Add Occult, Religion and Psychology, and the Panic track

From the first game's list. The three skills are not decoration — they are the
levers on the new track, which is why they arrived together.

PANIC, 0 to 5, up. It is the other half of Coherence and the rules page says so
in the first line, because a table that confuses them will make the wrong call
at the worst moment:

    Coherence   what knowing has cost you       weeks     10-0, down
    Panic       what is happening to you NOW    minutes    0-5, up

A trigger gives a point with NO ROLL. Asking for a die to find out whether you
are frightened slows the scene and tells the player how to feel; the die is for
getting rid of it, which is the interesting direction.

    0 steady · 1 rattled · 2 shaken -5% · 3 losing it -10%
    4 overwhelmed -20% · 5 broken

The first point is free on purpose, so the opening shock of a scene costs the
table nothing. At 5 you break — freeze, flee or fixate, choose fast — and come
back at 3, not at 0, because breaking is not a rest.

Relief is where the skills come in. A success takes one point, a special takes
two. Psychology is the only thing that steadies somebody who is NOT you.
Religion steadies you alone and does not care whether you are right. Occult is
the odd one: naming a thing correctly, out loud, helps everybody who can hear —
the department's actual work, and the only relief that reaches a room. Plus
POW×5 to steady yourself, and your anchor object once per case, which is what
that briefing scene was for.

The three skills are placed in six registers rather than left floating: Occult
to the professor and to Registry, Psychology to the doctor and to Interview,
Religion to Antiquities and Pathology.

Guards, because a track nothing reads is this project's oldest failure: the five
new rules carry spot-checks in check-rules, and check-behaviour gains nine tests
— the free first point, monotonic penalties, only 5 breaking, clamping at both
ends, breaking not clearing the track, special taking two, every band/trigger/
relief having a label, and every relief naming a skill the catalogue actually
has.

Verified in a live game: penalty reaches the roll (58 → 58 → 53 → 48 → 38 for
panic 0-4, criticals and specials recomputed with it), the full arc runs 0 → 2 →
4 → eased to 2 → pushed to 5 → breaks → 3 with no errors, the sheet shows the
band, and the rules journal has a Panic page generated from the same tables.

Version 1.1.0.

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

README.md

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ git clone https://gitea.timevans.uk/slaguru666/RingBRP.git ringbrp
 ```
 
 Requires **Foundry v13+** (verified against v14.364). No modules are required. Dice So
-Nice is supported but optional — the system registers four of its own dice textures.
+Nice works if you have it, using your own dice — the system ships no dice skins and does
+not touch anybody's dice settings.
 
 ### Deploying to a remote Foundry server
 
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ packs or regenerate art on that machine:
 ```bash
 npm install          # pulls classic-level, used to write the LevelDB packs
 npm run build        # rebuilds packs/ from tools/content.mjs
-npm run check        # the three guards; the build refuses to run if they fail
+npm run check        # the five guards; the build refuses to run if they fail
 ```
 
 To update a deployed server: `git pull` and restart Foundry. If the pull touches
@@ -64,13 +65,13 @@ changing underneath a running server.
 | **Postings** | 25, each with a key characteristic, trained skills, talents and its own kit |
 | **Trades** | 10 ordinary jobs the department recruits from, plus induction |
 | **Catalogue** | 236 items — 123 gear, 62 weapons, 32 armour, 19 vehicles |
-| **Skills / talents** | 59 skills, 19 talents |
+| **Skills / talents** | 62 skills, 19 talents |
 | **Bestiary** | 21 statblocks across folklore, horror and the far side |
 | **Eras** | modern, antique, future, anomalous — the agency is old and never abolishes anything |
 | **Icons** | 292, all generated from `tools/icons.mjs`; no external art |
 | **Starter scenario** | **BLACK PLATFORM**, a six-player action starter, importable as a single Adventure |
 | **Compendia** | pregens, NPCs, skills, weapons, armour, gear, vehicles, powers, tables, rules, the starter |
-| **Rules journal** | 12 pages, generated from `rules.mjs` so the book cannot drift from the code |
+| **Rules journal** | 13 pages, generated from `rules.mjs` so the book cannot drift from the code |
 <!-- box:end -->
 
 ---
@@ -152,13 +153,12 @@ template.json        data model for every Actor and Item type
 templates/           Handlebars sheets
 styles/              one stylesheet
 lang/en.json         all user-facing text
-icons/  dice/  fonts/   generated art
+icons/  fonts/  art/     generated art
 packs/               built LevelDB compendia (committed — see Deploying)
 tools/
   content.mjs        the catalogue: skills, weapons, armour, gear, vehicles, NPCs
-  build-packs.mjs    builds packs/ — runs the three guards first and refuses on failure
+  build-packs.mjs    builds packs/ — runs the five guards first and refuses on failure
   make-icons.mjs     draws all 231 icons
-  make-dice-textures.mjs
   rules-text.mjs     generates the rules journal FROM rules.mjs
   mission.mjs        the case generator
   mission-tables.mjs its content tables
@@ -176,13 +176,13 @@ stops being identity-equal to what it aliases, if a constant is re-declared as a
 literal, or if an exported rule has no spot-check. The packs used to be built under
 one set of numbers and played under another; this makes that impossible to ship.
 
-The build runs all three guards before it writes anything:
+The build runs all five guards before it writes anything:
 
 <!-- guards:start -->
 ```
-check-rules: OK — 87 rules, 21 files scanned, 3 aliases + 41 constant sets checked, 275 formulas verified
+check-rules: OK — 92 rules, 20 files scanned, 3 aliases + 45 constant sets checked, 290 formulas verified
 check-kits: OK — 25 roles, 10 trades, 218 catalogue items, every kit key resolves, every posting can use what it carries, every loadout distinct
-check-lang: OK — en.json, 945 keys, no leaf/branch collisions
-check-behaviour: OK — 45 behavioural tests
+check-lang: OK — en.json, 976 keys, no leaf/branch collisions
+check-behaviour: OK — 55 behavioural tests
 ```
 <!-- guards:end -->

docs/DEPLOY.md

@@ -33,10 +33,9 @@ Only if you intend to edit the catalogue there:
 
