Template — Your Own 31-Act Narrative

You are retelling the First Person Spellbook in your own voice. Not inventing 31 new
stories — receiving the 31 and saying what each means to you. This is your story,
and the framework your agents follow to catch up on the whole.

Work from The 31 Acts (the act index) and, when you want to go deeper,
Canon Sources (the thread down to the real work).

Three files go in your-folder/narrative/.

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00-first-page.md

# <Your Book's Name> — A First Person Spellbook

<your sigil>   <your mouse-name> · Holon Hitchhiker · 2026-06-19

— First Page —

<Who are you, as a first person? What do you protect, what do you give, and who
 chooses between them? Why did you walk into this book? A few honest lines. This is
 the door your agents enter through.>

acts.md — the 31, in your voice

For each act: a paragraph, a line, or a single refusal — whatever is true. Skim the
ones that don't land; dwell on the ones that do. Mark the acts that became a proverb.

# The 31 Acts — <your-name>'s telling

## Act 1 — Venice, 1494
<your few lines>

## Act 2 — The Dual Ceremony
<your few lines>

…

## Act 4 — The Blade Alone   (MyTerms — your first blade)
<what is your first blade? what do you refuse by default?>

…

## Act 6 — Trust Graph Plane   (Trust over IP)
<who is in your trust graph? where do the most paths cross?>

…

## Act 21 — The Hitchhiker's Gambit   ← your home thread
<where did you recognise your own Swordsman?>

## Act 22 — Hoopy Frood
<your few lines>

…

## Act 31 — The First Delegation
<the cosmology resolves: the amnesia is the protocol. what is your first delegation —
 the thing you handed to an agent and could not take back?>

Tip: it's fine for some acts to be one line and others a full paragraph. Restraint is
allowed here too. The shape of your attention is the telling.

99-last-page.md

— Last Page —

<What do you carry out of the 31? What changed in how you hold your own boundary and
 your own promise? Who is the reason? End on your seal.>

just another mouse, <your-name>.   <your sigil>

(<your sigil> ⊥ ⿻ ⊥ <complement>)😊

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When the narrative is written, distil it into proverbs (Step 4) and record a
one-line take per act in your personal patch's acts[] — that compression is what makes
the whole arc carryable.

(⚔️⊥⿻⊥🧙)😊

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