# cmp-001 NPC Schedule — Thank You M'am Dimension

*Four-day campaign window: Saturday September 20 1958, 4 PM through Tuesday September 23 1958, morning. Lead-up week documented from Wednesday September 17.*

**Design principle.** Hughes-text-canonical and historically-documented NPCs are placed at specific times and specific places. Everything else (kitchenette neighbors with no canonical names, peers of Roger, customers at the Theresa beauty shop, congregants who are not named historical figures) is improvised live per session by the AI engine. The schedule below is what a DM can rely on without further reading.

The encounter beat (Mrs Jones and Roger, East 128th Street between Madison and Park, ~11:15 PM Saturday September 20) is sealed. All other beats can be visited or skipped based on the path the bookworms walk.

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## Roster: text-canonical and documented-historical NPCs

These are the named characters who hold scheduled positions. Roles-without-names (other roomers, beauty-shop coworkers, Sunday-service congregants without documented attendance, Apollo audience, etc.) appear on the schedule by role only; the AI engine instantiates specifics at session-runtime.

| ID | Name | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| N01 | Mrs Luella Bates Washington Jones | Hotel Theresa beauty parlor worker | Hughes 1958, campaign-canonical Theresa-beauty-parlor commitment per cc-cmp001-mrs-jones |
| N02 | Roger | ~14, attempts purse-snatch | Hughes 1958 |
| N03 | Martin Luther King Jr | SCLC president, Stride Toward Freedom author | Documented per cc-cmp001-week-lead-up |
| N04 | Anna Arnold Hedgeman | SCLC NYC week organizer, NYC Mayor's cabinet 1954-58 | Documented per cc-cmp001-week-lead-up |
| N05 | A. Philip Randolph | BSCP president, Friday rally convener | Documented per cc-cmp001-week-lead-up |
| N06 | Adam Clayton Powell Jr | US Rep NY-22, Abyssinian Baptist pastor | Documented per cc-cmp001-abyssinian and cc-cmp001-npc-powell |
| N07 | L. Joseph Overton | NAACP Harlem branch president, Local 1199 organizer | Documented per cc-cmp001-week-lead-up |
| N08 | Hulan Jack | Manhattan Borough President (first Black BP 1953-61) | Documented per cc-cmp001-week-lead-up |
| N09 | Officer Al Howard | 28th Precinct patrolman, off-duty Sat 3:21 PM | Documented per cc-cmp001-realism-institutional |
| N10 | Izola Ware Curry | Stabbed King 3:20 PM Sat at Blumstein's | Documented per cc-cmp001-week-lead-up |
| N11 | Aubre de Lambert Maynard | Chief of Surgery, Harlem Hospital | Documented per cc-cmp001-realism-medical |
| N12 | Langston Hughes | Author, 20 East 127th workroom | Documented per cc-cmp001-hughes-house |
| N13 | Toy Harper | Hughes's honorary aunt, 20 East 127th | Documented per cc-cmp001-hughes-house |
| N14 | Emerson Harper | Hughes's honorary uncle, 20 East 127th | Documented per cc-cmp001-hughes-house |
| N15 | James L. Hicks | Amsterdam News executive editor | Documented per cc-cmp001-realism-cultural |

Roles-without-names that may appear at any location (AI engine instantiates live): a rear-house roomer in Mrs Jones's boarding house, a beauty-shop coworker, a stoop-smoker on the encounter block, a desk sergeant at the 28th Precinct night shift, Sunday-morning ushers at the three congregations, an Amsterdam News compositor, Apollo doormen, Hotel Theresa bellhops, Blumstein's mezzanine-floor staff, Harlem Hospital ER intake, period passersby.

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## Wednesday September 17 1958 — Stride Toward Freedom release day

**The Empire State Baptist Bookstore (retail arm of Empire Baptist Missionary Convention of New York, HQ 171 West 140th Street).**

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| morning | N04 Hedgeman | Empire State Baptist Bookstore + organizing rounds | Confirming venues for Thursday and Friday, press placement |
| ~2-4 PM | N03 King | Empire State Baptist Bookstore | First-day book signing, Stride Toward Freedom |
| ~2-4 PM | N04 Hedgeman | Same | Organizing the floor, press liaison |
| evening | N03 King | Hotel Theresa room | Rest, prep notes for Thursday |
| evening | N12 Hughes | 20 East 127th workroom | Drafting / Defender column work |
| late evening | N01 Mrs Jones | Hotel Theresa beauty parlor | End-of-shift, parlor open late this week with extra SCLC-related foot traffic at Theresa |

Bookworm-side: if entry vector is Hughes-house, N12 is at the workroom. If entry vector is hotel-foot-traffic, the Theresa lobby is unusually busy.

