diff --git a/fktry/src/ui/toasts.ts b/fktry/src/ui/toasts.ts
index b39b525..53a8f60 100644
--- a/fktry/src/ui/toasts.ts
+++ b/fktry/src/ui/toasts.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ import { eventToast } from './voice';
 export interface Toasts {
   el: HTMLElement;
   push(ev: SimEvent, machineName: (entityId: number) => string): void;
+  /** A toast that isn't a raw sim event — onboarding hints, deduped warnings, ceremony. */
+  pushMessage(msg: string, kind: string): void;
+  /** Stand the stack off the bottom-right corner once the tuner dock moves in there. */
+  setStandoff(on: boolean): void;
   /** Called once per frame to expire old lines. */
   update(nowMs: number): void;
 }
@@ -30,17 +34,22 @@ export function createToasts(): Toasts {
     setTimeout(() => entry.node.remove(), FADE_MS);
   }
 
+  function emit(msg: string, kind: string) {
+    const node = el('div', `fk-toast k-${kind}`, [msg]);
+    root.append(node);
+    live.push({ node, dieAt: performance.now() + TTL_MS });
+    while (live.length > MAX) retire(live.shift()!);
+  }
+
   return {
     el: root,
     push(ev, machineName) {
       const msg = eventToast(ev, machineName);
-      if (!msg) return;
-
-      const node = el('div', `fk-toast k-${ev.kind}`, [msg]);
-      root.append(node);
-      live.push({ node, dieAt: performance.now() + TTL_MS });
-
-      while (live.length > MAX) retire(live.shift()!);
+      if (msg) emit(msg, ev.kind);
+    },
+    pushMessage: emit,
+    setStandoff(on) {
+      cls(root, 'is-standoff', on);
     },
     update(nowMs) {
       while (live.length && live[0].dieAt <= nowMs) retire(live.shift()!);
diff --git a/fktry/src/ui/voice.ts b/fktry/src/ui/voice.ts
index d7f43a5..d3e1dbd 100644
--- a/fktry/src/ui/voice.ts
+++ b/fktry/src/ui/voice.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ const JAM_TEXT: Record<string, string> = {
   starved: 'INTAKE STARVED. NOTHING IS ARRIVING.',
   'no recipe': 'NO PROCESS ASSIGNED. UNIT AWAITS INSTRUCTION.',
   'no power': 'INSUFFICIENT BANDWIDTH. THE MATHEMATICS ARE UNMOVED.',
+  'no seam': 'THERE IS NOTHING DOWN THERE. MOVE.',
 };
 
 export function jamText(reason: string): string {
@@ -83,11 +84,34 @@ export function eventToast(ev: SimEvent, machineName: (id: number) => string): s
       return 'UNIT RECLAIMED. THE FLOOR REMEMBERS.';
     case 'researched':
       return 'STANDARD RATIFIED. NEW CRIMES AVAILABLE.';
+    case 'wildlife':
+      return wildlifeToast(ev.wildlife, ev.on);
+    case 'relicFound':
+      return COPY.relicDiscovery;
     default:
       return null; // shipped/crafted/placed are too frequent to toast
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Infestation copy. A dust pile spawning is a hatch warning (index.ts dedups it to one
+ * per pile — see the notices logic there); a swarm spawning is the bite already landing.
+ */
+export function wildlifeToast(
+  kind: 'dust-pile' | 'mosquito-swarm',
+  on: 'spawned' | 'cleared',
+): string | null {
+  if (kind === 'dust-pile') {
+    return on === 'spawned'
+      ? 'HF DUST IS POOLING. SOMETHING WILL HATCH IN IT.'
+      : null; // clearing a pile is housekeeping, not news
+  }
+  // mosquito-swarm
+  return on === 'spawned'
+    ? 'MOSQUITO SWARM. QUANTIZATION NOISE HAS LEGS NOW.'
+    : 'SWARM DISPERSED. THE EDGES ARE QUIET AGAIN.';
+}
+
 export const COPY = {
   bandwidth: 'BANDWIDTH',
   brownout: 'BROWNOUT',
@@ -127,12 +151,43 @@ export const COPY = {
   requires: 'REQUIRES:',
 
