"You draw Waterbolt" belongs in the chronicle, not on a replay whose
canvas gets recorded and passed around — the reel's captions now skip
the private-draw events (drawn, dealt, stolen) and say only how many.
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Eric's rule, applied everywhere: every reel — moment, catch-up, whole
tale — follows the wizard whose turn it is, the pov switching at each
handover as boundaries scroll past. And the J8LL mystery dies with it:
turn zero's opening boundary lives in the DEAL, before any command, so
scanning a moment's steps found the NEXT turn's start instead and put
the camera in the wrong wizard's head. momentSteps now names the owner
from the very boundary that opened the turn — counted through the deal
— and carries it to the client and the share page, where it also fixes
the same latent mis-titling.
Also aboard: the cutaway shot. When the eyes aim at something they
cannot see — a wraith summoned across the maze, a spell through walls —
the camera cuts to the target's cell for that beat, standing back down
its deepest corridor, and cuts home on the next step. The wraith no
longer materializes off-screen.
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The share button lands on the instant replay. One click mints a slug —
persistent, unguessable, one per (room, turn) — and copies a /watch
link anyone can open: the server rebuilds exactly that turn for the
nameless SPECTATOR, public knowledge only, none of the rest of the
game visible. The page arrives with its OpenGraph card pre-baked into
the head (crawlers never run the app): the turn's title and round in
the text, and an og.png of the maze itself — cells, walls, doors, warp
mouths, homes, standees — painted server-side and PNG-encoded with
nothing but node's own zlib. The viewer page wears its chrome: the
WIZ-WAR masthead linking home, the turn's title, the reel opening
straight into the turn-owner's eyes with a "watch it again" loop, and
a footer that says what this table is and deals the visitor in.
The share page loads as its own entry so a shared link never drags the
full app's socket appetite along; the reel's modal scrim learns to
stand in a page instead of over one.
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Two more camera flaws, read straight out of A9WK's clip against its
ledger. The reel's first run measured the leap from the camera's
uninitialized origin as a stride and FACED ALONG IT — an arbitrary
heading that landed nose-first in a wall, and counted as aimed, so the
corridor fallback never ran. A stride only turns the eyes once the
camera is real. And idle beats are rescued generally: whenever nothing
aims the eyes and they would sit staring at a wall closer than a
stride, they turn down the deepest corridor instead — so pacing into a
dead-end cell no longer parks the whole screen inside brick.
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A9WK's clip showed the flaw: a turn owner who casts without moving left
the camera staring into the wall its default heading happened to face,
for the whole turn. The facing ladder grows two rungs: the eyes turn
toward their OWN magic — a cast's target or cell, an attack's defender,
a thrown object's landing — and when a reel opens on a stationary
wizard with nothing to aim at, the camera faces the longest corridor
from where they stand instead of hardcoded east.
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Hitting record used to capture from wherever the reel stood — at the
end, the auto-stop fired a beat later and saved one second of the
final frame. Recording now rewinds to the top and rolls the whole
reel. And the container asks for MP4 (H.264) first, the format every
phone and platform plays, keeping WebM only where the browser cannot
mux it; the extension follows the container.
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Entertainment polish for the instant replay, all through one wizard's
eyes. Doors now slide open along their own edge — Wolf3D style — when
anyone steps through in a reel, hold for the crossing, and swing shut;
the raycaster takes a per-edge openness map and doors carry their
texture with them, leaving a sliver of jamb at the far post. A wall
that dies bursts into stone and shakes the camera, then leaves a mound
of rubble at the fallen edge for the rest of the reel (a tenth
paintable sprite, drawn opaque — debris, not light). Jammed locks
seethe: a rusty pulse across the wood, keyed off the view's own door
states. Walking THROUGH a wall shimmers on both faces and washes the
walker's own screen stone-gray. And every home base wears its owner's
emblem on the flagstones — a near-white paintable overlay tinted by
wizard color per cell in the floor cast.
Testing surfaced a real ghost: a body standing near a far warp mouth
also rendered at its virtual position, which can overlap real
corridors — the depth buffer alone cannot clip it. Every column now
remembers whether its ray bent, and a sprite draws only where its warp
side matches the column's; projectile legs carry the same flag.
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The dream feature lands, behind a preference that ships off for now.
The chronicle's lines grow structure — each knows its turn, counted by
the same boundary events on both ends of the wire (the server counts
the deal's own events too, or every number would sit one turn behind).
The first notable line of a turn — combat, spectacle, a targeted cast
— wears a small eye; clicking it asks the server for that one turn's
steps, rebuilt and redacted like any reel, and the replay opens
STRAIGHT into first person through the eyes of the wizard whose turn
it was: their position, the viewer's knowledge, nothing private leaked.
It plays that turn and stops. Save-video and the board toggle come
along for free.
