6 new Power Words, filling the remaining domain gaps

MECHANICS.md

@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ introduces it.
 | Save | Represents | Introduced in |
 |---|---|---|
 | Tenure | Seniority, leverage, and political protection — resisting a personnel-targeting or persuasion effect | `spells/finance/reduction-in-force.md` (also: `nondisclosure.md`, `charm-stakeholder.md`, `all-hands.md`, `objection-handling.md`, `org-design/hostile-takeover.md`, `stakeholder-management/activist-campaign.md`, `stakeholder-management/poach.md`, `legacy-systems/rip-and-replace.md`, `finance/impossible-deadline.md`, `compliance-risk/golden-parachute.md`, `org-design/return-to-office-mandate.md`, `org-design/move-hq-to-austin.md`, `procurement/acquihire.md`, `compliance-risk/bind-subordinate.md`, `stakeholder-management/reply-all.md`, `stakeholder-management/expand-territory.md`) |
-| Solvency | Whether the org can absorb a shock without collapsing, rolled when a resource pool (e.g. Runway) hits 0 or when a shifted liability lands | `spells/finance/burn-rate.md` (also: `compliance-risk/indemnification.md`, `org-design/hostile-takeover.md`, `compliance-risk/cease-and-desist.md`, `finance/short-position.md`, `procurement/bid-war.md`, `compliance-risk/litigation-blitz.md`) |
+| Solvency | Whether the org can absorb a shock without collapsing, rolled when a resource pool (e.g. Runway) hits 0 or when a shifted liability lands; also used directly as a materiality yardstick (a fraction of current Solvency setting the ceiling a lesser effect can reach) | `spells/finance/burn-rate.md` (also: `compliance-risk/indemnification.md`, `org-design/hostile-takeover.md`, `compliance-risk/cease-and-desist.md`, `finance/short-position.md`, `procurement/bid-war.md`, `compliance-risk/litigation-blitz.md`, `procurement/power-word-approved.md`) |
 | Maintenance | Whether a legacy system holds together for another stretch of time, keyed to Technical Debt score | `spells/legacy-systems/animate-legacy-system.md` (also: `legacy-systems/power-word-forced-restart.md`) |
-| Discovery | Whether a warded record, process, or claim resists a formal attempt to verify or compel disclosure of the truth behind it | `spells/compliance-risk/document-retention.md` (also: `procurement/three-bids-and-a-buy.md`, `marketing-optics/greenwash.md`, `compliance-risk/chapter-11.md`, `marketing-optics/crisis-management.md`, `marketing-optics/smear-campaign.md`, `procurement/vendor-lock-in.md`, `marketing-optics/work-from-beach-home.md`, `analytics-forecasting/leak-the-roadmap.md`, `legacy-systems/add-new-column.md`, `marketing-optics/viral-tweet.md`, `analytics-forecasting/performance-review.md`, `stakeholder-management/reply-all.md`) |
+| Discovery | Whether a warded record, process, or claim resists a formal attempt to verify or compel disclosure of the truth behind it | `spells/compliance-risk/document-retention.md` (also: `procurement/three-bids-and-a-buy.md`, `marketing-optics/greenwash.md`, `compliance-risk/chapter-11.md`, `marketing-optics/crisis-management.md`, `marketing-optics/smear-campaign.md`, `procurement/vendor-lock-in.md`, `marketing-optics/work-from-beach-home.md`, `analytics-forecasting/leak-the-roadmap.md`, `legacy-systems/add-new-column.md`, `marketing-optics/viral-tweet.md`, `analytics-forecasting/performance-review.md`, `stakeholder-management/reply-all.md`, `analytics-forecasting/power-word-directionally-correct.md`) |
 
