A "seats" button beside "transfer seat" opens the host's panel. In a game
under way, "give to the clockwork" lets an automaton play a person's seat
from the next beat, with their hand, treasures and place untouched; a
standIn line on the ledger records it, the chronicle says so, the
stand-in never talks under the person's name, and the person's token
opens nothing after. "Make a phrase" mints the four-word phrase for any
person's seat; claiming it re-seats on a new token, and a seat the
clockwork stood in for goes back to its person mid-turn. A rematch holds
a stood-in seat for its person. The gallery now has its own claim box,
for a player who opens the invite link in a fresh browser.
The client's watchdog pinged and then closed a socket quiet for 45
seconds. A background tab's timers run about once a minute, so the last
pong was always a minute old when it looked, and idle tabs reconnected
every 58 seconds. It now closes only when its own ping went unanswered.
The server pings every socket at the protocol level every 30 seconds and
drops one that left the last ping unanswered, so a crashed browser's
socket no longer lingers until TCP gives up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0141G6xqLeNRYEtviLWSB5Up
The masthead's links never wrapped, so a game widened a phone's page to
nearly 500px: the page scrolled sideways and the opening roll-off sat off
its centre. And while an automaton's opening turn played back, the rail
that says "Automaton is taking their turn" sat below the fold, leaving a
board that moved on its own. Of 132 bot-first games, 13 humans never made
a move. Now the links wrap, and a caption over the board names the wizard
whose turn it is, and says when yours is next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wording throughout the app, the server's messages and the engine's
refusals trades its stacked dashes for sentences, while the maze still
trusts you to honor its curses, the gallery still listens, and the
clockwork still learns its best tricks from the humans at the table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A first-time player banked a stolen chest, stepped off with no moves left,
and left (NQ6S): the score changed only in the turn bar's quiet tally, and
a still board with no word read as a game that had stopped. Now a slip
announces the score for the rest of the turn, and once the steps are
spent the turn bar says to cast or end the turn while End turn beckons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The keeper's hall-announce writes one file on the shared host; the site
serves it at /hall/announcement.json, and the banner shows it with the time
in the reader's own clock, dismissable one notice at a time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
A message over the size limit or a malformed frame raised an error on
the socket, which had no listener, and Node ended the process: one
message from anyone could take the server down until systemd restarted
it. The socket is terminated instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Scope: 66b5c06..HEAD.
- The rev-27 illusion tests search seeds for a believed and a doubted
roll and assert fixed life totals; seed 42 alone never believed, so
the BLUNT pricing went unchecked.
- Three docblocks stranded above newly inserted functions are back on
their own (openCreatureStack, resolvedBlow, castTrace).
- POWER ATTACK's life trade is one helper instead of three copies; the
goat's charge distance is one helper for its validator, its ram and
its pricing.
- The family list loads once into a shared store; the lobby and gallery
share one talk filter; Board uses the engine's neighbor().
- A creature's blow shows the card that summoned it by the creature's
kind, not by matching the blow's display name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The caster whose creature is countered now sees "your attack, answered"
and the name of their own blow, instead of an incoming punch with the
opponent's counter card standing in the attack slot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The believed illusion was dealt after the counter trail had already
spoken over a zero, so a BLUNT trailed for nothing and the full points
landed. Now the fake carries its spell's points through the pipeline and
the belief roll decides whether the weighed blow lands. Games dealt under
rev 26 and before replay as they were.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The clockwise checkbox sat in the hint strip and defaulted on, so a
sector could spin the way nobody meant. The turn is now its own decision,
in the dock beside the board like the teleport confirm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
A gallery line wears the eye and a name that no wizard at the table
holds; the host opens or hushes it from the lobby or the mast, on the
ledger, and the gallery is reined per address.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Ramses cast STRENGTH, then an amplified BUTT-HEAD three squares off, and
the goat dealt three: the ram was applied in onResolved, past the pipe
that doubles, soaks, and adds. Older games keep the bare distance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Since 6e49fc9. Engine: the teleport BFS in the view and the engine's
wallIgnoringDistance share teleportStep; the counter trail is weighed
between steps instead of on six arms; the bush attack takes its
adjacency from SIDES like the wall does; a dead redirected clause, a
