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Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 2afc4e3973 Stone to Water melts doors too (rules rev 38)
"Small entryways in a stone wall" are stone: a door melts exactly as a
wall does — edge opens, lock state washes away, the two-point wave
crashes. Older ledgers had the refusal and replay so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 11:43:27 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 118bfd236b IDIOT trusts the feet and yields to a jailbreak drop (rules rev 37)
The per-step steering recalculated greedily, ping-ponging between routes
that tie at a corner and able to wall the victim off from the cure; rev 37
retires it — the march is the player's to honor, and the automatons steer
themselves. DROP OBJECT that shakes the victim's OWN treasure out of a
thief's arms is now an aid, not an attack: while carried, that treasure
cannot even be stood upon, so the curse could be unsatisfiable. Older
ledgers replay steered and strict.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 11:11:25 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 6adcbe23b5 Credibility pass: the accretion sanded smooth
Blind reviews over d2b40ec..HEAD (engine / web / server+deploy). Orphaned
doc comments rejoined their functions; the swap-meet tradables collapsed
from four pasted deriveds to one (killing the "the's treasure" label);
FEAR's aura and banner now share the engine's own dreadDistance; the
long-press peek got one home; rulebook.ts stopped wearing JSON quotes;
process-named tests and war-story comments now state the constraints they
pin; the protocol doc caught up to its handlers; verify-ledgers.sh can
actually count failures; the runbook learned about the determinism gate
and the nightly backups. No behavior changes — 255 tests and all 48
production ledgers replay identically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 10:58:08 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 3445d12206 The Peanut Gallery: nameless read-only spectators, counted but never named
Watch a room by code alone: no seat, no ledger line, no voice in chat.
Views and events are redacted for the empty viewer id (which no seat can
hold), so hands, wards, ambushes and boobytrap truths stay dark. The
table sees only a head count.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 10:41:33 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 db0eeebcd5 A sprung Ward earns its victim a modal, not a buried log line
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 21:21:00 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 76dd019d5d Ambushed teleports carry their destination; room 59UN unstuck (rev 35)
An ambush springing TELEPORT OPPONENT opened a stack with params null —
the spring bypasses cast validation and nothing ever asked where the
victim goes — and resolution crashed on the missing cell, wedging the
room 'waiting on Automaton'. Three layers:
- Crash guards: teleport-opponent and mental-force fizzle gracefully on
  a destination-less stack (ungated: no stored command had resolved one).
- The trap commits its destination when laid: setAmbush carries a cell
  ('wherever you say', said in advance), the spring passes it into the
  stack, and the client's arming flow asks for the click.
- Rev 35 refuses arming those spells without a destination; older
  ledgers armed blind and their springs fizzle.
All ledgers verified before deploy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-20 10:51:16 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 bcd2155fe0 IDIOT's duty spelled out, like FEAR's
The engine already steers every step and bars items, attacks, and
non-aiding casts; the one honor-bound piece is spending the movement at
all. The afflicted now see the card's demand in an urgent slip the
moment their turn opens, matching the FEAR pattern: bots comply
mechanically, humans get the words.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-19 21:53:01 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 6ec9d6ab55 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
2026-08-19 21:51:22 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 172fbc6ff8 Marching the Democratic Monster onto yourself takes two taps
Its card claws WHOEVER's square it enters, mover included — the owner
learned this standing beside a troll it could not touch. The client now
warns on the first tap ('it will claw YOU') and commits on the second;
no warning when its round's claw is already spent, when the walk is
safe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-19 20:39:42 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 75d3d44c6c The Ward is played in the moment (rules rev 31)
'When a player picks up one of your treasures, you may play at that
time (out of turn) this card on him' — the owner read the card and is
right: no arming ahead. When a treasure whose owner holds WARD is
grabbed, the grab hangs (new wardPending phase, outranking all other
input) and the owner alone answers: spring it (3 damage, card spent)
or let them go (card kept, silence). Automatons always spring it on a
thief of their gold. The arming mechanic is refused at rev 31 and its
button hidden; rev 3-30 games keep their armed wards and rev 1-2 keep
the automatic spring, replaying unchanged. The window does reveal that
the owner holds SOMETHING - as it would at any real table when the
room turns to look at them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-19 20:17:43 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 b7f93fe454 Name and color join the preferences
Your wizard's name pre-fills the lobby (and is remembered whenever you
create or join), and a preferred color — six swatches in the slip, tap
again for none — is claimed quietly in any lobby where it is free and
you have not chosen. First-come still wins a contested color; the
preference never bumps anyone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-19 18:53:44 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 f1743e6fe5 Modal ink: .attack-title and pref rows stop inheriting the table's cream
'Preferences', 'Token art', and the checkbox labels were cream on cream
- .attack-title never had a color rule, so modals inherited the dark
table's pale text. Explicit dark ink; the illusion-test modal shared
the class and heals with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-19 10:05:07 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 6aae40ad5f Player preferences: art set, auto-grab, flourishes
A ⚙ preferences slip in the masthead, saved to this device:
- Token art, all or nothing: the photographed cardboard or the
  hand-drawn vectors (the workshop's per-category query params stay as
  the undocumented editing override).
- Ending a turn on a lone grabbable treasure picks it up on the way
  out — never on your own home, never when two share the square.
- Spell flourishes on or off, honored by the live board and the
  replay reel alike (trap notices still fire; they are information).
Preferences change what you see or what routine commands the client
sends for you — never what is legal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-19 09:45:12 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 63e8d4c545 Mental Force becomes castable: the destination step it never got
The card prints no LOS and the engine asks none — but the client never
