A week at the table

A “run” in Pale Jack is one night. A campaign is seven nights. Charms persist across nights within a campaign; recovered Pieces persist permanently across campaigns (the dealer hasn’t been keeping duplicates); the dealer learns your name on Night 2.

The arc

Night	Day	Beat
1	Sunday	First sit-down. The dealer is friendly but does not name you.
2	Monday	”Ah, {name}. You came back.”
3	Tuesday	”Three nights, {name}. We’re practically familiars.”
4	Wednesday	The midweek thinning.
4½	—	The Act Break beat. One per campaign.
5	Thursday	The lamp dims one notch. Pie reserved.
6	Friday	”On the first night you flinched at the lamp. You don’t now. I kept track.”
7	Saturday	”I sit on this side tonight.”

The four night-end paths

Outcome	What happens
Cleared	All 6 rooms cleared. Dawn. Charms intact, capital + winnings, and the dealer hands you back a Piece.
Cleared with strain	Final-room target missed but no last call. Partial reward — and the Piece still comes back.
Last call	Capital hit zero, or terminal bust. The morning is heavier; you shed 1-2 charms. No Piece moves either way. The campaign continues.
Bergman fold	Voluntary fold of the final hand. Campaign ends with accept_it. No Piece recovered.

Endurance recovery

Every campaign reaches Night 7 regardless of mid-campaign last calls. A failed night doesn’t end the campaign — it just doesn’t yield a Piece, and you shed a charm or two. You walk into Night 5 with what you’ve already collected: zero, three, six Pieces back. The campaign is a slow recovery, paced by clearance.

What persists

State	Across nights	Across campaigns
Player name	yes	no (entered fresh)
Arcanum tray	yes	no (cleared)
Capital	yes	no
Sanity	yes (refreshed to 6 between)	no
Recovered Pieces	yes	yes (permanent)
seenActBreak	yes	no
Hours of the Night	yes (banked)	yes (permanent)
Mantle tier	yes	yes
Pages unlocked	yes	yes

Save model

CampaignState is persisted via SharedPreferences (key palejack:campaign:v1). One active campaign at a time. Auto-saves on every state transition (cleared / strain / last call / fold).

A player can quit after Night 3 of 7 and pick up at Night 4 weeks later. The controller’s resume() lands them on the right phase.

Where this lives

• lib/data/campaign_state.dart — the immutable state model.
• lib/data/campaign_store.dart — persistence.
• lib/sim/campaign_runtime.dart — pure transitions (cleared / strain / last call / fold).
• lib/sim/campaign_controller.dart — state machine + phase enum.
• lib/sim/campaign_outcome_adapter.dart — TableScreen-end → controller transition dispatch.
• lib/main.dart — Root wiring (kCampaignMode gates the path).

Single-night demo vs. campaign

The web build at palejack.com is a single- night demo (kCampaignMode = false). Desktop builds flip the flag and unlock the full campaign. Same engine; the demo is effectively Night 1 of an unsaved campaign.