Send word: a way to reach the keeper

The about panel gets wizwar's contact paragraph (mail, Bluesky, Mastodon,
the source), and the colophons, the guide and the rules page each carry
a one-line way to report a rule read wrong.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0141G6xqLeNRYEtviLWSB5Up
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<p>Waving Hands is Richard Bartle's game from 1977, played with pencil, paper and two hands. It was later known as Spellbinder and Spellcaster, and Andrew Plotkin's <em>Spellcast</em> brought it to university X terminals in 1993, which is where the maker of this page first met it.</p>
<p>This version keeps the game as written: all forty spells, the same simultaneous resolution, the same ledger of letters. The rules text it follows is the fanzine transcription, kept in full on the <a href="/rules">rules page</a>. The bot reads your gestures as you would read its; the hand silhouettes on the buttons are adapted from Plotkin's bitmaps, with his notice retained.</p>
<p>It is free and keeps no accounts. A duel against the bot lives in your own browser. A duel between people lives on a small server as an append-only ledger of moves, so it can be replayed from its first gesture, and each wizard is shown only what the rules let them see.</p>
<h3>Send word</h3>
<p>A rule read wrong, a bug, a duel you would like to tell of: write to <a href="mailto:eric@ericwagoner.com">eric@ericwagoner.com</a>, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/kestrelsnest.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">@kestrelsnest.social</a> on Bluesky, or <a href="https://toots.kestrelsnest.social/@eric" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">@eric@toots.kestrelsnest.social</a> on Mastodon. The keeper of this hall roosts at <a href="https://kestrelsnest.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kestrelsnest.social</a>, and the source is at <a href="https://git.kestrelsnest.social/eric/waving-hands" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">git.kestrelsnest.social</a>.</p>
<p class="made">Waving Hands is Richard Bartle's, 1977. This page was made by Eric and a very enthusiastic AI, 2026.</p>
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<h2>A first duel</h2>
<p>Open with a wave on each hand. From W-W you may turn either hand into a counter-spell (W-W-S), a protection from evil (W-W-P) or resist heat (W-W-F-P), and nobody can hurt you on the first turn. Watch the warnings: when a missile is one gesture away, a palm costs you one hand for one turn; when a fireball is one gesture away, only a counter-spell, a resistance, or a counter of your own will do.</p>
<p>Then choose a spell from the sheet and pin it to a hand, and keep the other hand for answering. Cause light wounds is three gestures, a fireball five, and summoning a goblin three; a goblin that lives for four turns has done a fireball's work. Read the rival's ledger every turn as they read yours. Both of you are bluffing, and the whole page is the paper.</p>
<p>The full rules are on the <a href="/rules">rules page</a>, with Bartle's text.</p>
<p>The full rules are on the <a href="/rules">rules page</a>, with Bartle's text. If a rule here reads wrong to you, or the page misbehaves, <a href="mailto:eric@ericwagoner.com">send word</a>; the hall's <em>about this game</em> has the other ways to reach the keeper.</p>
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<p>After Richard Bartle's <em>Waving Hands</em> (1977), also known as Spellbinder and Spellcaster. <a href="/rules">Read the full rules</a>.</p>
<p>After Richard Bartle's <em>Waving Hands</em> (1977), also known as Spellbinder and Spellcaster. <a href="/rules">Read the full rules</a>. A rule read wrong or a bug found: <a href="mailto:eric@ericwagoner.com">send word</a>.</p>
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<p>After Richard Bartle's <em>Waving Hands</em> (1977), also known as Spellbinder and Spellcaster. <a href="/rules">Read the full rules</a>.</p>
<p>After Richard Bartle's <em>Waving Hands</em> (1977), also known as Spellbinder and Spellcaster. <a href="/rules">Read the full rules</a>. A rule read wrong or a bug found: <a href="mailto:eric@ericwagoner.com">send word</a>.</p>
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<p class="word">If this page reads a rule differently from the text above, that is a bug: <a href="mailto:eric@ericwagoner.com">send word</a>.</p>
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