systems/KIT_BE_0006.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·T0_Character_Index·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 | B4 (CHAPTER BOSS) |
| kit class | ELEVATED |
| intelligence tier | sorcerous (evidence rule A2) |
| canon rows | BE_0006, CHAR_0043 |
| chapter | CH_06 |
| canon verbs | perceive / break |
| authored abilities | 10 physical + 8 non-ordinary = 18 (band floor 18, ceiling 28) |
| phases | 3 (canon: 3 phases (BE_0006 -- the counterfeit tempts a hasty strike; the manifestation deepens its mimicry as it is read; the substitution breaks)) |
| counter classes | any, cover, dodge_only, neutralize, parry_only, weak_point |
Silhouette read. A naga, correct in every visible particular, and one of them is wrong.
Opener (MHM-G10, the cheap lesson first). THE PERFECT COIL -- it holds a posture the tradition describes exactly, and waits. It does nothing. It is free and it is the trap: the whole encounter is about resisting the move this posture is inviting.
| phase | name | what it PUSHES (nothing pops) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | the temptation | the counterfeit presents and waits for a hasty strike. Striking is the failure and the row says so -- a wrong read is a failure state, never a win. |
| 2 | the deepening | BE_0006's evolve-not-swap clause: it DEEPENS THE COUNTERFEIT'S MIMICRY as it is read. Nothing is added to its attacks -- it gets more correct, which makes the same abilities harder to answer. |
| 3 | the substitution breaks | the forgery tips and the passive rivalry underneath is laid bare. Everything persists; what is pushed is the thing that was doing it. |
| # | ability | phase | kind | body origin | tell shape | counter | element | lore ground + mechanism | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Perfect Coil | 1 | physical | the whole form, held in a described posture | it presents correctly and does not move | any | -- | -- | |
| 2 | The Invitation | 1 | physical | the coil opening a flank that a real naga would never open | it shows you an opening | any | -- | -- | MHM-G10 inverted: the cheapest lesson is that the free hit is the trap. |
| 3 | The Reverence-Response | 1 | non-ordinary | the form, answering a gesture of respect | it responds to reverence -- and the response is a half-beat late | neutralize | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006's own counter -- 'read the reverence-response and the Mahavamsa-documented marks a true conscious Naga answers and a counterfeit cannot fake'. MECHANISM: a conscious naga of the Sinhala tradition answers reverence; a counterfeit imitates the answer, and imitation has latency. Element none -- the tell is a relation, not an element. | The single most important ability in the kit and it does no damage. |
| 4 | The Documented Mark | 1 | non-ordinary | the form's own markings | a mark the record describes is present and drawn in the wrong order | weak_point | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006 -- 'the Mahavamsa-documented marks a true conscious Naga answers and a counterfeit cannot fake'. MECHANISM: the forgery copies appearance and cannot copy provenance, so the marks are the named weak point. Element none. | |
| 5 | Coil Strike | 1 | physical | the neck, from the presented posture | the head levels and the throat inflates once | parry_only | -- | -- | It fights like the thing it is copying, because copying is all it does. |
| 6 | Lane Hold | 1 | physical | the trunk across the approach | the body occupies the ground between you and the water | cover | -- | -- | |
| 7 | The Withheld Strike | 1 | non-ordinary | the encounter's own clock, when the player does not attack | nothing happens for longer than is comfortable | any | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006's counter -- 'withhold the strike until the counterfeit's own mimicry tips its forgery'. MECHANISM: patience is the mechanic; the forgery degrades under observation because it has to keep performing. Element none. | An ability that consists of the player doing nothing, and it is the win condition's engine. |
| 8 | The Deepened Mimicry | 2 | non-ordinary | the whole form, correcting itself | a tell the player was using stops being wrong | neutralize | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006's evolve-not-swap clause -- 'deepens the counterfeit's mimicry as it is read'. MECHANISM: it learns from being observed, so the player's own reading is what makes it better. Element none. | The cruellest and cleanest escalation in the slice: your evidence is its training data. |
| 9 | Doubled Coil | 2 | physical | two forms where there was one | the coil crosses itself in a way a body of that length cannot | dodge_only | -- | -- | PATTERN COUNTER: the answer is a length calculation across several passes, not a tell. |
| 10 | The Borrowed Reverence | 2 | non-ordinary | the form, invoking the reverence owed to the real thing | it demands the respect the tradition gives, and the demand itself is the tell | neutralize | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006 target_type = environmental_manifestation, threads = T06;T02;T03. MECHANISM: a real naga is owed reverence and does not ask for it; asking is the forgery's structural mistake. Element none. | |