one-member set, an identity ternary, and a stray try/catch are gone;
two tests now assert what their names promise. Server: KEEPER and
MAX_SEATS live in rooms.ts, the three Sentry bells ring through one
helper, the unread reply field is dropped, actingSeat comes from the
engine, and the protocol header names every message. Web: ReplayStep
is one type, cardName one helper, the say box and the reference section
one snippet each, the keeper's name arrives from the server rather than
the source, and the lifesaver ruling that ruled nothing is out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Damage lands on the defender's step, so a trigger keyed to the actor
never credited the attacker: across thirty three-bot games the kill line
fired zero times and the dealt-pain line five, against 328 takes. Both
now read the attackResolved, punched, and died events themselves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Reuben's three wins today were walked home unseen: the clockwork
fought whoever stood in front of it. Now a delivery that would end the
game pulls every automaton toward that wizard's home (where the banked
gold is lifted off the doorstep) or the road to it, and among visible
targets the thief still dies first, a kill is still taken, and only then
does the aim shift to whoever has more treasures banked. Measured with
deploy/brain-trial.mjs, which seats the working tree's brain against an
older checkout's at one table.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
A player answers the desk under its reply from their lobby, proven by
the seat the report was filed from; the lobby shows the exchange in
order and says whose word is pending. A new report, a player's answer,
and a desk reply each raise a Sentry issue on the keeper's phone — the
first two from the server, the last from the reply script itself,
straight to Sentry from the droplet. The Desktop digest lists the
answers, and the desk's rule reads a report as reopened when the last
word is the player's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The 🐞 form takes a picture beside its words — PNG, JPEG, or WebP, under
2.5 MB, previewed before sending. The socket's message cap is far too
small for one, so the picture goes through a plain HTTP door after the
report is filed, addressed to the report's id, one per report within
the hour, checked by its own first bytes, and kept in feedback-images/
beside the reports with a line on the report saying so. The desk's
skill knows where to look.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
"If this spell is REFLECTed, both players take 1/2 point of damage per
space moved" (WALKING DEAD); "In case of REFLECTION, both players are
affected" (IDIOT); SLOW DEATH follows REFLECTION's own rule that a
spell works for both parties. A permanent curse has no duration for
the reflection's split to halve, so the caster went untouched; the
curse is now laid on them as well, as if cast back. Older games replay
as they were; PRPM, reflected at seq 108 with no move since, was
re-stamped to 24 at its table's request.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The shared replay page had no rules for a narrow screen: the reel's
header stacked into a column, the caption ran large, and the controls
ran off the right edge. Under 640px the title takes its own line with
the count and buttons beneath, the caption reads smaller, and the
controls wrap. The share page also pins its text size against
Safari's inflation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
On a laptop the right column scrolls in place, and the turn banner,
the coaching, and the scoresheet pushed the casting panel — where an
attack is answered and a number is played for movement — below the
fold, showing as a sliver. The panel now leads the column while a card
is aimed or a blow answered, and a number's "Play for +N movement"
also stands in the dock beneath the board.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The lobby tells a challenger what to expect in the table's own voice:
the keeper answers every raven, sometimes within the minute, sometimes
after a night's sleep; the seat is held either way, and the table is
theirs meanwhile. A Create or Join tried before the socket is open
used to vanish; it now says the table is still being reached.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
"Challenge Kestrel, the keeper" holds a seat under the keeper's name,
writes the call to the ledger, says so at the table, and raises a
Sentry issue fingerprinted to the room — one ring per call, with the
room's link in the message — which is the alarm the keeper's phone
listens for. The keeper answers by the link: taking the seat, and
leaving a word if the game must wait. For that word, and for any table
to settle when to start, the lobby now shows its talk and carries a
composer; a joiner sees what was said before they sat. Three calls per
address per hour, one per room.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
A returning player's slip now lists what happened while they were away
— "Automaton took your treasure.", "You lost 3 life.", "It's your
turn." — each fact opening the catch-up reel at its moment, read from
the missed steps as the server redacted them for that seat; when
nothing touched them it says what each wizard was up to instead. The
reel gains a timeline: a tick per move in the mover's color, taller
where a turn begins, a blow lands, or gold changes hands, and any tick
jumps the reel there.
