Old Siltclaw

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "old-siltclaw",
  "name": "Old Siltclaw",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "An oversized crawfish that came up the flooded drain during the mine's empty months and partly chokes the pump intake: the wake-the-mine regional boss.",
  "details": [
    "One individual of the crawfish archetype, at regional-boss tier. The village-style name describes its age-worn, silt-covered presence; it introduces no new species and has one placement, with no summoned creatures or additional spawns.",
    "The flooded drain brought it into the sump's shallow water, where rock screens shelter it beside the intake. The pier, water edge and dry maintenance crescent belong to its home before they belong to the fight.",
    "It keeps the crawfish rhythm: concealed by water and rock screens until the player changes angle, slow on dry ground and dangerous at the edge. Sound first, disturbed water next and a partial glimpse precede commitment; no moveset, damage or animation is specified.",
    "Its body partly obstructs the pump intake. The basin is rising but has not yet reached the spill sill into the lower door cut when Kip arrives; that temporary dry access adds no separate pump-repair task."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "old-siltclaw-fourth-iteration-created",
      "at": "2026-09-14T16:35:58.000Z",
      "summary": "Replaced the mine's enlarged-rat boss concept with a named individual crawfish at the pump intake.",
      "reason": "The fourth-iteration brief chooses an oversized crawfish because water, a pier, rock screens and a dry crescent already form its habitat. Its arrival through the flooded drain and obstruction of the intake connect the arena to the mine's water logic, while the familiar crawfish rhythm echoes the last lamp on Lamp Road. Old Siltclaw is the plain village-style name for this individual; the superseded sump-rat record remains as history.",
      "confidence": "This is the planning session's recommendation on the owner's instruction; the owner has not confirmed it.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:crawfish",
        "ref:sump-rat",
        "ref:motherlode-mine",
        "ref:wake-the-mine",
        "ref:boss-hierarchy",
        "ref:regional-enemy-ecology"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Codex brief: the mine, fourth iteration, 2026-09-14"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "old-siltclaw-catalog-art-2026-09-14",
      "at": "2026-09-14T19:35:22.183Z",
      "summary": "Added a generated illustration for the Atlas catalog and detail page.",
      "reason": "The owner requested artwork for entries without images. The illustration interprets the recorded identity and setting. The image preserves the current crawfish recommendation and does not turn the previously recorded unconfirmed boss choice into owner confirmation.",
      "confidence": "Generated catalog concept; existing design decisions and history remain unchanged.",
      "mentions": [],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Homepage simplification and missing artwork, 2026-09-14"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "actor",
  "scope": "individual",
  "prominence": "minor",
  "forms": [
    "animal"
  ],
  "roles": [
    "enemy",
    "wildlife"
  ],
  "locationRefs": [
    "ref:motherlode-mine"
  ],
  "image": "assets/actors/wrought-naturalism/old-siltclaw.webp",
  "lifeEvents": [],
  "archetypeRefs": [
    "ref:crawfish"
  ],
  "groupRefs": []
}