Credibility pass: sweep the workshop floor

Scoped to everything since the last pass (695307d). The residue of
fast iteration, removed: a reduced-motion media query that had
swallowed a full copy of the .faq-seal rules; doc comments orphaned
from their functions by inserted methods; the FAQ scrape's seams
(section headings run into ruling bodies under the wrong topics, a
next-page heading shipped as a ruling, an amputated "h", and rulings
filed under alphabetically-nearest strangers — Large Rock/Dagger now
lives on those cards; Book of Spells and Torquemada describe no card
in this set and are gone); the write-only aisle flag left behind by
the reverted rev 7; a linter-silenced dead destructure; a duplicated
median lookup; dead casts; and the fallback path that ignored the
apprentice's one-card draw.

Tests now typecheck (tsconfig includes test/), which surfaced the
missing type imports and a drifted creature literal hiding under an
as-cast. Also: a no-op self-assignment, mid-file imports hoisted, a
dynamic-import habit made static, a hedge comment replaced with a
loud setup failure, the fallback-retries-itself dead rung removed
from both bot drivers, and the twin peek scrims merged.

Deliberately kept: the TIERS lookup guard (ledger JSON is untrusted),
the wand-cost stanzas (they differ on the power-attack trade — a
rules question, not a dedup), and rollDie's coexistence with rollD4
(migrating changes visible logs; future work).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

packages/server/src/rooms.ts

@@ -6,9 +6,15 @@
 import { createHash, randomBytes, randomInt, timingSafeEqual } from "node:crypto";
 import {
   applyCommand,
+  automatonCommand,
+  automatonFallback,
+  AUTOMATON_STYLES,
+  AUTOMATON_TIERS,
   createGame,
   redactEvent,
   viewFor,
+  type AutomatonStyle,
+  type AutomatonTier,
   type Command,
   type GameEvent,
   type GameState,
@@ -17,14 +23,6 @@ import {
 } from "@wizwar/engine";
 import { appendLine, ensureDataDir, readAllRooms, roomFileExists, type RoomLine } from "./store";
 import { recordRoom } from "./stats";
-import {
-  automatonCommand,
-  automatonFallback,
-  AUTOMATON_STYLES,
-  AUTOMATON_TIERS,
-  type AutomatonStyle,
-  type AutomatonTier,
-} from "@wizwar/engine";
 
 export interface LoggedCommand {
   seq: number;
@@ -289,10 +287,12 @@ export function driveOneAutomaton(room: Room): { seat: PlayerId; events: GameEve
   if (!seat || !room.bots.has(seat)) return null;
   const view = viewFor(room.state!, seat);
   const bot = room.bots.get(seat);
-  const cmd = automatonCommand(view, bot?.style, bot?.tier) ?? automatonFallback(view);
-  let r = runCommand(room, seat, cmd);
+  const chosen = automatonCommand(view, bot?.style, bot?.tier);
+  let r = runCommand(room, seat, chosen ?? automatonFallback(view, bot?.tier));
   if ("error" in r) {
-    r = runCommand(room, seat, automatonFallback(view));
+    // A refused choice retries with the fallback — unless the fallback IS
+    // what just failed — then burns down the ladder to endTurn and pass.
+    if (chosen) r = runCommand(room, seat, automatonFallback(view, bot?.tier));
     if ("error" in r) r = runCommand(room, seat, { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
     if ("error" in r) r = runCommand(room, seat, { type: "pass" });
     if ("error" in r) {
@@ -509,6 +509,8 @@ export function loadPersistedRooms(): void {
             room.bots.set(line.name, {
               style: (line.style as AutomatonStyle) ?? "hunter",
               secret: line.secret === true,
+              // Tier-less join lines predate tiers, when every automaton
+              // played the full repertoire — not the "adept" lobby default.
               tier: (line.tier as AutomatonTier) ?? "archmage",
             });
           } else {