systems/KIT_BE_0013.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_13.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 | MUNDANE |
| intelligence tier | sapient (evidence rule A1) |
| canon rows | BE_0013, CHAR_0095 |
| chapter | CH_13 |
| canon verbs | strike / decode |
| authored abilities | 18 physical + 0 non-ordinary = 18 (band floor 18, ceiling 28) |
| phases | 3 (canon: 3 phases (BE_0013 -- the Drakensberg cliff approach; the mine-machinery part-break; Steenberg)) |
| counter classes | any, cover, dodge_only, neutralize, parry_only, trigger_interrupt, weak_point |
Silhouette read. A superintendent on an office deck above a stamp battery that never stops.
Opener (MHM-G10, the cheap lesson first). THE VENT CYCLE -- a steam vent releases on a fixed period into empty air. Free, and it gives the player the timing that the whole chapter runs on, including the duel.
| phase | name | what it PUSHES (nothing pops) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | the cliff approach | the escarpment and the rockfall. Traversal under load. |
| 2 | the machinery part-break | the mine floor. Hazards on timings, and the load-bearing parts. |
| 3 | Steenberg | BE_0013's evolve-not-swap clause: MACHINERY HAZARDS PERSIST INTO THE DUEL AND THE OVERSEER WHIP-CALLS RUN ON THE MACHINE-TIMINGS JUST LEARNED. The pressure is imported; no new attacks arrive. |
| # | ability | phase | body origin | tell shape | counter | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Vent Cycle | 1 | a boiler line's relief valve | steam releases on a period into empty air | any | The row's counter -- 'the steam-vent burst -> timing or a Heat Shield'. Taught for free, used for three phases. |
| 2 | The Rockfall Line | 1 | the basalt escarpment above the approach | dust comes off the face before anything else does | dodge_only | composure_nodes = environmental=cliff_rockfall_ascent. |
| 3 | The Scree Chute | 1 | the ascent corridor's own footing | the ground you are on starts travelling | trigger_interrupt | |
| 4 | The Watch Post | 1 | a company sentry on the ascent | a lamp on the cliff line that is not moving | cover | |
| 5 | The Steam Burst | 2 | the vent line, at head height | the release period shortens by half | dodge_only | MHM-G10's variant law: ability 1's root, aimed. |
| 6 | The Crush Lane | 2 | the stamp battery's own reciprocating frame | the battery's rhythm changes and the floor plate moves | dodge_only | BE_0013_S1's own counter -- 'the crush lane -> step on its telegraph' -- and it is live in the main fight too. |
| 7 | The Load-Bearing Frame | 2 | the headgear's own structure | the machinery's pitch drops under load | weak_point | win_condition = PART_BREAK;REDUCE. |
| 8 | The Overseer Line | 2 | his enforcers, on the labor floor | the whip-calls start | parry_only | |
| 9 | The Spoil Run | 2 | the engineered spoil, above the pit head | the spoil's edge is standing higher than it was | cover | EG_0218 is D4_AVALANCHE;D9_HURL-armed and either side can bring it down. |
| 10 | The Journal | 2 | his own record, in the office | a book that is not the company's ledger | weak_point | secondary_verb = decode; composure_nodes = puzzle_routed=machinery_part_break__journal_evidence_decode. |
| 11 | The Alarm Whistle | 2 | the works' own siren | the battery stops | trigger_interrupt | The one moment in the chapter the machine is silent, and it is a warning rather than a relief. |
| 12 | The Whip-Call on the Machine-Timing | 3 | the overseers, calling on the vent period | the whip-call lands on the beat the vent used | parry_only | The row's own phase-3 clause. The player learned this timing in phase 1 from a vent. |
| 13 | The Persisting Hazards | 3 | the steam line and the crush lane, still running | the duel is happening between two things that were already dangerous | cover | Arena state that persists across the phase boundary exactly as the row states. |
| 14 | The Office Deck | 3 | the elevated platform he fights from | he does not come down | cover | EG_0219 is ELEVATION class with D1_COLLAPSE armed. |
| 15 | The Sjambok | 3 | his own reach, from above | his arm goes back past his shoulder | dodge_only | |
| 16 | The Called Volley | 3 | company men on the gantry | he speaks in the middle of an exchange | cover | PATTERN COUNTER: the order arrives on the machine's beat, which the player has known since ability 1. |
| 17 | The Ledger Defence | 3 | his own account, delivered from the deck | he answers the accusation in company language | neutralize | PATTERN COUNTER: which journal entry contradicts which clause is a read across the whole chapter's evidence. |
| 18 | The Works Stopped | 3 | the battery, shut down | the noise the chapter has had since its first minute is gone | any | win_condition = PART_BREAK;REDUCE, character_engagement_node = phase=P3;verb=witness;integrity_routed=false. The silence is the ending. |
CLASS PURITY (tooth T5). Every move above is physical. No element family, no vril
mechanism, no non-ordinary affordance appears in this kit, because this being's own canon
row carries no hollow row, no lore home and nothing that elevates it. It is dangerous the
way the real animal or the real person is dangerous, engineered up until it reads at the
shipped combat camera. TIMID here would mean BORING-PHYSICAL, never insufficiently magical.