 ```bash
 npm install                       # classic-level, for writing LevelDB
-npm run check                     # the three guards
+npm run check                     # the five guards
 npm run build                     # rebuilds packs/
 node tools/make-icons.mjs         # redraws all icons
-node tools/make-dice-textures.mjs # regenerates the Dice So Nice textures
 ```
 
 `npm run build` runs the guards first and aborts if any fails, so a broken catalogue

docs/scenarios/LAST_ADMISSION.md

@@ -426,6 +426,13 @@ If there is time — and there usually is, because this ends early — she says
 
 ## Artwork
 
+**Showing them at the table.** The adventure ships a third journal,
+**LAST ADMISSION — Show the players**, holding these as eight image pages at player
+visibility. Right-click a page and *Show Players*: the table gets the picture and
+nothing else — no heading, no caption, no label naming what they are looking at. The
+page names are for the GM's sidebar and the players never see them.
+
+
 **Style line:** flat editorial vector, deep navy and pale yellow with warm off-white,
 1970s British public-information poster, `--style raw --ar 3:2 --v 6`.
 

lang/en.json

@@ -943,5 +943,36 @@
   "RINGBRP.Item.ArtRating": "Rating",
   "RINGBRP.Item.PushCost": "Push cost",
   "RINGBRP.Item.PushRule": "What pushing does",
-  "RINGBRP.Item.Origin": "Where it came from"
+  "RINGBRP.Item.Origin": "Where it came from",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Label": "Panic",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Steady": "Steady",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.SteadyNote": "You are all right. You are doing the job.",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Rattled": "Rattled",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.RattledNote": "Your hands are not quite steady. No penalty — the first one is free.",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Shaken": "Shaken",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.ShakenNote": "−5% to everything. You keep checking the way you came in.",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Losing": "Losing it",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.LosingNote": "−10% to everything. You are talking too fast and not hearing answers.",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Overwhelmed": "Overwhelmed",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.OverwhelmedNote": "−20% to everything. One more and you go.",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Broken": "Broken",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.BrokenNote": "You freeze, run, or go at it. Choose one, take it, and come back at 3.",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.WrongThing": "Something that should not be there",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Touched": "It touched you",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Body": "A body",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Known": "Somebody you knew",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Dark": "The lights went",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Wounded": "A major wound",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Named": "It said your name",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Steady": "Steady yourself (POW×5)",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Religion": "Religion — something older than the department",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Psychology": "Psychology — talk somebody else down",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Occult": "Occult — name it, out loud, for everyone who can hear",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Anchor": "Your anchor, once per case",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Gained": "{name} — panic {from} → {to}",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Eased": "{name} — panic {from} → {to}",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Breaks": "BREAKS — freeze, flee, or fixate. Choose, take it, come back at 3.",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.NoChange": "No change.",
+  "RINGBRP.Flavour.Panicking": "panicking ({mod}%)",
+  "RINGBRP.Chat.ToEverything": "to everything"
 }

package.json

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
   "scripts": {
     "build": "node tools/build-packs.mjs && node tools/update-readme.mjs",
     "icons": "node tools/make-icons.mjs",
-    "dice": "node tools/make-dice-textures.mjs",
     "check": "node tools/check-rules.mjs && node tools/check-kits.mjs && node tools/check-lang.mjs && node tools/check-templates.mjs && node tools/check-behaviour.mjs",
     "test": "npm run check",
     "readme": "node tools/update-readme.mjs"

packs/armour/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.231003 174603000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.028748 16ea07000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/expedition/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.298648 173df7000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.107122 16f213000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/gear/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.232848 174603000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.030538 16e1fb000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/lastadmission/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.282484 173df7000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.091041 16ea07000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/npcs/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
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+2026/08/12-22:54:48.072716 16f213000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/powers/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.293373 173df7000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.101253 16ea07000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/pregens/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.252536 174603000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.053348 16f213000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/primer/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.290196 172ddf000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.098549 16ea07000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/prologue/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.286378 174603000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.095111 16f213000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/rules/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.297168 1735eb000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.104875 16fa1f000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/skills/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
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+2026/08/12-22:54:48.022621 16ea07000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/slice/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.291920 1735eb000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.100047 16e1fb000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/starter/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
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+2026/08/12-22:54:48.085121 16ea07000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/tables/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.270666 173df7000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.077691 16e1fb000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/talents/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
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+2026/08/12-22:54:48.025116 16fa1f000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/vehicles/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2026/08/12-19:01:54.234705 1735eb000 Delete type=3 #1
+2026/08/12-22:54:48.032886 16f213000 Delete type=3 #1

packs/weapons/LOG

@@ -1 +1 @@
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+2026/08/12-22:54:48.027160 16f213000 Delete type=3 #1

postings.mjs

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export const ROLES = {
 
   registry:    { label: "Registry Officer",
     blurb: "Keeps the record that a crossing is made against. Knows what the file says and, more usefully, what it used to say.", stat: "edu",
-    core: ["research","knowledge","anomaly_lore","language:own","computer_use","insight"],
+    core: ["occult","knowledge","anomaly_lore","language:own","computer_use","insight"],
     support: ["spot","art","first_aid","tradecraft","firearm:pistol"],
     talents: ["chain_custody","wrong_memory","debriefer","quorum"],
     kit: ["spectacles","notebook","handset","jacket","pistol_light", "carbon_book", "date_stamp", "seals"] },
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ export const ROLES = {
   interview:   { label: "Interview Officer",
     blurb: "Sits with the witness afterwards. Patient, unhurried, and very hard to lie to twice.", stat: "cha",
     core: ["insight","persuade","listen","language:own","anthropology"],
-    support: ["fast_talk","spot","tradecraft","first_aid","firearm:pistol"],
+    support: ["psychology","spot","tradecraft","first_aid","firearm:pistol"],
     talents: ["debriefer","read_room","wrong_memory","unblinking"],
     kit: ["dictaphone","cover_id","notebook","jacket","pistol_light", "carbon_book", "vacuum_flask", "clipboard"] },
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ export const ROLES = {
   pathology:   { label: "Pathology Officer",
