diff --git a/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md b/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md index f0a977b..070e3d1 100644 --- a/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md +++ b/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md @@ -4174,3 +4174,40 @@ mechanic, mark duration and stacking, hull and system criticals, extinguishing f rescue from drowning, and an explicit interaction table for hazards against armour, Major Wounds, bleeding, zero and dying. Codex is right that these are implied; they are a session's work, not a paragraph's. + +## SALT COUNTY — the bestiary in play + +A county records office over a bank, and a member of the public behaving as somebody +who died eleven days ago. Field Lead, Physician, Night Warden, Antiquities Officer. + +The generator set this up better than I could have. The brief names a **revenant** — +which is in the bestiary already — and the truth page says the cause is *elsewhere in +the same location and has not been noticed*. In a records office, that is the +**carrion file**. + +**The revenant was resolved without a shot.** Its printed leverage is "tell it where +that person is, and it will go, and that becomes somebody's problem" — the Antiquities +Officer made the Knowledge roll off the parish register and it left. That is a +statblock's tactics line doing the work a fight would otherwise have done. + +**Then the gap surfaced, and the file did what it is for.** AMENDMENT is written as a +rule with no saving roll, and that is deliberate: it removed the Antiquities Officer's +Language (Trade Cant) at 63%, the Night Warden's at 79%, and the Field Lead's Dead +Reckoning talent — permanently, with no roll offered and nothing to roll against. The +horror of that entry is entirely in the absence of a defence, and it reads correctly +at the table. + +**Burning it exercised the new fire rules on a thing rather than a person.** Armour 6 +counted on the round it caught and never again: 3, then 6, then 11, and the file was +at zero in three rounds. The team were standing in the same burning archive and took +the "clothes alight" band — the Antiquities Officer's armour 4 absorbed it completely, +the Night Warden's 2 did not. + +The case closed at Containment 8, Resources 1, Clearance 5. A failed extraction +advanced the window clock to 1, and every crossing home took the resulting −10%, which +is the retuned extraction rule working end to end. + +**One honest note on my own reporting:** a probe line read "Dead Reckoning: gone" for +all four agents. Only the Field Lead ever had it — the other three had never been +awarded it, and the probe could not tell the difference between a talent removed and a +talent never held. The amendments actually made were three, not four.