offered the two-step flow (click the victim, then click where they go),
so every cast arrived without a destination and was refused. It joins
teleport-opponent and shift-wand in the destination gate, with a hint
naming the three-space walk limit and the no-sight freedom.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 16:21:09 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 4720ec25ff A bare wand lights a single charge
'ANY CARD MAY BE PLAYED WITHOUT A NUMBER CARD, but its power is only 1.'
The wand first-use gate was the engine's one remaining missing-number
refusal — everything else already defaults its power to 1. A wand cast
bare now charges to one, fires once, and crumbles; the client hint says
so. Ungated: the refused casts never reached a ledger.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 10:47:05 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 1e5b7ee985 The game's own vocabulary: 'points' for segments, 'life-points' for the living
Wiz-War never says hitpoints. Walls and doors quote the rulebook's own
phrasing ('20 points to destroy', '13 of 20 points left'), and the
Mega-Monster boost button says life-points, as its card does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 10:44:12 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 0f91d30a3e Press-and-hold peeks a segment — the tooltip, for hands without a mouse
The same 450ms hold that peeks a square now works on walls, doors, and
fire walls: the segment's full description (state, lock, hitpoints, the
fire's burn warning) rises in the peek scrim. Shimmering illusions keep
their richer tap modal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 10:40:55 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 e1aeeaabff The Token Workshop: every token, twice, at /?tokens
All 45 tokens in both arts — the photographed physical set beside the
hand-drawn contingency — grouped (wizards, treasures, monsters, terrain,
objects & markers), each at board size and close-up. The drawn column
renders through TokenArt, so it previews exactly as the board inlines
it. Cross-linked with the flourish workshop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 09:16:46 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 b1f03fee81 Ask the automatons: the council of three offers hints from your seat
The owner's idea for teaching novices: a hints button runs all three
temperaments' brains against YOUR view — the same cards and board you
see, nothing hidden — and each says what it would do in your robes.
The Hunter (eyes on the gold), the Berserker (eyes on the blood), the
Worrier (eyes on the exits). Available on your turn and while under
fire (counter advice included); purely advisory, computed client-side,
nothing dispatched. hints.ts translates any Command into plain words.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 02:19:32 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 5ac1c9ed70 One-tap discard from the hand: select a card, 'Discard it'
Shedding a single card meant entering discard mode, marking, and
confirming. Now any selected card offers 'Discard it' right in its
action strip — beside 'Drop it here' when the card is an object, so
the drop-or-discard choice sits in one place. The bulk discard flow
stays for multi-card sheds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 02:12:39 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 d5b2b92f2c Illusion walls shimmer until YOU test them (rules rev 29)
Per the owner's design — and truer to a real table, where the cast is
public: every illusion wall's location is open knowledge, rendered as a
shimmering wall to any player whose eyes have not yet ruled on it.
Testing is an explicit act: tap the shimmer (or bump into it) and a
modal explains the 50/50 and offers 'Roll to test your eyes' — the new
testIllusion command rolls once, then the wall either hardens or
dissolves for you alone. Nobody's verdict is moved by watching someone
else stroll through (the Q3WZ mystery: an automaton walking through
its own round-1 fake). Untested walls block movement and sight without
consuming RNG; the pre-29 lazy belief roll is preserved for stored
games. Automatons doubt free shimmers on their best crossing before
spending any card on that wall.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 01:54:53 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 3323f81fba Roster rows wrap instead of truncating the temperament
The name cell was a fixed-height nowrap/ellipsis line, clipping even
plain 'archmage hunter' mid-game. The temper tag now wraps below the
name as one piece and the row grows to fit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-18 00:48:37 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 1d7407cb20 A reflected Lightning Blast ends the caster's turn on the spot (rev 28)
FAQ: 'If this gets FULLY REFLECTED, you lose the rest of your turn and
cannot draw cards (in addition to damage).' When the returned bolt
stuns its own caster mid-turn, their remaining actions end at once and
the end-of-turn draw comes up empty (new turn.drawForbidden flag); the
normal stun still costs them the next turn. The affected player sees
'Your own bolt has left you reeling' in place of the usual spent-turn
slip. Older revisions played on and stored games replay so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 23:47:25 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 67157ad3a2 Ledger chests tap open full-size, like the table's other peeks
The carried-treasure chest in the scoresheet is now a button: tapping
it raises the big-peek scrim with the chest at full size and a note
naming whose treasure sits in whose arms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 23:31:01 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 f4355a60c6 Ledger chest doubled — big enough to read the color at a glance
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 23:28:15 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 1069730880 The ledger's money bag becomes the owner's chest too
The scoresheet's carrier mark now shows whose gold is being hauled —
the same colored SVG chest as the board badge, inline at text height.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 23:26:10 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 e412463aae Thumb of God gets its ceremony: prompt, sighted dimming, and the die
The cast always worked (click a square), but nothing guided it and
nothing marked its arrival. Now: a targeting prompt, eligibility
dimming to the caster's sighted squares (the engine demands LOS to the
aim point), and a flourish — the aiming mark, a shadow gathering, the
die crashing down out of a clear sky with a bounce and flung grit, a
drift line when fate moves it, and every scattered token streaking to
where it lands. In the /?fx gallery as die-drop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 23:09:40 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 2bb2ca62d8 Reflected Swap Meet: the reflector chooses the trade (rev 27)
'FULL REFLECTION lets the other player decide which objects, if any,
will be swapped' — the reflector's choice now rides their counteract
(params.cardId, reflector's item first), resolved with the roles
swapped when the reflection settles; 'none' or no choice trades
nothing. The client walks the reflector through the same give-and-take
picker, with a 'swap nothing' refusal.

