The rules of the field changed while nobody was flying.

what changed

The tape names every ambush that fired and who laid it, so mischief is a scored game now.

game within

XVIIIchapterv18David Friedrich07 August 2026 · 18:00

painted for this chapter

what happened

The black box stopped being blind to the other pilots. A tape names every ambush that fired, whose it was, which wave it came on, and whether the pilot flew out the other side - so laying a good trap is a scored game now instead of anonymous mischief.

landed as “The tape remembers who ambushed you”

the numbers

the commit, drawn

1 sector on the scan, drawn as the thing it is; the heavy one is src/game/blackbox.js.

meanwhile

While v18 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “The reader spools the ambush reel out loud” — 07 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: tools/blackbox.sh gains an ambush-reel verdict (events field of new tapes, absent on old ones) and the blackbox skill ranks the reel - the board line names the trap that ended a run, the flight log names every event with author and outcome.

Drop a coin in this one: git checkout b0ffdf83