Door tween leak: tutorial fade spawned an 800ms tween per frame — now pure tutorialAlpha() driven from update()

The alpha>0 guard never closed (each new tween re-captured the still-
positive alpha), so DoorScene accumulated ~1 live tween per frame all
night. Fade is now tween-free elapsedMs math with tests pinning that it
reaches exactly 0 and stays there.

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

LANEHANDOVER.md

@@ -1338,3 +1338,30 @@ kebab run full cycle with incident + toast ✓.
 - Aggro sim band floor eased 15 → 12: doubling the encounter pool reshuffled
   seeded nights; the band's claim ("denials sting at all") is intact.
 - SCENARIOS.md: everything except the three phase-scale systems is now ✅.
+
+---
+### SESSION — FABLE-SOLO-11 (tween-leak chip) — 2026-07-20
+**Branch/commits:** claude/epic-faraday-332679 @ 1b08420..(this commit)
+**Done:** Killed the DoorScene tween leak flagged in FABLE-SOLO-10. Root cause:
+the tutorial fade at the bottom of `update()` was `if (tutorial.alpha > 0)
+tweens.add({ alpha: 0, duration: 800 })` — every new tween re-captured the
+still-positive alpha and wrote over the older tweens' output, so the guard
+never closed and the scene added one live 800ms tween PER FRAME after the 26s
+mark (reproduced in the pane: 841 live tweens after 2,400 stepped frames, all
+duration 800, oldest only 703ms advanced — tweens also stall under the pane's
+stepped clock, so none ever completed there). Fix: no tween at all — fade is
+now pure `tutorialAlpha(elapsedMs)` in `src/scenes/door/tutorialFade.ts`,
+driven from update() (same lesson as the kebab-run timer), text setVisible(false)
+once it hits 0. Re-ran the same 2,400-frame reproduction post-fix: 0 live
+tweens, tutorial alpha 0 / hidden, door renders normally.
+**How to see it:** `npm run dev` → #N → in console
+`const b=performance.now(); for(let i=1;i<=2400;i++) game.loop.step(b+i*16.67)`
+→ `game.scene.getScene('Door').tweens.getTweens().length` → 0 (was ~841).
+**Tests:** 669 passing / 0 failing (4 new in tests/tutorialFade.test.ts — pins
+that the fade reaches exactly 0, stays 0 a whole night later, and is monotonic).
+**Broke / known-wonky:** nothing. No scene-shutdown teardown added — the leak
+was update()-loop spawning, not shutdown; Phaser already kills scene tweens on
+shutdown.
+**Contract change requests:** none
+**Questions for reviewer:** none
+**Next session should:** merge this branch; nothing else pending from the chip.

src/scenes/door/DoorScene.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import { ClipboardPanel, type ClipboardTab } from './ClipboardPanel';
 import { encounterById } from '../../rules/encounters';
 import { SobrietyModal } from './SobrietyModal';
 import { stamp, type StampHandle } from '../../ui/Stamp';
+import { tutorialAlpha } from './tutorialFade';
 import { Button, DOOR_PALETTE, MeterBar, MONO, panel, text } from './ui';
 import { shouldRecordStrike, type NightContext } from './NightScene';
 
@@ -39,7 +40,6 @@ const KAYDEN_RULE_MS = 5000;
 const UP_FOOT_Y = 244;
 const DOOR_X = 566;
 const QUEUE_FOOT_Y = 228;
-const TUTORIAL_MS = 26_000;
 
 /**
  * TODO(contract): CCR-4 — `dazza:text` carries `rule?: DressCodeRule`, so a rule
@@ -894,8 +894,10 @@ export class DoorScene extends Phaser.Scene {
     const locked = this.night.state.clockMin >= LOCKOUT_MIN;
     this.clockText.setText(locked ? `${this.night.clock.label} · LOCKOUT` : this.night.clock.label);
     this.clockText.setColor(locked ? '#ff8080' : '#9fe8a0');
-    if (this.tutorial.alpha > 0 && this.elapsedMs > TUTORIAL_MS) {
+    if (this.tutorial.visible) {
-      this.tweens.add({ targets: this.tutorial, alpha: 0, duration: 800 });
+      const a = tutorialAlpha(this.elapsedMs);
+      this.tutorial.setAlpha(a);
+      if (a <= 0) this.tutorial.setVisible(false);
     }
 
     this.syncQueueSprites();

src/scenes/door/tutorialFade.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/** How long the door tutorial text stays fully lit before it starts to fade. */
+export const TUTORIAL_MS = 26_000;
+/** Length of the fade once the hold expires. */
+export const TUTORIAL_FADE_MS = 800;
+
+/**
+ * Tutorial text alpha at `elapsedMs` into the night. Pure update()-driven math,
+ * deliberately NOT a tween: the old `if (alpha > 0) tweens.add(...)` guard
+ * spawned a fresh 800ms tween every frame (each new tween re-captured the
+ * current alpha and kept it above zero, so the guard never closed — ~1,100 live
+ * tweens by night's end), and tweens stall under the preview pane's stepped
+ * clock anyway.
+ */
+export function tutorialAlpha(elapsedMs: number): number {
+  if (elapsedMs <= TUTORIAL_MS) return 1;
+  return Math.max(0, 1 - (elapsedMs - TUTORIAL_MS) / TUTORIAL_FADE_MS);
+}

tests/tutorialFade.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { TUTORIAL_FADE_MS, TUTORIAL_MS, tutorialAlpha } from '../src/scenes/door/tutorialFade';
+
+// Regression guard for the door-tutorial fade. The original implementation was
+// `if (alpha > 0) tweens.add({ alpha: 0, duration: 800 })` inside update():
+// each frame's new tween re-captured the still-positive alpha, so the guard
+// never closed and DoorScene accumulated one live 800ms tween per frame
+// (~1,100 by the end of a night). The fade is now this pure function; these
+// tests pin the property that killed the tween version — it must actually
+// reach 0 and stay there.
+
+describe('tutorialAlpha', () => {
+  it('holds at full alpha through the tutorial window', () => {
+    expect(tutorialAlpha(0)).toBe(1);
+    expect(tutorialAlpha(TUTORIAL_MS)).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it('fades linearly once the hold expires', () => {
+    expect(tutorialAlpha(TUTORIAL_MS + TUTORIAL_FADE_MS / 2)).toBeCloseTo(0.5);
+    expect(tutorialAlpha(TUTORIAL_MS + TUTORIAL_FADE_MS / 4)).toBeCloseTo(0.75);
+  });
+
+  it('reaches exactly 0 at fade end and never goes negative after', () => {
+    expect(tutorialAlpha(TUTORIAL_MS + TUTORIAL_FADE_MS)).toBe(0);
+    expect(tutorialAlpha(TUTORIAL_MS + TUTORIAL_FADE_MS + 1)).toBe(0);
+    // A whole night later it is still pinned at 0 — the condition the old
+    // tween-spawning guard could never satisfy.
+    expect(tutorialAlpha(TUTORIAL_MS + 4 * 60 * 60 * 1000)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('is monotonically non-increasing frame over frame', () => {
+    let prev = Infinity;
+    for (let ms = 0; ms < TUTORIAL_MS + 2 * TUTORIAL_FADE_MS; ms += 16.67) {
+      const a = tutorialAlpha(ms);
+      expect(a).toBeLessThanOrEqual(prev);
+      expect(a).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+      prev = a;
+    }
+  });
+});