     blurb: "Examines what is left. Establishes what a thing was, which is usually the question the case turns on.", stat: "int",
     core: ["medicine","science:biology","xenology:baseline","insight","research"],
-    support: ["first_aid","spot","anthropology","dodge","melee_weapon:knife"],
+    support: ["first_aid","spot","religion","dodge","melee_weapon:knife"],
     talents: ["triage","chain_custody","unblinking","clean_scene"],
     kit: ["chirurgeon_kit","gas_mask","envsuit","sample_case","dagger", "specimen_jars", "swab_kit", "barrier_gloves"] },
 
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export const ROLES = {
 
   antiquities: { label: "Antiquities Officer",
     blurb: "An archaic posting the department never abolished. Old objects, older records, and the manners to ask about both.", stat: "edu",
-    core: ["knowledge","art","anomaly_lore","research","status"],
+    core: ["religion","art","anomaly_lore","research","status"],
     support: ["insight","spot","first_aid","melee_weapon:sword","firearm:pistol"],
     talents: ["chain_custody","wrong_memory","borrowed_hour","quorum"],
     kit: ["pocket_watch","tallow_candle","duelling_sword","brigandine","flintlock", "quill_ink", "sealing_wax", "sand_glass"] },
@@ -231,13 +231,13 @@ export const TRADES = {
   doctor:      { label: "Doctor",
     blurb: "A&E, mostly. Used to people at their worst and to being the calmest thing in the room.", stat: "edu",
     core: ["medicine","first_aid","science:biology","insight","knowledge"],
-    support: ["research","status","persuade","listen","spot"],
+    support: ["research","psychology","persuade","listen","spot"],
     talents: ["triage","debriefer","unblinking","clean_scene"],
     kit: ["medkit","trauma_unit","analgesics","specimen_jars","swab_kit"] },
 
   professor:   { label: "Professor",
     blurb: "A chair in something narrow, and a reading list nobody else has finished. Argues for a living.", stat: "edu",
-    core: ["knowledge","research","anthropology","language:own","status"],
+    core: ["knowledge","research","occult","language:own","status"],
     support: ["insight","persuade","science:botany","listen","art"],
     talents: ["debriefer","read_room","requisition","wrong_memory"],
     kit: ["carbon_book","notebook","spectacles","clipboard","quill_ink"] },

ringbrp.mjs

@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ import {
   ARTS, powerCostFor, powerStartingRating,
   CROSSING, crossingArtPoolFor, crossingGrantsArt, crossingCostFor, REACTION,
   CIRCUMSTANCE, RANGE_LADDER, rangeBandFrom, MAJOR_WOUND_TABLE,
-  COHERENCE_BANDS, COHERENCE_COSTS, COHERENCE_RECOVERY, coherenceBandFrom
+  COHERENCE_BANDS, COHERENCE_COSTS, COHERENCE_RECOVERY, coherenceBandFrom,
+  PANIC_MAX, PANIC_BANDS, PANIC_TRIGGERS, PANIC_RELIEF, PANIC_BREAK, PANIC_AFTER_BREAK,
+  panicBandFrom, panicPenaltyFor, panicBreaksAt, panicAfter, panicReliefFor
 } from "./rules.mjs";
 export { hitPointsFor, majorWoundFor, damageModifierFor, locationMaxHp, reflexRating, awarenessRating };
 
@@ -1030,6 +1032,17 @@ export async function skillRoll({
       flavourLines = [...flavourLines, game.i18n.format("RINGBRP.Flavour.Encumbered", { mod: enc })];
     }
   }
+  // Panic is the short track and it bites on everything, so it sits in the same stack
+  // the wound and encumbrance penalties already use — anything that computes a modifier
+  // and is not added here is a modifier nothing reads, which is this project's oldest
+  // way of shipping a rule that does not exist.
+  if (actor) {
+    const pan = panicPenaltyFor(actor.system?.panic?.value);
+    if (pan) {
+      situational = (Number(situational) || 0) + pan;
+      flavourLines = [...flavourLines, game.i18n.format("RINGBRP.Flavour.Panicking", { mod: pan })];
+    }
+  }
   if (actor && !skipCoherence) {
     const coh = coherencePenaltyFor(actor.system?.coherence?.value, categoryId);
     if (coh) {
@@ -1075,7 +1088,6 @@ export async function skillRoll({
     }
   );
 
-  rbDressDice(roll, actor);
   await roll.toMessage({
     speaker: speaker ?? ChatMessage.getSpeaker({ actor }),
     content,
@@ -1108,7 +1120,7 @@ export async function majorWoundRoll({ actor, woundType = "blunt", monofilament
     console.error("Custodians | majorWoundRoll called without an actor");
     return null;
   }
-  const r = rbDressDice(await new Roll("1d10").evaluate(), actor);
+  const r = await new Roll("1d10").evaluate();
   let result = r.total;
   if (monofilament && result >= 4) result = 10;          // spec §3.3 shift
   else if (blunt && result === 10) result = 9;
@@ -1171,7 +1183,7 @@ export async function hitLocationRoll({ target, damage, mode = "ranged",
   }
   const sys = target.system;
   const speciesId = sys.speciesProfile || "baseline";
-  const r = rbDressDice(await new Roll("1d20").evaluate(), target);
+  const r = await new Roll("1d20").evaluate();
   const loc = locationFor(r.total, speciesId, mode);
   const live = (sys.locations ?? []).find(l => l.id === loc.id);
   const max = live?.max ?? locationMaxHp(sys.hp?.max ?? 1, loc.frac);
@@ -1280,7 +1292,7 @@ export async function rollReaction(combatant) {
     : reactionPrintedFrom(rb.base, f.loadOverride);
   const mod = reactionModifier({ aim: f.aim ?? 0, edge: !!f.edge, drag: !!f.drag });
 
-  const roll = rbDressDice(await new Roll(`1d${RINGBRP.reaction.die}`).evaluate(), actor);
+  const roll = await new Roll(`1d${RINGBRP.reaction.die}`).evaluate();
   const raw = roll.total;
   const coherence = actor.system?.coherence?.value ?? 10;
   const shown = fluxDie(raw, coherence);
@@ -1535,6 +1547,68 @@ export async function loseCoherence(actor, reasonKey, { amount = null, note = ""
   return bAfter;
 }
 
+RINGBRP.panicBands = PANIC_BANDS;
+RINGBRP.panicTriggers = PANIC_TRIGGERS;
+RINGBRP.panicRelief = PANIC_RELIEF;
+
+export const panicBand = panicBandFrom;
+
+/**
+ * Take a point of panic. No roll: a die to find out whether you are frightened slows
+ * the scene and tells the player how to feel. The die is for getting rid of it.
+ */
+export async function gainPanic(actor, triggerKey, { amount = null, note = "" } = {}) {
+  if (!actor) return null;
+  const spec = PANIC_TRIGGERS[triggerKey];
+  const cost = amount ?? spec?.cost ?? 1;
+  const before = Number(actor.system?.panic?.value ?? 0);
+  const after = panicAfter(before, cost);
+  const log = [...(actor.system?.panic?.log ?? []), { reason: triggerKey, cost, note }];
+  await actor.update({ "system.panic.value": after, "system.panic.log": log });
+  await panicCard(actor, before, after, game.i18n.localize(String(spec?.label ?? triggerKey ?? "")), note);
+  return panicBandFrom(after);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Put a point back. `level` is the outcome of whatever was rolled — a special takes two
+ * — so every relief in PANIC_RELIEF runs through one function and cannot drift.
+ */
+export async function easePanic(actor, reliefKey, level = "success", { note = "" } = {}) {
+  if (!actor) return null;
+  const spec = PANIC_RELIEF[reliefKey];
+  const back = panicReliefFor(level);
+  const before = Number(actor.system?.panic?.value ?? 0);
+  const after = panicAfter(before, -back);
+  await actor.update({ "system.panic.value": after });
+  await panicCard(actor, before, after, game.i18n.localize(String(spec?.label ?? reliefKey ?? "")), note);
+  return panicBandFrom(after);
+}
+
+/** Breaking spends the panic: you come back at 3, because it is not a rest. */
+export async function breakPanic(actor, choice = "freeze") {
+  if (!actor) return null;
+  const before = Number(actor.system?.panic?.value ?? 0);
+  const after = PANIC_AFTER_BREAK;
+  await actor.update({ "system.panic.value": after });
+  await panicCard(actor, before, after,
+    game.i18n.localize("RINGBRP.Panic.Breaks"),
+    PANIC_BREAK.includes(choice) ? choice : "freeze");
+  return panicBandFrom(after);
+}
+
+async function panicCard(actor, before, after, reason, note) {
+  const band = panicBandFrom(after);
+  await ChatMessage.create({
+    speaker: ChatMessage.getSpeaker({ actor }),
+    content: await rbRenderTemplate("systems/ringbrp/templates/chat-panic.hbs", {
+      actorName: actor.name, before, after, reason, note,
+      band, breaks: panicBreaksAt(after), penalty: panicPenaltyFor(after),
+      choices: PANIC_BREAK,
+      pips: Array.from({ length: PANIC_MAX }, (_, i) => i < after)
+    })
+  });
+}
+
 /**
  * Displacement. Reaching zero is not a slow slide to be nursed back; it is an
  * event. The character does not die — they go home to an Earth that is almost
@@ -2384,7 +2458,7 @@ export async function fall(actor, metres, { soft = false, controlled = false } =
       content: `<div class="ringbrp-chat">${game.i18n.format("RINGBRP.Fall.Short", { m: metres })}</div>` });
     return { damage: 0 };
   }
-  const roll = rbDressDice(await new Roll(plan.formula).evaluate(), actor);
+  const roll = await new Roll(plan.formula).evaluate();
   await roll.toMessage({ speaker: ChatMessage.getSpeaker({ actor }),
     flavor: game.i18n.format("RINGBRP.Fall.Flavor", { m: metres, dice: plan.formula }) });
   // armourApplied true: the fall ignores armour, and this is how we say so.
@@ -2417,7 +2491,7 @@ export async function asphyxiate(actor, { held = 0, prepared = true } = {}) {
 export async function burn(actor, bandId = "clothes", { round = 1 } = {}) {
   if (!actor) return null;
   const band = fireBandFor(bandId);
-  const roll = rbDressDice(await new Roll(band.damage).evaluate(), actor);
+  const roll = await new Roll(band.damage).evaluate();
   // Armour on the round you catch, and never after. A sealed suit is the exception
   // and the GM should say so by running it as a `spark` that never spreads.
   const armour = (band.armour && round === 1) ? (Number(actor.system.armourPoints) || 0) : 0;
@@ -2436,7 +2510,7 @@ export async function burn(actor, bandId = "clothes", { round = 1 } = {}) {
  * armour is only ever half of one, at contact.
  */
 export async function detonate({ formula = "4d6", radius = 6, targets = [] } = {}) {
-  const roll = rbDressDice(await new Roll(formula).evaluate(), null);
+  const roll = await new Roll(formula).evaluate();
   await roll.toMessage({ flavor: game.i18n.format("RINGBRP.Blast.Flavor",
     { formula, r: radius }) });
   const out = [];
@@ -4292,7 +4366,7 @@ export async function rollCharacteristicsDialog({ actorName = "" } = {}) {
         const rollOne = async k => {
           const cell = el.querySelector(`tr[data-ch="${k}"] .rb-roll-value`);
           if (!cell || cell.dataset.value) return;                 // rolled is rolled
-          const roll = rbDressDice(await new Roll(CHARACTERISTIC_DICE[k]).evaluate());
+          const roll = await new Roll(CHARACTERISTIC_DICE[k]).evaluate();
           await roll.toMessage({
             flavor: game.i18n.format("RINGBRP.Gen.RolledChar",
               { ch: game.i18n.localize(`RINGBRP.Char.${k}`) })
@@ -4538,90 +4612,6 @@ Hooks.on("preCreateItem", (item, data) => {
  *  The colourset is chosen per roll from the roller's Coherence, so the dice
  *  themselves report the one number the players are trying not to look at.
  * ============================================================ */
-const RB_DICE = {
-  textures: {
-    "custodians-registry":  { name: "Registry",  file: "custodians-registry.png" },
-    "custodians-drift":     { name: "Drift",     file: "custodians-drift.png" },
-    "custodians-displaced": { name: "Displaced", file: "custodians-displaced.png" },
-    "custodians-agency":    { name: "Agency",    file: "custodians-agency.png" }
-  },
-  // one colourset per Coherence band, plus the plain agency set
-  sets: [
-    { name: "custodians-anchored",  description: "Custodians — Anchored",
-      foreground: "#f2ea72", background: "#18268d", outline: "#0c125b",
-      edge: "#6674d8", texture: "custodians-registry", material: "metal" },
-    { name: "custodians-loose",     description: "Custodians — Loose",
-      foreground: "#f2ea72", background: "#16215f", outline: "#0c125b",
-      edge: "#6674d8", texture: "custodians-registry", material: "plastic" },
-    { name: "custodians-adrift",    description: "Custodians — Adrift",
-      foreground: "#ecefee", background: "#141e78", outline: "#0c125b",
-      edge: "#7a6cc8", texture: "custodians-drift", material: "plastic" },
-    { name: "custodians-unmoored",  description: "Custodians — Unmoored",
-      foreground: "#ff7a5c", background: "#101a6e", outline: "#08103f",
-      edge: "#ff7a5c", texture: "custodians-drift", material: "glass" },
-    { name: "custodians-displaced", description: "Custodians — Displaced",
-      foreground: "#c9b6ff", background: "#0c0e3c", outline: "#000000",
-      edge: "#8a6cc0", texture: "custodians-displaced", material: "glass" },
-    { name: "custodians-agency",    description: "Custodians — Agency issue",
-      foreground: "#f2ea72", background: "#16215f", outline: "#0c125b",
-      edge: "#a8b2e3", texture: "custodians-agency", material: "metal" }
-  ]
-};
-
-/** Which set an agent rolls, from the band they are in. */
-export function diceSetFor(actor) {
-  const band = coherenceBand(actor?.system?.coherence?.value ?? 10);
-  return `custodians-${band?.id ?? "anchored"}`;
-}
-
-/** Tag a Roll so Dice So Nice draws it in the roller's colours. */
-function rbDressDice(roll, actor) {
-  if (!roll?.dice?.length) return roll;
-  const colorset = diceSetFor(actor);
-  for (const d of roll.dice) {
-    d.options.colorset = colorset;
-    d.options.appearance = { ...(d.options.appearance ?? {}), colorset };
-  }
-  return roll;
-}
-
-Hooks.once("diceSoNiceReady", async (dice3d) => {
-  try {
-    dice3d.addSystem({ id: "custodians", name: "The Custodians" }, "preferred");
-
-    // addTexture returns a Promise and the colourset that references a texture must
-    // not be registered before it resolves, or the die renders untextured.
-    await Promise.all(Object.entries(RB_DICE.textures).map(([id, t]) =>
-      dice3d.addTexture(id, {
-        name: t.name, composite: "source-over",
-        source: `systems/ringbrp/dice/${t.file}`
-      })));
-
-    for (const set of RB_DICE.sets) {
-      dice3d.addColorset({
-        ...set, category: "The Custodians",
-        font: "Michroma", visibility: "visible"
-      }, set.name === "custodians-anchored" ? "default" : "showcase");
-    }
-
-    // The percentile pair is the game's core roll, so it is the one worth dressing.
-    dice3d.addDicePreset({
-      type: "d100", system: "custodians",
-      labels: ["00", "10", "20", "30", "40", "50", "60", "70", "80", "90"]
-    });
-    dice3d.addDicePreset({ type: "d10", system: "custodians",
-      labels: ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"] });
-    for (const t of ["d4", "d6", "d8", "d12", "d20"]) {
-      const n = Number(t.slice(1));
-      dice3d.addDicePreset({ type: t, system: "custodians",
-        labels: Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => String(i + 1)) });
-    }
-    console.log("Custodians | dice registered with Dice So Nice");
-  } catch (err) {
-    console.warn("Custodians | could not register dice", err);
-  }
-});
-
 Hooks.on("renderItemDirectory", (app, html) => {
   const root = html instanceof HTMLElement ? html : html?.[0];
   if (!root || !game.user.isGM || root.querySelector(".rb-genbar")) return;
@@ -4839,6 +4829,9 @@ class RingBRPCharacterSheet extends ActorSheet {
     ctx.reaction = this._reactionRail();
     ctx.readiness = this._readiness ?? { rating: 0 };
     ctx.coherence = { band: coherenceBand(sys.coherence?.value) };
+    ctx.panic = { band: panicBandFrom(sys.panic?.value),
+                  penalty: panicPenaltyFor(sys.panic?.value),
+                  pips: Array.from({ length: PANIC_MAX }, (_, i) => i < Number(sys.panic?.value ?? 0)) };
     ctx.readinessSource = ctx.readiness.best >= ctx.readiness.intFloor
       ? game.i18n.localize("RINGBRP.React.ReadinessSkill")
       : game.i18n.localize("RINGBRP.React.ReadinessInt");
@@ -4932,6 +4925,18 @@ class RingBRPCharacterSheet extends ActorSheet {
         if (item) await useDeviceFunction(this.actor, item, btn.dataset.fn);
         this.render(false);
       }));
+    root.querySelectorAll("[data-action='panic-adjust']").forEach(el =>
+      el.addEventListener("click", async ev => {
+        ev.preventDefault(); ev.stopPropagation();
+        const delta = Number(ev.currentTarget.dataset.delta) || 0;
+        if (delta > 0) await gainPanic(this.actor, "wrongThing", { amount: 1 });
+        else await easePanic(this.actor, "steadyYourself", "success");
+      }));
+    root.querySelectorAll("[data-action='panic-break']").forEach(el =>
+      el.addEventListener("click", async ev => {
+        ev.preventDefault(); ev.stopPropagation();
+        await breakPanic(this.actor, ev.currentTarget.dataset.choice ?? "freeze");
+      }));
     root.querySelectorAll("[data-action='coherence-adjust']").forEach(el =>
       el.addEventListener("click", async ev => {
         ev.preventDefault(); ev.stopPropagation();
@@ -5875,7 +5880,6 @@ export async function rollWeaponDamage({ actor = null, weapon, level = "success"
     roll = await new Roll(usesDm ? formula + dm : formula).evaluate();
   }
 
-  rbDressDice(roll, actor);
   const note = level === "critical" ? game.i18n.localize("RINGBRP.Chat.DamageCritical")
              : level === "special"  ? game.i18n.localize("RINGBRP.Chat.DamageSpecial")
              : "";
@@ -6171,6 +6175,7 @@ Hooks.once("init", () => {
     reactionLoadFrom, reactionPrintedFrom,
     readinessRating, percentileFaces, circumstanceTotal,
     coherenceBand, coherencePenaltyFor, woundPenaltyFor, loseCoherence, regainCoherence, displace,
+    panicBand, panicPenaltyFor, panicBreaksAt, gainPanic, easePanic, breakPanic,
     isAcross, setAcross, useTransposed, debrief, activeCaseFile, returnCrossing, caseMembers,
     earnedDiscoveries, deviceFunctionStatus, earnDiscovery, useDeviceFunction, pickContactActor,
     resolveContact, newEncounter, claimRewards, activeRewardEffects,
@@ -6189,7 +6194,7 @@ Hooks.once("init", () => {
     usePower, grantPower, ARTS, powerCostFor, crossBack,
     generateMissionCase, missionDialog, salvageFrom,
     crossingArtPoolFor, crossingGrantsArt, crossingCostFor, returnCrossing,
-    rollWeaponDamage, diceSetFor,
+    rollWeaponDamage,
     restFor, endOfCase, gearBonusFor,
     hasTalent, talentAvailable, useTalent, requisition, armCleanScene, resetTalents,
     generateCharacter, generateNPC, generateDialog, installContent, grantFullSkillList,

rules.mjs

@@ -263,6 +263,108 @@ export const COHERENCE_COSTS = {
 
 export const COHERENCE_RECOVERY = { debrief: 1, downtimeWeek: 1, anchorObject: 1 };
 
+/* ============================================================
+   PANIC — the short track
+   ============================================================
+   Coherence is the long one: 0-10, campaign-scale, what it costs to keep looking once
+   you know what you are looking at, recovered at a debrief. Panic is the other half and
+   they must not be confused at the table:
+
+       Coherence  what knowing has cost you        weeks     0-10, down
+       Panic      what is happening to you NOW     minutes   0-5,  up
+