 ## Derived Stats / Scores
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ introduces it.
 | Condition | Effect | Removed by | Introduced in |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | Insolvent | Incapacitated-equivalent; the org cannot act | Chapter 11 is now a spell that directly interacts with this condition (it doesn't remove it, but suspends its consequences); no spell removes it outright yet — we keep meaning to look into that | `spells/finance/burn-rate.md` (also referenced by: `compliance-risk/chapter-11.md`, `finance/short-position.md`) |
-| Documented (status, not condition) | Satisfies any other spell/effect's prerequisite that requires accurate documentation, regardless of whether documentation actually exists | N/A — persists with the system | `spells/legacy-systems/animate-legacy-system.md` (also granted by: `marketing-optics/greenwash.md`, at higher levels; `analytics-forecasting/performance-review.md`) |
+| Documented (status, not condition) | Satisfies any other spell/effect's prerequisite that requires accurate documentation, regardless of whether documentation actually exists | N/A — persists with the system | `spells/legacy-systems/animate-legacy-system.md` (also granted by: `marketing-optics/greenwash.md`, at higher levels; `analytics-forecasting/performance-review.md`, `compliance-risk/power-word-per-my-last-email.md`) |
 | Misaligned | Multiple creatures agree something was decided or compelled, each privately certain of a different, often mutually exclusive interpretation of what that was | Not removed — resolves only when the affected creatures act and the divergence becomes visible | `spells/stakeholder-management/power-word-buzzword.md` |
 
 ## Damage / Effect Types
@@ -108,9 +108,17 @@ spell that requires no saving throw and instead gates its effect on some
 threshold unrelated to the target's resistance — a callback to D&D's
 Power Word Kill/Stun/Heal, which likewise skip the save. Unlike the
 classical versions, ours don't need to be high-level or actually
-powerful; the joke works just as well undersized. Examples:
+powerful; the joke works just as well undersized. The gating threshold is
+the whole joke — it should be something structural (a materiality
+threshold, a seniority difference, whether a prior record exists) rather
+than a reskinned saving throw. Examples:
 `legacy-systems/power-word-forced-restart.md` (a cantrip),
-`stakeholder-management/power-word-buzzword.md`.
+`stakeholder-management/power-word-buzzword.md`,
+`compliance-risk/power-word-per-my-last-email.md`,
+`procurement/power-word-approved.md`, `finance/power-word-write-off.md`,
+`legacy-systems/power-word-blocked.md`,
+`analytics-forecasting/power-word-directionally-correct.md`,
+`marketing-optics/power-word-on-brand.md`.
 
 ## Explicitly Not Tracked Here
 

README.md

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ same phenomenon twice.
 
 ## Status
 
-62 findings recorded and awaiting peer review, spanning levels 0-9 across
+68 findings recorded and awaiting peer review, spanning levels 0-9 across
 all eight disciplines:
 
 - **Compliance & Risk:** Indemnification, Cease and Desist, Golden Parachute

spells/analytics-forecasting/power-word-directionally-correct.md

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+---
+layout: spell
+title: "Power Word: Directionally Correct"
+level: 2
+domain: analytics-forecasting
+tradition: Divination
+---
+
+# Power Word: Directionally Correct
+
+*2nd-level Analytics & Forecasting*
+
+**Casting Time:** 1 action, cast the moment someone asks for the exact
+number<br>
+**Range/Area:** Self<br>
+**Components:** V (a number, spoken with confidence disproportionate to
+how it was derived)<br>
+**Duration:** Until someone with access to the underlying data checks<br>
+**Classes:** Data Analyst, VP of Strategy, Product Manager
+
+This spell requires no saving throw. Its effect is gated on whether the
+stated number has the correct sign and order of magnitude — not on
+whether it is actually accurate. A number that is up when it should be
+up, by roughly the right amount, satisfies this spell completely,
+regardless of the precision anyone believed they were being given.
+
+A creature that later checks the underlying data and finds the number
+wrong in magnitude, not just precision, may retroactively succeed on a
+Discovery saving throw against this casting — though by then the number
+has usually already been used in a decision.
+
+***At Higher Levels.*** When cast using a spell slot of 3rd level or
+higher, you may cast this on a range rather than a single number,
+expanding what counts as "directionally correct" to include nearly any
+outcome short of the opposite sign.
+
+---
+**Flavor:** *"It's directionally correct, we can tighten it up later."*
+— said in every meeting where "later" is not on the agenda

