bestiary.mjs built the document from NPCS, so it described 47 creatures of
147 while check-bestiary agreed with it — two things agreeing is not
verification when both read the same wrong source. It reads collectSpecs()
now: 184 creatures across 5 sections, every one with a measured lethality
figure, which only works because check-lethality was fixed first.
Three faults surfaced fixing it:
- a second NPCS reference in focusParagraph()
- which then broke on `rows`, because focusParagraph declares its own
local `rows` for focus-fire data and shadowed the creature list. Keyed
lookup now, so the shadowing cannot bite again.
- the document grouped on the raw role tag against a list of four, and
`if (!group.length) continue` DROPS an unlisted tag rather than
mis-filing it. Nine of the twelve tags were absent, so those creatures
would not have appeared at all. Twelve tags now map onto five sections,
with a new "Beasts and heraldry", and a completeness assertion counts
every creature into a section and fails if one is unplaced.
check-powers was the fifth consumer bypassing all-specs.mjs. It reconciled
its counts against BESTIARY while reading NPCS, so it called the document
wrong when the document was right.
Reading the real population then demanded 101 classifications. All 101 are
done and NOT ONE was wired. That is the right answer, not a shortfall:
the three available effects describe the creature — its own attack rating,
the damage it takes, whether it feels defence stacking — and essentially
every power is conditional on a place, a posture, a round count, a weapon
type, an attacker count, a named agent, or Coherence. R-275 records what
wiring one anyway costs: 25.1% to 75.2% on a single creature.
The near-misses are the evidence the reluctance was applied, not recited:
tangie's "HALF damage" is edged-only and ends in open flame; the_heron is
+30% or -20% depending on movement the harness does not have, so which
branch applies is undecidable; mirrorline's halving lands on an AGENT, not
on the creature, so wiring it would have protected the wrong combatant;
yale's defence waiver is capped at two attackers and its written counter is
a fourth agent, which defenceStacking:"ignores" cannot express.
Classifications live in four band files and are spread into POWERS last, so
a hand-written entry always wins a collision. 142 classified: 2 wired, 78
beyond the harness with a reason, 62 not fight rules.
All 23 guards pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
