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Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 f7991ee64f The lobby is a table being assembled
"Gather your wizards" leads, with the room code and the seat count
beneath it. The roster is the picture: each seat's portrait, name, and
role, an empty seat showing what fills it, and beneath it the two ways
to fill one — copy the invite link, add a computer wizard — with the
raw URL folded away for pasting by hand. Your own row carries the
wizard picker, a deliberate three-by-two with a check on the chosen
one, open by itself until you have a wizard. Adding a computer wizard
is a panel with difficulty and personality, a line on what the chosen
personality does, and one explicit button. Readiness and Start sit
together at the bottom: "Waiting for one more wizard" above the
button, "Start game · 2 wizards" once it can flip; the expansion
option is nearby and quiet, and abandoning the room is a small link.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-16 22:18:39 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 9dee01d393 The help becomes a reference desk: searchable, linkable, and it remembers its place
The rules tab is one body — the condensed rules, the rulebook, the
expansion, and the FAQ — with a contents list, a search that labels
each hit by source, and a link on every section. The rulebook's
emphasis renders, and the (6E: …) notes are set apart from the original
words. The card library gains filters for set, type, and target, ranks
an exact name first, counts its results, and says so when there are
none; a card opens as an entry: the card itself beside reading-size
text with the printed wording, deck counts, the official FAQ, this
table's rulings, and links to the cards it names. The house rulings are
organized by card, in the present tense, with the revision history kept
off the page. Every page and card has a link (/?help=rules/…, /?card=…)
that opens the desk to it, and the desk reopens on the tab, search, and
scroll position it was closed at.

About leads with the worn box and the friends, shows the workshops as a
small gallery with a direct link to the demo reel, and says plainly
what an online ledger keeps and what a passed-around device keeps to
itself. The tally leads with finished games, treasure and combat wins,
and hours played, and explains that wizards are counted by name and
table time by the clock between moves.

Escape closes only the foremost layer and returns focus to the card
that opened it; the tabs wrap on a phone instead of clipping.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-16 22:13:44 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 4c2a253723 The tester's second pass: the rule as written, advice that follows the board, the fold, the story on the replay page, and one click to begin
- Help said "walk, then act"; the rules let moves and cards come in any
  order, and now the help does too.
- The council's advice is derived from the live view while its panel is
  open, so a Number just played for movement is no longer recommended.
  It rests when the turn is not yours; "ask again" had nothing to add.
- The landing puts the name and the ways in before the clip, and beside
  it on a desktop: at 1280x720 the play button and Create/Join are above
  the fold.
- The replay page opens with the same deed the share card promises, and
  "play free" stands beside the reel instead of after the history.
- In hotseat the "pass the device" scrim stood above the roll-off, so the
  first click on "begin" landed on the handoff card. The handoff waits
  for the dice.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-16 21:43:12 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 3d88f629b7 The face-up hands at game's end keep to their frame and fold away
On a desktop the table is pinned to the window and the board's row may
shrink to nothing; four hands of cards beneath it did exactly that in
room 7S6C, and nothing put them away. The reveal now scrolls inside a
capped frame and its header carries a fold button.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-16 00:36:57 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 6e49fc9020 Credibility pass: comments say what the code can't, and the seams are gone
Engine: pit-rim exits live in one helper (pitRimExits) shared by the
resolver and the automaton; chargeReach names the six-stride cap; dust
sight is inDust + dustAtEnd; PushPending is exported once; the force-field
counter builds its events in one list; drawUnderSlowDeath says what it
draws under. Test groups are named for the rule they pin, not the
revision that introduced it.

Client: one smoothstep; one edgeScar per battle-scarred edge; one
board-zone rule (which also seats the caption strip on phones); the
compass names live in SIDE_NAMES; net.flash() is the one toast; MediaQuery
replaces two hand-rolled matchMedia listeners; sprites carry their sizes
as plain numbers and their CSS in one rule each; canvas helpers are
formatted like the rest of the tree. Comments that told how a cel or a
fallback used to look now say what it draws. The actions-over notice no
longer blames a pickup when slime ended the turn.

