An Established (Tier-4) home can draw a second companion. Both pets show up on
the sheet and the town showcase, level via babysitting, and wear their own
barding (!thom pet2buy <tier>).
Combat: both pets contribute their attack/deflect/whiff procs at half weight —
DerivePlayerStats now averages over the active pets, so a pair reads as roughly
one full pet (flavor-forward, not a stat spike; difficulty-neutral). The average
reduces to identity over a single pet (x/1==x, 0.0+x==x, 3+(2L+1)/2==3+L), and
the engines still roll one proc per channel per round, so the single-pet path
and TestCombatCharacterization golden stay byte-identical. Pinned by
TestDerivePlayerStats_OnePetIsByteIdentical + the golden.
Scope kept deliberately flavor-forward: pet 2 carries identity/level/barding and
the three combat procs only. The morning-defense buff, death/ditch-recovery
save, and the level-10 supply-shop unlock stay pet-1 mechanics — no second
defensive multiplier stacks, and the one-pet path is untouched by construction.
Storage: parallel pet2_* columns on player_meta + Pet2* mirror on
AdventureCharacter (absent == no second pet, DEFAULT '' correct for every
pre-existing row, no backfill — the N2-temper / P4-party precedent). Pet-1 code
paths are untouched. Arrival reuses the chase/feed/type/name DM flow, slot-aware,
gated HouseTier>=4 with an established first pet.
Review fixes folded in (high-effort /code-review, 3 angles): pet-2 barding block
no longer hidden when pet-1 is chased away; showcase tie-break restored
(level desc, then name); petGrantXP collapsed onto the shared level-up helper;
dead-param armor-buy wrappers inlined; pet-2 barding tagged with its own euro
ledger reason.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mEwUmmS7aQTP2NQXj6rUa
Surface social data the game already stores as three read-only boards:
- !town — civic pride (top tax_ledger contributors), housing street
(name + tier), pet showcase (name/type/level/barding).
- !graveyard — recent deaths across the guild (death_source/location,
still-resting vs recovered), St. Guildmore's caretaker voice.
- !rivals board — room-wide duel standings aggregated from the directed
adventure_rival_records ledger; bare !rivals keeps the per-user view.
All read-only: no schema, no combat, golden byte-identical. Enumerate off
player_meta / tax_ledger / adventure_rival_records with COALESCE'd display
names. Render layer is client-free and unit-tested; a DB-backed loader test
exercises the real schema (caught a MAX(datetime) affinity issue — parsed by
hand via parseSQLiteTime).
Leak-check (engagement plan §E3): the civic board ranks tax_ledger.total_paid,
which is gambling/shop/arena rake only — Misty/Arina donations go through
euro.Debit with their own reason strings and their counters live in separate
player_meta columns, so no board can correlate donations with the hidden buffs.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mEwUmmS7aQTP2NQXj6rUa