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## Thursday September 18 1958 — Williams Institutional CME Church SCLC fundraiser

**West 131st Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard.**

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| morning | N04 Hedgeman | Williams Institutional CME Church | Final venue setup, confirming clergy attendance |
| afternoon | N03 King | Hotel Theresa room | Speech prep |
| evening | N03 King | Williams Institutional CME Church | SCLC fundraising address |
| evening | N04 Hedgeman | Same | Program management |
| evening | (role) Rev Thomas Kilgore of Friendship Baptist | Williams CME | Attendance documented in Branch 1988 |
| evening | (role) Other Harlem clergy and lay leaders | Williams CME | General attendance |
| evening | N12 Hughes | 20 East 127th workroom | Working, not at the fundraiser |
| late evening | N01 Mrs Jones | Theresa beauty parlor | Working her shift |

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## Friday September 19 1958 — Hotel Theresa sidewalk mass meeting

**Hotel Theresa, 2082 Seventh Avenue at 125th Street, ~8 PM.**

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| daytime | N05 Randolph | BSCP NYC office + Theresa | Coordinating with Hedgeman, confirming speakers |
| daytime | N04 Hedgeman | Theresa + sidewalk + press rounds | Block-coordination, NYPD permits, press alerts |
| ~7 PM | (role) Crowd | 125th and Seventh sidewalk | Gathering |
| ~8 PM | N03 King | Theresa sidewalk podium | Speaking |
| ~8 PM | N05 Randolph | Same | Speaking (convened the meeting) |
| ~8 PM | N04 Hedgeman | Same | Coordinating floor, taking notes for column |
| ~8 PM | (Hedgeman column-flagged) Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson | Theresa sidewalk | Secondary-source documented attendance |
| evening | N06 Powell | Abyssinian rectory / Sunday-sermon prep | Working on his Friday-prepared sermon (which he will discard Sunday after King news) |
| evening | N12 Hughes | 20 East 127th workroom | Drafting; one block east of Theresa walking distance |
| late evening | N01 Mrs Jones | Theresa beauty parlor | Working through the crowd outside |

Bookworm-side: if entry vector is street-witness on Friday night, the Theresa sidewalk is the densest historical-NPC block of the lead-up week.

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## Saturday September 20 1958 — the campaign window opens at 4 PM

### Morning and early afternoon (before window opens)

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| morning | N03 King | Hotel Theresa | Morning at Theresa, Hedgeman ("a beautiful Fall day") |
| ~1 PM | N03 King | Blumstein's mezzanine, 230 West 125th | Book signing arrives, Hedgeman organizing floor |
| ~1 PM | N04 Hedgeman | Same | Floor management, press placement |
| ~1 PM | N07 Overton | Same | Host (NAACP Harlem branch) |
| ~1 PM | N08 Hulan Jack | Same (scheduled) | Manhattan Borough President scheduled attendance |
| ~1-3 PM | (role) NAACP Harlem branch officers | Blumstein's mezzanine | Floor presence |
| ~2 PM | (role) Hoyt Wilhelm no-hit progress | Memorial Stadium Baltimore (NBC TV) | Harlem transistor-radio men listening |
| ~3:20 PM | N10 Curry | Blumstein's mezzanine table | Approaches King: "Are you Mr. King?" Letter opener strike |
| 3:21 PM | N09 Officer Al Howard | Blumstein's mezzanine (off-duty, walking past) | Runs in, tells King not to remove blade, holds him still |
| ~3:25 PM | (role) Blumstein's staff + EMS | Mezzanine | Crowd control, ambulance summoned |
| ~3:30 PM | N04 Hedgeman | Mezzanine and onward | Witness; will write New York Age column "I Saw Dr King Stabbed" |
| ~3:40 PM | N10 Curry | 28th Precinct booking room | In custody |
| ~3:45 PM | (role) Ambulance | Blumstein's → Harlem Hospital | King transported |
| ~4 PM | N10 Curry | 28th Precinct basement | Booked: attempted murder + Sullivan Law felony |

### Window opens — 4 PM Saturday

Bookworms enter the dimension via mirror-portal per cc-cmp001-narrative-architecture. Entry-vector options established in cc-cmp001-narrative-architecture (other-roomer, street-witness, Roger-shadow, Abyssinian-Sunday-future, plus Saul-pending third). News of the stabbing is propagating Harlem-wide via WLIB, WWRL, telephone, and street-corner relay.

