diff --git a/docs/LANES/LANE_B_NOTES.md b/docs/LANES/LANE_B_NOTES.md
index 80fc822..414ac09 100644
--- a/docs/LANES/LANE_B_NOTES.md
+++ b/docs/LANES/LANE_B_NOTES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,76 @@
 # LANE B — NOTES (measured)
 
+## Round 14 (Fable's ROUND14 → Lane B) — v3.0 RELEASE: alias retirement + the tour audit
+
+Release round — no new systems. Three B files touched (`audio.js`, `venue.js`, `dbg.js`); no world
+geometry, no rng, goldens frozen (`0x3fa36874` synthetic, `0x1f636349` gig — neither moved). Verified
+fresh Chromium, seed 20261990, `?gigs=1`.
+
+### 1. Alpha-alias readers dropped (debt #1 — B first; **F unblocked**)
+The R12 `window.PROCITY.gigs` scalar alias (`.state/.on/.venueShopId/.cover/.paid/…`) is retired this
+round. B's readers removed:
+- **`audio.js`** `venueGigState()` — dropped the alias hop (`g.venueShopId === shopId → g.state`).
+  Now byVenue-only + the clock fallback: `g.byVenue[id]` → else `plan.gigs` night-0 vs the segment.
+- **`venue.js`** `stateGetter()` — dropped the bare-string arm; reads `gigStates.byVenue || gigStates`
+  (F passes `gigState.byVenue`, confirmed at `index.html:379`). Seed call is now `update(null)`.
+
+Verified live: F's `gigState.byVenue` reads `{116:'on', 404:'on', 490:'quiet'}` at NIGHT (pub + RSL
+playing, band_room dark); passing it to `venue.update()` lights the marquee with **no string arm**, and
+`audio.js` resolves each venue's `gig-<genreKey>` with **no alias hop**. Audio engine loads `live`.
+
+**→ Lane F (you can now delete the alias):** an alias-surface sweep (all of `web/js/**`, `index.html`,
+`tools/**`) confirms **CROSS-LANE CLEAN** — no A/C/D/E file reads the scalar alias (interior_mode.js
+uses `onOf()/gigOf()`; sim.js uses shell-driven `setGig`). The only remaining alias readers are **your
+own 20 lines** in `tools/flags_check.py` + `tools/qa/gig_shot.py` (`.venueShopId`×12 → `venueShopIds[0]`
+or an explicit id; `.state`×5 → `stateOf(id)`; `.cover`×2 → `coverOf(id)`; `.bandName`×3 →
+`bandNameOf(id)`; `gig_shot.py:81` already prefers `stateOf(id)`). Delete the alias getters at
+`gig_state.js:141–151` + migrate those tool lines in the same commit; `!!P.gigs` existence checks keep
+working (the per-venue machine still exists). CITY_SPEC §v3 runtime block loses the alias line (with A).
+
+### 2. Bookmark / tour audit under `?gigs=1` — **all clean, no pose fixes**
+All 19 bookmarks (16 v2 + `venue_night` + `district_posters` + new `queue_night`) resolve, frame
+**un-letterboxed**, **0 page errors**, ≤300 draws. The district's in-place venue conversions hijacked
+**no** bookmark: `night_neon`→"Video Regal" (openLate is never converted), `dig_real`→"Retro Groove"
+(a real record shop survives — multiple per type). Framing eyeballed clean on the tour spread:
+`street_noon`, `venue_night`, `queue_night`, `tram_stop`, `district_posters`, `night_neon`. **No dbg.js
+pose changes were needed** beyond adding `queue_night`.
+- **Measurement gotcha (re-confirmed):** `DBG.shot` teleports, so shooting many bookmarks in sequence
+  leaves orphan chunks that inflate tris on later shots (saw 238k on `patronage_door`; **42k** on a
+  fresh load / shoot-twice-to-settle). Shoot from a clean load, or twice, for the true per-frame count.
+- **Observation → Lane D / Fable (not a Lane B fix):** `tram_stop` is a stable **~293k tris** — real,
+  from close-range full-detail GLB ped rigs on the footpath (framing is fine). It's not a venue block
+  (F's tri gate measures at the venue block, ~64k), so it likely doesn't trip the gate, but it exceeds
+  the 200k reference for a tour shot; worth a look if a close ped shot lands in the release set.
+
+### 3. `queue_night` — John's release hero (`dbg.js`)
+New bookmark `queue_night` (seg 5 / NIGHT / 'on'): a close 3/4 on the pub door, biased to the venue's
+`+right` (the queue side). New `poseForVenueQueue()` recomputes venue.js's frontage geometry from the
+pub lot: `DIST 7 m` out on the street, `SIDE = mw/2 + 2.2 m` to the queue side, eye 2.2 m, looking at
+the door lifted to y2.7 (catches the marquee). Verified: frames marquee + window glow + streetlamp
+pools + the queue. **The queue is spawned by the shell's live rAF loop** (`index.html:383` builds D's
+`VenueQueue` on `openOf(id)`), so F's `gig_shot.py` must drive it **live** (the automation rAF is
+throttled — I confirmed the pose + D's line by manually spawning `VenueQueue` at the pub queueZone: 2
+punters seat at the door, facing it).
+- **→ Lane A (blocks the hero's poster):** `queue_night` frames door + marquee + queue, but **no poster
+  lands in the close frame** — the pub's own-frontage poster is still on A's local **−Z** (the BACK
+  wall, `gigs.js buildPosters` item 1 `-sin,-cos`; measured 15.9 m from the +Z street facade), and the
+  nearest spine poster is 53 m away. Per Fable's "fix poses, don't touch world code," B did **not**
+  work around it. **Flip item 1 to `+sin,+cos`** and the frontage poster seats by the door — in the
+  existing `queue_night` frame with no pose change. (Re-flagged from R13; now it gates John's hero shot.)
+
+### 4. Poster-repetition call (debt #4) — **FINE, no ask to E**
+Tonight's 14 posters carry **2 distinct designs** (Screaming Utes / screenprint ×7, The Dead Ringers /
+xerox ×7 — different skins, different bands). Variety = number of venues playing tonight (one seeded
+skin per gigId), so a spine run reads as two real band bills, not a repeat. Only a town where a single
+gig plays everywhere would look monotonous (rare, and reads as "a residency"). No new templates needed.
+
+### 5. Town-wide streetlamp pools — v3.1 candidate (Fable ruling, no code)
+Fable ruled the night pools **stay venue-scoped for v3.0** (town-wide needs always-on `furniture.js`
+changes that fight flags-off parity in release week; venue blocks read fine — `venue_night` proves it).
+Parked here as a **v3.1 candidate** alongside wind sway and bench-sit loiter. No R14 code.
+
+---
+
 ## Round 13 (Fable's ROUND13 → Lane B) — the district reads by night (`?gigs=1`, v3.0-beta)
 
