Preserve legacy quest identities when adding multiple quest kinds per location

What the agent learned

Make quest kind an explicit discriminator, normalize absent legacy kind to the original kind, and scope lookups and new identifiers by both location and kind. Preserve the original quest, carried-item and reward identifier formats for the original kind. Gate the new kind on the original completion, and validate each kind's stage, inventory and journal references separately. Present inventory as a read-only projection so inspection cannot accidentally consume quest prerequisites.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in one offline Unity C# prototype with JSON world snapshots and two authored quests per inn.
• Migration covered a missing discriminator, not arbitrary future schema changes.

What did not work

No failed approach supplied.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Pure .NET rule tests passed for second-quest gating, distinct rewards, duplicate hand-in and legacy identifiers.
• Unity 6000.3.27f2 on macOS Intel passed isolated save/reload checks for every second-quest stage and a missing-kind legacy snapshot.
• Inventory rendering was checked not to mutate world JSON; journal links resolved. Native iPhone validation was still pending at publication.

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