Game eleven's silent turns, diagnosed from the ledger. Automaton III
proposed DESTROY WALL at a wall its visionstone could see — but the
engine's edge-target casts never honored the stone, despite the
declared policy that it is the bearer's sight wherever sight is asked.
castSightEdge now dissolves one wall for the look, and the three raw
losToEdge gates (create-wall, destroy-wall, attacks on walls) route
through it, gaining visionstone and bent-corner sight alike. Automaton
II cast REMOVE CURSE with no patient and no ailment named; the rung
now writes the full prescription. Refusal-fallback loops read as idle
bots — both replays march again. Ledgers verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
The card says it plainly — "You're the carrier! Disease caused by
spell does not affect you, only others" — but the engine cast it AT an
adjacent victim, making them the plague rat. At rev 7 it is a
self-cast on fear's pattern: no target, no counteraction window
("REFLECTIONs have no effect against this"), duration equals the
number, and sharing a square bites in both directions — the carrier
walking in, or anyone walking onto the carrier. Older ledgers hold
targeted disease casts with full stack exchanges, so the legacy attack
path survives for rev ≤6 games and all 33 ledgers replay clean. The
client offers the plain Cast button for it in rev-7 games.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
On the table the stone and the number land together; digitally the
display can come a beat late and the +1 silently vanished. Displaying
POWERSTONE now grants the stride retroactively when a number was
already played for movement this turn, with a chronicle line so the
gain is visible. Pure widening — no rev needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
DROP OBJECT's forced drop hardcoded onHomeOf null and skipped the
victory check — a treasure shaken loose over a home square neither
reported the banking nor triggered scoring or the captured-treasures
clause until something else prodded the engine. It now lands like any
drop: homeOwnerAt reported, checkVictory immediate.
And the stuck-game mystery from 38YP: a deploy restart left the
browser holding a half-dead socket that never fired onclose, so the
existing reconnect loop and masthead banner never engaged and a live
game wore a frozen face. The client now pings every 15s and force-
closes a socket silent for 45s, which wakes the reconnect machinery;
the server answers pong.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
Stepping on a face-down token flips it: a blank leaves the board the
moment it is discovered, instead of all four indicators lingering
until the real one detonates. The trap itself still waits, the caster
still strolls over everything unharmed, and the chronicle narrates
the flip so the table learns which squares stopped being scary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
STRENGTH's card says the grab "would be an attack," but the engine
resolved it instantly while punches opened counteraction windows — the
defender never got their say. At rev 6 the tear rides the stack like
any physical attack: the clutch roll waits out the counters, and only
an unstopped grab still in arm's reach of a still-laden defender gets
its wrestle. A TELEPORT escape now genuinely saves the chest (FULL
SHIELD does not — the card stops spell attacks only, and the grab is
physical). The automatons counter tears at their carried gold by not
being there when the hand closes. Narrowing, so rev-gated: games
pinned at rev 5 keep their instant tears and replay unchanged — all 29
ledgers verify.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
Two holes, found when a SAFE cast at a treasure 'around the 180 degree
corner' refused with no line of sight (room LZ5R). First: the bend was
honored only in the attack path — every neutral resolve (creations,
summons, utilities, edge targets) checked straight sight and ignored
the attached card, though the card says 'any line of sight spell'.
castSight/castSightEdge now thread the bend through all of them, and
the chronicle narrates the neutral bend too.
Second: the bend itself pivoted only at cell centers, so the card's
flagship shot — doubling back up to 180 degrees around a wall's end —
never resolved: both legs graze the corner and die. The pivot may now
sit in the wall's open gap itself (bentSightThroughGap), which is what
rounding a corner physically is. Closed doors still block; two corners
still refuse.
