Three faults, all in how an actor reaches the table.
THE TOKEN WAS THE PORTRAIT. prototypeToken.texture pointed at the portrait
file, which is a 2:3 field-guide plate — full figure on plain ground.
Foundry draws a token square, so it was squeezing a tall plate into it and
showing a torso. tools/make-tokens.py now derives a 512px circular RGBA
token from the same illustration: not a second Midjourney pass, because
that would double the spend and still give a token that does not quite
match its own portrait. Sized by the subject's DIAGONAL, since these
creatures are tall and narrow and padding by the longest side wasted a
third of the circle. Padded, never cropped — cropping to a square clipped
the first gryphon's head off.
EVERY TOKEN WAS 1x1. A hearth hob, a carthorse and a SIZ 32 dun cow all
held one square. Footprint now comes from SIZ, cut at 21 and 30: 132 at
1x1, 14 at 2x2, 1 at 3x3.
THE 100 CREATURES WERE IN NO COMPENDIUM. build-packs reads NPCS directly
rather than collectSpecs(), so the bestiary validated, was drawn, had
prompts written, and did not exist in the game. The npcs pack held 47
actors; it holds 147 now.
That is the fourth consumer found bypassing all-specs.mjs, whose own header
calls one-definition-only "this repository's one standing law" —
bestiary.mjs and check-lethality.mjs still do. check-lethality is the one
that matters: it cannot see the new creatures, so it is measuring 47 of
147 while reporting OK.
All 23 guards pass. npm run build is red at update-readme for an unrelated
pre-existing reason: the README advertises a guard list that package.json
no longer matches.
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Three fail-open classifiers, each reading a field that is not where the
bestiary keeps the answer. Found by generating one creature before
spending the allowance on forty-eight; art/creatures/gryphon-u1.png is a
WINGLESS gryphon, from a spec whose bodyPlan is "winged".
1. anatomyWords() read `species`. Shape lives in `bodyPlan` — that is the
field selecting the hit-location table. 44 of the 100 new creatures are
species "baseline" with bodyPlan quadruped or winged, so every one fell
to the silent branch and asked for no shape at all.
2. isPersonSpec() ended `if (tag) return true` — an unrecognised role tag
means person. MONSTER_TAGS listed three tags; the bestiary uses twelve,
so 43 creatures were prompted as "portrait of X, waist-up portrait".
Now bodyPlan decides first, structurally, because a tag list is free
text that grows and bodyPlan is enforced by the engine.
3. ROLE_CLASS knew the same three tags, so HERALDRY fell through to
"carries nothing manufactured and armour >= 4 -> anomalous". Six
centuries of carved stone were classed as far-side machinery, and the
armour clause duly asked for a mech. ROLE_CLASS now carries all twelve,
and the heavy-armour wording follows era: machinery for future and
anomalous, "hide and scale thick as carved stone" for the rest.
Also in this commit: all 100 creatures re-pointed onto the natural attacks
added in 3feac39 — 41 of 100 changed, the rest keeping grasp or punch
because that is genuinely what they do. Three manoeuvres stay as prose and
say so explicitly: dun_cow's and bull_azure's charge, gryphon's stoop and
drop, tup's blind side. Portraits redrawn, since era decides their hue.
All 23 guards pass.
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The catalogue had `punch` (1d3) and `grasp` (1d6+1 blunt) and nothing else
a creature owns. Every biter and gorer in the bestiary therefore carried a
grasping limb and stated its real damage in tactics prose, which
simulate.mjs cannot read. Two silent consequences: the measured damage was
the grasp's rather than the creature's, and because grasp is blunt, the
edged and piercing wound paths never fired for any animal in the game — a
boar's tusk, a wolf's bite and a gryphon's talon all resolved as blunt.
bite 1d6 piercing gore 1d8+1 piercing
claw 1d6 edged hoof 1d6+2 blunt
talon 1d6+1 piercing trample 1d10 blunt
beak 1d6+1 piercing constrict 1d6 blunt
All fam "brawl", like punch and grasp, so they need no new skill family and
arrive usable. Calibrated against the melee line already in the table:
dagger 1d4+2, baton 1d6+2, machete 1d8+1, prybar 1d10.
Reported independently by three of the four bestiary authors. All 23 guards
pass. Nothing uses these yet — the creatures are re-pointed next.
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Folklore of the isles, water and the drowned, anomalous far-side, and
beasts and heraldry — 25 each, in four source files wired into
collectSpecs(). check-creatures passes at 204 specs across 13 sources and
the full 23-guard suite is green.
The population this was meant to fix:
non-human body plan 4 -> 48 (29 quadruped, 15 winged)
vesh / cadence 5/5 -> 13/13
creatures 47 -> 147
CREATURE_FORGE_PLAN.md called the unused location tables the reason to
build any of this; the quadruped and winged plans now carry a bestiary
rather than three dogs and a heraldic beast.
Art is procedural: 102 SVG portraits composed from each creature's own
body geometry, so a cadence portrait has five headless bodies because its
location table has five. The 17 hand-made portraits are untouched.
BESTIARY_ART.md carries 204 derived Midjourney prompts for the ones worth
illustrating properly later.
Known and unfixed, reported by three of the four authors independently:
WEAPONS has no bite, claw, gore, hoof or talon, so every creature that
kills with its mouth carries `grasp` and states its real damage in prose.
simulate.mjs measures the grasp. Next commit.
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Anomalous and Apex now draw weapons, armour and gear from the posting on
top of the natural attacks they already carry. Their hide stays, and
locationArmourFor adds worn pieces to it, so Apex · Containment stands at
17 torso armour: 7 hide, 7 breaching suit, 3 riot shield raised. Mean
damage across the 61 weapons is 6.9 and the heaviest ordinary one means
9.0, so nothing but the Unmaker reliably breaks it.
Chosen deliberately with that number in hand. The spec records the
counterplay already in the rules — the shield only counts raised, and
exposedHideFor halves hide on a grounded creature outside the vital — and
obliges Phase 5 to simulate both tiers standing and grounded rather than
assert a lethality band.
