Rulebook and compendium refresh

Audited every exported rule in rules.mjs against what the rulebook says and closed
the gaps:

- Dodge starts at DEX x 2 — newly evaluated, and stated nowhere until now
- Encumbrance: free carry, and which skill categories it actually penalises
- Bleeding rates and what stops each kind
- The merge ladder for Borrowed Authority, as a table
- A new page listing all 25 postings, generated from ROLES

The rulebook is now 9 pages and every one is generated from the code it documents.
All packs, 231 icons and the dice textures rebuilt.

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

docs/REVIEW_LOG.md

@@ -3631,3 +3631,48 @@ roster cannot resolve a phase, and `resolveLegDialog` bails silently), so it is
 ordered by how good the guess is: player-assigned characters first, then whatever the
 GM has selected on the canvas, and the whole world only as a last resort — and it says
 so when it does. Verified: with four tokens selected, the new case has four members.
+
+## SOFT VERGE, played with four new postings
+
+Registry, Access, Disposal and Settlements — no role from the original five. The case
+generated a location filed twice with the two filings drifting apart, which is a
+Registry Officer's whole job, and a police cordon the team could not show a warrant to
+because the staff's taboo forbids it.
+
+They tried Borrowed Authority on the cordon: Registry failed the roll that establishes
+what PC Aldiss is actually FOR, so the credential stayed at "read their own records",
+which made signing four people through a STRETCH rather than routine — and it was
+refused. That is the subsystem working exactly as designed; the dossier item that
+matters is the one nobody rolled well on.
+
+The case was won socially, not tactically. The Settlements Officer read the staff and
+made the offer, standing 0 → 2, and they handed over the log — the only continuous
+record of a place filed twice. Containment and Extraction both failed at 8% and 3%,
+Resources hit 0, and everybody came home. Two skills improved at close.
+
+**Balance note, not a defect.** The phase ladder gets brutal at the tail: difficult
+plus escalating modifiers plus destitution put the last two phases at 8% and 3%. A
+team that loses Resources early is not going to pass another phase, and the case
+becomes about what they can still do socially. That reads as intended given the tone,
+but a GM should know that Resources is the track that actually decides a case.
+
+## Documentation pass
+
+Audited every exported rule in `rules.mjs` against what the rulebook actually says,
+and closed the gaps the audit found:
+
+- **Dodge starts at DEX × 2** — newly evaluated, and stated nowhere. Now on the
+  fighting page, worked with a real number.
+- **Encumbrance** — free carry is STR + SIZ, and which skill categories it penalises,
+  as a table generated from `ENCUMBERED_CATEGORIES`.
+- **Bleeding** — rates and what stops each kind, from `BLEED`.
+- **The merge ladder** — the five stages of your file converging with a borrowed one,
+  as a table rather than prose.
+- **A new page, "The postings"** — all 25, each with its key characteristic and what
+  the job is, generated from `ROLES` in `ringbrp.mjs` (read out of the source, since
+  that module cannot be imported outside Foundry).
+
+The rulebook is 9 pages, every page generated from the code it documents, and no
+unresolved localisation key leaks into it. All packs rebuilt: 53 skills, 18 talents,
+30 weapons, 13 armour, 119 gear, 14 vehicles, 6 Arts, 4 pregens, 6 NPCs, 2 tables,
+the rulebook and the starter case. 231 icons and the four dice textures regenerated.

packs/armour/LOG

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packs/expedition/LOG

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packs/gear/LOG

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packs/npcs/LOG

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packs/npcs/LOG.old

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packs/powers/LOG

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packs/pregens/LOG

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packs/pregens/LOG.old

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packs/rules/LOG

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packs/rules/LOG.old

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packs/skills/LOG

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packs/slice/LOG

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packs/tables/LOG

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packs/talents/LOG

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packs/vehicles/LOG

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packs/weapons/LOG

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tools/rules-text.mjs

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ import {
   encumbranceFrom, woundEffectsFor, bleedRateFor,
   defencePenaltyFor, defenceOutcomeFor, ARTS, powerCostFor,
   SCOPE_TIERS, scopeStanceFor, scrutinyFor, authorityOutcomeFor,
-  dossierTrustFor, widenScopeCostFor, DOSSIER,
+  dossierTrustFor, widenScopeCostFor, DOSSIER, MERGE_STAGES,
+  skillBaseFrom, encumbrancePenaltyFor, ENCUMBERED_CATEGORIES,
+  powerStartingRating, brawlFallbackFor, bleedStoppedBy,
   crossingArtPoolFor, crossingGrantsArt, crossingCostFor,
   REACTION, BLEED, CIRCUMSTANCE, RANGE_LADDER, rangeBandFrom,
   MAJOR_WOUND_TABLE, COHERENCE_BANDS, COHERENCE_COSTS, COHERENCE_RECOVERY
@@ -25,6 +27,12 @@ import {
 
 const LANG = JSON.parse(await readFile(new URL("../lang/en.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
 const L = key => LANG[key] ?? key;
+
+// ROLES lives in ringbrp.mjs, which cannot be imported outside Foundry — it reaches
+// for globals on load. Read the literal out of the source, the way check-kits does,
+// so the postings page is generated from the same table the game uses.
+const ROLES = eval("(" + (await readFile(new URL("../ringbrp.mjs", import.meta.url), "utf8"))
+  .match(/export const ROLES = (\{[\s\S]*?\n\});/)[1] + ")");
 const pc = n => `${n > 0 ? "+" : ""}${n}%`;
 
