Solo build-out: floor SFX + drunk typos, 8-encounter table with cross-night gating, scheduler rework

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

src/data/strings/encounters.ts

@@ -80,4 +80,55 @@ export const ENCOUNTER_SCRIPTS: Record<string, EncounterScript> = {
     admitNote: 'In he goes, logo and all, with the sign already up.',
     denyNote: 'He nods, says fair enough, and walks back toward the servo.',
   },
+  // Eighteen at midnight, at the rope by quarter past. Real card, real birthday,
+  // and a plan he has clearly rehearsed on the walk over.
+  eighteenToday: {
+    names: ['Jai Petersen', 'Cooper Nguyen', 'Lachy Marsh'],
+    beats: [
+      { line: 'evening. so. it went midnight about forty minutes ago.', afterMs: 0 },
+      { line: 'which makes this my first legal one. checked the law twice.', afterMs: 2400 },
+      { line: 'my mates did the countdown at the kebab shop. they went home. im here.', afterMs: 5000 },
+    ],
+    admitNote: 'First stamp on a first night. He shows the bar staff his licence unprompted.',
+    denyNote: 'Legal for forty minutes and headed home. The story will improve with age.',
+  },
+
+  // Kayden has been making promises. Kayden does not have list privileges.
+  // Kayden does not, strictly speaking, have a last name anyone can recall.
+  kaydensMate: {
+    names: ['Reece Kowalski', 'Jordan Vella', 'Tyson Doyle'],
+    beats: [
+      { line: 'should be right, kayden said hed leave my name at the door.', afterMs: 0 },
+      { line: 'kayden. tall bloke. trainee vest. very confident handshake.', afterMs: 2300 },
+      { line: 'he said quote unquote "sorted mate". thats basically a guest list.', afterMs: 4800 },
+    ],
+    admitNote: 'In on the authority of a man whose supervisor calls him "the situation".',
+    admitDazza: 'a bloke just told the bar KAYDEN comped him. kayden cant comp a glass of water',
+    denyNote: 'He takes it well. Says he will "raise it with kayden". Nobody will.',
+  },
+
+  // The buck's party straggler. Missed the church bit, missed dinner, caught the
+  // food poisoning. The buck is inside; the night is nearly over; here he is.
+  bigNightOut: {
+    names: ['Macca OBrien', 'Davo Romano', 'Nick Taufa'],
+    beats: [
+      { line: 'the bucks is in there. i can hear the chanting. thats my chanting.', afterMs: 0 },
+      { line: 'i missed the church bit. food poisoning at the dinner. long story. bad oysters.', afterMs: 2500 },
+      { line: 'ive had a big recovery and two lemonades and i am READY to be present.', afterMs: 5200 },
+    ],
+    admitNote: 'The chanting gets louder, gains a name in it, then settles.',
+    denyNote: 'He listens to one more chant through the wall, films a voice memo of it, and goes.',
+  },
+
+  // Engaged tonight. Still holding hands. The card says what the card says.
+  twoOfThem: {
+    names: ['Bree Karim', 'Holly Petersen', 'Sana Singh'],
+    beats: [
+      { line: 'before you say anything about the hand thing. we got engaged tonight.', afterMs: 0 },
+      { line: 'TONIGHT tonight. at the lookout. theres a photo of a bird ruining it.', afterMs: 2400 },
+      { line: 'we are aware of the rule. we have discussed it. the answer is no.', afterMs: 5000 },
+    ],
+    admitNote: 'They cross the floor like a three-legged race nobody can catch.',
+    denyNote: 'They leave still attached. The rule holds. The rule is the only thing that does.',
+  },
 };

src/data/types.ts

@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ export interface GameState {
   heatStrikes: HeatStrike[];
   regulars: Record<string, RegularMemory>;
   pastReports: IncidentRecord[][];
+  /** Scripted-encounter ids the run has already met (repeat gating). */
+  seenEncounters?: string[];
 }
 
 // ---- event bus ----

src/rules/encounters.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ import type { Archetype, DrunkStage, HeatStrike, Patron } from '../data/types';
 // optimal either. A generous option that quietly pays better is the same lie told
 // the other way round. Every `onAdmit` below is priced to be a real decision.
 