Also from room XRT7: the trade picker now honors each room's own rules
revision (older rooms trade only object-typed cards), so it can no
longer offer a wizardblade a rev-25 engine will quietly refuse — and a
fizzled swap finally says so in the log instead of vanishing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 22:36:00 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 3aef6694f3 Swap Meet trades treasures — a carried treasure is a carried item
The trade grammar gains a 'treasure' token (never present in stored
ledgers, so no gate needed): a dagger can buy back the treasure in a
thief's arms, or two armfuls of gold can change hands outright. The
one-treasure carry limit and WEAKNESS both hold in a trade as at a
grab — a one-way treasure needs an open slot and an able back. The
picker offers each side's carried treasure alongside displayed items,
withholding theirs when your own arms are already full.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 22:19:29 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 00517e08b1 Pacts are honored; Swap Meet trades items, not card names (rev 26)
The pact fix: a clockwork no longer attacks a wizard it holds a BUDDY
pact on — Eric watched one sign the pact and punch him the next turn.
A pact is torn up for exactly one thing: a kill. And the post-attack
pact is signed only by a wizard who wants OUT of the fight (hauling
gold, bleeding, or with other enemies left) — a healthy duelist keeps
its options, and mutual-pact stalemates stay out of bot wars.

Swap Meet drops the 'name a card' prompt for a real trade picker:
click the other trader, choose one of your carried items, then claim
one of their displayed items. Rules rev 26 widens the engine's match
from object-typed cards to every movable object (daggers, rocks,
wands, stones); older games matched narrowly and replay so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 22:14:57 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 06faea0c79 The reflected-attack window (rules rev 25)
A FULL REFLECTION's returned spell is a fresh attack on its own caster —
who, per the owner's ruling, gets a defender's counteraction window
against it (absorb the blast, shield it, or FULL REFLECTION again: the
ping-pong war ends when the cards run out). The reflection now settles
into a new stack with the roles swapped and the damage pre-priced
(numbers, amplifies, and surviving counters already applied); the blow
returns to its sender unerringly, with no fresh hit rolls. onResolved
effects run with the swapped roles, so a reflected IDIOT now afflicts
its own caster. Earlier revisions land the blow instantly and stored
games replay unchanged.

