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Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 7a32370ccb Credibility pass: the reel's scars sanded, the veil finally hung
Three blind reviews over the first-person arc, every finding verified
against the source. History-narrating comments made timeless or cut;
the stacked BUDDY comment collapsed to one voice. Dead code out: the
orphaned FACE copy, the DIR_ANGLE duplicate, the dead loop-counter
poke, the impossible-state sentinel. The never-produced "warp" hit
kind resolved the right way — warp mouths now hang a translucent veil
of the painted warp texture, so art that never rendered finally does.
Types tightened (SlabStrike named once, ShareData rides CatchUpStep,
botTier loses its casts), the gallery reads MATERIALS instead of a
hand-copied list, the chronicle resets through one helper, a
superseded share mint rejects instead of stranding, and the conjured
safe gains the growth key its siblings had. Tests lose a triple
assignment, a tautology, and two self-swallowing regex alternatives.
The sprite spec — which still told the artist to paint for additive
compositing the renderer no longer uses — now describes the renderer
that exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 21:41:11 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 5fc5805354 Odds, ends, and every missing effect: doorways dressed, victory earns its fireworks
The audit Eric called for, delivered whole. Open doors are DOORWAYS
now: stone jamb posts at both ends and a lintel hung across the top
(paintable as textures/doorframe.png), the way through open to the eye.
Battle damage shows — the engine's per-edge wallDamage wears painted
cracks into any wall, heavier as harm mounts. The wall safe stands as
a strongbox volume instead of a flat token. Hedges take root: an
underbrush floor decal covers the whole square beneath them (Eric's
report — a billboard at center depth can't reach the floor trapezoid's
near edge), and the hedge itself widens past the cell. Rubble
stretches across the fallen wall's full gap, corner piles landing at
the posts, exactly as its art was painted.

The first-person effect gaps close: victory now throws SIX fireworks
climbing over the winner's home with gold washing the screen; sector
rotations flash violet and heave the whole world; the Thumb of God
lands with a burst and a shudder; walls conjured from nothing rise in
stone dust; and every hazard pratfall plays — pit falls (with a dark
drop and jolt for the faller's own eyes), ooze slips, tack yelps,
thorn snaps, slime, dust. Dying in first person fades long and dark.

And the whole tale travels: a finished game's full replay carries the
share button too — turn -1 mints a link to every turn of the game,
each through its wizard's own eyes, titled for the winner's triumph.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 19:32:42 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 a28d27eedc The camera always wears the turn-taker's eyes, and knows whose turn zero is
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 18:56:02 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 6788de2f6e The chronicle remembers everything, and holds still while you read it
The game log's sixty-line window was a render cap, not a limit of what
the client holds — a rejoin replays the whole game into memory. The
chronicle now renders every line back to the deal, and its auto-scroll
grows manners: it follows the newest line only while the reader sits at
the bottom, and holds its place once they scroll up into history.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 18:35:15 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 4838996cf0 Share a turn with the world: /watch links, cards and chrome included
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 17:34:00 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 f52d0d88a9 The instant replay: a chronicle line's eye relives the turn, firsthand
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 16:05:07 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 3c479eddbb The maze through a wizard's eyes: the first-person raycaster (/?fpv)
Stage one of the replay vision: a canvas raycaster over the GameView —
walls on edges marched by DDA, doors with lintels, firewalls that
flicker, rim warp mouths that shimmer violet, token art billboarded and
occluded per column, torchlit vignette. It renders the view a player
would be SENT, so an illusion this wizard has not seen through stands as
solid as stone in first person too. The /?fpv workshop free-flies a
dealt maze with wall collision, a minimap eye-cone, and ?seed=&x=&y=&dir=
to stand the camera anywhere. Next: drive it from the replay reel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 12:19:03 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 813f92d419 The full telepath audit: every private glimpse held up, every silence voiced
A sweep of all 142 engine events against the client found three more
telepath-class drops and eight silent chronicle gaps. THOUGHT STEAL's
plunder and a kill's hand-spoils now get the reveal modal (generalized
from the mind-read one — title, note, the cards fanned out); your own
end-of-turn draw names its cards in the log. The mute events speak:
dispels, walls of fire rising/burning/guttering, filled squares,
crashing waterwalls, clattering thrown objects, and REUSE SPELL's
retrieval. Also verified clean: every param-taking card has collection
UI, and every cell/edge-targeting card is aimable on the board.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 11:53:17 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 6165d43639 Unspent legs are no regret atop another wizard's gold
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 11:10:23 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 ef921a0c2b Three more cautions: the un-grabbed chest, the biting ground, the starved draw
Ending a turn on a treasure nobody picked up now asks first (unless the
auto-grab preference is about to take it, or the grab would be refused —
laden arms, weakness, spent actions, glue, a locked safe, or your own
home where the chest already scores; the view learns gluedCells and
openSafes so the check is honest). Stepping onto ground that bites —
thornbush, tacks, pit, ooze — warns with the exact price, unless you are
mist. And the sticky draw picker no longer quietly starves anyone: a
draw below what would fit asks too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 11:04:05 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 6e1ccb0195 "Hold on —": cautions before easy-to-regret plays, and a house bot tier
An optional confirmation (on by default, one checkbox to silence) catches
the classic table groans before they land: ending the turn with movement
unspent, ending it with a hand too full to take the draw, and walking off
— or ending on — your own home with a deliverable treasure still in your
arms. Preferences also learn a default automaton skill, remembered from
either the prefs panel or the lobby's tier picker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 10:59:26 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 bde68aa85c Telepath's glimpse gets held up to the light
The engine sent the caster a private handRevealedPrivate event carrying
the victim's cards; the client logged the public line and dropped the
private one on the floor. The stolen mind is now a modal — the cards
fanned out, once, until dismissed — in the trap-notice pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 10:49:35 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 76207c6264 Strength gets its grip: tear a treasure from a wizard's arms
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>
2026-08-21 13:44:50 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 4a91d56d24 Credibility pass: the collapse loses its scaffolding
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>
2026-08-21 13:04:01 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 8a50ff7f36 The great simplification: every vintage gate collapses, the count restarts at 1
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>
2026-08-21 12:45:35 -04:00
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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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2026-08-17 17:10:06 -04:00