The pot of oil, from the atlas: oil is the fear mechanic and the double
fry is the physics, not the flavour text. Cold oil soaks (grease). Hot
oil seals — and the seal is REAL: past ~0.8 gold the crust shuts and the
inside stops listening, so one screaming-hot fry gives you 'firm in the
middle — the seal beat the cook'. The honest path is the card's path:
blanch in the shimmer until fluffy, REST on the rack while the steam
escapes (dryness is what golds — the oil spends it, the rack rebuilds
it), then back in HOT for the colour. The basket knocks the oil down a
full degree when it lands, because thermal mass does not care about
your schedule.
THE SPIT is the knuckle lesson with a floor: raw chips in oil past 8.4
throw it back, and a spit only burns the hand PARKED OVER THE POT — the
pointer is your hand, and standing back costs nothing. The judge's row
reads 'it spat 13 times; you did not flinch' or names exactly what the
hovering cost you.
First cut had two dead spots the adversarial pass caught: the seal was
too weak (a single hot fry still cooked through for 9.1) and the spit
window was unreachable (the basket-knock kept the oil under SPIT_AT for
the whole raw phase). Rebalanced: seal 1.25x, gold rate up, spit at 8.4.
Verified: double-fry 10.0 ('proper gold · fluffy inside · dry. drained.
correct · 2 fries — as the card says'); one-hot-fry-hand-hovering 7.6
with 13 burns. Day 24 on the card, procedural arm, ghost demo slot 24,
hero_chips on the scorecard, Ray's portrait already on the ticket.
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John's spec from the atlas, honored verbatim: the basket is a small 2D
tray and ARRANGEMENT is the skill. Six wings arrive DUMPED in a pile;
every piece wants a clear gap to breathe (Clark–Evans inverted — the
same spacing statistics that reward an even topping spread here reward
margins). Smothered wings brown slow and keep a PALE face the judge can
see; steam is a LOCAL sin — a corner pile in an empty tray still steams
(the first cut used global fill fraction, which six wings could never
trip; the adversarial pass caught the dead mechanic and the smother
statistic replaced it). The drawer pauses the cook and bleeds the heat —
hovering costs. The SHAKE is the egg-crack grammar: hold F, release; a
sane charge turns the pale faces to the wind, a full-send puts five
wings on his floor and the corner eye goes horrified.
New station, full rails: sim/airfryer.ts (pure, seeded), the top-down
scene with the sliding basket (snap-out on reset — a stale docked tray
was eating the demo's opening drags), judgeAirfryer (THE CRISP golden
band / THE TURN pale faces / THE AIR steam / THE COUNT floor wings),
day 23 on the card with the cursed recipe card, a procedural endless
arm, fan-whir foley that dies when the drawer opens, ghost demo slot 23,
and the wing man's portrait (high-five not coming).
Verified: honest lattice play 9.5 twice back-to-back; the lazy pile
3.6 ('a steamer wearing a fryer badge', raw, never shaken); full-charge
shake loses 5 of 6 with the horrified eye.
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Six blurred backdrops off the FLUX lane — dusk backyard for the grill,
copper-hung splashback for the pan, steaming stockpot shelf for the
poach, butcher's tile for the steak board, pantry shelves for the eggs,
steel cold room for the fridge — and a lesson in frustums for their
integration. A far wall plane (the kitchen splashback trick) is
invisible to these stations' pitched-down cameras: at 45 degrees of
downward tilt nothing above the horizontal ever enters the frame. So
the art ships as the scene BACKGROUND instead — screen-space, swapped
in on enter() and restored on exit() — and the oversized 24x12 bench
slabs that covered every pixel shrank to real bench size so the room
can peek around them. The stations went from furniture in fog to
furniture in a kitchen.
Mechanics untouched by the slab diet — the drag planes are infinite
THREE.Planes, not the meshes: grill/pan/fridge/steak drivers all pass.
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Twenty-two assets off the Cloudflare FLUX lane (scripts/gen-art-batch.sh
— idempotent, fixed seed per character, ~5s each, barely a dent in the
10k daily neurons):
- Thirteen regulars on their tickets, clipped into the corner like a
loyalty card photo: Deidre's floral cardigan, Ray's flat cap, the
child on tiptoes with a fistful of coins, the bloke from two doors
down in his dressing gown, the delivery mid-yawn at 6am, the lunch
rush as three impatient torsos, the pavlova order in her pearls. The
inspector's ticket uses his own portrait; a name with no face made
simply shows no frame (onerror removes it).
- THE MOTHER's jar rendered in all three states on the title button:
bubbling over the rim, sulking under grey liquor, and dead with a
tiny white surrender flag planted in the crust.
- Six dish heroes on the scorecard beside the ask: the skewers, the
pan, the sliced rib eye, the whites bowl, the poached egg mid-drip,
the benedict.
Verified live: pavlova portrait on day 20's ticket, benedict table on
21's, jar_sulking at gap 3, hero_eggs on the eggs scorecard.
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Five moods generated on the Cloudflare Workers AI FLUX lane (10k free
neurons a day — scripts/cf-flux.py is the tap): a gaunt man in a black
three-piece suit, burgundy scarf, small round glasses, tiny notebook and
fountain pen, same claymation family as the judge and unmistakably not
him. Fixed seed, expression-only prompt deltas, so he is the same figure
across all five — the horrified one recoils mid-note, the impressed one
wears the small smile of a man betrayed by a good meal.
The grayscale filter is gone: the scorecard and the corner eye both
route by critic day (critic_* / judge_* prefix), demos and dailies stay
the judge's own. Also fixed 'the the count betrayed you' — his rows
already start with THE and he would never stammer in print.
