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LANE7: the Gauntlet, four modes, two more provocations, and ambient attrition
THE GAUNTLET (Gauntlet.gd + Cabinet.gd)
Five identical cabinets, each with its alphabetical range on a Label3D. The brief names
a CLIENT, never a cabinet, so working out that HENDERSON lives in F-J is the puzzle —
no waypoint, nothing glows. Destruction is granular on purpose: pull a drawer, it
slides out on a spring and goes live, and the folders inside become individual
smashables. Doing that by hand inside the clock isn't really possible.
The perfect tool: every site hides a SHREDDER that eats a whole open drawer at once,
and the game never says so. Noticing it and working out what it's for IS the level.
Getting it wrong isn't fatal, just slow — the right shape for a secret, since it
rewards the observant without hard-failing everyone else.
Each site nominates its own records area in its spec. Building the bank 3.4 m in front
of wherever the player happened to be standing put it through walls.
MODES (Modes.gd, M cycles)
CUBICLE HELL the main loop
THE GAUNTLET above
TOTAL DESTRUCTION no job, no pay, clear the site, scored on time
AGAINST THE CLOCK fixed timer, maximise damage VALUE — the exact inverse of Cubicle
Hell, where expensive things become the goal rather than the
mistake. Same level, opposite instinct.
Entering a mode arms only what that mode needs; Cubicle Hell and the Gauntlet are
mutually exclusive, because you cannot be doing your job and shredding the Henderson
file at the same time.
TWO MORE PROVOCATIONS (Tasks.gd)
STAPLES SPACE lifts a staple, then it must be pulled the way it's bent — and it's
bent differently each time. Dither and the sheet tears, bundle reprints.
GUILLOTINE align to a mark and cut. The guide has a PERMANENT offset and nothing on
screen admits it. Once you work out the error it's easy, which is the
joke: you have to learn to distrust the equipment.
Desks now alternate spreadsheet/staples so "a desk" isn't always the same minigame.
AMBIENCE (Ambience.gd) — the attrition you can't play around. The tube above your desk
flickers, and actually flickers the real lights. Fish in the microwave. A phone ringing
four desks away. Reply-all, forty-one recipients, "thanks!". Small periodic ticks with
no interaction at all; it's what makes the room hostile rather than merely beige.
Fixes: the payslip was rendering over the Gauntlet (it belongs to Cubicle Hell, and only
once the shift has actually ended); gauntlet drawer reach was 2.0 m when the true
distance from standing-at-a-cabinet to a bottom drawer is over 2 m.
dev/probe_gauntlet.gd drives a whole run headlessly — mode switch, labels, open every
drawer, shred, win — because that catches the failure that matters: a run you can't
finish because the files never become destroyable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LANE7: four workplaces, built from data
Office.gd is gone. Floorplan.gd consumes a spec Dictionary — bounds, palette, walls
with doors and glazing styles, window runs with mullions and blinds, ceiling style,
light grid and style, slabs, static props, desk clusters, chairs, level-specific
smashables and spawn — and Levels.gd holds four of them.
Making this data rather than four subclasses means a site is authorable in minutes,
levels can be diffed, and a real generator can later emit the same structure (a BSP
split of the footprint -> rooms -> doors on shared walls -> fittings by room type).
That was the actual answer to "can we use this git to generate plans": the repo John
found is OpenSCAD SVG->STL for 3D printing, with no generation, no plan parsing, no
room polygons and GPL-3.0, so it can't help — but Office.gd was already most of a
parametric plan builder, and lifting its numbers out is the real path.
The four sites are deliberately not reskins; they differ in the three things a player
actually reads — palette, light, and what the walls are made of:
SCRANTON magnolia, grey carpet, drop ceiling, fluorescent troffers, daylight
down one glazed wall. The baseline.
PAWNEE civic beige and blue-grey, low partitions everywhere, a public
counter, pinboards. Municipal and over-partitioned.
THE INCUBATOR timber floor, white walls, 3 m ceiling, PENDANT lights, glass wall
onto a pool. Nobody has an office; they work at a dining table.
SUB-LEVEL 4 concrete, NO windows at all, exposed services, bare strip lights, a
wall of server racks. The light is green and everything is junk.
L cycles sites in-game; _load_level tears down the shell, rebuilds, re-registers task
stations and re-arms the shift.
tools/gen_level_props.py adds ten more procedural props. The filing cabinet is the
important one: it exports as a CARCASS plus a separate DRAWER, each with its own
floor-centre origin, so the Gauntlet can pull a drawer out as its own rigid body and
spill the files. Also file folder, desk phone, guillotine, shredder, server rack,
sofa, wastebin, stapler.
dev/probe_levels.gd builds every level and reports residual motion after a full
second. All four read 0.00 m/s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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