Monsters ride the wormhole; mental force fails loudly (rules rev 5)

Two findings from the first human-vs-Claude duel (room 9UA6). A
creature standing on a DIMENSIONAL WARP token had no way through it —
warpStep obeys only wizards. The new creatureWarpStep command steps a
commanded creature through the tokens under the walker's rules: one
move spent, solid stone refuses it, FEAR holds the beast, touch
effects greet whoever shares the landing; the board taps the paired
token like a rim mouth. Replay-safe ungated — a new command widens
nothing that was recorded.

MENTAL FORCE ate its card silently when the destination lay beyond
the victim's three walked spaces — the caster spent an attack and
learned nothing (ask me how I know). Rev 5 refuses the impossible
destination up front with the card kept; when the victim slips out of
range between cast and resolution, a mentalForceFizzled event tells
the table what happened instead of nothing. All 20 production ledgers
verified, the duel's own among them; 283 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
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Eric Wagoner
2026-08-25 23:59:31 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent df2913f366
commit dd87f1d843
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@@ -716,6 +716,15 @@
dispatch({ type: "moveCreature", creatureId: selectedCreature, direction: w.from.side });
return;
}
// Standing on a DIMENSIONAL WARP token: clicking the paired token
// steps it through.
const dw = view.dimWarps.find((d) =>
(cellKey(d.a) === cellKey(creature.position) && cellKey(d.b) === cellKey(cell)) ||
(cellKey(d.b) === cellKey(creature.position) && cellKey(d.a) === cellKey(cell)));
if (dw) {
dispatch({ type: "creatureWarpStep", creatureId: selectedCreature });
return;
}
}
selectedCreature = null;
return;
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@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ export function humanize(e: GameEvent): string | null {
case "doorHeld": return `${e.player} holds the door open.`;
case "doorReleased": return `The held door swings shut.`;
case "doorsRelocked": return `The door swings shut and relocks.`;
case "creatureWarpStepped": return `The creature slips through the dimensional warp!`;
case "mentalForceFizzled": return `${e.attacker}'s mental force strains at ${e.defender} — and fails to find a path.`;
case "doorJammed": return `${e.player} jams a door's lock solid.`;
case "lockRemoved": return `${e.player} removes a door's lock for good.`;
case "cardDisplayed": return `${e.player} displays ${cardDef(e.card.cardId).name}.`;