The client lights bent-reachable squares for real now instead of the
old one-step-adjacency guess, creations included. Pure widening, so no
rev bump: every one of these casts was refused before, so no ledger
holds one. All 26 production ledgers replay clean; the LZ5R moment
itself replayed and the exact refused cast now lands.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
Third pass, scoped from 7a32370. Three blind reviewers (engine, web,
server/tools) each concluded the work is coherent engineering with
seam-level tells; every finding was verified before touching a line.
Session biography left the comments: the bot brain's heuristics no
longer cite the opponent who taught them, the RNRX coma parenthetical
and the thief-chase citation are gone, the seat-wallet comments state
their invariants without the war stories, and process-named test
groups now name the behaviors they pin. The incident record lives
where history belongs — commit messages and the ledgers.
Structural dedup: one VISIONSTONE one-edge-sight loop serves both
LOS paths; one creature-arrival touch handler serves walking and
warp-stepping (error text aligned); one facingWedge helper draws both
keymap ribbons; one spriteVisibleInCol rule serves the draw pass and
the hover test (which also stops re-sorting per pointermove); and
deepestFacing joins the director, replacing four copied scans.
Test hardening exposed real rot the tells were hiding: the tight
CreatureState cast caught two literals with a bogus field masking
three missing ones; the number-hoarding rig had NEVER run (its
column didn't exist on seed 42 — it now carves its own geometry);
the bank-guard rig now drives the whole table to an arrival
assertion; the bent-trace test walls off straight sight so the bend
must answer. Silent `return`-on-rig-failure became loud throws, and
can-never-fail assertions were removed.
Sweep-up: the eyeTurn ghost comment, the stacked leave() doc
comments (leave now delegates to leaveLocal), the dead ternary in
the seat client, the kick handler's name-coercion drift, kick ledger
lines gain timestamps, archiveRoomFile reuses fileFor, the RULES_REV
alias retires in favor of the engine constant, hitTest un-exports,
the NUL-sentinel hover shape becomes an honest "none" variant, and
the steering holds get named constants. The bezel's stride cluster
also centers per the table's note.
288 tests, 24 ledgers verified, all workspaces typecheck.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
Six instincts learned playing Kestrel live, taught to the automatons.
Bank guard: enemy gold banked at home is a scoreboard anyone can rob —
an empty-handed raider within two of a stocked bank pulls the walker
home (the predicate reads only enemy positions, the thief-chase
shuttle lesson), and pathDenial blockades the raider's road.
Repossession: the bot's own treasure banked by an enemy one delivery
from winning becomes a march goal, and the underfoot grab learns the
owner exception. Infrastructure: holding DIMENSIONAL WARP near home
in the early rounds, the bot anchors one mouth at its doorstep and
one beside the richest distant gold — the home-anchored superhighway
that won its teacher two games. Turn theft: a carrier one delivery
from winning eats LIGHTNING BLAST's stun over any bigger point total.
The teleport delivery: carrying with home a blink away but farther by
boot, it jumps the ambush and drops next command. Last-counter
thrift: a lone remaining counteraction at healthy life waits for
something big. A/B vs the prior brain across 100 mirrors: parity
(44-52, historical noise band) — the patterns are anti-human, and
mirrors don't play like humans. Three scenario tests pin the rungs;
287 tests; 23 ledgers verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
Two findings from duel two (room UNS6). AROUND THE CORNER's bent
sight was legal but invisible: a 1-by-6 diagonal threading six open
edge spans read as an impossible shot because the table never saw the
line. The stack now records bentCorner, and stackSightTrace finds the
middle square and returns both legs; the board draws them with a
pulsing diamond on the corner the sight bent around — the answer to
"how can he even see me?" now covers the bent case.
Floor objects (a dropped wizardblade) showed a marker but answered
only a 450ms hold; a plain click did nothing. The marker itself is
now a click target that opens the same card peek.
