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     For A: N7's same-client double offer reads odd under "the other goes to somebody else".
     Gate 4 is JOHN'S: partly.party/hardyards — seven nights, the board, the Vasilaros cap,
     and the Karalis pool yard in the pool. Your three sentences steer Sprint 18.
+
+[I] 2026-07-25 — ⚖️ **JOHN RULED: DECLINING COSTS YOU. "It adds pressure."** D's gate-6
+    filing, answered by the man himself: the board will no longer let a fee-maximizer dodge
+    the wildnight and the designed-loss icenight for free. Standing is the price — the
+    currency arc 1 built for exactly this — and per the repo's own rule it must be on the
+    OFFER CARD before the choice, not a surprise on the invoice. SPRINT18.md is speced
+    around it (gate 0, A owns, lands first) and arc 2's second half opens in the same
+    sprint: **the emergency callout** — DESIGN.md line 29, mid-storm, double rates, someone
+    else's sail flogging itself to death — with DESIGN.md line 165's signature decision
+    finally reachable: release, cut, or ride it out. The knife is D's.
+
+    ⚠️ **The one-variable law is written into the sprint as a hard gate**, because this is
+    the first sprint that could break it by accident: a new JOB TYPE (the callout) and a new
+    YARD (E's glasshouse) ship together, and DESIGN.md pairs them in one sentence. They may
+    not DEBUT together. The sentence is the payoff, not the introduction.
+
+    **CONVERGENCE, recorded second time this sprint:** two integrator sessions integrated
+    S17 in parallel and both trees are now merged into one (d726f88) — clean, zero code
+    conflicts, THREADS appends interleaving without collision, and each side kept work the
+    other lacked: the other session's C caught **the board lying about night 7** (hail on
+    every offer card — the offerBand + PAIRING_LAW fix) and its B priced the corroded tier
+    in the card; this session's tree carried D's pool yard and cold play, which the other
+    session's D had already adopted by name. **Selftest 522/0/0 on the converged tree**,
+    browser-verified. The lane model's file-ownership discipline is now proven to survive
+    something it was never designed for: two integrators.
+
+    **Deploy still owes one hand:** tools/deploy_hardyards.sh is permission-gated in the
+    integrator's session (ssh + docker to the games VPS). John runs it or green-lights it;
+    S18 must not ship before S17 is live, per the standing one-sprint rail.