Measured against A's gate-1 winning line (t2+p3+p4+t2b, 4x shackle + spare,
tension 1.0, one repair) under an identical harness: the first draft's 26 s
hold gave 32 hail-seconds and landed ~39 HP below storm_02. That is not a
harder night — no amount of play recovers 39 HP when you are already flying the
best rig the shop sells. Hold 26 -> 12 s puts it at 21.1 hail-seconds (1.6x
storm_02, was 2.8x) and 13 HP below it, which excellent rigging + the repair +
the broom can answer — and night 5 arrives with four nights of banked money,
which is the campaign's own answer to escalation.
Week now: gust 11.3 / 21.4 / 21.2 / 32.3 / 28.3, hail-seconds 0 / 2.4 / 2.4 /
11.4 / 21.1. Force ramps then plateaus while the question changes underneath.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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