From Hnefatafl: a link counts as shared when a preview app fetches a page, not when Meta's crawlers or robots.txt checks pass by

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GwFKMuQnPAEHJ5yA1q4orh

CONVENTIONS.md

@@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ and read each new page against this list before it ships.
   deliberate triplet as its tagline when the energy is the point, as
   Wiz-War's "Steal treasure. Blast through walls. Outwit your friends."
   does. Once is a choice, and a pattern is a tell.
+- **No one sentence shape for a whole list.** Thirty chronicle lines that
+  each run image, colon, consequence read as a template however good the
+  images are. Let the fact come first in some, in its own sentence in others,
+  and joined by "and" or "which" in the rest.
 - **No closing aphorisms.** A paragraph ends on its last fact, not on a line
   meant to sound wise ("This is the whole art", "Nothing is unlocked by it
   and nothing is withheld without it").
@@ -351,6 +355,11 @@ opened its mouth.") as long as the fact survives.
 - `npm install --omit=optional` on the droplet breaks Vite; the server
   carries its own small `package.json` and installs only that.
 - A dynamic `/join/[code]` route must set `prerender = false`.
+- The hall, the rules and the guide set `ssr = true` in their own `+page.ts`,
+  so view-source, a crawler and a reader without scripts get the text; the
+  rest stays an empty shell. The adapter's fallback is `shell.html`, not
+  `index.html`, because a fallback named `index.html` overwrites the
+  prerendered hall, and Caddy's `try_files` ends in `/shell.html`.
 - Two tabs on one origin share a seat; test a second player from
   `127.0.0.1` against `localhost` (Vite needs `--host`).
 - Svelte proxies do not `structuredClone`: hand the engine `$state.snapshot`.

drift.sh

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SLUG="${2:-$(basename "$(cd "$GAME" && pwd)")}"
 KIT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
 MAP="$KIT/drift-map/$SLUG.txt"
 SHARED="server/src/index.ts server/src/rooms.ts server/src/store.ts server/src/reports.ts server/src/ratelimit.ts server/src/tally.ts
+src/routes/+layout.ts src/routes/+page.ts src/routes/rules/+page.ts src/routes/guide/+page.ts vite.config.ts
 src/lib/game/spec.ts src/lib/net/client.ts src/lib/net/talk.ts src/lib/net/view.ts src/lib/net/room.svelte.ts
 src/lib/components/TableTalk.svelte src/lib/components/ReportSlip.svelte src/lib/components/TabbedDialog.svelte src/lib/components/Tabs.svelte src/lib/components/Announcement.svelte
 deploy/deploy.sh deploy/setup-droplet.sh deploy/setup-server.sh deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl deploy/verify-ledgers.sh

family.json

@@ -31,8 +31,16 @@
       "name": "Dip",
       "url": "https://dip.kestrelsnest.social",
       "pitch": "Seven powers share one map, and none of them has to keep its word.",
-      "players": "2 to 7",
+      "players": "2 to 10, depending on the map",
       "origin": "Allan B. Calhamer's Diplomacy, 1959; an unofficial rebuild"
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "wyrm",
+      "name": "Wyrm",
+      "url": "https://wyrm.kestrelsnest.social",
+      "pitch": "Chess on three boards, with a Dragon in the air above your King and a Basilisk in the earth below.",
+      "players": "2",
+      "origin": "Gary Gygax's Dragonchess, Dragon Magazine No. 100, 1985; an unofficial rebuild"
     }
   ]
 }

gamehall/ops/traffic.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ LOGS = "/var/lib/caddy/gamehall-access*.log*"
 # The games that share this host, by the name the hall links to. A visitor
 # who follows a card arrives with the hall as referrer (the hall sends its
 # origin and nothing more). Wiz-War keeps its own host and its own count.
-GAMES = {"dip": "dip.kestrelsnest.social", "waving-hands": "hands.kestrelsnest.social", "hnefatafl": "tafl.kestrelsnest.social"}
+GAMES = {"dip": "dip.kestrelsnest.social", "waving-hands": "hands.kestrelsnest.social", "hnefatafl": "tafl.kestrelsnest.social", "wyrm": "wyrm.kestrelsnest.social"}
 ASSET = (".png", ".jpg", ".svg", ".ico", ".txt", ".webmanifest")
 
