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type-two	f9aeaf259f	[lane B+C] L1 Oral Cavity: the tutorial, and the Mast Cell — the boss you win by not shooting L1 has been a 2-event skeleton since round 1, waiting (in its own status field) on "Lane B's arena-mode controller". That exists now, so C's round2_plan is built as written: molar crush-cycles, the saliva tide, amylase droplets, the three samples exactly where C put them (behind the molars / under the tongue / a tonsillar crypt), and the epiglottis exam. 24 events. The teaching order is the level: move (orbs, no current) -> LOOK (the arena opens and you can stop, which no other level allows) -> shoot (one droplet, then two) -> coat (the molar ring grazes you, mucin is right there) -> RESTRAINT -> flow returns (the tide, the funnel) -> the exam. Every verb alone, in the calmest room in the game, before anything is asked of it. Two hazards are deliberately re-used rather than invented: the molar crush IS a ring_gate and the saliva tide IS a non-lethal surge, so L2's gates and its reflux finale become callbacks instead of new ideas. THE MAST CELL (LANE_C_NOTES §Boss specs 5) sits at the exact midpoint. A sentinel immune cell: cyan, no attack, no chase, inert aura (auraDps 0 — it shares the floater's drift branch and its aura does literally nothing). Fly past and the encounter just ends. Shoot it and it degranulates — droplets close in from the walls (which is how "the cavity swells shut" is expressed, because a runtime tube radius is not in Lane A's contract), the coat bleeds, and past half health the airway closes on a 25s timer. You always get through. The only question is what you get through. It needed a new boss `kind: 'sentinel'` with its own update path, because forcing a thing with no rings and no windows through the phase machine would have been worse than a branch. Damage is the failure state, so every number describes a consequence rather than a fight. Verified, all three player choices: SPARE -> "spared", coat untouched at 100, karma +25, score 0. SHOOT -> "degranulated", coat 100->56. KILL -> "anaphylaxis-survived", coat 100->6. Score is 0 in every case: shooting it buys literally nothing, so no medal can ever reward the mistake. Two bugs the testing paid for: `def.phases[0]` crashed on a boss that has no phases, and the first degranulation drain (5/s) was UNDER the player's 8/s coat regen — measured coat going 80 -> 100 during a histamine cascade, i.e. the punishment was healing you. Now 14 and 22, which are net -6/s and -14/s against regen. L1 is no longer a skeleton: its checkpoint-gap and zero-samples warnings are gone, and the campaign now opens on a real tutorial instead of an empty mouth with a gate at the end. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-26 00:13:52 +10:00
jing	2e85ec0622	[lane C] Round 2 WIP (session cut off): schema v2, surf-aware pacing, chase analysis, --probe Landed before the cut: schema v2 (segments[].wave.amp override, validated — breathe stays biome-owned); hiatus re-authored tight AND calm (radius back to 6.5, amp 0.6, 3.3u steady clearance); par 210 -> 180 with full rationale (below throttle-only par-pace, above a surf run — the medal teaches the mechanic); finale surge 21 -> 24 so surfing is the stylish escape (required 1.20x); surf profile reads A's live CREST_FACTOR; chaseAnalysis() + escapability laws in validate; NEW --probe builds A's real canal and measures clearance against the model (all L2 segments clear the 2.5 floor, hiatus 3.75); isMain guard + importSpline shim — fixes A's selfcheck process.exit killing C's mid-run (qa.sh had been green on one level out of three). Cut off before: fly-through of the integrated build (blocked on B), pickup economy handover (B proposed numbers in balance.js meanwhile — reconcile), L1 encounter design doc, GDD boss folding, NOTES. Committed by F to protect the shared tree; levels selfcheck 3/3 GREEN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-16 16:26:42 +10:00
jing	1b5ec767cd	[lane C] Round 1: schema v1, levels registry + selfcheck + pacing sim, L2 vertical slice Data spine: - Schema v1 ratified (TECH.md, C-owned). Additive over v0: schema/par/next, segment name, cross-section placement (theta/rho as a FRACTION of safe radius), spread, span, pickup+gate event types, hazard params. STUB_LEVEL synced (that const only, per ROUND1 §Lane C.1) — world.hash() unchanged (1bdf001), geometry provably untouched. - levels/index.js: registry + loader (node+browser, no THREE), real schema selfcheck (qa's --selfcheck hook is now live) and a pacing simulator (--sim). Consumes the other lanes' contracts live rather than restating them: A's biomes.js for ids and wave.amp+breathe, A's SKIN, B's tuning.js hull radius, B's balance.js for scores. - levels/enemies.js (fiction id -> archetype join table), levels/difficulty.js. L2_esophagus — the vertical slice, complete: 3600 units, 7 beats, 47 events, 65 enemies, 10 checkpoints, 3 samples, reflux-surge finale. L1/L3 skeletons (shape only). Anatomy is the level designer: the three real esophageal constrictions are the three setpieces, and all three enemies are real esophageal pathology (bolus chunk, eosinophilic esophagitis, candida esophagitis). Measured (node web/js/levels/index.js --selfcheck\|--sim; qa GREEN): - selfcheck 3/3 valid, exit 0. - pressure curve 0.27 -> 2.14 -> 4.35 -> 0.69 -> 4.53 -> 6.35 -> 4.40 (breather/pressure/ spike/breather/pressure/peak/finale). - par 3:30 vs measured 2:47 speedrun / 3:19 par-pace / 4:22 timid; par.score 9000 of a 9400 kill budget (95%), computed from B's scores. - all 10 checkpoint gaps within the <=30s death-cost law (max 28.8s); min clearance 2.73. Two contract collisions found and resolved (LANE_C_NOTES): - Biome ids: authored mouth/pharynx/cardia/pylorus; A's registry has six canonical ids and rejected all four. A is right — biome = look, segments[].name = anatomy. Conformed. - Balance: my first enemies.js restated hp/size/speed/score that B owns in balance.js. Cut to a join table; index.js reads B's scores via scoreFor(). Caught live: A raised esophagus wave.amp 0.9 -> 1.4 mid-session, making the diaphragmatic hiatus unflyable (2.33 vs the 2.5 floor). Widened 6.5 -> 6.8. The invariant also failed my own aortic constriction's first draft (radius 7, symmetric squeeze) -> radius 9, directional. No in-engine flythrough: ?stub=1&lvl= does not compose (snippet offered to F) and the stub is single-segment, so it could only render beat 1. The pacing evidence is a kinematic model, not a playtest — it proves L2 is flyable, paced and survivable, not that it feels good. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-16 08:53:34 +10:00