Server and ops: dataRoot() is the one data directory; headlineOf builds
its deeds without a cast; the rollup and skills read the same way the
code behaves.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-16 00:21:34 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 85690f0e23 Rev 21: LIFESAVER saves, and FORCE FIELD stands for the turn
An audit of every card in the deck, prompted by the Alter Ego, found
two more whose cast worked but whose promise was never kept.
LIFESAVER — "immune to the effects of losing both of your treasures"
— was cast and remembered and never asked where a wizard is
eliminated for exactly that; twenty-three recorded casts never
mattered. FORCE FIELD stopped the spell and vanished, though the card
keeps it standing until the opponent's turn ends, barring them from
entering its caster's square or casting on or past them. Both are
honored from rev 21, the field on every side where the card says one.
Older games replay as they were played. Tests pin both readings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 23:57:38 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 10d5c5815d The Alter Ego casts from its own square; the first-stride cue leaves the maze
Randy raised his double, selected it, and could cast nothing through
it: the card's whole point — "it may use any of the spells in your
hand, and you need not be in its L.O.S." — had never been wired. A
cast may now name the double, and the double's square becomes the
spell's origin: sight, reach, the launch point the reel films, and
the direction a knockback or rout pushes. The hand, the attack, and
every answer to it stay the caster's. Spells that move the caster's
own body — a goat's charge, a swap — do not travel through it. On the
board, the double's sight lights the eligible squares; selecting the
double and then a card aims from where it stands. A test hides the
caster and fires through the double.