The chronicle takes a filter — All, Game, Table talk — with an unread
count on the talk that arrived while the casting panel covered it (a
wizard's own words never count), a peek at the latest line above the
composer while the panel is up, and the composer itself no longer
leaves when a response is owed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
POWER DRAIN's gain is the number played, BLUNTed or ABSORBed or not
(FAQ: the counter blunts the damage done, not the drain), and a wall
drained for its points gives them up too. Older games gave only what
the opponent lost and nothing from a wall, and replay so.
"This rock-hard beast can punch a player (or a wall, etc.)": a commanded
troll now punches a wall line beside it for a D4, once a turn — a new
command, so no old game changes.
Under the first-person pane the board strip could run into the dock on
a short or tall window; the pane now takes no more height than the row
can spare and the strip shrinks beneath it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
A teleporter ignores walls, and the outer edge is no more than a wall
to it: a line leaving the maze at any square's edge re-enters at the
opposite edge on the same row or column, one space on. The lettered
openings connect as they always did. Older games crossed the edge only
at the openings, and replay so; U3U2, dealt at rev 21 with no teleport
yet cast, was re-stamped to 22 at its table's request.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The board's controls had three homes: zoom in the corner, the eyes
toggle floating above it, and the turn's actions wrapping into rows
beneath. Now a toolbar hugs the board's top — First-person at the
left; − · level · + · Fit at the right — and a dock sits beneath it in
three groups: what the square offers, the tools (punch a wall, hints,
discard) set quieter, and draw beside End turn pinned at the right.
While a card is aimed the dock leads with the decision in a line —
"Choose a destination · lit squares are within 4 · ends your movement"
— and a cancel, so the lit squares always say what they mean. The
panel beside the board keeps the card and the full account, now with
the instruction first and discarding demoted to a quiet last resort.
A phone keeps the offers and End turn in view and its tools behind
More. With the hand at the left, the columns grow with the cards so
they no longer overlap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Each resolved attack now folds a receipt under its line, read off the
engine's own record: the blow as it came in, what each counter left of
it in the order they were weighed, what landed, and whose life moved.
The resolution event carries the incoming damage and duration and the
trail of counters for it. Hotseat chronicles carry the same.
The line a cast was accepted on stayed on the board: its timer compared
a reactive proxy to the object it held. Kept raw, it clears.
The board jumped while walking. The "sending" note added a line beside
End turn and took it away again, and the refusal toast stood in the
flow above the table for five seconds; both now float and move
nothing.
Teleport reaches through the lettered openings in the engine, but the
board dimmed the squares beyond them. The eligibility map follows the
warps as the engine does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
The attack on the stack has always shown its line; a creation or a
curse resolved in the same breath showed nothing, so a legal aim
through a Visionstone and out a lettered opening (PPL7, move 309)
looked like a cheat. The line a cast was accepted on — plain, through
the one wall a VISIONSTONE dissolves, or AROUND THE CORNER's two legs —
now draws on the live board for a few seconds and on that move of any
reel, traced after the fact so the cast's own dust cloud cannot blind it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Connection: while the socket is down a notice says so, the hand, board,
and action buttons go quiet, a card left selected stays selected, and
table talk stays in its box. A command that could not leave is named
as not sent; one that left before the drop is named as unconfirmed
until the board answers. A command on its way shows as sending beside
End turn and confirms when the table replies. Talk shows as sending
until the table echoes it, and comes back to the composer if the
socket drops first.
Rematch: anyone at a finished table may call one. The server makes a
new room hosted by the caller, with the same clockwork at the same
tiers and moods (a mystery stays a mystery) and the same expansion
setting, and keeps seats for the last table's other wizards, who find
the call on the finished table and in their lobby ledger and sit with
one click. The old table's replay stays where it was. A solo table
against the clockwork keeps "play again".
Reading the table: an ongoing spell's chip opens its card with a plain
account — what it does, who cast it on whom, and when it ends, in the
rulebook's own terms. Each score row counts the treasures a wizard has
carried home, and marks a wizard one carry from winning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