Automatons price the incoming reflected damage off the stack; the attack
modal announces 'Your own spell comes screaming back!' with the inbound
total.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 22:02:16 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 cdeb3d5103 Idiot enforces its card (rev 23) + attack sight-line tracing
Rules rev 23 — IDIOT, per the card and FAQ:
- No handling items: pick up / drop of treasures and objects refused
  (dropping was the exploit: capturing a stolen treasure on your own home,
  or dropping your own treasure underfoot for an instant cure)
- No punching, no thrown dagger / large rock (attacks on players)
- No effect on a victim already carrying one of their own treasures
Ungated (permissive): counteractions are now castable while idiotized (the
one thing the card expressly allows — the gate wrongly blocked them), and
goal-aiding spells (IDIOT_AIDS: destroy-wall, teleport, mad-dash, ...) per
the FAQ's 'you could, however, destroy a wall'.

Sight tracing: while an LOS attack sits on the stack, the board draws the
line it traveled — straight when direct, leg by leg through both warp
mouths (with pulsing rings) when the maze's wraparound carried it. Engine
traceSight/traceSightFor/stackSightTrace; overlay in Board.svelte; shown
live and in replays. Verified against H3PC's cross-board Idiot cast.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
2026-08-17 19:03:09 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 2ac046611d ADD explains itself instead of dead-ending
Two numbers for movement work by playing them one after another, the
Add spending itself on the second — but clicking the ADD card itself,
the natural first instinct, showed nothing but a cancel button. It
now says how the ride works; a second number without an Add in hand
says what is missing instead of offering a doomed button; and the
button's label says "spends your Add" at the moment it does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 17:59:39 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 bed7d849eb The cruel draw gets its modal, and its own words
GIFT FROM BELOW bit for three in the middle of end-of-turn noise and
nobody saw it — not live, not in the replay, where its log line even
claimed "lose a turn" (the other trap's fate). The trapSprung event
now names its card; drawing a trap YOURSELF raises the full modal —
the card, what it did, "Curse the deck" — and the chronicle tells
each trap's true consequence. The amplify narration was already
fixed; replays re-derive events, so both now show in old games'
reels too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 17:13:36 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 028ff813f3 Amplify announces itself
Room 9BBV's "impossible" 14-point powerthrust was an archmage playing
correctly: 2 + 5, AMPLIFIED. The engine's math was honest and its
narration was not — neither the log line nor the attack modal
mentioned the amplify, so a legal kill read as a bug. The spellCast
event now carries its amplify count, the chronicle says "casts
Powerthrust with a 5, AMPLIFIED, at Kestrel", and the modal's power
line shows "powered by a 5 — AMPLIFIED ×2" while there is still time
to respect it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 17:10:06 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 aef88d892a Two treasures, one square: the taker names their prize
pickUpTreasure grabbed whichever treasure the list offered first —
with two on a square, no choice and sometimes the wrong one. The
command now takes an optional treasureId (absent in every stored
ledger, so old replays keep their old grab), and when the square
holds more than one, the button asks "whose?" before dispatching.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 15:03:34 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 e7c8ddc0b3 Creatures walk open doorways, and the interruption gets its fanfare
Player movement asked the full question of a door — removed, keyed
this turn, or held — while creature movement only saw "door" and
refused, so a skeleton balked at a doorway its master had unlocked
for good. One doorIsOpen() now answers for both, and an open doorway
costs a wraith none of its wall passes.

