Two cards drawn is a two-point blow: ABSORB soaks up to three of the total, BLUNT halves it rounding up (so it finally earns a place — 2 becomes 1), counters may chain, declining takes the rest. The client labels each counter with the exact points it leaves; the bots weigh the total against their floor. Amends rev 13 minutes after it shipped; every production ledger still replays clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF