systems/KIT_BE_0006_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_06.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 | sorcerous (evidence rule A2) |
| canon rows | BE_0006_S1 |
| chapter | CH_06 |
| canon verbs | banish / perceive |
| authored abilities | 5 physical + 7 non-ordinary = 12 (band floor 12, ceiling 18) |
| phases | 2 (canon: 2 phases (BE_0006_S1 -- the demon's night-assault on the warded house; its expulsion as the Tovil rite completes and its name is bound)) |
| counter classes | any, cover, neutralize, parry_only, trigger_interrupt, weak_point |
Silhouette read. An affliction with a face, and the face keeps changing.
Opener (MHM-G10, the cheap lesson first). THE FIRST AFFLICTION -- one symptom appears on the sick person and one only. It cannot be attacked and it costs nothing to observe. It teaches the fight's rule: the demon is read through what it is DOING, never through what it looks like.
| phase | name | what it PUSHES (nothing pops) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | the night-assault | the demon presses the warded house. The player holds the threshold with the edura and reads the affliction. |
| 2 | the expulsion | BE_0006_S1's evolve-not-swap clause: it MULTIPLIES ITS AFFLICTING FORMS rather than adding attacks. Same pressure, more faces, and naming the right one is the whole problem. |
| # | ability | phase | kind | body origin | tell shape | counter | element | lore ground + mechanism | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The First Affliction | 1 | non-ordinary | the sick person, not the demon | one symptom, specific and legible | any | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006_S1 target_type = folklore_malevolent_being, the Sinhala Tovil / Sanni Yakuma rite in which each yaka owns a named affliction. MECHANISM: the demon is identified BY its affliction, so the symptom is the diagnostic and the mechanic. Element none -- an illness is not an element and the tradition claims none. | The opener, and it is a diagnosis. |
| 2 | The Pressure on the Door | 1 | physical | the demon's weight against the warded threshold | the door frame takes load that nothing is touching | cover | -- | -- | |
| 3 | The Wrong Name | 1 | non-ordinary | the demon, answering to a name that is not its own | it responds -- weakly -- to an incorrect naming | neutralize | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006_S1's own counter -- 'perceive the affliction's tell to name the right yaka'. MECHANISM: a wrong name gets a partial answer, which is worse than no answer because it looks like progress. Element none. | The fail state that feels like a win. |
| 4 | The Failing Ward | 1 | physical | the edura's ring, under sustained pressure | one segment of the rite ring goes quiet | trigger_interrupt | -- | -- | PHYSICAL: it is a rite being performed by people, and holding it is a real input. |
| 5 | The Second Affliction | 1 | non-ordinary | a different symptom on the same person | the symptom changes while the pressure does not | weak_point | none | LORE GROUND: the Sanni Yakuma's own structure -- a set of named sanni, each with its own sign, carried on BE_0006_S1. MECHANISM: the demon cycles its forms, so the intersection of two symptoms narrows the name. Element none. | The named weak point: it is a set intersection, and it is honest. |
| 6 | The Night Outside | 1 | physical | the unlit ground beyond the rite's light | the dark past the fire stops being empty | cover | -- | -- | |
| 7 | The Feeding | 1 | non-ordinary | the demon, taking from the sick person | the patient's state worsens on a beat rather than continuously | trigger_interrupt | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006_S1 win_condition = PURGE;PERCEIVE. MECHANISM: the clock is the patient's, so the encounter has a real cost that is not the player's health. Element none. | |
| 8 | The Multiplied Forms | 2 | non-ordinary | three afflictions at once | symptoms arrive that belong to different named yaka | neutralize | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006_S1's evolve-not-swap clause -- 'multiplies its afflicting forms rather than adding attacks'. MECHANISM: it hides its name inside a crowd of names. Element none. | PATTERN COUNTER: the read is which symptom set is internally consistent, across several cycles. |
| 9 | The Mask Turn | 2 | physical | the edura's masked dance, answering each form | the rite changes mask and the pressure moves | any | -- | -- | PHYSICAL and the tradition's own mechanism: the rite ANSWERS the demon form by form. |
| 10 | The Threshold Test | 2 | physical | a direct assault on the held ring | the pressure stops being distributed and picks one point | parry_only | -- | -- | |
| 11 | The True Name | 2 | non-ordinary | the demon, when it is correctly named | the multiplied symptoms collapse to one | weak_point | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006_S1 -- 'its name is bound'. MECHANISM: naming is binding in this tradition and in this system; the correct name removes the demon's ability to change form. Element none. | The fight's actual weapon, and the player does not swing it -- the edura does. |
| 12 | The Expulsion | 2 | non-ordinary | the completed rite, driving it out | the pressure leaves the door and does not come back | any | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006_S1 win_condition = PURGE;PERCEIVE. MECHANISM: the rite completes and the demon is expelled, not destroyed -- the tradition's own outcome. Element none. | threads = T12. |
ELEVATED, AND NOT ELEMENTAL BY DEFAULT (KIT_SCALING_TABLE 3.1b). 7 of the 12 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 multiplied forms | The Multiplied Forms (8) and The Wrong Name (3) both resolve once two symptoms are correctly intersected -- the demon can no longer hide behind a crowd | the symptom set stops growing, visibly, on the patient | nothing harvested |
| the pressure point on the ring | The Threshold Test (10) and The Failing Ward (4) lose their target once the weak segment is reinforced | the rite's sound becomes continuous again | nothing extracted -- the rite is the edura's and the community's |
EG_0065 Edura's Warded Rite Ring -- CARE-BOUND, GEOMETRY ONLY: hard_blocked, HL_0001;HL_0005;HL_0007, CONSTRICTION, enemy_usable = FALSE, attack_verbs = none. The rite ring is the arena's centre and the thing being held; it is never broken, never entered by the demon, and never used as a weapon by anyone. A living practice functioning as a boundary.EG_0067 Unlit Village-Edge Ground Beyond the Rite's Light -- BOTH: enemy_usable = TRUE, CONCEALMENT, heals_over, no care ref. The dark the demon works from.EG_0066 Tank-Village Dwelling Cluster and Night Lane -- CARE-BOUND, GEOMETRY ONLY: hard_blocked, enemy_usable = TRUE for traversal, attack_verbs = none. The houses are never entered, burned or fought through.| channel | what the player sees or hears |
|---|---|
| posture | no body to read. The channel is the PATIENT: their posture changes between forms, and that is the readable escalation -- the kit refuses to invent a demon posture |
| breath | the patient's breathing, which is also the clock |
| vocal | the edura's drumming changes metre, because the rite is answering something new |
| opener | The First Affliction is retired; The Multiplied Forms becomes the opener |
IT ENTERS from the unlit ground and never crosses the ring. IT RELOCATES around the house, testing. IT LEAVES when named. WHAT IT DOES TO THE ARENA: it makes a sick room the centre of a map, which is the inverse of every other fight in the chapter.
care_tier = standard, target_type = folklore_malevolent_being. THE EDURA IS AN ALLY AND THE RITE IS THE WEAPON. Tovil and the Sanni Yakuma are living Sinhala practice, depicted as effective and sophisticated -- the player assists, never performs, and never improves upon it. The demon is the tradition's own named malevolent being, driven out as the tradition drives it out. No sick person is ever a target, no practitioner is ever conflated with the demon, and HL_0001/HL_0005/HL_0007 bind through EG_0065.
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.