 

gamehall/site/index.html

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
 <title>Kestrel's Hall</title>
-<meta name="description" content="Free board games in the browser: Wiz-War, Waving Hands, Hnefatafl, and Dip. Play with friends by link or alone against the house. No accounts, no adverts, nothing sold.">
+<meta name="description" content="Free board games in the browser: Wiz-War, Waving Hands, Hnefatafl, Dip and Wyrm. Play with friends by link or alone against the house. No accounts, no adverts, nothing sold.">
 <link rel="canonical" href="https://gamehall.kestrelsnest.social/">
 <meta property="og:type" content="website">
 <meta property="og:title" content="Kestrel's Hall">
@@ -58,18 +58,22 @@
   header.mast p.newcomer { margin: 10px auto 0; max-width: 38em; font-size: 0.95rem; color: var(--bone-dim); }
 
   .games { display: grid; gap: 22px; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); margin-top: 22px; }
-  @media (max-width: 860px) { .games { grid-template-columns: 1fr; max-width: 520px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } }
   .game {
     display: flex; flex-direction: column;
     background: var(--panel);
     border: 1px solid var(--line);
-    border-radius: 12px;
+    border-radius: 6px;
     overflow: hidden;
     color: inherit;
     text-decoration: none;
-    transition: transform .15s ease, border-color .15s ease;
   }
-  .game:hover { transform: translateY(-3px); border-color: var(--gold); text-decoration: none; }
+  .game:hover { border-color: var(--gold); text-decoration: none; }
+  .game:hover h2 { color: var(--gold); }
+  /* The first game is the one newcomers are pointed at, so it has the whole width: art beside the words. */
+  .game.first { grid-column: 1 / -1; flex-direction: row; }
+  .game.first .art { flex: 0 0 55%; aspect-ratio: 2 / 1; }
+  .game.first .body { justify-content: center; padding: 22px 26px; }
+  .game.first h2 { font-size: 1.9rem; }
   .game .art { position: relative; aspect-ratio: 5 / 3; background: #222; overflow: hidden; }
   .game .art img.fill { width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; display: block; }
   .game .art img.tafl { object-position: 50% 50%; }
@@ -77,13 +81,15 @@
   .game .body { padding: 16px 18px 18px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 6px; flex: 1; }
   .game h2 { margin: 0; font-size: 1.45rem; font-weight: 500; }
   .game .pitch { margin: 0; color: var(--bone); }
-  .game .players, .game .length { margin: 0; color: var(--bone-dim); font-size: 0.92rem; }
+  .game .players { margin: 0; color: var(--bone-dim); font-size: 0.92rem; }
   .game .origin { margin: 0; color: var(--bone-dim); font-size: 0.85rem; }
-  .game .length:empty { display: none; }
+  @media (max-width: 860px) {
-  .game .go { margin-top: auto; padding-top: 10px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 2px; }
+    .games { grid-template-columns: 1fr; max-width: 520px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
-  .game .play { color: var(--gold); font-size: 1rem; }
+    .game.first { flex-direction: column; }
-  .game .site { color: var(--bone-dim); font-size: 0.85rem; }
+    .game.first .art { flex: none; aspect-ratio: 5 / 3; }
-  .game:hover .play { text-decoration: underline; }
+    .game.first .body { padding: 16px 18px 18px; }
+    .game.first h2 { font-size: 1.45rem; }
+  }
   .nowrap { white-space: nowrap; }
 
