Phase 2 diagnostics named the InterruptElite bracket as the likely
first lever; tier-walking the lethality probe at the matrix cadence
told a different story. Phase 1's uniform-0% baseline isn't an
elite-bracket calibration issue at all — every tier reads 0% because
the engine's TimedOut contract was being ignored by every expedition
caller.
combat_engine.go:451 says: "Timeout = retreat, not lethal blow.
Caller treats a timeout loss as 'fight ended, no character death'".
But runHarvestInterrupt / tryPatrolEncounter / resolveCombatRoom all
called abandonZoneRun + retireAllRegionRuns on any !PlayerWon —
ending the expedition outright on a retreat. The retreat flavor line
("X outlasts you. You retreat from the expedition, wounded but alive")
was already in the code, just stapled to an actual run-abort.
Splits the policy by caller:
• runHarvestInterrupt — autopilot daytime interrupt. TimedOut →
retreat: threat +5, HP carries over, run continues, harvest slot
forfeit (no kill / loot). HP<=0 still ends the run + marks dead.
• tryPatrolEncounter — !advance pre-room patrol roll. Same
retreat policy: patrols don't gate progress, so retreating from
one and walking into the next room is the right shape.
• resolveCombatRoom — !advance room/elite combat. Unchanged —
this path gates room progression; a retreat has nowhere to go, so
any loss still ends the run. (Manual zone runs were always
intended to end here.)
Harness mirrored: daytime interrupt timeout → carry HP + threat bump
+ continue day; night-encounter loss → terminate (mirrors
resolveCombatRoom, since live night encounters defer to !advance).
retreatThreatBump = 5 is the per-retreat threat penalty. Low enough
not to compound brutally with chained retreats, high enough that 3–4
retreats noticeably walks the threat clock toward Stirring. Easy to
dial in Phase 3 if zones go off-band.
Phase 1 matrix after the change still reads 0% completion at every
cell — but the encounter counts and survival shape are dramatically
different (T4 underdark 3.6→7.5 encs; T3 underforge trial saw 18
encounters across 10 days where the pre-change run died on day 2/3).
Adds TestExpeditionBalance_Phase2_TierLethality, a tier-walking
companion to the T1/rolls=1 probe, that traces every fight at the
matrix cadence across one zone per tier — the actual Phase 2b lever
work picks from this data, not the old T1-only probe.
The remaining 0% is now legibly driven by tier-disproportionate elite
rosters (Hobgoblin Warchief at T1, Green Hag at T2, Roper/Helmed
Horror higher up) that one-shot or two-shot tier-appropriate
fighters. Phase 2b's lever shortlist:
1. Roster gate / SpawnWeight tuning to dilute over-tier elites.
2. Surprise-nick floor reduction on chained interrupts (carryover
HP + nick is the death-spiral fingerprint at T1 specifically).
3. Per-day cadence reduction if 1+2 don't carry T1 to band.
Pre-existing test failures (TestAdv2Scenario_ZoneRunGoblinWarrens,
TestMageSpellbookLineInRender) verified to fail identically on HEAD;
no new test regressions.
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Bundle of uncommitted working-tree edits across combat engine, expedition
cycle, flavor pools, and TwinBee/zone narration. Includes new files:
combat_debug.go, dnd_boss_consumables.go, dnd_dex_floor.go, plus
CHANGES_24H.md and REBALANCE_NOTES.md scratch notes.
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Swap all char.DisplayName / c.DisplayName reader sites in
internal/plugin/ to loadDisplayName(userID). Touches 12 files
across combat (combat_bridge, dnd_zone_combat, dnd_zone_cmd,
dnd_expedition_combat), arena, hospital, events, render,
masterwork, robbie, scheduler, and adventure.go.
Only intentional char.DisplayName references remaining are in
adventure_character.go (scan + save + dual-write) and the
player_meta.go doc comment. go vet + go test ./internal/plugin/...
clean.
Unblocks deferred L2 step 9 (arena AdvCharacter import drop)
once L4 hospital/pets/render also lands.
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GM→DM rename across docs and code (GMNarrationType→DMNarrationType,
GMState→DMState, narration constants, comments) so the system reads as
"Dungeon Master" everywhere. Player-visible "GM mood" wording stays
where it appears in flavor.
Streamed zone/expedition combat: zone advance now stages patrol →
patrol play-by-play → patrol resolution → room intro → room play-by-play
→ final outcome through sendZoneCombatMessages with 2–3s pacing
(arena keeps its 5–8s window). Combat narrative lines pick up a compact
d20-vs-AC roll annotation for hit/crit/miss/block events.
Combat outcome polish: dndHPSnapshot lets narration show sheet HP
rather than legacy combat-engine HP, and markAdventureDead clears the
zombie state where hp_current was 0 but the legacy alive flag stayed
true after a D&D-layer KO.
Adv 2.0 announcement (ADVENTURE_2.0_ANNOUNCEMENT.md), README rewrite
covering the new layer, and adv2_scenario_test.go — a full
zone-run + expedition + harvest playthrough against a copy of the prod
DB asserting persisted state end-to-end.
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R3 — Combat Event Integration:
- dnd_expedition_combat.go: Combat Interrupt rolls (§4.2) with
threat-clock and Ranger-wilderness modifiers; Patrol Encounters
scaled by threat level; recordZoneKill writer with monsterKillTags.
- Interrupt gate at head of handleHarvestCmd; patrol gate before
resolveRoom in zoneCmdAdvance; kill writer wired into combat-win
paths.
R4a — Zone Loot Tables:
- dnd_zone_loot.go: §5 loot drop tables for all 10 zones × 5 tiers
with §8.1 sell-value bands. dropTierFromCR brackets + boss floor.
- Hooks on combat-win in resolveCombatRoom, resolveBossRoom,
runHarvestInterrupt, tryPatrolEncounter.
R4b — Fishing Integration:
- dnd_zone_fish.go: fishingZones allow-list, fishingSkillBonus,
rangerRareCatchUpgrade (§6.2), feywildFishDistortion narration.
- §6.1 fish entries added to resource registry for Forest, Sunken
Temple, Underdark, Feywild zones.
- !fish wired through handleHarvestCmd; zoneItemFlavor matrix
populated for all 10 zones × all loot items.
R5 — Economy Integration:
- dnd_economy.go: !sell (post-expedition gate, single CHA Persuasion
DC 17 → +15% bump), !craft (§8.2 4 exemplar recipes), !lore
(INT/Arcana DC 15 recipe discovery).
- dnd_known_recipe table for persistent recipe discovery.
Flavor reuse: HarvestInterrupt, PatrolEncounter, CombatVictory,
PlayerDeath, LootDrop*, FeywildTimeDistortion* — all existing pools.
No new flavor file.
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