systems/KIT_BE_0003_S1.md
CANON SUBORDINATION — this document is PROPOSAL-TIER: it serves canon and never outranks it.
The canon: the CVD · the T1 foundation docs · the T0 registries (registries/) · the spine
(docs/spine/CH_*.md) · the region pages (_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/). Authority order:docs/DOC_MAP.md§ 0.
Canon served (structural — the registries this kit's canon rows live in, plus its chapter's spine node):
T0_Boss_Encounter_Registry·docs/spine/CH_03.md
READ THAT CANON FIRST — open it and derive from it before you build anything from this document.
If this document disagrees with canon, CANON WINS and this document is the defect — fix the
document, never the canon. Nothing here is applied until it is ratified into canon.
PROPOSAL-TIER. This kit serves canon and never outranks it. It writes no registry row.
The law it obeys: docs/proposals/combat/KIT_SCALING_TABLE.md. The intelligence scale:
docs/proposals/combat/INTELLIGENCE_TIERS.md. The body it fights with is the bestiarylane's: docs/proposals/bestiary/BESTIARY_ELEVATION_DOCTRINE.md and its sheets. This file
describes the FIGHT; it never restates the BODY. Authors no magnitude -- no damage, no
health, no timing, no coefficient. Those are Phase-5M's behind the tuning firewall.
| field | value |
|---|---|
| band | B3 (SUB-BOSS) |
| kit class | ELEVATED |
| intelligence tier | sapient (evidence rule A3) |
| canon rows | BE_0003_S1 |
| chapter | CH_03 |
| canon verbs | attune / perceive |
| authored abilities | 9 physical + 4 non-ordinary = 13 (band floor 12, ceiling 18) |
| phases | 2 (canon: 2 phases (BE_0003_S1 -- the roused coil-and-strike over the spring; the withdrawal as the land-contract is restored)) |
| counter classes | any, cover, dodge_only, neutralize, parry_only, trigger_interrupt |
Silhouette read. The same animal as Chapter 2, and the ground under it is behaving differently.
Opener (MHM-G10, the cheap lesson first). THE ROUSED COIL -- it sets over the spring and the earth around the anchor point stays wet where it should have drained. Free, unpunishing, and it tells the player in one image that this is not the encounter they had in the last chapter.
| phase | name | what it PUSHES (nothing pops) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | the roused coil-and-strike over the spring | it is defending, not hunting. Every strike is a refusal of an approach and the approach is the thing being judged. |
| 2 | the withdrawal, as the contract is restored | the row's evolve-not-swap clause -- it SHORTENS STRIKE WINDOWS rather than adding attacks. Everything stays; the windows close. And the phase resolves by the offering, not by damage. |
| # | ability | phase | kind | body origin | tell shape | counter | element | lore ground + mechanism | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Roused Coil | 1 | physical | tail anchored on the spring's lip, forebody loaded over it | the anchor tightens one turn and the head drops level | dodge_only | -- | -- | The constrictor root, and the player already knows it from KIT_MF_CONSTRICTOR. That prior knowledge is the setup for everything this kit changes. |
| 2 | Guardian Strike | 1 | physical | the neck, thrown from the set coil | the head levels and the throat inflates once | parry_only | -- | -- | |
| 3 | Lane Across the Spring | 1 | physical | the trunk laid across the approach | the body occupies the water rather than the bank | cover | -- | -- | |
| 4 | Tail Anchor Shift | 1 | physical | the tail walking to a new purchase point on the stonework | the tail leaves its hold before the head moves | any | -- | -- | |
| 5 | The Wet Ground | 1 | non-ordinary | not the animal -- the soil around the anchor | ground that should have drained stays saturated, and it spreads toward you | neutralize | Earth | LORE GROUND: SRC_00469, the attested Manggarai tradition carried verbatim on CR_0002 -- the naga are GOOD guardians named for their charge (naga golo and naga beo for a village, naga tana for the soil), every village is held to keep at least one, and the wae guardian holds its own ngoeng-de-tana contract. MECHANISM: the guardian and the soil are one charge, so the land answers with it. defender_element = Earth is the row's own cell. Neutralize is reading which violation caused it -- the row's second counter. | This is the ability that separates this encounter from the Chapter-2 animal in one move. |
| 6 | The Contract Reads You | 1 | non-ordinary | the spring itself, responding to the approach's bearing | the water's surface goes flat and stays flat while you move | any | Water | LORE GROUND: the same SRC_00469 account of the ngoeng-de-tana contract, plus EG_0017's status as protected veneration water. MECHANISM: the contract is a real obligation with a real direction, and the vril substrate carries it as a standing condition on the site rather than as a power the animal casts. Element Water because the carrier IS the spring. | Free and unpunishing. It is information, and the player who reads it early solves the encounter without a strike. |
| 7 | Bank Sweep | 1 | physical | the trunk, clearing the approach in one pass | the coil unwinds along the ground instead of upward | dodge_only | -- | -- | |
| 8 | The Pause | 1 | physical | the animal going entirely still mid-defence | everything stops and the water stays flat | trigger_interrupt | -- | -- | The row's first counter -- 'attune the breath to open a pause'. The interrupt is the player matching the pause rather than filling it, which is the non-kill route's mechanism. |