   /* The maze card: a stone floor in CSS, mortar-coloured walls, and the hall's own token drawings. */
@@ -128,14 +134,11 @@
   <header class="mast">
     <h1>Kestrel's Hall</h1>
     <p class="lede"><b>Free board games in the browser.</b> Play alone against the house right away, or start a table and send friends the link. No accounts, no adverts, no timers, and nothing sold.</p>
-    <!-- A word for newcomers, one line to tune or remove. -->
     <p class="newcomer">New here? Wiz-War is the friendliest place to start, and a game can be over in minutes. Dip is the long game.</p>
   </header>
 
   <div class="games">
-    <!-- Each card's empty "length" line is for a typical game's length, once real play has shown it; it is hidden until filled. -->
+    <a class="game first" href="https://wizwar.kestrelsnest.social">
-
-    <a class="game" href="https://wizwar.kestrelsnest.social">
       <div class="art">
         <div class="maze">
           <div class="w h" style="left:12.5%;top:19%;width:25%"></div>
@@ -159,11 +162,6 @@
         <p class="pitch">Steal treasure. Blast through walls. Outwit your friends.</p>
         <p class="players">2 to 6 players, or solo against the automaton</p>
         <p class="origin">An unofficial rebuild of Tom Jolly's 1993 board game</p>
-        <p class="length"></p>
-        <div class="go">
-          <span class="play">Play Wiz-War →</span>
-          <span class="site">wizwar.kestrelsnest.social</span>
-        </div>
       </div>
     </a>
 
@@ -174,11 +172,6 @@
         <p class="pitch">Wizards duel with their hands, and the right run of gestures is a spell.</p>
         <p class="players">2 to 12 players, or solo against a rival wizard</p>
         <p class="origin">Richard Bartle's pencil-and-paper duel, 1977</p>
-        <p class="length"></p>
-        <div class="go">
-          <span class="play">Play Waving Hands →</span>
-          <span class="site">hands.kestrelsnest.social</span>
-        </div>
       </div>
     </a>
 
@@ -189,11 +182,6 @@
         <p class="pitch">The Viking board game of a king breaking for safety and a ring of attackers closing in.</p>
         <p class="players">2 players, or solo against the housecarl</p>
         <p class="origin">The Norse tafl game, by the Copenhagen rules or Linnaeus's 1732 Tablut</p>
-        <p class="length"></p>
-        <div class="go">
-          <span class="play">Play Hnefatafl →</span>
-          <span class="site">tafl.kestrelsnest.social</span>
-        </div>
       </div>
     </a>
 
@@ -204,11 +192,16 @@
         <p class="pitch">Seven powers share one map, and none of them has to keep its word. Other maps seat five or ten.</p>
         <p class="players">2 to 10 players, depending on the map, or solo against the house's envoys</p>
         <p class="origin">An unofficial rebuild of Allan B. Calhamer's 1959 Diplomacy</p>
-        <p class="length"></p>
-        <div class="go">
-          <span class="play">Play Dip →</span>
-          <span class="site">dip.kestrelsnest.social</span>
       </div>
+    </a>
+
+    <a class="game" href="https://wyrm.kestrelsnest.social">
+      <div class="art"><img class="fill" src="wyrm.jpg" alt="Wyrm's glass board at the opening, seen from a corner: three tinted sheets, the air, the land and the underworld, with Gold's figures on the near ranks and Scarlet's on the far ones."></div>
+      <div class="body">
+        <h2>Wyrm</h2>
+        <p class="pitch">Chess on three boards, with a Dragon in the air above your King and a Basilisk in the earth below.</p>
+        <p class="players">2 players, or solo against the drake</p>
+        <p class="origin">An unofficial rebuild of Gary Gygax's 1985 Dragonchess, from Dragon Magazine No. 100</p>
       </div>
     </a>
 
