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Ranarama x Paradroid hybrid. Bare signal invisible to hardware, hunted by static; touch a machine for a picture-in-picture tune-to-lock duel while the world stays live; possessed bodies decay and double as ammo and disguise; gain=damage=noise aggro economy; eject leaves re-enterable husks; floor clear resolves the dissonant drone to a major chord. Vanilla JS + Canvas + Web Audio, no build step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# PARADRAMORAMA
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*Ranarama × Paradroid, finished properly this time.*
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You are a rogue **Signal** loose in a haunted studio complex. The hardware can't
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see you — you're just noise on the line. Static gremlins CAN see you, and they
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hunt signals. Touch a machine to invade it in a live pitch-matching duel (the
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world does not pause), wear its body while it decays, burn its weapons, and bail
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before it blows. Purge every amp and every machine on the floor and the drone
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resolves to a chord.
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## Run it
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Any static server from the repo root (ES modules won't load off `file://`):
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```
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python3 -m http.server 8474
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```
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then open http://localhost:8474
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## Controls
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| Key | Action |
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|---|---|
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| WASD / arrows | move |
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| touch hardware | start possession duel |
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| W / S (in duel) | tune your oscillator to the target tone, hold the lock |
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| SPACE | fire — **hold** to ride the gain (more damage, more noise) |
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| E | eject from the body (leaves a husk you can re-enter, no duel) |
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| P | pause · M | mute |
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## The loop
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1. **Bare signal** — fast, invisible to hardware, helpless. Static hunts you.
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2. **Duel** — bump a machine → picture-in-picture pitch-match under a timer
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while the room stays live. Static hits you mid-duel, you lose the duel.
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3. **Possessed** — the body is your health, ammo and disguise, and it is
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always draining. Firing drains it faster. Gain = damage = noise = every
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machine on the floor hears you.
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4. **Bail** — eject before it blows or eat coherence damage. Hide. Hunt the
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next host.
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Full design: [DESIGN.md](DESIGN.md)
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Prototype is vanilla JS + Canvas + Web Audio. No dependencies, no build step.
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