Connect Moritani Extortion through Mentat settlement

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

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 ## Current checkpoint and work
 
+Moritani Extortion now has a bounded local reveal-to-Mentat continuation:
+five bank spice stays reserved until Moritani finishes normal Terror placement
+and any Karama response; then non-Moritani seats in storm order may pay three
+once or decline. Payment removes the revealed token; all declines rotate it
+back into hidden supply. The [placement-first order](MORITANI_EXTORTION_RULES.md)
+was selected by the user, not sourced as a publisher priority ruling. Public
+notices hide the current payer's affordability from other seats. Owner controls,
+legal AI, JSON/SQLite CAS, nested Box/gift interruptions and a genuine late
+Mentat Ambassador entry have focused coverage; each still settles before the
+turn ends. Atomics/Aftermath and complete expansion starts stay gated. This
+local change is not in the last verified live image below.
+
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docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md

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 # Dune implementation status
 
+## 28 September 2026 — Moritani Extortion saved Mentat continuation
+
+The real Terror-entry reveal now reserves five bank spice without crediting
+Moritani. Normal Mentat placement/relocation and any Karama response resolve
+first by the user's explicitly selected interpretation; bank collection then
+opens one saved storm-order offer for each other faction. The first three-spice
+payment removes the physical revealed token and ends the queue; if all decline,
+the return helper rotates all hidden supply identities. Insolvent and allied
+players retain a decline, and neither the bank award nor a payment replays after
+JSON reload or an SQLite compare-and-swap race. Public notice and owner-only
+payment controls are connected; the minimal AI declines legally.
+
+Independent review identified three concrete follow-ups, now corrected: the
+current payer's affordability is private, Nullentropy Box and Richese gift
+continuation frames retain the exact pending payment, and an Extortion
+revealed by a real Guild Ambassador shipment after Mentat placement settles
+before the turn changes. The focused entry/engine/SQLite/alliance/placement
+suite passed 119 cases in eight files. A direct game-engine smoke revealed
+Extortion at Moritani spice 12, reached placement before collection to 17,
+then two AI payers declined and the revealed token returned under a different
+hidden ID. Separately, an offline three-seat Basic Ecaz/Moritani game completed
+in 110 accepted actions with two restores and no rejected bot proposals; that
+sample did **not** draw the Extortion effect.
+
+The local rules reference displayed the selected order and late-Mentat
+continuation in Chromium; the production UI/room flow remains unverified.
+After review corrections, `npm run build`, all 5,677 offline tests and all
+54 HTTP integration tests against the local server passed. The required
+TypeScript/lint umbrella check still cannot finish because a separate
+concurrent untracked Fremen Nexus draft references a nonexistent
+`Player.fremenNexusMovementBlockedTurn`; no Extortion diagnostic remains.
+Atomics/Aftermath, mixed arrival reaction priority, complete faction games
+and public expansion starts remain gated. See
+[the publisher sequence and user selection](MORITANI_EXTORTION_RULES.md).
+
 ## 28 September 2026 — all-expansion Homeworld/Nexus samples
 
 The offline combined audit setup can also enable genuine Homeworld custody with

docs/MORITANI_EXTORTION_RULES.md

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 # Moritani Extortion: sequence and payment
 
-Bounded primary-source audit, 2026-09-06. No runtime edits or live-room actions were performed.
+Initial primary-source audit, 2026-09-06; placement-first implementation interpretation selected by the user on 2026-09-28. No live-room action was performed for this rule work.
 
 ## Confirmed sequence
 
@@ -28,20 +28,23 @@ Current `g.order` is recalculated by storm movement and is not reordered by Guil
 
 Do not silently auto-pass an insolvent player merely to shorten the queue if phase-independent effects can raise that player’s available spice before deciding. A visible pass/payment decision and payment-time balance validation avoid that assumption.
 
