Applies desk pass 6's seven fixes.
1. EXPOSURE now measures the fight the table will have. Every row in the old
table was one force fighting alone, and the six at the back are never
alone — they walk inside forty-one refugees. Six hollow men wipe 0.0%;
with two of the column joining, 7.8%; with three, 28.7%. Two is now the
stated default, because two people out of forty-one losing their heads
while their neighbours are shot is not a large number.
2. The four-player block has hollow-man rows: 0.3% at three, 58.7% at six,
99.9% with two of the column. Its only hollow-man figure before was the
six-player 0.0%, so a GM running the cut was reading somebody else's
table — for the encounter the party is likeliest to choose, because the
six at the back are the only figures the scenario says are not people.
GM ESSENTIALS item 3 carries the same correction.
3. Act Three's warning named a roll that does not exist. Its twenty-minute
bomb hangs off "Anomaly Lore — what a peg is"; the depot entry is a
Research roll. Pass 4's post-pass inherited the conflation from this
warning and is corrected too.
4. GM ESSENTIALS states the real fumble band. fumbleStart is
101 - ceil((101-band)/20), tested before the 96-99 clause: 00 at 85,
99-00 at 63, 98-00 at 53, 97-00 at 40. Four times what "00 always
fumbles" implies, in a case that rolls Spot 40 across two acts. Pass 4's
correction was right at 63 by luck and would have been wrong at 53.
5. Sixth EXPOSURE lesson: a fight costs the session. Median 13 rounds on the
printed row, 24 mixed, 30 at four players — sixty to ninety minutes in an
act budgeted at fifty. The Pacing Note now says what to do when one
starts, and not to absorb a fight and the peg fumble in the same act.
6. The fumbled Xenology is written. At 53 it fumbles on 98-00 and Braithwaite
puts his name to a baseline human in front of everybody. The un-gated tell
still arrives; it now costs the party its expert.
7. R-283: simulate.mjs described a mixed force as N of whichever spec came
first, so six hollow men and six of the column printed as "12 x Hollow
man" — two fights 88 points of wipe rate apart under one label. The
composition was always right and the report was not. Uniform and --spread
output are byte-identical, so nothing already published goes stale.
Every figure re-run before writing rather than carried over. npm run check:
18 guards pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