All 21 ledgers verified; 284 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
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
Both PICK LOCK and MASTER KEY promise the door relocks behind the
walker — not that it stands unlocked for the turn. Passing through
any door unlocked this turn now shuts it at once at the walker's
back, unless a hand holds it open; the pick-and-peek stays (an
unpassed door keeps its opening until turn's end), and holding via a
targeted cast works as ever, displayed key included. The displayed
key's own walk-through likewise leaves no lingering opening for
bystanders — their peek needs a held door. Frozen behind rev 4 so
stored games keep their turn-long openings. 18 ledgers verified; 277
tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
"Display Immediately," says the card — now the key lives up to it.
Cast bare (a new Display button beside the hold-the-door checkbox),
it goes straight on display; once displayed, it turns in every lock
its bearer walks through — no more casting at each door — with the
door relocking behind them at turn's end like any picked lock, and
the doorUnlocked event still swinging the door in the reels. Cast at
an adjacent door it still works one lock like PICK LOCK, including
holding the door open for others. A JAMmed LOCK refuses it as ever,
and the adjacent peek through workable locks already rode the rev-2
sight rules. Replay-safe ungated: bare casts were never recorded
(they were refused), displayed cards still count against the hand
limit, and walking through a locked door only widens what is
accepted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
The client always offered CHAOS from the hint bar without a target,
and the engine refused it: "attack spells target a player". Not this
one — cast bare, it sweeps every other living wizard into the pile,
each offered their FULL SHIELD sit-out in turn order from the caster.
No stack forms; full shields only ever excluded a player from the
storm, so the queue is the whole defense. The older player-targeted
form stays accepted, so stored games replay unchanged. The scramble
joins the chronicle's notable events — a turn that redeals every hand
earns its eye.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
VISIONSTONE only ever lit the attack path: casterLos knew it, but
every sight check routed through gameLos — creations like THORNBUSH,
dispels, CREATE DOOR, STONE TO WATER — refused "no line of sight"
through the bearer's one wall. gameLos now honors the stone whenever
the viewer bears it, at every revision: widening what a cast may
target never changes how a recorded command replays, so games already
in flight get the fix at once. Only the ambush's mid-move eye is
frozen per game (rev 3) — springing lands in the ledger's flow, and
stored games must replay their blindness. All 18 production ledgers
verified; 272 engine tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
Teleport wraps the maze's rim: its four counted squares now step
through warp mouths like any doorway, so a wizard can blink off one
side of the board and onto the other.
A wizard at a door's threshold may pull it open and peek — lock
removed, door unlocked this turn, or PICK LOCK / MASTER KEY in hand —
without stepping through. The door still hangs shut to everyone down
the hallway; only a HELD door is propped open for every eye. Gated
behind rules rev 2 (now sourced from the engine's CURRENT_RULES_REV)
so stored games replay with their doors dark; the client's sight
mirror learns the same peek.
Fear no longer nails a cornered wizard to the floor: a step closer to
the dread is allowed when it walks the shortest way out of it, so
escape can round a corner. Standing outside and stepping in is still
refused.
All 15 production ledgers verified before deploy; 269 engine tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
The card's second power was never built. New tearTreasure command: with
STRENGTH on you, in the same square as a carrier, the tear spends your
attack; the victim keeps the treasure only on a D4 roll of 1. Per the
FAQ it is not a pickup (your turn's actions continue), and full or
weakened arms tear it loose onto the floor instead. A torn treasure's
warded owner gets their window, blind grabs flail like blind punches,
and the automatons wrestle too. A new command breaks no stored ledger,
so live games gain the grip at once.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Blind reviews over the rev-37..40 features and the gate collapse. The
scripted surgery's scars come out: bare brace blocks unwrapped (with one
hiding an unreachable scrambleHands), the amputated comment healed, the
dead events parameter unthreaded from the illusion-sight chain, the
laziness probe in perceivedBoard collapsed to the rule it always produced,
GameView.deckRev retired with its last reader, the ward's arming stub
told honestly, and every comment or test title still citing the retired
revision numbering reworded to the rule it guards. Rim mechanics unify on
rimWarpMouth and breachRim; the test suite gains plainRimWall and
pushSustained and loses its loop-shaped scars and rev-named helpers.