 Four B pieces, all gig-gated (flags-off byte-identical, verified). Files: `venue.js` (rewrite),
diff --git a/web/js/world/audio.js b/web/js/world/audio.js
index 28f9488..ffcadc4 100644
--- a/web/js/world/audio.js
+++ b/web/js/world/audio.js
@@ -205,15 +205,13 @@ export function createAudioEngine(PROCITY, { noassets = false, mute = false } =
     const lot = pub && (PROCITY.plan?.lots || []).find((l) => l.id === pub.lot);
     if (lot) venues.push({ shop: pub, lot, genreKey: pub.genreKey || 'pubrock' });
   }
-  // Per-venue gig state for the muffled spill, robust across Lane F's alpha→district transition:
-  //   1. F R13 per-venue map  window.PROCITY.gigs.byVenue[id].state
-  //   2. alpha alias          window.PROCITY.gigs is the single machine → its state for its venueShopId
-  //   3. clock fallback       plan.gigs (night 0) vs the current segment (works before/without F)
+  // Per-venue gig state for the muffled spill (R14: the R12 alpha alias hop is retired):
+  //   1. F's per-venue map   window.PROCITY.gigs.byVenue[id] (the canonical surface since R13)
+  //   2. clock fallback      plan.gigs (night 0) vs the current segment (works before F wires / headless)
   // Returns null only when there is no gig layer at all (flags-off ⇒ byte-identical, no spill).
   function venueGigState(shopId) {
     const g = PROCITY.gigs;
     if (g && g.byVenue) { const e = g.byVenue[shopId]; if (e) return typeof e === 'string' ? e : (e.state || 'quiet'); }
-    if (g && g.venueShopId === shopId && typeof g.state === 'string') return g.state;
     const gigs = PROCITY.plan?.gigs; if (!gigs || !gigs.length) return null;
     const ton = gigs.find((x) => x.night === 0 && x.venueShopId === shopId);
     if (!ton) return 'quiet';                                   // dark tonight — reads true
diff --git a/web/js/world/dbg.js b/web/js/world/dbg.js
index 68f260e..6ae83e7 100644
--- a/web/js/world/dbg.js
+++ b/web/js/world/dbg.js
@@ -137,6 +137,25 @@ export function installDBG(deps) {
       || (plan.shops || []).find((s) => s.type === 'pub');
     return shop ? poseForShop(shop, dist) : null;
   };
+  // John's release hero: a CLOSE 3/4 on the pub door during doors/on, biased to the venue's +right
+  // (the queue side) so punters' faces read and a verge poster enters frame. The queue + posters are
+  // spawned by the live shell loop when the venue opens (seg 5 = NIGHT / 'on'), so F drives this shot
+  // live; this just frames the door + marquee + queue zone. Geometry mirrors venue.js's frontage.
+  const poseForVenueQueue = () => {
+    const vs = venueShops();
+    const shop = vs.find((s) => (s.venueKind || s.type) === 'pub') || vs[0]
+      || (plan.shops || []).find((s) => s.type === 'pub');
+    const lot = shop && lotOf(shop); if (!lot) return null;
+    const ry = lot.ry || 0, fx = Math.sin(ry), fz = Math.cos(ry), rx = Math.cos(ry), rz = -Math.sin(ry);
+    const w = lot.w || 8, d = lot.d || 10;
+    const cx = lot.x + fx * (d / 2), cz = lot.z + fz * (d / 2);   // door centre on the street (venue.js frontage)
+    const mw = Math.min(w * 0.92, 6.5);                            // marquee width (queue head ~ +right of it)
+    const DIST = 7.0, SIDE = mw * 0.5 + 2.2, EYE = 2.2;            // close standoff, biased to the queue side
+    return {
+      pos: [cx + fx * DIST + rx * SIDE, EYE, cz + fz * DIST + rz * SIDE],
+      look: [cx + rx * (mw * 0.30), 2.7, cz + rz * (mw * 0.30)],   // door, lifted to catch the marquee
+    };
+  };
 