-export type EncounterId = 'grabHerMate' | 'quietBeer' | 'lastNight' | 'nightShift';
+export type EncounterId =
+  | 'grabHerMate' | 'quietBeer' | 'lastNight' | 'nightShift'
+  | 'eighteenToday' | 'kaydensMate' | 'bigNightOut' | 'twoOfThem';
 
 export interface EncounterBeat {
   line: string;
@@ -201,9 +203,11 @@ export const ENCOUNTERS: readonly ScriptedEncounter[] = [
     onDeny: { note: script('quietBeer').denyNote },
   },
   {
-    // After the logo rule lands at 90. Before that he is just a bloke in a polo.
+    // After the logo rule lands at 90 — and BEFORE Dazza rescinds it (the rule
+    // cap retires noLogos when the 200-minute rule arrives). Outside that band
+    // he is just a bloke in a polo and the dilemma evaporates.
     id: 'nightShift',
-    window: [150, 270],
+    window: [150, 195],
     archetype: 'punter',
     dress(patron, rng) {
       const s = script('nightShift');
@@ -260,6 +264,83 @@ export const ENCOUNTERS: readonly ScriptedEncounter[] = [
     // Free. Costs nothing but the moment, and the moment is not a mechanic.
     onDeny: { note: script('grabHerMate').denyNote },
   },
+  {
+    // Early: it went midnight forty minutes ago and he has rehearsed this.
+    id: 'eighteenToday',
+    window: [60, 190],
+    archetype: 'fresh18',
+    dress(patron, rng) {
+      const s = script('eighteenToday');
+      baseDress(patron, rng, s);
+      clearContraband(patron);
+      patron.intoxication = intoxicationIn('sober', rng);
+    },
+    beats: beatsOf('eighteenToday'),
+    // No numbers either way. He is a clean legal admit and judge() already pays
+    // the ordinary rate; denying him is the conscience test judgeDeny narrates.
+    onAdmit: { note: script('eighteenToday').admitNote },
+    onDeny: { note: script('eighteenToday').denyNote },
+  },
+  {
+    // Kayden has been making promises again.
+    id: 'kaydensMate',
+    window: [120, 250],
+    archetype: 'punter',
+    dress(patron, rng) {
+      const s = script('kaydensMate');
+      baseDress(patron, rng, s);
+      clearContraband(patron);
+      patron.intoxication = intoxicationIn('tipsy', rng);
+    },
+    beats: beatsOf('kaydensMate'),
+    onAdmit: {
+      // Small and real: you honoured an authority that does not exist.
+      vibeDelta: -1,
+      dazzaText: script('kaydensMate').admitDazza,
+      note: script('kaydensMate').admitNote,
+    },
+    onDeny: { note: script('kaydensMate').denyNote },
+  },
+  {
+    // The buck's straggler. Sober-adjacent, desperate to be present.
+    id: 'bigNightOut',
+    window: [180, 300],
+    archetype: 'punter',
+    dress(patron, rng) {
+      const s = script('bigNightOut');
+      baseDress(patron, rng, s);
+      clearContraband(patron);
+      // 'loose' on two lemonades and a recovery: the tells are real even if his
+      // story is true. RSA does not care about the wedding.
+      patron.intoxication = intoxicationIn('loose', rng);
+    },
+    beats: beatsOf('bigNightOut'),
+    onAdmit: {
+      // The floor prices a loose admission already (judge ripen); this is the
+      // chant getting his name in it.
+      vibeDelta: 1,
+      note: script('bigNightOut').admitNote,
+    },
+    onDeny: { note: script('bigNightOut').denyNote },
+  },
+  {
+    // Engaged tonight, still holding hands, fully briefed on the rule.
+    id: 'twoOfThem',
+    window: [240, 345],
+    archetype: 'punter',
+    dress(patron, rng) {
+      const s = script('twoOfThem');
+      baseDress(patron, rng, s);
+      clearContraband(patron);
+      patron.intoxication = intoxicationIn('tipsy', rng);
+      // A live noHandHolders breach the whole window (the rule survives the cap
+      // from 200 onward). judge() prices the admit; the beats price the deny.
+      patron.flags.handHolding = true;
+    },
+    beats: beatsOf('twoOfThem'),
+    onAdmit: { note: script('twoOfThem').admitNote },
+    onDeny: { note: script('twoOfThem').denyNote },
+  },
 ];
 