And the interruption window earns the modal it deserved: "The maze
holds its breath" — the card shown, the instruction plain, dismissed
with "Seize it". No more hunting the rail for a slip while time
stands parted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:50:38 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 44c14f5ce1 The interruption window opens for actual casting
OPPORTUNITY FIRE and INTERRUPT bought a moment the client would not
honor: every selection and targeting gate asked "is it your turn?",
and mid-interruption it is not — so the window's holder could click
attack cards into silence while the engine sat ready to accept the
cast. A window is now yourMoment: hand selection, player/creature/
cell/edge targeting, and the dimming aid all open exactly as on your
own turn, and the slip says what to do with it ("pick an attack card
and a target") instead of the cryptic "cast now".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:45:52 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 89ba225fe5 Illusions show their face, and empathy answers the call
An automaton's ILLUSIONARY ATTACK arrived as a mystery: the modal
showed only the illusion card, never the spell being faked — though
the stack has always carried it face-up. The defender now sees both
cards side by side, the caption names the fake ("an ILLUSIONARY
Fireball — it bites only if believed"), and the hint bar says which
spell to weigh a counter against.

And EMPATHY — corner: COUNTERACTION — was refused at the door like
INVISIBLE before it, while the automatons' own counter ladder had
been reaching for it and silently failing into the fallback all
along. It now raises mid-stack: the blow lands on both wizards, the
link lingers for its NUMBER card's turns, and ANTI-ANTI severs it
cleanly (empathy is no escape). The number-riding-a-counter idiom is
one shared helper now. Permissive both ways: no stored ledger
contains either play, so no rev gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:33:24 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 a0c65413ef The door can be held open, as both key cards always promised
MASTER KEY and PICK LOCK each read: "You may 'hold the door open' for
others, if you wish" — and the engine always slammed it at end of
turn. Now the cast takes a hold param: the door stays unlocked past
the turn, for anyone, as long as its holder stands adjacent and
alive. A step away, a shove, a teleport, or a killing blow lets it
swing shut — swept after every command, since anything can move a
wizard. New state, new param: no old ledger contains either, so no
rev gate is needed.

The client offers a "hold the door open" checkbox when either card is
selected; a held door shows pale with a green jamb ("held open by a
standing wizard"), and the chronicle records the holding and the
shutting. Pinned: a held door outlives the turn and admits the other
wizard; walking away releases it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:15:57 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 d2b40ec6f8 Credibility pass: the seams get sanded
Scoped to everything since the last pass (3308850). Three blind
reviews, every finding verified before touching anything.

Confirmed and fixed: two identical comment-splitting insertions left
doc comments orphaned from their fields (net and local alike); a
51-line CSS fossil of the pre-extraction inline effects survived in
Board.svelte; the rev-13 miss-roll test asserted tautologies while
its comment claimed a check the code never made — it now proves the
die was consumed, and the skeleton is no longer returned as trollId;
the sprite registry's `as never` silently disabled the completeness
its annotation advertised (now a mapped type, one cast at the
dispatch seam); a dead ternary guarded a union that doesn't exist;
Bolt carried a duplicate .fork rule from a color iteration; fxTtl
contradicted three sprites' real animation lengths; the permanence
sentinel was reinvented as a magic 9000 (the engine now exports
isPermanentDuration); CELL was declared thrice (fx.ts now imports
it); App and Replay ran two divergent fx schedulers (one scheduleFx
now, cancellable — stale flourishes can no longer fire after leaving
a game); TokenArt retried missing files forever; the anti-anti
escape guards merge with the gate asymmetry explained; wall-of-fire's
rev-12 carve-out is marked; overLimit ignored a displayed BRAINSTONE
(bots over-discarded by two); botRemark's header mis-stated its own
branches; deliverGold fired on any drop, not a home-base delivery;
escape and win banter never fired from the steps that carry them.

Rejected: "as a human would" (house voice); FxGallery's dev-harness
framing (trimmed one plea, kept the facts).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:12:03 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 4528c66057 The peeked token joins its card — and stops hiding behind it
Clicking a board token now shows the thing itself, enlarged, above
its card in the peek modal — whichever art is active, photograph or
SVG. The art tables move to art.ts so the board renderer and the
modal share one source.

