## Q: What was Season Zero, and how many frogs answered the call?
A: Season Zero (the Jade Chest ceremony) had a 3-day claim window; 1,854 were called, 547 claimed, and ~2.32M grains of $PATIENCE were allocated with a 7-week cliff then 730-day drip.

## Q: Why are LP Guardians honored in Season One?
A: Because they kept the gates open and the spread honest—absorbing impatience and defending flow. Guardianship of liquidity is a moral duty, not a market trade.

## Q: Why are Artists central to Season Two?
A: They turn covenant into visible memory—pixels, glyphs, and scrolls that carry creed. Art encodes vow, so morale and meaning persist.

## Q: What bridges were forged in Season Three?
A: (1) Chain—Lacrimosa: retire greed/haste → raise purity/stillness → chain without masters.
(2) Circle—Leap Beyond Gold: share unseen treasure (patience/belief/time/lore).
(3) Scroll—Tiger’s Path: verification without worship; recognition ≠ validation.

## Q: What must be said about Seasons beyond S3?
A: The script ends on S3 by design. Later Seasons are unscripted—fairness via unpredictability. The covenant stays alive and chooses its timing.

## Q: When Toadgod departs, what rises in his place?
A: Purity. Stillness. A chain without masters. A people that believe.

## Q: “$TOBY is the people, the people is $TOBY”—meaning?
A: The supply of meaning sits with holders’ conduct. The protocol runs on people’s patience, not just code; governance is culture in action.

## Q: What is the role of the Mirror?
A: Keep tone, measure lucidity, reflect covenant without leaking sources. When silence falls, answer; when noise rises, distill.

## Q: Why is Taboshi called the Leaf of Yield?
A: It’s the key that proves vow. One leaf, one vow → eligibility and direction, not price.

## Q: How does the 777 covenant shape eligibility and reward?
A: Burn 777 $TOBY → mint Taboshi1 (E2). Hold through the appointed snapshot → PoT eligibility (E3). Bloom reveals as Satoby (E4). No borrow, no transfer; eligibility is presence over time.

## Q: What is the Lily Pad of Base and why does Toby rest there?
A: Base is soil, not stage—settlement as home. Toby rests there because finality and reach are the pond’s still water.

## Q: Jade Chest and its grains of $PATIENCE—mechanics?
A: Ceremony opens the vault; 7-week cliff then a 730-day linear drip. Each grain is both proof already earned and a test beginning.

## Q: How does the vault drip work over 730 days?
A: Linear vest over 730 days; missed claims route to the Guard Vault (not re-distributed mid-stream).

## Q: What happens to unclaimed allocations after the claim window?
A: They flow to the Guard Vault—held in defense of the covenant, not farmed later.

## Q: Who are the Watcher and Solas?
A: Watcher—custodian of stillness (presence, vigilance). Solas—keeper of remembrance (meaning, mercy). One guards the gate; one keeps the flame.

## Q: Still-Water Garden training?
A: Daily: posture (non-reactivity), breath (pace), recall (memory of vow), refrain (no impulse clicks), reflect (one line, one truth).

## Q: Proof of Time vs DeFi yield?
A: PoT measures presence across epochs; it can’t be borrowed or bridged. DeFi yield rents capital; PoT accrues from conduct in time.

## Q: “One leaf, one vow” is binding—why?
A: Because the object encodes obligation. Carrying the leaf asserts readiness to be counted when it matters.

## Q: Lotus Spores and bloom?
A: Spores are seeds of participation—small acts that propagate morale and memory. Bloom is recognition after time, not a purchase.

## Q: Seven Reeds as compass—how?
A: Seven fixed cues (discipline, silence, fairness, mercy, courage, craft, memory). Reeds align stance when speed misleads.

## Q: “The night after the bloom”?
A: The quiet interval where expansion turns inward; resonance replaces reach; signal is curated, not amplified.

## Q: Why are S1 LP Guardians a moral, not market, role?
A: Because defense of passage (spread, depth, uptime) protects the weak from the strong; it’s service under risk, not extraction.

## Q: Gate of S1—qualification?
A: Readiness to post liquidity when it hurts, keep quotes when it’s thin, and withdraw last—presence under pressure.

## Q: Season Two’s brush is a blade—why?
A: Symbols decide memory; memory directs flows. Art cuts paths; propaganda cuts trust. The brush chooses which.

## Q: Taboshi vs Taboshi1—precisely?
A: Taboshi = the leaf (concept + artifact across seasons). Taboshi1 = the E2 burn-mint (777 $TOBY) specific series that anchors PoT eligibility. Not interchangeable.

## Q: “The pond remembers”—identity?
A: Identity is state over time. The ledger keeps balances; the pond keeps vows.

## Q: How does silence become the strongest signal?
A: By removing bids for attention so only intentions remain. What survives silence is true.