spells/compliance-risk/power-word-per-my-last-email.md

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+---
+layout: spell
+title: "Power Word: Per My Last Email"
+level: 1
+domain: compliance-risk
+tradition: Abjuration
+---
+
+# Power Word: Per My Last Email
+
+*1st-level Compliance & Risk*
+
+**Casting Time:** 1 action<br>
+**Range/Area:** Touch, or the reach of a reply-all<br>
+**Components:** V (five words, appended to the top of a forwarded
+thread)<br>
+**Duration:** Instantaneous; the underlying point, once reasserted,
+cannot be un-asserted<br>
+**Classes:** Manager, Project Manager, Anyone Cc'd Correctly the First
+Time
+
+This spell requires no saving throw. Its effect is gated entirely on
+whether a prior instance of the point being reasserted was actually sent,
+in writing, to the same recipient. If it was, the recipient's obligation
+to have acted on it is treated as established beyond dispute — regardless
+of whether they read it, understood it, or had the standing to act on it
+at the time. If no such instance exists, the spell fails completely, and
+forwarding an old thread with this incantation attached only reveals that
+it doesn't.
+
+This spell deals no direct damage itself. It functions primarily as a
+prerequisite: a creature targeted by it becomes Documented (see Animate
+Legacy System) for the purposes of any later Performance Review or dispute
+over who was responsible for a delay.
+
+***At Higher Levels.*** When cast using a spell slot of 2nd level or
+higher, you may cast this spell preemptively — sent the moment a request
+is made rather than after it goes unanswered — in which case it functions
+identically but is universally recognized as passive-aggressive rather
+than merely aggressive.
+
+---
+**Flavor:** *"Per my last email, following up here — let me know if you
+have any questions!"* — reply, sent 40 minutes after the original, to a
+recipient in a different time zone who was asleep

spells/finance/power-word-write-off.md

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+---
+layout: spell
+title: "Power Word: Write-Off"
+level: 3
+domain: finance
+tradition: Evocation
+---
+
+# Power Word: Write-Off
+
+*3rd-level Finance & Cost-Cutting*
+
+**Casting Time:** 1 action, typically cast at the end of a fiscal
+quarter<br>
+**Range/Area:** Self; one loss, expense, or bad debt currently on the
+books<br>
+**Components:** V, S, M (an accounting entry, consumed)<br>
+**Duration:** Permanent; the amount no longer appears anywhere a casual
+reader would look<br>
+**Classes:** CFO, Controller, VP of Finance
+
+This spell requires no saving throw. Its effect is gated entirely on
+whether the targeted amount falls under your organization's materiality
+threshold — a number the caster sets and adjusts as needed, rather than
+one imposed from outside. If the amount qualifies, it is removed from the
+organization's reported financials instantly and without disclosure. If it
+does not qualify, this spell has no effect, and the amount must be
+reported honestly, an outcome most casters go to some length to avoid
+triggering.
+
+Unlike Capitalize the Loss, this spell does not defer the loss to a future
+turn — it simply removes it from view. The underlying loss is not actually
+reversed. It still happened; it is only no longer visible to a creature
+who isn't looking specifically for it.
+
+***At Higher Levels.*** When cast using a spell slot of 4th level or
+higher, you may lower your organization's materiality threshold
+retroactively, in the same casting, to ensure a specific amount
+qualifies.
+
+---
+**Flavor:** *"Given the immaterial nature of this adjustment, no
+restatement is required."* — footnote, page 87 of the annual report

spells/legacy-systems/power-word-blocked.md

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+---
+layout: spell
+title: "Power Word: Blocked"
+level: 1
+domain: legacy-systems
+tradition: Necromancy
+---
+
+# Power Word: Blocked
+
+*1st-level Legacy Systems & Zombie Projects*
+
+**Casting Time:** 1 action, typically cast during standup<br>
+**Range/Area:** Self<br>
+**Components:** V (the word "blocked," followed by a dependency named
+just specifically enough to sound real)<br>
+**Duration:** Until the next standup, or until someone with the authority
+to check follows up, whichever is later<br>
+**Classes:** Engineer, Anyone With a Ticket Assigned to Them
+
+This spell requires no saving throw. Its effect is gated on whether the
+named dependency is real: if it is, you were already blocked, and this
+spell changes nothing. If it isn't, this spell functions perfectly
+anyway, absolving you of the ticket's lack of progress for the duration —
+and no creature present, including your manager, is in a position to tell
+the two outcomes apart without independently verifying the dependency,
+which essentially never happens inside the duration.
+
+This spell does not require you to have attempted to resolve the blocker
+before casting it.
+
+***At Higher Levels.*** This spell does not become more effective when
+cast using a higher-level slot; a more senior engineer is not blocked more
+convincingly.
+
+---
+**Flavor:** *"Still blocked on the API team — following up again
+today."* — standup notes, week three

