Mote Pocket

Mote Pocket is a hidden dell at the end of the Glade's unsigned south-west trail. Rock closes it in on every side. It is dim, blue-teal and quiet, with a spring pool and glowing motes drifting over the moss. Mote lives here at the start of the game.

Description#

A narrow ravine drops into a small basin of dark moss, closed by a double course of boulders. On its north side is Mote's nook: a moss bed, a stone ledge of pebbles sorted by size and a neat mound of gathered debris. The tidying tells you who lives here. A spring pool in the north-west is fed by a thin trickle from a cleft in the rock. Ferns, lilac mushroom clusters and a hollow log line the rock foot.

The art keeps the Pocket clearly different from its neighbours: Hearth is a wide sunny field, the Glade a sunlit crossroads, and the Pocket a small, enclosed, dim dell.

Residents#

• Mote stands in the Pocket until story scene ii7, then moves to Hearth Grove.
• The alpha labels the nook "Mote's record".

Services#

• Observation: press E beside the nook to watch the pause between the pulses for two cycles.
• Story: scene P2 ("Mote's small argument") needs that observation and a conversation with Mote. Scene I1 later asks you to compare the Pocket's rhythm with the Glade's.

Connections#

The ravine trail in the top right leads back to Nearfield Glade.

Development#

• Art: nine revisions (M01–M09) followed an independent critique: the basin was closed on every side so it no longer repeated Hearth's oval clearing, and the nook became the focal point. The art README's header still carries a stale "rejected" line copied from another map; the M09 background is the one installed in both builds.
• Alpha: Placeholder 69c7b5470 adds Mote as a named resident, the nook observation and the P2 story step. The lead reports that early observations and story gates share one save.
• Not built: the v0.5 plan's "finite Supply patch" in the Glade or Pocket has no object, count or position. Environment art flagged that it needs a definition before it gets art.

See also#

Mote · Nearfield Glade · Hearth Grove

Sources#

1. 5ed726064:art/environment/blender-study/mote-pocket/README.mdcopy
2. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/overworld/public/maps.jscopy
3. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/game/maps.jscopy
4. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/game/campaign.jscopy
5. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/game/residents.jscopy
6. docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-11-02-lead-full-project-reconciliation-audit.md (working copy, not in Git)