A contact sheet, and the luminance ceiling the pipeline never had

127 sprites had been generated and about eight had ever been looked at. The
pipeline will happily render the wrong object, confidently and well-lit, and no
assertion can tell — barrier and flightCase are both "a grey box with edges" as
far as any test goes. tools/gen/contact_sheet.py puts every shipped sprite on one
page at integer upscale on the venue's own floor colour. It immediately showed
about twenty props reading as pale blobs.

First instinct was that the vertex baker had lost the albedo. That was wrong:
sat=0 on ashUrn, marbleSink and pillar is honest, because stainless and marble
and concrete really are grey. The fault was BRIGHTNESS. Props that read sit at
median luminance 23-123 (patioHeater 23, arcade 45, poolTable 53, cdj 68); the
blobs were 150-190. The venue is painted at ~35 under a 50% black sheet and props
are lit by the room's own LIGHTS, so a prop arriving at 180 doesn't read as a
bright object — it reads as self-illuminated. Every prop that worked before
worked by accident of subject matter; the first pale subjects exposed the gap.

props_import --dim scales RGB until median opaque luminance is <=110. Only ever
darkens, so anything already in band passes through untouched. Fixed 48 sprites
with no regeneration at all — the 512px Blender renders were still in
art_incoming, which is exactly why that directory is kept.

Also: poster7 shipped with 29% of its pixels and poster9 with 42%, because the
near-black-to-alpha pass was eating the dark half of a dark poster. Posters are
rectangular plates on a wall, so 4-9 now keep their background and fill the frame.

And cf_flux --probe was reporting EXHAUSTED on an account with a full 10,000
neurons: the probe prompt was "a grey square", Cloudflare's safety filter refused
it as NSFW, and every non-429 fell through to SystemExit. A health check that
can't tell "refused" from "empty" will eventually call a healthy system dead.

Gate: lint clean, build clean, 821 tests passing.

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

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 node_modules
 dist/
+art_incoming/
+public/props/manifest.lock
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc

CLAUDE.md

@@ -29,6 +29,31 @@ by parallel "lanes" coordinated through files, reviewed by Fable.
   branch. An unpushed session didn't happen.
 - Remote is Gitea: `ssh://git@100.71.119.27:222/monster/not-tonight.git`.
 
+## Dev notes (venue expansion landed 2026-07-28)
+- **The ladder's four venues now have four different rooms** (`docs/VENUES.md`).
+  Layouts live in `src/scenes/floor/layouts/` (`theRoyal`, `elevate`, `room`);
+  **Voltage stays in `venueMap.ts`** so the others can import primitives from it
+  without an import cycle. A night picks its room from `NightContext.venue.id`.
+- Nothing about a room may be a module singleton any more. Props, lights, posts,
+  probes and the tile palette all hang off `FloorLayout`. `venueMap.VENUE/PROPS/
+  LIGHTS` still exist and are still Voltage's — they are the reference room, not
+  "the venue".
+- **Dev route `#floor:<venueId>`** boots the floor demo straight into one room
+  (`#floor:room`, `#floor:theRoyal`, `#floor:elevate`). Plain `#floor`/F = Voltage.
+- `tests/floor/layoutInvariants.ts` is the executable rulebook every layout runs:
+  perimeter, reachability, anchors on walkable tiles, posts not sealed, probes
+  reachable, props on-grid. Add a room, add it to `LAYOUTS`, it gets checked.
+- Asset generation is `tools/gen/` — `assets.py` is the manifest (one entry per
+  sprite), `run_batch.py` walks it, resumable, `--workers N`. **Cloudflare Workers
+  AI first** (10k free neurons/day, resets 00:00 UTC), falling back to MODELBEAST
+  `flux_local` automatically when the day's allocation is spent. Meshes use the
+  **512 tier + vertex baker** (`mb.FAST_MESH`): ~90s vs ~6min, and the difference
+  does not survive the downscale to 32px. Heartbeat: `~/.jobs/not-tonight-assets.json`.
+- `props_import.py` takes its sizes FROM `tools/gen/assets.py`, so sizes cannot
+  drift between the farm and the game. It locks `manifest.json` — parallel imports
+  used to lose entries to a read-modify-write race, which shows up as a prop that
+  is on disk but renders as a placeholder. `tools/gen/rebuild_manifest.py` repairs.
+
 ## Dev notes (Phase 2 landed 2026-07-19)
 - The game boots into the NIGHT (Thu→Fri→Sat run, saved). Controls: click the
   rope/verdicts at the door; click the venue doorway to step inside; on the