The first-stride caption sat on the maze and hid the walls beside the
wizard; it now stands above the board with a color chip for "you."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 23:38:58 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 5f58a0955a A notice taller than the screen scrolls inside its frame
Preferences on a phone ran off the bottom with no way to reach the
rest. Every notice now caps at the window's height and scrolls within.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 23:29:18 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 ff35e8ef8e The table fits the window: the hand stays in reach, the maze takes the height
On a desktop the game grid is now exactly the window's height. The
board and the paper rail share the top row, the rail scrolling in
place, and the hand with its End turn sit pinned beneath — nothing a
first turn needs is ever below the fold. The board's window fills
whatever height the row allows instead of a fixed subtraction. A
wide, short window — a laptop in landscape — stands the hand beside
the board on its own until the player chooses a side, since a tall
maze under a bottom hand left a postage stamp. A short window shrinks
the bottom hand's cards a little. The eyes toggle floats over the
board's corner so it costs no height, and the masthead's "invite
friends" hides on phones where it wrapped.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 23:19:59 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 4cc0423846 The first minute, for a stranger: what the game is, what to do, and how to join
The landing says the pitch before it asks for a name — steal treasure,
blast through walls, outwit your friends — and states the goal. The
coach says "select a card, then choose its target," which is what the
cards actually want. The turn banner counts treasures home beside the
moves left. The council speaks once when its three voices agree. A
friend arriving on an invite link meets "Join Eric's game," a name
field, and a seat, with the gallery an afterthought; the masthead
says "invite friends" beside the room code. The first-person view has
a toggle beside the board instead of a checkbox in preferences. How
to play opens with winning. And a shared moment's card is titled by
the turn's story — the treasure carried home, the blow that landed,
the spell cast — instead of whose turn it was.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 23:03:17 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 a071494f4a Reduced motion is honored everywhere the table moves
One shared motion policy: the OS's reduce-motion setting, read live
through Svelte's own media query, folds into the flourishes switch.
Under it the board plays no flourishes, the reel skips its die
interlude and slate wipes, bodies jump between squares instead of
gliding, the canvas holds its ambient shimmers still, and the camera
cuts wherever the director would have panned — in the cockpit as in
the reel, so the eye still lands on what the director chose to watch.
Timers and animation frames are cleared when the policy flips or the
pane closes. A first turn and two reels stepped clean under the
setting with no errors.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 22:42:08 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 65e88df523 The step light is for a first game's first turn, then by choice
It lit every turn of the first game. Now a browser's first game lights
its first turn on its own, and the preference is an explicit switch
that keeps it on every turn for anyone who wants it. The old
preference key retires with it, so nobody is left lit by accident.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 22:21:22 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 53b6b01582 The workshops wear the masthead, with the door marked
The token, flourish, and eyes workshops opened as bare rooms with no
way back. The masthead now heads each, wordmark linking home, with
the table, the clips, and the other workshops a tap away.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 13:44:12 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 34b621b5cb The board's furniture and the reel's fists, painted as cels
The last of the inked look. Walls carry stone joints and highlights,
doors their grain, hinges, and a brass lock plate whose keyhole turns
to a cross when jammed; battle scars fracture and branch with the
damage; illusion walls drift as tapered wisps with breathing glints;
the wall of fire burns in flat three-tone flames on a stepped flicker;
warp mouths and destinations are painted curls. Through a wizard's
eyes the punch is a three-tone hand with an ink contour and a
hand-cut POW, the same on every platform where the emoji glyph was
not, and the incoming fist no longer reverses late in its travel. The
inked stand-ins for missing conjuration files match. Goldens
re-blessed: every board frame, and the web's third ring.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-15 12:42:02 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 8dfd0e0c29 The art refresh: textures, tokens, conjurations, and cel flourishes
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-14 20:28:52 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 3fc9df85ac The chronicle marks each line with its wizard's color; the turn's owner stands out
Two of Randy's flourishes. Every chronicle line now carries a small
square in the color of the wizard acting — whoever cast, struck,
walked, or countered, else the turn's owner — so one player's doings
can be picked out of the scroll at a glance. And the life-points row
of the wizard whose turn it is wears an accent bar and a tint, since
bold alone was lost in the handwriting.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-14 19:23:00 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 19aec73b30 Screenplay: Dust and Light
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-12 14:57:11 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 09fcaaf4e3 The house rulings say how a loaded slime goes off
One spell per wizard who pushes in, oldest first — the card says only
that each goes off once.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-07 16:05:03 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 44c7ff8379 A slime shows how many spells wait in it, and a peek names them
Every cast into the gel was seen at the table, so the count is public:
a badge on the slime, and the peek lists each spell with its caster.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-07 16:00:32 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 16fac5e6ca A test walks a wizard into a slime with a spell waiting in it
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-07 15:55:00 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 c09bcc481d An attack tapped onto a slime is cast into it
The engine has trapped spells in slime since the card arrived; the
board never offered the tap. LIGHTNING BLAST on a slime square now
lodges there for the next wizard in, as the card says.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-07 15:51:07 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 5c956c24bb Sentry ignores the in-app browser's own scripts
Facebook's Android browser injects a performance logger under iabjs://
and its bridge dies on unload; the error wore our name (WIZWAR-6).

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-07 15:31:33 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 3f71b04c3b Rev 20: a wave names its victims before it pushes (LK97)
Kestrel stood against a wall Mad Hywel turned to water, was washed one
square back into stone, and was crushed twice. The sweep walked the
way it pushed: having shoved him onto the next square, its next probe
found him there and shoved him again with the force left. From rev 20
a sweep names every victim along its line first, then pushes each
once; older games replay the double shove. A test washes a wizard one
square into a wall under both readings.

