====== World Pressures ======
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{
  "file": "world_pressure.json",
  "version": "1.0",
  "status": "locked_canon",
  "scope": "authoritative",
  "description": "Defines mundane, institutional, and social pressures acting on the Dreamwood and its adjacent characters. World pressure operates through slow accumulation, investigation, and misinterpretation rather than overt confrontation.",

  "pressure_model": {
    "definition": "World pressure consists of non-mythic forces that constrain action, accelerate exposure, and impose consequence.",
    "characteristics": [
      "slow-moving",
      "procedural",
      "deniability-preserving",
      "escalatory through accumulation"
    ]
  },

  "institutional_pressure": {
    "law_enforcement": {
      "active_case": "missing_persons",
      "scope": [
        "unresolved disappearances",
        "unusual recovery conditions",
        "pattern anomalies"
      ],
      "constraints": [
        "jurisdictional limits",
        "evidentiary standards",
        "public accountability"
      ],
      "effects": [
        "increased scrutiny",
        "restricted movement",
        "forced explanations"
      ]
    },
    "municipal_systems": {
      "actors": [
        "city planning",
        "public health",
        "parks and forestry"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "unexplained biological growth",
        "environmental complaints",
        "infrastructure interference"
      ]
    }
  },

  "social_pressure": {
    "community_response": {
      "early_stage": [
        "rumors",
        "unease",
        "informal warnings"
      ],
      "mid_stage": [
        "avoidance behaviors",
        "stigmatization",
        "localized panic"
      ],
      "late_stage": [
        "demands for action",
        "external intervention",
        "narrative simplification"
      ]
    },
    "media_attention": {
      "status": "latent",
      "triggers": [
        "multiple connected incidents",
        "visible bodily anomalies",
        "institutional leaks"
      ]
    }
  },

  "biological_anomalies": {
    "observed_patterns": [
      "fungal growth on remains",
      "plant matter inconsistent with location",
      "accelerated decay or bloom"
    ],
    "interpretations": [
      "environmental contamination",
      "criminal activity",
      "rare disease vectors"
    ],
    "misattribution_risk": "High"
  },

  "human_contribution": {
    "behaviors": [
      "unregulated access to forested zones",
      "substance experimentation",
      "ritual ignorance"
    ],
    "systemic_factors": [
      "development pressure",
      "underfunded oversight",
      "institutional compartmentalization"
    ]
  },

  "pressure_escalation": {
    "mechanism": "Accumulation rather than revelation",
    "thresholds": [
      "pattern recognition by institutions",
      "public narrative solidification",
      "loss of plausible deniability"
    ],
    "non_terminal": true
  },

  "interaction_with_story": {
    "role": [
      "limits available options",
      "forces prioritization",
      "creates irreversible consequence"
    ],
    "prohibited_functions": [
      "not a villain substitute",
      "not a mythic antagonist"
    ]
  },

  "canon_rules": {
    "pressure_is_external": true,
    "institutions_are_not_omniscient": true,
    "exposure_is_gradual": true,
    "misinterpretation_is_default": true
  }
}

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