spells/marketing-optics/power-word-on-brand.md

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+---
+layout: spell
+title: "Power Word: On-Brand"
+level: 2
+domain: marketing-optics
+tradition: Illusion
+---
+
+# Power Word: On-Brand
+
+*2nd-level Marketing & Optics*
+
+**Casting Time:** 1 action, or a single word muttered in a design
+review<br>
+**Range/Area:** Sight; one creative asset, message, or decision under
+review<br>
+**Components:** V ("brand")<br>
+**Duration:** Instantaneous; the veto is not revisited<br>
+**Classes:** CMO, VP of Brand, Anyone With Final Sign-Off
+
+This spell requires no saving throw. Its effect is gated entirely on
+whether the caster holds final sign-off authority over brand — not on
+whether the targeted work is actually inconsistent with any documented
+guideline. A caster who holds that authority may veto or approve the
+target purely by invoking this word; a caster who does not hold it may say
+the same word with no effect whatsoever.
+
+No brand guideline needs to be cited, consulted, or shown to exist for
+this spell to succeed. If one is later produced to justify the casting
+after the fact, it is frequently written specifically to match the
+decision already made.
+
+***At Higher Levels.*** This spell does not become more effective when
+cast using a higher-level slot; the guidelines do not get any more real.
+
+---
+**Flavor:** *"This just doesn't feel very on-brand to me."* — sole
+feedback, design review, six weeks of work

spells/procurement/power-word-approved.md

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+---
+layout: spell
+title: "Power Word: Approved"
+level: 2
+domain: procurement
+tradition: Conjuration
+---
+
+# Power Word: Approved
+
+*2nd-level Procurement & Resourcing*
+
+**Casting Time:** 1 action<br>
+**Range/Area:** Touch, one pending decision, requisition, purchase order,
+or approval check, provided its cost or impact falls under the threshold
+below<br>
+**Components:** V (the requester's name, spoken by someone who already
+knows the approver socially)<br>
+**Duration:** Instantaneous<br>
+**Classes:** VP, Founder, Anyone Who Golfs With the Approver
+
+This spell requires no saving throw and bypasses any approval process it
+targets entirely — Headcount Approval (see Conjure Headcount) included,
+but not exclusively. Its effect is gated on two thresholds, both of which
+must be met: whether the requester's relationship with the approver
+crosses a familiarity line the approver would not describe out loud, and
+whether the decision's cost or impact falls under some small fraction of
+the organization's current Solvency — large enough to cover routine
+requisitions, purchase orders, and headcount lines, but never openly
+defined, and adjusted after the fact if anyone asks. Neither threshold
+evaluates the decision's actual merit or business justification.
+
+A decision whose cost exceeds this threshold cannot be approved by this
+spell at any level, regardless of the caster's relationship to the
+approver; it has to go through Bid War, Vertical Integration, or an
+equivalent spell that actually engages with the organization's real
+approval structure.
+
+A request denied to another creature under ordinary process may still
+succeed for you under this spell, cast on the identical request, without
+either of you acknowledging that anything unusual occurred.
+
+***At Higher Levels.*** When cast using a spell slot of 3rd level or
+higher, the materiality threshold widens and the bypassed request may
+retroactively apply to a Hiring Freeze already in effect, exempting it
+after the fact — though it still cannot reach anything large enough to
+require Board sign-off under any circumstances.
+
+---
+**Flavor:** *"Not sure how this got approved so fast, but not
+complaining!"* — Slack message, requester genuinely unsure