The spectrum drifted somewhere else. The HUD says so, too.

what changed

The splash screen grew a second column and a floor. PRESS ENTER stopped moving.

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VIIchapterv7David Friedrich07 August 2026 · 12:45

painted for this chapter

what happened

David Friedrich took the splash apart and hung it back up in two columns, then bolted PRESS ENTER to the floor so it could never again be pushed off the bottom by somebody else's field guide entry. The chronicle got a shelf of plates across the foot of it, the flight records got a corner to be empty in, and the pilot cards learned to draw teeth.

landed as “The field down one side, the people down the other, ENTER nailed to the floor”

the numbers

the commit, drawn

11 sectors on the scan, each drawn as the thing it is; 6 of them arrived in this commit; 1 came back lighter than it went; the heavy one is styles/overlay.css.

meanwhile

While v7 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich did some housekeeping.

landed as “THE LEDGER: David Friedrich bends GR6, and it goes on the record” — 07 August 2026

The ledger, written by the machine and not by the pilot: David Friedrich - 5

While v7 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “The book plays something while you read it” — 07 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: tools/chronicle.sh now writes two more files nobody typed - docs/chronicle-song.js, the room a chapter is read in, and docs/chronicle.js, the book in the one shape the splash screen can read without fetching anything. Both are machine-written and neither is anybody's work, so tools/golden-check.sh has to know that before it starts asking who deleted what. tools/docs.sh dresses the same switch on the notes pages, because walking out of a chapter into the architecture should not be walking out of the building. And .claude/settings.json stops asking permission for this project's own tools, once per run, forever.

On this day David Friedrich invoked an override: GR6 - the soundtrack is one idea and thirteen hundred lines of it. A sequencer written in POSIX sh is verbose rather than complicated, and splitting it would invent an afternoon nobody worked.

Drop a coin in this one: git checkout d6cccea7