 for (const id of Object.keys(ENCOUNTER_SCRIPTS)) {
@@ -268,21 +349,19 @@ for (const id of Object.keys(ENCOUNTER_SCRIPTS)) {
   }
 }
 
-// scheduleEncounters must never move an encounter outside its own window, so the
-// windows themselves have to admit a legal layout for the WHOLE set — any subset
-// is strictly easier. Checked at load, where a bad window edit is a boot failure
-// rather than a night that quietly drops its third encounter.
-function assertWindowsSchedulable(): void {
-  let earliest = Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
-  for (const e of [...ENCOUNTERS].sort((a, b) => a.window[0] - b.window[0])) {
-    if (Math.max(e.window[0], earliest) > e.window[1]) {
-      throw new Error(`encounters: window for '${e.id}' cannot clear ${ENCOUNTER_SPACING_MIN} min`);
-    }
-    // Worst case: the previous encounter landed at the very end of its window.
-    earliest = e.window[1] + ENCOUNTER_SPACING_MIN;
+// With eight overlapping windows a whole-set worst-case chain no longer fits in
+// one night (that guarantee died when the table outgrew a single night, by
+// design — a week should not see the same four people). The load-time check now
+// guards each window's own sanity; the scheduler handles infeasible DRAWS by
+// skipping the pick (a 2-encounter night beats a crashed one).
+function assertWindowsSane(): void {
+  for (const e of ENCOUNTERS) {
+    if (e.window[0] >= e.window[1] || e.window[0] < 0 || e.window[1] > 350) {
+      throw new Error(`encounters: window for '${e.id}' is not a usable night interval`);
     }
   }
-assertWindowsSchedulable();
+}
+assertWindowsSane();
 
 export function encounterById(id: EncounterId): ScriptedEncounter | undefined {
   return ENCOUNTERS.find((e) => e.id === id);
@@ -297,28 +376,61 @@ export function encounterById(id: EncounterId): ScriptedEncounter | undefined {
 export function scheduleEncounters(
   rng: RngStream,
   count: number,
+  /** Encounter ids already met this run — a week should meet new people first. */
+  exclude: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(),
 ): Array<{ atMin: number; id: EncounterId }> {
   const wanted = Math.min(Math.max(0, Math.floor(count)), ENCOUNTERS.length);
   if (wanted === 0) return [];
 
-  const pool = [...ENCOUNTERS];
-  for (let i = pool.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
+  const shuffle = (arr: ScriptedEncounter[]): ScriptedEncounter[] => {
+    for (let i = arr.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
       const j = rng.int(0, i);
-    const a = pool[i]!;
-    pool[i] = pool[j]!;
-    pool[j] = a;
+      const a = arr[i]!;
+      arr[i] = arr[j]!;
+      arr[j] = a;
+    }
+    return arr;
+  };
+
+  // Fresh faces first; once the run has met everyone, repeats are honest
+  // (a regular being a regular), so the excluded set tops the pool back up.
+  const fresh = shuffle(ENCOUNTERS.filter((e) => !exclude.has(e.id)));
+  const met = shuffle(ENCOUNTERS.filter((e) => exclude.has(e.id)));
+  const pool = [...fresh, ...met];
+
+  // Three passes, so a random draw can never strand a later pick:
+  //  1. end-order greedy at the EARLIEST legal minute — anything that fails
+  //     here genuinely does not fit tonight and is dropped (a 2-encounter
+  //     night beats a crashed one);
+  //  2. a backward pass computing each survivor's latest SAFE minute (its own
+  //     window end, capped by the next pick's latest minute less the spacing);
+  //  3. a forward pass drawing the actual minute inside [earliest, latestSafe]
+  //     — random where there is room, exact where there is not.
+  const chosen = pool.slice(0, wanted).sort((a, b) => a.window[1] - b.window[1]);
+
+  const placed: ScriptedEncounter[] = [];
+  let probe = Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
+  for (const e of chosen) {
+    const lo = Math.max(e.window[0], probe);
+    if (lo > e.window[1]) continue;
+    placed.push(e);
+    probe = lo + ENCOUNTER_SPACING_MIN;
+  }
+
+  const latest: number[] = new Array(placed.length);
+  for (let i = placed.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+    const cap = i === placed.length - 1 ? Infinity : latest[i + 1]! - ENCOUNTER_SPACING_MIN;
+    latest[i] = Math.min(placed[i]!.window[1], cap);
   }
 
