The clockwork minds the pit, the curse, and the shadow (GDCN)

Kestrel's archmage berserker dug a pit at the far mouth of a warp,
then tried to walk through that mouth seven times: each stride landed
on its own pit with a thornbush beyond, the maze bounced it back and
charged the stride, and on the seventh it rolled the 1 and fell in.
Cursed with SLOW DEATH at seven life, it kept drawing two cards a
turn at a point apiece, raised a SHADOW that drinks a point a turn,
and bled to death in three turns.

The path search now refuses a pit it cannot leap beyond — the same
test the maze applies — whether the pit is a waypoint or the goal.
Under SLOW DEATH the end-of-turn draw keeps four life in hand and
draws nothing when it cannot; while bleeding, or at six life or less,
no SHADOW is raised. Three tests pin them.

The chronicle tells the bounce as what it was: "leaps the pit —
nothing to land on beyond it — and teeters back", not a blind blunder
into a wall; and the shadow's last drink no longer trails a zero-damage
line. Brain and chronicle changes only, ungated; 83 ledgers replay.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG

packages/engine/src/game.ts

@@ -648,7 +648,9 @@ export type GameEvent =
   | { type: "objectDragged"; caster: PlayerId; what: string; from: Cell; to: Cell }
   | { type: "spellReused"; player: PlayerId; card: CardInstance }
   | { type: "castAroundCorner"; caster: PlayerId }
-  | { type: "moveBumped"; player: PlayerId; direction: Side }
+  /** A stride that went nowhere: into a wall while blind, or into a pit
+   * with nothing to land on beyond it. */
+  | { type: "moveBumped"; player: PlayerId; direction: Side; why?: "pit" }
   | { type: "attackMisdirected"; attacker: PlayerId; intended: PlayerId; rolledDirection: Side; newTarget: PlayerId | null }
   | { type: "dieRolled"; player: PlayerId | null; roll: number; purpose: string }
   | { type: "tableTalk"; player: PlayerId; text: string }
@@ -4352,7 +4354,7 @@ function doMove(prev: GameState, direction: Side, over = false): CommandResult {
       // Nowhere to land: teeter back where you started.
       p.position = from;
       state.turn.movementUsed++;
-      events.push({ type: "moveBumped", player: p.id, direction });
+      events.push({ type: "moveBumped", player: p.id, direction, why: "pit" });
       return { ok: true, state, events };
     }
   }