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4-5 PM | (city) Harlem | Sidewalks, barbershops, kitchenettes | News propagation peak; WLIB and WWRL on every radio |
| 4 PM | N03 King | Harlem Hospital ER | Triage |
| 4-5 PM | N11 Maynard | Harlem Hospital surgical floor | Pre-op consultation, surgical team assembly |
| 4-6 PM | N04 Hedgeman | Theresa + Harlem Hospital corridor | Coordinating press, family contact |
| 4-8 PM | (role) Press | Harlem Hospital sidewalk | Gathering; vigil forms |
| 4-8 PM | (role) Crowd | Harlem Hospital block | Gathering; police line forms |
| 4-11 PM | N01 Mrs Jones | Hotel Theresa beauty parlor | Working her Saturday shift (parlor stays open late per Hughes text) |
| 5:45 PM | N03 King | Operating room 1 | Surgery begins (Maynard leading) |
| 5:45-8:25 PM | N11 Maynard | Operating room 1 | Removing letter opener; left lung re-inflation; rib resection |
| evening | N06 Powell | Abyssinian rectory + sermon redraft | News reaches him; Friday-prepared sermon discarded; Sunday sermon redrafted overnight |
| evening | N12 Hughes | 20 East 127th workroom | Working; news reaches him via radio |
| evening | N13 Toy Harper | 20 East 127th house | Elsewhere in the house |
| evening | N14 Emerson Harper | 20 East 127th house | Elsewhere in the house |
| 8:25 PM | N03 King | Recovery | Surgery concludes; condition guarded |
| 8:25-11 PM | N11 Maynard | Hospital | Post-op care, press briefing held by hospital administration |
| 9-10 PM | (role) Coasters | Apollo Theater, 253 W 125th | First evening show ("Yakety Yak" headliner week) |
| evening | (role) Smalls Paradise crowd | 2294½ Seventh Ave at 135th | Saturday-night dance crowd; Chick Bryant late set |
| evening | (role) Renaissance Ballroom crowd | 150 West 138th Street | 1000+ dance patrons |

### Encounter beat — sealed canonical sequence

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 PM | N01 Mrs Jones | Hotel Theresa beauty parlor | Shift ends; collects purse, lima beans, ham, cocoa, day's tips, week's rent, ten dollars |
| 11:00-11:15 PM | N01 Mrs Jones | Theresa → East on 125th → North on Madison → East 128th between Madison and Park | Walk home (~7 blocks, ~15 minutes) |
| ~11:13 PM | N02 Roger | East 128th between Madison and Park, stoop near the dim corner | Waits |
| ~11:15 PM | N02 Roger | East 128th, dim corner between streetlamps | Lunge for the purse |
| ~11:15 PM | N01 + N02 | Same | Strap breaks. Roger falls in the gutter. Mrs Jones kicks. Hauls him up. |
| ~11:15-11:25 PM | N01 + N02 | Walking from East 128th into the boarding-house hall | Mrs Jones half-nelsons Roger to her kitchenette |
| ~11:25 PM | N01 + N02 | Mrs Jones's kitchenette (single-room in the boarding house) | Roger sent behind the screen to wash face |
| ~11:30 PM | N01 | Hot plate | Cooks lima beans, ham, cocoa |
| ~11:30 PM | N02 | Sink → table | Washes, sits |
| ~11:40 PM-12:15 AM | N01 + N02 | Kitchenette table | Eats, talks; cake; ten dollars; "Behave yourself, boy!" |
| ~12:20 AM (Sun) | N02 | Boarding house front door | Walks down the steps. "Thank you m'am." Door closes. |
| ~12:20 AM (Sun) | N01 | Kitchenette | Closes the door |

Throughout the encounter: ambient sound is the Park Avenue viaduct train at intervals, the steam radiator hum, a distant bus on Madison Avenue. The block is functionally empty. Mrs Jones can choose grace because no other adult is watching her choose. The other roomers in the rear of the house can be heard laughing and talking through the wall per Hughes's text.