With it, a client fix: a tap on a bare square while holding a card no
longer walks there. Kestrel tapped a slime with LIGHTNING BLAST in hand
and strode into it. The tap now says the card is aimed at a wizard or
creature and leaves the feet alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-07 14:38:48 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 e5d82a94af A first game's first turn: the step light, the goal, and a held opening
Three strangers this week pressed play, looked at the board for a
minute, and closed it. What they saw: a small maze under a roll-off
card, a column of prose, seven strange cards, and nothing that said
where they were or what to tap. Now, on a browser's first game, the
squares a stride can reach glow and the rest of the maze falls into
shadow, with one line hung over the wizard for the first stride. The
turn banner says what winning is for the first two rounds. And when
the clockwork rolls first, its opening turn waits behind the roll-off
card instead of playing out unwatched, then arrives a beat at a time.
The step light switches off once that first game is won, and lives in
preferences for anyone who wants it back.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-07 12:50:28 -05:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 96c0c18d97 Referrers count only on pages we served
A scanner forging google.com on /.env showed as forty-eight Google
readers before breakfast.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-06 23:30:14 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 7af9de4a9a The rollup's check-in tells Sentry its schedule
A bare ping to a slug Sentry has never been told about is accepted
and dropped, so the rollup monitor never existed and a missed night
would have alarmed nobody. The check-in now carries the monitor's
shape and upserts it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-06 11:33:11 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 2bc5fba8d2 The rollup's path mix counts people only
Crawlers and the uptime monitor hit the front page hundreds of times a
day and were tallied beside the visitors who read it.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-06 09:24:55 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 f859d90af8 Rev 19: a dust cloud blinds whoever stands in it (CPU7)
The automaton stood in Kestrel's DUST CLOUD and filled a square with
stone three rows away. The cloud blocked only sight lines passing
through it; the square a line began or ended in was never asked. The
FAQ is plain: no LOS spell may be cast by a wizard in a cloud, nor at
one, though a spell upon oneself still works, and VISIONSTONE does
not see through dust. From rev 19 the engine's sight and the view's —
the targeting aid the client and the automaton both read — refuse a
line with dust at either end. Older games keep their sight.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 23:30:17 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 3d4bf1fa6d A sprung Ward says its bite is coming, not that it missed
The bite rides a counteraction stack, so the batch that springs the
Ward carries no damage; the notice read that as a bite with no
purchase and the three points landed later unannounced. It now says
the bite waits on the taker's answer, and the counteractions follow.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 23:25:05 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 34d76d9feb Rev 18: REFLECTION's returning half is the caster's to counteract (96WE)
Kestrel's blade came back halved off the automaton's REFLECTION and
landed before he could raise the ABSORB in his hand. FULL REFLECTION's
return was already a fresh attack with the caster's own window; the
half now goes the same way — its damage and any split duration ride
a returned stack the caster may meet with an ABSORB, a BLUNT, or
another REFLECTION. Trapped spells and creatures' touches keep the
instant half. Older games replay as they landed. A test soaks the
half and takes it, under rev 18 and rev 17.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 22:37:19 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 2fd324a475 POWER ATTACK burns any number of life points short of the last
The card sets no ceiling and the engine never had one; the picker
offered five. It now offers every point but the one that keeps you
alive.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 22:25:43 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 2812b85016 The mouth on a pit's rim may be named in any game
Only a bare step is a matter of revision: from rev 17 a square beside a
mouth is a fork to name; before it the step lands on the square, as the
recorded games did. Naming the mouth was never recorded, so it opens
for every game.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 22:24:18 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 461c1a5c83 Rev 17: a warp mouth on a pit's rim is a way off it (M4Q7)
Kestrel stood beside a pit dug against the board's west edge, walls
north and south of it, and was told there was nothing to land on — the
rim check counted only neighbouring squares, and the warp mouth beyond
the pit is not one. From rev 17 a mouth on the rim is an exit like any
square, named at a fork like any other; every older game takes the
mouth when no square offers, so the refused crossing goes through as
it stands. The jump through a mouth carries `via: "warp"`: the board
shimmers both mouths instead of streaking across the maze, and the
reel cuts rather than gliding. The automaton leaves a pit only by its
exits. Three tests walk the rim under both readings.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 22:20:18 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 dc4d2a1221 The stub path checks the room id, as the ledger path does
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 22:10:03 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 6293c36add Sleeping rooms stay asleep across a restart
Idle rooms already went back to their ledgers, but a boot replayed
every ledger before the first sweep could put them to bed again — most
of a restart's fifteen seconds spent rebuilding games nobody was at.
A room put to sleep now leaves a stub beside the ledgers, with the
ledger's size at that moment; at boot a stub whose size still matches
answers for the room and the ledger stays unreplayed. Replayed rooms
take their eviction clock from the ledger's last line, so the first
sweep after a boot writes the stubs for everything long idle.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
2026-09-05 22:05:43 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 c7edfa74ad The state is copied by hand, and the proxy waits out a restart
Two-thirds of a ledger replay was structuredClone; a recursive copy of
plain data does the same work in a fraction of the time, so a server
boot — every ledger replayed — is half as long, and the automaton's
lookahead is quicker with it. Caddy now holds a request for up to
thirty seconds while the game restarts, dialing every quarter second,
so a visitor who lands during a deploy waits instead of meeting a 502.