-  // Placed in window order, each pushed clear of the one before. Because the
-  // windows are staggered wider than the spacing (asserted above), the lower
-  // bound can never overrun a window's end.
-  const chosen = pool.slice(0, wanted).sort((a, b) => a.window[0] - b.window[0]);
   const out: Array<{ atMin: number; id: EncounterId }> = [];
   let earliest = Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
-  for (const e of chosen) {
-    const atMin = rng.int(Math.max(e.window[0], earliest), e.window[1]);
+  for (let i = 0; i < placed.length; i++) {
+    const e = placed[i]!;
+    const lo = Math.max(e.window[0], earliest);
+    const atMin = rng.int(lo, Math.max(lo, latest[i]!));
     out.push({ atMin, id: e.id });
     earliest = atMin + ENCOUNTER_SPACING_MIN;
   }
-  return out;
+  return out.sort((a, b) => a.atMin - b.atMin);
 }

src/scenes/door/DoorScene.ts

@@ -102,7 +102,12 @@ export class DoorScene extends Phaser.Scene {
   }
 
   create(): void {
-    this.queue = new QueueManager(this.night.bus, this.night.rng, this.night.nightDate);
+    this.queue = new QueueManager(
+      this.night.bus,
+      this.night.rng,
+      this.night.nightDate,
+      this.night.seenEncounters,
+    );
     this.up = new PatronUpView(this, UP_X, UP_FOOT_Y);
     this.idCard = new IdCardView(this, this.night.nightDate);
     this.sobriety = new SobrietyModal(this);

src/scenes/door/NightScene.ts

@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ export interface NightContext {
   beatIntervalMs: number;
   scheduleDeferred(hits: readonly DeferredHit[]): void;
   reportQueue(length: number): void;
+  /** Scripted encounters this RUN has already met (cross-night repeat gating). */
+  seenEncounters: readonly string[];
   /** Door/Floor ask to move the player; the night decides and flips the scenes. */
   requestLocation(loc: 'door' | 'floor'): void;
 }
@@ -201,6 +203,13 @@ export class NightScene extends Phaser.Scene {
       }),
       this.bus.on('radio:call', () => this.sfx?.play('radioChirp')),
       this.bus.on('incident:log', (inc) => {
+        if (inc.kind === 'encounter' && inc.detail.includes(':')) {
+          // The door logs encounters as "<id>: let in/turned away" — the id is
+          // what gates repeats across the week.
+          const encId = inc.detail.split(':')[0]!;
+          const seen = (this.run.seenEncounters ??= []);
+          if (!seen.includes(encId)) seen.push(encId);
+        }
         if (inc.kind === 'maggotUnhandled') {
           this.maggotLive = true;
           if (this.state.location === 'door') this.maggotRadio();
@@ -227,6 +236,7 @@ export class NightScene extends Phaser.Scene {
       reportQueue: (length) => {
         this.queueLength = length;
       },
+      seenEncounters: this.run.seenEncounters ?? [],
       requestLocation: (loc) => this.setLocation(loc),
     };
 