Verified live: day 20 corner eye critic_neutral, scorecard
critic_impressed at 10.0 and critic_disappointed at 4.9 (C stamp, his
lines), day 21 back to the judge everywhere.
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Dice show the criss-cross (drawn 1.6x true size — honest proportions
vanish against the board at game camera distance); wedges explode 0.28
from center so gaps and uneven angles read. Slices keep the fan. Plus
scripts/deploy.sh (partly.party/toastsim, cratewars pattern) — pending
an ssh permission grant to run the final docker cp step.
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- button_mushroom / portobello / king_oyster in the ingredient cast:
slippery skins (0.55-0.8, the tomato treatment), soft flesh, portobello
gills layered and weeping; new 'mushroom' cap-and-stem silhouette.
- Verified via harness: dinner knife pressed on a button skates (1 slip,
cut lands 0.157 off-aim; tomato baseline 2 slips / 0.218), The Best
Thing bites clean through under the same press, sawing properly cuts
center with zero slips.
- gen-assets.sh: find MODELBEAST at ~/MODELBEAST, token from
backnforth/.env, MB_HOST to the m3ultra queue; every mb stage retries
10x with 60s pause because m4pro's venvs are gone (ponytail-marked,
remove when m4pro is healed).
- launch.json: port 5273 (5173 taken by another session's server).
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Played end-to-end via the extended harness (t.start/day/pick/slice):
- Day 9 knife trip: bread_knife dragged above the rim, 0.45s dwell commits.
- Clean doorstop (bread knife, 0.05 u/frame): 5 strokes, wedge 0, squash 0.
STROKE_GAIN 0.16 -> 0.10 to hit the 4-6 deliberate-stroke feel.
- The Best Thing: 3 strokes, and the same wobble input that wedges the bread
knife to 0.299 only reaches 0.044 — nearly wobble-proof, as specced.
- Coupling: wobbled cut toasts at browning stdev 0.088 vs 0.071 clean, same
mean — 'a bit wedged' band (>0.18) confirmed in the Cut criterion.
- Slam cut (0.4 u/frame): squash 1.0, arrives pre-damaged (damage 0.02 pre-toast).
- Soup spoon siege: 17 strokes / 166 frames, miserable but possible.
- Brands: quality now drives heat-noise amp (0.12+0.42*(1-q)) AND blotch
frequency (3+3*(1-q)); WONDERSLICE visibly patchier than Crustworthy at 10s.
- Slicer visuals: cut seam deepens with progress; freed slice tips off the
loaf and lands crumb-up (doneTimer 0.7 -> 1.05 for the fall).
- gen-assets.sh: retry-once per stage (rsync flakes), bakery seeds bumped,
prep-bench cast queued ($1 prep).
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M10 (code-complete, verification pending — see OPUS-BUILD-BRIEF-2.md §2):
- Brands with mechanical quality (WONDERSLICE 0.25 vs Crustworthy 0.8 etc.):
quality scales heat-map patchiness and crumb fragility. Bakery sourdough is
loaf-only.
- Slicing minigame: aim thickness, saw with vertical strokes; progress/wobble/
squash; wedge slices brown unevenly in the toaster (the bad cut follows you);
squash arrives as pre-existing damage.
- Bread Knife + THE BEST THING (heavy, soft-scalloped, saw eff 1.65) join the
drawer; on loaf days the drawer trip happens BEFORE toasting ("they are
waiting") and whatever you fish out is what you slice with.
- Day 9 handwritten (the inspector wants a doorstop with parallel faces),
procedural brands/loaf days from day 10, The Cut criterion (band + wedge +
squash, TBT signature bonus), cut line bank.
- Verified so far: day-9 ticket chips, knife-trip drawer with bread_knife AND
the_best_thing present, timer label, typecheck + build. Slicer end-to-end
play, tuning, and couplings assertions are itemised in the brief.
OPUS-BUILD-BRIEF-2.md — the prep bench: generalized ingredients + cutting
(slip, juice, piece-evenness CV), the judged mess field, oranges + ribbed
pyramid juicer (halve evenness caps yield, seeds by juicer tier, the
Juicernaut), the grater (zest/pith line, cheese needs cold, knuckles), onions
(sting that blurs REAL vision, the stop-short-of-the-stem criss-cross dice),
and bruschetta as the capstone (temperature planning, roast tomatoes on the
browning field, topping Clark-Evans, the sog clock vs doorstop slices).
Bakery asset batch partially failed (flux errors + one lost GLB) — regen
instructions with retries are in the brief §8.
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The bread slice is the whole game's canvas, so it's built first and properly:
- Field: a 128x128 scalar field with bilinear sample, a mass-conserving brush,
self-levelling relax, and the masked statistics the judge will read.
- Slice: extruded loaf silhouette (domed top), planar-projected UVs so the sim
grid lines up with the bread, per-texel silhouette mask, and four fields
(browning/dryness/spread/damage) packed into one RGBA8 texture per frame.
- Custom shader: browning ramp with blotchy char, crumb/crust/inclusions,
spread wetting + opacity + thickness relief, gloss, gouge exposure, and
flat data views for the judge screen.
- bread.ts / spreads.ts: the archetypes and the rheology the difficulty
curve will live in.
- scripts/gen-assets.sh: reproducible fixed-seed asset generation through
MODELBEAST (flux_local -> bg_remove_local -> hunyuan3d_mlx). All on-device.
Legibility work that mattered: butter rendered invisible at first. Fixes were
a gamma-style wetting darkening (a multiply *brightens* pale crumb), a normal
perturbation taken in UV units rather than raw texel deltas (~30x too small),
and pulling the lighting back under 1.0 so ACES stops desaturating yellow to
cream.
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