Allow Basic bribes during selected pending decisions

docs/BRIBE_CONTROLS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,29 @@
 # Ordinary bribe controls
 
+## Basic pending-opening and Extortion payments — 29 October 2026
+
+Direct ordinary bribes are available during a clean Basic Ix-deck Amal opening
+and a clean Basic Moritani Extortion payment decision, including out of turn.
+They use the normal uncommitted payer spice, nonally restriction and deferred
+recipient ledger. The original opening passes or Extortion queue and decision
+remain unchanged. An Extortion recipient cannot use the deferred bribe to pay
+that current decision. A bribe made before deferred Mentat initialization is
+collected at that imminent opening; one made after collection, including during
+Extortion, waits for the next turn's opening. The owner's control states which
+collection applies.
+
+The publisher [base rules, printed p. 12](https://www.gf9games.com/dunegame/wp-content/uploads/Dune-Rulebook.pdf)
+allow nonallied bribery without prescribing a digital decision priority. These
+interruptions are a provisional online interpretation, not a publisher timing
+ruling. The initial profiles exclude optional modules, other expansion families,
+competing continuations and the payer's active commitments. Deal-linked payments
+retain their previous quiet-window restrictions. A bot can still progress the
+original opening or decision before a human pays; response and other decision
+parents, Advanced play and full acceptance remain open.
+[Native runtime](../tests/bribe-pending-basic.test.ts) includes public setup,
+explicitly staged Extortion placement and a real next-turn collection;
+[rendered controls](../tests/bribe-pending-basic-controls.test.tsx) cover timing.
+
 **26 October follow-up:** [quiet Mentat payments](MENTAT_BRIBES.md) are now
 allowed after opening collection, with their receipts deferred to the next
 turn's actual opening. This supersedes the original blanket Mentat restriction.
@@ -33,8 +57,8 @@ sealed bids, paid support, Banker spending and other reserved costs. Existing
 Truthtrance completion checks further constrain voluntary spending on isolated
 copies; this projection does not commit actions or live continuations. The
 target-specific Bureaucrat guard can cap unsupported combinations below five.
-Supported payments use the existing saved redirect/allow decision. A pending
-response, decision or forced continuation disables the payment controls.
+Supported payments use the existing saved redirect/allow decision. Other pending responses, decisions or forced continuations disable the payment
+controls, except for the supported Basic opening and Extortion cases above.
 
 The client retains an invalid amount or removed recipient as a disabled draft
 rather than silently changing a payment. The explicit action uses existing