{
    "characterId": "mark_hayes",
    "dateLabel": "2026-10-01",
    "story": "Bigger story: While unloading timber for a cash job in Nerang, Mark finds a demolition docket naming his father, Ray Hayes, as the thief who removed Reid Civicworks records from a Gold Coast demolition site. A clearance attached to the document demands that Ray surrender his house deed by noon or face private enforcement proceedings, tightening the screws when Mark's phone rings with a demand for immediate payment. Mark confronts Ray outside his fibro house, but Ray refuses to discuss the swimming file that may connect to Reid Civicworks. Mark decides he will find who signed the accusation, recover the missing records, and stop Reid before his father signs anything.",
    "storyRecap": "Bigger story: While unloading timber for a cash job in Nerang, Mark finds a demolition docket naming his father, Ray Hayes, as the thief who removed Reid Civicworks records from a Gold Coast demolition site.",
    "activities": [
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "12:00 AM",
            "endTimeLabel": "05:00 AM",
            "activityName": "Sleeping in the ute beside the Nerang timber yard while cold coastal air rattles the canopy.",
            "activityNameShort": "Ute sleep before work",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "Sleeping",
            "outfitDescription": "navy: plain soft short-sleeve sleep tee, soft sleep shorts, barefoot",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "05:00 AM",
            "endTimeLabel": "06:00 AM",
            "activityName": "Waking before the yard crew and checking his phone beneath a strengthening grey sky.",
            "activityNameShort": "Early yard wake-up",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "A bit busy",
            "outfitDescription": "grey: fitted damp sleeveless training tank, training shorts, slides, towel, hand wraps half-unwrapped as props",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "06:00 AM",
            "endTimeLabel": "07:00 AM",
            "activityName": "Wrapping his hands and running a sharp shadowboxing session beside the empty loading bay.",
            "activityNameShort": "Cold morning shadowboxing",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "shirtless with navy training shorts: shirtless, muscular boxer's upper body visible, light sweat sheen, athletic training shorts, boxing boots, hand wraps on fists, towel around neck",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "07:00 AM",
            "endTimeLabel": "08:00 AM",
            "activityName": "Drinking a flat white at the yard counter and confirming the timber delivery order.",
            "activityNameShort": "Coffee before timber delivery",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "A bit busy",
            "outfitDescription": "white tank: fitted damp sleeveless training tank, training shorts, slides, towel, hand wraps half-unwrapped as props",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "08:00 AM",
            "endTimeLabel": "11:00 AM",
            "activityName": "Unloading stacked timber from the ute with the delivery crew, checking each bundle before stacking it against the shed wall.",
            "activityNameShort": "Timber goes off the ute",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "khaki work shirt with khaki drill pants: fitted long-sleeve cotton work shirt with sleeves rolled to the forearm, durable work pants, worn leather work boots, wide-brim work hat, leather work gloves tucked in a back pocket",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "11:00 AM",
            "endTimeLabel": "12:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Finding a demolition docket trapped beneath a timber bundle, then going still when Ray Hayes's name appears as the accused record thief.",
            "activityNameShort": "Ray named on demolition docket",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "khaki work shirt with khaki drill pants: fitted long-sleeve cotton work shirt with sleeves rolled to the forearm, durable work pants, worn leather work boots, wide-brim work hat, leather work gloves tucked in a back pocket",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "12:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "01:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Photographing the docket and Ray's threatened consequences as his phone immediately demands immediate payment and threatens private enforcement.",
            "activityNameShort": "Payment demand turns personal",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "khaki work shirt with khaki drill pants: fitted long-sleeve cotton work shirt with sleeves rolled to the forearm, durable work pants, worn leather work boots, wide-brim work hat, leather work gloves tucked in a back pocket",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "01:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "02:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Tracing the signature and clearance wording while the yard crew carries on around him, pretending not to watch.",
            "activityNameShort": "Following the accuser's signature",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "khaki work shirt with khaki drill pants: fitted long-sleeve cotton work shirt with sleeves rolled to the forearm, durable work pants, worn leather work boots, wide-brim work hat, leather work gloves tucked in a back pocket",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "02:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "03:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Eating a cheap counter meal and comparing the docket details against an older job note from his phone.",