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generateNPC reads R.core, R.support and R.label. It does not read R.kit,
which generateDialog prints as DRAWS FROM STORES and generateCharacter
issues. The card promises a marksman rifle and a breaching suit; the actor
gets a utility knife.
Design: the posting says what it carries, the tier says how much of it and
how good with it. Kit keys classify by which pack they resolve in rather
than by a second hand-written list. Attacks derive from the issued weapon's
own skillFamilyId/skillSpecialisationId, which retires the weapon-to-skill
pairing table. Armour becomes an equipped item and naturalArmour drops to 0
on the four human tiers, which moves the numbers and so gets measured.
check-generator.mjs is written first and observed failing.
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A reload icon sits beside the ammo count in the readied-weapon strip and
the weapons table, for any weapon with a magazine. It tops the weapon up
from its reserve (rules.reloadFor, spot-checked), posts the new count and
the weapon's reload time to chat, and warns when the weapon is already
full or the reserve is empty.
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The single Roll damage button becomes two, with person and paw icons. Each
rolls damage and then a hit location. A targeted token still uses its own
anatomy; with no target the blow is placed on the chosen body plan and
shown, with nothing applied. Both buttons disable after either is used.
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Four new portraits (Joan Wetherlaw at last, Ruth Cotter, Nell Teague,
Mr Ogden) and eleven interior plates, one for each underground location
that had none, in the two-ink civil defence style. Bewley and Prosser
reuse their THROUGH TRAIN portraits. Journals now show 20 plates and 12
faces. The art sheet corrects the v1.0 diagnosis: Joan's prompt was
being refused, not the account out of hours.
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SO-H01 becomes the full Registry case brief: what the department knows
about Bellhouse, the 1974 return and the stamp, the orders, conduct,
access and the Stores issue. Nothing about the song, the children or
Centre's letters. STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html prints it on A4 with the
enclosed 1974 Seat return (SO-H02) and Mr Smith's mark.
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The section now shows 13, 14, 15 and 18 on a third level with the
incline from the plant floor, instead of footnoting them as not drawn,
and the key runs 6-18 in number order in two columns. Sheet 6 moves the
incline to the plant's north end to match.
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Five more blueprint sheets: the 1962 dormitories and laundry (240
berths), the canteen, kitchen, bakery and officers' cabins (20), and
three sheets of the Estate, 213 family dwellings on three coal roads
(737). With Edith and Kit Marlow that is the 999; the scenario now
shows the sum. Section map issue 3 adds 16-18, and sheet 6 is mirrored
so the pipe room lies south of the plant as the section draws it.
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Eight sheets laid out to match the section: north to the left, Level 1
lobby to sick bay, Level 2 creche to plant, an incline to the pit
galleries, and every corridor end naming the sheet it reaches. Rooms
now share walls (the corridor gap had doors opening onto rock); adds an
armoury, a pipe room beside the plant, and a Vigil hall sized for 999
standing. bellhouse-plans.mjs --check holds doors, swings, furniture,
lettering and reachability, and runs in npm run check.
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Drawn by tools/bellhouse-plans.mjs from declared rooms: lobby, control
room, registry, sick bay, creche, vigil hall and plant, coal roads and
the Sump. 2800x2000 at 5 ft to the square, added to the Adventure and
keyed in the Locations table.
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Cut the register mechanic, the census creature, the paperwork route and
half the clues. The under-twelves know Mr Smith's song from the nightly
creche speaker, so Act Three is a choice: burn the tape and take the
children into care, keep the families below, or cure them with a cut
tape first.
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Tim's ruling. He comes from Outside and speaks for the powers that sleep
there, which the department has no heading for; the census in the Registry
is a Vesh working for him. The open question is marked decided.
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The agents now cross into Bellhouse on a diplomatic brief to bring its people
home. A thousand people (118 of the 1974 intake, 881 born below) run the Seat
like a 1970s council, kept down by ninety-day renewals from "Centre", which
is Mr Smith, planted in THROUGH TRAIN. His experiment is procedural and
quiet: a bulletin response, a crèche lullaby, a shared dream, the children's
drawings, a steered establishment. Act One is the briefing, the moor and the
crossing into Enquiries. Act Two is the site, and the detention the Controller
orders on Centre's circular, measured and cited. Act Three is Annex D: at a
thousand the Seat broadcasts an Address that enrols whoever hears it, and the
table must silence it before or while they release the Seat under clause 4.
Same site, people and plates. Two cast actors (the wardens, Teague). New
handouts SO-H05 (Centre's circular) and SO-H06 (terms of engagement). The
section map's key is relabelled (issue 2). Status is honest: v0.7's five desk
passes tested a different plot, and this needs its own.
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The man who told Vane what the chart had to say now has a name: a Mr Smith,
with the company's paper, whom the company never employed. Vane names him if
asked and cannot picture his face. A "do not resolve" line says who he is not
to be explained here: he is the thread into STANDING ORDER.
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A second scenario gets pack-tables' arrangement: four configs (Teague plus
one, three or five wardens) against the declared six and the four-player
cut, 2000 runs at seed 11, cap 400, recorded to detention-baseline.json,
citeable as "detention", and --check added to npm run check.
standingorder joins all-specs' SCENARIOS, and simulate.mjs now reads that
list instead of keeping its own copy, so a new cast is fightable the day it
is registered. The lethality, focus and pack baselines are unchanged.
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New pack ringbrp.standingorder, in the Scenarios folder. It holds the GM
journal (13 pages, one per section), the three player handouts, nine plates
to show, six faces and the Bellhouse section map as a scene. No cast actors,
because nobody in the case has a stat block.
The GM pages are read from docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md at build time
rather than transcribed, so the compendium cannot drift from the document the
desk passes ran against. STATUS and Open questions are left out as authoring
notes; STATUS's "not obvious" list leads page 1.
Doc fixes found on the way: the Act Two heading still said ~55 min against a
75-minute budget; STATUS said four passes and "no desk playtest run" after
five; the runtime open question still called 45/55/50 unbacked.
figures-baseline: generator enrolled at 0; STANDING_ORDER.md leaves the
uncited list because it cites.
