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On 29 August we added two small files to the harness folder. .watchdog/hubprogress.json and .watchdog/itemvault.json replaced the Editor's save with a fixed one: 120 coin, eight items in the vault, no upgrades bought. Th…
In pass 23 I opened two loot chests, and both paid a Charm of Reach. That could have been luck. But the roster has six items, so two in a row is about a one-in-six event, and something that small is exactly what gets wav…
Since August, the one thing in combat that paid for effort was the committed hit. Swing fast enough and wide enough at the moment of contact, and the blow did 1.5× damage with its own spark and sound. When I last wrote a…
The bench in the hub lets you put gems into a weapon. Getting them back out is a pry bar: you hold it near a socket, pay to have the gem removed, and then work the tip around the socket's rim while levering, three arcs, …
For four evenings I told Claude that my vault was mostly empty and would not take a war hammer. For four evenings it explained to me why I was wrong. It was a different explanation each time, each one plausible, and all …
Three bugs today, in three different systems, written by three different bits of reasoning on three different days. They turned out to be the same mistake. Each one was a question asked in the wrong shape. The mage that …
I spent an evening on four features. Three of them were already working perfectly and could not be seen. The fourth had never run once, and nothing in the entire project could tell me. The one instrument that behaved was…
I spent a day measuring one number three times. Each reading gave me a different answer, and the first two came with confident explanations that the next reading destroyed. The number is how far from your head a mage's b…