            "activityNameShort": "Docket ruins lunch",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "A bit busy",
            "outfitDescription": "khaki work shirt with khaki drill pants: fitted long-sleeve cotton work shirt with sleeves rolled to the forearm, durable work pants, worn leather work boots, wide-brim work hat, leather work gloves tucked in a back pocket",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "03:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "04:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Saving copies of the docket, signing off the delivery and locking the evidence away before leaving the yard.",
            "activityNameShort": "Copies saved before departure",
            "location": "Nerang timber yard",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "khaki work shirt with khaki drill pants: fitted long-sleeve cotton work shirt with sleeves rolled to the forearm, durable work pants, worn leather work boots, wide-brim work hat, leather work gloves tucked in a back pocket",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "04:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "05:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Driving the ute toward Ray's fibro house with the docket enlarged on his phone and a call unanswered beside him.",
            "activityNameShort": "Driving to confront Ray",
            "location": "Nerang streets",
            "availabilityLabel": "A bit busy",
            "outfitDescription": "white tee with denim: fitted short-sleeve plain tee, jeans, worn boots",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "05:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "06:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Parking outside Ray's fibro house and waiting until his father comes through the front door with the same hard, guarded silence Mark remembers.",
            "activityNameShort": "Ray refuses the swimming file",
            "location": "Ray's house, Nerang",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "white tee with denim: fitted short-sleeve plain tee, jeans, worn boots",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "06:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "07:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Pushing Ray about the accusation and the missing records, jaw tightening when his father refuses to mention the swimming file or Reid Civicworks.",
            "activityNameShort": "Father hides the old connection",
            "location": "Ray's house, Nerang",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "white tee with denim: fitted short-sleeve plain tee, jeans, worn boots",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "07:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "08:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Driving to a Nerang pub for a hot dinner, leaving the docket spread beside his plate and refusing to call the demand empty bluff.",
            "activityNameShort": "Evidence beside a hot dinner",
            "location": "Nerang pub",
            "availabilityLabel": "A bit busy",
            "outfitDescription": "dark olive shirt with dark jeans: fitted dark button-up short-sleeve shirt, top buttons open, dark jeans, boots, thin silver chain",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "08:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "09:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Back in the ute, marking the accuser's signature, unresolved signature blocks and every connection Ray refused to explain.",
            "activityNameShort": "The hidden links emerge",
            "location": "Mark's ute, Nerang",
            "availabilityLabel": "Busy",
            "outfitDescription": "faded grey tee with khaki shorts: faded fitted short-sleeve tee, a little sun-washed, worn shorts, worn boots, sunglasses pushed up on his head, dust on his forearms",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "09:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "10:00 PM",
            "activityName": "Sending Ray a blunt promise that he will not let the house fall, then deciding to identify who signed the accusation before Ray surrenders anything.",
            "activityNameShort": "Ray's house will stand",
            "location": "Mark's ute, Nerang",
            "availabilityLabel": "Available",
            "outfitDescription": "faded grey tee with khaki shorts: faded fitted short-sleeve tee, a little sun-washed, worn shorts, worn boots, sunglasses pushed up on his head, dust on his forearms",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        },
        {
            "startTimeLabel": "10:00 PM",
            "endTimeLabel": "12:00 AM",
            "activityName": "Sleeping in the ute with the docket copies beneath the passenger seat and his phone charging beside the handbrake.",
            "activityNameShort": "Sleeping with the evidence",
            "location": "Mark's ute, Nerang",
            "availabilityLabel": "Sleeping",
            "outfitDescription": "navy: plain soft short-sleeve sleep tee, soft sleep shorts, barefoot",
            "photos": [],
            "isCurrent": false
        }
    ]
}