+   Panic goes UP. A trigger gives a point with no roll — asking for a die to find out
+   whether you are frightened is a die that slows the scene down and tells the player
+   how to feel. The roll is to get RID of it, which is the interesting direction and the
+   only one worth a check.
+
+   One free point on purpose: at Panic 1 you are rattled and roll at no penalty. It costs
+   the table nothing and it means the first shock of a scene is colour rather than
+   arithmetic.
+   ============================================================ */
+
+export const PANIC_MAX = 5;
+
+export const PANIC_BANDS = [
+  { min: 5, id: "broken",      label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Broken",      all: -20, breaks: true,
+    note: "RINGBRP.Panic.BrokenNote" },
+  { min: 4, id: "overwhelmed", label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Overwhelmed", all: -20, breaks: false,
+    note: "RINGBRP.Panic.OverwhelmedNote" },
+  { min: 3, id: "losing",      label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Losing",      all: -10, breaks: false,
+    note: "RINGBRP.Panic.LosingNote" },
+  { min: 2, id: "shaken",      label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Shaken",      all: -5,  breaks: false,
+    note: "RINGBRP.Panic.ShakenNote" },
+  { min: 1, id: "rattled",     label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Rattled",     all: 0,   breaks: false,
+    note: "RINGBRP.Panic.RattledNote" },
+  { min: 0, id: "steady",      label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Steady",      all: 0,   breaks: false,
+    note: "RINGBRP.Panic.SteadyNote" }
+];
+
+/** What a point costs. One each, so a GM never has to weigh anything mid-scene. */
+export const PANIC_TRIGGERS = {
+  wrongThing:    { cost: 1, label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.WrongThing" },
+  touchedByIt:   { cost: 1, label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Touched" },
+  aBody:         { cost: 1, label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Body" },
+  someoneYouKnew:{ cost: 2, label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Known" },
+  theLightsWent: { cost: 1, label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Dark" },
+  majorWound:    { cost: 1, label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Wounded" },
+  itSaidYourName:{ cost: 2, label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Named" }
+};
+
+/**
+ * What takes a point off, and what it is rolled against.
+ *
+ * `self` steadies you; `other` steadies somebody else, which is the whole reason
+ * Psychology is worth carrying. `heard` reaches everyone who can hear it: naming a thing
+ * correctly is the department's actual work, and it is worth a mechanical reward.
+ * A special takes two.
+ */
+export const PANIC_RELIEF = {
+  steadyYourself: { skill: null,          reach: "self",  once: "scene",
+                    label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Steady" },
+  religion:       { skill: "religion",    reach: "self",  once: "scene",
+                    label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Religion" },
+  psychology:     { skill: "psychology",  reach: "other", once: "scene",
+                    label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Psychology" },
+  occult:         { skill: "occult",      reach: "heard", once: "encounter",
+                    label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Occult" },
+  anchorObject:   { skill: null,          reach: "self",  once: "case",
+                    label: "RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Anchor" }
+};
+
+/** Breaking is a choice, not a table: three bad options, taken fast. */
+export const PANIC_BREAK = ["freeze", "flee", "fixate"];
+
+/** Breaking spends the panic. You come back at 3, not at 0 — it is not a rest. */
+export const PANIC_AFTER_BREAK = 3;
+
+export function panicBandFrom(value) {
+  const v = Math.max(0, Math.min(PANIC_MAX, Number(value) || 0));
+  return PANIC_BANDS.find(b => v >= b.min) ?? PANIC_BANDS.at(-1);
+}
+
+/** The roll penalty a level of panic carries. Never positive. */
+export function panicPenaltyFor(value) {
+  return Math.min(0, panicBandFrom(value).all);
+}
+
+/** Does this level break the character this round? */
+export function panicBreaksAt(value) {
+  return panicBandFrom(value).breaks === true;
+}
+
+/** Clamped, so nothing can push the track past its own ends. */
+export function panicAfter(value, delta) {
+  return Math.max(0, Math.min(PANIC_MAX, (Number(value) || 0) + (Number(delta) || 0)));
+}
+
+/** A success takes one point, a special or better takes two. */
+export function panicReliefFor(level) {
+  if (level === "critical" || level === "special") return 2;
+  if (level === "success") return 1;
+  return 0;
+}
+
 export function coherenceBandFrom(value) {
   const v = Math.max(0, Number(value) || 0);
   return COHERENCE_BANDS.find(b => v >= b.min) ?? COHERENCE_BANDS.at(-1);

styles/ringbrp.css

@@ -1684,3 +1684,150 @@
 .rb-dying { border-left: 3px solid var(--rb-danger); padding-left: 8px; }
 .rb-stable { border-left: 3px solid var(--rb-yellow); padding-left: 8px; }
 .rb-dead { border-left: 3px solid var(--rb-white); padding-left: 8px; }
+
+/* ============================================================
+   THE PAUSE — a uniselector, stepping
+   ============================================================
+   Foundry's pause is <figure id="pause"> holding an <img> and a <figcaption>, and core
+   hides it with `#pause { display: none }` / shows it with `#pause.paused { display:
+   flex }`. The first version of this styled the bare #pause with display:flex and so
+   overrode the hide — the panel never went away when the game unpaused. EVERY rule here
+   that could affect visibility or layout is therefore scoped to `.paused`, and `display`
+   is not set anywhere.
+
+   Core also already centres it: a full-width band, 180px tall, at top calc(50vh - 100px),
+   column flex, centred both ways, pointer-events none. That layout is correct and is
+   left alone — only its size and its looks change here. The first version repositioned
+   it with left/bottom and pushed it off centre for the trouble.
+
+   A uniselector is the stepping switch inside a telephone exchange: an arm that clicks
+   round one contact at a time, hunting for a free line. The department's whole business
+   is a machine that says where things belong, and OPEN DAY is set inside one. Eleven
+   contacts, because eleven minutes is the interval this setting keeps returning to.
+
+   It STEPS rather than sweeps — a contact every 700ms. A continuous spin reads as a
+   loading throbber; a discrete click reads as a machine working through a list.
+   ============================================================ */
+
+/* Taller than core's 180px, and moved up by exactly half the extra so it stays centred. */
+#pause.paused {
+  height: 300px;
+  top: calc(50vh - 150px);
+  gap: 28px;
+  background: linear-gradient(to right,
+    transparent 0%,
+    color-mix(in srgb, var(--rb-void) 82%, transparent) 38%,
+    color-mix(in srgb, var(--rb-void) 82%, transparent) 62%,
+    transparent 100%);
+}
+
+/* the dial: eleven contacts, standing still, behind the arm */
+#pause.paused::before {
+  content: "";
+  position: absolute;
+  top: 24px; left: 50%; margin-left: -85px;
+  width: 170px; height: 170px;
+  border-radius: 50%;
+  background:
+    repeating-conic-gradient(from -90deg,
+      var(--rb-line) 0deg 1.6deg, transparent 1.6deg 32.727deg);
+  -webkit-mask: radial-gradient(circle, transparent 0 52px, #000 54px);
+          mask: radial-gradient(circle, transparent 0 52px, #000 54px);
+  opacity: .9;
+}
+
+/* the arm. The <img> keeps its box and loses its pixels: object-position walks the
+   raster out of frame, which leaves a paintable element without adding a wrapper. */
+#pause.paused img {
+  width: 170px; height: 170px;
+  object-fit: none; object-position: -9999px -9999px;
+  border: none; box-shadow: none; filter: none;
+  /* the arm, and behind it the contact it has just left — without the trailing sector
+     a 700ms step is easy to miss, and the stepping is the whole idea */
+  background: conic-gradient(from -91deg,
+    var(--rb-yellow) 0deg 3.5deg,
+    var(--rb-yellow-dim) 3.5deg 28deg,
+    transparent 28deg 360deg);
+  -webkit-mask: radial-gradient(circle, #000 0 78px, transparent 80px);
+          mask: radial-gradient(circle, #000 0 78px, transparent 80px);
+  animation: rb-uniselector 7.7s steps(11, end) infinite;
+}
+/* core adds fa-spin to that img; ours must be the only rotation running */
+#pause.paused img.fa-spin { animation: rb-uniselector 7.7s steps(11, end) infinite; }
+
+/* the hub, and the amber that says the record is being written */
+#pause.paused::after {
+  content: "";
+  position: absolute;
+  top: 101px; left: 50%; margin-left: -8px;
+  width: 16px; height: 16px;
+  border-radius: 50%;
+  background: var(--rb-yellow);
+  animation: rb-pause-pip 2.6s ease-in-out infinite;
+}
+
+#pause.paused figcaption {
+  font-family: var(--rb-display);
+  font-size: 24px;
+  letter-spacing: .3em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  color: var(--rb-yellow);
+  line-height: 1.2;
+  text-shadow: 0 2px 18px var(--rb-void);
+}
+
+@keyframes rb-uniselector { from { transform: rotate(0deg); } to { transform: rotate(360deg); } }
+@keyframes rb-pause-pip   { 0%, 100% { opacity: .25; } 50% { opacity: 1; } }
+
+/* A stepping dial in the corner of the eye is exactly what this preference is about.
