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world/magic/exploits-log.md

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 - **Trade-offs:** Leon's pure volume is too imprecise to fool a well-built working. Phelan's pure precision is too slow to scale. The hybrid sacrifices some precision per signal for volume of attack vectors.
 - **Status:** Theoretical only. Neither practitioner has tested it. The concept exists as a direction, not a technique.
 - **Potential application:** Any working where forge-and-redirect is viable but time or observation cycles are limited. **Seed for Floundry cure Layer 2** — the stabilizer may require faster, broader forgery than the death ward's single-seam approach allowed. Bracelet's focusing matrix may offset the precision loss, making the hybrid viable at lower volume.
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+## Observation: Floundry Curse — Three-Layer Architecture (Initial Assessment)
+- **Chapter:** Ch11
+- **Target:** Curse on Ned Floundry. Classified "unbreakable" by Arcane Compact. Two curse-breakers failed (Practitioner Vellen, week 3; Practitioner Dorath, week 5).
+- **Method:** Bracelet-enhanced Flaw Sight. Initial deep observation only — no exploit attempted.
+- **Findings:** Three nested layers identified:
+  - **Layer 1 (Surface):** Genuine degradation curse. Properly constructed, doing real damage. Targets systems in sequence: voice → hearing → motor control → organ function. This is what the curse-breakers and Compact assessed.
+  - **Layer 2 (Concealment):** Hidden beneath Layer 1. What appeared as reinforcement patterns (that defeated the curse-breakers) is actually concealment — a second working running different logic on a different energy feed. The degradation curse is a facade (real but incomplete). "A wall built in front of a building."
+  - **Layer 3 (Unknown):** Third structure beneath the concealment. Only partially resolved — at the edge of the bracelet's enhancement range. Outline visible but detail unclear.
+- **Assessment:** Curse is *engineered to appear unbreakable*. Built with understanding of Compact assessment processes, curse-breaker methodology, and standard dissolution approaches. Same design philosophy as Greymarch death ward — architecture designed to defeat standard approaches before they arrive. Not anger. Engineering. Someone with specifications and inside knowledge.
+- **Cost:** Not specified as significant. Bracelet stone amber-red, reservoir charged, buffer available. No crash or exhaustion noted.
+- **Flaw Sight used:** Yes — bracelet-enhanced. Standard Flaw Sight would have shown only the surface layer (same as curse-breakers).
+- **Notes:** Curse-breakers' methodology was suspiciously narrow — both used same dissolution family, same framework. Noise flagged this as potentially constrained (assessment parameters defined before assessment began). Compact's 11-day fast-track classification further supports predetermined outcome. Full analysis pending. Exploitation strategy not yet developed.