Desk pass 1 is committed alongside, seed 4271 and the roll stream printed, so
the run is re-checkable rather than remembered. It failed the scenario, which is
what it was for.
The pre-flight audit did the real damage before a die was rolled: Track, Navigate
and Science (Botany) were named by the acts and rollable by nobody in the cast,
and Botany is base 1 — the same unusable-test defect fixed in Act Four two
commits earlier and left standing in Act One. check-scenarios cannot see this; it
resolves skill names and has no opinion on whether anyone present can roll one.
Then the dice found the rest. Xenology (Baseline) failed and Act Four had no
route left, which is the concentration risk logged as an open question arriving
as a dead end on the first run. A fumbled Anomaly Lore had no written result and
I invented a ruling at the desk. Act One's failure case backstopped arrival
rather than the peg. The act ran 4:25 against 3:55 on three lucky rolls.
Fixed: the notch is automatic and the three broken routes moved onto Spot,
Knowledge and Anomaly Lore; every roll in the document now carries a written
miss; the Act Four tell is ungated, with Xenology buying it early and privately
instead of holding the only key; the fumble is answered by the re-cut delusion,
tried once, failing in silence; Act Four has a four-beat spine because with no
mechanical threat the structure has to be in the text; and THE OFFER finally
fires Ashcroft's seam, priced at 2 Coherence he must accept before being told.
Verified by re-running seed 4271 through the rewritten acts, so the identical
rolls that broke the run were put back through the fix. Every one now has an
answer, and Act One's three must-land clues all land despite two failures.
Timing is improved and NOT solved: cuts recover 20-25 minutes, landing near
4:00-4:05 on a 3:55 budget, and on-the-minute is a fail for strangers. A third
cut is likely needed and the candidate is named. Whether Act Four's spine holds
45 minutes, and whether THE OFFER plays as a decision, cannot be settled from a
desk and are recorded as such.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
