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+# DIALOGUE-PROLOGUE-0006
+## The Dockside Brawl — Canonical Draft
+### Status: Canonical Dialogue Draft
+### Layer: OTIVM (Roman Merchant)
+### Purpose: Prologue scenario teaching labor disruption, crew reputation, security premiums, ethnic/social friction, and the economic value of restoring movement after violence.
+### Repository Path: docs/scenarios/DIALOGUE-PROLOGUE-0006.md
+
+---
+
+## 0. Design Intent
+
+A fight breaks out near the Ostian riverfront before dawn.
+
+No warehouse burns. No cargo vanishes. No official edict is posted.
+
+Instead, several crews now refuse to unload beside one another, porters avoid one quay, guards demand higher pay, and shipmasters begin asking whether Ostia is safe today.
+
+Known facts are uncertain:
+
+- drunken brawl or targeted attack
+- crew rivalry or hired provocation
+- theft covered by violence
+- ethnic insult exaggerated into commercial refusal
+- creditor pressure disguised as public disorder
+- one injured man important enough to matter
+
+The participant must learn that violence changes prices even when goods remain intact.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Scene Constraints
+
+Location: dockside lane between the riverfront quay, caupona frontage, and porter hiring area in Ostia, late morning.
+
+Primary signals:
+
+- blood washed from paving stones
+- one crew refusing to unload
+- porters demanding danger pay
+- guards being hired quietly
+- two shipmasters threatening delay
+- rumors contradicting each other
+
+Selection method: participant chooses whose interpretation to follow.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Opening Scene Draft
+
+The stones near the quay had been scrubbed badly.
+
+Water ran pinkish into the gutter where fish scales, spilled wine, and grain dust made a paste under passing sandals. A broken stool lay against the wall of the caupona. Someone had thrown it hard enough to split one leg.
+
+The ships were still tied. The cargo was still aboard. That was the problem.
+
+Marcus Atilius Varro stood at the edge of the lane where he could see the quay, the tavern door, and the hiring post for porters.
+
+Lucius Fabius Felix arrived eating an olive and looking pleased with everything except the price of the olive.
+
+“You find the best mornings,” Felix said.
+
+Varro did not look at him.
+
+“I find stopped work.”
+
+Felix glanced toward the quay.
+
+“I heard three men dead.”
+
+“One badly cut. Two bruised. One missing because he ran.”
+
+“So only one dead rumor.”
+
+“No deaths reported.”
+
+“Then the rumor is still young.”
+
+Gaius Licinius Crispus approached with his robe gathered high enough to avoid the gutter and low enough to preserve dignity.
+
+“What happened?”
+
+Felix answered first.
+
+“Men disagreed with furniture.”
+
+Crispus looked at Varro.
+
+“Before dawn. Caupona. Crewmen from two ships. Porters joined after the second jar broke. One guard struck with his own stick.”
+
+Crispus frowned.
+
+“Names?”
+
+“Names are changing by speaker.”
+
+Quintus Cornelius Lentulus Minor arrived with a household servant who remained carefully behind him, as if distance could protect status from fish smell.
+
+“I was told Alexandrians insulted Italians,” Lentulus said.
+
+Felix laughed.
+
+“And I was told Campanians insulted Syrians, a Ligurian stabbed a muleteer, and a Greek stole a belt from a dead man who was not dead.”
+
+Lentulus gave him a flat look.
+
+“You delight in disorder.”
+
+“No. Disorder merely confesses faster than respectable men.”
+
+Titus Varenus Secundus came from the porter line, carrying a length of rope darkened with old grease.
+
+“Porters want double for that ship,” he said.
+
+Varro nodded toward the western vessel.
+
+“Why that one?”
+
+“Because its crew lost the fight.”
+
+Felix smiled.
+
+“So fear has direction.”
+
+“No,” Secundus said. “Fear has wages.”
+
+A quiet voice entered from beside the caupona wall.
+
+“Also debt.”
+
+Publius Terentius Chresimus stood near a shutter, watching the door instead of the men. His tablet was already marked.
+
+Felix sighed.
+
+“Of course. Even a broken stool owes someone money.”
+
+Chresimus did not smile.
+
+“The caupona owner has been extending credit to sailors from both vessels. One crew paid yesterday. The other did not.”
+
+Crispus turned.
+
+“That changes the nature of the quarrel.”
+
+“It changes what was already there,” Chresimus said.
+
+Inside the tavern someone shouted that no more wine would be served on credit.
+
+The street laughed, then stopped when two guards pushed a man back toward the river.
+
+Varro watched the guards’ hands.
+
+“Not enough men.”
+
+Secundus nodded.
+
+“Two guards for three crews and idle porters.”
+
+Felix said, “Enough for appearances. Not enough for bones.”
+
+Lentulus looked toward the ships.
+
+“Whose cargo is delayed?”
+
+Varro pointed.
+
+“Oil amphorae on the western vessel. Cloth and small sealed crates on the eastern. Grain lighter waiting behind both.”
+
+Crispus said, “If loading order is disputed, the harbor office must settle it.”
+
+Felix lifted his hands.
+
+“The harbor office is deciding whether to arrive after blood dries.”
+
+Lentulus said, “Someone must restore confidence.”
+
+Felix looked at him.
+
+“By standing beautifully near the gutter?”
+
+“By being seen where common men lost control.”
+
+“That usually means leaving.”
