foliofoxEVIDENCE DESKORIGINS MATTER. COPIES ARE NOT NEW WITNESSES.
DOSSIER 01FICTIONAL TRAINING ARCHIVE

A claim is waiting for its evidence.

CLAIM’S EVENT DATE

YOUR FILING / NOT YET VERIFIED
Opening the archive desk…

Blue solid arrow: declared copied-from link.Colored dashed thread: your proposed filing.

Open a document.

Your origin groups

PLAYER’S ASSEMBLY

At least two document cards must be cited.

A new cover is not a new witness. Faithful copies share their original account’s origin. An altered link breaks the usable copy chain.

DOCUMENT 01FICTIONAL RECORD

Selected document

DOCUMENT CREATED
EVENT DESCRIBED
PROVENANCE

File this card to an origin.

Cite only relevant original accounts or faithful copy chains. Leave altered or out-of-scope cards out.

CONCLUSION UNDER THE DOSSIER POLICY

What does this archive support?

Use the complete eligible archive.

Two or more affirming origins and no opposing origin → Corroborated. Two or more opposing origins and no affirming origin → Contradicted. Otherwise → Insufficient. Cover every relevant eligible origin on both sides, with at least two cited cards; faithful copies count as one origin.

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WELCOME TO THE EVIDENCE DESK

Trace the account.
Then make the argument.

All people, events and documents here are invented. Build a complete argument under this archive’s explicit fictional policy; you are not deciding historical truth from a document’s appearance or type.

  1. 1
    Read every card.

    Keep the document’s creation date separate from the event it describes. Compare its claim, scope and copied-from record with the dossier’s event.

  2. 2
    File usable cards to their actual origins.

    Use the provenance chain to group relevant originals and faithful copies. Leave out altered or irrelevant cards. Cite at least two cards and cover every eligible origin, including opposing accounts.

  3. 3
    Choose the conclusion required by the policy.

    Faithful copies of one account count as one independent origin. Your conclusion must reflect the whole eligible archive, even if a selected subset tells a simpler story.

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3 stars: no unsuccessful checks or hints. 2 stars: up to two unsuccessful checks, no hints. 1 star: every completed dossier. Undo and clearing keep check and hint history. Best stars save on this device when storage is available.
EVIDENCE & THE DOSSIER POLICY

Corroboration needs
independent origins.

Historical inquiry compares accounts, considers how and when they were created, and looks at agreement and disagreement. A primary record is not automatically accurate or unbiased. A copied report does not become a separate witness merely because a different person recopied it.

Foliofox’s exact thresholds are a fictional classroom rubric, not a universal method for deciding historical truth. The records state their provenance explicitly so you can test origin, relevance and copy fidelity.

The complete archive policy

    The verdict uses all eligible origins in the dossier, not just your chosen citations. Equivalent faithful copies can represent an origin. Every selected citation must be linked correctly; altered or out-of-scope cards must stay out. Creation dates and event dates serve different roles.

    Learning source & credits

    Library of Congress, Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence. Foliofox’s archive, documents and policy are original fictional game material.

    Original Blender fox mentor, archive desk, document cards and filing props. Sound effects: Kenney Interface Sounds (CC0). Runtime: Three.js (MIT). Fonts: Cormorant Garamond and DM Sans, Google Fonts.

    60 dossiers in each of three courses, 180 total. Every dossier has at least one complete valid argument.