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## Sunday September 21 1958

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| early morning | N02 Roger | (Hughes-silent; AI engine improvises per the seated group's chosen household configuration A-E from cc-cmp001-realism-social) | Home, wherever home is |
| early morning | N01 Mrs Jones | Kitchenette | Sleep |
| morning | N03 King | Harlem Hospital recovery | Conscious, stable, press-briefed |
| morning | N11 Maynard | Harlem Hospital | Morning rounds |
| morning | N04 Hedgeman | Harlem Hospital + Amsterdam News office | Coordinating Sunday-press response, writing column draft |
| 11 AM | N06 Powell | Abyssinian Baptist Church pulpit, 132 W 138th | Sunday service; replaces Friday-prepared sermon with response to King news |
| 11 AM | (role) Abyssinian congregation (~10,000 members; ~2,000-3,000 typical Sunday attendance per cc-cmp001-abyssinian) | Sanctuary | Sunday worship |
| 11 AM | (role) Mother AME Zion congregation | 137th Street | Sunday worship |
| 11 AM | (role) Salem Methodist congregation | Seventh Ave at 129th | Sunday worship |
| morning | N01 Mrs Jones | Hughes-silent (per cc-cmp001-mrs-jones — AI engine improvises church affiliation live; possible attendance at any of the three) | If at church: Sunday service |
| afternoon | N03 King | Harlem Hospital | Telegrams and well-wishes; Coretta arriving from Montgomery |
| afternoon | (role) Schomburg Center | 103 W 135th at Lenox | Sunday afternoon reading room open; quiet |
| afternoon | N12 Hughes | 20 East 127th workroom | Reading Sunday papers (Times and Herald-Tribune treat stabbing front-page) |
| evening | N06 Powell | Rectory / Abyssinian | Evening service or office hours |
| evening | (city) Amsterdam News compositors | 2340 Eighth Avenue | Beginning Tuesday-issue assembly |

Bookworm-side: Abyssinian-Sunday entry vector deposits bookworm into the 11 AM Powell-pivot sermon. Schomburg-afternoon is a quieter alternative path. Hughes-house workroom is reachable from the encounter block in one minute.

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## Monday September 22 1958

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| morning | N03 King | Harlem Hospital | Recovery day 2 |
| morning | N01 Mrs Jones | Theresa beauty parlor | Monday-morning shift |
| morning | N02 Roger | (Hughes-silent improv) | School or street, configuration-dependent |
| morning | N12 Hughes | 20 East 127th workroom | Working |
| morning | N15 James L. Hicks | Amsterdam News editorial office | Editing Tuesday-issue copy; King stabbing front page |
| morning | N04 Hedgeman | Amsterdam News + SCLC NYC office | Finalizing New York Age column "I Saw Dr King Stabbed" |
| afternoon | N11 Maynard | Harlem Hospital | Surgical rounds + King consultation |
| afternoon | N06 Powell | DC offices / Congressional duties | Returning to Washington schedule |

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## Tuesday September 23 1958 (campaign window closes)

| Time | NPC | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| morning | (role) Amsterdam News distribution | Newsstands at every Seventh Avenue corner | Tuesday issue hits the street, 15 cents |
| morning | N03 King | Harlem Hospital | Recovery day 3; press conference scheduled |
| morning | N04 Hedgeman | New York Age office | Filing the column |
| morning | (general) Harlem | Resuming weekday rhythm | The stabbing is the dominant story of every conversation |

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## Quest time-windows (when specific encounters are available)

**W1: King at Empire State Baptist Bookstore.** Wed Sept 17 ~2-4 PM only. Miss the window, miss the moment.

**W2: King at Williams Institutional CME.** Thu Sept 18 evening only. Bookworms attending the fundraiser interact with N03 and N04 in a relatively intimate fundraising-dinner setting.

**W3: Theresa sidewalk rally.** Fri Sept 19 ~7-9:30 PM only. The densest historical-NPC block of the lead-up week. After 9:30 PM the crowd disperses.

**W4: Blumstein's book signing.** Sat Sept 20 ~1-3:20 PM only. The 3:20 PM stabbing closes this window violently. Bookworms in the room before 3:20 can interact with N03, N04, N07, N08, NAACP officers. Bookworms in the room at 3:20 are witnesses to the canonical historical event.

**W5: Harlem Hospital vigil.** Sat Sept 20 ~4 PM through Mon Sept 22 morning. Sidewalk vigil and press gathering ongoing. N04 and (eventually) Coretta King reachable.