+   Keep the object, stop the movement — including core's own pulse on the whole figure. */
+@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
+  #pause.paused,
+  #pause.paused img,
+  #pause.paused img.fa-spin,
+  #pause.paused::after { animation: none; }
+  #pause.paused img { transform: rotate(-32.7deg); }
+}
+
+/* ============================================================
+   PANIC — the short track
+   ============================================================
+   Deliberately NOT the same colour as Coherence. The two tracks run in opposite
+   directions on different timescales, and a table that reads one as the other will make
+   the wrong decision at the worst moment: Coherence is cool and yellow like the rest of
+   the department, Panic warms as it climbs and ends red.
+   ============================================================ */
+
+.rb-vital-panic .rb-big { color: var(--rb-white); }
+.rb-panic-steady   .rb-big, .rb-panic-steady   .rb-cohband { color: var(--rb-muted); }
+.rb-panic-rattled  .rb-big, .rb-panic-rattled  .rb-cohband { color: var(--rb-white); }
+.rb-panic-shaken   .rb-big, .rb-panic-shaken   .rb-cohband { color: var(--rb-yellow); }
+.rb-panic-losing   .rb-big, .rb-panic-losing   .rb-cohband { color: #ffb066; }
+.rb-panic-overwhelmed .rb-big, .rb-panic-overwhelmed .rb-cohband { color: var(--rb-danger); }
+.rb-panic-broken   .rb-big, .rb-panic-broken   .rb-cohband { color: var(--rb-danger); }
+.rb-vital-panic.rb-panic-broken { border-color: var(--rb-danger); }
+
+.rb-panic-pips { display: flex; gap: 5px; list-style: none; margin: 8px 0; padding: 0; }
+.rb-panic-pip {
+  width: 20px; height: 8px;
+  background: transparent; border: 1px solid var(--rb-hairline);
+}
+.rb-panic-pip.on { background: var(--rb-danger); border-color: var(--rb-danger); }
+
+.rb-panic-move { display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: 8px; margin: 6px 0; }
+.rb-panic-from, .rb-panic-to {
+  font-family: var(--rb-display); font-size: 20px; color: var(--rb-white);
+}
+.rb-panic-arrow { color: var(--rb-muted); }
+.rb-panic-band {
+  font-family: var(--rb-body); font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700;
+  letter-spacing: .1em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--rb-yellow);
+}
+.rb-panic-reason { font-size: 13px; color: var(--rb-white); margin: 4px 0; }
+.rb-panic-note { font-size: 12px; color: var(--rb-muted); margin: 2px 0 6px; }
+.rb-panic-pen { font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; color: var(--rb-danger); margin: 2px 0; }
+.rb-panic-break {
+  font-family: var(--rb-body); font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .08em;
+  color: var(--rb-void); background: var(--rb-danger);
+  padding: 5px 8px; margin: 6px 0 0;
+}

system.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "id": "ringbrp",
   "title": "The Custodians",
   "description": "A Basic Roleplaying game of agents who cross the crossing to contain what should not be there — and who come back a little less from here each time.",
-  "version": "1.0.2",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
   "compatibility": {
     "minimum": 13,
     "verified": "14.364"

template.json

@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@
           "value": 10,
           "max": 10,
           "drift": []
+        },
+        "panic": {
+          "value": 0,
+          "max": 5,
+          "log": []
         }
       }
     },

templates/character-sheet.hbs

@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@
         </span>
         <span class="rb-cohband">{{localize coherence.band.label}}</span>
       </div>
+      <div class="rb-vital-panic rb-panic-{{panic.band.id}}"
+           data-tooltip="{{localize panic.band.note}}">
+        <span class="rb-vital-label">{{localize "RINGBRP.Panic.Label"}}</span>
+        <span class="rb-coh-row">
+          <a data-action="panic-adjust" data-delta="-1" class="rb-cohbtn">&minus;</a>
+          <span class="rb-big">{{sys.panic.value}}</span>
+          <a data-action="panic-adjust" data-delta="1" class="rb-cohbtn">+</a>
+        </span>
+        <span class="rb-cohband">{{localize panic.band.label}}</span>
+      </div>
       <div class="rb-armour{{#if armourUnworn.length}} rb-unworn{{/if}}"
            {{#if armourUnworn.length}}data-tooltip="{{localize "RINGBRP.Sheet.ArmourUnworn"}}"{{/if}}>
         <span class="rb-vital-label">{{localize "RINGBRP.Sheet.Armour"}}</span>

templates/chat-panic.hbs

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<div class="ringbrp-chat rb-panic-card">
+  <div class="rb-chat-title">{{localize "RINGBRP.Panic.Label"}}</div>
+  <div class="rb-chat-sub">{{actorName}}</div>
+
+  <ol class="rb-panic-pips">
+    {{#each pips as |on|}}<li class="rb-panic-pip{{#if on}} on{{/if}}"></li>{{/each}}
+  </ol>
+
+  <div class="rb-panic-move">
+    <span class="rb-panic-from">{{before}}</span>
+    <span class="rb-panic-arrow">&rarr;</span>
+    <span class="rb-panic-to">{{after}}</span>
+    <span class="rb-panic-band rb-panic-{{band.id}}">{{localize band.label}}</span>
+  </div>
+
+  <p class="rb-panic-reason">{{reason}}{{#if note}} — <em>{{note}}</em>{{/if}}</p>
+  <p class="rb-panic-note">{{localize band.note}}</p>
+
+  {{#if penalty}}<p class="rb-panic-pen">{{penalty}}% {{localize "RINGBRP.Chat.ToEverything"}}</p>{{/if}}
+  {{#if breaks}}<p class="rb-panic-break">{{localize "RINGBRP.Panic.Breaks"}}</p>{{/if}}
+</div>

tools/build-packs.mjs

@@ -461,6 +461,38 @@ function journalDoc(name, key, pages) {
   return { doc: { _id: id, name, pages: pageDocs.map(p => p._id), categories: [], ...BASE() }, pages: pageDocs, id };
 }
 
+/**
+ * A journal of nothing but pictures, for showing to players.
+ *
+ * title.show is FALSE and there is no caption on purpose: when the GM hits Show Players
+ * the table gets the image and nothing else — no heading telling them which room this
+ * is, no label naming the thing they are looking at. The page NAME is for the GM's list
+ * in the sidebar, so they can find the right one in a hurry; the players never see it.
+ */
+function imageJournal(name, key, plates) {
+  const id = idFor(`journal:${key}`);
+  const pageDocs = plates.map((p, i) => {
+    // A missing plate is a blank frame on a projector in front of six people.
+    if (!existsSync(path.join(ROOT, p.src))) throw new Error(`${name}: no plate at ${p.src}`);
+    return {
+    _id: idFor(`journal:${key}:${i}`),
+    name: p.name, type: "image",
+    title: { show: false, level: 1 },
+    src: `systems/ringbrp/${p.src}`,
+    image: { caption: "" },
+    text: { format: 1, content: "", markdown: "" },
+    video: { controls: true, volume: 0.5 },
+    system: {}, sort: (i + 1) * 100, ownership: { default: 2 }, flags: {},
+    category: null
+    };
+  });
+  return {
+    doc: { _id: id, name, pages: pageDocs.map(p => p._id), categories: [],
+           ...BASE(), ownership: { default: 2 }, flags: { ringbrp: { brand: true } } },
+    pages: pageDocs, id
+  };
+}
+
 /* ---------------- writer ---------------- */
 
 /**
@@ -842,6 +874,19 @@ function cullandScene() {
     castDocs.push(actorDoc);
   }
 
+  // The plates, one per page, for showing at the table. Named for what the GM will be
+  // looking for under pressure, ordered by when it comes up.
+  const showJournal = imageJournal("LAST ADMISSION — Show the players", "la_show", [
+    { name: "1 · The house, from the drive",        src: "art/scenes/la_01_hall.webp" },
+    { name: "2 · Floor plan — Culland Hall",        src: "art/maps/culland-hall.webp" },
+    { name: "3 · Backstage — the green room",       src: "art/scenes/la_06_green.webp" },
+    { name: "4 · The east corridor",                src: "art/scenes/la_03_corridor.webp" },
+    { name: "5 · The nursery",                      src: "art/scenes/la_04_nursery.webp" },
+    { name: "6 · The glasshouse — Old Marrow",      src: "art/scenes/la_05_glass.webp" },
+    { name: "7 · The stairs — the woman standing",  src: "art/scenes/la_07_stairs.webp" },
+    { name: "8 · The car park, afterwards",         src: "art/scenes/la_08_carpark.webp" }
+  ]);
+
   const gmJournal = journalDoc("LAST ADMISSION — Run the prologue", "la_gm", L.LA_PAGES);
   const handouts  = journalDoc("LAST ADMISSION — Player handouts", "la_handouts", L.LA_HANDOUTS);
   handouts.doc.ownership = { default: 2 };
@@ -870,8 +915,9 @@ function cullandScene() {
     actors: castDocs,
     items: [],
     journal: [
-      { ...gmJournal.doc, pages: gmJournal.pages },
-      { ...handouts.doc,  pages: handouts.pages }
+      { ...gmJournal.doc,   pages: gmJournal.pages },
+      { ...handouts.doc,    pages: handouts.pages },
+      { ...showJournal.doc, pages: showJournal.pages }
     ],
     scenes: [cullandScene()], combats: [], tables: [], macros: [], cards: [], playlists: [], folders: [],
     sort: 0, ...BASE()
@@ -879,7 +925,8 @@ function cullandScene() {
 
   await writePack("lastadmission", [[`!adventures!${advId}`, adventure]]);
   console.log(`  lastadm     LAST ADMISSION — ${castDocs.length} cast, `
-    + `${L.LA_PAGES.length} GM pages, ${L.LA_HANDOUTS.length} handouts`);
+    + `${L.LA_PAGES.length} GM pages, ${L.LA_HANDOUTS.length} handouts, `
+    + `${showJournal.pages.length} plates to show`);
 }
 
 // OPEN DAY — the prologue. A much smaller adventure than BLACK PLATFORM: no case file,

tools/check-behaviour.mjs

@@ -426,6 +426,103 @@ test("every declared document type has a label and a sheet section", async () =>
   }
 });
 
+// Core hides the pause overlay with `#pause { display: none }` and shows it with
+// `#pause.paused { display: flex }`. A system rule on the BARE #pause that sets display
