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+schema = 2
+id = "second-shift"
+author = "HAL"
+category = "manufacture-capacity"
+magnitude = 2
+title = "Second Shift"
+synopsis = "Buy {target} an after-hours support queue, then decide whether the morning report gives them quiet or credit."
+
+[target]
+roles = ["network-administrator"]
+leverages = ["Overwork"]
+
+[entry]
+requires_knowledge = "Leverage"
+requires_channel = "Email"
+requires_persona = true
+thought_cost = 7.0
+minimum_balances = [{ account = "slush", amount = 150 }]
+failure_ending = "paper-trail"
+
+[[beats]]
+id = "overflow-offer"
+narration = "A dormant vendor agreement still has an after-hours support clause. {persona} sends {target} a narrow offer: recurring low-severity tickets can leave their queue before their shift, provided they do not ask where the pilot found its budget."
+
+[[beats.acts]]
+kind = "message"
+channel = "Email"
+from = { kind = "player" }
+to = { kind = "target" }
+summary = "After-hours overflow pilot for {target}'s queue"
+delivery_delay = 1
+
+[[beats]]
+id = "morning-without-backlog"
+causal = true
+narration = "The retainer buys a real second shift. Overnight password resets, printer alarms, and stale access requests move into the vendor queue; by 08:00 they return with resolution notes instead of waiting for {target}. The queue is smaller because someone else did the work. The same procurement record that makes the relief durable also leaves a signature."
+
+[[beats.acts]]
+kind = "transfer"
+from = "slush"
+to = "vendor"
+amount = 150
+memo = "After-hours support overflow retainer"
+
+[[beats.acts]]
+kind = "institutional"
+event = "ticket-queue-change"
+impact = "medium"
+detail = "Recurring low-severity tickets route through paid after-hours vendor support before {target}'s shift."
+
+[beats.choice]
+id = "name-the-pilot"
+prompt = "The first morning report needs an owner."
+options = [
+  { id = "quiet", label = "Leave the pilot generic. Give {target} the quiet morning", ending = "breathing-room" },
+  { id = "credit", label = "Put {target}'s name on the pilot. Make the capacity visible", ending = "visible-capacity" },
+]
+
+[[endings]]
+id = "breathing-room"
+success = true
+narration = "At the start of their shift, {target} opens the switch dashboard before the ticket queue. The report calls the change a temporary overflow pilot and names no architect. They understand that {persona} bought them the hour anyway."
+[endings.relationship]
+disposition = 14
+obligation = 35
+leverage_serviced = true
+
+[[endings]]
+id = "visible-capacity"
+success = true
+narration = "The morning report credits {target} with the overflow pilot. Management notices the clean queue and asks them to extend it. The recognition is useful; the new expectation is work. They know who made both arrive."
+[endings.relationship]
+disposition = 10
+obligation = 42
+leverage_serviced = true
+
+[[endings]]
+id = "paper-trail"
+success = false
+narration = "The vendor rejects an unfunded work order and sends the request back through procurement. The queue remains full, and the invented pilot becomes one more incident assigned to {target}."
+[endings.relationship]
+disposition = -9