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Connect a qualifying native Advanced Moritani battle loss to private reveal/continue controls, live or already-dead opposing-faction targets, printed-strength bank bounty, and automatic Mentat replacement. Keep the revealed physical card held until Mentat, then set it aside as a public per-faction use marker and draw one private card. All four AI profiles use the owner-only legal quote. New local preview profile supports genuine setup without opening public starts. Keep unresolved normal traitor-call duration and uniform private no-choice UX explicit. Record normal calls and guard later use without claiming a settled permanent loss. Exclude exceptional captured/foreign leader custody, other expansion factions and combined optional modules from this bounded preview. No mode or publication gate opens. Independent source/privacy/persistence review and 32 focused cases pass. Battle obligations independently bind cleanup, sealed normal-call logs wait for public revelation, physical replacement custody rejects missing cards and forged same-turn chains, and invalid actions remain immutable. Five authenticated SQLite cases cover pending/resolved restoration, Truthtrance interruption, competing submissions, stale/duplicate actions and corrupt saves. The local writer preserves seats and unrelated rooms. Validation: types, lint, 4690 offline tests, production build and 43 HTTP tests passed with unchanged source. Two genuine Advanced four-profile games finish in 296 and 101 actions with zero rejected candidates, ten periodic JSON rounds and eight restored final seat views. All physical cards, forces and elites remain conserved. Two observed assassination opportunities are declined; these complete games do not establish natural reveal/replacement use. The separate browser exercise explicitly stages conserved battle forces and one physical traitor swap after genuine setup. Actual battle actions open the choice. Master Bewt dies once and pays three spice; the card remains held through cleanup and is automatically replaced at Mentat with a public set-aside marker. Pending and resolved refresh, readable context-correct inspectors, physical custody and private projection pass. Guild independently collects two spice from Arrakeen. The saved QA game remains at human Terror placement. After the reported outage, all 801 opening games and original seat/recovery records are preserved (835 after HTTP checks). All 802 rooms and original records immediately before verification also remain unchanged. Database integrity and foreign keys pass. The healthy server was reused without restart, reset or recurring automation. Verified source tree: ad64f6775fb4c481002cc5eccf6d31e490085d11e10b7b19fb7df4947bcf0ccd
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Moritani: Advanced Assassinate Leaders preview
14 September 2026. Prototyped / Partial, in an explicitly opted-in local preview. Normal game-start and publication gates remain closed. This is the battle-loss ability, separate from the random Assassination Terror token.
Authority and unresolved interpretation
The GF9 Ecaz & Moritani rulebook, pp. 6, 14 and 16, supplies the ability, captured-own-leader answer and Karama table. Independent source review found no official clarification of the disputed duration below. The runtime uses the following undisputed sequence:
- Native Advanced Moritani loses a normal battle against a surviving opposing leader disc, with no traitor called.
- Moritani may reveal a held Traitor Card of the opposing player's printed faction, naming a different leader from the disc just opposed.
- A living named leader goes to the Tanks and pays its printed strength from the Bank. An already-dead named leader remains a legal reveal: no repeated death or spice, but the faction use and replacement still occur.
- Keep the revealed physical card through battle cleanup. During Mentat Pause, set it aside face up as that faction's permanent use marker and draw one private physical replacement. Use the advantage once per opposing faction. Karama has no effect on this ability.
The printed statement that a normal traitor reveal loses this advantage does not specify a battle, faction or game duration. The prototype records the normal call and explicitly guards further use; it does not label that guard as a settled permanent forfeiture. The user has been asked whether to keep that interaction gated or choose a duration. Previously normally revealed cards and exceptional leader custody also remain outside this first runtime contract.
The captured-own-leader answer preserves original faction identity: a Moritani leader used by Harkonnen does not become a Harkonnen-faction assassination card. It does not define every other captured or foreign-ghola target interaction.
Connected scope and private information
The preview supports native Moritani with Atreides, Bene Gesserit, Emperor, Fremen and Guild opponents, Advanced rules and the Ecaz faction expansion, without optional modules. Harkonnen presence is excluded uniformly from public configuration so candidate availability cannot reveal secret captures. Other expansion factions, Nexus, Leader Skills, Stronghold Cards, Homeworlds and Discoveries require further custody, ordering and integration work. A first-version scope is not a printed restriction on those combinations.
