R-254 shipped the belly rule and called +6.4 points "modest on purpose". That read the
wrong statistic. +6.4 measured whether grounding helps; the question was whether the
borough still matters, and the gap between fighting the supporter on borough ground and
off it had fallen from 60.6 points to 44.9. Half damage from every departmental weapon is
meant to be the fight's central problem, and I had quietly taken sixteen points off it
while reporting a small number about something else. Same error as R-251.
Three changes that only work together:
- hide 7 -> 9, restoring the weight on the axis that should hurt
- grounded still halves it, 9 -> 4, which an ordinary round beats
- exposedHideFor now takes the location's kind and leaves `vital` unhalved: a beast on
its belly is not presenting its chest to the floor
Measured: 28.4% on borough ground flying, 68.4% grounded, 84.6% off it — a 56.2 point gap
against 44.9 before. Predicted 28.4 / 84.3 / 55.9 before building.
The composition of the three hide functions lives in prepareDerivedData where no test
could reach it, and check-anatomy's guard 6 is deliberately one-sided so it would not
have caught the vital losing its exemption. check-behaviour now composes the same
expression from the real supporter spec and the real tables. Negative-tested four ways:
removing the exemption, un-baring the wings, removing the halving, and inflating the hide
past what a round can beat each fail it with the right message.
Cost: the supporter goes from fifth to second deadliest creature in the book (2.84 -> 3.38
down, 46.8% -> 69.3% wiped). check-lethality refused the build until that row was
deliberately re-recorded.
BESTIARY.md printed the new hide and said nothing about it halving, because the body-plan
blurb predates the rule. The README said "eight guards" in three sentences above a
generated block listing nine. Both are the signature defect in prose: a number written
down that nothing reads. Both now generate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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107 lines
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/**
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* Rewrite the README's counted sections from the real data.
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*
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* Those tables have been wrong three times, because a catalogue that grows every
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* session and a number typed by hand are not the same kind of thing. A stale count in
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* a README is the same defect as a stale comment in the engine: a claim nothing checks.
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*
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* Only the marked regions are touched; the prose around them is left alone.
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*/
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import { readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
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import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
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import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
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import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
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import { SKILL_CATALOGUE, WEAPONS, ARMOURS, GEAR, VEHICLES, NPCS, TALENTS }
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from "./content.mjs";
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import { ROLES, TRADES } from "../postings.mjs";
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import { ICON_MAP } from "./icons.mjs";
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import { RULES_PAGES } from "./rules-text.mjs";
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const root = new URL("../", import.meta.url);
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const readme = new URL("README.md", root);
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let text = await readFile(readme, "utf8");
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const items = WEAPONS.length + ARMOURS.length + GEAR.length + VEHICLES.length;
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// The guard lines are quoted from the guards themselves rather than paraphrased.
