Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5
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tools/claude-seat.mjs is the one-shot websocket seat (join/view/do/ chat, token persisted between invocations, live events separated from replayed history) that let Claude play room 9UA6 as a real player. The skill teaches the next session everything game one cost to learn: map reading, the command surface, the grab-ends-actions rule, warp sides, repossession, ambush transitions — and the operational lesson about narrating one's own hand to one's opponent. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF
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name: wizwar-duel
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description: Play Wiz-War live against Eric — join his room as a real seat, reason about every move yourself, and duel turn by turn over the websocket. Use when Eric wants a game, gives a room code, or says "let's play".
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# Playing Wiz-War against Eric
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You are a PLAYER, not the automaton. Read the board, reason, and choose
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every command yourself. Eric plays in his browser; you play through the
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CLI seat at `tools/claude-seat.mjs`. He prompts "go" after his moves —
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each of his messages is your cue to look and act.
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## The seat client
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Run from the repo root (needs the workspace's `ws` package):
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```bash
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node tools/claude-seat.mjs join <ROOM> Claude # take a seat (token saved)
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node tools/claude-seat.mjs view # board + hand + last events
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node tools/claude-seat.mjs do '<command json>' # one engine command
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node tools/claude-seat.mjs chat "text" # table talk
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```
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Seat state persists in `/tmp/wizwar-claude-seat.json` (override:
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`WIZWAR_SEAT`); server defaults to production (`WIZWAR_SERVER` to point
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elsewhere). Eric creates the room, gives you the code, and starts the
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game after you join.
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Commands are the engine's `Command` union (packages/engine/src/game.ts):
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`{"type":"move","direction":"N|S|E|W"}`, `cast` (with `target`, optional
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`numberInstanceIds`/`params`), `playNumberForMovement`, `pickUpTreasure`,
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`dropTreasure`, `warpStep`, `counteract`, `pass`, `punch`, `setAmbush`,
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`wardChoice`, `endTurn` (with `draw`). A refused command costs nothing —
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probing legality is free, so when unsure, try it and read the error.
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## Reading the map
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- The renderer prints y=0 at top; **y grows SOUTH**. N = y-1, S = y+1.
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- `C2` is you, `P1` etc. are opponents, `$c`/`$1` treasures, `h?` homes,
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two-letter codes are square contents (SA safe, RO rosebush, ST stone,
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DU dust). `D` on a line is a door, `—` a wall, blank is open.
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- WARPS line lists rim passages as `2,0N→2,9`: standing at (2,0) and
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moving N carries you to (2,9). **The warp rides one specific side of
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its square** — check which before you walk (a wrong guess burns moves;
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ask me how I know).
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- Dimensional-warp TOKENS (cast by players) are separate: stand on one
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and `warpStep`. Creatures use `creatureWarpStep`.
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## Hard-won rules knowledge (each cost me something in game one)
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- `pickUpTreasure` ENDS your turn's actions AND movement — arrive with
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the grab as your last act, never mid-plan. `dropTreasure` at home too.
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- You can pick up ANY floor treasure, including your own stolen-and-
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delivered one sitting on the enemy's home square. Repossession is real.
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- THIEF and punches need same-square; THIEF steals a *named* card and
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fizzles (card spent) on a wrong guess.
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- MENTAL FORCE moves the victim ≤3 *walked* spaces — walls and relocked
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doors shrink its reach; rev 5+ refuses impossible destinations.
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- Doors relock behind you when you pass through (rev 4+). Your own
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escape route can seal itself — and seal pursuers out.
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- LOS threads through rim warps: you can be seen (and shot) through a
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warp mouth from the far side of the board. Camping one square off the
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mouth keeps you hidden.
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- lock-in-place freezes movement AND warpStep for a full turn; REUSE
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SPELL retrieves only your LAST cast spell, enabling one re-lock.
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- An ambush (`setAmbush` interrupt/opportunity-fire + committed attack)
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triggers on LOS *entry* transitions only — someone already in sight
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never springs it. It survives forever and fires out of turn.
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- Walking-dead bleeds ½ life per space moved, permanently. Once cursed,
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every plan must be priced in steps.
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## Playing well
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- Kestrel (Eric) is EXCELLENT: he baited my thief, saved anti-anti for
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my full shield, and won game one with a home-to-home dimensional-warp
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superhighway. Infrastructure beats sprinting — watch what he builds,
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and consider your own wormhole early.
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- Win = 2 enemy treasures delivered to your home, or last wizard alive.
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Track BOTH players' step-counted delivery timelines every turn; the
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race is decided in tempo, not damage.
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- Hold counters (full-shield, absorb) for permanent curses and lethal
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damage. Absorb soaks 3 points; it cannot touch durations.
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- OPSEC: your prose is visible to Eric. NEVER name the cards you hold or
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draw, and never announce plans. (Game one: I narrated my hand like a
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debug log until he asked why I was making it easy.) Trash talk freely
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— about the board, never your hand.
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- Send `chat` for table talk at dramatic moments; it's half the fun.
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## Cadence
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1. On "go": `view`, read HIS events since your last turn (the client
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prints only NEW events; `view` shows a short history tail).
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2. Think about the whole board — his timeline, yours, threats, LOS.
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3. Execute your commands one at a time, checking errors.
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4. `endTurn` with a draw that respects the 7-card hand limit.
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5. Tell Eric it's his turn — reasoning aloud is fine, hand contents are
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not. When a stack waits on him, say so and wait for "go".
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