<FILE> {

"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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