Phase 3 deliverables 1-4. The door now has something to read rather than a
checklist to tick.
The guest list clipboard shares the desk's left panel with Dazza's rules via a
tab, because there is no spare space at 640x360 and the tradeoff is honest:
checking a name costs you a beat of queue time. The mechanic is measured rather
than asserted — at the generator's real claim rates an exact match is a coin
flip, a near match leans legit, and no match leans liar. Owner's-mate patrons
now drop Terry's name, so the trap has a tell that isn't just confidence.
Scripted encounters (four, three a night) arrive ahead of the arrival curve and
speak in beats. Their consequences are real and the game never says which call
was right — no meter, no chime, no narrator.
The inspector reads as a boring punter; admitted, he converts any live breach
from a 3 AM audit finding into an immediate strike. Denied, nothing happens
ever. Verified in play: a night ended LICENCE PULLED with two of three strikes
his.
The incident report sits between the summary and the next shift. Filed accounts
go to pastReports so Phase 4 audits what the player claimed; NightScene no
longer dumps the raw truth there, which had nothing to catch anyone out with.
Also closes my own Phase-1 finding: judge() now reads intoxication and
contraband. Refusing someone who cannot stand up used to score identically to
refusing a clean punter, so the game's most legible signal was worth nothing.
That gap was also what made quietBeer's humane option secretly optimal on both
meters — the one thing design 4.3 forbids.
518 tests (was 413). Played a full 3-night run: all three nights reached 3 AM,
heat carried 1 -> 2 -> 2. The Phase-1 economy findings are all still true and
this lane did not change them — vibe pinned at 97-98 every night and aggro sat
at 0. Details in LANEHANDOVER.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