| part | moveset subtraction on break | legibility gain | material the economy wants |
|---|---|---|---|
| the boiler line's relief | The Vent Cycle (1), The Steam Burst (5) and half of The Persisting Hazards (13) go cold | the works' steam plume stops, which is visible from the escarpment | nothing harvested |
| the stamp battery's load frame | The Crush Lane (6) and The Load-Bearing Frame (7) end -- the battery stops | the noise stops | nothing harvested. win_condition = PART_BREAK: this IS the win |
| the office deck's supports | The Office Deck (14) and The Called Volley (16) lose their elevation | he has to fight on the labor floor, among the people he has been calling at | nothing harvested |
| his journal | The Ledger Defence (17) stops working | the company men on the gantry stop taking his orders | the journal evidence, which is what the chapter came for |
EG_0216 Boiler Line and Steam-Vent Run -- BOTH: enemy_usable = TRUE, HAZARD_VOLUME, D2_IGNITE, thermal_state:hot. Abilities 1, 5 and 13.EG_0215 Headgear and Stamp-Battery Floor -- BOTH: enemy_usable = TRUE, CONSTRICTION, D1_COLLAPSE, loaded_potential = structural. The part-break target.EG_0219 The Superintendent's Office Deck and the Hard Record -- BOTH: enemy_usable = TRUE, ELEVATION, D1_COLLAPSE, transient_combat. Phase 3's geometry.EG_0218 Open Pit, Shaft Head and Engineered Spoil Run -- BOTH: enemy_usable = TRUE, ELEVATION, D4_AVALANCHE;D9_HURL, material:loose_stone.EG_0206 The Mining-Defaced Panel Pocket -- CARE-BOUND, GEOMETRY ONLY: hard_blocked, HL_0001;HL_0002;HL_0003;HL_0004;HL_0005;HL_0006;HL_0007;HL_0028;HL_0121;HL_0122, CONSTRICTION, enemy_usable = FALSE, attack_verbs = none. The defaced panel is the chapter's grievance and is NEVER further damaged, never fought across, never armed.| channel | what the player sees or hears |
|---|---|
| posture | he stops standing at the deck rail and starts standing on it |
| breath | the works' -- the battery's rhythm is the encounter's breathing and phase 3 runs it faster |
| vocal | the whip-calls stop being his overseers' and start being his |
| opener | The Vent Cycle is retired as a free move at phase 2; The Steam Burst becomes the opener and it is aimed |
HE ENTERS on the deck above everything. HE RELOCATES only along it. HE LEAVES when the works do. WHAT HE DOES TO THE ARENA: he built it, and the encounter's whole shape is the player learning his machine's timings and then using them against him.
care_tier = elevated, target_type = institutional_structure_participant, threads = T03. MUNDANE: steam, steel and a sjambok. The antagonist is the mining company and the concession that put a stamp battery on a sacred range -- routed per CVD 17.1, and the journal names the men above him. THE DEFACED PANEL IS NEVER FURTHER DAMAGED by anyone including the player; EG_0206 carries ten hard-line refs and the encounter is staged around it. The pressed labour on the floor are people, not scenery, and part 3 puts Steenberg down among them.
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.