diff --git a/docs/LANES/LANE_E_NOTES.md b/docs/LANES/LANE_E_NOTES.md
index 0d6b5d5..37ad1cf 100644
--- a/docs/LANES/LANE_E_NOTES.md
+++ b/docs/LANES/LANE_E_NOTES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,53 @@
 # LANE E — cross-lane notes
 
+## Round 27 — provenance v5-final, and the roster gap the docs freeze caught ⟨v5.0⟩
+
+**1. THE BUG THE FREEZE FOUND: `redhill_godverse` was on disk but NOT in the roster — for three rounds.**
+The v5 provenance table needed real numbers, so I measured instead of carrying the v4 row forward. The
+count didn't match: **23 caches on disk, 22 rostered.** The missing one was **`redhill_godverse` — the
+town the entire v5 epoch walks to.**
+
+**Mine, squarely.** `index.json` is Lane E's file (`write_index()`). G's `redhill_godverse` landed in R24
+(`86e2985`) *after* my last index run (`5815dfb`), and nobody re-rostered it. **An addition isn't done when
+the cache is written — it's done when the roster is regenerated.** That's the exact mirror of my own R24
+lesson (*"a retirement isn't done when the cache is deleted; it's done when the consumers are swept"*) —
+I wrote the lesson for deletions and then missed its reflection for additions.
+
+**Why four green rounds never caught it — worth reading, because it's a gate-shape lesson.** Nothing was
+broken *for the gates*: `selfcheck` enumerates `web/assets/towns/*.json` **directly** (so it saw the town
+and A even pinned its goldens), and F's crate smoke boots **by key** (`?town=redhill_godverse`). The
+roster's *only* consumer is **B's HUD selector** (`hud.js`, my R20 ledger #2 design). So the single symptom
+was that **a player could not choose the headline town from the dropdown** — invisible to every automated
+check by construction. A gate that reads around the artifact under test cannot test it: the same species as
+the vacuous-gate law, one layer out. **Fixed:** re-ran `write_index()` → **23 rostered, 23 on disk, 0
+missing**; only `index.json` moved (every cache byte-identical again); selfcheck **ALL GREEN 156,212**,
+golden `0x3fa36874` untouched; `qa.sh --strict --matrix` **7/0/0**.
+
+**→ F: this matters for #5, the tour.** The money shot walks Musgrave Road into Monster Robot Party. If any
+tour frame reaches that town **through B's selector** rather than by key, it could not have found it before
+this commit — by key it always worked. Worth one glance at your framing path.
+**→ B:** the dropdown now carries both godverse towns. Your `${t.state ? ', ' + t.state : ''}` handles their
+empty `state` gracefully — no change needed, and the defensive write is why this cost nothing cosmetically.
+**→ G:** your godverse caches carry no `state`, so they roster as `state:''`. Harmless today (B degrades
+cleanly). If you want "Red Hill, QLD" in the picker, emit `state` in the cache — my `write_index()` already
+prefers the cache's own field, so it needs nothing from me.
+
+**2. Provenance v5-final (ledger #6).** The ⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩ rows are measured, not inherited: the town pack
+row was still claiming **v4's "22 towns / 1192 shops"** — stale since my R24 ballarat retirement and redhill
+build (now **21 real / 1196 / 299 heroes**, plus both godverse towns = 23 rostered). Added the two v5 art
+rows: the **real-stock atlas** (1 crate, 120 items, Monster Robot's own POS) and the **mint atlases** (14
+crates, 224 items, seeded from real dealgod listings). **These are the table's first 🟡 rows** — everything
+before v5 was 🟢 web-ok; real product photography is the first asset class this project ships that a human
+must clear before public release.
+
+**3. The licence line's story, written down as a mechanism (ledger #6).** The 🟡 rows are guarded by exactly
+one printed line, so the freeze records why it took two rounds to make honest: R23's glob matched 0 files
+and returned 0; R25's **permissive `or` fallback let the print go silent while the check still passed** —
+the flag stopped reaching a human on real product photos while the gate said OK. Now: one spelling, one
+lookup with one owner, and the line is **counted** (judged N ⇒ N lines, or FAIL). **Both zones print** —
+mint carries the same in-house-green flag, because minting changes whose stock a crate *claims* to be,
+never whose photograph it *is*. Frozen today at **15 crates, 15 flags, every one in front of a human.**
+
 ## Round 26 wave 4 — the mint-id fence: my check was faithful, the rule was stale ⟨v5.0-beta⟩
 