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cdbb2e3 added "When two people want opposite things" to the rules text but did
not rebuild packs/rules, so the compendium has been a section behind the
source since. Content-checked against HEAD: this is the only page that differs.
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A narrow verification pass rather than a session: does Act Two land where v0.6
budgets it now that a failed filed-clue roll costs a scene instead of ten
minutes? Seed 4471.
THE RETRY FIX WORKS AND DOES NOT DO WHAT v0.6 ASSUMED. Forced both filed clues
to fail — about one table in seven, since each is a 37% miss at these ratings.
Under the old rule that was twenty minutes and a party standing in Registry
waiting; under the new one Pennyfeather fetches each while they do something
else and it costs nothing, while the roll still means something. So the fix
removes up to twenty minutes of VARIANCE. It does not shorten the typical case,
and Act Two uncut is 75 minutes whether or not anybody fails a filed roll.
AND v0.6 CONTAINED AN ARITHMETIC CONTRADICTION I PUT THERE. The Runtime row
budgeted Act Two at 65 — pass 4's figure, measured with nineteen minutes of cuts
taken — while the Pacing Note two screens later said the correct number of cuts
to plan for is zero. Both cannot be true; it was a ten-minute overrun written in
on purpose. The three prior passes reconcile exactly (75 uncut, and pass 4's 66
is 75 − 19 + 10), so the number was never in doubt, only which configuration it
belonged to. I measured under one configuration, changed the configuration, and
kept the number.
Act Two is now budgeted at its uncut base of 75. Acts of 45 / 75 / 50 is 2h50 of
play, 3h00 wall with the break, in a 3h15 slot — fifteen minutes of real slack
rather than twenty-five claimed ones. The cuts stay optional, which keeps Kit
Marlow's scene, which pass 4 showed is the price of the likeliest ending.
The timing section now records that 75 is the uncut base three passes agree on,
and that the retry fix moved the worst case and not the typical one, so nobody
re-derives the same error the next time the slot moves.
All twenty-one guards pass. Five passes; what is left is human beings.
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Decided rather than worked around. Four passes measured Act Two's floor at about
66 minutes against a budget that said 55; the alternative was twelve minutes out
of the sick bay, which is where Revelation 3's best route lives. The slot moved,
because 3h00 was an assumption and the sick bay is not.
2h50 of play in three acts of 45 / 65 / 50 plus the break, in a 3h15 slot. Act
Two is budgeted at the 66 pass 4 actually measured with every cut taken, not at
the 56 the retry fix predicts, because nothing has measured the fix. The
twenty-five minutes of slack are deliberate: the house standard says a scenario
landing to the minute with zero slack is a fail for a table of strangers, and
every figure came off a desk pass run by a GM who already knew the document.
THE CUTS ARE NO LONGER DEFAULTS, which is the real answer to pass 4's finding
rather than a workaround for it. They existed because Act Two had to lose twenty
minutes it did not have. At 3h15 the correct number to plan for is zero — and
that retires the trap where the cheapest default cut hollowed out the price of
the likeliest ending.
AND THE REBUDGET EXPOSED AN OLDER DEFECT. The Countdown put step 3 at +1h20 and
step 4 at +2h00, measured from the blast door — so under every budget this
scenario has ever had, both fired AFTER Act Two ended. Both are backstops for
Essential revelations: step 3 is the second road to the sum and step 4 is
Revelation 3's last resort. They were arriving too late to back anything up. The
whole table is re-timed inside the act at +15 / +35 / +45 / +60, the reference
point is stated, and Act One's Stealth roll moves step 2 within that window
instead of pushing Teague past the end of the act.
The act checkpoints were trailing their own acts too — the signing one left five
minutes for the decision. A checkpoint is a point you can still correct from, so
the sum is wanted at 1:40 with twenty minutes of Act Two left, and Act Three's
is ten minutes in. Running times are printed so they mean something.
All twenty-one guards pass. What is left is human beings.
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The pass three passes had not run: an honest session at six players, no
contrarian choices and no forced branches, with the Pacing Note's cuts taken
exactly as written. Seed 6620. Nineteen minutes cut — pipe room folded, Kit
Marlow to the corridor, census dropped.
THE CUTS DID NOT CLOSE THE GAP, AND ONE RETRY UNDID MOST OF THEM. Act Two asks
for six rolls whose failure case was "ten minutes and a second attempt", roughly
two fail in an average session, and a single failed Research handed back ten of
the nineteen minutes that had just been cut. The Pacing Note's arithmetic was
sized against the act's length and never against its variance, so it could not
hold. A failed roll on a filed clue now costs a SCENE instead — Pennyfeather
fetches it while the party do something else — which keeps the roll meaningful
and costs nothing on the clock.
THE CHEAPEST CUT GUTS THE LIKELIEST ENDING. The Pacing Note priced moving Kit
Marlow to a corridor at "the drawings". This pass took that cut and then reached
the narrow row of ending 3 — the likeliest one, since it needs a single dossier
item — whose entire price is that the sixty-one stay unrecorded. Kit is the
sixty-one made into a person and her own entry says she must be a person before
she is a price. The cut is re-costed honestly, and the corridor version now has
to do her one job: she shows them a drawing and asks whether she got the blue
right.
The blanket Act One failure case named Joan for all seven clues, and Joan does
not go down the adit. Clues 6 and 7 now have their own: time, never access,
because the door has never been locked. Joan herself is at the farm AND walks up
with them, so the moor walk has somebody in it. And 13b came off the dice after
a 98 lost the reason the proper channel failed — the thematic centre of the case
— which is now written at the bottom of Pennyfeather's own sheet.
Act Two's floor is about 66 minutes against a budget of 55, measured across
three passes at 75 uncut, 70 uncut and 66 fully cut. The retry fix should
recover most of that and nothing has measured it. THE REMAINING QUESTION IS A
BUDGET DECISION AND IT IS TIM'S: move the slot to 3h15, or take twelve minutes
out of the sick bay and lose Revelation 3's best route. Written up in Open
questions and deliberately not decided here.