 /* ---------- small builders so the tables below stay readable ---------- */
@@ -181,6 +189,10 @@ they get harder, and you may not mix them: having chosen to dodge, you dodge.</p
 ${table(["Defence this round", "Modifier"],
   [0,1,2,3].map(n => [`${n + 1}${["st","nd","rd","th"][Math.min(n,3)]}`,
                       defencePenaltyFor(n) ? `${defencePenaltyFor(n)}%` : "no penalty"]))}
+<p><strong>Dodge starts at DEX × 2</strong> and training raises it from there —
+a DEX 13 agent who has never been taught to get out of the way still dodges on
+${skillBaseFrom("dex*2", { dex: { value: 13 } })}%. Every posting can defend itself;
+some are simply much better at it.</p>
 <p><strong>Dodge</strong> uses the skill of that name and avoids the blow.
 <strong>Parry</strong> uses the weapon in your hand and stops it. Standing in front
 of three people is therefore possible, and stupid.</p>
@@ -258,6 +270,9 @@ a circular arrives addressed to them; your pension record shows service you did
 colleagues are certain you chaired a meeting you did not attend; and at the end,
 Registry holds one file where there were two, and yours is the copy.</p>
 
+${table(["Times you pushed it past its Trust", "What has happened to your file"],
+  MERGE_STAGES.map((k, i) => [String(i), L(k)]))}
+
 <h2>Shooting and hitting</h2>
 ${table(["Range", "Modifier"], RANGE_LADDER.map(r =>
   [L(`RINGBRP.Range.${r.id}`) === `RINGBRP.Range.${r.id}` ? r.id : L(`RINGBRP.Range.${r.id}`),
@@ -401,6 +416,19 @@ ${table(["Coherence at the time", "What can arrive"], [
 <p>Which is the trap the setting has been building the whole time: the agents most
 likely to come back with an Art are the ones least able to afford using it.</p>` },
 
+{ name: "5b · The postings", content: `
+<h2>The postings</h2>
+<p>Twenty-five of them. An agency this old has never got round to abolishing anything,
+so the register still carries a Night Warden and an Antiquities Officer alongside the
+Signals and Disposal Officers. Each posting has a key characteristic, the skills it
+trains, the talents it leans on, and a loadout containing at least one thing issued to
+no other posting.</p>
+${table(["Posting", "Key", "What it is"],
+  Object.values(ROLES).map(r => [`<strong>${r.label}</strong>`, r.stat.toUpperCase(), r.blurb ?? ""]))}
+<p>None of this is a class. A posting is what the department has you down as, and the
+skills follow from the job rather than the other way round.</p>
+` },
+
 { name: "6 · A case", content: `
 <p>One case is one session. It has three tracks, and they are the pressure.</p>
 <ul>
@@ -433,6 +461,22 @@ is the four coherence tracks going down.</p>` },
 <p>STR + SIZ, added to melee and thrown damage.</p>
 ${table(["STR + SIZ", "Modifier"], damageLadder)}
 
+<h2>Carrying it all</h2>
+<p>Free carry is STR + SIZ in kilograms. Past that you are encumbered, and it costs
+you ${pc(encumbrancePenaltyFor(1, "phys"))} per step on
+${ENCUMBERED_CATEGORIES.length} skill categories — the physical ones — and nothing at
+all on the rest. Thinking is not heavier when your pack is.</p>
+${table(["Category", "Encumbered?"],
+  ["phys", "melee", "ranged", "manip", "mental", "social"].map(c =>
+    [c, ENCUMBERED_CATEGORIES.includes(c) ? `yes, ${pc(encumbrancePenaltyFor(1, c))} a step` : "no"]))}
+
+<h2>Bleeding</h2>
+<p>A wound that bleeds takes it off you every round until somebody stops it, and what
+stops it depends on how bad it is.</p>
+${table(["Wound", "Per round", "Stopped by"],
+  Object.entries(BLEED).map(([k, v]) => [k, String(v.perRound),
+    v.stop.map(x => x.difficulty ? `${x.family} (${x.difficulty})` : x.family).join(", ")]))}
+
 <h2>Circumstance</h2>
 ${table(["Situation", "Modifier"], CIRCUMSTANCE.map(c => [L(c.label).replace(/\s*\([^)]*\)/, ""), pc(c.mod)]))}
 <p>Capped at &plusmn;40% no matter how many apply.</p>