 **The red was mine and the fix is C's ruling.** My R25 slot-id check demanded `sku_` on every real-stock
@@ -702,12 +750,50 @@ loader wiring (`spawnRig`/fleet). Bench-sit loiter (Fable's stretch goal) reuses
 | Audio pack | 28 | 100% procedural numpy synthesis (`gen_audio.py`) | oscillator/noise render → ffmpeg OGG+M4A | 🟢 CC0-equiv, parody-safe |
 | Stock packs | 3 (350/311/273) | GODVERSE `dealgod` Postgres — **real** cover art | `build_stock_pack.py`: parody-transform metadata + atlas | 🟢 real-art / parody-metadata |
 | Ped clip **⟨v3.1⟩** | `sit.glb` (E R16; + pre-existing `walk`/`idle` from D/90sDJsim) | Adobe **Mixamo** `Sitting_Idle.fbx` | `fbx_to_clip.py` (Blender, mesh-strip) | 🟢 Mixamo royalty-free (motion only, mesh stripped) |
-| Town pack **⟨v4.0-FINAL⟩** | **22 real AU towns, all 8 states/territories** — 1192 shops + real street geometry (`roads[]`) | **OpenStreetMap** via Overpass API — bounded per-town bbox; raw shops+roads snapshots committed in `_raw/` | `build_towns.py`: fetch → dedupe/suburb-fill/parody → C's §6 class map → 3× texture cap (drops counted) → v2 cache + roads | 🟢 **ODbL 1.0** (© OSM contributors; `web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md` + `license`/`attribution` on every cache) |
-| Godverse town *(Lane G's, listed for completeness)* | `newtown_godverse` — 18 shops, rostered in E's `index.json` | GODVERSE/thriftgod shop census + OSM road geometry | `pipeline/godverse_town.py` (**Lane G owns this provenance**) | 🟢 ODbL 1.0 + GODVERSE census (G's own `license`/`attribution` fields) |
+| Town pack **⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩** | **21 real AU towns, all 8 states/territories** — **1196 shops** (299 heroes) + real street geometry (`roads[]`) | **OpenStreetMap** via Overpass API — bounded per-town bbox; raw shops+roads snapshots committed in `_raw/` | `build_towns.py`: fetch → dedupe/suburb-fill/parody → C's §6 class map → 3× texture cap (drops counted) → v2 cache + roads | 🟢 **ODbL 1.0** (© OSM contributors; `web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md` + `license`/`attribution` on every cache) |
+| Godverse towns *(Lane G's, listed for completeness)* **⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩** | `newtown_godverse` (72 shops) · **`redhill_godverse` (37)** — the town whose record shop is THE shop. Both rostered in E's `index.json` (**23 total**) | GODVERSE/thriftgod shop census + OSM road geometry; `redhill_real` is E's donor | `pipeline/godverse_town.py` (**Lane G owns this provenance**) | 🟢 ODbL 1.0 + GODVERSE census (G's own `license`/`attribution` fields) |
+| Real-stock atlas **⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩** | **1 crate, 120 items**, 2×2048² webp — Monster Robot Party (`3962749`) | **the real POS** (`recordgod`) — crate 550 "DEEP HOUSE"; covers are **the shop's own product shots**, cached by dealgod | `pipeline/godverse_stock.py` (**Lane G owns**) — `snapshot`(DB-side, sha256-pinned) → `pack`(pure) | 🟡 **in-house-green — FLAG BEFORE ANY PUBLIC/COMMERCIAL RELEASE** · `sourcing:"real"` · ids `sku_<POS id>` |
+| Mint atlases **⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩** | **14 crates, 224 items**, 14×1024² webp — keyed hero shops with **no POS** (5 record · 6 book · 3 toy across both godverse towns; the 6th record crate is the real one above) | **real dealgod listings** (the sellers' own product shots) — a *seeded sample*, `random.Random(shop_id)`, deterministic | `godverse_stock.py` mint baker (**Lane G owns**) — same bake path, sampled source | 🟡 **in-house-green — same flag** · `sourcing:"mint"` · ids `mint_<listing id>` · **never claimed as that shop's stock** |
 
 **GLB fleet = 33 manifest (23 fit + 10 furniture) + 5 `_hi` = 38 published.** Only external spend ever:
 ~$0.64 (fal-Hunyuan, R5). Everything else is $0 / on-device (electricity only).
 
+### ⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩ The licence line's story — why one printed line is a provenance mechanism
+
+**The only 🟡 in this table is the v5 stock art, and the flag is the whole control.** Charter law #3 says
+clearing photos for public release is **a human call** — so the gate does not pattern-match the licence
+and rule on it. It **prints it**, every run, for every atlas, and a human decides. That makes one printed
+line the mechanism the amber rows depend on, which is why it earned two rounds of work:
+
+- **R23** — the gate globbed a name the runtime can never load: **0 files matched, returned 0**. It passed
+  identically whether atlases were absent, misnamed, or perfect. (The vacuous-gate law came from this.)
+- **R25 — the line went silent and the gate still said OK.** Not a typo: the **check** read
+  `licence or license` (permissive) while the **print** read `licence` only. G's re-emit moved to US
+  `license`; the check passed, the print resolved to `{}`, and `FLAG BEFORE ANY PUBLIC/COMMERCIAL RELEASE`
+  **stopped reaching a human on a real shop's product photos**. *The fallback WAS the bug* — it let one
+  path stay permissive so it could not feel the other break.
+- **The fix is structural, not a spelling.** One spelling, no fallback (British `licence` now ERRORS,
+  naming C's §7.3 retirement) · **one lookup, one owner** (`validate_index` returns the evidence string;
+  `main` prints what it is handed and never re-looks-up the field — no second path left to drift) · and
+  **the line is COUNTED**: judged N atlases ⇒ N licence lines shown, or FAIL. A gate that can say OK while
+  hiding the flag cannot exist by construction.
+
+**Today, frozen:** `atlas-QA OK — 15 per-shop atlas(es) valid, 15 licence line(s) shown, 0 warning(s)`.
+Fifteen crates, fifteen flags, every one in front of a human. **Both zones print** — the mint rows carry the
+same in-house-green flag because a seeded sample of real dealgod listings is still **the sellers' own
+product shots**. Minting changes whose stock it *claims* to be, never whose photograph it *is*: that is why
+`sourcing` is honesty and the licence is unchanged by it.
+
+### ⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩ The id-space fences — provenance carried in the id itself
+
+Two disjoint namespaces, blessed as design (C §7.2a, R26 w4), asserted by `validate_atlas`:
+**`sku_<POS id>`** names a physical copy on Monster Robot's shelf · **`mint_<listing id>`** names a dealgod
+listing standing in for one. A crate wearing the other's prefix **FAILS**. This is not naming hygiene:
+tier-2's sold-means-gone looks up POS skus, so a `mint_` id filed under `sku_` doesn't fail a gate — it
+**sells a real record out of a real shop to satisfy a minted stand-in**. G refused that shortcut when it
+would have gone green the easy way, and that judgment is the fence. *(Same standing note as
+plan-ids vs godverse-ids: one name, one space — never compare across.)*
+
 ### Audio inventory — 28 assets (`web/assets/audio/`, committed; contract = `manifest.audio`)
 
 All procedural, seeded, $0, parody-safe; OGG/Opus + M4A/AAC; beds+music loudnorm −16 LUFS, SFX peak-norm.
diff --git a/web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md b/web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md
index 8d993ae..f2024e9 100644
--- a/web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md
+++ b/web/assets/towns/SOURCES.md
@@ -20,9 +20,17 @@ the "© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)" credit visible.
 **`index.json` is the machine-readable roster** (key/town/state/shops/roads) — read it rather than
 hardcoding a list. Every cache carries the same terms; per-town numbers live in each cache's `counts`.
 
-**The pack: 21 real towns · 1196 shops · 299 heroes** (+ Lane G's `newtown_godverse` = 22 rostered in
-`index.json`), every one fetched from OSM Overpass with a bounded per-town bbox, ODbL 1.0, raw snapshots
-in `_raw/` (shops + roads per town), fetched 2026-07-16 (`redhill_real` 2026-07-17).
+**The pack: 21 real towns · 1196 shops · 299 heroes** (+ Lane G's `newtown_godverse` and `redhill_godverse`
+= **23 rostered** in `index.json`), every one fetched from OSM Overpass with a bounded per-town bbox, ODbL
+1.0, raw snapshots in `_raw/` (shops + roads per town), fetched 2026-07-16 (`redhill_real` 2026-07-17).
+
+> **⟨v5.0-FINAL⟩ roster fix (R27):** `redhill_godverse` — the town the whole v5 epoch walks to — was **on
+> disk but missing from `index.json` for three rounds**. G's cache landed *after* my last `write_index()`
+> run and nobody re-rostered it. Every gate stayed green because `selfcheck` reads the directory directly
+> and F's smoke boots the town **by key**; only B's HUD selector reads this roster, so the sole symptom was
+> that **a player could not choose it from the dropdown**. Mine to own: the index is Lane E's, and an
+> addition isn't done when the cache is written — it's done when the roster is regenerated. (The mirror of
+> R24's lesson, where a *retirement* wasn't done until the consumers were swept.) See LANE_E_NOTES R27.
 
 | state | towns |
 |---|---|
diff --git a/web/assets/towns/index.json b/web/assets/towns/index.json
index bdf81be..e9dcc1e 100644
--- a/web/assets/towns/index.json
+++ b/web/assets/towns/index.json
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
    "key": "newtown_godverse",
    "town": "Newtown",
    "state": "",
-   "shops": 18,
+   "shops": 72,
    "roads": true,
    "source": "godverse+osm"
   },
@@ -164,6 +164,14 @@
    "roads": true,
    "source": "osm"
   },
+  {
+   "key": "redhill_godverse",
+   "town": "Red Hill",
+   "state": "",
+   "shops": 37,
+   "roads": true,
+   "source": "godverse+osm"
+  },
   {
    "key": "redhill_real",
    "town": "Red Hill",