The T6 Valdris phylactery rebirth (and the pre-existing survive_at_1
one-shot) live in enemyDown, on the premise that it is the single death
chokepoint. It isn't: the round-end concentration pulse ended the fight
on a raw enemyHP<=0 read, so a cleric's Spirit Guardians landing the
lethal blow robbed a revive-armed boss of its rebirth — exactly the
cleric-party arm P8 is tuned around. Route that win-check through
enemyDown so the boss gets its chance to stand back up. Regression test
covers both the armed (revives) and charge-less (still wins) paths.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0156WqjgsbmSY2U8eQ3Kkb1s
The turn engine ran a fixed player -> enemy -> round_end phase machine over
one player and one monster. It now runs a round as a sequence of seats.
turnOrder derives that sequence per round. A solo roster short-circuits to
the historical [player, enemy] and rolls nothing -- the duel has never had
initiative, and handing the monster a coin flip on who swings first would be
a live balance change. A party rolls it with the auto-resolve engine's own
formula (speed + d10 + InitiativeBias).
Every seat in a round shares a (round, phase) pair, so the acting seat is
mixed into the RNG *seed* rather than the stream. Seat 0 and the enemy
sentinel mix to nothing, which is what keeps a solo fight drawing exactly
the pre-roster stream across a suspend/resume.
The round cursor persists as Statuses.TurnIdx, omitempty so no solo row
carries it. A fight that was in flight when the field landed decodes it as
0; turnIdxForPhase reconciles that against Phase, which is the older and
load-bearing field. Without it, a suspended enemy_turn would resume, step,
and land back on enemy_turn forever.
The enemy now picks a target uniformly among the standing roster (solo draws
nothing), a downed seat forfeits its turn silently, and the fight is lost
only when anyAlive() goes false -- not when the acting seat drops. That last
one fixes a latent solo bug on the way past: resolvePlayerSwings returns
false when a retaliate aura kills the swinger between extra attacks, and the
old code walked that corpse into the enemy's turn.
commit() reads seat 0 explicitly instead of the cursor, which the enemy turn
parks on its target and round_end walks across the roster.
TestCombatCharacterization is byte-identical: solo balance did not move.