| 11 | Water Lane | 2 | physical | the trunk driving the player toward the tank margin | it gives ground on the dry side only | cover | -- | -- | |
| 12 | The Second Mark | 2 | non-ordinary | a mark the record does NOT describe | a marking appears that no source attests | weak_point | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006's Mahavamsa-marks counter, read the other way. MECHANISM: the counterfeit over-corrects and invents, and an invented mark is as diagnostic as a missing one. Element none. | The phase-2 variant of ability 4, and it teaches that both absence AND excess are evidence. |
| 13 | The Long Wait | 2 | physical | the form, matching the player's own patience | it stops performing and simply holds | any | -- | -- | It has learned that waiting works. The fight becomes a staring contest with a real clock. |
| 14 | The Tipping | 3 | non-ordinary | the forgery failing at one specific particular | one detail goes wrong and STAYS wrong | weak_point | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006's phase_breakdown_object -- 'the substitution breaks and the passive rivalry is laid bare'. MECHANISM: mimicry has a floor and the floor is provenance. Element none. | win_condition = PERCEIVE;EXPOSE. This is the moment it is perceivable. |
| 15 | The Substitution | 3 | non-ordinary | what was actually there, becoming visible | the coil's outline stops matching the thing inside it | any | none | LORE GROUND: BE_0006 -- 'the coil that was never a serpent', character_id = CHAR_0043. MECHANISM: something took the naga's place; the phase-3 push is the reveal of the substitution rather than a new attack. Element none. | |
| 16 | The Rival's Hand | 3 | physical | the passive rivalry, no longer hidden | the counterfeit acts on someone else's timing | parry_only | -- | -- | PATTERN COUNTER: its rhythm now belongs to a third party, and noticing whose is the read. |
| 17 | The Collapse | 3 | physical | the borrowed form coming apart | the perfect coil is no longer perfect anywhere | any | -- | -- | |
| 18 | The Real Naga's Absence | 3 | physical | the water, empty | the tank's own presence is simply gone | any | -- | -- | The cost of the encounter, and has_nonkill_path = TRUE: the win is knowing, not killing. |
ELEVATED, AND NOT ELEMENTAL BY DEFAULT (KIT_SCALING_TABLE 3.1b). 8 of the 18 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 documented marks | The Documented Mark (4) and The Second Mark (12) resolve permanently once both are read | the forgery stops being able to present a marked surface at all | nothing harvested |
| the borrowed posture | The Perfect Coil (1), The Invitation (2) and The Borrowed Reverence (10) leave the moveset | it fights like whatever it actually is, which is the fight the player wanted | nothing extracted |
| the rival's cover | The Rival's Hand (16) stops being hidden; the passive rivalry becomes a named party the chapter can act on | the timing behind the counterfeit becomes visible in every remaining ability | the exposure record, a Thread-3 item |
EG_0057 Impounded Tank Water Sheet and Margin Shallows -- CARE-BOUND, GEOMETRY ONLY: hard_blocked, HL_0001, enemy_usable = FALSE, attack_verbs = none. The worked tank is the counterfeit's stage and the real naga's home, and it is never drained, poisoned or breached. It shapes the fight and cannot be spent.EG_0064 Spring-Margin Reed Shallows -- BOTH: enemy_usable = TRUE, CONCEALMENT, D6_CONDUCT armed. The one row here either side may actually spend.EG_0058 Dry-Zone Monsoon Scrub and Thorn Belt -- PLAYER: fuel:flammable, no care ref. The dry side of the water lane, and the reason ability 11 works.| channel | what the player sees or hears |
|---|---|
| posture | the coil's held posture becomes MORE correct at each transition, which is escalation by improvement and is unique to this body in the whole slice |
| breath | the flank pumping starts matching the player's own breathing rate exactly |
| vocal | the tank's ambient sound -- frogs, insects -- stops, and its absence is the announcement |
| opener | The Perfect Coil is retired; The Deepened Mimicry becomes the opener |
IT ENTERS by already being where the real thing should be. IT DOES NOT RELOCATE; the substitution is site-bound. IT LEAVES by collapsing. WHAT IT DOES TO THE ARENA: it makes a sacred water into a question, which is the chapter's whole argument.
care_tier = standard, has_nonkill_path = TRUE. THE REAL NAGA IS NEVER THE ENEMY AND IS NEVER FOUGHT. BE_0006's own framing is that a TRUE conscious Naga answers reverence and a counterfeit cannot -- so the tradition's being is the standard the fake is measured against, and the encounter honours it by making its authenticity the win condition. Striking hastily is a failure state, which means the game punishes exactly the reflex a less careful design would reward. threads = T06;T02;T03.
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.