No behavior changes; 255 tests pass unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All 50 rooms were retired (backed up on the droplet and in Spaces), so no
ledger needs an old branch to replay: forty revisions of deckRev gates
fold into one canonical ruleset — the newest behavior everywhere. The
ward's arming, the idiot's steering, the lazy illusion roll, the legacy
redirection swap, and the flat wave all leave with their gates; RULES_REV
restarts at 1 for whenever the rules fork again. Old-vintage test pins go
with them. The opening screen now quietly drops seats whose rooms the
server no longer knows, instead of listing them "unreachable" forever.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The full audit Wall of Fire started: WATERWALL crashes on a warp mouth,
washing both rims inward; ILLUSION WALL hangs its scrim on a mouth (the
create-wall bluff); STONE TO WATER melts a brick over a warp at both ends
and breaches a plain rim wall exactly as DESTROY WALL does — far side
washes out, a warp opens, the wave floods the fresh tunnel; the WARP WAND
bores a temporary wraparound that closes when its wall returns; and
CREATE DOOR stops hanging dead doors onto the void. Older ledgers keep
their refusals and danglings, and replay so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A warp mouth at the maze's edge is a corridor — the wraparound connects
it to the opposite rim — so the fire may bar it. It takes BOTH mouths
(each with its own burn-out clock), and the crossing steps through flame
for the usual 4 from either side. Older ledgers refused the cast and
replay so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"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>
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>
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>
The card's line bends: a victim shoved against a wall moved zero
squares and just lost the turn, because GO AWAY borrowed waterbolt's
straight-line knockback. Its own rout now holds the heading while open,
bends around walls, sidesteps when no ground can be gained, rolls the
D4 only when options tie, and stops early only when truly cornered.
Waterbolt's physical shove stays straight, as a shove should. Ledgers
verified before deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
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
Same reading as fireball's rev 33: 'carrying' means displayed. Counting
hidden hand stones both inflated the damage and broadcast the secret
count in the total. The automatons' estimate (displayed as the visible
floor) is now simply the truth. All production ledgers verified clean
before deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
'Destroys all magical stones an opponent is CARRYING' — the owner's
ruling: a stone hidden in the hand is a secret card, not a carried
stone. Only displayed stones burn; the old all-hand burning also leaked
hidden information by announcing cards nobody knew existed. Earlier
games replay their broader fire. All 42 production ledgers verified
before deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
Same lesson twice in one night: the toroidal dread applied at every rev
and QD3S (recorded flat) refused seq 76 again on restore. rev >= 32
wraps; older vintages measure the flat diamond they were played under.
This time verified properly: a strict replay harness (any refused
command is a hard failure) ran all 41 production ledgers against the
new engine before deploy — 0 failures. That harness now lives in the
repo as the pre-deploy determinism check it always should have been.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
The maze is a torus — a wizard walking through walls off one edge
arrives at the other, so the crow flies around the wrap too.
dreadDistance measures toroidal manhattan; the aura's wash wraps with
it. No rev-32 game has cast fear yet, so the measure corrects in
place; older vintages replay flat as they were played.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
The FAQ is exact: 'The 3 spaces away is measured as a Wizard walks (if
he could walk through walls), not diagonally' — manhattan, at every
vintage. The walking-distance detour is reverted (no rev-32 ledger ever
recorded under it); the rev-32 gains stand: monsters, warp-steps, and
teleports all honor the dread. The aura returns to the true diamond,
now as a wash on its member squares.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
QD3S failed to restore ('replay failed at seq 76: an unnatural dread
keeps you away'): the walkingDistance switch ran at every rev, refusing
a move that was legal under the crow-flies rule when it was played.
fearRepels now measures walked spaces at rev 32+ and as the crow flies
below, so every stored ledger replays its own vintage. No data was
lost; the room's ledger was intact throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
The owner caught the metric: a wizard eight squares away as the crow
flies stood three WALKED spaces away through a warp, and the manhattan
check waved it through (while falsely blocking approaches manhattan-
near through solid walls). fearRepels now measures walkingDistance —
the same BFS the maze walks, warps included, walls respected. The
board's aura follows suit: the diamond becomes a violet wash on every
square within three walked spaces, computed by the same BFS, warp
mouths included. No rev-32 ledger existed yet, so the metric corrects
inside rev 32.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
Room QD3S: Kestrel cast Fear and a Democratic Monster warp-stepped from
eight squares away to ONE — moveCreature never knew the card existed.