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const runGuard = name => {
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try {
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return execFileSync(process.execPath, [fileURLToPath(new URL(name, import.meta.url))],
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{ encoding: "utf8" }).split("\n").find(l => l.startsWith(name.replace(".mjs", "")));
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} catch { return null; }
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};
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/* All of them, in the order `npm run check` runs them. This list was four long while the
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suite was seven, so the README advertised a subset and silently stopped mentioning
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every guard added after it was written — including the three that catch the most. */
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const GUARDS = ["check-rules.mjs", "check-kits.mjs", "check-lang.mjs",
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"check-templates.mjs", "check-behaviour.mjs", "check-scenarios.mjs",
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"check-creatures.mjs", "check-anatomy.mjs", "check-lethality.mjs"];
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/* The list above went stale the moment a guard was added without touching this file —
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which is what the comment above it already warned about, and which happened again
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with check-anatomy. So it is no longer trusted: the suite of record is the `check`
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script in package.json, and this refuses to write a README that advertises a
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different set than the one the build actually runs. */
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{
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const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(new URL("../package.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
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const actual = [...(pkg.scripts?.check ?? "").matchAll(/(check-[\w-]+\.mjs)/g)].map(m => m[1]);
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const missing = actual.filter(g => !GUARDS.includes(g));
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const phantom = GUARDS.filter(g => !actual.includes(g));
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if (missing.length || phantom.length) {
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console.error("update-readme: FAILED — the README's guard list does not match `npm run check`");
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if (missing.length) console.error(" run by the build, not advertised: " + missing.join(", "));
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if (phantom.length) console.error(" advertised, not run by the build: " + phantom.join(", "));
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process.exit(1);
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}
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}
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const guardLines = GUARDS.map(runGuard).filter(Boolean);
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const box = `| | |
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|---|---|
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| **Postings** | ${Object.keys(ROLES).length}, each with a key characteristic, trained skills, talents and its own kit |
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| **Trades** | ${Object.keys(TRADES).length} ordinary jobs the department recruits from, plus induction |
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| **Catalogue** | ${items} items — ${GEAR.length} gear, ${WEAPONS.length} weapons, ${ARMOURS.length} armour, ${VEHICLES.length} vehicles |
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| **Skills / talents** | ${SKILL_CATALOGUE.length} skills, ${TALENTS.length} talents |
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| **Bestiary** | ${NPCS.length} statblocks across folklore, horror and the far side |
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| **Eras** | modern, antique, future, anomalous — the agency is old and never abolishes anything |
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| **Icons** | ${Object.keys(ICON_MAP).length}, all generated from \`tools/icons.mjs\`; no external art |
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| **Starter scenario** | **BLACK PLATFORM**, a six-player action starter, importable as a single Adventure |
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| **Compendia** | pregens, NPCs, skills, weapons, armour, gear, vehicles, powers, tables, rules, the starter |
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| **Rules journal** | ${RULES_PAGES.length} pages, generated from \`rules.mjs\` so the book cannot drift from the code |`;
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const replaceRegion = (src, marker, body) => {
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const open = `<!-- ${marker}:start -->`, close = `<!-- ${marker}:end -->`;
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const i = src.indexOf(open), j = src.indexOf(close);
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if (i < 0 || j < 0) return null;
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return src.slice(0, i + open.length) + "\n" + body + "\n" + src.slice(j);
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};
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// First run: wrap the existing hand-written regions in markers.
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if (!text.includes("<!-- box:start -->")) {
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text = text.replace(/\| \| \|\n\|---\|---\|\n(?:\|.*\n)+/,
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m => `<!-- box:start -->\n${m}<!-- box:end -->\n`);
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text = text.replace(/```\ncheck-rules:[\s\S]*?```/,
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m => `<!-- guards:start -->\n${m}\n<!-- guards:end -->`);
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}
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const withBox = replaceRegion(text, "box", box);
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if (!withBox) { console.error("update-readme: box markers missing"); process.exit(1); }
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const withGuards = replaceRegion(withBox, "guards",
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"```\n" + guardLines.join("\n") + "\n```");
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if (!withGuards) { console.error("update-readme: guard markers missing"); process.exit(1); }
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/* The guard BLOCK was generated and the sentences introducing it were not, so the README
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listed nine guards while three places in the prose still said eight. Count words go
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stale the same way a hardcoded list does — the lesson two comments up, one layer out. */
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const COUNT_WORD = ["zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven",
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"eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twelve"];
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const word = COUNT_WORD[guardLines.length];
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if (!word) { console.error(`update-readme: ${guardLines.length} guards has no count word`); process.exit(1); }
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const counted = withGuards.replace(/\b(zero|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine|ten|eleven|twelve) guards\b/g,
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`${word} guards`);
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await writeFile(readme, counted, "utf8");
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console.log(`update-readme: OK — ${items} items, ${Object.keys(ROLES).length} postings, `
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+ `${Object.keys(TRADES).length} trades, ${guardLines.length} guard lines`);
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