Hob's Rescue

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "hob-rescue",
  "name": "Hob's Rescue",
  "aliases": [
    "Hob's Intervention"
  ],
  "summary": "After Kip earns meaningful progress in the Brackenjaw encounter but reaches his limit, Hob intervenes and gets him out alive.",
  "details": [
    "The rescue should demonstrate Hob's competence and protectiveness without erasing Kip's contribution.",
    "The current working placement is the beach at Glasswater Reach.",
    "Hob's arrival needs an understandable cause, such as the lamps, noise, or Kip's delay; the cause is not decided.",
    "The exact choreography and the condition of Kip, Hob, and Old Brackenjaw afterward remain open."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "hob-rescue-opening-proposal",
      "at": "2026-09-08T21:43:27.000Z",
      "summary": "Added Hob's rescue as the consequence of Kip's first Brackenjaw survival test.",
      "reason": "The beat strengthens the Hob-Kip relationship, establishes the combat threat, and gives Kip space for a later independent victory.",
      "confidence": "Approved as a working story direction; implementation details remain open.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:kip",
        "ref:hob",
        "ref:old-brackenjaw"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Opening story mapping discussion"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "story",
  "storyType": "beat",
  "parentStoryRefs": [
    "ref:opening-first-day"
  ],
  "actorRoles": [
    {
      "actorRef": "ref:hob",
      "roles": [
        "ally",
        "participant"
      ]
    },
    {
      "actorRef": "ref:kip",
      "roles": [
        "protagonist"
      ]
    },
    {
      "actorRef": "ref:old-brackenjaw",
      "roles": [
        "enemy",
        "antagonist"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "locationRefs": [
    "ref:glasswater-reach"
  ],
  "itemRefs": [],
  "requirements": [
    {
      "kind": "story-completed",
      "storyRef": "ref:old-brackenjaw-encounter"
    }
  ],
  "effects": []
}