J3 D8-f #2: T4 difficulty lift (leaders-define-band) + feywild fork1 soft-lock fix

T4 monster tuning so martial leaders land in the 60-75% band (underdark
59/80, feywild 65/84 at L10/L12, n=50); casters trail (class-side gap that
monster tuning provably can't compress -- Pass 1 showed casters pinned at 0%
while martials moved). T5 deferred (walls everyone at its L12 floor; needs an
L15-16 corpus).

- dnd_bestiary.go: underdark elite/boss HP+AC up + caster-lethal proc cuts
  (mind_flayer/drow_mage/roper); feywild HP+AC up.
- bestiary_srd.go: feywild multiattack profiles (fomorian/night_hag/green_hag)
  + Thornmother 2->3 lashes -- HP/AC alone didn't move feywild's low-damage
  roster; multiattack is what pulls facerolling martials into band.
- zone_graph_feywild_crossing.go: free fork1's marsh edge. fork1 was the only
  fork in the game with every exit skill-locked (CHA+Perception, no LockNone)
  and deterministic no-retry rolls -- a prod SOFT-LOCK stranding ~60% of
  players (low CHA+WIS). Kept grove's CHA bargain as a bonus route.
- expedition_sim.go: firstUnlockedForkChoice -- sim fork policy picks the
  first unlocked option instead of blind 'go 1' (which looped forever on
  locked forks); halts fork_all_locked if none.
- tests: graph-wide TestZoneGraphs_NoSoftLockedFork + fork1 free-path guard.

Writeup: sim_results/d8f_findings.md
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@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ package plugin
// cursed_thicket (TRAP) → revel_road → moonshadow_bridge →
// bargain_walk → fey_market → fork1
//
// Fork1 → both options locked (CHA vs Perception, no free choice):
// Fork1 → marsh (free default) | grove (CHA DC 14 bonus — the bargain):
//
// Grove approach (8 nodes, CHA DC 14):
// Grove approach (8 nodes, CHA DC 14 bonus):
// grove_threshold → starlight_path → singing_orchard → mirror_pond
// → prismatic_arbor → moonpetal_clearing → dawnglow_walk →
// glamoured_grove (fork2a)
@@ -203,13 +203,19 @@ func zoneFeywildCrossingGraph() ZoneGraph {
{From: "feywild_crossing.bargain_walk", To: "feywild_crossing.fey_market", Lock: LockNone},
{From: "feywild_crossing.fey_market", To: "feywild_crossing.fork1", Lock: LockNone},
// Fork1 — both options locked (CHA vs. Perception, no LockNone).
// Fork1 — marsh is the free default path; grove is a CHA-gated
// bonus route (the fey bargain). (Both were skill-locked originally,
// with no LockNone exit — a soft-lock: any character failing both
// the CHA and Perception checks was permanently stranded here, since
// fork rolls are deterministic with no retry. Every other zone fork
// has a free path; freeing marsh restores that invariant while
// keeping the signature CHA fey-bargain route as a bonus.)
{From: "feywild_crossing.fork1", To: "feywild_crossing.grove_threshold",
Lock: LockStatCheck, LockData: map[string]any{"stat": "CHA", "dc": 14},
Hint: "a starlight creature offering a deal — you'd have to play along", Weight: 1},
{From: "feywild_crossing.fork1", To: "feywild_crossing.marsh_threshold",
Lock: LockPerception, LockData: map[string]any{"dc": 14},
Hint: "wisp-light flickering between two trees — they look like the same tree", Weight: 1},
Lock: LockNone,
Hint: "wisp-light flickering between two trees — pick your way through", Weight: 1},
// Grove approach.
{From: "feywild_crossing.grove_threshold", To: "feywild_crossing.starlight_path", Lock: LockNone},