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Spend it as you earn it
- JP buys raw stats, SP buys the skill tree. An unspent pile is wasted power.
Loading Cards
Every manual card shown on the /play load screen, rendered from
src/lib/manualCards.ts — the exact source the loader draws, so
this can't drift from what players see.
- Game bug · Booklet Health relic: the booklet says it increases total HP (design: +25% maxHP). It does nothing on equip today. bead 2611
Arc, 2026-09-08. Do NOT reword the booklet to match; the fix rides the balance retune.
- Booklet Run/flee is gone from combat entirely - no HUD button, no binding, no Running rules built, awaiting promote · develop (Combat HUD: remove Run button + widen End)
- Booklet Interrupt applies Stunned — the creature loses its next turn, not just its reactions built, awaiting promote · develop 2616
- Booklet Statuses tick and decrement at the END of the affected unit's turn (was the start) built, awaiting promote · develop 2616
- Booklet Status stacks make the same status easier to land again (QB-116) built, awaiting promote · develop
- Booklet A landed charged attack hits far harder than an ordinary one not built — owed by the game
- Cards Breaking a charge costs the enemy its next turn not yet live
12 text cards · 16 lines · 1 living-sprite card (6 possible characters)
Version history — what the game was at each content version
| Content | Version | Game at the time | Date | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booklet | 1.7.0 | 0.8.2693 | 2026-09-22 | Running removed from combat (owner: the mechanic was too buggy and was cut). Dropped the Running section, the Run row from the combat HUD table, and Run from the ';' / Circle bindings, which now read Cancel - Back only. Minor, not major: a mechanic's description changed; no chapter was added, removed or reordered. |
| Booklet | 1.6.1 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-08 | No prose change. Records which ahead-of-live items are built-and-waiting versus not-built, and opens a game-defects list for places the booklet is right and the build is wrong. |
| Booklet | 1.6.0 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-08 | Charging stated as a two-sided gamble: what the charging unit spends, what breaking it costs them, what landing it costs you, and that committing to break a charge puts you in reach of the rest of the room. Stagger bar documented as a readout of damage still required; Scan now says it names the exact figure. |
| Booklet | 1.5.0 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-08 | Retargeted at the Episode One design rather than the deployed build. Interrupt now costs the whole turn; statuses tick at end of turn (which removes the last-stack-acts-free behaviour entirely); the winding-up hint now states the payoff. |
| Booklet | 1.4.0 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-08 | Initiative trigger corrected, turn economy added, status-stacking model rewritten, combat log expanded with its figure, controller + battle speed added, Mother Slime reach 1→2, auto-save indicator, Cure vs Mugwort. |
| Booklet | 1.3.0 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-06 | Pre-review baseline: the booklet as it stood when the 0.8.2592 delta review began. Recorded retrospectively; earlier history predates versioning. |
| Cards | 1.2.0 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-08 | Winding-up card names both sides of the trade and points at Scan. |
| Cards | 1.1.0 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-08 | Winding-up-enemy card now states the payoff (a free turn) rather than arguing from what retreating costs. |
| Cards | 1.0.0 | 0.8.2592 | 2026-09-08 | Rewritten as short snippets from the booklet's Hints chapter. AP removed — it had been retired from the game while three cards still taught it. Cut to Episode One content. Cure corrected against Mugwort. |
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Equip what you find
- Gear in your bag does nothing until you put it on.
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Heal between fights
- Mugwort is your only healing item. The Cure skill restores more, and grows with your stats.
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A winding-up enemy is an opportunity
- Break its charge and it loses the next turn too — but you must stand in reach of everything else. Scan shows the damage needed.
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Crits are on your side
- Your crit chance beats most enemies'. Even fights swing your way.
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Use your favourite skills
- Skills grow with use. Lean on one and it becomes far stronger over a run.
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Take Counterattack early
- It answers the crowding most early fights are built on.
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Damage types
- Physical
- Physical
- Poison
- Magical
- Radiant
- Magical
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Status effects
- Poisoned
- Small damage every turn. Less likely to land hits, more likely to be hit.
- Blinded
- Much less likely to land hits, much more likely to be hit.
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The ground fights too
- Poison
- a chance to poison you each step
- Web
- cannot move, but can still attack
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Your turn
- One move and one action, in either order. You cannot split the move around the action.
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Where you fight
- No random encounters. The ground you were standing on becomes the grid.
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Living-sprite card
A random handcrafted sprite turns and swings, captioned with its role and blurb. Any of these can appear:
- Elias Paladin · Elf of Laria
- The windmill mechanic of Laria who never stopped believing the world is larger than the hills around him.
- Falmri Warrior · Dwarf
- A gruff old dwarf who remembers when dwarves lived openly among humans and elves, and the great roads were still open.
- Slime Enemy · The Waterway
- The bread-and-butter Waterway foe — no resistances, no tricks. The danger is numbers, not any single Slime.
- Eastwood Enemy · Episode Two
- — no blurb (name + role only)
- Spiter Enemy · Episode Two
- — no blurb (name + role only)
- Vepir Enemy · Episode Two
- — no blurb (name + role only)