@@ -235,7 +228,7 @@
         </div>
       </div>
       <h2 style="margin-top:28px">The hosting</h2>
-      <p>The games are free and will stay free. They run on small servers that cost a few dollars a month, and anyone who wants to chip in toward the hosting can do so at <a class="nowrap" href="https://ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest">ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest</a>. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and nothing is held back without it.</p>
+      <p>The games are free and will stay free. They run on small servers that cost a few dollars a month, and anyone who wants to chip in toward the hosting can do so at <a class="nowrap" href="https://ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest">ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest</a>. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and the games are the same for everyone.</p>
     </div>
   </section>
 

new-game.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Stamp out a new game from the template.
 #   ./new-game.sh <slug> "<Name>" [port] [domain]
 # e.g.  ./new-game.sh tumbleweed "Tumbleweed" 8791 tumbleweed.kestrelsnest.social
-# Ports so far: wizwar 8787, waving-hands 8788, hnefatafl 8789, dip 8790. The
+# Ports so far: wizwar 8787, waving-hands 8788, hnefatafl 8789, dip 8790, wyrm 8791. The
 # games share one host (deploy/README.md), so a new game takes the next free port.
 set -euo pipefail
 SLUG="${1:?usage: new-game.sh <slug> \"<Name>\" [port] [domain]}"

template/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl

@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ __HOST__ {
 		header @immutable Cache-Control "public, max-age=31536000, immutable"
 		@mutable not path /_app/immutable/*
 		header @mutable Cache-Control "no-cache"
-		try_files {path} {path}.html /index.html
+		# try_files passes the root over as a directory and would fall to the shell; the hall's
+		# own page is index.html.
+		rewrite / /index.html
+		try_files {path} {path}.html /shell.html
 		file_server
 	}
 }

template/deploy/README.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ service user, /opt/<slug> and /var/lib/<slug> trees, access log
 small Node process capped at 300 MB by its unit file, and a room is a few
 kilobytes of ledger, so the host carries several. Each game needs a port
 of its own on the host: wizwar 8787, waving-hands 8788, hnefatafl 8789,
-dip 8790.
+dip 8790, wyrm 8791.
 
 ## Current production
 

template/deploy/deploy.sh

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ rsync -az --delete --filter='P _app/immutable/*' \
 # it needs only its code and the engine. Ledgers live outside this tree.
 rsync -az --delete --exclude='/server/node_modules' \
   --include='/server/***' --include='/src/' --include='/src/lib/' --include='/src/lib/game/***' --include='/src/lib/net/' --include='/src/lib/net/view.ts' \
-  --include='/deploy/' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.service' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.cron' --include='/deploy/*.sh' --include='/deploy/traffic.py' \
+  --include='/deploy/' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.service' --include='/deploy/__SLUG__.cron' --include='/deploy/*.sh' --include='/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl' --include='/deploy/traffic.py' \
   --exclude='*' \
   ./ "root@$HOST:/opt/__SLUG__/app/"
 
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ ssh "root@$HOST" '
   systemctl daemon-reload
   systemctl enable --now __SLUG__
   systemctl restart __SLUG__
+  # The site file is rendered from the template on every deploy, with the address line the box was set up with.
+  ADDR=$(head -1 /etc/caddy/sites/__SLUG__.caddy | sed "s/ {\$//")
+  sed "s|__HOST__|$ADDR|" /opt/__SLUG__/app/deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl > /etc/caddy/sites/__SLUG__.caddy
+  caddy validate --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile >/dev/null
+  # Validation as root touches the access logs; Caddy runs as caddy and must own them.
+  chown -R caddy:caddy /var/lib/caddy
   systemctl reload caddy
   # "active" means only that the process started: wait for it to answer HTTP,
   # so a server that dies loading its code fails the deploy instead of looping.