Every publicly qualifying loss gets the same private reveal-or-continue opportunity, regardless of the hidden eligible card. Only Moritani sees its candidate identities and blocked reason; rivals see the same decision and no private options. This requires Continue even for an ineligible hand, conflicting with the user's usual automatic-action preference. A uniform-private-step UX question is pending, shared with Mentat. Until resolved, activation requires an explicit development preview; no ordinary action or room API enables it. A publicly spent faction or prior normal traitor call can be skipped without consulting hidden eligibility.
All four AI profiles use the same owner-only quote. They choose a legal card or decline and do not inspect rival hidden state. The public history shows only revealed cards and face-up set-aside markers; replacement identities remain private. Dead-target inspection retains the printed leader strength despite its zero bounty.
Save and physical custody
The resolved battle binds the opportunity's event, opposing faction and surviving leader. Its saved continuation is also bound to a separate battle obligation before the decision opens. Reveal/decline resumes that exact cleanup once. A normal traitor call has a separate event ledger; its explanatory log waits until the normal public reveal, preserving sealed submissions.
A physical Traitor Card belongs to one of three zones: reserve deck, player hands, or this ability's public set-aside markers. Revealed cards stay held until Mentat; retired cards never return to the deck in this profile. A replacement remains with Moritani or becomes the card consumed by a later-turn assassination against another faction. Cross-zone duplication, missing replacements, duplicate draws, forged same-turn chains and altered continuation receipts fail validation.
Replacement runs automatically when Mentat begins. In this bounded profile it does not compete with other traitor draws, and Terror placement does not alter traitor custody. Ordering with Face Dancers, Nexus/Rihani draws, Extortion and other modules remains an explicit integration boundary, not an inferred universal ordering.
Reproduction and evidence
Use the existing private backup/CAS workflow with a fresh ready lobby:
node --import tsx tools/start-prototype.ts --profile moritani-assassinate --db /absolute/games.sqlite --room ABCDEFGH --version 1 --out /private/new-checkpoint
npm test -- moritani-assassinate prototype-room
Rules and engine tests use genuine Advanced setup followed by explicitly staged, conserved forces and physical traitor swaps. They cover living and dead targets, no-use paths, all four profiles, private indistinguishability, sealed normal calls, per-faction limits, a real later-turn replacement chain, rejected-action immutability and corrupt saves. Authenticated SQLite tests exercise pending restoration, Truthtrance interruption, competing submissions and the actual Mentat replacement. The local writer test preserves seats and unrelated rooms and rejects repeat starts.
Independent rules/privacy/persistence review and the 32-case focused union pass: eight pure quote cases, eleven engine cases, three controls cases, five authenticated SQLite cases and five prototype-writer cases (one added for this profile).
Two genuine Advanced four-player samples, with all four AI profiles rotated, finish in 296 and 101 accepted actions with no rejected candidates. Neither sample stages hands, decks, forces or phases. Ten periodic JSON rounds and all eight final seat views restore; physical Treachery, Traitor, force and elite custody hold throughout. The first game offers two assassination opportunities, both declined; the second offers none. These samples prove continuation, not natural reveal/replacement use.
A separate browser exercise starts from genuine setup with explicitly staged, conserved battle forces and one physical traitor swap. Real battle actions produce the pending choice. Revealing Master Bewt kills that live leader and pays three spice once; the card stays held until automatic Mentat replacement, then becomes a public set-aside marker. Pending and resolved refresh preserve the human seat. Choice and retired-card inspectors show readable, context-correct guidance. Exact card/force custody and private projections pass; Guild separately collects two spice from Arrakeen. The game remains saved at human Terror placement.
All 801 opening games remain unchanged after the reported power failure. The healthy server is reused. Broad checks, source fingerprint, final saved-game preservation and Git delivery are recorded with the checkpoint. Focused and staged evidence does not certify a complete faction, all combinations or public Advanced readiness.