THE CARD: the recipe stops being narrative and becomes law

The multi-cycle timer doctrine from the atlas, first station: the air
fryer's cursed card ('180° until colour · SHAKE · 190° to golden') is
now DATA — deg1, deg2, and a half-time shake — and the sim keeps the
ledger to judge it by: heat-weighted seconds at every knob position,
split into pre-shake and post-shake phases, plus the mean browning at
each shake so 'half-time' is a real place (0.15–0.5) and not a vibe.

A new row on the scorecard, The Card: 40% ran phase one at its degrees,
40% phase two at its, 20% shook in the window. Ignore it entirely and
the detail reads 'no shake. the card wept'; right temps but a mistimed
shake is its own sentence. Procedural wing days now deal varied cards
(170/180 into 190/200).

The best bug of the batch: the verifier caught MY demo driver setting
knob 8 for the finish — that is 200°, and the card says 190°. 'roughly
the card, squinting.' The judge was right and the demonstrator now
obeys: 'as written', 9.5/10.

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

src/dev.ts

@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ export function installDevHarness(app: App, game: Game): void {
       await F(33); // ~0.5 charge: firm, nothing jumps
       window.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keyup', { code: 'KeyF' }));
       await F(4);
-      s.knob = 8; // 190 to golden
+      s.knob = 7; // 190 to golden — the card is the LAW
       tap('Space'); // back in
       g = 0;
       while (mean() < 0.66 && g++ < 60 * 90) await F(1);

src/game/judging.ts

@@ -647,6 +647,32 @@ export function judgeAirfryer(r: import('../sim/airfryer').FryerResult, order: O
       weight: 1.1,
       detail: r.steamed > 2.5 ? 'that is a steamer wearing a fryer badge' : r.steamed > 0.6 ? 'crowded for a while — it shows' : 'every wing breathed',
     },
+    {
+      key: 'frycard',
+      group: 'fryer',
+      label: 'The Card',
+      ...(() => {
+        const deg1 = order.airfryer?.deg1 ?? 180;
+        const deg2 = order.airfryer?.deg2 ?? 190;
+        const k1 = Math.round((deg1 - 120) / 10);
+        const k2 = Math.round((deg2 - 120) / 10);
+        const near = (m: Record<number, number>, k: number) => (m[k] ?? 0) + ((m[k - 1] ?? 0) + (m[k + 1] ?? 0)) * 0.5;
+        const tsum = (m: Record<number, number>) => Object.values(m).reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
+        const p1 = tsum(r.preTime) > 1 ? near(r.preTime, k1) / tsum(r.preTime) : 0;
+        const p2 = tsum(r.postTime) > 1 ? near(r.postTime, k2) / tsum(r.postTime) : 0;
+        const halfTime = r.shakes.some((b) => b >= 0.15 && b <= 0.5);
+        const score = clamp01(p1 * 0.4 + p2 * 0.4 + (halfTime ? 0.2 : 0));
+        const detail = r.shakes.length === 0
+          ? 'no shake. the card wept'
+          : !halfTime
+            ? p1 > 0.7 && p2 > 0.7 ? 'right temps, wrong moment to shake' : 'shaken, but the temps ignored the card'
+            : p1 > 0.7 && p2 > 0.7
+              ? `${deg1}° then ${deg2}°, shaken at half-time — as written`
+              : p2 < 0.3 ? `never made the ${deg2}° finish` : 'roughly the card, squinting';
+        return { score, detail };
+      })(),
+      weight: 0.9,
+    },
     {
       key: 'frycount',
       group: 'bench',

src/game/orders.ts

@@ -119,8 +119,9 @@ export interface Order {
   /** Eggs benedict: toast the bread, then poach the egg and land it ON the
    *  toast — one plate, two crafts, one verdict. */
   benedict?: { fuel: string };
-  /** THE AIR FRYER: arrangement is the skill. The card is the law. */
+  /** THE AIR FRYER: arrangement is the skill. The card is the LAW — two
-  airfryer?: { count: number; card: string };
+   *  temperature phases with a shake between, and the judge checks the ledger. */
+  airfryer?: { count: number; card: string; deg1: number; deg2: number };
 }
 
 export const BROWNING_NAMES: [number, string][] = [
@@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ export const DAYS: Order[] = [
     butterSoftness: 0.5,
     who: 'the wing man',
     text: 'Six wings in the air fryer. If they touch, they steam — and warm is not fried. Give every wing its air, SHAKE at half-time for the pale faces, and count them out: what jumps the rack is mine to look at.',
-    airfryer: { count: 6, card: 'THE CARD: 180\u00b0 until they colour \u00b7 drawer OUT, SHAKE \u00b7 190\u00b0 to golden \u00b7 all six present' },
+    airfryer: { count: 6, deg1: 180, deg2: 190, card: 'THE CARD: 180\u00b0 until they colour \u00b7 drawer OUT, SHAKE \u00b7 190\u00b0 to golden \u00b7 all six present' },
   },
 ];
 