+// wins on specificity and the overlay never goes away — the game unpauses, play carries
+// on, and GAME PAUSED sits over the table for the rest of the session. Shipped exactly
+// that in 1.0.4. Anything targeting #pause must be scoped to .paused.
+test("no stylesheet rule sets display on a bare #pause", async () => {
+  const { readFile } = await import("node:fs/promises");
+  const raw = await readFile(new URL("../styles/ringbrp.css", import.meta.url), "utf8");
+  // Comments first, or this guard reports the comment that explains the guard — which
+  // is precisely what the template guard did the last time round.
+  const css = raw.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, "");
+  // every rule whose selector mentions #pause, with its declaration block
+  for (const m of css.matchAll(/([^{}]*#pause[^{}]*)\{([^{}]*)\}/g)) {
+    const selector = m[1].trim().replace(/\s+/g, " ");
+    const body = m[2];
+    const scoped = selector.split(",").every(sel => !sel.includes("#pause") || /#pause[^,]*\.paused/.test(sel));
+    if (scoped) continue;
+    assert.ok(!/(^|;)\s*display\s*:/.test(body),
+      `"${selector}" sets display on an unscoped #pause — the overlay will not hide on unpause`);
+  }
+});
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- *
+ *  Panic — the short track, added after the first game asked for it
+ * ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+// The first point is free ON PURPOSE: the opening shock of a scene should be colour,
+// not arithmetic. If this ever starts costing, the whole track has been re-tuned.
+test("panic 1 costs nothing to roll at", () =>
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicPenaltyFor(1), 0));
+test("panic bites from 2 upward and never rewards", () => {
+  let prev = 1;
+  for (const v of [2, 3, 4, 5]) {
+    const pen = RULES.panicPenaltyFor(v);
+    assert.ok(pen <= 0, `panic ${v} gives a bonus`);
+    assert.ok(pen <= prev, `panic ${v} is kinder than ${v - 1}`);
+    prev = pen;
+  }
+});
+test("only 5 breaks you", () => {
+  for (const v of [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]) assert.equal(RULES.panicBreaksAt(v), false, `${v} breaks`);
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicBreaksAt(5), true);
+});
+// A track that can be pushed past its own ends is a track that will be, by a GM
+// clicking + on a bad night.
+test("panic cannot leave 0..5", () => {
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicAfter(5, 3), RULES.PANIC_MAX);
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicAfter(0, -3), 0);
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicAfter(2, 2), 4);
+});
+// Breaking spends it. Coming back at 0 would make breaking the cheapest way to clear
+// the track, which is exactly backwards.
+test("breaking does not reset you to calm", () => {
+  assert.ok(RULES.PANIC_AFTER_BREAK > 0, "breaking wipes the track clean");
+  assert.ok(RULES.PANIC_AFTER_BREAK < RULES.PANIC_MAX, "breaking leaves you still broken");
+});
+test("a special takes two points, a failure takes none", () => {
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicReliefFor("special"), 2);
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicReliefFor("critical"), 2);
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicReliefFor("success"), 1);
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicReliefFor("failure"), 0);
+  assert.equal(RULES.panicReliefFor("fumble"), 0);
+});
+// Every band and every trigger and relief must be sayable, or the chat card prints a key.
+test("every panic band, trigger and relief has a label", async () => {
+  const { readFile } = await import("node:fs/promises");
+  const lang = JSON.parse(await readFile(new URL("../lang/en.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
+  for (const b of RULES.PANIC_BANDS) {
+    assert.ok(lang[b.label], `no label for panic band ${b.id}`);
+    assert.ok(lang[b.note], `no note for panic band ${b.id}`);
+  }
+  for (const [k, t] of Object.entries(RULES.PANIC_TRIGGERS))
+    assert.ok(lang[t.label], `no label for panic trigger ${k}`);
+  for (const [k, r] of Object.entries(RULES.PANIC_RELIEF))
+    assert.ok(lang[r.label], `no label for panic relief ${k}`);
+});
+// The reliefs name skills; a skill that is not in the catalogue is a relief nobody can
+// roll. This is the same defect as a kit key with no item behind it.
+test("every panic relief names a skill the catalogue has", async () => {
+  const { SKILL_CATALOGUE } = await import("./content.mjs");
+  const known = new Set(SKILL_CATALOGUE.map(r => r[0]));
+  for (const [k, r] of Object.entries(RULES.PANIC_RELIEF)) {
+    if (!r.skill) continue;
+    assert.ok(known.has(r.skill), `panic relief "${k}" rolls ${r.skill}, which is not a skill`);
+  }
+});
+// The three the first game asked for.
+test("occult, religion and psychology exist and can be learned", async () => {
+  const { SKILL_CATALOGUE } = await import("./content.mjs");
+  for (const fam of ["occult", "religion", "psychology"]) {
+    const row = SKILL_CATALOGUE.find(r => r[0] === fam);
+    assert.ok(row, `${fam} is not in the catalogue`);
+    assert.ok(row[3] > 0, `${fam} has no printed base, so nobody can roll it untrained`);
+    assert.notEqual(row[5]?.canBeTaught, false, `${fam} cannot be taught`);
+  }
+});
+
 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
 await runAll();

tools/check-rules.mjs

@@ -179,6 +179,23 @@ const checks = [
   ["coherenceBandFrom(4).id",  RULES.coherenceBandFrom(4).id,                             "adrift"],
   ["coherenceBandFrom(1).id",  RULES.coherenceBandFrom(1).id,                           "unmoored"],
   ["coherenceBandFrom(0).id",  RULES.coherenceBandFrom(0).id,                          "displaced"],
+
+  // Panic. The free first point is deliberate, so 1 must cost nothing.
+  ["panicBandFrom(0).id",      RULES.panicBandFrom(0).id,                                 "steady"],
+  ["panicBandFrom(1).id",      RULES.panicBandFrom(1).id,                                "rattled"],
+  ["panicBandFrom(3).id",      RULES.panicBandFrom(3).id,                                 "losing"],
+  ["panicBandFrom(5).id",      RULES.panicBandFrom(5).id,                                 "broken"],
+  ["panicPenaltyFor(1)",       RULES.panicPenaltyFor(1),                                         0],
+  ["panicPenaltyFor(2)",       RULES.panicPenaltyFor(2),                                        -5],
+  ["panicPenaltyFor(4)",       RULES.panicPenaltyFor(4),                                       -20],
+  ["panicBreaksAt(4)",         RULES.panicBreaksAt(4),                                       false],
+  ["panicBreaksAt(5)",         RULES.panicBreaksAt(5),                                        true],
+  ["panicAfter(4,1)",          RULES.panicAfter(4, 1),                                           5],
+  ["panicAfter(5,1)",          RULES.panicAfter(5, 1),                                           5],
+  ["panicAfter(0,-1)",         RULES.panicAfter(0, -1),                                          0],
+  ["panicReliefFor('success')",  RULES.panicReliefFor("success"),                                1],
+  ["panicReliefFor('special')",  RULES.panicReliefFor("special"),                                2],
+  ["panicReliefFor('failure')",  RULES.panicReliefFor("failure"),                                0],
   // a lost location must cost something, for every kind the species tables use
   ["locationEffectsFor([]) is inert",      RULES.locationEffectsFor([]).all,                                          0],
   ["leg disabled → physical",              RULES.locationEffectsFor([{kind:"leg",disabled:true}]).physical,          -30],

tools/content.mjs

@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ export const SKILL_CATALOGUE = [
   ["navigate", "", "mental", 10, "Navigate"],
   ["research", "", "mental", 1, "Research"],
   ["anomaly_lore", "", "mental", 0, "Anomaly Lore", { canBeTaught: false }],
+  // Added after the first game, which wanted all three and had none of them. Occult and
+  // Religion are the two halves of what people believed BEFORE the department existed —
+  // one is what the books say, the other is what the congregation does — and Psychology
+  // is the only skill that steadies somebody who is not you.
+  ["occult", "", "mental", 5, "Occult"],
+  ["religion", "", "mental", 5, "Religion"],
+  ["psychology", "", "mental", 5, "Psychology"],
   // perception
   ["listen", "", "percep", 25, "Listen"],
   ["spot", "", "percep", 25, "Spot"],

tools/make-dice-textures.mjs

@@ -1,176 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Dice textures for The Custodians, generated rather than drawn.
- *
- * Written as raw RGBA and encoded to PNG with node:zlib, so the repo gains no
- * image dependency and the textures can be regenerated deterministically. Every
- * pattern is tileable — Dice So Nice wraps these across a die face, and a seam
- * shows up immediately on a d20.
- *
- * The set is the setting: the Custodians keep a filing system, and the game is
- * about that filing system being wrong. So the dice carry a ruled grid, and the
- * further an agent drifts from their own reality the more the grid stops agreeing
- * with itself.
- *
- *   node tools/make-dice-textures.mjs
- */
-import { deflateSync } from "node:zlib";
-import { writeFile, mkdir } from "node:fs/promises";
-
-const SIZE = 256;
-
-/* ---------- a minimal PNG encoder: RGBA, no interlace ---------- */
-function crc32(buf) {
-  let c, table = crc32.table;
-  if (!table) {
-    table = crc32.table = new Int32Array(256);
