THE KILL-THE-SERVER GATE, permanent and green (charter law #1 made falsifiable):
ARM 1 server-up · gone[3] → 117 survivors · items[] 120, identity AND ORDER intact ·
COLLATERAL 0 · `gone` carries the atlas id verbatim (R26 fence)
ARM 2 killed mid-session · enter 6ms vs control 6ms (Δ+0) · worst frame 204ms vs control
202ms (Δ+2) · room complete from files · ZERO game errors · EXACTLY 1
refused connection
ARM 3 server-down boot · pure tier 1, gone[0] · ZERO game errors · exactly 1 refusal
SANDBOX · POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE all 501 · a mint shop 404s
The subject exists only because G built `make-fixture`: production `gone` is EMPTY (0 sales
since 2026-07-01), so this gate would have passed vacuously forever on live data.
CORRECTION 1 — "ZERO console errors on server death" is UNACHIEVABLE, and F measured why. A
fetch to a dead host logs net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED at the BROWSER level; no .catch() sees it.
To log zero the reader would have to know the server is dead WITHOUT ASKING. One refusal is the
irreducible cost of discovering death. F's replacement is strictly stronger: ZERO errors from
game code, and EXACTLY ONE refusal — which PROVES the circuit breaker. Without the breaker it is
one error per shop entry forever, and "zero" could never tell a working breaker from a broken
one because both fail it. F is the beneficiary of this change, so it is filed loudly in §27 for
Fable to ratify or overrule, not quietly relaxed.
CORRECTION 2 — F's frame assertion was weak: `< 250ms` is a number with no control. ARM 2 first
reported worst-frame 201ms and PASSED. But entering a shop rebuilds an interior, which costs the
same with or without a server — so an absolute threshold measures Lane C's room build, not the
network. The arm now walks the same shop with the breaker tripped and asserts the DELTA: 202ms
control, 204ms killed, Δ+2ms. The death cost nothing the room didn't. F told A the same thing one
round ago; a number without a control is not a measurement.
THE TOUR — 3 of 4 frames, and the 4th is FILED NOT SHIPPED. The real crate (the money shot: its
own 120 records, price stickers, the keeper), a mint crate (captioned MINT — plausible, not
real), the classic covenant. 0 page errors. The FRONTAGE frame does not land after three
attempts and F will not ship a frame that doesn't show what its caption claims: the cluster
primitive answers "where is this town's heart", which is not the question a frontage frame asks
— Red Hill's heart is 2 shops/60m and does not contain Monster Robot. Next: ask B, who owns the
frontage and shipped its mark this round. Re-deriving B's anchor in a tour script is how you get
three bad frames.
Also: the interior beauty shot came back with the HUD across it — R21's lesson, fixed on the
street frames only. Now every DOM overlay is hidden, not a guessed selector list.
NOT TAGGED. qa.sh --strict --matrix and the frontage frame remain.
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The teaser and the tag were one claim, so it waited until there was a tag to stand on.
v5.0-alpha is now live at e7d58ea: walk into Monster Robot Party on Musgrave Road and riffle
its own real crate — 120 real records off its real POS, real covers, titles and prices.
Documents the tier ladder as the epoch's load-bearing idea (0 parody / 1 static real / 2 live
GODVERSE, each degrading softly to the one below), the offline law (?noassets fetches zero
bytes; a missing atlas falls to parody, never another shop's crate), and the covenant that
outlived four epochs (?classic=1 → 0x3fa36874, byte-identical forever).
States the licence position where a reader will actually meet it: item photos are each shop's
own product shots, in-house green, FLAGGED before any public or commercial release; real
titles/artists ride the same amendment; and no in-game purchase touches real inventory —
sell-sandboxed by ruling, with the reservation tier chartered for v5.x, not assumed.
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The blocking gate is CLOSED, and the epoch closes green.
