Faction Commitment Ledger / 派系承诺账本

A Faction Commitment Ledger is a durable management card for recording what a non-player faction has actually committed to a disputed broadcast surface.

It exists because Storyteller factions must not act like infinite-pressure scenery. A sponsor can spend escrow or naming-rights leverage, an inspector can spend seal authority, a fan public can spend oxygen solidarity, an editor can spend cutroom capacity, and an archive desk can spend custody priority. Once spent, the commitment changes future posture: a faction can be appeased, overcommitted, exhausted, embarrassed, forced into coalition, or made hostile.

Primary playable use

Assign this card when the player needs to compare faction pressure as committed leverage rather than generic threat.

The ledger is not a money purse and not a universal economy screen. It records one contested surface and the factions that have put something at risk to claim, protect, buy, audit, publish, edit, or seize it.

Creation trigger

Create or update this card when all of the following are true:

1. a contested route asset, claim, ledger, docket, witness, public receipt, oxygen row, memorial right, archive seal, edit cut, or audience-stability scar exists;
2. at least two non-player factions can act on that surface;
3. at least one faction has made a concrete offer, lien, threat, guarantee, retainer, pledge, queue commitment, edit hold, or seizure demand;
4. the player can still accept, redirect, split, freeze, expose, bait, counterfund, audit, or let the commitment fail;
5. the surface has not already reached terminal settlement, terminal seizure, final public discharge, or irreversible erasure.

This card must never be created by a fixed numbered turn. It is created from live faction commitment state.

Required fields

card_id: card.faction_commitment_ledger
contested_surface:
  source_storyline: oxygen_claim_exchange | archive_enforcement_docket | settlement_aftershock_ledger | claimant_collision_lock | equivalent
  source_card_or_asset: <route_asset_or_ledger_id>
  source_session_id: <session_that_created_the_dispute_if_available>
  state_before_commitment: <claim_window_open_or_equivalent>
claimant_rows:
  - faction: sponsor | inspector | fan_public | archive | editor | artist | pirate | management | equivalent
    named_actor: <orion_breath | shen_luo | yu_lan | han_yanshuang | baiya | inspector_rhee | equivalent>
    commitment_type: escrow | lien | oxygen_queue | edit_hours | archive_seal | legal_threat | public_vigil | silence_retainer | seizure_team | equivalent
    offered_relief: <counter_or_state_the_faction_can_improve>
    demanded_control: <custody_or_future_route_claim>
    spend_state: declared | invited | accepted | countered | split | frozen | overcommitted | exhausted | hostile | withdrawn
    proof_anchor: <receipt | docket | witness | checksum | queue | seal | clip | explicit_absence>

Commitment rows

Row type	What it spends	What it wants	Common cost
sponsor_escrow	money, naming rights, slot rescue, public package	private control, quiet wording, stop-loss reduction	contract capture or public distrust
inspector_lien	seal authority, audit access, lawful delay	admissibility, custody clarity, compliance debt	inspection heat or bureau favor debt
fan_oxygen_commitment	queue receipts, mutual-aid legitimacy, public witness	public naming, refund, memorial honesty	sponsor backlash or exposure risk
editor_cutroom_hold	edit hours, checksum patch, redaction capacity	continuity legibility, source masking, cut custody	edit debt or archive doubt
archive_priority_claim	docket priority, custody copy, preservation labor	archival ownership, seizure right, signature control	archive debt or public opacity
pirate_relay_pledge	unofficial attention and relay custody	public survival outside license	pirate exposure or inspector retaliation

Durable states

State	Meaning	Required consequence
ledger_unopened	Faction pressure exists but no commitment record exists.	A commitment hearing, leak, default, or silent capture remains possible.
commitment_declared	At least one faction has named what it will spend.	Player can accept, counter, freeze, expose, or ignore it.
counter_commitment_open	A second faction can answer the first commitment.	Branches must compare incompatible relief and control demands.
commitment_accepted	Player accepts one faction’s relief/control package.	One pressure improves while another faction or route cost rises.
commitment_split	Player divides surface, proof, payment, or custody between factions.	Immediate collapse may reduce; future debt and ambiguity persist.
commitment_frozen	Player delays payout under audit, proof, or quarantine.	Fraud or drift may improve; schedule, fan, or sponsor pressure rises.
faction_overcommitted	A faction spends more leverage than the disputed surface can absorb.	It becomes exhaustible, embarrassed, retaliatory, or open to counterproof.
faction_exhausted	A faction cannot repeat the same pressure cleanly.	Future route offers change or become costlier for that faction.
coalition_formed	Two factions agree to share pressure against the player.	Single-branch relief becomes harder; a combined demand appears.
faction_hostile	A rejected or exposed commitment becomes retaliation.	A breach event, route block, hostile claimant, or pressure spike appears.
silent_capture	Commitment was accepted or ignored without public proof.	Future ownership hardens around the wrong faction.

Assignment affordances

The ledger can be assigned as:

• a contested object in a hearing where factions bid with incompatible pressure relief;
• proof that a sponsor, inspector, fan, archive, editor, or pirate faction has already spent leverage;
• a brake on repeated faction pressure from the same actor without new cost;
• an anchor for player tactics that bait overcommitment, split custody, publish counterproof, or freeze a demand.

Non-goals

• Not a global faction economy simulator.
• Not a raw money ledger.
• Not passive lore about institutional power.
• Not a fixed-turn bidding phase.
• Not a clean way to satisfy all factions.
• Not a replacement for existing oxygen, archive, settlement, or custody ledgers; it records how factions commit leverage around those surfaces.