diff --git a/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md b/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md index 4d25aa6..f238453 100644 --- a/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md +++ b/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md @@ -3860,3 +3860,40 @@ journal to answer "where are we and how long have we got". Checked across 300 seeds for `[object Object]`, `undefined` and `NaN` in every generated page: clean. One real leak found and fixed on the way — the group's taboo and desire are objects with a `.text`, and the brief was printing the object. + +## LOW VERGE — played until it killed somebody + +Field Lead, Physician, Recording Officer, Translation Officer at a boarding school out +of term. The brief did its new job: Where, When, the job, what to expect, and the way +back, all before the prose. Four phases. + +The rival desk never became a fight — the Field Lead rolled a natural 1 on Status 15% +and they stood down, which is the leverage the Opposition page names. The danger was +never them. The Pressure page had already declared the price: *"There is a body that +has to be carried, and it is one of ours."* + +Two phases failed, the Containment phase failed, and the other side's weather came +through a gap at the true scale. Three of the four went to zero in a single exposure +and the Physician — 48% First Aid, on four hit points herself — stabilised all three, +one after another, and then did it again after the next wave. + +Then the extraction failed on a tidal causeway with the window already past. Marek +Achterberg and Tomas Vance died in the water, both at Coherence 10, both **recorded +properly — a death in service, a form, a pension, a name that stays where it was put.** +Nkechi Quist came home stable at zero. Ambaro Vance walked off the causeway on four +hit points having kept three people alive for six rounds and lost two of them anyway. + +**R-224 · a body at zero absorbed damage for free.** Found by this play-through and it +is what killed them. Hit points clamp at zero, so further damage to somebody already +there changed nothing — and a STABILISED agent absorbed it forever, because the count +was held and there was nothing else left to move. You could empty a magazine into +someone bleeding out on the floor and the system would not notice. Damage at zero now +breaks the stabilisation and costs a round of the count, and `hitLocationRoll` calls +`died()` directly when that meets the limit. That is precisely how the causeway killed +two people who were medically stable four minutes earlier. + +**Worth noting for the Last Entry table:** both died at Coherence 10 and so got the +dullest of the four entries. Coherence is normally spent on the way home, and these +two never got there — an agent who dies mid-case is likely to be *well* filed. The +interesting entries belong to people who die after a bad crossing, which is the right +way round but means the table's bottom half will be rarer than its top. diff --git a/packs/armour/LOG b/packs/armour/LOG index d137772..2a95d39 100644 --- a/packs/armour/LOG +++ b/packs/armour/LOG @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -2026/08/10-22:10:05.167695 172fa3000 Recovering log #3 -2026/08/10-22:10:05.167719 172fa3000 Level-0 table #5: started -2026/08/10-22:10:05.167831 172fa3000 Level-0 table #5: 1902 bytes OK -2026/08/10-22:10:05.168131 172fa3000 Delete type=0 #3 -2026/08/10-22:10:05.168177 172fa3000 Delete type=3 #2 +2026/08/10-22:21:57.701683 1776e7000 Recovering log #3 +2026/08/10-22:21:57.701703 1776e7000 Level-0 table #5: started +2026/08/10-22:21:57.701794 1776e7000 Level-0 table #5: 1902 bytes OK +2026/08/10-22:21:57.701993 1776e7000 Delete type=0 #3 +2026/08/10-22:21:57.702019 1776e7000 Delete type=3 #2 diff --git a/packs/armour/LOG.old b/packs/armour/LOG.old index 7a81f41..f39587b 100644 --- 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target, damage, mode = "ranged", const dmg = foundry.utils.duplicate(sys.locationDamage ?? {}); dmg[loc.id] = res.locationTaken; - await target.update({ + const upd = { "system.locationDamage": dmg, "system.hp.value": Math.max(0, (sys.hp?.value ?? 0) - res.damage) - }); + }; + + // R-224. Hit points clamp at zero, so a body already at zero absorbed further + // damage for free — and a STABILISED agent absorbed it forever, because the count + // was held and there was nothing else left to move. You could empty a magazine + // into someone bleeding out on the floor and the system would not notice. Damage + // to somebody at zero breaks the stabilisation and costs them a round of the + // count they have left. + const wasAtZero = (Number(sys.hp?.value) || 0) <= 0; + const hurtAgain = res.damage > 0; + if (wasAtZero && hurtAgain && !sys.dying?.dead) { + upd["system.dying.stabilised"] = false; + upd["system.dying.rounds"] = (Number(sys.dying?.rounds) || 0) + 1; + } + await target.update(upd); + + if (upd["system.dying.rounds"] !== undefined + && upd["system.dying.rounds"] >= dyingLimitFor(sys.majorWound?.value)) { + await died(target); + } return { location: loc, ...res }; } diff --git a/tools/rules-text.mjs b/tools/rules-text.mjs index 82f53c4..c7dbf6a 100644 --- a/tools/rules-text.mjs +++ b/tools/rules-text.mjs @@ -321,6 +321,10 @@ ${table(["Hit points", "You are"], [ own Major Wound threshold you are dead — so the same number that decides how much damage you can take standing up also decides how long you have on the floor. A minimum of ${DYING.minCount} rounds applies however slight you are.

+

Being hurt again at zero breaks any stabilisation and costs a +round of the count. Hit points cannot go below zero, so this is what further damage to +a body on the floor actually does — and it is why leaving somebody stable in a place +that is still dangerous is not the same as getting them out.

Stabilising takes ${DYING.stabiliseWith.join(" or ")} and stops the count. It does not put you back on your feet: you are still at zero and still unconscious until somebody heals you above it. Healing above zero clears the count.