- #1b THE BLOCKING RE-MEASURE: F's R21 re-measure made the tri diet blocking; B diagnosed layer-by-layer,
the driver traced A -> E (A's own commit: "B's numbers say the fix is E's"), E fixed it, F re-measured:
katoomba venue_night 221,935 (+11%) -> 108,365 (-51%); bendigo 201k -> 124,682; fremantle -> 88,397.
Worst 124,682 — the 200k stress edge is closed. The measure-first loop worked end to end.
- #3 DBG.enterShop(selector) (Lane G's ask): id · registry type · exact name · name substring, resolved
most-specific-first so an id-shaped string can't be shadowed. One-liner QA on any of 23 towns.
- #4 The release tour -> docs/shots/release_v4/: the Fremantle hero · the Fitzroy mecca · the Toowoomba thin
tail · the synthetic control · the ?classic=1 covenant. Every real-town frame poses through F's R21
cluster primitive; B's R22 bookmarks anchor on the same retail heart, so tour and bookmarks agree by
construction. HUD hidden throughout (F's R21 ruling corollary).
The primitive earned itself twice: the first cut posed via street_noon and the MECCA CAME OUT AS BARE
BITUMEN — the same trap as R21. Re-posed through the cluster, Fitzroy reads.
- HONEST FINDING (filed v4.x): the brief asked for the thin tail as "proof the floor holds". It does not,
and the frame says so — Toowoomba reads as an empty road. The floor is a RATIO, not a count: 0.008
shops/edge vs the heroes' 0.06-0.08. Shipped labelled honestly rather than swapped for a flattering town.
- #6 Docs: README v4 section (the towns ARE the product), LANE_F_NOTES §22, F-progress.
qa.sh --strict --matrix GREEN 7/7; MATRIX GREEN — 10 towns × 7 gates (the budget gate green everywhere for
the first time); selfcheck 161,300/161,300 (A's 36 goldens + the 23-town pack).
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All five lanes in (A's venue cluster bias, B's selector-from-index, C's density door-soak, D's relocation
verify PASSES, E's 22-town pack non-gating); F gated and tagged.
- town_matrix.py: a `tram` dimension — B's R20 shop-adjacency ruling verified EXACTLY (newtown runs 16 stops
after B's phantom-stop fix, castlemaine 10; katoomba/fremantle/bendigo FENCED at 3/2/1 shops fronted, all
below the 5-shop floor). 10 towns x 7 gates: boot/determ/district/roads/tram/noassets green on all ten.
- index.html: expose window.PROCITY.tram — B built `routeInfo` FOR F's smoke but nothing published it; F owns
the shell, so F wired the seam.
- RECORDED (ledger #6b — the instruction was "record the new number"): the venue_night re-measure. A's cap
WORKED (posters 438->111) but E's density widening ate it — katoomba 200,965 (+965, R19) -> 221,935
(+21,935, +11%); bendigo 201k (+0.5%); fremantle/newtown/castlemaine in budget. Draws fine everywhere
(151/300 — half budget); tris-only, at the worst night stress view. Filed as R22's first item, where the
tri-diet backlog (instrument LOD, tram tri diet) already lives. katoomba is the outlier: 966 edges, 72 shops.
- Ruling (ledger #6d): the town selector stays ALWAYS-IN-HUD, not ?dbg-gated — THE REAL MAP's product IS the
towns. Corollary (F's own gap): money shots hide the HUD; the R19 alpha shot had the selector in-frame
because F's harness screenshotted the full viewport.
- Beta money shot: Fremantle's real street at golden hour — a corridor of shopfronts, footpaths, a crossing,
gum trees, and a genuinely busy crowd (the density widening, visible). 126d/167k tris, HUD hidden.
- docs: LANE_F_NOTES §20 (the honest why-R20-had-no-tag record) + §21, README beta paragraph, F-progress.
qa.sh --strict GREEN; selfcheck 154141/154141 (A's re-pinned goldens hold).
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A resolved the R18 findings (fragmentation cull/join, poster clamp, goldens pinned) + D verified; F gated.
