1. EXPOSURE's "what to do instead of a fight" said "use three". That predates
the measurement and described a fight the party never has: three of the
column alone is five rounds and 0.1% wiped, where the trigger's real force
is a median 21 rounds and 0.97 deaths. It now points at the mixed-force
table instead of carrying its own number, and keeps the good half of the
sentence.
2. New "The valley at dawn" block: the count moves. H03a says forty-one and
the players are holding it. Do not correct the handout — Ivy counts every
morning, so tomorrow she writes a smaller number and the sheet becomes a
record of what they did. The Close's arithmetic moves with it.
3. Ivy is ruled out of the target pool, explicitly, where the GM decides how
many of the column join in. She walked toward the guns, which puts her in
front of the column rather than in it, and the Close is hers.
4. A dead PC now has an answer where only a taken PC did: Registry sends the
next name on the sixteen-name duty roster, through the seam inside the
hour, knowing nothing — which buys the table a recap.
5. Act Three names what a fight costs rather than only that it costs: the
northern seam and the depot go, and telling Ivy cannot (the Pacing Note
lists it among the three never to cut), so it is compressed or it happens
at the stump, which the Close already branches on.
6. The anchor block assumed cooperation in every line. It now answers the
party that shoots: they are never stranded, because the crossing will not
close on its own — they walk home with nobody holding the door and come
back thin.
Also corrected two stale uncited figures found while applying fix 5: "median
24 rounds" at the Pacing Note and "24 if the column joins" in EXPOSURE. The
baseline says 21 at two joining and 25 at three; 24 is neither, and had no
citation marker to resolve. Both now read 21 and cite packs.line.hollow6col2.
And two stale STATUS counts: "seven desk passes" listed ten, and "three
post-passes" where there are nine. Counted rather than incremented.
20 guards green.
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