   placingHint: 'LMB PLACE · R ROTATE · ESC CANCEL',
-  idleHint: '1-9 SELECT · [ ] PAGE · X REMOVE · T RESEARCH · SPACE HALT · CLICK A UNIT',
+  idleHint:
+    '1-9 SELECT · [ ] PAGE · X REMOVE · T RESEARCH · SPACE HALT · CLICK A UNIT' +
+    ' · MMB/WASD PAN · WHEEL ZOOM',
 
   removeLabel: 'REMOVE',
   removeKey: 'X',
   removeHint: 'REMOVE ARMED · LMB DEMOLISH · ESC STAND DOWN',
+
+  /** The one hint the opening needs — fires once, on the first brownout ever. */
+  firstBrownoutMercy: 'NOTHING IS GENERATING. THE COMMITTEE SUGGESTS: POWER.',
+
+  /** Inspector line when a swarm is degrading the open machine. */
+  mosquitoExposure: 'MOSQUITO EXPOSURE',
+  mosquitoPenalty: (pct: number) => `PRECISION DOWN ${pct}%. SWARM ON THE EDGES.`,
+
+  /** relicFound ceremony. */
+  relicDiscovery: 'AUDIO BUS RESTORED. THE BITSTREAM HAS A VOICE.',
+
+  // THE TUNER DOCK
+  tunerHeader: 'AUDIO BUS',
+  tunerBandLabel: 'BAND',
+  tunerVolLabel: 'VOL',
+  tunerMute: 'MUTE',
+  tunerMuted: 'MUTED',
+  tunerLockedSuffix: 'SIGNAL LOCKED',
+  tunerStatic: 'STATIC — TUNE FOR A STATION',
+  tunerHint: '◄ ► TUNE · B BAND · M MUTE',
 } as const;
 