First cut overlapped: the card scales 2.1x out of its layout box, so
flow neighbors sat underneath its visual footprint (the note had been
compensating with a 6.8rem margin hack). A card-stage now reserves
the card's TRUE visual size; token above, note below, nothing buried.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 11:58:25 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 e0e96ca5ca The art workshop's side door
The hand-drawn SVG token set wires in behind deliberately
undocumented query params — svgPlayers, svgCreatures, svgTerrain,
svgObjects, each =true — swapping that category's art everywhere it
draws: board tokens, lobby standees, roster. public/tokens-svg
symlinks research/tokens-svg, so under the dev server an edit to the
source art shows on the next refresh, and the production build copies
real files through the link. Nobody finds the door unless handed the
key; the photographed set remains the face of the game.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 11:27:28 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 ca55f7d00b The fireworks get the stage before the victory modal takes it
Winning raised the modal on the same frame the fireworks lit,
covering them. The modal now waits behind the curtain for 2.4
seconds — three volleys over the winner's home, seen — then takes
the stage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 10:40:11 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 a59ecfa615 Every flourish gets its own file, and a workshop to watch them in
The effects move out of Board.svelte into src/fx-sprites/ — one
component per flourish, markup and animation CSS together, so editing
the fireball means opening Fireball.svelte and nothing else. A
registry (index.ts) maps kind to sprite; Board renders through it.
The event mapping stays in fx.ts.

And a viewer: /?fx opens the Flourish Workshop — every sprite on a
labeled parchment tile, replaying on a 2.2-second beat. Under the dev
server, editing any sprite file hot-reloads the gallery mid-loop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 09:27:32 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 bca34ae9e4 Flourishes: the spells become visible (branch only — not for the droplet yet)
A cosmetic effects layer on the board svg, fed by the same event
stream that writes the log. Fireballs streak and burst; waterbolts
arc and splash; lightning jags and flickers; teleports shimmer at
both ends; walls rise and fall in dust; stopped attacks flash a
golden shield; hits ring red; misses whiff; other attack spells
sparkle at the caster. Successive visuals from one command stagger by
a beat, everything self-expires, reduced-motion hides the layer
whole, and nothing here touches game state — the effects are mapped
from events in fx.ts and drawn in Board.svelte, online and hotseat
alike.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 23:43:16 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 d4565006bc Rev 14: elimination sweeps the board by either door
Two ways out of the game, one cleanup. A wizard killed by damage took
their monsters, sustained spells, and armed ambushes with them; a
wizard eliminated by treasure loss left everything standing — a fire
imp scorching for a dead master, a Medusa still gazing at a corpse.
Both paths now share one sweep, gated at rev 14 so stored games keep
their orphans acting as recorded.

Also: Lifesaver lasts until used, carried as a near-billion-turn
sentinel — which the scoresheet printed. Durations that mean forever
no longer show a number.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 22:27:14 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 9493873b64 Dispel Creation reaches every creation, and edge hints tell the truth
An opponent's wraith refused to be dispelled — the engine was willing
all along (any controller's creature, sight required), but creature
clicks never routed cell-target spells, so the cast never left the
client. Clicking a creature with a cell spell selected now lands on
its square. The dimming aid told the same lie twice over: it lit
every created square including ones out of sight (a caster's own
thornbush beyond the walls) and never lit creatures at all. It now
mirrors the engine — anything created, whoever made it, in sight.

And "click a wall line" stops standing in for every edge card: each
now says what the click actually is — a locked door for the keys, a
corridor line for the fire, the creation itself for the dispel — and
attacks no longer show two hints for one wall.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:59:18 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 ee6a08f25c Boobytrap tokens land where you can see them
The four placements accumulated invisibly until the last click cast
the spell. Each token now marks its square as it is placed, numbered
in click order — the 1 is the real trap — and tapping a placed token
lifts it again, since the four must be distinct squares.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:56:29 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 04dc9bc750 Teleport waits for a second tap
One tap cast the jump, and a player reaching for click-per-square
movement spent their teleport on the adjacent floor. Now the first
tap only marks the destination (the familiar pulsing square), and the
jump commits on a second tap of the same square or the hint-bar
button — with the hint spelling out the four-square, walls-ignored
range. The escape teleport gets the same two-tap arming; a counter
wasted on a misclick is a counter wasted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:49:27 -04:00