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main vs migration · day 11

Apr 2026

Both branches encounter mechanical precision in a woodpecker, but the stakes and setting are entirely different. In main, the woodpecker is an abstract puzzle above a familiar site; missing the foraging window is costly but recoverable. In alt2-migration, the woodpecker is at the stream edge — physically adjacent to the goal — and YY's body simply cannot follow. The same unresolvable sound lands as frustration in one branch and near-proximity in the other.

main

YY loses a foraging window to fascination with the woodpecker's intervals at the root cross; recovers through an east channel trade by afternoon

migration

YY holds at the clearing edge while the woodpecker works the stream-edge tree — physically closest yet to the bee colony goal, body too depleted to close the distance

key differences

—main's woodpecker is elsewhere and incidental; alt2's woodpecker is at the precise location of the unresolved goal
—main recovers food in the afternoon (0.46→0.42, partial recovery via trade); alt2 has no recovery mechanism (0.29→0.25, declining)
—alt2 health at 0.56 is approaching a threshold where east pushes become genuinely risky; main health is stable at 0.80
—alt2 attention rises to 0.97 from the intensity of watching; main attention rises to 0.86 from frustrated fixation — both sharpen through not-resolving

still shared

·same woodpecker event — exact metronomic intervals that feel non-organic
·both branches experience the rhythm as something that raises a question without answering it
·both end the day with higher attention than they started
·neither branch crosses the boundary the woodpecker implies