A fumbled relief attempt puts a point on

Trying to steady somebody and making it worse is the most familiar thing on that
list, and until now it was the only outcome that cost nothing.

Done as a NEGATIVE relief rather than a second code path: panicReliefFor returns
-1 on a fumble, and easePanic already subtracts what it is given, so subtracting
a negative raises the track. One number, one direction, no branch that could
drift from the other. The clamp still holds — fumbling at 5 stays at 5.

The chat card had to be told, because otherwise it prints the word "Psychology"
over a number that has just gone UP and the table reads that as a bug rather than
as the rule. It now leads with a red FUMBLED tag.

Guarded three ways: a spot-check in check-rules for the -1 itself, and two
behaviour tests — one that the sign survives easePanic's subtraction and
actually raises the track, one that it cannot push past the top. A test on the
constant alone would have passed even if easePanic had healed on a fumble.

Verified live: 2 → fumble → 3 → success → 2 → special → 0, and a fumble at 5
staying at 5, with the cards reading correctly.

Version 1.1.2.

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

README.md

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 <!-- guards:start -->
 ```
-check-rules: OK — 92 rules, 20 files scanned, 3 aliases + 45 constant sets checked, 290 formulas verified
+check-rules: OK — 92 rules, 20 files scanned, 3 aliases + 45 constant sets checked, 291 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, 976 keys, no leaf/branch collisions
-check-behaviour: OK — 55 behavioural tests
+check-lang: OK — en.json, 977 keys, no leaf/branch collisions
+check-behaviour: OK — 57 behavioural tests
 ```
 <!-- guards:end -->

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   "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"
+  "RINGBRP.Chat.ToEverything": "to everything",
+  "RINGBRP.Panic.Backfired": "Fumbled —"
 }

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