cross_over was one verdict with one outcome. It is now five beats — listen,
name, unbind, open, release — each revealing something true about the
spirit, each paying escalating essence, each able to twist.
Reveals use the entity's REAL traits; there is no second hidden state
invented for the rite. Twists are trait-driven, verified directly rather
than assumed: a demon collapses the rite 3.6x more often than a calm spirit
(0.360 vs 0.099 at `unbind`) and lies ~31% of the time, while a spirit
under DECEIT_FLOOR cannot lie on any draw. A demon still resists at
`release` and never crosses — the existing judgment rule is preserved, not
re-implemented. Every draw comes from veil_float on the room's physical
entropy, never `random`.
Essence is kept across a collapse. Clawing it back would punish a seeker
for the spirit's instability, which is not theirs to control.
FIXED AN INFINITE LOOP IN THE SALVAGED TESTS, not a flake:
test_full_rite_on_a_calm_stuck_spirit ran `while layer is not None` while
passing collapse=FIRES. Its fixture comment claimed "both twist chances are
0 at these values, so NO draw can make this entity lie or collapse" — that
is false. COLLAPSE_FLOOR is 0.5 (deliberately below judgment's stuck bar of
0.6, as passage.py explains), and the fixture's volatility is 0.61, giving a
real ~9.9% collapse chance. Forced to fire, every layer bounced back to
`listen` and the run hung forever instead of failing.
Three fixes: hold the collapse draw (deceit still fires, which is the
point — it proves a spirit under the floor cannot lie even when told to),
correct the false comment, and bound the loop so a future regression fails
in seconds rather than hanging a test run.
Also added the entire seance.passage i18n block in both languages — the
agent died before writing it, so the gate was failing on 35 missing keys —
and reworded a comment in PassagePanel that spelled out a translation call
in full: the coverage checker greps source text and cannot tell a comment
from real code, so it demanded a key for the placeholder.
34 passage tests pass; 385 frontend; i18n parity and typecheck clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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