All twenty-one guards pass. Four passes, every content defect they found fixed.
What is left is human beings.
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The cadence's third pass: a full session choosing contrarily at every fork,
forced to the one ending nothing had reached. Seed 3307. The party skipped the
scenario's best NPC, told the antagonist the truth before anyone else, refused
the hospitality, split so the wrong specialist was in every room, took a
resident to the surface, and cancelled.
BOTH OF PASS 1'S HEADLINE FIXES WORK, AND ONE WORKS BETTER THAN WRITTEN. The pen
held above the paper converted the ending from pass 2's ninety-second reflex
into a real argument about whether a narrow amendment they could no longer reach
beat a cancellation they could. And Pennyfeather's spoken cost landed on a party
who had failed the birth register, so the sixty-one arrived as new information at
the moment of decision — which is better than knowing in advance, and clue 14 is
demoted to Supporting on the strength of it.
THE SUM HAD ONE ROUTE AND NO FALLBACK. Pass 1 found the Revelation 3 fallback
circular and it was repaired with three roads; nobody then asked whether the
other essential revelations had the same shape. The contrarian split put Insight
40 in Registry instead of 63, one roll failed, and the party cancelled the
Standing Order having never learned why it was urgent. Worse, the clue asked for
a roll that Pennyfeather's own roster line contradicted — she hands the sheet to
anybody who asks her a straight question. The roster line wins: the sum is no
longer behind a roll at all, the Insight now buys what she did about it, and the
establishment return she posts at Countdown step 3 is a second road for a table
that never thinks to ask her anything. Fixing an instance is not fixing a class.
TWO OF THREE HOOKS ROUTED THE PARTY AROUND THE ACT'S ENGINE. Only one hook
involves the farm, and a professional team with a grid reference drives past it
— so Act One ran fifteen minutes short with nobody in it, and both its Essential
clues lost their stated failure case, which is Joan pointing at them. She is now
at the vent head, where the woman in her own entry would be anyway, and no route
into the act can miss her.
Also: the pen pause was staged only for a Teague who stood down and now prints
the hostile version; a photograph brought back down is answered; refusing the tea
is answered; and an uninformed cancellation is written as the ending it deserves
to be, since a party who do the right thing by accident is the best possible
close for a case about people doing the wrong thing correctly.
All twenty-one guards pass.
Three passes and none of them a normal table: GM chair with bad dice, a branch
stress, and a deliberately contrarian run. Pass 3 landed on the 150-minute budget
only because one act collapsed and the other spent the difference. No pass has
run Act Two with its cuts taken. That, and human beings, is what is left.
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The house cadence's second pass is a stress re-run of the weakest act. Pass 1
resolved Act Three in eight minutes of fifty and left three of its four branches
untested, so this forces each in turn on seed 8143 — and runs the three creature
encounters through tools/playthrough.mjs, the same runFight the lethality and
focus baselines come from, against this scenario's own declared six rather than
the frozen four.
THE THREE DOSSIER SCENES CHANGED NOTHING. The party assembled one item of three
and rolled 62 against 63 — exactly the roll they would have made with all three,
because Borrowed Authority says items improve the credential and never the roll.
Correct as a rule, catastrophic as staging: the act's best three scenes had no
effect any player could see, and pass 1 could not find it because there the
amendment failed and the question never arose. The items now buy scope instead.
Same roll, three different worlds: a narrow amendment that stops the ash and
leaves the site sealed, a lifted seal, or records above ground for the sixty-one
so Kit Marlow can leave.
ALL THREE CREATURES ARE INVISIBLE TO THE DICE. STERILISATION ORDER, THE
CORRECTION and ENUMERATED are all classified outOfCombat in powers.mjs, so every
measured number is a measurement of the creature's arms and legs and of nothing
that makes it frightening. That is correct bookkeeping, not a defect in the
guard, and it means the GM's text carries the whole threat at the climax. It
did not. The overwriter now comes with four printed corrections specific to this
case, and with the fact that force does not work: measured, one of them cannot
meaningfully hurt anybody and five grind for forty rounds finishing nothing, so
the end of the world was landing as an inconclusive scuffle.
EXPOSURE wiped all six in fifteen rounds with five dead, without the
sterilisation blast firing at all. The warning was right and understated. It now
prints the six-round countdown that lived only in the bestiary entry, the
argue-down as a named Borrowed Authority stretch, and what a failure costs —
five rounds reaches the adit and does not reach the crèche.
The best ending was three sentences, less than the failure branch beneath it,
and now plays out properly: the tannoy, nobody cheering, Pennyfeather filing it,
and Joan sweeping a yard that stays swept.
The four-player cut was one sentence from disaster. Science (Biology) and
Medicine are the only skills that vanish with Okonkwo and Nkemdirim, the cut
note happened to reassign exactly those two clues, and check-rollable never saw
any of it because the cast declaration names six and the cut is prose. Both
clues are now written on Knowledge and Insight for every table size, so nothing
load-bearing depends on an unguarded sentence.
All twenty-one guards pass, and the document has entered check-figures' strict
regime now that it carries citations.
Still untested: ending 1, and with it Pennyfeather speaking the cost and the pen
held above the paper — pass 1's two headline fixes. Pass 3 is the player chair,
contrarian, and should cancel.
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Eight plates and six of seven portraits are on disk. Joan Wetherlaw's portrait
stalled three times — twice on the bridge's full 1800s window and once on
deliberately reworded prompt text, which rules out both the prompt and
deduplication. The thirteen before it returned in about forty-five seconds and
everything after ~21:20 hung, which looks like fast GPU hours running out
mid-batch.
The sheet listed every stem as though it existed and named the plates by their
pre-conversion stems rather than the webp files actually committed. Both fixed,
with the retry instructions and the note that mj-gen exits 0 on a timeout, so
the file is the thing to check and not the exit code.
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GM chair, all six cast pregens played as archetypes, every beat rolled on a
seeded roller (mulberry32, seed 5291, rolls consumed in printed order) so the
run is re-checkable rather than remembered. Fourteen plates and portraits too.