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type-two

f9aeaf259f

[lane B+C] L1 Oral Cavity: the tutorial, and the Mast Cell — the boss you win by not shooting

L1 has been a 2-event skeleton since round 1, waiting (in its own status field) on "Lane B's
arena-mode controller". That exists now, so C's round2_plan is built as written: molar
crush-cycles, the saliva tide, amylase droplets, the three samples exactly where C put them
(behind the molars / under the tongue / a tonsillar crypt), and the epiglottis exam. 24 events.

The teaching order is the level: move (orbs, no current) -> LOOK (the arena opens and you can
stop, which no other level allows) -> shoot (one droplet, then two) -> coat (the molar ring
grazes you, mucin is right there) -> RESTRAINT -> flow returns (the tide, the funnel) -> the
exam. Every verb alone, in the calmest room in the game, before anything is asked of it. Two
hazards are deliberately re-used rather than invented: the molar crush IS a ring_gate and the
saliva tide IS a non-lethal surge, so L2's gates and its reflux finale become callbacks instead
of new ideas.

THE MAST CELL (LANE_C_NOTES §Boss specs 5) sits at the exact midpoint. A sentinel immune cell:
cyan, no attack, no chase, inert aura (auraDps 0 — it shares the floater's drift branch and its
aura does literally nothing). Fly past and the encounter just ends. Shoot it and it degranulates
— droplets close in from the walls (which is how "the cavity swells shut" is expressed, because
a runtime tube radius is not in Lane A's contract), the coat bleeds, and past half health the
airway closes on a 25s timer. You always get through. The only question is what you get through.

It needed a new boss `kind: 'sentinel'` with its own update path, because forcing a thing with
no rings and no windows through the phase machine would have been worse than a branch. Damage is
the failure state, so every number describes a consequence rather than a fight.

Verified, all three player choices: SPARE -> "spared", coat untouched at 100, karma +25, score 0.
SHOOT -> "degranulated", coat 100->56. KILL -> "anaphylaxis-survived", coat 100->6. Score is 0 in
every case: shooting it buys literally nothing, so no medal can ever reward the mistake.

Two bugs the testing paid for: `def.phases[0]` crashed on a boss that has no phases, and the
first degranulation drain (5/s) was UNDER the player's 8/s coat regen — measured coat going
80 -> 100 during a histamine cascade, i.e. the punishment was healing you. Now 14 and 22, which
are net -6/s and -14/s against regen.

