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Signature mechanic — auras make sound physical: * In The Mix (MRP): allied units within 5 cells of an Amp Stack get +25% firepower, pink note decoration. Amp placement is now forward strategy. * Low Latency (Stream): allied units within 5 cells of an Edge Node move 30% faster, blue chevron decoration. The datacentre build-radius creep now has a combat identity to match the lore. Pure YAML: ProximityExternalCondition -> ExternalCondition + multipliers. Also: VISION.md (five pillars, one page), THE DROP/SHUFFLE launches now play a procedural vinyl needle-drop crackle (33rpm rumble + dust pops), and generated cinematic keyart wired into the loadscreen stripe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# VINYLGOD — creative direction
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One page. If a change fights these pillars, the change is wrong.
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## The fantasy
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You are fighting a war over whether music gets to be a *thing you hold*.
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Every match is a loudness war made literal.
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## Pillars
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**1. Loud is strong.**
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Sound is territory. MRP units fight harder *In The Mix* (within earshot of an
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Amp Stack, +25% firepower). Stream units run *Low Latency* near an Edge Node
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(+30% speed). Forward speaker placement is forward strategy. Any new mechanic
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should ask: does this make sound more physical?
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**2. The ground remembers.**
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Wax seeps regrow the fields. Explosions scar the asphalt. Groove-etched ground
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marks where the Black Wax surfaced. Battles should leave the map looking
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*played*, like a record collects crackle.
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**3. Everything is a record.**
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Weapons are thrown 45s, rotors are LPs, the superweapon is a tonearm. If an
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asset could belong in a generic sci-fi RTS, redesign it until it couldn't.
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**4. The Party is loud; the Stream is polite.**
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MRP: rust, hot pink, gaffer tape, warm voices, drums. Stream: seamless white,
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ring lights, customer-service menace, no corners. MRP text shouts. Stream text
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apologises while it deletes you. Never swap these voices.
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**5. Real stakes, cartoon delivery.**
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Music is being erased forever — and the robots are having the time of their
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lives defending it. No grimdark. Loss lines hurt ("THE NEEDLE HAS LIFTED"),
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win lines are needle-drops.
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## Hard rules (inherited, non-negotiable)
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- 100% original content, generated locally, provenance logged in
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assets_src/PROMPTS.md. No EA anything. GPL v3 everything.
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- Balance claims require a 5-match arena series (MEGAPLAN §5b), not vibes.
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- Verify with tools/smoketest.sh — a live process is not a passing game.
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