@@ -539,7 +540,9 @@ function proceduralAirfryer(day: number, rand: () => number): Order {
     pickOf(rand, ['the wing man', 'the lunch rush', 'a regular', 'someone new']),
     `${count} wings, air-fried. Air between every piece, a proper SHAKE at half-time, nothing on my floor.`,
   );
-  o.airfryer = { count, card: `THE CARD: 180\u00b0 until colour \u00b7 SHAKE \u00b7 190\u00b0 to golden \u00b7 all ${count} present` };
+  const deg1 = 170 + Math.floor(rand() * 2) * 10; // 170 or 180
+  const deg2 = 190 + Math.floor(rand() * 2) * 10; // 190 or 200
+  o.airfryer = { count, deg1, deg2, card: `THE CARD: ${deg1}\u00b0 until colour \u00b7 SHAKE \u00b7 ${deg2}\u00b0 to golden \u00b7 all ${count} present` };
   return o;
 }
 

src/sim/airfryer.ts

@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ export interface FryerSession {
   steamed: number;
   /** Shakes that went badly (pieces out). */
   lostCount: number;
+  /** Heat-weighted seconds spent at each knob BEFORE the first shake... */
+  preTime: Record<number, number>;
+  /** ...and after it — the card judges the two phases separately. */
+  postTime: Record<number, number>;
+  /** Mean browning at each shake — 'half-time' is a real place. */
+  shakes: number[];
   rng: Rng;
 }
 
@@ -63,7 +69,7 @@ export function newFryerSession(count = 6, seed = 20260721): FryerSession {
       lost: false,
     });
   }
-  return { pieces, knob: 0, heat: 0, drawerOpen: true, seconds: 0, steamed: 0, lostCount: 0, rng };
+  return { pieces, knob: 0, heat: 0, drawerOpen: true, seconds: 0, steamed: 0, lostCount: 0, preTime: {}, postTime: {}, shakes: [], rng };
 }
 
 export function setFryerKnob(s: FryerSession, k: number): void {
@@ -113,6 +119,10 @@ export function fryStep(s: FryerSession, dt: number): void {
   const over = Math.max(0, smother - SMOTHER_AT) / (1 - SMOTHER_AT);
   const steamFactor = 1 - over * 0.85; // crowded = wet heat, no crisp
   if (over > 0) s.steamed += over * dt * heatN * 2;
+  // The card's ledger: where the heat actually went, phase by phase.
+  const k = Math.round(s.knob);
+  const bucket = s.shakes.length ? s.postTime : s.preTime;
+  bucket[k] = (bucket[k] ?? 0) + dt * heatN;
   for (let i = 0; i < s.pieces.length; i++) {
     const p = s.pieces[i];
     if (p.lost) continue;
@@ -147,6 +157,8 @@ export function shake(s: FryerSession, strength: number): { redistributed: boole
     p.y = Math.max(PIECE_R, Math.min(TRAY - PIECE_R, p.y + (s.rng.next() - 0.5) * 0.3 * st));
     p.pale *= 1 - st * 0.8; // the pale face turns to the wind
   }
+  const liveNow = s.pieces.filter((p) => !p.lost);
+  s.shakes.push(liveNow.length ? liveNow.reduce((a, p) => a + p.browning, 0) / liveNow.length : 0);
   s.seconds += 2;
   return { redistributed: true, jumped };
 }
@@ -159,6 +171,9 @@ export interface FryerResult {
   lost: number;
   served: number;
   seconds: number;
+  preTime: Record<number, number>;
+  postTime: Record<number, number>;
+  shakes: number[];
 }
 
 export function fryerResult(s: FryerSession): FryerResult {
@@ -175,6 +190,9 @@ export function fryerResult(s: FryerSession): FryerResult {
     lost: s.lostCount,
     served: live.length,
     seconds: s.seconds,
+    preTime: s.preTime,
+    postTime: s.postTime,
+    shakes: s.shakes,
   };
 }