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).

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

lang/en.json

@@ -624,6 +624,28 @@
   "RINGBRP.Wound.variant.mobility": "mobility",
   "RINGBRP.Heal.Bleeds": "{name} bleeds {amount}.",
   "RINGBRP.Heal.BledOut": "bled out",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Dying": "{name} is dying.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Count": "Round {n} of {of}.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Died": "{name} is dead.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Coherence": "They died at Coherence {n}.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.TheEntry": "The last entry:",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.StableTag": "stable — the count has stopped",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.CountTag": "round",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Entry.recorded": "Recorded properly. A death in service, a form, a pension to a next of kin, and a name that stays where it was put.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Entry.queried": "Recorded, and queried. Two dates of death are on file and Registry has asked which is correct. Nobody has answered.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Entry.unclosed": "The file will not close. Correspondence continues to arrive for them, and it is answered.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Entry.transferred": "Not recorded as dead at all. They are filed as transferred, to a section the department cannot produce an address for. Somebody will meet them again.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Stabilising": "Stabilising {name}",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.Stabilised": "{name} is stable. Still at zero, still unconscious, but the count has stopped.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.NotStabilised": "It does not hold. {name} is still going.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.TooLate": "They are dead. There is nothing medical left to do.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.NotDying": "They are not dying. Ordinary First Aid will serve.",
+  "RINGBRP.Death.WrongSkill": "Stabilising takes one of: {list}.",
+  "RINGBRP.Condition.up": "up",
+  "RINGBRP.Condition.down": "down",
+  "RINGBRP.Condition.dying": "DYING",
+  "RINGBRP.Condition.dead": "DEAD",
+  "RINGBRP.Sheet.Stabilise": "Stabilise",
   "RINGBRP.Heal.BleedStopped": "The bleeding is staunched. {name} is no longer losing blood.",
   "RINGBRP.Heal.Medicine": "Medicine",
   "RINGBRP.React.ReadinessSkill": "from training",