Audit items 9, 10 and 11 — three features whose backends were finished and whose front ends did
not exist.
DIFFICULTY WAS UNREACHABLE. levels/difficulty.js has carried three fully specified tiers since
round 2 — Endoscopy, Clinical, Terminal, with per-tier assists and a note explaining each — and
every single call site in the codebase took the default. `easy` and `hard` were a table nobody
could select. getLevel now takes the saved difficulty (?diff= still wins, so a test URL stays
absolute), and the title has the switch. Verified live: the world boots at 11 spawns on Terminal
against 8 on Clinical.
THE CAMPAIGN WAS SIX LEVELS WITH ONE WAY IN. Reaching anything but L1 meant hand-editing ?lvl=
in the address bar. The title now lists the campaign, unlocking each segment as the one before
it is filed, showing the medal you hold on each. `LS_` is C's secret prefix, so the appendix
stays a row of question marks until you have earned your way in — naming it in the menu would
have given away the one thing in this game you have to discover.
THE CAMPAIGN HAD NO ENDING. C's anal_verge gate carries `to: null` — the only gate in the game
that does, its own note calling it "the end of the campaign" — and boot's ui:continue handler
opened with `if (!e.to) return`. Finishing GUTS parked you on a medal card forever with no way
out but the address bar, and the card said "any key", the same words it uses when it has nothing
to tell you. Now the clear is filed and counted, the card says you are out, and the title carries
CANAL CLEARED.
New core/save.js is the whole persistence layer: one localStorage key, one flat object, best
time / best score / best medal kept per column (they need not come from the same run) plus an
attempt count. Every entry point is wrapped — Safari private mode throws on setItem, and a save
file must never be able to stop the game booting. Its selfcheck (`node web/js/core/save.js
--selfcheck`, now in qa.sh) covers the best-of comparisons and feeds it corrupt, future-versioned
and malformed saves.
cards.js records rather than boot: this file computes the grade, so routing it through the bus
for boot to re-derive would be two copies of the medal table waiting to disagree.
One bug found by clicking rather than reading: the first cut of the chips had no
pointer-events:auto. #ui is pointer-events:none and it inherits — the file's own header says so
— so the buttons rendered, highlighted nothing, and passed the click through to the canvas,
which on the title starts the run. It looked like a menu and behaved like wallpaper.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generated on MODELBEAST flux_local, on-device, $0.00. Lane D's pipeline used
unchanged; **D owns these — ratify, retune or bin them.**
Why A did D's job: the six-biome tint contact sheet could only judge 3 of 6
biomes for real (oral/large_intestine/appendix had no pack and fell back to
procedural), and you cannot ratify a tint against a stand-in. All six are now
textured — the set ART_BIBLE §Biome palettes promises.
- wall_oral_a/b, wall_colon_a/b + normals. Seams 6.35/9.30/14.06/6.37 -> 1.01/
1.08/0.74/1.36 (D's "indistinguishable" band; the shipped pack's weakest is
2.39). Means normalised to ~0.50 by D's derive_maps, untouched.
- appendix wears the colon pack at its own gold tint (TEXTURE_SHARE in
world/index.js) — anatomically it IS colon tissue, and it's ART_BIBLE's
"one texture, two biomes" law for zero bytes. Distinct from the temporary
slug map; keep it when that dies.
- oral_a took three subjects. v1 named an ORGAN ("tongue") and FLUX drew the
organ's silhouette — D's "one urchin of villi" in a field's clothing. v2 named
the tissue but papillae are 3D projections, so perspective gave it a vanishing
point that tiles into starbursts. v3 asks for squamous cell pavement: flat by
construction. Rule for the kit: prompt the SURFACE, not the FEATURE.
Evidence: docs/shots/laneA/round2_oral_prompt_evolution.png
PROVENANCE DEFECT FOUND AND FIXED (-> Lane D):
batch_textures.json recorded, for 4 of 6 walls, the prompt from the framing
experiment D tried and rejected — not the prompt that made the shipped pack.
record() only runs on generation, so reverting a prompt while keeping its image
(exactly what D correctly did: "four winners kept untouched rather than churned")
drifts the record silently. Proved by regenerating esophagus_a at seed 1101 under
both prompts: the code's prompt reproduces the shipped wall, the recorded one
gives the bland wood-grain D described rejecting. Evidence:
docs/shots/laneA/round2_provenance_probe.png. Records re-pointed at the code's
prompt (images untouched — they were never wrong).
New: gen_textures.py --verify-provenance + qa.sh gate 5b, so it cannot rot again.
qa GREEN incl. the new gate; 11/11 provenance verified; all six biomes eyeballed
in engine (docs/shots/laneA/round2_tint_*.png).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wired B's player/combat + event pump, D's assets, C's level pick into boot.
Fixed qa ESM gate (node --check no-op, found by B) + added spline selfcheck.
TECH: world contract FROZEN v1.1, bus events ratified, colorspace + crest-speed
laws (CREST_FACTOR 1.6 — B proved surfing lost to throttle at 1.0). Stub complies.
Verified integrated build via 60s stepped sim: 9 draws, 0 errors, 0 asset misses;
one known gap (fiction-id spawn resolve) confirmed and assigned as B's top item.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
