diff --git a/docs/scenarios/CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_11.md b/docs/scenarios/CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_11.md index 6e5b312..57ef49f 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_11.md +++ b/docs/scenarios/CLEAN_GROUND_PLAYTEST_11.md @@ -185,29 +185,39 @@ know it needs them alive, shoots it. Line 1301 covers killing it in the first te wearing Prichard's face — pre-crossing, and Act Two carries on. **Between that precedent and the cooperation block there is nothing.** -**And the cost is exact arithmetic, which is why it wants a paragraph rather than a shrug.** -Transposition is Ashcroft's alone: +**They are not stranded, and that matters — it is the difference between a dead end and a +scene.** Line 136 settles it: the crossing is *"open since the felling, widest at dusk, and +**it will not close on its own**"*. Transposition 63 is Ashcroft's alone and the other five +of the declared cast are on content.mjs's 1% floor, **but the anchor was never the only way +back — he is what makes the way back *correct*.** They can always walk. -| | Transposition | +**What it costs is written four places away and the four have never met:** + +| Line | What it says | |---|---| -| Ashcroft | **63** | -| Bhattacharya, Renshaw, Braithwaite, Pollard, Okonkwo | *untrained — the 1% floor* | +| 136 | the seam does not close — they can walk home whenever they like | +| 256–259 | **"Cross the seam often enough and you come back thinner each time"** — six crossings is what a hollow man is, and past that is the understudy | +| 1012 | the anchor holds the door everyone else goes through, so it is done *correctly* | +| 1494 | Ashcroft's private note — **"You have come back thin before."** The three missing years | -**Five agents, one attempt each, is a 4.90% chance that anybody gets a door open.** Shooting -it strands the party on the far side with the seam closing, and **the Close cannot happen, -because cancellation is a Registry act and nobody is back through to perform it.** +**So the answer to "we shoot it" is not** *you are stuck.* **It is** *you walk home through +the stump with nobody holding the door, and you come back thin* — one step onto the road +that ends as the thing they have just shot. **And the man who would have held that door is +the only person at the table who already knew in his body what that costs**, which is why +the record's lie fitted him so exactly. +- **The fight is nothing and the cost is never the combat.** The baseline's own row for the + understudy alone is 0.55 hurt, 0.01 down, **0% wiped, median 2 rounds** — EXPOSURE's thesis + holds. Shooting it is easy. Shooting it is not the part that costs. - The block already reasons in exactly this register two lines further down — *"Not Scent. Scent's base chance is 0 and the 1% floor is all anybody has, so it is not a route — it is a joke at the table's expense."* **The shape of the answer is already on the page.** It simply never considers the party removing Ashcroft themselves. -- ⚠ **Same defect as FINDING 1, and as pass 7's, and as pass 10's.** Facts correct in three - separate places that have never been stood next to each other — here the new block, the - statblock line at 1479, and the Act Two kill-it precedent at 1301. -- **Fix direction:** one bullet inside the block. If they shoot it, they have shot the way - home; play the five 1% rolls honestly and let the table watch what 4.90% looks like; and - the GM should know **before** Act Four that this is where that branch ends, rather than - finding out with ninety minutes left. +- ⚠ **Same defect as FINDING 1, and as pass 7's, and as pass 10's** — correct facts in + separate places that have never been stood next to each other. +- **Fix direction:** one bullet inside the block, answering the question a table asks within + thirty seconds of the body hitting the ground — ***can we just walk back through the + stump?*** Yes. And thin. Nothing says so anywhere a GM will find it mid-scene. ## Timing @@ -234,9 +244,39 @@ because cancellation is a Registry act and nobody is back through to perform it. 5. **Name what a fight in Act Three costs**, rather than only that it costs: the northern seam, the depot, and telling Ivy. 6. **⚠ Answer the party that shoots the thing wearing the anchor.** *(Act Four, inside the - 1008–1027 block)* The whole block assumes cooperation. Killing it is the obvious move and - it leaves five untrained agents on a 4.90% chance of opening a door, with no Close. - *(Found by session b5; verified here.)* + 1008–1027 block)* The whole block assumes cooperation. Killing it is the obvious move, + and the question that follows — *can we just walk back through the stump?* — has an + answer the document never puts in reach: **yes, and thin.** *(Found by session b5; + both its versions verified here, the second one against the first.)* **Still untested after eleven passes:** the run with human beings. **That is the whole list now** — every branch the desk can reach has been reached. + +--- + +## POST-PASS — finding 6 shipped with a false premise and was corrected within the hour + +**What went out in cd3be71:** *"Shooting it strands the party on the far side with the seam +closing, and the Close cannot happen."* **It does not.** Line 136 says the crossing *will not +close on its own*, and the "seam closes for good" at 1356 is the cancellation ending — a +deliberate act, not a clock. The party can always walk home. + +**Where it came from.** Session b5 reported the gap with a measured number — 4.90%, which is +exactly right for five untrained agents on the 1% floor — attached to an unchecked premise, +that Transposition is the only way back. **I verified the number and inherited the premise.** +Re-deriving 4.90% from `roster.mjs` and `content.mjs` felt like checking the claim, and it +was not: the arithmetic was never the part that could be wrong. b5 caught it themselves and +sent the correction unprompted. + +**The lesson is the one this project keeps relearning, in a new place.** Pass 5's post-pass +records a number recalled rather than read. This is the mirror of it — **a number read +rather than recalled, and correct, wrapped around a premise nobody read at all.** A verified +figure lends its credibility to whatever sentence it is standing in. The check that would +have caught it is the cheapest one available: *what does this figure need to be true in +order to matter?* Here, that the seam closes. Six lines of the document say it does not. + +**And the corrected finding is better than the original**, which is the part worth keeping. +"You are stranded" is a dead end a GM has to argue the table out of. **"You walk home with +nobody holding the door, and you come back thin"** is a scene, it is built entirely from +lines already written, and it lands on the one character who knew what it cost before the +session started.