Deck One 🌑 The Receiving Skiff
The Rite of Intake
The work begins at the stern, where the river-mist presses close against the hull and the amber lantern light barely holds back the dark. Here, we perform the recovery of a person's history to stabilize their transition. Securing the patient in the intake chair is mandatory to anchor them before the breaking unthreads their line.
Directive: Confirm the given name, identify the family line, and record their mundane trade to drive stakes into the mud against the recycling current.
Deck Two 🌑 The Mercy Deck
Clinical Observation & Tooling
Once stabilized, the patient resides here for physical preparation. Arrange your tools in deliberate, sterile lines upon the attendant's basin table. Precision is our only defense against the abyss.
Deck Three 🌖 The Bell Gallery
The Diagnostic of Dissonance
Sound is the primary indicator of spiritual fracture. On this deck, apprentices listen carefully for the echo-lag—the temporal delay between a soul's internal action and its physical manifestation.
One-Beat Lag Minor Tremor
Three-Beat Lag Soul Looking Toward the Vein
Deck Four 🌖 The Lantern Hold
The Watch of Memory
In the amber and gold light below deck, we observe the compulsions of the fragmenting mind. As the linear narrative breaks, the spirit attempts to "fix" its disappearing reality by hoarding the mundane.
Watch for "The Hiding": Spools of blue thread mimicking the water, hidden blades beneath the chests, or the setting of a critical Second Plate for a version of the self they are already losing.
Deck Five: The Veil Chamber
The Division of the Self
Composed of linen curtains dyed in river-gray, this chamber screens the patient from the abyss. Primarily, it protects them from reflection phobia. As the self divides, the patient will flinch violently from seeing their own face in the black water.
Voice Modulation Rule: You must adopt the calm tone. Devoid of high-frequency emotion, your voice must remain steady and purely procedural. If your voice wavers, the soul follows the tremor.
Deck Six: The Reed Chapel
Final Rites & The Vein
This is the absolute threshold. In the Reed Chapel, we strip away the final fixatives of life, the river dyes, the ink of the ledgers. The gray curtains lift, the stakes are pulled from the mud, and the soul transitions into the black, broad patterns of the Vein beneath the world.