docs/SCENARIOS.md

@@ -70,10 +70,22 @@ Status: ✅ implemented · 🔜 next nibbles · 💡 backlog.*
 
 ## Systems worth a whole phase
 
-- 💡 **Venue 4 / ROOM boss week** (design §6): dress code re-randomises every
+- ✅ **Venue 4 / ROOM boss week** (2026-07-21, first cut): fourth rung on the
-  15 in-game minutes; dialogue rendered as lip-read guesses under the loudest
+  ladder (promotes from Elevate). No Dazza rule chronology — the board IS the
-  mix arc.
+  law and re-randomises every 15 in-game minutes (3 rules per window, seeded,
-- 💡 **The DJ shift** (role ladder): the booth is built, the engine's mix is
+  with a toast on the turn); every rope line renders as bracketed lip-read
-  already externally scriptable — requests at the booth, energy management.
+  guesses (`[FIST? LIST?]`) because the techno ate the dialogue. 60 licensed,
-- 💡 **Bartender shift**: the bar geometry and RSA scoring already exist;
+  1.2 arrival scale, inspector working, crowd of heads and VIP-claimers.
-  pour-and-cut-off from the other side of the counter.
+- ✅ **The DJ shift** (2026-07-20, first cut): E at the booth hands you the decks
+  while the resident steps out. B pulls the bass (the room leans in); SPACE
+  drops, judged against the LIVE bar line (clean/late/clang — early and late
+  are the same offence); requests arrive at the booth glass with per-request
+  odds ("got any dnb", nan's song, the DUN DUN one) and three answers that all
+  cost something. A build held too long runs out of stairs. Movement locks
+  while you hold them; the floor and the door keep happening without you.
+- ✅ **Bartender shift** (2026-07-21, first cut): E at the till hands you the
+  taps (movement locks; the floor keeps happening). Orders arrive as choices —
+  the order line degrades with the patron's stage (the spelling IS the sobriety
+  test) — SERVE / WATER / CUT OFF all legal, all priced. Serving messy/maggot
+  is the RSA breach: the vibe pays up front, and 35% of the time somebody with
+  a lanyard saw it (ONE deferred write-up per night, deduped by reason).

docs/SPACES.md

@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ fleet's asset factories. Written 2026-07-20. Code contract: everything lands
 behind data tables (`venueMap.PROPS` / `LIGHTS`) and a sprite drop-in convention —
 generated art replaces placeholders with zero code changes.*
 
+> **Superseded in part, 2026-07-28 — see [VENUES.md](VENUES.md).** This document
+> describes ONE venue floor, which is what the game had when it was written. The
+> venue ladder now has four distinct rooms, and props/lights/posts/probes hang
+> off a per-venue `FloorLayout` rather than the module singletons named below.
+> The pipeline sections (§4 sprite drop-in, and the settled prop pipeline at the
+> foot of this file) are still exactly right and still the house rules — only
+> "the venue floor" in §2 is now specifically *Voltage's* floor.
+
 ## 1. Design principles
 
 1. **Darkness stays the mechanic.** Props read as silhouettes in ambient dark and
@@ -113,3 +121,42 @@ palette/density once.
 *(flux params for all [MB] jobs: `model flux2-klein-4b, steps 4`; put "no text,
 no lettering" in every prompt EXCEPT the posters, where mangled text reads as
 authentic gig-poster grot.)*
+
+
+## Prop pipeline — settled 2026-07-22 (A/B'd, not guessed)
+
+Two routes, both free and unlimited on MODELBEAST. Pick by object, not by habit.
+
+**[MB] flux direct** — `flux_local` → `tools/props_import.py`. Fast (~9s).
+Use for FLAT things: posters, decals, graffiti, signage, floor markings.
+
+**[GLB] TRELLIS → Blender** — `flux_local` (product shot) → `trellis2_mlx`
+(`asset_id` is a TOP-LEVEL job field, NOT inside `params`) → 
+`tools/glb_to_sprite.py <mesh.glb> <kind>` → sprite + manifest, headless, no
+GUI. Use for objects with real VOLUME: tables, fridges, machines, furniture.
+
+Why the split, from the A/B (same pool table, both routes): flux picks its own
+camera every generation — the same prompt style gave a perfectly top-down
+urinal and a front-on fridge in one batch, and mismatched camera angles never
+read as one room. The mesh route renders every prop from one fixed ortho
+camera, and TRELLIS carries detail flux flattens: worn felt, real pockets,
+rails and legs, clean alpha.
+
+**RAKE by object HEIGHT — and I had this backwards first time.**
+Low and wide (pool table, booth table, crate): **60°**. Tall (arcade, fridge,
+speaker, anything standing): **~76°**. The instinct to *lower* the rake for tall
+objects "so you see more face" is wrong — a tall object already shows nothing
+but face; it needs to be steeper to read as a floor prop at all. A speaker at
+55° is a featureless black slab.
+
+**Judge sprites at SHIP size, not render size.** A 512px render of a fridge from
+above looks ambiguous; the same sprite at 32x32 under the game's own point light
+reads fine, because the venue's LIGHTS do half the identifying work (the fridges
+carry a cyan glow, the arcade a flickering blue). Do not re-roll a prop off the
+back of the big preview.
+
+**The old guidance, kept because it is still true for low objects:** The venue's props are
+three-quarter top-down, not straight down. Re-rolled from directly overhead, a
+bar fridge is a grey rectangle — physically correct and visually dead, because
+the glowing bottles that say "fridge" are on its front. 60° keeps the top
+surface dominant while leaving enough face to identify the object at 32px.

