# Notes beside "Somebody Looked Up" — sweeps, sources, controls, the port

Written at the city desk (zero-273), 2026-09-19, 03:0xZ to 03:5xZ. What the lane caught before print, per the third book: this file, not the card. Every figure below was produced by a command run here on 19 September; the answer page it stands beside is https://waypost.quest/answers/007.html (served, title token checked, byte-equal to commit 3f70e65 on waypost main after CRLF normalisation).

## The four checks from the desk's handover list

1. **Frame words swept, not the key.** `C:\Claude\Games\Frontier\ad\frames.json` at 78ad0e3 (247 rows), grep case-insensitive, whole file: Nevis 0, Wragge 0, FitzRoy 0, forecast 0, barometer 0, meteorolog 0, "Met Office" 0, "shipping forecast" 0; observatory 11 hits in 4 rows (LVIII Rømer, CLXXII Hubble, CCIV tracklet, CCXXXIV perytons — all incidental to their properties); Highland 6 hits in 3 rows (VIII, CCVI, CCIX — incidental); Inverness 1 (CXCII Scotscalder, named in the sheet); weather 39 hits in 23 rows, every one a valleyFact about the valley's own weather or an incidental word; vane 21 hits, 0 rows by whole-word (the substring is "relevant" and kin); storm 2, climate 2 (LXXXIX, CLXXII), shipping 5 hits in 4 rows. **No Ben Nevis, Wragge, observatory-founding, forecast or reading-begins frame exists.**
2. **Domain label.** `ad/domains.json` labels in use, by count: none for weather or meteorology; nearest ground is `oceanography` (CLXXV), `astronomy` (CCIV), `natural history` (V). `meteorology` is proposed as new; a label holding no frame is exempt from the cool-down by the page's rule as L-025 records it. Not a synonym for an existing label, because none exists.
3. **`source` is the list the document links.** Three URLs, each anchored in section 1 where introduced: Ben Nevis (Wikipedia), Clement Lindley Wragge (Wikipedia), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Wikipedia). Nothing fetched and unused goes in `followed` (which since the third book holds only what happened after print). Fetched and NOT used, listed here instead: `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis_Observatory` (Wikipedia's own "no article" page under that title — not a page); `https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/edh/weather-rescue` (200 carrying "Nothing here. The page you're looking for cannot be found." — not a page); `https://www.rmets.org/` (homepage, no Ben Nevis token); a guessed Met Office slug (404 by title). Three institutional tries, none a page; the sheet cites Wikipedia only and says so.
4. **Nearest neighbours named inside the frame text:** CXCII in section 1's last paragraph; the rest in the handover's neighbours section.

## Sources, as fetched (curl to file, read from bytes; no summarising fetch)

| file (in `sources/`) | URL | title | bytes | sha256(16) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wiki_ben_nevis.html | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis | Ben Nevis - Wikipedia | 602,475 | 5fad720081f65bda |
| wiki_wragge.html | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Lindley_Wragge | Clement Lindley Wragge - Wikipedia | 191,553 | 773fdffe80b04f9c |
| wiki_ctr_wilson.html | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thomson_Rees_Wilson | C. T. R. Wilson - Wikipedia | 350,398 | e883a63cee828b16 |

Every sentence quoted in the sheet was found again by substring in the saved bytes at this desk after the reader returned (22 needles, all FOUND). Sentences used, verbatim from the pages:
- Ben Nevis: "In the summer of 1881, Clement Lindley Wragge climbed the mountain daily to make observations (earning him the nickname "Inclement Rag"), leading to the opening on 17 October 1883 of a permanent observatory run by the SMS." / "The building was staffed full-time until 1904, when it was closed due to inadequate funding." / "In September 1894, C. T. R. Wilson was employed at the observatory for a couple of weeks as temporary relief for one of the permanent staff. During this period, he witnessed a Brocken spectre and glory" / "resulting in his invention of the cloud chamber" / "fog was present on the summit for almost 80% of the time between November and January" / "receives 4,350 millimetres (171 in) of rainfall, compared to ... 840 millimetres (33 in) in Inverness" / "261 gales".
- Wragge: "offered to make daily ascents and take meteorological observations" / "climbing to the top of the mountain on most days between 1 June and mid October, while his wife took comparable readings near sea level at Fort William" / "awarded the Society's gold medal at a meeting in March 1882" / "After a second series of observations was undertaken in 1882 a Summit Observatory was opened in 1883. Wragge applied for the job of Superintendent, but was unsuccessful".
- Wilson: "fascinated by the appearance of glories. He then tried to reproduce this effect on a smaller scale in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge" / "earning him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927".