+export type Band = 'AM' | 'FM' | 'SW';
+
+/** "88.1 FKTRY FM — SIGNAL LOCKED" / "104.6 FM — STATIC …". Station names are flavor. */
+export function stationReadout(freqMHz: number, band: Band, station: string | null): string {
+  const f = freqMHz.toFixed(1);
+  if (station) return `${f} ${station} ${band} — ${COPY.tunerLockedSuffix}`;
+  return `${f} ${band} — ${COPY.tunerStatic}`;
+}
+
 /** Direction names for the rotation readout. Dir 0..3 = N,E,S,W clockwise. */
 export const DIR_NAME = ['N', 'E', 'S', 'W'] as const;
diff --git a/fktry/src/ui/wildlife.test.ts b/fktry/src/ui/wildlife.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f61c07c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fktry/src/ui/wildlife.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+// @vitest-environment happy-dom
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import type { GameData, SimEvent, SimSnapshot, UIBus } from '../contracts';
+import { createInspector } from './inspector';
+import { eventToast, wildlifeToast } from './voice';
+
+const named = (id: number) => `UNIT ${id}`;
+
+describe('wildlife voice', () => {
+  it('warns that a dust pile is a nursery, not just a mess', () => {
+    expect(wildlifeToast('dust-pile', 'spawned')).toContain('HATCH');
+  });
+
+  it('says nothing when a pile is cleared — housekeeping is not news', () => {
+    expect(wildlifeToast('dust-pile', 'cleared')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('announces a swarm and its dispersal differently', () => {
+    const on = wildlifeToast('mosquito-swarm', 'spawned');
+    const off = wildlifeToast('mosquito-swarm', 'cleared');
+    expect(on).toContain('MOSQUITO SWARM');
+    expect(off).not.toBe(on);
+    expect(off).toContain('DISPERSED');
+  });
+
+  it('routes wildlife events through the standard toast path', () => {
+    const ev: SimEvent = {
+      kind: 'wildlife', on: 'spawned', wildlife: 'mosquito-swarm',
+      id: 1, pos: { x: 0, y: 0 }, tick: 5,
+    };
+    expect(eventToast(ev, named)).toContain('MOSQUITO SWARM');
+  });
+
+  it('announces the fossil in the house voice', () => {
+    const ev: SimEvent = { kind: 'relicFound', relic: 'optical-fossil', id: 1, tick: 9 };
+    expect(eventToast(ev, named)).toBe('AUDIO BUS RESTORED. THE BITSTREAM HAS A VOICE.');
+  });
+});
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------ inspector exposure
+
+const DATA: GameData = {
+  items: [],
+  machines: [{
+    id: 'quantizer', name: 'QUANTIZER', codex: '', kind: 'crafter',
+    footprint: { x: 2, y: 2 }, recipes: [], powerDraw: 0, asset: 'q',
+  }],
+  recipes: [],
+  tech: [],
+  commissions: [],
+};
+
+const bus: UIBus = {
+  dispatch: () => {},
+  selectedBuild: () => null,
+  pickTile: () => null,
+};
+
+function snapWith(wildlife?: SimSnapshot['wildlife']): SimSnapshot {
+  return {
+    tick: 1, paused: false,
+    entities: [{
+      id: 7, def: 'quantizer', pos: { x: 0, y: 0 }, dir: 0, recipe: null, progress: 0,
+      inputBuf: {}, outputBuf: {}, jammed: null, heat: 0,
+    }],
+    beltItems: [],
+    bandwidth: { gen: 10, draw: 1, stored: 0, brownout: false },
+    shippedTotal: {}, activeCommission: null, commissionProgress: {},
+    wildlife,
+  };
+}
+
+describe('MOSQUITO EXPOSURE in the inspector', () => {
+  function open() {
+    document.body.innerHTML = '';
+    const ins = createInspector(DATA, bus);
+    document.body.append(ins.el);
+    ins.open(7);
+    return ins;
+  }
+  const exposure = () => document.querySelector('.fk-ins-exposure') as HTMLElement;
+
+  it('shows nothing when no swarm is on this machine', () => {
+    const ins = open();
+    ins.update(snapWith([
+      { id: 1, kind: 'mosquito-swarm', pos: { x: 9, y: 9 }, size: 0.8, target: 99 },
+    ]));
+    expect(exposure().classList.contains('is-on')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('surfaces the exposure and its severity when a swarm targets this machine', () => {
+    const ins = open();
+    ins.update(snapWith([
+      { id: 1, kind: 'mosquito-swarm', pos: { x: 0, y: 0 }, size: 0.42, target: 7 },
+    ]));
+    expect(exposure().classList.contains('is-on')).toBe(true);
+    expect(document.querySelector('.fk-ins-exposure-pct')!.textContent)
+      .toBe('PRECISION DOWN 42%. SWARM ON THE EDGES.');
+  });
+
+  it('ignores dust piles — a pile is not biting anything yet', () => {
+    const ins = open();
+    ins.update(snapWith([
+      { id: 2, kind: 'dust-pile', pos: { x: 0, y: 0 }, size: 1, target: 7 },
+    ]));
+    expect(exposure().classList.contains('is-on')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('clears the line when the swarm is dispersed', () => {
+    const ins = open();
+    ins.update(snapWith([
+      { id: 1, kind: 'mosquito-swarm', pos: { x: 0, y: 0 }, size: 0.5, target: 7 },
+    ]));
+    expect(exposure().classList.contains('is-on')).toBe(true);
+    ins.update(snapWith([]));
+    expect(exposure().classList.contains('is-on')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('survives a sim that reports no wildlife at all', () => {
+    const ins = open();
+    ins.update(snapWith(undefined));
+    expect(exposure().classList.contains('is-on')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});