A player briefing, and the historical range

The generator was already writing the timeline, the cast and the texture and
filing all of it behind the GM screen. New PLAYERS page: a read-aloud opening,
what it is like there, what is known so far, who is there and what they want —
but never what they lie about. Page ownership is now declared by the page rather
than guessed from its index, which would have hidden any second player page.

Historical range: 38 weapons (from 6) and 14 armours (from 2), each with its
period stated, from arming swords and longbows through matchlocks and Brown Bess
to the Lee-Enfield and a trench club. Five new skills to hang them on, including
Firearm (Muzzle-loader), because a muzzle-loader is not a rifle.

275 icons; every weapon maps to a real skill and every item has art. Catalogue is
206 items across four eras.

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

docs/REVIEW_LOG.md

@@ -3973,3 +3973,50 @@ Verified in play on PLAIN HARBOUR: extraction failed at 47%, the card read *"You
 out, but not cleanly. The window has narrowed... The way home: −10% on every
 Transposition roll"*, the clock went to 1, and all four crossings took −10%. Nobody
 lost a hit point.
+
+## A briefing, and a millennium of ironmongery
+
+**The players now get a briefing, not a memo.** The generator was already writing the
+timeline, the cast and two lines of texture that are the best prose in the whole
+document — and filing every word of it behind the GM screen. A new PLAYERS page:
+
+- a read-aloud opening built from the classification, the place and the window;
+- **what it is like there** — the texture, with the note that none of it is in the
+  file, because the file was written by somebody who was not there;
+- **what is known so far** — the timeline as a table;
+- **who is there** — the cast by name, role, and what they want from you, but never
+  what they lie about, which stays on the GM page where it belongs;
+- and a short "before you go" that tells a new player the three things this game
+  expects of them: sign for your kit, bring somebody who can make an arrangement,
+  keep your anchor on you.
+
+Ownership is now **declared by the page** rather than guessed from its index — the
+old `i === 0 ? 2 : 0` would have silently hidden any second player page. Two player
+pages, four GM pages, 300 seeds checked clean.
+
+Two bugs in my own prose, caught by reading the output: `classification.texture` is a
+LIST and was being printed comma-joined into a sentence, and the "since then..."
+line was reaching for the last timeline entry, which is *the team crosses* — so every
+briefing ended "since then it has not stopped, and the team crosses."
+
+**The historical range.** The department has been running since before it had a name
+and has never thrown anything away.
+
+- **38 historical weapons** (from 6): arming sword, longsword, falchion, war hammer,
+  mace, military flail, poleaxe, halberd, billhook, pike, quarterstaff, dirk, longbow,
+  arbalest, sling, javelin, rapier, main gauche, matchlock, wheellock, blunderbuss,
+  boarding pike, cavalry sabre, smallsword, cutlass, Brown Bess, Baker rifle, socket
+  bayonet, Martini-Henry, Webley, Lee-Enfield, trench club — each with its period
+  stated, because a GM handing out a matchlock should know it is a matchlock.
+- **14 historical armours** (from 2): gambeson, maille shirt, coat of plates, cuirass,
+  full harness, buff coat, sallet and bevor, lobster-tail helmet, jack of plate,
+  cuirassier armour, Brodie helmet, flak jacket. Weight is the point — full harness is
+  9 AP and 25 kg, and the free-carry rule does the rest.
+- **Five new skills** to hang it on: Melee Weapon (Polearm), Melee Weapon (Flail),
+  Missile Weapon (Sling), Missile Weapon (Thrown), and **Firearm (Muzzle-loader)** —
+  because a muzzle-loader is not a rifle and loading it is the skill.
+- **275 icons**, all generated; every weapon maps to a real skill and every item has
+  art, both checked.
+
+Catalogue is now **206 items**: 118 gear, 62 weapons, 25 armour, 14 vehicles — 145
+modern, 77 antique, 34 future, 19 anomalous.