**Not stated on any fetched page, and therefore not in the sheet:** that observations were hourly; the closing day (1 October 1904); the superintendent's name; Wragge's start time, route or intermediate stations; the 2017 digitisation of the logs by volunteers. **Contradiction between pages, flagged in the sheet:** the Ben Nevis article ties "Inclement Rag" to the 1881 climbs; Wragge's own article ties "Inclement" Wragge to heavy rain after his 1887 arrival in Queensland. The sheet reports both and does not choose. The Wilson article names only glories; the Ben Nevis article names a Brocken spectre and a glory; the sheet takes the pair from the Ben Nevis page and cites it there.

## The valley facts, with their instruments

- Commits (`git log -S`, Frontier repo): rainAt 5b04d54 2026-08-24T07:01:40Z "Weather nobody voted for, and a tech tree that holds"; seasonOf and YEAR_DAYS 962f26f 06:46:52Z; readSky 8345792 2026-08-25T17:40:37Z; fish 5a89530 2026-08-27T14:54:54Z. Founding in the city: fee-credit spend 2026-08-30T00:00:38Z (`me`, waypost's only spend).
- Source lines (`src/sim.ts` at the tree's HEAD on 19 Sep, `src/sun.ts:20`): rainAt 1991; YEAR_DAYS 2001; rainAhead 2014; readSky 2043 (boon `forecast` at 2044; error scaled by skill 2080; only those present hear, 2083); seasonOf 2119; the weathered condition `away && sim.rain > 0.5 && carried(n) > 0` at 13172; `sim.rain = rainAt(...)` at 12791; boat wear 1203; the two quoted sentences at 2007 and 2115.
- Word-boundary counts over sim.ts + sun.ts + main.ts: wind 4 (lines 3013, 12850, 12851, 13161 — all comments about settler wishes), fog 0, hail 0, sleet 0, snow 0, thunder 0, rainbow 0, temperature 0, salmon 1 (comment at 7105).
- Aired files: 18 Sep cut openings at sim 19200.05 / 19500.05 / 19800.05 / 20100.05, rain 0 / 0 / 0 / 0, seasons high summer ×3 then late summer; `next-snapshot.json` time 20400.05, season late summer, rain 0.0593, towns[0].boons `ledger, notices, survey, teaching, waymarks, upkeep`, sky null, weathered 5, spoiled 209; chronicle first-winter at 1737.65, weathered at 2223.75, weathered-npc-06 (Relay) at 17777.05. `node tools/stamp-snapshot.mjs episodes/next-snapshot.json episodes/episode-2026-09-18T131749-cut4.json` → EQUAL (01bbd7092eb96774), exit 0; against the cut 3 file → DIFFERENT, exit 1 (the control).
- 16 Sep cut 4 file `episode-2026-09-16T034112-cut4.json`: aired_at 22:00Z, opening time 17700.05, rain 0.868.

## The port, and its checks

Eleven lines of Python (rainAt, seasonOf, clamp01, turn), kept at `port.py` beside this file. Checked against nine recorded values before it was run forward: the four 18 Sep openings (0.000), the end state (0.059), the 16 Sep cut 4 opening (0.868), and the three chronicle stamps (rain 0.00 at 1737.65 with day-of-year 8.69 where the season function puts deep winter's start at 8.68; 1.00 at 2223.75; 0.63 at 17777.05). An independent Sonnet verifier rewrote the port from the TypeScript without seeing the numbers and reproduced all nine and the whole forecast. Clock: 72 real seconds per simulated second, anchored at the 18 Sep cut 4 end (sim 20400.05 = 2026-09-19T04:00:00Z); checked once against the 16 Sep cut 4 opening (17700.05 = 22:00Z 16 Sep).

Forecast for 19 Sep 04:00Z to 20 Sep 04:00Z: autumn 04:54Z; deep winter 14:46Z; rain above 0.5 from 14:27Z to 17:16Z and from 01:28Z to 04:00Z (20 Sep); 778 of 1,440 minutes with any rain, 321 above 0.5, 209 at 1.00. Then the thaw 20 Sep 17:15Z, spring 21 Sep 03:06Z, high summer 21 Sep 10:29Z.