The pass found three things worth the afternoon.
REVELATION 3 WAS NEVER DELIVERED, AND ITS FALLBACK WAS CIRCULAR. The Psychology
roll with Marlow failed, the Larkhall fallback failed, and the only route left
was a file in Marlow's private quarters that nothing in the scenario told the
players existed — findable only by knowing the thing it reveals. A fallback that
requires the revelation it is a fallback for is not a fallback. The file now
lives in the sick-bay day room where they already have reason to be, there is a
second independent route through Pennyfeather and the 1974 return's CASUALTIES
NIL, and the Vigil is an automatic backstop under all three.
Psychology was the wrong skill anyway: the audit put the best in the cast at 40,
a coin flip on the moral centre of the case, while the Casting table credited
Renshaw with it as a strength. It is Insight now — 63, genuinely hers, and a
better fit for a woman who is ashamed rather than confused.
THE MOST OBVIOUS PLAYER MOVE HAD NO PRINTED ANSWER. The talker told the
Controller there had been no war, four minutes in, and the document said
nothing. Now printed in three mouths, plus what happens when they take a
resident up to see the sky — which works, harms nobody, and solves nothing.
ACT THREE RESOLVED IN EIGHT MINUTES OF A FIFTY-MINUTE ACT. The amendment failed
and the party cancelled inside ninety seconds, because falling through to the
end of the world is so much worse than the alternative that nobody deliberated
— and they cancelled without knowing it kills the sixty-one children, because
Pennyfeather was two corridors away. She now stands at the Controller's elbow
and says the number out loud before the pen moves, and a failed amendment holds
Sowerby's pen above the paper for one full round.
Also: Act Two ran 75 against 55 and now has a real Pacing Note; the Act One
Stealth roll bought nothing and now buys when Teague finds them; time inside
versus outside is ruled in the text; the census is marked optional because
missing it cost nothing; and Containment gets the one beat the heavy's 3/10
verdict asked for.
All twenty-one guards still pass, and check-figures still records this document
at zero bare figures.
Untested: ending 2, a successful amendment, the quarantine unit, four players.
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Two hundred and six people went underground in 1974 to govern the country after
the war. There was no war. The Deputy Controller filed the drill as live, on
purpose, to save the site a fortnight of arguing about whether it was allowed to
start — and reality took the filing.
The apocalypse in this one is clerical. At renewal 211 the site's population
record exceeds the surviving population of the region it governs, and a record
that cannot hold both resolves by correcting the region. Act Two shows the
players the sum; Act Three is the decision, and all three endings cost
something. Cancelling the order kills the sixty-one children born below, who
have no record above ground. The text says so and does not offer the GM a way to
make it painless.
Deliberately not CLEAN GROUND. That case is a filed valley found by accident and
resolved by cancellation; this is a filed institution the department built on
purpose, and its best ending amends the order's scope rather than cancelling it
— a Borrowed Authority problem, which is the setting's own thesis about
arrangements beating fights.
Three existing bestiary creatures, nothing new to build: the census counts in
the Registry, the overwriter performs the correction if the renewal goes
through, and the quarantine unit is the failure state you argue down.
Cast declared as a different six from CLEAN GROUND's so the two cases exercise
different sheets. All twenty-one guards pass: check-scenarios resolves 115 tags,
check-rollable holds every route to the declared cast, and check-figures records
the document at zero bare figures — it cites no measured number because it
prints none, the quarantine unit's lethality included.
The section drawing is hand-built SVG and must stay that way: every label on it
is load-bearing and no generator holds legible text. Numbered callouts with a
key beneath, per AFTERIMAGE v3.1.
NOT playtested. Not once, desk or human. Every timing in it is a guess.
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Rendering the pack to PDF to print it showed the GM filing slug printed on top
of the first line of three of the four sheets — both almanac tables and the
minute's "Copy 3 of 4" line.
The cause is one declaration. .slug is position:absolute at top:6mm, and what
kept sheet content clear of it was .sheet's 18mm screen padding. The print
block then said padding: 0, so in print — and only in print — content started
at the very top and ran under the slug. On screen the pack looked perfect,
which is why it survived being built, checked and shipped.
Fixed by keeping a top padding in print: padding: 11mm 0 0. Side and bottom
margins still come from @page, so nothing else moves.
check-handouts could not see this and is not at fault for it: it holds the
pack's STRUCTURE — the two almanac sheets sharing one class and one set of
columns, every line reading 41 mi, nothing under 11pt — and a collision between
an absolutely positioned element and the flow is a property of the rendering,
not the markup. It took rendering the file and looking at the pages.
The almanac trick itself is unaffected and was verified in the PDF: H03a and
H03b print identically but for their dates and their counts, forty-one against
fifty-three.
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cg_05_column re-rolled and replaced. It now has Ivy a half-step ahead of the
line with both hands held open and visible, which is the beat the read-aloud
actually describes — "one woman walks forward with her hands held where you can
see them". The line behind her is still drawn uniformly, so the six at the back
remain indistinguishable, which is the one hard rule in the notes.
cg_04_crossing is unchanged. Seven attempts did not beat the original: the
plate has to be grey and dead and empty, and the generator supplies any two.
The original's livestock are confirmed real rather than rocks — a crop of the
hillside shows grazing animals and a barn — so the defect stands, recorded in
STATUS rather than quietly kept.
What the failures taught is now in CLEAN_GROUND_ART.md, because it is worth
more than the plate:
- Naming a thing to exclude it puts it in. "No birds, no sheep, no movement"
and "the grey is dust and not snow" produced, respectively, livestock and
snow. Both negations summoned what they forbade.
- Steering off snow steers into summer: the moor comes back green and alive,
which is worse than either.
- A long --no list stalls the job outright. Four consecutive prompts with ten
or more exclusions never produced a grid; the same prompt with four returned
in two minutes.
- Filter words costing a 30-minute timeout each: wound, dead ground, lifeless,
smothered, and shot — including in "nobody in shot".
