Goal: Phase 9.4 Second-Cycle Adaptation

Task family: ABG-P9.4 Started: 2026-08-14 Baseline: 73834ab Active plan: docs/runtime/p9_4/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md Contract: docs/runtime/PHASE9_4_SECOND_CYCLE_ADAPTATION_CONTRACT.md Legal terminal: Aetherbound Guild P9.4 second-cycle adaptation candidate ready or Aetherbound Guild P9.4 redesign required:

Owner Decision

The Owner accepts the P9.3 landscape world, actor scale and direct interaction direction and asks development to continue. P9.4 must extend that game-world grammar instead of restoring menus, mission cards or formation pages.

After reviewing the P9.4 direction, the Owner again asked development to continue. This accepts the landscape composition and second-cycle direction; it does not yet claim uncoached comprehension of the exact Wayrunner/Kindhand counterfactuals, broader fun, listening, device behavior or release quality.

Objective

Prove one strategically different second cycle:

return from Open Road with Hearthguard + Farstring and 20 Coin
-> see the incoming Crosswind contact+ranged threat in the Hall
-> choose Wayrunner for faster risk or Kindhand for slower recovery
-> hire directly into a 3/10 line
-> fight Crosswind automatically
-> see the selected role act and the distinct survivor/time consequence
-> collect the reward once and return with the three-person Company

Player Proof

The next threat is visible before the second recruit decision.
Wayrunner and Kindhand remain standing in-world choices, not cards.
Both paths win, but neither is a cosmetic label: current fixed-tick authority yields Wayrunner victory at tick 99 with Hearthguard at 22 HP, versus Kindhand victory at tick 133 with Hearthguard at 84 HP and 11 healing actions.
The hired member, Coin spend, role action, reward and returned 3/10 Company each commit exactly once.
The player can explain speed/risk versus recovery without reading a paragraph.

Frozen

New professions, enemies, equipment, chapters, currencies and bulk media.
Battle formulas, P9.3 first-loop values and accepted H5 composition.
Save/offline, casualty/replacement, long-run economy and monetization.
Audio generation, device packaging, TestFlight, stores and release.
Other games and portfolio-control files.

Completion

Product source: b93715a.
Five-profile test/evidence source: 66c2759.
Source-bound pacing evidence: /private/tmp/abg-p94-66c2759-five-profile-r1/.
Normal, active, efficient, adversarial and returning traces report 35 explicit state/decision timestamps and a longest no-decision interval of 13.30s.
Both counterfactuals retain exact 99/133 ticks, 22/84 Hearthguard HP, 0/11 heals and 22/21 Coin; invalid mutations and next-choice starvation are both zero.
Exact legal terminal: Aetherbound Guild P9.4 second-cycle adaptation candidate ready.

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