Session 29 — Holistic Review and Document Restructure

Session 29 — March 9, 2026

What Happened

Full holistic review of all active game documents. Critique identified 10 issues. Fixed everything actionable immediately, deferred example playthrough until post-playtesting.

What Was Accomplished

Mechanics fixes

• Added tally mechanic to exploration.md — ingredient gathering tracked on index card, count = cooking flips
• Updated cooking.md to reference the tally instead of a fixed flip count
• Locked presentation as rank-only — removed suit language from layer-3.md
• Added world-lens paragraph to exploration.md — Flip 1 world filters how encounters read
• Added reshuffle rule to exploration.md and cooking.md (previously only in game-loop.md)
• Clarified “character card” = index card in character-creation.md
• Added solo play paragraph to introduction.md

Layer 3 housekeeping

• Updated three stale briefs in layer-3.md (flip count, presentation suit, misc tables list)
• Removed Layer 3 Brief blockquotes from four individual pages

Navigation

• Added sequential prev/next links to all 16 pages
• Changed exploration and cooking table links to @[]() embed syntax

Table extraction

• Created 8 standalone table files (class, personality, calling, restaurant name, tagline, reactions, dish names, complications)
• Updated 4 parent pages to use @[]() embeds

What We Didn’t Do

• Example playthrough — deferred until post-playtesting
• Credits content — still a stub

Next Session

• Playtesting pass with current docs
• Verify tally mechanic reads clearly without instruction
• Verify implied ingredient gathering lands naturally
• Write example playthrough when playtesting is complete