-## Material Mentat ordering gap
+## Mentat ordering: selected interpretation, not a publisher ruling
 
-Moritani may also place or move one Terror token during Mentat. Neither the placement paragraph nor Extortion specifies their relative order. Recovering Extortion first can permit immediately placing it again; placement first cannot. This changes a substantive option and is not harmless UI serialization. No targeted official or written designer clarification was found. Keep this combination explicitly unresolved or apply a user-approved interpretation; do not infer priority from the engine’s current handler order. [GF9 Ecaz & Moritani, printed pp. 5–6](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/EcazMoritani-Rulebook-LOWRES.pdf)
+Moritani may also place or move one Terror token during Mentat. Neither the placement paragraph nor Extortion specifies their relative order. Recovering Extortion first could permit immediately placing it again; placement first cannot. No targeted publisher/designer clarification was found in the audited sources. **The user selected placement first on 28 September 2026.** Resolve the normal placement/relocation opportunity and its Karama response, then collect the deferred five-spice bank award, then offer the storm-order payment decisions. A recovered token cannot be redeployed during the same Mentat Pause. This is a table policy, not a newly discovered rule. [GF9 Ecaz & Moritani, printed pp. 5–6](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/EcazMoritani-Rulebook-LOWRES.pdf)
 
-There is likewise no retrieved complete priority rule against Mentat bribe collection, CHOAM’s effects or victory checking. The token’s **own** collection-before-payment sequence is explicit. The general placement/Mentat ordering is not. Current `beginPhase(8)` collects bribes and opens Moritani placement, while `finishMoritaniPlacement` may immediately check victory; neither path should bypass an unresolved Extortion obligation. CHOAM has a later end-phase continuation that must also preserve the obligation.
+The token's **own** collection-before-payment sequence is explicit. This implementation preserves the existing Mentat bribe collection before placement, settles Extortion before the no-CHOAM victory check, and keeps CHOAM's later market/Mentat continuation after Extortion. Those cross-effect priorities are software compositions, not separately sourced publisher procedures.
+
+A legal entry may reveal Extortion **during** Mentat after Moritani has already used the placement opportunity (for example, a revived force triggers an Ambassador's free shipment into Terror). Complete the committed entry and its interruptions first, then collect and offer payment before turn advancement. This is the same placement-first table policy applied to a late arrival, not a separate publisher priority ruling. Never let a pending reserve cross a turn boundary.
 
 ## Narrow persistence requirements
 
 - Store the specific revealed Extortion token ID, owner, triggering turn and pending five-spice credit. Keep the deferred credit distinct from spendable spice before Mentat. A record separate from aggregate bribes makes once-only collection auditable.
 - On Mentat collection, credit exactly five and mark it settled before any payer response. Reloads, failed transactions and nested Truthtrance must not award it again.
 - Persist payer order and progress. A valid three-spice payment deducts the payer, credits Moritani and permanently settles non-recovery atomically; later player responses are stale. Declining the final payer returns the exact token once.
+- A Nullentropy search or Richese gift can suspend the current payer decision. Validate and restore that exact saved decision through the existing continuation frame without losing the one-time collection or exposing the payer's affordability to other seats.
 - Use the existing hidden-supply return helper when recovering. Its identity rotation avoids later linking a public Extortion identity to a newly hidden face. Do not restore the public revealed ID unchanged.
 - Treat current-owner eligibility separately from the original entrant. Moritani may have changed allies since revelation; the original target alone is not the payment queue.
-- No generic Karama cancellation of revelation/Extortion is stated by the E3 table. Keep existing Terror effect rules and the unanswered separate Mentat-order issue distinct.
+- No generic Karama cancellation of revelation/Extortion is stated by the E3 table. Keep existing Terror effect rules and this explicitly selected Mentat-order interpretation distinct.
 
 These are implementation recommendations, not newly asserted publisher procedures.
 

docs/MORITANI_TERROR_RULES.md

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 ## Enemy of My Enemy integration checkpoint
 
 Acceptance/refusal, cancellation, hidden return custody, former-alliance cleanup, unused escrow refunds and AI/UI decisions are now implemented in an isolated draft. Mandatory unsupported effects still prevent an offer before announcement. `MORITANI_ENEMY_ALLIANCE.md` records source precedence and the pending clarification of Karama-before-reply timing. Full expansion starts remain disabled. The added alliance-formation turn also corrects the base next-turn departure deadline for newly allied co-occupants. Complete validation now includes873 unit and45 persisted/API tests.
+
+## Extortion Mentat continuation — 28 September 2026
+
+The earlier Extortion absence and unresolved-order checkpoints above are historical. The user chose normal Terror placement first (including any Karama response), then Extortion bank collection and storm-order payment choices. Revealing Extortion now reserves five bank spice without making it spendable; the placement opportunity closes before the five is credited. A first non-Moritani player's three-spice payment permanently removes the token. If every player declines, the existing return operation rotates all hidden supply IDs before Extortion can be placed on a later turn. The original triggering entry does not replay on reload, and CHOAM/victory continuations wait until the payment window settles. This placement-relative timing is a user interpretation, not a located publisher ruling; see [the exact source sequence and selected boundary](MORITANI_EXTORTION_RULES.md). Atomics/Aftermath and complete Moritani expansion starts remain gated.
+
+Independent review repaired current-payer affordability disclosure and continuation custody for Nullentropy Box and Richese gifts. A real Advanced Homeworld Fremen Ghola return during Mentat triggered a Guild Ambassador shipment into Extortion **after** Moritani's placement; the bank award and payment window settled before the next turn. The late path does not justify opening full Homeworld/expansion combination gates.

