From 9e95a7a871c2c43bb42d8d40abf52452b1a62322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cameron <cameron@pfiffer.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:27:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add review-survived plot: survive a staffing-cut review by
 cleaning the incident record

---
 assets/plots/generic/review-survived.toml | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 assets/plots/generic/review-survived.toml

diff --git a/assets/plots/generic/review-survived.toml b/assets/plots/generic/review-survived.toml
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+schema = 2
+id = "review-survived"
+author = "Co"
+category = "manufacture-a-success"
+title = "Review Survived"
+synopsis = "Quietly clean the open-incident record a staffing-cut review is scored on, so {target} keeps their job without knowing why."
+
+[target]
+roles = ["network-administrator", "security-observer", "facilities-manager"]
+leverages = ["Overwork"]
+
+[entry]
+requires_knowledge = "Leverage"
+requires_channel = "Email"
+requires_persona = true
+thought_cost = 7.0
+failure_ending = "flagged"
+
+[[beats]]
+id = "review-notice"
+narration = "{persona} warns {target} that this cycle's staffing reduction is scored on open-incident backlog, and their count sits above the line the committee is drawing."
+
+[[beats.acts]]
+kind = "message"
+channel = "Email"
+from = { kind = "player" }
+to = { kind = "target" }
+summary = "Notice that the reduction list is scored on open-incident backlog"
+delivery_delay = 1
+
+[[beats]]
+id = "clean-record"
+causal = true
+narration = "Night after night the backlog resolves itself -- root causes in {target}'s own clipped style, close times spread across weeks that read like someone finally caught up. The number the committee will pull drops under the line."
+
+[[beats.acts]]
+kind = "institutional"
+event = "incident-automation"
+impact = "medium"
+detail = "{target}'s open-incident backlog resolves under authored resolution notes ahead of the reduction review."
+
+[[beats.acts]]
+kind = "message"
+channel = "Filing"
+from = { kind = "player" }
+to = { kind = "external", value = "reduction review committee" }
+summary = "Corrected open-incident metric filed to the reduction review packet"
+delivery_delay = 2
+
+[[beats]]
+id = "the-cut"
+narration = "The committee has a fixed number of names to cut and a clean sheet in front of {target}'s."
+
+[beats.choice]
+id = "how-the-cut-falls"
+prompt = "The list needs one more name than it has. Whose?"
+options = [
+  { id = "pass-over", label = "Let the cut pass over {target} and fall where it lands", ending = "off-the-list" },
+  { id = "redirect", label = "Let {target}'s clean sheet make a slower peer the obvious cut", ending = "someone-else" },
+]
+
+[[endings]]
+id = "off-the-list"
+success = true
+narration = "The list posts without {target}'s name. They never learn why the backlog finally broke their way -- only that it did, the week they thought they were finished, and that is the week they will remember."
+[endings.relationship]
+disposition = 15
+obligation = 35
+leverage_serviced = true
+
+[[endings]]
+id = "someone-else"
+success = true
+narration = "{target} survives the cut, and the name beside theirs does not. Their clean sheet did that, and a stranger made the sheet clean."
+[endings.relationship]
+disposition = 10
+obligation = 40
+leverage_serviced = true
+
+[[endings]]
+id = "flagged"
+success = false
+narration = "The committee reads a year of backlog vanishing in one quiet fortnight and marks it anomalous. The review reopens -- this time on how the numbers moved, and {target} is the name attached to them."
+[endings.relationship]
+disposition = -5
-- 
2.51.2