阮尺 / Redaction Stenographer

阮尺 is a low-rank hearing stenographer who works where Storyteller’s spoken truth becomes official record. She is not an inspector, judge, sponsor agent, editor, or public historian. Her power is narrower: she can keep the raw line, mark a redaction as real, or prove later that a clean transcript was never clean.

She exists to make 听证笔录删改机制 playable as a person. When protected, she can become a route asset who preserves raw minutes through later archive, sponsor, editor, and public-reader pressure. When missed, captured, or frightened, future hearings inherit missing minutes, false-clean transcript, or hostile omission.

Her full progression lives in 阮尺删改速记员线 and is tested by 阮尺删改速记员 Lens.

Gameplay role

阮尺 is a recruitable route-asset NPC for the seam after a hearing resolves and before its words become reusable evidence.

• Recruitable: if the player protects her raw notes, proof anchor, and speaker boundary from sponsor clean minutes, unlawful inspector seizure, editor over-masking, or public overexposure, she becomes route_asset.ruan_chi_raw_minutes_keeper.
• Missable: if the first future reader consumes a hearing result without a transcript row, she remains explicit_absent_stenographer, and missing minutes become durable scar.
• Capturable: if sponsor or management owns her minute book, she can file sponsor_clean_minutes that lower immediate pressure while poisoning later public or lawful use.
• Dangerous when hostile: if blamed for a missing line or exposed speaker, she can testify that the producer knowingly let a clean transcript erase a dangerous oath.

Character states

ruan_chi_state_any:
  - unseen_stenographer
  - offered_raw_minutes_keeper
  - protected_raw_minutes_keeper
  - lawful_redaction_clerk
  - public_excerpt_witness
  - editor_checksum_scribe
  - split_transcript_escrow_scribe
  - route_asset_raw_minutes_keeper
  - sponsor_captured_minutes
  - frightened_missing_keeper
  - hostile_omission_witness
  - missed_transcript_route

Entry hooks

阮尺 should enter through state pressure, not a fixed sequence position. Valid entry examples:

• a hearing result from 纪念空气链质询线 will be cited later, but its raw words lack a keeper;
• a 播出实在漂移审计 branch needs to prove which contradictory line was actually spoken;
• 认领告知顺序线 creates notice terms that a future claimant can contest;
• sponsor clean wording tries to turn a volatile oath into safe minutes;
• editor checksum protects a source line but blocks public reading;
• public historian or fan delegate needs an excerpt without exposing the whole witness.

Costs

A useful 阮尺 branch must always price transcript survival:

• transcript_integrity
• transcript_redaction_pressure
• archive_signature_legitimacy
• source_ambiguity
• voice_integrity
• public_receipt_legitimacy
• public_receipt_distrust
• witness_exposure
• witness_reprisal_risk
• sponsor_stop_loss_pressure
• contract_capture
• inspection_heat
• edit_debt
• keeper_burden
• future_recovery_cost

Relationships

• Han Yanshuang can make 阮尺’s redaction lawful but can also narrow the transcript into lawful-only use.
• Shen Luo can protect the budget by cleaning minutes, but risks sponsor capture and public distrust.
• Baiya can checksum a dangerous line without exposing it, but source ambiguity and edit debt rise.
• Yu Lan can publicize an excerpt and block private capture, but witness exposure and sponsor retaliation rise.

Non-goals

• Not a universal archive clerk.
• Not a court authority.
• Not a clean witness-protection button.
• Not a fixed-turn encounter.
• Not valid unless her state changes whether future readers can cite, contest, redact, or recover the transcript line.