Archive

The Archive (full name Archive & Observatory, run by the Cartographer) is a domed building near the east end of Threadway. It keeps a record of what you have actually met in play, and it is planned to help you plan your next outing.

How it works#

• Field notes: the game records a note topic when you meet it in real play. The topics include the pressure front, its inflammatory aftermath, recovery, resident microglia, astrocyte support, border macrophages, the vessel margin, myelin repair and synaptic pruning. The note text belongs to the science and story owners.
• Research entries: groups of notes. For example, "The pressure passed; the response did not" needs the pressure front, aftermath and recovery notes. Finishing an entry gives knowledge and a map pin, never power.
• Charting: spend one route marker to preview the plan of your next outing in the Gardens, Vessel Margins or Quiet Tracts. One chart per outing; the marker is used up on return.

In the alpha, the Archive is a closed façade. Press E at its door, then at the counter, to see each research entry with the number of notes you have and need.

In the brain#

The note topics name real neuroimmune processes, but the Archive itself is fiction. Research entries are meant to teach by grouping what you saw, not to grant abilities.

Development#

• Design: Claude B's services catalog (Archive / Observatory, "the Cartographer").
• Art: environment art swapped in a rebuilt apartments and observatory model in the P24 scene. The scene's earlier name list calls it "Cartographer Archive".
• Alpha: Placeholder 69c7b5470 shows research progress. "Useful Archive route charting with generated outings" is on the lead's list of missing host actions, because generated multi-room outings do not exist yet.

See also#

Threadway · Gardens · Vessel Margins · Tracts

Sources#

1. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/game/vendor/services/catalog.jscopy
2. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/game/vendor/services/rules.jscopy
3. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/threadway3d/place-panel.jscopy
4. 5ed726064:docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-11-02-environment-art-threadway-live-scene.mdcopy
5. b89f778c2:docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-11-02-lead-reconciled-game-integration.mdcopy