THE STAGE CARD were already on the shelf and are named in its hand-offs where they fit."
    ]
  },
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    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}