{
  "fiction": true,
  "cases": [
    {
      "id": "M01",
      "name": "Ivo Senn",
      "action": "Set a cup on the table",
      "object": "CUP-01 / detached handle",
      "report": "Heard a break before the cup reached the table.",
      "refs": [
        "M02",
        "M06"
      ],
      "duration": 17,
      "voice": "Ivo Senn set down a cup. He reported a break before it touched the table. Only the handle was retained. For its time, see Mara Pell."
    },
    {
      "id": "M02",
      "name": "Mara Pell",
      "action": "Wound Ivo Senn\u2019s clock",
      "object": "CLOCK-01 / face without hands",
      "report": "Placed M01\u2019s break at twelve. The face has no hands.",
      "refs": [
        "M01",
        "M04"
      ],
      "duration": 16,
      "voice": "Mara Pell wound Ivo Senn\u2019s clock. She placed the break at twelve. The retained face has no hands. She said case four had removed them."
    },
    {
      "id": "M03",
      "name": "Neri Vale",
      "action": "Closed a window",
      "object": "GLASS-01 / clear sliver",
      "report": "Saw CUP-01 intact after the reported break.",
      "refs": [
        "M01"
      ],
      "duration": 17,
      "voice": "Neri Vale closed a window. She reported seeing the cup intact after the break. Her sliver fits a window, but no submitted drawing shows which window."
    },
    {
      "id": "M04",
      "name": null,
      "action": null,
      "object": "KEY-04 / object file present",
      "report": "No case entry. M02\u2019s timing claim cannot be assigned a witness.",
      "refs": [
        "M02",
        "M05"
      ],
      "duration": 10,
      "missing": true,
      "voice": "Entry four is withheld. Its key is present. Without the entry, the directory cannot assign a witness to Mara Pell\u2019s claim."
    },
    {
      "id": "M05",
      "name": "Sila Rook",
      "action": "Sorted the retained keys",
      "object": "KEY-04 / opens the record cabinet",
      "report": "The recurring tick is the cabinet latch, not a clock.",
      "refs": [
        "M04",
        "M02"
      ],
      "duration": 17,
      "voice": "Sila Rook sorted the keys. Key four opened this cabinet. The tick marking these entries is its latch, she reported, not the clock named in case two."
    },
    {
      "id": "M06",
      "name": "Orin Fenn",
      "action": "Picked up CUP-01\u2019s handle",
      "object": "CUP-01 / same retained drawing",
      "report": "Heard the break through a receiver, later. Was not at the table.",
      "refs": [
        "M01",
        "M02"
      ],
      "duration": 17,
      "voice": "Orin Fenn picked up the handle. He heard the break later, through a receiver. He had not been at the table. The directory had filed both reports as observations."
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "M01",
      "output": [
        4.0,
        21.0
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "M02",
      "output": [
        21.0,
        37.0
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "M03",
      "output": [
        37.0,
        54.0
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "M04",
      "output": [
        54.0,
        64.0
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "M05",
      "output": [
        64.0,
        81.0
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "M06",
      "output": [
        81.0,
        98.0
      ]
    }
  ],
  "missing_register": [
    {
      "id": "M04",
      "status": "intentionally withheld record",
      "object_present": "KEY-04",
      "consequence": "M02 timing attribution has no assignable witness; M05 can access cabinet but cannot recover missing account"
    }
  ],
  "contradictions": [
    {
      "cases": [
        "M01",
        "M03"
      ],
      "status": "deliberate unresolved temporal contradiction"
    },
    {
      "cases": [
        "M02",
        "M05"
      ],
      "status": "deliberate clock-versus-latch source uncertainty"
    },
    {
      "cases": [
        "M01",
        "M06"
      ],
      "status": "different witnesses/media/times, not auto-corrected into one event"
    }
  ],
  "schema_revision": {
    "before": "disputed_observation: string",
    "after": "unverified_report: {claim, medium, witness, hearing_time}",
    "cause": "M06 exposes reception through a receiver at a later time; M04 prevents witness assignment"
  },
  "sound": "new libflite slt speech and composed tick/latch cue, no recorded room sound",
  "audition": "not performed"
}