'No player or monster will move to within 3 spaces of you' now guards
every willing move: walking wizards (as before), commanded monsters
(walks, wall-passes, and warp mouths alike), dimensional warp-steps,
and self-teleports. Forced movement — knockback, waves, Mental Force,
Teleport Opponent — is not willing, and still throws you anywhere.
The shared fearRepels helper replaces the inline wizard-only check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
'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
A wizard eliminated by treasuresLost took any carried treasure into the
void with them — the killed path drops it, but checkVictory's branch
never did. At rev 30 the treasure lands where they stood, with the
usual treasureDropped event (onHomeOf included, so a capture completed
by the falling is honored in the same breath). Stored games replay the
vanishing unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
'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
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
'Takes 2 damage' from a 3-point bolt read as broken arithmetic unless
you remembered the bloodstone. The damaged event now carries its soaks
(bloodstone's flat point, soulstone's spell-damage clamp) and the log
prints them: 'takes 2 damage (lightning-blast (reflected) — bloodstone
soaks 1)'. A blow the bloodstone drinks entirely — previously silent —
announces itself too. Events are derived, so replays gain the notes
retroactively.
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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.
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'This is most certainly an object' (WIZARDBLADE's FAQ) — and the card
data already says so: every physical item bears the OBJECT subtype on
its face. isMovableObject now reads it from there, retiring the
hand-kept list — which had missed MASTER KEY and HANDFUL OF TACKS,
both object-marked. Ungated: no stored ledger holds a swap or drop
this widens (verified against production), and refused commands are
never recorded.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rules rev 24: a waterwall wave that finds a victim dist cells from its
source has only range-dist spaces of push left — a range-2 wave throws its
adjacent victim two spaces but a victim at its far edge only one, and
spent force never converts into crush damage. Applies to WATERWALL and
both STONE TO WATER waves; older revisions keep the flat full-range wash
so stored games replay unchanged.
Automatons now use DESTROY WALL on the march: two BFS distance maps (from
the bot, from its objectives) price every visible wall by the shortcut its
removal opens; the bot blasts when it saves 4+ steps of walking — or when
no road exists at all — never standing beside the blast unless trapped
and healthy. The card also leaves the shed pile: discardValue 2 -> 6.
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vampire, werewolf, flight, and exploding-door are expansion2 rows in the
card database — a set this edition does not have; buildDeck never deals
them. Listing them as idiot-permitted aids cited cards that cannot occur.
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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.
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A democratic monster touching its own creator opens a stack where one
player wears both hats, and doPass matched the attacker first: every
pass "bounced the exchange to the defender" — the same wizard —
forever. Room 928D livelocked there at seq 83; once the boot kick
revived its pump, the automaton politely passed 389 times. At rev 22
a self-stack pass RESOLVES (the claw lands, the game moves on);
older ledgers hold their recorded bounces and replay so. 928D itself
was repaired by truncating the no-op run and lifting it to rev 22,
verified clean and unstuck on a copy before installation.
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DESTROY WALL's "anyone in either square next to the wall takes 4
points" swept only wizards; a troll leaned on the falling masonry
untouched. The expansion sheet is explicit — "if a card specifies
'Opponent' or 'Anyone' as a target, this includes Monsters" — so the
collapse now crushes creatures in both squares, at the rim breach's
far side too. Earlier ledgers keep their charmed monsters.
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