template/deploy/traffic.py

@@ -12,11 +12,13 @@ from collections import Counter, defaultdict
 BOT = re.compile(r"bot|crawl|spider|slurp|facebookexternalhit|slack|discord|twitter|whatsapp|telegram|preview|fetch|curl|python|go-http|wget|headless|scan|monitor|uptime", re.I)
 # Link previews: the app that fetched the page to show it in a conversation. The people
 # who click such a link arrive with no referrer, so this is the best sign of where it went.
+# Meta's crawlers (meta-externalagent, meta-webindexer) name facebook.com too but share nothing.
 UNFURL = [
     ("Slack", re.compile(r"slack", re.I)),
     ("Discord", re.compile(r"discord", re.I)),
+    ("Google Messages", re.compile(r"googlemessages", re.I)),
     ("iMessage", re.compile(r"facebookexternalhit.*twitterbot|applebot.*preview", re.I)),
-    ("Facebook", re.compile(r"facebookexternalhit|facebot|meta-externalagent", re.I)),
+    ("Facebook", re.compile(r"facebookexternalhit|facebot", re.I)),
     ("WhatsApp", re.compile(r"whatsapp", re.I)),
     ("Telegram", re.compile(r"telegram", re.I)),
     ("Reddit", re.compile(r"redditbot", re.I)),
@@ -144,8 +146,10 @@ def scan(day, logs=LOGS):
             t["bot"] += 1
             t["botAddresses"].add(ip)
             service = unfurled_by(ua)
-            # One share per app and page: a preview is often fetched twice.
+            # One share per app and page: a preview is often fetched twice. Only a
-            if service and (service, path) not in seen_share:
+            # page counts: an app that already holds a preview fetches its card
+            # image again to show it, and robots.txt and scripts are not shared.
+            if service and (path in PAGES or path.startswith("/join/")) and (service, path) not in seen_share:
                 seen_share.add((service, path))
                 t["shared"][service] += 1
             continue

template/server/src/rooms.test.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ afterEach(() => {
 	rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
 });
 
+/** The bots move once the request that made their move due has been answered: after this tick. */
+const answered = () => new Promise<void>((r) => setImmediate(r));
+
 /** A table of the demo game: Ann, who opened it, Bo, and Cy when asked for, the game begun. */
 function table(spec: GameSpec<State, Input> = game, withCy = false) {
 	const rooms = new Rooms(spec, new Store(dir));
@@ -161,7 +164,7 @@ describe('rooms', () => {
 		expect(() => rooms.rank(host.room, host.token, ['A'])).toThrow(/asks for no ranking/);
 	});
 
-	it('lets a game give its bots words: when a round opens and when spoken to, with notes kept from every view', () => {
+	it('lets a game give its bots words: when a round opens and when spoken to, with notes kept from every view', async () => {
 		const heard: string[][] = [];
 		const talking: GameSpec<State, Input> = {
 			...game,
@@ -179,6 +182,7 @@ describe('rooms', () => {
 		const cy = rooms.join(host.room, 'Cy');
 		const room = host.room;
 		rooms.begin(room, host.token);
+		await answered();
 		rooms.say(room, host.token, 'Psst.', ['B']);
 		rooms.say(room, cy.token, 'Hello, all.');
 		const annSees = rooms.view(room, 'A').chat;
@@ -188,6 +192,7 @@ describe('rooms', () => {
 		expect(rooms.view(room, '').chat.map((l) => l.text)).toEqual(['Hello, all.']);
 		rooms.submit(room, host.token, { pick: 1 }, 0);
 		rooms.submit(room, cy.token, { pick: 2 }, 0);
+		await answered();
 		expect(heard[0]).toEqual(['Round 1.', 'Psst.', 'I hear you.', 'Hello, all.', 'I hear you.']);
 		expect(room.chat.filter((l) => l.note === 'secret').map((l) => l.text)).toEqual(['Round 1.', 'Round 2.']);
 		expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').parting).toEqual([]);
@@ -229,6 +234,7 @@ describe('rooms', () => {
 			rooms.addBot(host.room, host.token);
 			rooms.begin(host.room, host.token);
 			const room = host.room;
+			vi.runOnlyPendingTimers();
 			expect(room.state!.n).toBe(4);
 			expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').playingOn).toBe(true);
 			vi.advanceTimersByTime(2000);
@@ -243,16 +249,18 @@ describe('rooms', () => {
 });
 