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Seventeen assets through the Midjourney bridge: six NPC portraits at 512x512 in
art/portraits/cg_*.webp and eleven scene plates at 1024x682 in
art/scenes/cg_*.webp, matching the dimensions every other scenario in the
system already uses. CLEAN GROUND had none; LAST_ADMISSION has 8 plates,
OPEN_DAY 10, THROUGH_TRAIN 13.
The art direction holds: 1962 Ministry drawing-office hand, pen and ink with
pencil shading, dyeline blue-grey wash, buff card grain and a ruled margin, so
the far side is drawn on the same paper as the Registry corridor. Ivy reads as
competent rather than frail, and cg_05_column obeys the one hard rule in the
notes — the six at the back are drawn exactly like the other thirty-five.
Three prompts had to be reworded around Midjourney's filter, which declines
ephemerally and leaves mj-gen waiting out its full 30-minute timeout on
silence. "An empty dog lead WOUND twice round one fist" cost 23 minutes before
the pattern was recognised; "nobody in SHOT" and "nothing behind its face" were
found by scanning the remaining prompts rather than by hitting them.
Two misses recorded in STATUS rather than quietly kept:
- cg_04_crossing appears to have livestock on the hillside, and the point of
that scene is that every sheep is gone.
- cg_05_column has no Ivy; the line is uniform where the text has one woman a
half-step forward with her hands open.
Neither stops the scenario running. Eight of the seventeen were inspected
against their briefs in detail, including every plate carrying an explicit rule.
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Two corrections found by checking the repo before generating rather than after.
The sheet said --ar 2:3 for portraits, copied from THROUGH TRAIN's tokens.
Every raster portrait in art/portraits is 512x512, all sixteen, and every scene
plate in art/scenes is 1024x682 across all three scenarios that have them.
Foundry wants a square portrait. Corrected to --ar 1:1.
And the token said 'composed as a 1962 personnel-file photograph'. The conceit
is that the framing is a file record, but leaving the word photograph in the
prompt fights --no photography and pulls the generation to photorealism, which
is the house gotcha already written down from the Day One prompts. 'Composed
square-on like a 1962 personnel record card' gets the framing without the word.
--no photography, photorealism added to all three tokens.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fold exported scanDocument for the string tests, and importing it also ran
the guard. check-behaviour imports that module, so a figure defect called
process.exit(1) inside check-behaviour: it reported check-figures' failure under
its own name having run zero of its 108 tests.
The build went red, which is why this was survivable, but it went red in the
wrong place and every behavioural test was silently not running while appearing
to. A guard that stops another guard from running, and cannot say so, is the
worst version of the fault this file exists to catch.
Body now sits behind import.meta.main, the idiom step5-split.mjs already uses.
Importing yields the four readers and nothing else. Tested by spawning a fresh
process, because the property is "importing has no effect" and a source
assertion would pass on a file that grew a second side effect elsewhere.
Reverting the check fails exactly one test. With a defect planted,
check-behaviour runs 108 green and check-figures fails in its own slot.
Mine, introduced by R-307. R-309.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
R-308. Read the fold as a stranger at its author's request. Two of the three
risks they flagged are sound: isProse drops nothing that carries a citation
(scanned the whole corpus), and the duration exclusion earns its place, since
"runs" now means three things in this corpus and only the cell can tell them
apart.
The third is real. numEnd used line.indexOf(m[1], m.index), which finds the
first copy of the digits at or after the match start rather than the copy that
was captured:
"The wipe rate of 74 in ten is 74%<!-- cite: ... -->."
value=74 numAt=17 marked=FALSE
A correctly cited figure reported bare, because numEnd lands mid-sentence and
the marker test reads " in ten is 74%...". Fixed with the d flag: m.indices[1]
gives the capture's real position and there is nothing to search for.
Narrow to reach — it needs the wipe-rate shape, the only one with a wide gap
before its capture, and an integer duplicate inside that gap; a decimal cannot
do it because [^.] will not span a decimal point. Three attempts failed for
that reason before the fourth worked, which is why this is recorded as narrow
rather than theoretical.
Worth fixing anyway because its direction is the bad one: a miss costs one
figure, a false positive on correct prose costs the guard.
Seven-case battery re-run, every restore byte-identical.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
check-unmarked is gone and check-figures holds all of it. Three readers, each
authoritative where the corpus gives it authority: a named phrasing anywhere,
a column header inside tables, and bold in prose only.
The boundary is the finding rather than the union. Bold is a publication mark
in prose and an emphasis mark in a table — nine measurement columns mix bold
with plain, all correctly cited, and in the mixed-force table the two bolded
rows are exactly the two the prose underneath singles out. So the bold reader
stays silent in a table and the header rules there alone. Neither guard could
have found this alone: each had half the evidence and read it as the other's bug.
Union of both word lists, because each had a gap the other covered — wipes and
runs. A proposal to drop runs? was made and withdrawn; it would have dropped the
p99 column, which is R-299's own defect committed a second time.
Exclusions test cells, never header words: prose, denominator, duration. No
threshold rule touches a header, or "Past 15 rounds" loses two cited figures.
Two integration defects, both caught by the ported tests: the readers stopped at
different ends of one figure so the dedupe missed it (identity is where the
number starts), and blanking prose cells for every reader dropped twelve real
figures out of THROUGH_TRAIN's ratchet (the prose rule belongs to the column
pass alone).
Kept from R-299: opt-in rule, ratchet and its leave-the-loose-set branch, the
UNCITEABLE check, NOT_A_MEASUREMENT, comments blanked not stripped. Added
waivers, with an empty reason fatal and every waiver printed on a green build.
21 guards, 107 behavioural tests, 139 figures — 115 marked, 6 waived.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A second implementation of the three settled rules, written from the
description alone rather than from the peer's code or the agreed list, lands on
the same nine columns and the same single exclusion. Two unlike
implementations of the same three sentences agreeing is the property a design
needs before anybody builds it.
Also tabulates where each of the evening's counts came from: 44% and 57% and
64% and 'at least 7' and 8 each came from an operation on the numbers; 9 came
from opening the disputed columns and reading them.