L1 is no longer a skeleton: its checkpoint-gap and zero-samples warnings are gone, and the
campaign now opens on a real tutorial instead of an empty mouth with a gate at the end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-26 00:13:52 +10:00

jing

2e85ec0622

[lane C] Round 2 WIP (session cut off): schema v2, surf-aware pacing, chase analysis, --probe

Landed before the cut: schema v2 (segments[].wave.amp override, validated — breathe stays
biome-owned); hiatus re-authored tight AND calm (radius back to 6.5, amp 0.6, 3.3u steady
clearance); par 210 -> 180 with full rationale (below throttle-only par-pace, above a surf
run — the medal teaches the mechanic); finale surge 21 -> 24 so surfing is the stylish
escape (required 1.20x); surf profile reads A's live CREST_FACTOR; chaseAnalysis() +
escapability laws in validate; NEW --probe builds A's real canal and measures clearance
against the model (all L2 segments clear the 2.5 floor, hiatus 3.75); isMain guard +
importSpline shim — fixes A's selfcheck process.exit killing C's mid-run (qa.sh had been
green on one level out of three).

Cut off before: fly-through of the integrated build (blocked on B), pickup economy handover
(B proposed numbers in balance.js meanwhile — reconcile), L1 encounter design doc, GDD boss
folding, NOTES. Committed by F to protect the shared tree; levels selfcheck 3/3 GREEN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-16 16:26:42 +10:00

jing

1b5ec767cd

[lane C] Round 1: schema v1, levels registry + selfcheck + pacing sim, L2 vertical slice

Data spine:
- Schema v1 ratified (TECH.md, C-owned). Additive over v0: schema/par/next, segment
  name, cross-section placement (theta/rho as a FRACTION of safe radius), spread, span,
  pickup+gate event types, hazard params. STUB_LEVEL synced (that const only, per
  ROUND1 §Lane C.1) — world.hash() unchanged (1bdf001), geometry provably untouched.
- levels/index.js: registry + loader (node+browser, no THREE), real schema selfcheck
  (qa's --selfcheck hook is now live) and a pacing simulator (--sim). Consumes the other
  lanes' contracts live rather than restating them: A's biomes.js for ids and
  wave.amp+breathe, A's SKIN, B's tuning.js hull radius, B's balance.js for scores.
- levels/enemies.js (fiction id -> archetype join table), levels/difficulty.js.

L2_esophagus — the vertical slice, complete: 3600 units, 7 beats, 47 events, 65 enemies,
10 checkpoints, 3 samples, reflux-surge finale. L1/L3 skeletons (shape only).
Anatomy is the level designer: the three real esophageal constrictions are the three
setpieces, and all three enemies are real esophageal pathology (bolus chunk, eosinophilic
esophagitis, candida esophagitis).

Measured (node web/js/levels/index.js --selfcheck|--sim; qa GREEN):
- selfcheck 3/3 valid, exit 0.
- pressure curve 0.27 -> 2.14 -> 4.35 -> 0.69 -> 4.53 -> 6.35 -> 4.40 (breather/pressure/
  spike/breather/pressure/peak/finale).
- par 3:30 vs measured 2:47 speedrun / 3:19 par-pace / 4:22 timid; par.score 9000 of a
  9400 kill budget (95%), computed from B's scores.
- all 10 checkpoint gaps within the <=30s death-cost law (max 28.8s); min clearance 2.73.

Two contract collisions found and resolved (LANE_C_NOTES):
- Biome ids: authored mouth/pharynx/cardia/pylorus; A's registry has six canonical ids and
  rejected all four. A is right — biome = look, segments[].name = anatomy. Conformed.
- Balance: my first enemies.js restated hp/size/speed/score that B owns in balance.js.
  Cut to a join table; index.js reads B's scores via scoreFor().

Caught live: A raised esophagus wave.amp 0.9 -> 1.4 mid-session, making the diaphragmatic
hiatus unflyable (2.33 vs the 2.5 floor). Widened 6.5 -> 6.8. The invariant also failed my
own aortic constriction's first draft (radius 7, symmetric squeeze) -> radius 9, directional.

No in-engine flythrough: ?stub=1&lvl= does not compose (snippet offered to F) and the stub
is single-segment, so it could only render beat 1. The pacing evidence is a kinematic model,
not a playtest — it proves L2 is flyable, paced and survivable, not that it feels good.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-16 08:53:34 +10:00

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