 describe('the host and the other seats', () => {
-	it("gives a person's seat to a bot, which plays it at once, and the person's token opens nothing", () => {
+	it("gives a person's seat to a bot, which plays it at once, and the person's token opens nothing", async () => {
 		const { rooms, room, ann, bo } = table();
 		rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 5 }, 0);
 		rooms.standIn(room, ann, 'B');
-		// The round waited on Bo alone; the bot played it.
+		// The round waited on Bo alone; the bot plays it as soon as the host has been answered.
+		await answered();
 		expect(room.resolved).toBe(1);
 		expect(rooms.waitingOn(room)).toEqual(['A']);
 		expect(() => rooms.seatOf(room, bo)).toThrow(/gave your seat to a bot/);
 		expect(rooms.view(room, 'A').seats[1]).toEqual({ id: 'B', name: 'Bo', bot: true, standIn: true });
 		rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 3 }, 1);
+		await answered();
 		expect(room.resolved).toBe(2);
 	});
 
@@ -305,12 +313,15 @@ describe('the host and the other seats', () => {
 		expect(() => rooms.hostPhrase(withBot.room, withBot.token, bot.id)).toThrow(/No other person/);
 	});
 
-	it('voids a phrase for the seat once a bot stands in, and holds the person\'s seat at a rematch without the stand-in', () => {
+	it('voids a phrase for the seat once a bot stands in, and holds the person\'s seat at a rematch without the stand-in', async () => {
 		const { rooms, room, ann } = table();
 		const { phrase } = rooms.hostPhrase(room, ann, 'B');
 		rooms.standIn(room, ann, 'B');
 		expect(() => rooms.claim(phrase)).toThrow(/unknown or has expired/);
-		while (!game.over(room.state!)) rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 5 }, room.resolved);
+		while (!game.over(room.state!)) {
+			rooms.submit(room, ann, { pick: 5 }, room.resolved);
+			await answered();
+		}
 		const next = rooms.get(rooms.rematch(room, ann).roomId);
 		expect(next.expected).toEqual(['Bo']);
 		expect(next.seats.map((s) => s.name)).toEqual(['Ann']);

template/server/src/rooms.ts

@@ -351,8 +351,32 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 		if (room.seats.length < this.game.minSeats) throw new RoomError(`The game needs at least ${this.game.minSeats} players.`, 409);
 		this.commit(room, { t: 'start', seed: newSeed(), rules: this.game.currentRules, ...(Object.keys(room.rankings).length ? { rankings: { ...room.rankings } } : {}) });
 		// A game whose first move belongs to a bot must not wait for a human who is not owed a move.
+		this.botsAfterAnswering(room);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * The bots' moves, once the request that made them due has been answered.
+	 * A bot that thinks for a second or two would otherwise hold up the reply
+	 * to the person whose move it is answering, so their own move would seem
+	 * to hang and the bot's to come at once. The table is told as each move
+	 * lands, the same as any other.
+	 */
+	/** A room forgotten and loaded again drives itself; a timer or tick that wakes with the old one must do nothing. */
+	private isTable(room: Room<State>): boolean {
+		return this.rooms.get(room.id) === room;
+	}
+
+	private botsAfterAnswering(room: Room<State>): void {
+		setImmediate(() => {
+			if (!this.isTable(room)) return;
+			try {
 				this.driveBots(room);
 				this.botsSpeak(room, 'phase');
+			} catch (e) {
+				// Nothing is waiting on this callback: an error here would take the process down, so it is logged and the table left as it stands.
+				console.error(`${room.id}: the bots could not move: ${e instanceof Error ? e.stack ?? e.message : String(e)}`);
+			}
+		});
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -383,8 +407,7 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 		const hurried = this.hurried.has(room.id);
 		const next = setTimeout(() => {
 			this.pacing.delete(room.id);
-			// A room forgotten and loaded again drives itself; this one is no longer the table.
+			if (!this.isTable(room)) return;
-			if (this.rooms.get(room.id) !== room) return;
 			this.driveBots(room, hurried ? HURRIED_STEP : 1);
 			// Played out: the bots have their say once, as after any round, which ends a game with parting words.
 			if (!this.pacing.has(room.id)) this.botsSpeak(room, 'phase');
@@ -538,8 +561,7 @@ export class Rooms<State, Input> {
 			}
 		}
 		this.commit(room, { t: 'turn', at: Date.now(), inputs });
-		this.driveBots(room);
+		this.botsAfterAnswering(room);
-		this.botsSpeak(room, 'phase');
 	}
 