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2026-09-05 20:41:02 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 0821b8f7c7 The house rulings name how a goat's ram is measured
The shortest walk on this turn's legs, no ceiling, MAD DASH doubling
the lot — the reading the engine has held since rev 10 and the
combo it only just began to allow at full length.

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2026-09-05 19:49:04 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 3b52a92cdc Rev 16: BUTT-HEAD's charge is measured as far as its legs reach (K4T3)
Reuben, a goat with a 5 played and eight legs, aimed at a wizard eight
corridor steps away and was told he had no wings. The charge measures
the walk through real corridors, as rev 10 made it, but the walk was
searched only six steps deep and anything past that came back as
unreachable. From rev 16 the search runs as far as the legs do; older
games keep the six-step reading. A test charges seven or eight steps
under both revisions.

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2026-09-05 18:29:05 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 0911312f98 A page from before a deploy can still find its chunks, or reload once
Sentry WIZWAR-5: a table open through a deploy asked for the replay
module by its old hashed name, the deploy had deleted it, and the
server answered with the app shell as text/html — "not a valid
JavaScript MIME type". Three guards: deploys keep old chunks for a
week instead of deleting them; a missing asset is a plain 404, never
the shell; and the client reloads once when Vite reports a failed
import, so the live bundle takes over.

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2026-09-04 20:30:39 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 fa5a5a07a7 MEGA-MONSTER asks which number to double
The two choices sat in the hint strip with life-points pre-selected,
so a tap on the monster cast before the choice was seen. Tapping the
monster now asks — life-points or movement, with the monster's
current numbers shown — and the cast waits on the answer.

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2026-09-04 17:25:34 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 9f98a4fc59 The unasked council's clearing effect watches the turn
It checked its own plain flag first and returned, so the turn was
never read and never tracked; the effect ran once and slept. The turn
is read first now, and the flag is reactive.

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2026-09-04 17:22:39 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 e724267b0a BIG MAN pushes around corners; at a fork the pushed wizard chooses
Eric, a giant on his first turn, could only shove a wizard in a
straight line: the engine shoved in the giant's own direction or
refused. The FAQ says otherwise — "If Big Man pushes someone to an
intersection, then the other player gets to decide which direction to
go." Now a pushed wizard leaves by any open side but the way the giant
came. One open side is taken. Several are theirs to choose: the stride
hangs in a pushPending window like the Ward's, the pushed wizard
answers with pushChoice (a dialog offers the ways; an automaton steps
out of the giant's line), and the stride resumes with the answer — a
blinded giant's roll is not rolled twice.

Rounding a corner was a refusal before, so every game may do it now.
Only the case that used to resolve — straight ahead open — keeps its
old reading in games dealt before rev 15; from rev 15 the pushed
wizard chooses there too. Tests pin the corner, the fork's window and
its refusals, and the older reading; 84 ledgers replay.

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2026-09-04 17:19:34 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 c6913ea1bc Rev 14: a pit's rim is a ledge, and the walker chooses the way off (GDCN)
The table's reading of CREATE PIT: a thin ledge runs around the rim,
and "jumping over" is edging along it, trying not to fall. So on a 2,
3, or 4 the walker lands on an open square beside the pit — the only
one if there is one, otherwise the one they name (a click on that
square sends `exit` with the move) — and a pit with no way off cannot
be entered from there at all, refused before any die is rolled. The
FAQ's diagonal crossing at an intersection is this rule.