| 9 | Saturated Footing | 2 | non-ordinary | the soil under the player, not under the snake | your own footprints fill with water behind you | cover | Mud | LORE GROUND: EG_0018, the Roused-Guardian Encounter Pocket, whose own cells read ambient_state_gift = material:saturated_earth, exposure_hazard = drag, elemental_affinity = earth:enhance;water:enhance. MECHANISM: the guardian's charge is the SOIL, so its escalation is expressed in the ground rather than in its body -- Mud is the grid family where earth and water meet, and it is the honest read of that cell pair. | The escalation that the player feels before they see. |
| 10 | Shortened Strike | 2 | physical | the same neck, from a coil that never fully resets | the throat inflates and the head is ALREADY level | parry_only | -- | -- | The row's evolve-not-swap clause, stated as a shorter window on a known shape. |
| 11 | The Closing Lane | 2 | physical | the body re-anchoring nearer the spring each cycle | the safe gap is smaller than it was | any | -- | -- | |
| 12 | The Violation Named | 2 | non-ordinary | the site, showing what was actually done to it | the wet ground traces a shape -- a cut line, a diverted channel, a broken offering | neutralize | Earth | LORE GROUND: BE_0003_S1's own counter -- 'perceive the specific violation to know the contract to offer' -- against SRC_00469's ngoeng-de-tana. MECHANISM: the land carries the record of its own breach, and the vril-trace reads it as a shape rather than as a signature. Element Earth, the row's own defender_element. | win_condition = PURGE;PERCEIVE. This ability IS the win condition, made playable. |
| 13 | The Withdrawal | 2 | physical | the coil opening fully, the animal going back into the water | the anchor releases and the ground begins to drain | any | -- | -- | The non-kill resolution. It is an ability because the player has to hold the offering through it; interrupting it re-rouses the guardian, and the row's has_nonkill_path = TRUE is not a menu option. |
ELEVATED, AND NOT ELEMENTAL BY DEFAULT (KIT_SCALING_TABLE 3.1b). 4 of the 13 moves
above are non-ordinary and each names its element family, its lore ground and its
mechanism. The rest are a body doing physical things, and they are marked physical rather
than dressed up. An elevated kit is one that CONTAINS the non-ordinary; it is not one in
which everything glows.
| part | moveset subtraction on break | legibility gain | material the economy wants |
|---|---|---|---|
| the tail anchor on the spring lip | The Roused Coil (1), Lane Across the Spring (3) and The Closing Lane (11) lose their fixed point | the coil sags and the wet ground stops spreading from a centre | NOTHING IS HARVESTED. SRC_00469 records that the guardian is APPEASED AND NEVER SLAIN; the part economy here pays in legibility and in the site's own state, and a player who kills it takes a Thread-2 penalty rather than a hide |
| the diverted channel (the site's part, not the body's) | The Wet Ground (5), Saturated Footing (9) and The Violation Named (12) all resolve once the channel is restored -- this is the part-break that ENDS the encounter | the spring runs clean and the ground drains visibly, from the anchor outward | nothing extracted; the repair is the reward |
EG_0018 Roused-Guardian Encounter Pocket -- BOTH: the arena, and its cells are the ability list's own source. enemy_usable = TRUE, CONSTRICTION, material:saturated_earth, drag hazard, earth:enhance;water:enhance. Abilities 5 and 9 are that row read back.EG_0017 Village Wae Spring Head -- CARE-BOUND, GEOMETRY ONLY: hard_blocked, HL_0001, enemy_usable = FALSE, attack_verbs = none. The protected spring head is the THING BEING GUARDED. It is never damaged, never poisoned, never used as a weapon, and the encounter is staged in the pocket beside it precisely so that it cannot be. The sacred site shapes the fight and is never in it.EG_0016 Lingko Lodok Terrace Fan -- CARE-BOUND, GEOMETRY ONLY: hard_blocked, HL_0001. The radial field boundaries the spring feeds are the reason the violation MATTERS, and they are set-dressing with a stake rather than terrain with a verb.| channel | what the player sees or hears |
|---|---|
| posture | the coil does not rise -- the GROUND changes instead, which is the whole grammar of this body and the reason the escalation reads as the land's rather than the animal's |
| breath | the flank pumping slows and the water's surface stops answering it |
| vocal | silence, and the spring's own sound going wrong -- a note that is too low for the volume of water actually moving |
| opener | The Roused Coil is retired; The Wet Ground becomes the opener and it starts already spread |
IT ENTERS by being roused -- the encounter begins because something was done, not because the player arrived. IT RELOCATES only around the spring. IT LEAVES into the water when the contract is restored. WHAT IT DOES TO THE ARENA: it saturates it, progressively, from the anchor outward, so the fight's difficulty and the site's grievance are the same variable.
SRC_00469 GOVERNS AND IS QUOTED ON THE ROW: the naga are GOOD guardians named for their charge, every village is held to keep at least one, and the wae guardian is APPEASED AND NEVER SLAIN. So the encounter's designed outcome is the withdrawal (13), the kill is available and penalised, and the part economy deliberately pays no material. HL_0005, HL_0002 and HL_0003 bind through CR_0002. The guardian is not a monster and is never styled as one; it is owed something, and the fight is the player finding out what.
This kit is authored ONCE, at Fading. The five modulators of KIT_SCALING_TABLE section 4
express it across the ladder: active_ability_set grows upward through reserved follow-ups
on roots the player already learned, window_class tightens, answer_tree_depth prunes
toward the single true answer, hazard_concurrency rises with the arena rows above, and
phase_overlap interleaves the phase cycles. No second kit exists and no number here changes
with the tier.