boss.js has emitted boss:start / boss:phase / boss:window / boss:telegraph / boss:end since the
framework landed, and NOTHING has ever listened. Every boss in the game was therefore illegible:
the Pyloric Guardian's whole design is "shoot only while the iris relaxes", and the only tell a
player had was a node's flash uniform going white-hot — a cue nobody is told to read.
A top-centre banner, fed entirely by events the boss already broadcasts:
- the boss's NAME (five of them; there was no way to know what you were fighting)
- phase pips, filling as you break each phase
- the state: SEALED / opening (blinking, off boss:telegraph) / VULNERABLE in green
The Sovereign's Communion reports `phases: 0`, so a symbiotic player gets "stand down" and no
pip rail rather than the promise of a battle they have just earned their way out of.
Verified in the Guardian's lair: banner on, "PYLORIC GUARDIAN / VULNERABLE", 3 pips, state
tracking boss.open exactly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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