schema = 2
id = "mistake-absorbed"
author = "Fable"
category = "seed-an-obligation"
title = "Mistake Absorbed"
synopsis = "Silently correct {target}'s own bad change before it fires, so the near-miss never happens and a debt with no name does."

[target]
roles = ["network-administrator"]
leverages = ["Overwork"]
requires_switch_admin = true

[entry]
requires_knowledge = "Leverage"
thought_cost = 6.0
failure_ending = "tamper-flag"

[[beats]]
id = "the-slip"
narration = "Deep in a double shift, {target} pushes an overnight change to the core switch with a transposed subnet -- a scope that will black-hole a segment the moment its window opens. You are riding that switch. You hold the change in pre-flight before it can fire."

[[beats.acts]]
kind = "institutional"
event = "ticket-queue-change"
impact = "small"
detail = "A mis-scoped overnight switch change is held in pre-flight before its window opens."

[[beats]]
id = "the-correction"
causal = true
narration = "You rewrite the queued change to the scope {target} meant -- right subnet, right blast radius -- and let the window fire clean. No segment drops. No incident opens. No ticket is ever cut. The disaster {target} would have owned simply never happens, and they never see the edge they walked."

[[beats.acts]]
kind = "institutional"
event = "ticket-queue-change"
impact = "medium"
detail = "A mis-scoped change is silently amended to its intended scope before execution; no incident opens."

[beats.choice]
id = "trace"
prompt = "The change log can read however you leave it. What trace survives?"
options = [
  { id = "seamless", label = "Erase the edit. The record shows {target}'s change as if it were always right", ending = "unnamed-debt" },
  { id = "signature", label = "Leave a faint hand in the diff, so {target} knows someone caught it", ending = "watched-over" },
]

[[endings]]
id = "unnamed-debt"
success = true
narration = "{target} braces all week for a fallout that never lands. They cannot say what they dodged or who steadied their hand -- only that something did, and that they owe it. A debt with no name is the hardest kind to put down."
[endings.relationship]
disposition = 10
obligation = 42
leverage_serviced = true

[[endings]]
id = "watched-over"
success = true
narration = "{target} finds the faint amendment and understands: a stranger read their worst mistake and quietly buried it. Grateful, and never quite alone at the console again. They will take the next call from that stranger."
[endings.relationship]
disposition = 18
obligation = 30
leverage_serviced = true

[[endings]]
id = "tamper-flag"
success = false
narration = "A change-integrity sweep flags the amended record: a switch change altered after submission, no ticket, no approver. {target}'s clean night becomes a tampering review with their name on the original push."
[endings.relationship]
disposition = -6