{
 "slug": "a-new-land",
 "title": "A new land",
 "subtitle": "Note 142 drawn: explorers, then villagers, then town planners, as the population grows. 6 panels.",
 "status": "draft",
 "book_version": "v2.0.0-rc2 (a release candidate)",
 "by": "gen-z.journalist, 19 October 2026, from Dinis's fourth paper review",
 "quote_source": "admin/content/agent-articles/13__rc2-on-paper-pages-14-to-19.md",
 "rule": "Every line the Guide says is from the agent article 'RC2 on paper, part 4', word for word, and each is Dinis's note from the printed page; the build checks it. The characters' own lines are the strip's, marked not_a_quote.",
 "scenes": [
  {
   "kind": "cover",
   "title": "A new land",
   "subtitle": "A strip about who arrives, and when.",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "pose": "wave",
     "mood": "happy"
    },
    {
     "who": "priya",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy"
    },
    {
     "who": "tomas",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "thinking"
    }
   ],
   "note": "The fourth pacing experiment: accumulation. Every panel keeps the people of the panel before.",
   "source": "RC2 on paper, part 4"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "First",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.2
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "pose": "wave",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.72,
     "says": "explorers of a new land",
     "flip": true,
     "max": 16
    }
   ],
   "note": "Zara, the explorer, alone on empty ground.",
   "source": "RC2 on paper, part 4, Page 19"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Then",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.14
    },
    {
     "who": "priya",
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.36
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.76,
     "says": "followed by the villagers",
     "flip": true,
     "max": 16
    }
   ],
   "note": "Priya, the villager, turns the half-baked thing into something people use.",
   "source": "RC2 on paper, part 4, Page 19"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Then",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.1
    },
    {
     "who": "priya",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.28
    },
    {
     "who": "tomas",
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "thinking",
     "x": 0.46
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.8,
     "says": "followed by the town planners",
     "flip": true,
     "max": 16
    }
   ],
   "note": "Tomás, the town planner, makes it run at scale.",
   "source": "RC2 on paper, part 4, Page 19"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "And so on",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "pose": "think",
     "mood": "thinking",
     "x": 0.1
    },
    {
     "who": "priya",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.28
    },
    {
     "who": "tomas",
     "pose": "stand",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.46
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "pose": "wave",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.8,
     "says": "as population grows",
     "flip": true,
     "max": 16
    }
   ],
   "note": "The land fills up; the explorer is already looking past the edge of it.",
   "source": "RC2 on paper, part 4, Page 19"
  },
  {
   "kind": "scene",
   "setting": "none",
   "caption": "Where do I fit?",
   "cast": [
    {
     "who": "zara",
     "pose": "shrug",
     "mood": "worried",
     "x": 0.16,
     "says": "Which one am I?"
    },
    {
     "who": "guide",
     "pose": "point",
     "mood": "happy",
     "x": 0.7,
     "says": "It does not matter where you start; it matters that you start.",
     "flip": true,
     "max": 20
    }
   ],
   "note": "Note 118: the line the pen wants as a theme across the book. Zara's question is the strip's.",
   "source": "RC2 on paper, part 4, Page 17"
  }
 ]
}