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 > and clean soil, and there is no north. Two weeks ago a contractor felled the tree the
 > whole arrangement was pegged to.*
 
-**Status:** v0.9 — **absorbs all fixes from desk passes 1, 2 and 3** (eight, seven, eight), plus the post-pass finding that the four-player cut fields three attackers, not four
-(`CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_1.md`, GM chair, seed 4271). No clue is now behind a single roll,
-every roll in the document has a written miss, Act Four has a spine and its tell is
-ungated, and about 25 minutes of pre-written cuts are in the Pacing Note. **Still not
-convention-ready:** it wants a stress re-run of Act Four, a player-chair pass, and a
-print-ready handout pack.
+## STATUS — read this before anything else
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| **Version** | **v0.9**, 13 September 2026 |
+| **Can it be run?** | **Yes, from this document alone.** A GM with this file and the compendium can run it end to end. |
+| **Is it convention-ready?** | **No.** It has never been played by human beings, and there is no print pack. |
+| **Playtesting** | Three desk passes, all fixes applied: `CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_1.md` (GM chair, seed 4271), `_2.md` (Act Four stress, seed 9314), `_3.md` (player chair, contrarian, seed 5580). Twenty-three fixes plus one post-pass. |
+| **Runtime** | 4h00 including a break. Desk pass 1 ran 4:25; the **Pacing Note** carries ~25 minutes of pre-written cuts. Take them as the default. |
+| **Players** | 4–6 from the duty roster. The cast is declared in the Casting section and the build enforces it. |
+
+### The three things that are not obvious
+
+Read GM ESSENTIALS in full — this is only what a GM most often discovers too late.
+
+1. **Opposed rolls use a scenario-local ruling**, because `rules.mjs` has none. GM
+   ESSENTIALS has it. Two beats depend on it.
+2. **Ashcroft cannot fight** — no weapon, no unarmed skill, a 1% attack. That is deliberate
+   and his player must be told before the game. See his entry in Casting.
+3. **The lethal encounter is the column, in Act Two** — not the monster in Act Four, which
+   cannot hurt anybody. EXPOSURE has the measured figures and the reason.
+
+### Still to do
+
+- **A print-ready A4 handout pack**, 11pt minimum. **CG-H03a and CG-H03b must print
+  identically** or the almanac trick dies.
+- **A run with human beings.** No desk pass can settle whether Act Four's spine holds
+  45 minutes with no mechanical threat, or whether THE OFFER plays as a decision.
+
+### Two decisions that are not a scenario's to make
+
+- **Does `rules.mjs` gain a real opposed roll?** If it does, delete the local ruling.
+- **Convention one-shot, or campaign opener?** The cancellation ending is a one-shot; the
+  "leave it filed" branch is a spine. This decides what finished means.
+
+Those are the two that change the document. **Open Questions at the foot carries the full
+list**, including the ones already settled, and is the only place decisions are recorded —
+this block does not keep a second copy.
 
 **Source:** freely adapted from *A Hollow Tree* (Cathal Fitzpatrick, 2023, 23 min) —
 post-nuclear survivors walking north for clean ground, and a fast thing that wears
@@ -984,23 +1016,6 @@ twice.*
 
 ---
 
-## What this outline does not yet have
-
-1. ~~Pregens.~~ **Done** — see Casting, above. Six from the duty roster, no new sheets.
-2. ~~The read-aloud text.~~ **Done** — three blocks, in place in Act Two and the Close.
-3. ~~Handouts.~~ **Done** — four sheets, CG-H01 to CG-H03b. Still need a print-ready HTML
-   pack (A4, 11pt minimum) before a convention; the text is final.
-4. ~~A written exposure model for Act Four.~~ **Done** — measured, 2000 runs a row at seed
-   11 against the named cast, reproducible from the command in the section.
-5. **Desk playtest.** Pass 1 failed and its eight fixes are absorbed in v0.6
-   (`CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_1.md`). Pass 2, the Act Four stress re-run
-   (`CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_2.md`), and pass 3, the player-chair contrarian run
-   (`CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_3.md`), are both done and **all three passes' fixes are absorbed
-   in v0.8**. **The three-pass cadence is complete.** What remains before convention-ready is
-   the print pack, and the two decisions in Open Questions that are not a scenario's to
-   make. A
-   human-table run remains a separate instrument from all of them.
-
 ## Open questions for Tim
 
 - Is this a **convention 4-hour** or a **campaign opener**? The cancellation ending is a