FEAR's rout: bots flee it, humans are told their duty

'Players or monsters must move away from you on their turn if within
range, if they can.' Automatons caught in the dread now spend their
legs escaping before any other marching — the step that most increases
distance, a true dead end excusing them per the card. Humans keep their
freedom but get the compulsion spelled out in an urgent slip (move
away, even by card or through danger; only a dead end excuses you),
with the maze trusting the table to honor it — the owner's chosen
depth of enforcement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc

packages/engine/test/automaton.test.ts

@@ -520,3 +520,31 @@ describe("no number is wasted on a turn that ends at a grab", () => {
     expect(cmd?.type).not.toBe("playNumberForMovement");
   });
 });
+
+describe("the clockwork flees the dread", () => {
+  it("caught in FEAR's bubble, it spends its legs moving away", () => {
+    let { state } = createGame({ playerIds: ["bot", "grim"], seed: 42, sets: ["basic"], deckRev: 32 });
+    for (let guard = 0; guard < 10 && !(actingSeat(state) === "bot" && state.turn.round > 1); guard++) {
+      const r = applyCommand(state, actingSeat(state), { type: "endTurn", draw: 0 });
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+      state = r.state;
+    }
+    const bot = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "bot")!;
+    const grim = state.players.find((p) => p.id === "grim")!;
+    grim.position = { x: 2, y: 5 };
+    bot.position = { x: 2, y: 7 }; // two spaces inside the dread
+    state.sustained.push({
+      id: "fx-fear", cardId: "fear", casterId: "grim", targetId: "grim",
+      remainingTurns: 5, data: {},
+    } as never);
+    const cmd = automatonCommand(viewFor(state, "bot"), "berserker", "archmage");
+    expect(cmd?.type).toBe("move");
+    if (cmd?.type === "move") {
+      const r = applyCommand(state, "bot", cmd);
+      if (!r.ok) throw new Error(r.error);
+      const after = r.state.players.find((p) => p.id === "bot")!;
+      const d = Math.abs(after.position.x - grim.position.x) + Math.abs(after.position.y - grim.position.y);
+      expect(d).toBeGreaterThan(2);
+    }
+  });
+});