Older games bounced the walker back and charged the stride; they keep
that under their frozen revision, so GDCN's seven bounces replay. The
clockwork's path search treats a pit as a road when any side of its
rim is open and names the exit its path leaves by. Tests pin the fork,
the single way off, the closed pit under both revisions, and the
brain's route.

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2026-09-04 16:18:42 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 0750fe3f21 The clockwork minds the pit, the curse, and the shadow (GDCN)
Kestrel's archmage berserker dug a pit at the far mouth of a warp,
then tried to walk through that mouth seven times: each stride landed
on its own pit with a thornbush beyond, the maze bounced it back and
charged the stride, and on the seventh it rolled the 1 and fell in.
Cursed with SLOW DEATH at seven life, it kept drawing two cards a
turn at a point apiece, raised a SHADOW that drinks a point a turn,
and bled to death in three turns.

The path search now refuses a pit it cannot leap beyond — the same
test the maze applies — whether the pit is a waypoint or the goal.
Under SLOW DEATH the end-of-turn draw keeps four life in hand and
draws nothing when it cannot; while bleeding, or at six life or less,
no SHADOW is raised. Three tests pin them.

The chronicle tells the bounce as what it was: "leaps the pit —
nothing to land on beyond it — and teeters back", not a blind blunder
into a wall; and the shadow's last drink no longer trails a zero-damage
line. Brain and chronicle changes only, ungated; 83 ledgers replay.

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2026-09-04 16:11:42 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 b92016db51 The unasked council leaves with the turn
Advice offered on a first turn stayed on the sidebar until dismissed,
as advice a player asked for should. Offered advice now clears when
the turn passes; asking again keeps it.

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2026-09-04 16:00:09 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 2d98393010 The recorder takes one poster per clip
Once written, the poster's countdown fell back to idle while the same
move still showed, re-armed, and overwrote the poster with the next
move — for two scenes, the change-of-eyes wipe. A done flag holds it.

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2026-09-03 19:39:13 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 53fba77a55 Eight quality-of-life turns for strangers, newcomers, and veterans
For visitors: the landing shows a clip card of the maze before asking
for a name; "Play now against a clockwork wizard" is one tap from the
landing to the first turn (the room, the seat, and the flip each
follow as the server confirms the last); pass-the-device and seat
transfer fold behind "More ways to play".

For a first game: automatons default to apprentice until this browser
has seen a game through, then step up to adept unless the tier was
picked by hand; the council speaks once unasked on a first turn; a
finished game offers "play again" (the same bots re-seated in a fresh
room) and "share the tale" (the whole replay as a link).

For players who know the box: a House rulings tab in help — what the
digital table does differently, every rulings revision (now exported
from the engine as RULES_REVISIONS, which the deckRev doc block points
at), and the 76 cards the FAQ has spoken on. And the arrow keys and
WASD walk on the board as they already did in the first-person pane.

The recorder's poster settle lengthens to outlast a change-of-eyes
wipe; two cards had caught the title card instead of the maze.

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2026-09-03 19:24:46 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 2b5c2c4884 The visitors digest: who is here, who came today, how far they got
/usr/local/bin/wizwar-visitors.sh prints one screen — live sockets and
rooms touched in the hour, today's traffic row, the names seated today
with the first-time ones marked, every room opened today with its
state, move counts, span, and last human move, humans' chat verbatim,
and the desk's count — and the wizwar-visitors skill reads it aloud.
It replaces the four hand-written versions of the same report from
announcement day.

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2026-09-03 18:58:53 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 9d2c66f0bd The lobby leads with your wizard, then fills the table
Pick your color first; then one section, "Fill the table", holds the
invite link, the roster, and the computer wizards, with a line saying
friends, automatons, or a mix all count toward the two to six. Abandon
sits below Start on its own line.

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2026-09-03 18:53:48 -04:00
Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1 c2506dae69 Color, as the rest of the table spells it
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2026-09-03 18:50:18 -04:00