Eric repainted the maze. The first-person materials are painterly
sandstone, flagstone, and iron; the hand-drawn token set is redrawn
with matching chests and hats; the standing conjurations — hedges,
jello, dust, safe, warp light — and the effect billboards are redone
in the same hand; and the board's flourishes trade their filters and
gradients for flat cel silhouettes cut from five shared shapes, which
read better against the counters and cost a phone nothing. Thirty
scene goldens re-blessed against the new walls.
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The eleventh scene, written for the new conjurations. Wanderer fills
the corridor between them with a dust cloud — no sight, no spells —
so Rival lays a dimensional warp with one mouth under his own feet
and the other at her back, steps through the light, and lands on her
square fists first. She bolts into her own cloud, and the die picks
where she goes: into a wall. Three beats through the eyes — the cloud
billowing, the arrival, the blind stagger with the far pillar of light
at the corridor's end — and the board at the arrival.
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Springing the Trap never showed its fireball: Rival stepped into the
watched corridor facing the way he walked, and the ambush's fireball
flew in from the mouth behind him while only the caption told of it.
The director now aims at incoming magic and punches — the caster's or
attacker's square, straight or through a mouth — and a stride that
ends with something to watch turns once more after the walk, the
slate holding the outcome until the eyes face it. The fireball comes
through the wormhole at the camera, then the blow lands.
The trap's first beat re-blessed for it.
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The Warp Sniper cut to another angle the moment the fireball landed,
though the caster could see the whole thing: the director counted a
warp mouth before the target as blocked sight. Sight threads warps as
the rules say, and now the camera does too. director.sightline finds
the heading that actually sees a point — straight, or through a mouth
by aiming at the target's position in the far room and asking whether
the bent ray reaches it — and both the aim and the turn-toward-the-
actor rules use it. Only a point no ray reaches earns the cutaway.
Warp Sniper's second beat re-blessed: Wanderer's eyes now find Rival
through the mouth as the turn passes to him.
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A day of Eric watching the clips as a newcomer would.
The camera can pitch: FirstPerson takes a `pitch` that shears the
horizon up the pane (walls center on it, the eye stays half a wall
high), so the ground at the pane's foot comes within half a cell. The
director uses it for deeds at your own feet — a conjuration on your
square, a treasure taken up, the pit you fell down — instead of the
cutaway that stepped outside your body.
Everything shows through a warp. The floor pass now runs between the
cast and the wall draw, so a column that bent through a mouth maps its
ground through the warp's rigid motion and wears the far room's decals
— the pit past the wormhole included — under the same violet haze as
its walls.
A wizard down a pit is public (inPit on the player view), drawn sunk to
the floor line in first person and dimmed on the board. A body sharing
your square, which had no depth to draw at, stands right in front of
you. A pit leap glides like a shove instead of cutting. And the
director's blocked-sight test no longer counts a warp BEYOND the
target as a block, nor stands a cutaway camera inside another wizard's
square — the pair that put Wanderer's face across the whole pane.
The reel stops for a die: a card over the held world names who rolls
and for what, tumbles the faces on the reel's own clock, lands the
roll, and only then plays the outcome; the beat, the fx, the glides
and the camera all wait it out. A punch by you drives a fist into the
scene; one at you comes at the camera; both land with a comic POW.
film-clips rolls until the reel's last move rather than a fixed count,
and the gate settles longer on a step whose caption rolls a die. All
thirty goldens re-blessed.
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Two things for a viewer who has never seen the game. When the reel's
pov passes to another wizard, the cut used to be instant — one wizard
apparently teleporting. Now a slate wipes across the pane: a dark band
sweeps in over the old sight, holds with the new wizard's standee and
THROUGH THE EYES OF <name>, and sweeps off to reveal theirs. It is an
FpFx ("slate") drawn by the renderer on the reel's own clock, so the
harness and the film see the same frames.
The caption grows a right-hand column: strides left to spend this turn
as a countdown, ♥ life, and chips for what the wizard carries,
displays, or suffers — a treasure, displayed cards, spells on them
with turns remaining, lost turns, banked Pass Wall, attack spent. The
save-video composite carries the same column.
All thirty scene goldens re-blessed: the caption is inside every
frame. The 3D panes are pixel-identical to the previous goldens.
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Eric's direction: passing through an ordinary warp mouth is a normal
stride. The veil already marks the doorway, and the wizard walks through
it as through any door — no shimmer, no surge, and the eyes carry on
the way they were going instead of turning back to show the mouth. The
surge stays for the moment a wormhole is cast, staged straight from the
warpOpened event through both its new mouths.
The heist's pinned frames re-blessed for it: at the crossing the reel
now looks down the corridor at the enemy's home rather than back
through the mouth.
deploy/film-clips.mjs films the catalog for the gallery — every scene
in both takes, the reel playing under the paused clock at one frame per
40ms, muxed to 25fps mp4s with the first pinned beat as the poster. The
recorder used for the first clip set lived in a session scratchpad and
was lost; this one lives here.
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deploy/verify-scenes.sh replays each screenplay to its authored beats
under a paused Playwright clock — pulses, tweens, and fx advance only
on the harness's schedule, so the same beat renders the same bytes
every run — screenshots the reel, and diffs pixels against the goldens
in deploy/scene-goldens (30 frames: warp transits, impacts, curses
landing, in both views). A channel may drift 6 before a pixel counts,
0.2% of pixels before a beat fails; --update blesses intended changes.
Proven both ways before landing: a clean double-run reproduces all 30
goldens exactly, and resurrecting the warp-smear cutaway bug fails the
warp-transit beat at 61% pixel drift.
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