docs/VENUES.md

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+# NOT TONIGHT — the four venues
+
+*Written 2026-07-28. The venue ladder in `src/data/venues.ts` has always been
+four venues; up to now they shared ONE floor map and differed only by difficulty
+knobs. This document is the design contract for giving each its own room.*
+
+## 0. Why bother
+
+Design §6 sells the ladder as *promotion* — survive a week, get a better door.
+But a promotion you cannot see is a number, not a reward. Walking into Elevate
+and finding The Royal's carpet under your feet undoes the fiction the whole run
+is built on. Each venue now has its own bar layout, its own dunnies, its own
+smoking area and its own DJ booth, because those four things are exactly what a
+bouncer actually learns about a room.
+
+## 1. Shared contract (all four)
+
+- **Grid is fixed at 80×45 tiles.** Venues differ by ARRANGEMENT, not extent —
+  the camera, minimap and bounds maths all key off `MAP_W`/`MAP_H`, and a
+  per-venue grid size would be a refactor with no visible payoff. A small venue
+  reads small by walling its unused grid to `void`, not by shrinking the array.
+- **Every layout exports a `FloorLayout`**: `{ id, map, props, lights, posts,
+  probes }`. Nothing else may be a module singleton — that was the old shape and
+  it is what made four venues impossible.
+- **Every layout must satisfy the same invariants** (`tests/floor/layouts.test.ts`):
+  1. every `AnchorKind` has ≥1 anchor, and every anchor is walkable;
+  2. all walkable tiles are mutually reachable (flood fill), except sealed
+     cubicle interiors, which must be reachable from their `StallDef.door`;
+  3. every `POSTS` entry is walkable and has a walkable neighbour (a post on a
+     sealed tile freezes the player for the night — this has shipped twice);
+  4. every `PROBES` entry has a walkable tile within reach;
+  5. no prop hangs off the grid.
+- **Materials are grain, the palette is hue.** `FloorLayout.materials` names a
+  generated plate per tile kind (`tex_carpet`, `tex_concrete`, …) and the baker
+  stamps it **tinted to the palette colour**. That is deliberate: an untinted
+  photo-real plate blows straight past the brightness band everything else was
+  tuned in, and the room stops being dark. Plates are 16×16 — the game's tile —
+  because at that size "carpet" is structured noise, which is also what pub
+  carpet looks like from head height. No plate named, or art not landed: flat
+  palette colour, exactly as before.
+- **The baked floor is keyed per venue** (`floor:tiles:<id>`). Textures outlive a
+  scene, so a single global key meant the first venue you played baked the floor
+  for every venue after it — you would survive a week at The Royal, get promoted,
+  and walk into Voltage still standing on the pub's carpet. It only shows on
+  promotion, which is precisely when the ladder is supposed to pay off.
+- **Light signatures survive** (SPACES.md §1): bar = amber, dance = pulsing
+  pink on the real beat, DJ = deep blue, toilets = flickering green, smoking =
+  cool blue, entry = venue pink. A venue may add ONE signature colour of its
+  own — Elevate's skyline gold, ROOM's sodium orange — and no more, or the
+  navigate-by-glow rule stops working.
+- **Darkness stays the mechanic.** No venue may be bright enough to scan from
+  the doorway.
+
+## 2. The Royal — "a dive with a dance floor"
+
+Licensed 80 · regulars and punters · nobody checks anything.
+
+A suburban Australian pub that had a dance floor bolted on in about 2004 and has
+not redecorated since. Patterned carpet, a horseshoe public bar, and the dance
+floor is plainly the least important thing in the building.
+
+| Space | What's in it |
+|---|---|
+| **Public bar** (horseshoe, west) | the long counter, taps, till, keg stack, a TV showing the footy, bar fridges |
+| **Pool room** (north-west) | two pool tables, cue rack, a dartboard on the wall |
+| **TAB / pokies corner** (north-east) | bank of poker machines, TAB screens, stools, its own miserable light |
+| **Bistro** (centre-north) | bistro tables, bain-marie counter, the meat-raffle drum |
+| **Dance floor** (south-east) | small, an afterthought, one mirror ball, a jukebox on the wall |
+| **DJ corner** | not a booth — a folding table with a controller, beside the dance floor |
+| **Dunnies** (east) | a stainless TROUGH, two cubicles (one out of order), one basin |
+| **Beer garden** (south, open sky) | picnic tables, umbrellas, patio heater, butt bin — the smoking area, and the nicest room in the pub |
+
+Light: warm amber everywhere, green cone over each pool table, the pokies' own