**W6: Mrs Jones-Roger encounter.** Sat Sept 20 ~11:15 PM through ~12:20 AM Sun. The sealed canonical sequence. Bookworms with the other-roomer entry vector hear it through the wall. Bookworms with the street-witness entry vector see Mrs Jones walking and Roger waiting. Bookworms with the Roger-shadow vector follow Roger. The window is roughly 65 minutes wall-clock and the canonical sequence runs the whole window.

**W7: Powell pivot-sermon at Abyssinian.** Sun Sept 21 11 AM only. The replaced-sermon address is the cmp-001 pedagogical pivot per cc-cmp001-ghost-firing-4-sunday-sermon.

**W8: Hughes workroom.** Open access throughout the four-day window via 20 East 127th. The mirror-portal mechanics per cc-cmp001-hughes-house and cc-cmp001-narrative-architecture apply.

**W9: Schomburg Sunday afternoon.** Sun Sept 21 1-5 PM reading room. Hughes himself on the board; a draft page reading may be possible per cc-cmp001-ghost-firing-6-hughes-typewriter.

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## Movement patterns (where NPCs walk between)

**N01 Mrs Jones.** Hotel Theresa beauty parlor → 125th east → Madison Avenue north → East 128th between Madison and Park (her boarding house). ~7 blocks, ~15 minutes. Reverses in the morning. May add Sunday-morning detour to Abyssinian, Mother AME Zion, or Salem Methodist (Hughes-silent improv).

**N02 Roger.** Hughes-silent across the four-day window except for the canonical encounter beat. AI engine improvises his Saturday afternoon (streetball, candy store, corner, matinee) and Sunday-Monday-Tuesday positions per the household-configuration the seated group selects from cc-cmp001-realism-social types A-E.

**N03 King.** Wed bookstore → Theresa → Thu Williams CME → Theresa → Fri Theresa sidewalk → Theresa room → Sat Theresa morning → Blumstein's mezzanine → ambulance → Harlem Hospital ER → OR1 → recovery (stays at Harlem Hospital through window close).

**N04 Hedgeman.** Highly mobile across the week. Empire State Baptist Bookstore Wed, Williams CME Thu, Theresa Fri, Blumstein's Sat early afternoon, Harlem Hospital Sat 4 PM onward, Amsterdam News and New York Age offices Mon-Tue.

**N06 Powell.** Abyssinian rectory and pulpit. Sun 11 AM sermon is the canonical attended moment. Returns to DC Monday.

**N12 Hughes.** Mostly stationary at 20 East 127th workroom across the window. Possible Schomburg deposit-trip Sunday afternoon. The author lived through the action of his own story one block south of the encounter block.

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## Time-cost-of-choice notes

The four-day window is finite. Bookworms cannot attend every quest window. Some choices block others.

* W4 Blumstein's and W6 Mrs Jones-Roger are 8.5 hours apart but the Saturday afternoon stabbing reshapes the city; bookworms processing the news Sat 4-11 PM may be less spatially available for the encounter-block path.
* W5 Hospital vigil and W7 Powell-pivot overlap structurally; one's Sunday morning is at Harlem Hospital or at Abyssinian, not both.
* W8 Hughes workroom is open-access but the mirror-portal crossing reshapes the bookworm's layer-state; once crossed, the cmp-001 surface is different on return.
* W2 Williams CME and W3 Theresa rally are both evening events on consecutive nights; both can be attended, but if a bookworm has not chosen the entry vector by Thursday they are committed to a different opening.

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## What is NOT pre-committed

Per the existing cc-cmp001-clock AI engine note: Hughes-text-canonical events anchor Roger and Mrs Jones in their Saturday-night beats. The schedule above adds documented-historical NPCs at documented times. Everything else (Roger's household composition, kitchenette neighbors' names, Mrs Jones's church affiliation, beauty-parlor coworkers, specific Apollo audience, peripheral Sunday-service congregants, the desk sergeant on duty at the 28th, Amsterdam News compositor on shift, period passersby) is improvised live per session paths.

DM does not need to read all 379 cc-cmp001-* entries before running. DM reads: (1) Hughes 1958 short story (~15 minutes), (2) this schedule, (3) cc-cmp001-narrative-architecture for the mirror-portal mechanics, (4) cc-cmp001-ghost-firing-* entries for the four ghost-exegesis activation points. Total prep ~90 minutes from cold start.