A fumbled relief attempt puts a point on

Trying to steady somebody and making it worse is the most familiar thing on that
list, and until now it was the only outcome that cost nothing.

Done as a NEGATIVE relief rather than a second code path: panicReliefFor returns
-1 on a fumble, and easePanic already subtracts what it is given, so subtracting
a negative raises the track. One number, one direction, no branch that could
drift from the other. The clamp still holds — fumbling at 5 stays at 5.

The chat card had to be told, because otherwise it prints the word "Psychology"
over a number that has just gone UP and the table reads that as a bug rather than
as the rule. It now leads with a red FUMBLED tag.

Guarded three ways: a spot-check in check-rules for the -1 itself, and two
behaviour tests — one that the sign survives easePanic's subtraction and
actually raises the track, one that it cannot push past the top. A test on the
constant alone would have passed even if easePanic had healed on a fumble.

Verified live: 2 → fumble → 3 → success → 2 → special → 0, and a fumble at 5
staying at 5, with the cards reading correctly.

Version 1.1.2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

rules.mjs

@@ -358,10 +358,18 @@ export function panicAfter(value, delta) {
   return Math.max(0, Math.min(PANIC_MAX, (Number(value) || 0) + (Number(delta) || 0)));
 }
 
-/** A success takes one point, a special or better takes two. */
+/**
+ * A success takes one point, a special or better takes two — and a FUMBLE puts one on.
+ *
+ * Returned as a negative relief so the whole thing stays one number and one direction:
+ * easePanic subtracts what this gives it, so -1 subtracts a negative and the track goes
+ * up. Trying to talk somebody down and making it worse is the most familiar thing in
+ * this list, and until now it was the only outcome that cost nothing.
+ */
 export function panicReliefFor(level) {
   if (level === "critical" || level === "special") return 2;
   if (level === "success") return 1;
+  if (level === "fumble") return -1;
   return 0;
 }