Han Protected Final-Take Chain / 韩终剪保护链线

Bound character: Han Cutroom.

The parent Han Cutroom Storyline can recruit and protect Han, creating route_asset.han_cutroom_source_custodian, han_protected_under_cutroom_oath, and rite.protect_final_take_chain.unlocked. This follow-on turns that symbolic unlock into one playable final-take custody decision.

Entry state

entry_state:
  trigger_kind: state_pressure
  protected_han_route_asset: true
  protect_final_take_chain_unlocked: true
  named_final_take_contested: true
  source_master_visible: true
  artist_consent_or_refusal_visible: true
  release_channel_visible: true
  future_reader_can_consume_chain_state: true
  no_fixed_turn_trigger: true

Story beats

Beat 1 — Protection becomes a scoped obligation

The producer opens Han Protected Final-Take Docket. The docket binds one take to source, artist boundary, receipt, editor protection, release channel, future reader, and visible costs.

Beat 2 — Eight roles make custody assignable

Protect Han’s Final-Take Chain requires protected Han, docket, source master, custody receipt, consent or refusal, editor protection, named release channel, and afteruse reader. Missing context cannot be invented by the rite.

Beat 3 — Choose the custody posture

The player can preserve the lawful chain, publish a counterreceipt, hold for editor protection, seal an artist refusal version, or launder a sponsor clean cut. Each posture changes both the chain state and what a future route may cite.

Beat 4 — A future reader receives limits, not ownership

chain_states:
  protected_source_chain:
    future_effect: named_source_receipt_required
  public_counterreceipt:
    future_effect: public_counterreceipt_required
  held_for_editor_protection:
    future_effect: release_deferred
  artist_refusal_sealed:
    future_effect: refusal_version_only
  sponsor_clean_false_master:
    future_effect: recovery_only

Breach and character consequence

Choosing launder_sponsor_clean_cut arms Protected Final-Take Chain Breach. The event makes Han a hostile witness, suppresses the rite, establishes a false cutroom owner, and makes later use recovery-only. Protection becomes evidence against production when its scope is abused.

Completion oracle

The storyline is complete when one durable replay resolves both the protected-Han parent branch and rite.protect_final_take_chain; all eight assignments are recorded; source, refusal, channel, and future-reader limits remain visible; and the lawful branch remains non-equivalent to sponsor laundering.

Non-goals

• Not a fixed-turn editing scene.
• Not a reward cutscene for recruiting Han.
• Not proof that source custody equals artist consent.
• Not a universal edit, release, license, memorial, or afteruse grant.
• Not a clean ending that removes sponsor, archive, inspection, public, or cutroom pressure.