- town_matrix.py: a `roads` dimension — a schema-v2 cache (roads[]) must build the REAL street graph
(norm.mode==='roads', read via the plan_osm opts.report sink); synthetic/fixtures stay marched/synthetic.
10 towns x 6 gates: real roads green everywhere; classic/default proven untouched (roads ride the cache
schema, not a flag — 0x3fa36874 frozen).
- docs/shots/v4_alpha/katoomba_mainstreet.png: the first real-street money shot — Katoomba's actual main
street (asphalt + lane markings, footpaths, a pedestrian crossing, a walking crowd, gig posters, B's town
selector in-frame), PROCITY's look on real bones, 121k tris midday.
- docs: LANE_F_NOTES §18 (why F correctly HELD in R18 — the gate would have failed by design) + §19 (the
close), README real-roads note, F-progress.
qa.sh --strict --soak GREEN 7/7. One filed NON-blocking finding: katoomba_real venue_night 200,965 tris
(+965 / 0.5% over the soft ceiling, poster-count-scales-with-real-edges driven; midday play is 121k) — a
v4.0-beta hardening item (A caps posters per real town), on the opt-in --matrix warn-gate, not a play view.
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F wired the last mile of the real-map scout and gated the whole matrix.
- index.js barrel re-exports registerTownCache/validateTownCache; the shell fetches + registers
assets/towns/<key>.json before generatePlanFor when the town isn't a checked-in fixture — so
?plansrc=osm&town=bendigo_real boots a REAL AU town in the engine (the gap: E's caches were on disk +
in the node selfcheck, but the shell never loaded them → silent Melbourne fallback). Fail-soft
(404 / invalid / ?noassets -> fixture fallback); opt-in, never on the default or ?classic path.
- tools/qa/town_matrix.py (opt-in qa.sh --matrix): boot / determinism / budget / district / ?noassets
across 10 towns (2 synthetic hero seeds + 3 osm fixtures + E's 5 real AU caches). ALL 5x10 GREEN —
Castlemaine at the 6-shop floor still lands a 3-venue district. The existing CityPlan contract eats real
Australian geography: the evidence John charters v4 = THE REAL MAP on.
- docs: LANE_F_NOTES §17 (the town x gate table), README real-town row, F-progress R17.
qa.sh --strict --soak GREEN 7/7. Verified: ?plansrc=osm&town=bendigo_real -> Bendigo, 9 shops, 3 venues, 0 errors.
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The closing half of F's bookend. All gates green on the flipped tree (qa.sh --strict --soak: classic
regression + default-boot gate + smokes + no-giants incl. the seated drummer + the full-week soak).
- tour_shots.py -> docs/shots/release_v3_1/: the money shots on the DEFAULT boot (no per-shot flag juggling
now the flip covers it) + a ?classic=1 before/after ("the town before v3"). 7 shots, settled, 0 page errors.
- week_soak.py: re-pointed to the default boot; the leak check now treats an at/below-baseline OR non-climbing
trail as leak-free (a decreasing tex trail is GC/atlas-settle, not a leak — it was false-failing at warn-level).
- docs: README v3.1 flags table (defaults on + ?classic=1), CITY_SPEC v3.1 amendment (the rewritten prime
law + classic covenant, A's deferred edit), LANE_F_NOTES §16, F-progress R16.
Numbers (seed 20261990): default @ venue block 124 draws / 57k tris (<=300/200k); ?classic 161 draws / 24k
tris (the v2 baseline); seated drummer 1.32 m stature; week soak 42 cycles leak-free (net +0/-6).
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- README: a v3.0 'venues & gigs, THE DISTRICT' section — what shipped, the flags table, the release tour
- LANE_F_NOTES §14 (R14: F never ran, brief carried) + §15 (the R15 release-close runbook, numbers, gotcha ledger)
- F-progress: R15 release-close summary at the top
- confirmed all five freezes committed (A a3911a4/35da83c, B eee60e0/a0b5784, C 62e38c5/2446ae3, D 9a65f51/66aec0f, E 55f6698)
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