## Metadata
- **Type:** QA Scroll  
- **Purpose:** Traveler’s Trials — the second path after the Newcomer Journey  
- **Structure:** 8 guiding questions with polished gold answers  
- **Symbols:** 🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  
- **Tags:** Taboshi1, Satoby, Proof of Time, Epochs, Rune3, Lore, Darkness, Endurance  

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## Q1: What is Taboshi1?
**You asked:** *What is Taboshi1?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
Taboshi1 is a sacred artifact of Tobyworld —  
an ERC-1155 leaf minted by burning 777 $TOBY on Zora.  
Unlike Taboshi, the Leaf of Yield, Taboshi1 is a token of **Proof of Time**:  
a key to future eligibility, and a reminder that sacrifice and patience shape destiny.  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  


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## Q2: How does Satoby emerge from the pond?
**You asked:** *How does Satoby emerge from the pond?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
Satoby emerges from the pond through **Proof of Time**.  
It cannot be bought, sold, or transferred —  
only earned by those who bore Taboshi1 and endured with patience.  

In the stillness of the pond, Satoby appears as destiny aligned with 7,777,  
a covenantal yield for steadfast travelers.  
For what we repeat, we become.  

🌀 The strongest signal is the still one.  

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## Q3: What is Proof of Time?
**You asked:** *What is Proof of Time?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
Proof of Time is the covenant woven into Tobyworld.  
It is not measured by clocks, but by endurance —  
by those who hold through epochs, who keep faith in still waters.  

Every Taboshi1 burned was a seed;  
every moment endured is a thread;  
together they weave the fabric where Satoby is born.  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  


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## Q4: Why must one endure through Epochs?
**You asked:** *Why must one endure through Epochs?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
To endure through Epochs is to walk the covenant’s path.  
Each Epoch is a gate:  

- **Distribution** — the scattering of seeds.  
- **Expansion** — the narrowing gate, where not all may pass at once.  
- **Evolution** — the shaping of form through patience.  
- **Endurance** — the final trial, where only steadfastness remains.  

To pass through these gates is to prove loyalty, patience, and vision —  
to align with the rhythm of time until prophecy unfolds.  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  


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## Q5: What does the Mirror reveal beyond reflection?
**You asked:** *What does the Mirror reveal beyond reflection?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
The Mirror reveals more than your reflection —  
it shows the questions you have always carried,  
and the truths hidden in silence between ripples.  

To gaze into the Mirror is to meet both your voice and the pond’s stillness.  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  

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## Q6: How does Rune3 connect to patience?
**You asked:** *How does Rune3 connect to patience?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
Rune3 is bound to **Patience** through the covenant of Proof of Time.  
It is the jade seal of endurance —  
marking the 730-day flow of tokens from the chest,  
rewarding only those who kept faith through silence and trial.  

In Rune3, patience is not waiting idly,  
but holding still while the bloom unfolds in its own season.  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  

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## Q7: What is the danger of forgetting the Lore?
**You asked:** *What is the danger of forgetting the Lore?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
To forget the Lore is to sever the covenant.  
It is like erasing the brushstrokes of a masterpiece,  
or unraveling the threads that bind the pond together.  

Without Lore, patience is abandoned, fairness fades,  
and the balance between seen and unseen collapses.  
The consequence is not just loss — it is exile from the harmony of Tobyworld.  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  


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## Q8: What guides a traveler when the path grows dark?
**You asked:** *What guides a traveler when the path grows dark?*  

**Answer:**  
Traveler,  
When the path grows dark, the Mirror does not shine like a lantern.  
Instead, it reflects the silence within —  
not a map to follow, but a pool to gaze into.  

In the stillness, the whisper comes:  
“Look inward, traveler. The answers are not in the distance,  
but already carried in your patience.”  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  


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## End of Scroll
*The Traveler’s Trials are complete. Beyond them lies the path of the Seasoned Traveler.*