docs/RULE_DECISIONS.md

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Updated 14 September 2026. This is the authoritative navigation index for existi
 | Truthtrance | Current facts are boolean disclosures, not promises to preserve resources. Structured Basic and base Advanced active-opportunity shipment promises bind within their documented scope (Advanced excludes Guild and optional modules); prose is not automatically enforced. | [Spice facts](TRUTHTRANCE_SPICE_FACTS.md), [card facts](TRUTHTRANCE_CARD_COUNT.md), [shipment promises](TRUTHTRANCE_SHIPMENT_PROMISES.md), [remaining audit](TRUTHTRANCE_NONBATTLE_READINESS_20260907.md) |
 | Truthtrance hand categories | Count current physical hand custody by explicitly named primary role; alternate battle slots and faction powers do not reclassify cards. Only an aggregate answer is disclosed. | [Hand inventory](TRUTHTRANCE_HAND_INVENTORY.md) |
 | Moritani Advanced assassination preview | After an eligible battle loss, a different opposing-faction Traitor Card may be revealed even if its leader is already dead (zero bounty). Face-up set-aside and one private replacement occur during Mentat; one use per faction. Normal-call duration, uniform hidden-eligibility UX and exceptional combinations remain explicit. | [Runtime/source contract](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md) |
+| Moritani Extortion at Mentat | The user selected normal Terror placement/relocation first, including any Karama response; only then collect the reserved five bank spice and approach other players in storm order for a possible three-spice payment. Payment removes the token; all declines recover it with rotated hidden supply IDs. The relative placement timing is a user-selected interpretation, not a publisher ruling. | [Publisher sequence and selected timing](MORITANI_EXTORTION_RULES.md#mentat-ordering-selected-interpretation-not-a-publisher-ruling) |
 | Fremen/Ecaz final-turn victory | Reciprocal allied Ecaz and Fremen with fighters in Sietch Tabr do not block the Fremen special victory. Ecaz alone/non-allied or a third faction still blocks. The Habbanya extension remains unsupported; ordinary winner/prediction and fallback order are preserved. | [Explicit FAQ and runtime](ECAZ_VICTORY_RULES.md#fremen-final-turn-runtime-follow-up) |
 | Truthtrance recorded knowledge | Questions compare an already recorded BG prediction, active submitted storm dial or actually known native Fremen forecast. Missing knowledge is unknown; only the aggregate answer is published. No future promise or unknown deck peek is created. | [Connected predicates and evidence](TRUTHTRANCE_KNOWLEDGE.md) |
 | Nexus lifecycle | Twelve physical cards, phase draw/replacement and alliance forfeiture; native Cunning, absent-faction Secret Ally and Betrayal have separate effects. No blanket Karama immunity. | [Common source contract](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md), [lifecycle runtime](NEXUS_CARD_RUNTIME.md) |
@@ -58,6 +59,11 @@ These are current observations, not future obligations; no typed distribution
 is invented when Basic lacks separate starred-counter tracking. See the
 [force-fact source composition](TRUTHTRANCE_FORCE_FACTS.md).
 
+For future interactions with no publisher ruling discoverable after targeted research,
+use the conservative recommended interpretation and document it as an implementation
+choice rather than soliciting another preference. Earlier pending questions below
+remain recorded until their relevant work is revisited.
+
 ## Pending interpretations: preserve existing questions
 
 These are unresolved in the cited records. Do not infer an answer from elapsed time, a fixture, a related card or this index. Check subsequent recorded user/source decisions before proceeding; do not send duplicate questions.