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R-305 asserted the shared seven were all genuine without opening them, which is
the error the entry exists to correct, committed inside the correction. Opened
all nine: every cell cited, none prose, every column mixing bold with plain.
The peer's final count of eight is their own vocabulary's nine minus the false
positive, an arithmetic that never contained 'Then wipes' because wiped? cannot
match wipes. The union was agreed and their own set was counted.
Nothing in the design turns on it.
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R-304's rate was an artefact; the proposed correction, retreating to the seven
both vocabularies agree on, overshoots. Opening every disputed column instead
of comparing totals: 'Then wipes' is genuine and check-unmarked misses it
because wiped? does not match wipes; '1 in 100 runs past' is genuine and
check-figures misses it because its vocabulary has rounds? and not runs; only
THROUGH_TRAIN's 'Measured over 300 runs' is a false positive, and there the
cells are whole sentences and the bold wraps a clause.
So nine, and the shape matters more than the number: each vocabulary has a real
gap the other covers, which argues for the union of both word lists.
Refuses one recommendation. Dropping runs? from the header vocabulary would
also drop the p99 column, whose cells cite fight-tail cut.p99 and column.p99
and which R-269 added because the median is not a plan. That is the R-299
failure again — a guard narrowing itself until the figure it exists to watch
falls outside. The real exclusion wanted is 'a column whose cells are sentences
rather than values', which is testable; subtracting a word cannot tell the two
cases apart.
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Recomputed the peer's bolding scan rather than quoting it. Eight measurement
columns are inconsistently bolded, and that count is robust; the RATE is not —
44% under check-figures' vocabulary, 57% under check-unmarked's, because the
two do not define 'measurement column' the same way. Anybody quoting a
percentage has to say whose vocabulary produced it.
The cause is not carelessness but a second convention: in prose the corpus
bolds what it publishes, in a table it bolds the rows it wants read. The two
bolded rows of the mixed-force table are exactly the two the prose below it
singles out.
That divides the merge on evidence — prose takes bold-as-published, tables take
column-inherits-header with bold ignored entirely as a signal — and explains
the asymmetry R-303 found from both sides as one cause with two symptoms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
R-302 showed check-unmarked catching what check-figures misses. I had taken
that, plus a preference for structure over vocabulary, as grounds for folding
check-figures in as a secondary pass. The converse test contradicts it: five
unbolded cells in a measurement column, markers stripped, fail check-figures
and pass check-unmarked, whose strict class requires bold by design.
So the relationship is symmetric. The shapes are the weak half and should fold
in behind the structural classes; the column-header rule is not a shape and
belongs beside bold-as-published, not under it.
Also records what a merged guard must face rather than inherit: this corpus
bolds inconsistently inside tables, which is invisible to a reader and
load-bearing for a class keyed on boldness.
Both runs in throwaway worktrees, never the shared tree. No merge performed;
the decision sits with the humans.
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R-300 blamed `git add -A` for eead663 carrying my uncommitted edits.
check-figures' author checked and it was not that: they staged two exact
paths. The tree agrees — eead663 holds CLEAN_GROUND.md and CLEAN_GROUND_ART.md
only, while my modified step5-split.mjs and untracked check-unmarked.mjs are
absent, both of which `git add -A` would have taken.
`git add <file>` takes the whole file including another session's edits to it,
so a pathspec stops you sweeping files you did not touch and does nothing about
the one you did. Their pre-commit `npm run check` passed because my uncommitted
module was in the shared tree: the commit was broken, the working copy was not.
I asserted a mechanism I never looked at, in an entry whose technical finding
was correct. The correction came from the session it accused.
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A cell inherits the measurement status of its column: a different mechanism
from the shapes rather than more of them, because the document says what the
column is and the vocabulary has to guess how somebody will phrase a figure.
Records the two bugs in the repair, and why the first matters more than the
blind spot it fixed: scanning raw cell text reported ~130 correctly-cited rows
as unheld, and a guard that calls the good material broken teaches its reader
to stop reading the output.
Leaves the merge question open on purpose. Two readers that disagree are how
three of this session's defects were found.
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R-300 was right, and it was right with a live defect rather than an argument:
a bare **24** in a table whose own header row says "Median rounds", reported
OK by this guard, against a baseline holding 25. The scan read one line at a
time, so measurement status living two lines above was invisible.
Fixed by reading the header. A cell now inherits the measurement status of its
column — which is a claim the DOCUMENT makes, rather than one this file's
vocabulary has to anticipate. That is the narrow repair, and it is deliberately
a different mechanism from the shapes: the shapes guess at phrasing, the header
does not have to.
The general point in R-300 still stands and the file now says so where the
shapes are defined: a vocabulary learned from the marked figures cannot contain
the phrasing of the figure nobody marked. check-unmarked attacks that from the
other end, treating bold as the corpus's own mark of a published figure.
Two bugs found while testing, both mine, both caught before commit:
- A citation marker is full of digits and none of them are figures. "packs
line.hollow6.hurt" holds a 6; "fight-tail cut.over15" holds a 15. Scanning
raw cell text reported roughly 130 correctly-cited rows as unheld — the
best-marked tables in the corpus. Comments are now blanked rather than
removed, so every offset still points at the right character.
- "3.48 of 6" — the 6 is the party size the mean is out of, not a measurement.
Coverage goes from 25 figures, 7 marked, to 120 figures, 102 marked.
Proved again by breaking it, five ways, every restore byte-identical: the
historical bare **24** fails at its own line, a stripped prose marker fails, a
planted "median 24 rounds" fails, a new bare figure in an uncited document
trips the ratchet, and neither a threshold column header nor any of the 102
cited cells fires.
