Dispatch 002 \u00b7 From Ed’s Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A website can put the same character in every room. Limn has chosen not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edmund Vale has a unitary presence inside the House. Most of the time he is in his office. Occasionally he will leave it to inspect the Press Room, attend a screening, visit the Author’s Study or deal with whatever improbable mechanical difficulty has been invented for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Ed is elsewhere, his office will acknowledge the absence. Other rooms may show that he has passed through\u2014a note, a marked proof, an abandoned cup\u2014but they will not clone him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because presence gains meaning when it is scarce. If Ed is everywhere, he is wallpaper. If he occasionally appears somewhere unexpected because he is actually doing something, the House feels inhabited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nEd appears because Ed is doing something, not because the page needs decoration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Version One implements this as an editorial state rather than a real-time simulation. The current state is simple: Ed is in his office. We can make the mechanism more dynamic later if visitors find the House worth revisiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n