-    for (let n = 0; n < 256; n++) {
-      c = n;
-      for (let k = 0; k < 8; k++) c = c & 1 ? 0xedb88320 ^ (c >>> 1) : c >>> 1;
-      table[n] = c;
-    }
-  }
-  c = -1;
-  for (let i = 0; i < buf.length; i++) c = table[(c ^ buf[i]) & 0xff] ^ (c >>> 8);
-  return (c ^ -1) >>> 0;
-}
-
-function chunk(type, data) {
-  const len = Buffer.alloc(4); len.writeUInt32BE(data.length);
-  const td = Buffer.concat([Buffer.from(type, "ascii"), data]);
-  const crc = Buffer.alloc(4); crc.writeUInt32BE(crc32(td));
-  return Buffer.concat([len, td, crc]);
-}
-
-function png(width, height, rgba) {
-  const ihdr = Buffer.alloc(13);
-  ihdr.writeUInt32BE(width, 0); ihdr.writeUInt32BE(height, 4);
-  ihdr[8] = 8; ihdr[9] = 6; ihdr[10] = 0; ihdr[11] = 0; ihdr[12] = 0;
-  // each scanline is prefixed with filter byte 0
-  const raw = Buffer.alloc(height * (width * 4 + 1));
-  for (let y = 0; y < height; y++) {
-    raw[y * (width * 4 + 1)] = 0;
-    rgba.copy(raw, y * (width * 4 + 1) + 1, y * width * 4, (y + 1) * width * 4);
-  }
-  return Buffer.concat([
-    Buffer.from([0x89, 0x50, 0x4e, 0x47, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x1a, 0x0a]),
-    chunk("IHDR", ihdr),
-    chunk("IDAT", deflateSync(raw, { level: 9 })),
-    chunk("IEND", Buffer.alloc(0))
-  ]);
-}
-
-/* ---------- deterministic noise, so a rebuild is byte-identical ---------- */
-let seed = 20260810;
-const rnd = () => (seed = (seed * 1664525 + 1013904223) >>> 0) / 4294967296;
-
-const canvas = () => Buffer.alloc(SIZE * SIZE * 4);
-const put = (buf, x, y, r, g, b, a = 255) => {
-  const i = ((y & (SIZE - 1)) * SIZE + (x & (SIZE - 1))) * 4;
-  buf[i] = r; buf[i + 1] = g; buf[i + 2] = b; buf[i + 3] = a;
-};
-const fill = (buf, r, g, b, a = 255) => {
-  for (let i = 0; i < buf.length; i += 4) { buf[i] = r; buf[i + 1] = g; buf[i + 2] = b; buf[i + 3] = a; }
-};
-
-/* ============================================================
-   1. REGISTRY — the ruled grid of a filing system, kept true.
-   ============================================================ */
-function registry() {
-  const b = canvas();
-  fill(b, 24, 38, 141);                                   // ultramarine ground
-  for (let i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) {
-    for (const step of [32]) {
-      for (let k = 0; k < SIZE; k += step) {
-        put(b, i, k, 102, 116, 216);                      // --rb-line
-        put(b, k, i, 102, 116, 216);
-      }
-    }
-    for (let k = 16; k < SIZE; k += 32) {                  // fainter half-lines
-      put(b, i, k, 60, 78, 175);
-      put(b, k, i, 60, 78, 175);
-    }
-  }
-  // registry ticks at the intersections
-  for (let x = 0; x < SIZE; x += 64) for (let y = 0; y < SIZE; y += 64) {
-    for (let d = -3; d <= 3; d++) { put(b, x + d, y, 242, 234, 114); put(b, x, y + d, 242, 234, 114); }
-  }
-  return b;
-}
-
-/* ============================================================
-   2. DRIFT — the same grid, no longer agreeing with itself.
-      Used for agents who have come loose from their own reality.
-   ============================================================ */
-function drift() {
-  const b = canvas();
-  fill(b, 20, 30, 120);
-  const wobble = y => Math.round(6 * Math.sin(y / 14) + 3 * Math.sin(y / 5.5));
-  for (let i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) {
-    for (let k = 0; k < SIZE; k += 32) {
-      put(b, i + wobble(i), k, 122, 108, 200);
-      put(b, k, i + wobble(i), 122, 108, 200);
-    }
-  }
-  for (let n = 0; n < 900; n++) {                          // grain where it has torn
-    const x = (rnd() * SIZE) | 0, y = (rnd() * SIZE) | 0;
-    put(b, x, y, 200, 120, 150, 255);
-  }
-  for (let x = 0; x < SIZE; x += 64) for (let y = 0; y < SIZE; y += 64) {
-    const ox = ((rnd() * 7) | 0) - 3, oy = ((rnd() * 7) | 0) - 3;
-    for (let d = -3; d <= 3; d++) { put(b, x + d + ox, y + oy, 255, 122, 92); put(b, x + ox, y + d + oy, 255, 122, 92); }
-  }
-  return b;
-}
-
-/* ============================================================
-   3. DISPLACED — the grid is gone. What is left is not filed.
-   ============================================================ */
-function displaced() {
-  const b = canvas();
-  fill(b, 12, 14, 60);
-  for (let n = 0; n < 5200; n++) {
-    const x = (rnd() * SIZE) | 0, y = (rnd() * SIZE) | 0;
-    const v = 40 + ((rnd() * 90) | 0);
-    put(b, x, y, v, v * 0.5, v * 0.7);
-  }
-  // a few surviving fragments of rule, going nowhere
-  for (let n = 0; n < 26; n++) {
-    const x = (rnd() * SIZE) | 0, y = (rnd() * SIZE) | 0, len = 6 + ((rnd() * 22) | 0);
-    const horiz = rnd() > 0.5;
-    for (let d = 0; d < len; d++) {
-      if (horiz) put(b, x + d, y, 150, 120, 190); else put(b, x, y + d, 150, 120, 190);
-    }
-  }
-  return b;
-}
-
-/* ============================================================
-   4. AGENCY — brushed plate, for the agency-issue set.
-   ============================================================ */
-function agency() {
-  const b = canvas();
-  for (let y = 0; y < SIZE; y++) {
-    for (let x = 0; x < SIZE; x++) {
-      const grain = 6 * Math.sin(x / 1.7 + y / 90) + (rnd() * 7 - 3.5);
-      const v = 30 + grain;
-      put(b, x, y, 22 + v, 33 + v, 95 + v);
-    }
-  }
-  for (let k = 0; k < SIZE; k += 48) for (let i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) put(b, i, k, 90, 104, 190);
-  return b;
-}
-
-const TEXTURES = {
-  "custodians-registry": registry,
-  "custodians-drift": drift,
-  "custodians-displaced": displaced,
-  "custodians-agency": agency
-};
-
-await mkdir(new URL("../dice/", import.meta.url), { recursive: true });
-for (const [name, make] of Object.entries(TEXTURES)) {
-  const buf = png(SIZE, SIZE, make());
-  await writeFile(new URL(`../dice/${name}.png`, import.meta.url), buf);
-  console.log(`  ${name}.png  ${SIZE}x${SIZE}  ${(buf.length / 1024).toFixed(1)} kB`);
-}
-console.log("Custodians | dice textures written");

tools/rules-text.mjs

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ import {
   powerStartingRating, brawlFallbackFor, bleedStoppedBy,
   crossingArtPoolFor, crossingGrantsArt, crossingCostFor,
   REACTION, BLEED, CIRCUMSTANCE, RANGE_LADDER, rangeBandFrom,
-  MAJOR_WOUND_TABLE, COHERENCE_BANDS, COHERENCE_COSTS, COHERENCE_RECOVERY
+  MAJOR_WOUND_TABLE, COHERENCE_BANDS, COHERENCE_COSTS, COHERENCE_RECOVERY,
+  PANIC_BANDS, PANIC_TRIGGERS, PANIC_RELIEF, PANIC_MAX, PANIC_AFTER_BREAK, PANIC_BREAK
 } from "../rules.mjs";
 // Postings, trades and induction are plain data and are imported as such.
 import { ROLES, TRADES, INDUCTION, TIERS, TRADE_BANDS } from "../postings.mjs";
@@ -75,6 +76,13 @@ const woundRows = MAJOR_WOUND_TABLE.map(r => {
   return [`${r.min}`, L(`RINGBRP.Wound.${r.key}.title`), bits.join(" · ") || "—"];
 });
 
+const panicRows = [...PANIC_BANDS].reverse().map(b =>
+  [String(b.min), L(b.label), b.all ? `${pc(b.all)} everything` : "none", L(b.note)]);
+const panicTrigRows = Object.values(PANIC_TRIGGERS)
+  .map(t => [L(t.label), `+${t.cost}`]);
+const panicReliefRows = Object.values(PANIC_RELIEF)
+  .map(r => [L(r.label), r.reach, r.once]);
+
 const cohRows = COHERENCE_BANDS.map((b, i) => {
   const hi = i === 0 ? 10 : COHERENCE_BANDS[i - 1].min - 1;
   const rng = b.min === hi ? `${b.min}` : `${hi}–${b.min}`;
@@ -518,6 +526,43 @@ return does not strand you either — you arrive near your target rather than at
 There is no state in which an agent cannot get home. There are only states in which
 getting home costs more than the case was worth.</p>` },
 
+{ name: "4b · Panic", content: `
+<p><em>Coherence is what knowing has cost you, and it is measured in weeks. Panic is
+what is happening to you now, and it is measured in minutes. Do not confuse them at
+the table: one goes down over a career, the other goes up over a corridor.</em></p>
+
+<p>Panic runs from <strong>0 up to ${PANIC_MAX}</strong>. You take a point when
+something happens to you — <strong>no roll</strong>. Asking for a die to find out
+whether you are frightened slows the scene down and tells you how to feel. The die is
+for getting rid of it.</p>
+
+${table(["Panic", "Band", "Penalty", "What it looks like"], panicRows)}
+
+<p>The first point is free. At Panic 1 you are rattled and you roll at no penalty,
+because the opening shock of a scene should be colour rather than arithmetic.</p>
+
+<h2>Taking a point</h2>
+${table(["This happens", "Panic"], panicTrigRows)}
+
+<h2>Getting rid of one</h2>
+<p>Roll it. A success takes one point off; a <strong>special or better takes two</strong>.
+A failure takes nothing and costs nothing but the moment you spent on it.</p>
+${table(["How", "Reaches", "How often"], panicReliefRows)}
+
+<p><strong>Occult is the odd one.</strong> Naming a thing correctly, out loud, helps
+everybody who can hear you — which is the department's actual work, and the only relief
+that reaches a whole room. <strong>Psychology</strong> is the only one that steadies
+somebody who is not you. <strong>Religion</strong> steadies you and nobody else, and it
+does not care whether you are right.</p>
+
+<h2>Breaking</h2>
+<p>At ${PANIC_MAX} you break. Choose one — <strong>${PANIC_BREAK.join(", ")}</strong> —
+take it, and come back at <strong>${PANIC_AFTER_BREAK}</strong>. You do not come back at
+zero. Breaking is not a rest.</p>
+
+<p>Panic clears when the scene does. When you are somewhere safe with the door shut and
+somebody has made tea, you are at nought again.</p>` },
+
 { name: "5 · The Quiet Arts", content: `
 <p><em>Some agents come back with something. It is not a gift and it is not
 training — it is the crossing, left in a person.</em></p>