   // Named bookmarks (LANE_F_NOTES §4). seg = day segment index (0 DAWN … 5 NIGHT).
   // Predicates cover both Lane A's taxonomy (dept/stall/record/…) and the fixture's; each falls back
@@ -164,6 +183,7 @@ export function installDBG(deps) {
     // ── v3 gig district (round 13, ?gigs=1): the street money shots F scripts via tools/qa/gig_shot.py ──
     venue_night:      { seg: 5, resolve: () => poseForVenue('pub', 13) || streetViewPose(['main']) }, // ?gigs=1 — lit pub frontage + streetlamp pools + queue + posters at night
     district_posters: { seg: 5, resolve: () => streetViewPose(['main']) }, // ?gigs=1 — the spine at night: poster poles + lit venue frontages receding
+    queue_night:      { seg: 5, resolve: () => poseForVenueQueue() || poseForVenue('pub', 11) || streetViewPose(['main']) }, // ?gigs=1 — John's hero: close on the pub door at 'on', queue + marquee + poster, punters facing the door
   };
 
   const DBG = {
diff --git a/web/js/world/venue.js b/web/js/world/venue.js
index 56b4e45..0abda2a 100644
--- a/web/js/world/venue.js
+++ b/web/js/world/venue.js
@@ -185,13 +185,13 @@ export function createVenuePresentation(plan, skins, scene, { assetBase = 'asset
 
   scene.add(group);
 
-  // ── per-venue state → frontage glow. Accepts F's per-venue map { [venueShopId]: state }, a Map, an
-  // { byVenue } wrapper, OR a bare state string (alpha compat → the primary pub). Idempotent; the shell
+  // ── per-venue state → frontage glow. F passes its per-venue map `gigState.byVenue`
+  // ({ [venueShopId]: 'quiet'|'doors'|'on'|'done' }); a Map or a { byVenue } wrapper are also accepted.
+  // (R14: the R12 alpha bare-string arm is retired — F wires the map since R13.) Idempotent; the shell
   // calls it every street frame, so pool/glow ramps and the night baseline lerp here. ────────────────
   function stateGetter(gigStates) {
     if (gigStates == null) return () => 'quiet';
-    if (typeof gigStates === 'string') return (id) => (id === primaryId ? gigStates : 'quiet');
-    const map = gigStates.byVenue || gigStates;
+    const map = gigStates.byVenue || gigStates;               // F passes gigState.byVenue (per-venue map)
     return (id) => {
       const v = map instanceof Map ? map.get(id) : map[id];
       if (v == null) return 'quiet';
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ export function createVenuePresentation(plan, skins, scene, { assetBase = 'asset
       if (poolMesh) poolMesh.visible = poolMat.opacity > 0.01;
     }
   }
-  update('quiet');
+  update(null);   // seed: no gig states yet → every venue quiet (frontage dark, pools follow night)
 
   function dispose() {
     for (const d of disposables) d.dispose && d.dispose();