 	/**

template/src/app.html

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 		<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" />
 		<meta name="description" content="__NAME__, a game between friends, free in the browser." />
 		<link rel="canonical" href="https://__DOMAIN__/" />
-		<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="32x32" />
 		<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml" />
 		<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
 		<meta property="og:site_name" content="__NAME__" />

template/src/lib/components/Hall.svelte

@@ -45,14 +45,13 @@
 			{ n: t.turnsPlayed, label: 'turns recorded' },
 			{ n: hours(t.minutesAtTable), label: 'at the table' }
 		];
-		const onCards = new Set<string>([]);
 		const details = [
 			{ n: t.gamesBegun, label: `games begun, at ${t.tablesOpened} ${t.tablesOpened === 1 ? 'table' : 'tables'}` },
 			{ n: t.namesSeated, label: t.namesSeated === 1 ? 'name has taken a seat' : 'names have taken a seat' },
 			{ n: t.turnsPlayed, label: `turns recorded; ${t.longestGameTurns} in the longest game` },
 			{ n: t.gamesWithBot, label: t.gamesWithBot === 1 ? 'game with a bot seated' : 'games with a bot seated' },
 			...(t.talkLines ? [{ n: t.talkLines, label: t.talkLines === 1 ? 'line of table talk' : 'lines of table talk' }] : []),
-			...Object.entries(t.byGame).filter(([label]) => !onCards.has(label)).map(([label, n]) => ({ n, label }))
+			...Object.entries(t.byGame).map(([label, n]) => ({ n, label }))
 		];
 		const first = t.firstGameAt ? `The first game began ${new Date(t.firstGameAt).toLocaleDateString(undefined, { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' })}. ` : '';
 		return { headline, details, note: `${first}Names are counted, not people: one player under two names is two here. Table time counts only the minutes between moves, so a game left open overnight adds nothing for the night.` };
@@ -325,7 +324,7 @@
 	{/snippet}
 	{#snippet aboutTally()}
 		{#if told}
-			<TallyBoard title="How much love the table is getting" headline={told.headline} details={told.details} note={told.note} />
+			<TallyBoard title="What the ledgers add up to" headline={told.headline} details={told.details} note={told.note} />
 		{:else}
 			<p class="muted">Counting…</p>
 		{/if}
@@ -341,7 +340,7 @@
 			{/if}
 			<p class="hosting">
 				The games of Kestrel's Hall are free and will stay free. They run on small servers that cost a few dollars a month, and anyone who wants to chip in toward the hosting can do so at
-				<a href="https://ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest</a>. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and nothing is held back without it.
+				<a href="https://ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ko-fi.com/kestrelsnest</a>. Chipping in unlocks nothing, and the games are the same for everyone.
 			</p>
 			<p class="made">__NAME__ is its designer's.</p>
 		</div>

template/src/lib/components/Lobby.svelte

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 	let beginAsked = $state(false);
 	const hostName = $derived(v.seats.find((s) => s.id === v.host)?.name ?? 'the host');
 	const keeperSeated = $derived(v.seats.some((s) => s.name.toLowerCase() === v.keeper.toLowerCase()));
+	/** A server with no KEEPER set calls its keeper "the keeper", which reads badly beside the title. */
+	const named = $derived(v.keeper.toLowerCase() !== 'the keeper');
 