+
+Crispus cut in.
+
+“If this began as unpaid debt, the tavern keeper has a claim. If it began as assault, the injured man has a claim. If cargo delay follows, merchants have claims. All of this can be made orderly.”
+
+Secundus looked at the idle ships.
+
+“Not before the porters eat.”
+
+Varro said, “How many refuse work?”
+
+“Twenty-eight near the hiring post. Twelve pretending they refuse so they can raise price. Four actually afraid.”
+
+Felix pointed at him.
+
+“That is why I respect him. He even counts cowardice by category.”
+
+Chresimus said, “The shipmaster of the western vessel has borrowed against delivery.”
+
+Crispus turned again.
+
+“From whom?”
+
+Chresimus looked briefly at Lentulus.
+
+“From a name better spoken indoors.”
+
+Lentulus’s face did not change.
+
+“Careful.”
+
+“I am.”
+
+Felix smiled softly.
+
+“That sounded like a cart wheel over a grave.”
+
+A porter shouted that he would not carry under knives for ordinary pay.
+
+Another shouted that knives were cheaper than magistrates.
+
+The crowd approved that more than Crispus preferred.
+
+Varro stepped closer to the porter line.
+
+“If they scatter, unloading fails until afternoon.”
+
+Secundus said, “If afternoon, heat spoils tempers. If tempers spoil, guards cost more. If guards cost more, shipmasters delay. If shipmasters delay, quay space tightens.”
+
+Felix nodded.
+
+“And if quay space tightens, men who already unloaded look like prophets.”
+
+Lentulus looked toward the servant behind him.
+
+“Send word to my uncle’s steward. Ask whether the western cargo bears any family claim.”
+
+Felix laughed once.
+
+“So now the gutter has ancestry.”
+
+“Everything does, when loss is large enough.”
+
+Crispus said, “I can summon witnesses from the caupona.”
+
+“You can summon men who want not to be witnesses,” Felix replied.
+
+“That is still useful.”
+
+Chresimus added, “Not if they were paid to see badly.”
+
+Varro looked toward him.
+
+“You think staged?”
+
+“I think the unpaid crew fought after the paying crew announced payment. That may be pride. It may be provocation. It may be a creditor arranging pressure.”
+
+Felix’s smile widened.
+
+“A creditor with a stool?”
+
+“A creditor with a debtor who embarrasses easily,” Chresimus said.
+
+Secundus rubbed the rope between his fingers.
+
+“The rope store is still open.”
+
+Felix blinked.
+
+“What?”
+
+“Rope, carrying slings, replacement hooks. If men fear knives, they demand better gear and more hands. The first man selling gear looks honest.”
+
+Varro nodded once.
+
+“Secure work teams in pairs. No isolated porters.”
+
+Crispus said, “Secure testimony first.”
+
+Lentulus said, “Secure whose cargo must not be named.”
+
+Felix said, “Secure the cheap labor before fear becomes custom.”
+
+Chresimus said, “Secure the tavern accounts before they disappear.”
+
+A boy ran past shouting that the injured man had a patron.
+
+The quay changed at once. Men who had been laughing began asking who.
+
+Lentulus turned fully.
+
+“There it is.”
+
+Crispus breathed out.
+
+“Now it becomes dangerous.”
+
+Felix looked delighted.
+
+“Now it becomes priced.”
+
+Varro moved toward the hiring post.
+
+“I’ll form a guarded work line.”
+
+Secundus went with him.
+
+“I’ll choose men who can carry sober.”
+
+Felix slipped toward the porter crowd.
+
+“I’ll buy the men who are only pretending fear.”
+
+Crispus adjusted his robe.
+
+“I will find the injured man’s statement before someone improves it.”
+
+Lentulus sent his servant away.
+
+“I will learn whose patronage has entered the street.”
+
+Chresimus folded his tablet closed.
+
+“I will learn who owed enough to make fists useful.”
+
+Felix looked back once.
+
+“Six men. One brawl. None of us interested in honor.”
+
+Varro answered without turning.
+
+“We are interested in what stopped moving when honor arrived.”
+
+---
+
+## 3. Choice Presentation
+
+> The blood is nearly washed away. The cargo has not moved. Whose reading of the dockside do you trust?
+
+| Choice | Background |
+|---|---|
+| Follow Varro to restore movement through guarded work lines. | Former Legionary |
+| Follow Felix to buy labor before fear becomes expensive. | Freedman Trader |
+| Follow Lentulus to learn which patronage has entered the quarrel. | Noble Younger Son |
+| Follow Crispus to capture claims, testimony, and liability. | Failed Magistrate |
+| Follow Secundus to secure crews, gear, rope, and safe unloading order. | Camp Logistician |
+| Follow Chresimus to trace debts behind the violence. | Guild Scribe |
+
+---
+
+## 4. What This Scene Teaches
+
+- Violence affects commerce even when cargo is intact.
+- Labor confidence is an economic variable.
+- Reputation of crews, taverns, and patrons changes work availability.
+- Security cost can rise faster than cargo value changes.
+- Ethnic or crew rivalry may hide debt, theft, or creditor pressure.
+- Restoring movement may be more profitable than identifying guilt.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Canonical Success Condition
+
+If the participant stops asking:
+
+“Who started the fight?”
+
+and starts asking:
+
+“What will not move until men feel safe enough to lift it?”
+
+then this dialogue is functioning correctly.