docs: playtest 11 — record what changed on the way into v0.22

Fix 5 as written said a fight costs the northern seam, the depot and telling
Ivy. The Pacing Note names telling Ivy among the three things never to cut,
so the applied version says two go and the third is compressed or moves to
the stump. Written from memory of the act rather than from the Pacing Note.

And applying it found a stale figure no guard could see: 'median 24 rounds'
in two places, where the baseline says 21 at two of the column joining and 25
at three. It survived because it carried no citation marker, and check-cited
can only resolve markers that exist. Fifth reader caught unable to see its
own format.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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nobody holding the door, and you come back thin"** is a scene, it is built entirely from
lines already written, and it lands on the one character who knew what it cost before the
session started.
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## APPLIED — v0.22, commit 65ae156
All six fixes are in. **Two things changed on the way in, and both are corrections to this
record rather than to the document.**
**Fix 5 was wrong about which three things a fight costs.** This pass wrote *"the northern
seam, the depot, and telling Ivy"*. The Pacing Note names telling Ivy as one of **three
things never to cut** — *"Do not cut: telling Ivy, the almanac pair, or the Close. They are
the scenario."* So the honest instruction is not that a fight costs all three. **Two go and
the third cannot**: telling Ivy happens compressed, or it happens at the stump instead,
which the Close already branches on. That is what went into the document. Written from
memory of the act rather than from the Pacing Note — the pass-4 habit, in a pass that
otherwise checked everything against source.
**And applying fix 5 turned up a stale figure that no guard could see.** The Pacing Note
said the likeliest fight runs *"a median 24 rounds"*, and EXPOSURE's four-sentence summary
said *"a median 13 rounds, 24 if the column joins"*. **The baseline says 21 at two joining
and 25 at three. 24 is neither**, and it survived because **it carried no citation marker**
— `check-cited` resolves the markers that exist and cannot know that a bare number wanted
one. Both now read **21** and cite `packs line.hollow6col2.median`.
- ⚠ **That is the fifth reader this project has caught unable to see its own format**, after
cast declarations, beat tags, citation markers and the `POWER:` marker. The pattern holds:
the guard checks what is marked, and the defect lives in what is not. **The asymmetric
counter this wants** — something reporting figure-shaped text with no marker beside it —
is not built, and is the obvious twenty-first guard.