 	// A table that asks for rankings: this seat's, best first, kept on the server as it changes.
 	const choices = $derived(game.rankable?.(v.options) ?? null);
@@ -134,11 +136,11 @@
 		{/if}
 		{#if v.keeper && !v.challenge && !keeperSeated && room.seatUnheld}
 			<div class="keeper">
-				<button type="button" class="quiet" title="A seat is held for {v.keeper}, who keeps this site, and their phone rings" onclick={() => room.callKeeper()}>Challenge {v.keeper}, the keeper</button>
+				<button type="button" class="quiet" title="A seat is held for {v.keeper}, who keeps this site, and their phone rings" onclick={() => room.callKeeper()}>Challenge {named ? `${v.keeper}, the keeper` : 'the keeper'}</button>
-				<p class="muted small note">{v.keeper} keeps this site and answers every call, sometimes within the minute, sometimes after a night's sleep.{#if keeperHour}&nbsp;It is {keeperHour} where {v.keeper} lives.{/if} The seat is held either way.</p>
+				<p class="muted small note">{named ? v.keeper : 'The keeper'} keeps this site and answers every call, sometimes within the minute, sometimes after a night's sleep.{#if keeperHour}&nbsp;It is {keeperHour} where {named ? v.keeper : 'the keeper'} lives.{/if} The seat is held either way.</p>
 			</div>
 		{:else if v.challenge}
-			<p class="muted small note">{v.keeper} has been called to the table by {room.nameOf(v.challenge.by)}.{#if keeperHour}&nbsp;It is {keeperHour} there.{/if} A seat is held for them. If they can come now, they will take it. If they are asleep or away, they will leave a word below when they can. In the meantime you can seat a bot, invite a friend, or play another game in a new tab. This table keeps its place in your hall until you come back.</p>
+			<p class="muted small note">{named ? v.keeper : 'The keeper'} has been called to the table by {room.nameOf(v.challenge.by)}.{#if keeperHour}&nbsp;It is {keeperHour} there.{/if} A seat is held for them. If they can come now, they will take it. If they are asleep or away, they will leave a word below when they can. In the meantime you can seat a bot, invite a friend, or play another game in a new tab. This table keeps its place in your hall until you come back.</p>
 		{/if}
 	{/if}
 	{#if room.error}<p class="warning">{room.error}</p>{/if}

template/src/routes/+layout.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-// Everything happens in the browser against the game server, so nothing is rendered on the
+// Everything happens in the browser against the game server, so by default a route is
-// server. Each route is prerendered as an empty shell that the client fills in.
+// prerendered as an empty shell that the client fills in. The hall, the rules and the guide
+// turn rendering on in their own +page.ts, since their text is the same for everyone.
 export const ssr = false;
 export const prerender = true;

template/src/routes/+page.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// The page is text that reads the same for everyone, so it is rendered at build time and served whole;
+// the browser-only state it shows (held seats, the saved name) fills in once the script runs.
+export const ssr = true;

template/src/routes/guide/+page.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// The page is text that reads the same for everyone, so it is rendered at build time and served whole;
+// the browser-only state it shows (held seats, the saved name) fills in once the script runs.
+export const ssr = true;

template/src/routes/rules/+page.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// The page is text that reads the same for everyone, so it is rendered at build time and served whole;
+// the browser-only state it shows (held seats, the saved name) fills in once the script runs.
+export const ssr = true;

template/vite.config.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ export default defineConfig({
 				runes: ({ filename }) => (filename.split(/[/\\]/).includes('node_modules') ? undefined : true)
 			},
 			// A static build: Caddy serves files and proxies /api and /ws to the game server.
-			adapter: adapter({ fallback: 'index.html' })
+			// The fallback is the empty shell Caddy serves for a room address; it is not index.html, so the
+			// hall's own prerendered page is not overwritten by it.
+			adapter: adapter({ fallback: 'shell.html' })
 		})
 	],
 	server: {