+sickly blue, and the beer garden cool blue. No pink except the dance corner.
+
+## 3. Voltage — "valley institution"
+
+Licensed 110 · the tuning baseline · the inspector drinks here.
+
+**This is the existing map and it does not change.** It is tuned under the
+darkness sheet, its reachability is asserted, and every existing floor test
+targets it. It stays the default layout and the reference for the other three.
+
+## 4. Elevate — "rooftop, small room, big opinions"
+
+Licensed 70 · influencers and owner's mates · every second person is a VIP.
+
+The whole venue is outdoors, which makes the rain a design element rather than a
+yard-only effect. Small footprint — a third of the grid is sky. You arrive by
+lift, not off the street, so the entry is a lobby.
+
+| Space | What's in it |
+|---|---|
+| **Lift lobby** (west) | lift doors, a rope line, the stamp podium, one mirror |
+| **Cocktail bar** (north) | short backlit bar, no taps — bottles and a champagne bucket |
+| **VIP booths** (east) | banquettes behind velvet rope posts, low tables |
+| **Dance floor** (centre, small) | it is a terrace with a dance floor, not a club |
+| **DJ plinth** | raised, open, no booth walls — the DJ is on display |
+| **Toilets** (north-east) | two unisex cubicles, marble basin, enormous mirror |
+| **Terrace edge** (south + east) | glass balustrade, planters, the city skyline beyond |
+| **Smoking** | the whole roof is open air; a designated corner with a standing ash urn and heat lamps |
+
+Light: warm amber bar, cool blue-white terrace, deep blue DJ, and the venue's
+own signature — **skyline gold** spilling from the city card beyond the glass.
+
+## 5. ROOM — "no sign, no socials"
+
+Licensed 60 · heads and chancers · the board is the law.
+
+A concrete warehouse. No branding anywhere, because branding is how you get
+found. The sound system is the most expensive thing in the building by an order
+of magnitude and everything else is borrowed.
+
+| Space | What's in it |
+|---|---|
+| **Main floor** | concrete pillars, no booths, the crowd is the furniture |
+| **The stacks** | Funktion-One-style speaker towers + subs — huge, four corners |
+| **DJ booth** | low, central, facing the floor, no barrier — CDJs not turntables |
+| **Bar** (west) | a plywood plank on scaffolding, cans only, no taps, no till |
+| **Toilets** (north-east) | industrial, graffiti on every surface, three cubicles of which one works, a cracked basin, no mirror |
+| **Loading dock** (south, open sky) | roller door, pallets, a wheelie bin — this is the smoking area |
+| **Chill-out** (north-west) | two ruined couches under a single bulb |
+| **The board** | the rule board that rewrites itself (`shuffleDressCode`) — a physical prop by the entry |
+
+Light: almost none. Sodium orange over the loading dock (ROOM's signature),
+one flickering green fluoro in the dunnies, strobes on the floor, and the
+stacks' own power LEDs. This is the darkest venue in the game on purpose.
+
+## 6. Prop vocabulary added for these rooms
+
+Route per SPACES.md §"Prop pipeline": **[F]** = flux direct (flat things —
+signage, boards, screens, backdrops); **[M]** = product shot → TRELLIS.2 →
+Blender ortho render (things with volume). Rake follows the house rule —
+**60° low and wide, ~76° tall**.
+
+| Venue | Kinds |
+|---|---|
+| The Royal | `pokie`[M76] `tabBoard`[F] `bistroTable`[M60] `picnicTable`[M60] `trough`[M70] `keg`[M76] `dartboard`[F] `jukebox`[M76] `raffleDrum`[M60] `bainMarie`[M60] `tvSport`[F] `beerUmbrella`[M80] `ashtray`[M60] |
+| Elevate | `cocktailBar`[M60] `banquette`[M60] `ropePost`[M76] `planter`[M60] `balustrade`[M76] `djPlinth`[M60] `marbleSink`[M70] `ashUrn`[M76] `champBucket`[M60] `loungeChair`[M60] `liftDoor`[F] `skylineCard`[F] |
+| ROOM | `stackF1`[M76] `subBass`[M60] `plywoodBar`[M60] `rollerDoor`[F] `pallet`[M60] `wheelieBin`[M76] `oldCouch`[M60] `pillar`[M76] `ruleBoard`[F] `strobe`[M76] `smokeMachine`[M60] `cableSnake`[M60] `brokenBasin`[M70] `canStack`[M60] `cdj`[M60] |
+| Staff (set dressing, all venues) | `staffBartender` `staffDj` `staffGlassie` `staffSecurity` — all [M76] |
+
+Staff figures are PROPS, not patrons. The procedural dolls stay exactly as they
+are: `dollPlan` draws the specific items the dress code convicts on, so
+replacing patrons with pre-rendered art would make the convictions invisible
+(recorded in LANEHANDOVER, FABLE-SOLO-23). A bartender who never moves is set
+dressing and carries no mechanical weight, which is why she can be a sprite.
+
+Street plates (door scene, one per venue, [F], 640×176):
+`street:royal` `street:elevate` `street:room` — `street:backdrop` stays Voltage's.

