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