Death at zero, and a case brief that answers the useful questions

R-223: nothing happened at 0 hit points. An agent was marked down and lay there
forever; the only mention of death in the system was flavour text on a destroyed
head. Zero now starts a clock whose length is the agent's own Major Wound
threshold, ticked from the same hook that charges blood loss. First Aid or
Medicine stabilises and stops the count; healing above zero clears it; heal()
refuses the dead. On death, Coherence decides what the record says — from a
proper death in service down to not being recorded as dead at all.

Case generator: four phases instead of five (the arc drew two interchangeable
middles that read as padding). The brief now leads with Where / When /
Classification / Phases, states the opposition in full, and has a "How you get
back" section. place and duration were generated and never printed. The same
facts are on the case file itself. 300 seeds checked for object leaks; one found
and fixed (group taboo/desire are objects with .text).

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 **R-222 confirmed across the board.** Every agent came out of this case with ticks —
 Dodge, First Aid, Firearm (Pistol), Firearm (Rifle), Navigate — where before the fix
 a case produced none at all from phase work.
+
+## Zero hit points now means something
+
+**R-223 · nothing happened at zero.** An agent reduced to 0 hit points was marked down
+and then lay there indefinitely. Bleeding deliberately stops at zero, no rule advanced
+anything, and the only mention of death in the entire system was flavour text on a
+destroyed head location. A game with hit locations, Major Wounds and bleeding had no
+way for anyone to die.
+
+Hit points are not taken below zero — every damage path clamps there and unpicking
+that would touch everything. Zero starts a clock instead:
+
+    above 2      up
+    2 or below   DOWN — out of the fight, still conscious, still yours
+    0            DYING — unconscious, no actions, no defences, the count begins
+    count met    DEAD
+
+The count is the agent's own **Major Wound threshold**, so the number that already
+decides how much damage they take standing up also decides how long they have on the
+floor, with a floor of two rounds. It ticks from the same end-of-round hook that
+charges blood loss, so nobody has to remember it — which is exactly why bleeding
+worked and dying did not exist.
+
+**Stabilising** takes First Aid or Medicine and stops the count. It does not put
+anyone back on their feet: still zero, still unconscious, until somebody heals them
+above it, which clears the count automatically. A FUMBLED attempt over a dying agent
+costs them a round they do not have. `heal()` now refuses the dead, which is the one
+place that had to say so because every medical path routes through it.
+
+**The last entry.** A Custodian's death is a filing question. How well filed they were
+decides what the record says: at Coherence 7+ a death in service with a form and a
+pension; at 4–6 two dates of death on file and Registry asking which is correct; at
+1–3 a file that will not close, with correspondence still arriving and being answered;
+at 0 they are not recorded as dead at all but filed as transferred, to a section the
+department cannot produce an address for.
+
+Four rules, ten spot-checks, on the sheet as a banner in all three states, and
+documented in the rulebook. 44 rules, 148 formulas.
+
+## The case generator, simplified and made to say the useful things
+
+**Four phases, not five.** The arc drew TWO interchangeable middle phases, which read
+as padding — two seeds in a row produced "The search" then "Inside" with nothing to
+tell them apart. One middle phase: Approach, the thing in the way, the job, and out.
+
+**The brief now answers the operational questions first.** It opened on a
+classification note and never stated where the site was, how long the team had, what
+was likely to be in the way, or how they were getting out — all of which the generator
+already knew and threw away. `place` and `duration` were generated and never printed.
+The brief now leads with a table of Where / When / Classification / Phases, then the
+job, then what is reported, then a full section on the opposition — numbers, tier,
+motive, tactics, and what might work instead of shooting — then **How you get back**:
+the extraction ground, the Transposition roll, the classification modifier, and the
+warning that a bad crossing is the only way an Art is ever acquired.
+
+The same four facts are now on the CASE FILE ITSELF, so a GM does not have to open the
+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.