The Term

What admission
places under record.

Formal intake, House Officer routing, personalised documents, recorded reporting, pre-Term checklist evidence, assignments, infractions, and a retained record — administered daily, not left to intention.

Plenty of applicants have read a discipline book, or built their own morning checklist, and held it for a week. What's missing was never information — it was an outside party who reads what actually happened, on the day it happened, and answers back. That's the difference between structure you administer to yourself and a Term that's administered to you.

The muster board, Block C — names and times recorded before the day starts.
A Day, By the Clock

The standard
answers back.

05:30 — Rising
06:40 — Morning muster due
21:00 — Evening muster

Morning. Rising is at 05:30. The morning muster is due by 06:40, submitted in the assigned form to the House Officer. Late, missing, or malformed records are visible immediately — not quietly forgiven.

Through the day. Departure and return notices are required whenever the premises are left and re-entered. Device rules and any DNS accountability profile apply continuously, not only during structured check-ins. Assignments and checklist evidence are worked to their own deadlines.

Evening. The second muster closes the day's record. Anything unresolved carries forward as an open item, not as something that quietly expires overnight.

The record. Musters, notices, assignments, infractions, and welfare notes accumulate into one retained file for the Term — reviewed by the Governor, not just stored.

Before The Roles

A record no one reads is just a diary.

You could write all of this down yourself — rising time, muster, infractions — and plenty of people have. What makes it different here isn't the form, it's that someone on the other end actually reads it and answers, the same day, whether or not you feel like being seen.

Administration

Two roles.
Different authority.

Greywell is administered through the route issued at admission — chosen on the application, not before it.

Daily Administration
House Officer
Receives musters, notices, and structured responses. Records departures and returns. Routes checklist evidence and answers infractions in the moment. Administers the day — does not motivate, negotiate, or improvise around the standard.
Review & Escalation
Governor
Reviews intake, capacity, and — where selected — weekly progress. Receives DNS exceptions and anything the House Officer escalates. Holds admission, extension, and closure authority. Not consulted daily; consulted when it matters.
Before The Valve

Handing this over isn't the same as losing your footing.

Giving someone else the pen doesn't mean giving up your voice. There's a difference between structure that ignores you and structure that's built to notice when something's actually wrong — which is the entire reason the next part exists.

Safety

Structure does not
mean silence.

An applicant can flag overload directly, at any time, without going through the House Officer. There are two levels, and they mean different things.

Yellow
Red
Most Terms never move past Yellow. Fewer still reach Red.
Approaching a limit

Self-raised, self-cleared. It changes nothing about the Term automatically — it is a marker on the record, not an alarm, and it can be lifted the moment it no longer applies.

Something is genuinely wrong

All active enforcement for the Term pauses immediately. The Governor is notified and reviews before anything resumes. This is not a failure on the record — it is the structure working as designed.

Before You Continue

The shape holds because it's administered, not self-imposed.

None of this works as a self-directed program — it works because a House Officer reads the muster, a Governor reviews the week, and the record holds even on the days you'd rather it didn't.

Read Further

Where a Term goes from here.

How It Ends
Closure
Four formal outcomes, the optional License Period, and how a Term can be extended once it's already at its limit.
Read Closure →
Who Else Is Involved
Partner Involvement
Whether and how a partner is nominated, consents, and is kept inside — or outside — the record.
Read Partner Involvement →
See how a Term ends.
Outcomes, License Period, and Extension are recorded on Closure.