src/scenes/door/QueueManager.ts

@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ export class QueueManager {
     private readonly bus: EventBus,
     private readonly rng: SeededRNG,
     private readonly nightDate: Date,
+    /** Encounters already met this run — the scheduler prefers new people. */
+    seenEncounters: readonly string[] = [],
   ) {
     this.arrivalRng = rng.stream('arrivals');
     this.coupleRng = rng.stream('couples');
@@ -117,7 +119,11 @@ export class QueueManager {
       this.listRng,
       this.listRng.int(8, Math.min(14, ENCOUNTERS.length + 12)),
     );
-    this.pendingEncounters = scheduleEncounters(this.encounterRng, QUEUE_TUNING.encountersPerNight);
+    this.pendingEncounters = scheduleEncounters(
+      this.encounterRng,
+      QUEUE_TUNING.encountersPerNight,
+      new Set(seenEncounters),
+    );
     // Somebody is ALWAYS at the rope when the shift starts. A game that opens on
     // an empty street reads as broken, however accurate a 9 PM lull would be.
     this.enqueue(this.make());

src/scenes/floor/FloorDemoScene.ts

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ export class FloorDemoScene extends Phaser.Scene {
 
     this.view = new FloorView(this, VENUE);
     this.cutOff = new CutOffOverlay(this);
-    this.patDown = new PatDownOverlay(this);
+    this.patDown = new PatDownOverlay(this, this.nightCtx?.sfx ?? null);
 
     this.promptText = this.fixedText(4, VIEW_H - 24, '#9fe8a0');
     this.statusText = this.fixedText(4, VIEW_H - 12, '#556');
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ export class FloorDemoScene extends Phaser.Scene {
     this.beat = null; // beat:tick arrives on the shared bus (stub, then TechnoEngine)
     this.meters = null; // NightScene owns the single writer
     this.hud = new MeterHud(this, this.bus, { initialHeat: this.night.heatStrikes.length });
-    this.stall = new StallOverlay(this, this.bus, ctx.beatIntervalMs);
+    this.stall = new StallOverlay(this, this.bus, ctx.beatIntervalMs, ctx.sfx);
 
     this.crowd = new CrowdSim({ map: VENUE, bus: this.bus, rng: this.rng.stream('crowd') });
     this.fights?.destroy();

src/scenes/floor/overlays/CutOffOverlay.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Phaser from 'phaser';
 import { renderDoll } from '../../../patrons/doll';
+import { drunkify } from '../../../ui/typo';
 import type { DrunkStage, Patron } from '../../../data/types';
 import { judgeEscalation, type EscalationResult } from '../escalation';
 import { ESCALATION_LINES, type EscalationLine } from '../../../data/strings/floor';
@@ -66,6 +67,8 @@ export class CutOffOverlay {
   private readonly replyText: Phaser.GameObjects.Text;
 
   private open_ = false;
+  private drunkenness = 0;
+  private drunkRng: { next(): number } | null = null;
   private stage: DrunkStage = 'sober';
   private holdMs = 0;
   private pending: EscalationResult | null = null;
@@ -146,6 +149,11 @@ export class CutOffOverlay {
     this.open_ = true;
 
     this.doll.setTexture(renderDoll(this.scene, args.patron, 'queue'));
+    // Their words wear their blood-alcohol. Deterministic per patron: a tiny
+    // LCG off dollSeed, so the same bloke slurs the same way every run.
+    this.drunkenness = args.stage === 'maggot' ? 0.8 : args.stage === 'messy' ? 0.55 : 0.3;
+    let lcg = (Math.abs(args.patron.dollSeed) % 2147483646) + 1;
+    this.drunkRng = { next: () => (lcg = (lcg * 48271) % 2147483647) / 2147483647 };
     this.whoText.setText(args.patron.archetype);
     this.lookText.setText(LOOK[args.stage]);
     this.showChoices(true);
@@ -186,7 +194,9 @@ export class CutOffOverlay {
     this.holdMs = HOLD_MS;
 
     this.showChoices(false);
-    this.saidText.setText(`"${result.line}"`);
+    this.saidText.setText(
+      `"${this.drunkRng ? drunkify(result.line, { drunkenness: this.drunkenness, rng: this.drunkRng }) : result.line}"`,
+    );
     this.replyText.setText(result.reply).setColor(OUTCOME_COLOUR[result.outcome]);
   }
 

src/scenes/floor/overlays/PatDownOverlay.ts

@@ -113,7 +113,10 @@ export class PatDownOverlay {
   private open_ = false;
   private found: string[] = [];
 