public/props/manifest.json

@@ -1,24 +1,131 @@
 {
   "props": [
     "arcade",
+    "ashUrn",
+    "ashtray",
+    "bainMarie",
+    "balustrade",
+    "banquette",
+    "barFridge",
     "barShelf",
+    "barrier",
+    "beerUmbrella",
+    "binRound",
+    "bistroTable",
+    "boothLamp",
     "boothTable",
+    "brokenBasin",
     "buttBin",
+    "cableSnake",
+    "canStack",
+    "carpet",
+    "cctv",
+    "cdj",
+    "ceilingFan",
+    "champBucket",
     "cloak",
+    "cocktailBar",
     "crate",
+    "cubicleDoor",
+    "cueRack",
+    "dartboard",
     "deck",
     "discoball",
+    "dishwasher",
+    "distroBox",
+    "djPlinth",
+    "exitSign",
+    "fireExt",
+    "fireHose",
+    "firepit",
+    "flightCase",
+    "front_elevate",
+    "front_room",
+    "front_theRoyal",
+    "front_voltage",
     "glassRack",
     "glassStack",
+    "graffiti",
+    "handDryer",
+    "highTable",
+    "iceWell",
+    "jukebox",
+    "kebabShop",
+    "keg",
+    "liftDoor",
+    "loungeChair",
+    "marbleSink",
+    "mirror",
     "mixer",
+    "monitor",
+    "mopBucket",
+    "noticeBoard",
+    "oldCouch",
+    "pallet",
+    "patioHeater",
+    "picnicTable",
+    "pieWarmer",
+    "pillar",
+    "plant",
+    "planter",
+    "plywoodBar",
+    "pokie",
+    "poolTable",
     "poster1",
     "poster2",
     "poster3",
+    "poster4",
+    "poster5",
+    "poster6",
+    "poster7",
+    "poster8",
+    "poster9",
+    "raffleDrum",
+    "rollerDoor",
+    "ropePost",
+    "ruleBoard",
+    "sandwichBoard",
     "sinkRow",
+    "skylineCard",
+    "smokeMachine",
     "speaker",
+    "stackF1",
+    "staffBartender",
+    "staffChef",
+    "staffCleaner",
+    "staffDj",
+    "staffGlassie",
+    "staffSecurity",
     "stampPodium",
+    "stanchion",
+    "streetBin",
+    "streetLamp",
     "street_backdrop",
+    "street_elevate",
+    "street_room",
+    "street_theRoyal",
+    "strobe",
+    "subBass",
+    "tabBoard",
     "taps",
-    "till"
+    "taxi",
+    "tex_brick",
+    "tex_carpet",
+    "tex_concrete",
+    "tex_deck",
+    "tex_looTile",
+    "tex_parquet",
+    "tex_paving",
+    "tex_plaster",
+    "tex_steel",
+    "tex_timber",
+    "till",
+    "topiary",
+    "trough",
+    "truss",
+    "tvSport",
+    "urinal",
+    "wetFloor",
+    "wheelieBin"
   ]
 }