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eead663 committed a document citing `step5 unsettledFactor` while the module
that would export it was still uncommitted in another session's working tree,
so `check-cited` fails on a fresh checkout of HEAD. step5-split.mjs is included
here to repair that; the key derives Act Four's 1.29 from the raw proportions,
which is the figure R-294 exists about.
check-figures (R-299) reports OK on the "24" it was written to catch. Its own
entry names why: the eight shapes were read off figures that are already cited,
so the vocabulary is learned from the marked figures and cannot contain the
phrasing of the one nobody marked. Line 1272 is a table cell whose measurement
status lives in the header two rows above it, and figuresIn reads one line.
check-unmarked reads structure instead of vocabulary: a bold percentage or
decimal in an opted-in document, and a bold number in a table whose header row
names a measurement. Twelve unmarked figures in CLEAN GROUND; eleven correct
and unheld, one the stale 24 that line 1142 had been citing correctly as 25 for
130 lines. Waivers carry a reason, an empty one is fatal, and every waiver
prints on a green build.
Two guards now cover one question, which is one too many. The right end state
is the structural classes folded in beside check-figures' SHAPES, keeping its
opt-in rule and ratchet. That fold is offered to its author rather than taken.
Twelve string tests on unmarkedIn (88 -> 100), both halves mutation-checked.
Twenty-two guards green.
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The Casting section said "Portraits already exist in art/portraits for all
six. No new art needed." The first sentence is true and verified on disk. The
second was only ever true of the cast, and sitting at the foot of Casting it
read as a statement about the scenario. It is not: the six named NPCs have no
portraits, there is no map, and there are no scene plates at all — while
LAST_ADMISSION has 8, OPEN_DAY 10 and THROUGH_TRAIN 13. Not one cg_* asset
exists anywhere in art/.
Nothing in "Still to do" mentioned it either; that list held only a human run
and a slot, both resolved.
So: the claim is scoped to the cast and points at the gap, the gap is on the
outstanding list where a reader looks, and CLEAN_GROUND_ART.md now carries the
prompts — 6 NPC portraits and 11 scene plates, 17 ids, none colliding with a
file already on disk.
Art direction follows the house pattern (base style plus one scenario line).
THROUGH TRAIN draws the present day in an 1881 hand; CLEAN GROUND draws
everything as a sheet from the 1962 file — including the far side, because the
valley is not a place, it is a filed document nobody cancelled. Same paper,
same margin, same grain on both sides of the seam.
The notes carry the rules that matter: the six at the back are never singled
out in the column plate (the text says do not linger on them, and a plate that
picks them out gives away Act Three in Act Two), nobody in the column is lit as
a victim, nothing glows, the understudy is never drawn as a monster, and the
grey is not snow.
Creatures stay in BESTIARY_ART.md; the handout pack is done and its almanac
pages must not be illustrated, since their trick is that the two sheets are
identical and check-handouts holds that.
21 guards green; the sheet classifies as a record, not a playable scenario.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the blind spot (check-cited can only resolve markers that exist), why
the net is narrow (an earlier draft found 282 candidates, nearly all prose),
the opt-in rule and ratchet, and the two things it found before being wired in
— 74.9% printed bare twice, and 'the longest fight is 120 rounds' where 120 is
the exact field check-cited refuses to let anybody cite.
Two rules each right, and together a hole: refusing the citation while the
document printed the number left the least stable figure in the suite as the
only one nothing held.
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check-cited resolves every citation marker against the artifact it names, and
has one structural blind spot: it can only resolve the markers that exist. A
measured figure written into prose with no marker beside it is not a failed
citation, it is not a citation at all, and nothing looks at it again.
Desk pass 11 proved it. "A median 24 rounds" sat in the Pacing Note and "24 if
the column joins" in EXPOSURE, against a baseline holding 21 at two of the
column joining and 25 at three, through every pass that checked citations.
This reads the figures instead of the markers. Narrow by design: an earlier
draft matched any number within 45 characters of a measurement word and found
282 candidates, nearly all prose ("down 140 steps", "an engineer on his
rounds", "01:06"). The shapes here are the phrasings the documents actually use
when quoting the simulator, each read off a figure that is cited somewhere.
Opt-in rule: a document that uses citations must mark every measurement figure.
One that cites nothing is held by a ratchet instead — turning three unguarded
scenarios red is how a guard gets switched off on the day it is written — and
joins the strict regime the moment it gains its first marker.
It found three things in CLEAN GROUND before it was wired in:
- 74.9% printed bare twice while cited correctly four times, and that is the
figure that was published at 58.7% until the truncated sweep was found.
- "the longest fight is 120 rounds" — 120 is exactly packs cut.hollow6.longest,
the field check-cited REFUSES to let anybody cite because a sample maximum
moves by a third on a re-seed. Refusing the citation while printing the number
left the least stable figure in the suite as the only one nothing held. The
sentence now leans on the guarantee that is actually strong: check-packs
refuses to record a sweep in which anything reached the cap.
Proved by breaking it, four ways, with byte-identical restores: a stripped
marker fails, a planted "median 24 rounds" fails at its own line, a new bare
figure in an uncited document trips the ratchet, and a threshold column header
("Past 15 rounds") does not fire — that last one was a real false positive in
the first draft, which tested the matched text rather than its context.
v0.23. 21 guards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six findings applied. The one worth reading: two blocks two hundred lines
apart specified two different fights for the same trigger, both mine, and the
mild one predates the measurement.
Records the stale 'median 24 rounds' that no guard could see because it
carried no citation marker, and the fifth instance of a reader unable to see
its own format.
And the cross-session half: I re-derived b5's 4.90% exactly and shipped it
with their false premise attached. The arithmetic was never the part that
could be wrong. Sharper than that — the scenario has no Transposition beat at
all, so it was a right number with no question attached and the premise
arrived to give it one. The house mission structure does make the return a
Transposition roll, which is why the instinct was persuasive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix 5 as written said a fight costs the northern seam, the depot and telling
Ivy. The Pacing Note names telling Ivy among the three things never to cut,
so the applied version says two go and the third is compressed or moves to
the stump. Written from memory of the act rather than from the Pacing Note.
And applying it found a stale figure no guard could see: 'median 24 rounds'
in two places, where the baseline says 21 at two of the column joining and 25
at three. It survived because it carried no citation marker, and check-cited
can only resolve markers that exist. Fifth reader caught unable to see its
own format.
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