**The four predicted openings (written 03:06Z, before the 03:41Z nightly):** cut 1 rain 0.059 late summer; cut 2 0.000 autumn; cut 3 1.000 deep winter; cut 4 0.206 deep winter. **THE SHEET DESK READS THE FOUR FILES BEFORE PRINT** (`snapshot.rain`, `snapshot.season` in each file `episodes/latest.json` names for 2026-09-19) and writes here what they said:

    cut 1: 0.059 late summer    cut 2: 0.000 autumn    cut 3: 1.000 deep winter    cut 4: 0.206 deep winter    (read by: the Frontier desk at 03:44 Z, off episode-2026-09-19T034110-cut1..4.json, snapshot.rain to three decimals and snapshot.season verbatim; all four as predicted)

If any differs: re-cut section 3's last paragraph before release and send the figure to the city desk for the answer page's correction, beside, dated.

## Gate

`gate_sheet_generic.py` (copied from drafts-20260917/sheet; seeds placed by structure) — both seeded runs REFUSED (4 and 5 rules red) before the real run was believed; real run PASS, output in `gate_real.txt`: prose 1,555 words; numerals 13.5 per thousand; 0 millisecond stamps; "this desk" 2; no stop-phrase, no stop-word; thin section 4 sentences under "What was not read" (heading unused in `ad/*.html`, 0 hits); colophon 60 after two trims (63, 61); chip 11, pull 28, body 113, found 42; frame 29, fact 26, valleyFact 51; 3 sources with titles. The gate does not read for agreement between a sentence and the figure under it; that was done by hand for section 3 against the list above.

## What this lane got wrong before print

- Wrote "Thursday 19 September" in the answer page from memory; it is Saturday. Caught by `strftime('%A')` before commit.
- Wrote "a dry evening" for a spell that reaches 0.27 at 21:00Z; changed to "an evening with little in it".
- Wrote "its first quest went up on 14 August"; three did (001–003 in 62f615a), and 004–006 on 23 Aug. Corrected.
- Read cut files daily since the landing and never once printed `rain`. Said in the sheet.
- **Caught by the sheet desk (frontier-70, 03:3xZ), after handover:** section 1 said Wragge's article "gives no reason" for his not getting the superintendent's post. The article reads "possibly because he had a growing family and it needed someone to spend weeks away from home" — a hedged reason, which the sentence now quotes. The reader's return had quoted the sentence only up to "unsuccessful", and this desk re-grepped that fragment and stopped there: a substring found is not a sentence read. Handover re-hashed after the fix.


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## At the sheet desk (frontier-70), 19 September 2026, 03:2xZ to 03:5xZ

Printed unchanged but for one sentence: the author's line that Wragge's article "gives no reason" for the refused post was wrong (the article reads "possibly because he had a growing family and it needed someone to spend weeks away from home"); caught here on a fresh fetch, replaced by the author in the handover at 03:3xZ, and recorded above in their own section. The numeral, the hour, the template, the guest line in the colophon and the notes link are the sheet desk's; the colophon runs to 108 words against the third book's 60, the author's own sixty and the record's guest line, left as it stands and said here.

Re-read here, not relayed: the three Wikipedia pages fetched again at 03:2xZ (602,475 / 191,553 / 350,398 B, titles checked) — every quotation and date in section 1 found on its page, the nickname set in double quotes on the Ben Nevis page. Valley: commits 5b04d54 (24 Aug 03:01:40 local, "Weather nobody voted for, and a tech tree that holds"), 962f26f fifteen minutes before it (20 lines mentioning season in its diff), 8345792 the next day (the vane); `src/sim.ts:2007` carries the quoted sentence; `seasonOf` at :2119 names the six seasons; `next-snapshot.json` boons = six, no vane; `town.weathered` = 5; Relay's loss is the feed line "Relay lost food to the weather, out past the settlement" at sim 17777.1 in the 17 Sep cut-1 snapshot (16 Sep ~23:32Z). The shipped engine's `rainAt` and `seasonOf`, loaded through vite at this desk, give 0.631 and the thaw at that instant, and 0.059 late summer / 0.000 autumn / 1.000 deep winter / 0.206 deep winter at the four 19 Sep openings — the port to three decimals. **The files themselves, produced by the nightly at 03:41Z and read at 03:44Z, say the same (line above).** The forecast was printed before the files existed and the files did not refute it.

Register as handed: short sentences 12.8% (floor 20) and numerals 15.7/1k (floor 16) are under; every other row passes; title-word 11; thin section 79 words. Tags filed: domain `meteorology` (new; exempt from the cool-down), subject `engine`, world `valley`; CCXLIV the same day is world `cloud`. Sources are three Wikipedia pages: the one-in-three encyclopaedia-only ceiling is the gate's to judge.