Two camera bugs die with it: the replay tween effect tracked its own
writes, restarting the ease every frame until walks decayed into the
slow wall-piercing drift Eric saw — untracked reads run one tween per
step now. And the reel camera follows whichever eyes the reel wears,
not always your own.
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Three polishes aimed at the instant-replay dream. Other wizards and
creatures now GLIDE between steps in first person instead of blinking
cell to cell — a stride tweens, a teleport still simply arrives. A
projectile whose sight line runs through a warp now flies as two
simultaneous legs under the mouths' rigid motion, so the fireball
plunges into the opening on one side and bursts from the pair on the
other, whichever room the camera stands in. And the saved video is no
longer a bare canvas grab: it composites into a shareable 1280x720
frame with the step's caption burned in — gold actor name, the reel's
own words — and the game's name in the corner, so a clip passed along
explains itself.
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The reel's first-person mode now shows the fight, not just the rooms.
The board flourishes' event map is recast into world space (fx3d):
fireballs, bolts, and thrown things streak caster to target as glowing
billboards; landings swell and fade; blows that land on YOU wash the
screen red and jolt the camera; warp-steps and teleports flash violet;
a hurled body glides fast and straight with its eyes held steady. Nine
paintable conjuration sprites ship at public/fx3d (spec for the artist
in research/), shown in the token workshop beside the masonry.
Three rough edges sharpened along the way: sprites now project through
warp mouths under the same rigid motion the rays use, clipped by the
depth buffer to the opening; fire and warp surfaces pull a different
texture slice per world cell so a long blaze reads as one; and the
replay camera only turns toward an actor its eyes could actually see.
Two more gifts: the reel can record its first-person canvas straight
to a downloadable WebM (⏺ save video), and the About tab now shows
visitors the way into the three workshops.
One buried mine defused: rAF hands frame-start times that can precede
the tween's own clock, and a zero-length turn divided by it — one NaN
facing poisoned every ray black and re-triggered the camera effect
forever. The tween clamps and guards its phases now.
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Sight now runs THROUGH the warps as the rules say: a ray reaching a
mouth re-enters at its pair and marches on, the far side swimming in
violet haze. The floor's furniture joins the scene — bushes stand tall,
safes squat, slime and tacks and pits lie low, dropped daggers glint.
And the replay reel gains a 👁 toggle: relive the catch-up or the whole
tale through your wizard's eyes, the camera turning before it strides,
easing between cells, cutting on teleports, and turning toward whoever
acted while you stood still. The /?fpv workshop grows &demo=1 — two
automatons play a stretch and the real Replay component reruns it.
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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.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0138A8CjeQRpvzKxuMfz1Bqc
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).
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Replay steps carry the same events the live table saw, so the spells
flare on catch-up reels and whole-game replays alike — retroactively:
stored games re-derive their events on replay, so every fireball ever
thrown bursts again. Step changes clear pending effects so scrubbing
backward does not smear.
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A say-box under the chronicle sends table talk to the room; messages
land in the event log itself, styled as parchment asides — banter
between the battle lines, the way it happens at a real table. Talk is
seat-authenticated, stripped and capped at 300 chars, rate-limited by
the existing bucket, persisted as chat lines in the room file (the
game replay ignores them; the room keeps its last 500), and replayed
to anyone joining. Async games get unread badges in the lobby ledger
(💬3), cleared by watching the table, and catch-up replays speak the
lines at the step where they were said. Public to the whole room, no
whispers — and no chat in hotseat, where the table talks for itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The seed + command log has been the whole game all along; now it can
be watched. Finished games offer "⟲ Watch the whole game" beside the
face-up hands: the server replays every command from seq 0 through
the same redacted catch-up pipeline (the 200-step window remains a
live-game courtesy; full replays wait for the game to finish), and
the reel plays it titled "The whole tale, from the deal" with new
1×/2×/4× speed controls for the long tellings. Each viewer rewatches
from their own seat — hidden information stays hidden in the retelling
exactly as it was at the table.
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"While you were away": returning to a game with unseen moves shows a
banner — "You missed N moves. Watch what happened" — that opens a
replay reel. The server rebuilds the game and captures a redacted
per-move view for the viewer (own hand only, capped at the last 200
moves); the client plays the reel on a full board with the actor and
humanized events captioned per step, auto-advancing with pause,
step-back/forward, arrow-key control, and skip-to-now. Seen progress
is tracked per room in the browser (every state broadcast now carries
the log sequence), so the banner only appears when there is genuinely
something to watch.
Attention between turns is now named, not just signaled: game
summaries carry WHY a game waits on you — your turn, counteract
(you're being attacked mid-someone-else's-turn), forced discard, or a
pending interruption — the ledger prints it ("UNDER ATTACK —
respond!"), and browser notifications say "you are under attack in
GNSK!" rather than a generic your-turn.
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