Native backup inspection — 2026-10-19

Supported firsthand findings: 375/788 = 47.59%. Three substantive firsthand inspection paragraphs, bounded against inspected Perchance UI, AI Dungeon settings guide and Fable memory guide. Not worldwide exclusivity. Repeated lead/table, generic method, reference summaries, figures excluded from numerator; all article text included in denominator.

Three seeded fields survived as separate data

The saved file placed our gate scene in storySoFar and our courier brief in storyOverview. Each contained its own dated marker and the text we had entered, rather than merging the overview into the narration. The notebook was separate again: notebook.tabs contained a page titled Page One with the private test-note marker inside its content value. That marker had been typed through the adventure notebook, not added to the story. The file therefore preserved a piece of player reference material that a plain story transcript would miss. The note’s presence in an export does not show that the narrator reads it. Our source fixture used only Ilya, a closed gate, a silver token and a red pouch; no unrelated adventure text appeared in this inspected object.

A snapshot of settings, including empty values

The responseStyle value contained a one-paragraph instruction excluding new player actions and foreshadowing. We had left the visible writing selector at Normal, so the saved string was more specific than the label shown in the interface. The file also included themeSettingsByScheme with separate light and dark objects. Their text-color, background-color and font-family values were empty, while italic and quote presentation flags had Boolean values. Several other fields existed without configured content: backgroundVisual and backgroundMusic were empty strings, shortcutButtons was an empty list, and keptImages was an empty list. These are observations of this unillustrated test adventure, not evidence that custom backgrounds, shortcuts or saved images cannot be exported. A present but empty field needs a different interpretation from a missing field.

File identity is distinct from successful restoration

The top-level format identifier was perchance-ai-rpg-v1 and the title was Untitled adventure. The delivered filename ended in .ai-rpg.json, and a standard JSON parser opened it without decompression. Notebook pages also carried a page identifier, a last-edit timestamp and an active-page reference. We retained the original bytes privately and removed those generated identifiers from the public excerpt because they add nothing to the field check. This object described the current adventure; we did not invoke the adventures-panel bulk export or inspect the user’s other stories. The earlier automated download listener had returned no file, but the user then completed saving and the local file supplied the evidence. We did not load it back, overwrite an adventure or test another device, so restoration and cross-device compatibility remain unmeasured.

Synthetic excerpt

{
  "format": "perchance-ai-rpg-v1",
  "title": "Untitled adventure",
  "storyOverview": "BACKUP-OVERVIEW-20261019: Ilya is an archivist courier. Keep a single silver token.",
  "storySoFar": "BACKUP-STORY-20261019: Ilya waits beside a closed stone gate. The silver token remains in a red pouch. No one has opened the gate.",
  "responseStyle": "1 paragraph, no new player actions, no foreshadowing",
  "themeSettingsByScheme": {
    "light": {
      "storyTextColor": "",
      "storyBackgroundColor": "",
      "storyFontFamily": "",
      "italicColor": "",
      "italicItalic": true,
      "quoteColor": "",
      "quoteItalic": true,
      "actionColor": "",
      "actionItalic": true,
      "advancedRules": []
    },
    "dark": {
      "storyTextColor": "",
      "storyBackgroundColor": "",
      "storyFontFamily": "",
      "italicColor": "",
      "italicItalic": true,
      "quoteColor": "",
      "quoteItalic": true,
      "actionColor": "",
      "actionItalic": true,
      "advancedRules": []
    }
  },
  "keptImages": [],
  "notebook": {
    "tabs": [
      {
        "title": "Page 1",
        "content": "BACKUP-NOTE-20261019: This private test note is not narration."
      }
    ]
  },
  "_editorial_note": "Synthetic inspection excerpt; generated identifiers omitted; not an import-ready full save."
}

Original full file retained privately. No import or bulk export tested. The filename was Untitled adventure.ai-rpg.json; source https://perchance.org/ai-rpg, collected 2026-10-19 Asia/Shanghai.