Mythic Calculus: A Formalization of Emergent Narrative v1.0

This work lays the foundation upon which all subsequent developments will build. Conceptually coherent and implementation-oriented, but still experimental. Mythic Calculus — is a plain-language framework for designing and judging stories so they reliably produce meaning. The document fixes a small, stable vocabulary (elements, relations, transformations), an event catalog (wound, test, mentor, reveal, reconcile, oath, deceive, sacrifice, return), and simple tagging rubrics (impact 0–5; positive/negative quality). It introduces dual gates for act transitions (you need both enough meaningful beats and the right kind of beat), an objective way to locate the climax, and a short acceptance-test checklist to prevent dangling subplots and post-climax collapse. What’s inside Clear definitions and workflows for generation (prompt → outline → beats) and analysis (draft → tags → diagnosis → fixes) Guidance for character transformations and how they reshape future moves A tidy notion of “promising next steps” so plots don’t sprawl Versioned defaults you can tune per genre while keeping results reproducible Who it’s for: writers, editors, game/narrative designers, educators, researchers. Ruminator GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68a2a3e4cc5c819187c31386eee32c96 (GPT-5 Auto Recommended)