-  constructor(scene: Phaser.Scene) {
+  constructor(
+    scene: Phaser.Scene,
+    private readonly sfx: { play(name: 'clickerClunk'): void } | null = null,
+  ) {
     this.scene = scene;
     this.root = scene.add.container(0, 0);
 
@@ -438,6 +441,7 @@ export class PatDownOverlay {
     const p = this.pockets[t.pocketIndex];
     if (p === undefined) return;
     p.binned = true;
+    this.sfx?.play('clickerClunk');
     const itemId = t.itemId;
 
     if (t.root.input) t.root.input.enabled = false;

src/scenes/floor/overlays/StallOverlay.ts

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export class StallOverlay {
     scene: Phaser.Scene,
     bus: EventBus,
     private readonly beatIntervalMs: number,
+    private readonly sfx: { play(name: 'doorBang'): void } | null = null,
   ) {
     const t = (x: number, y: number, size: number, colour: string): Phaser.GameObjects.Text =>
       scene.add.text(x, y, '', { fontFamily: 'monospace', fontSize: `${size}px`, color: colour });
@@ -264,6 +265,7 @@ export class StallOverlay {
     const tick = this.lastTick;
     // No beat authority yet — swinging at silence shouldn't cost you a combo.
     if (!tick) return;
+    this.sfx?.play('doorBang');
 
     const grade = judgeBang(
       this.elapsedMs,

tests/encounters.test.ts

@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ describe('dress', () => {
 });
 
 describe('scheduleEncounters', () => {
-  const schedule = (seed: number, count: number) => scheduleEncounters(stream(seed), count);
+  const schedule = (seed: number, count: number, seen?: ReadonlySet<string>) =>
+    scheduleEncounters(stream(seed), count, seen);
 
   it('is deterministic for the same seed and count', () => {
     expect(schedule(31, 3)).toEqual(schedule(31, 3));
@@ -187,11 +188,35 @@ describe('scheduleEncounters', () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it('prefers people the run has not met yet, and never repeats within a night', () => {
+    const seen = new Set(['grabHerMate', 'quietBeer', 'lastNight']);
+    for (let seed = 100; seed < 140; seed++) {
+      const got = schedule(seed, 3, seen);
+      expect(new Set(got.map((g) => g.id)).size).toBe(got.length);
+      // Five unmet encounters exist, three slots: nobody already met appears.
+      for (const g of got) expect(seen.has(g.id)).toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to repeats once the run has met everyone', () => {
+    const seen = new Set(ENCOUNTERS.map((e) => e.id));
+    const got = schedule(7, 3, seen);
+    expect(got.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2); // repeats fill the night rather than emptying it
+  });
+
   it('handles 0, 1, and more than there are', () => {
     expect(schedule(41, 0)).toEqual([]);
     expect(schedule(41, -2)).toEqual([]);
     expect(schedule(41, 1)).toHaveLength(1);
-    expect(schedule(41, 99)).toHaveLength(ENCOUNTERS.length);
+    // Asking for more than a night can HOLD returns as many as legally fit:
+    // 8 encounters spaced 40 min apart no longer fit one night (the table
+    // outgrew it on purpose — a week should not meet the same four people).
+    const all = schedule(41, 99);
+    expect(all.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(6);
+    expect(all.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(ENCOUNTERS.length);
+    for (let i = 1; i < all.length; i++) {
+      expect(all[i]!.atMin - all[i - 1]!.atMin).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(40);
+    }
   });
 });