01:07: Check the jam submission kit is ready for the boss

01:07: Check the jam submission kit is ready for the boss

• Find what's written for the AI Browser Game Jam 5 entry: title, description, cover, screenshots, the 50% new-content statement. Check it against the jam's rules page and against what goes live at the 18 Oct daily (conditions, canisters, drones, terminals, logbook).
• Fix anything stale or missing, so the boss can paste it at 11:30Z without waiting on me.

03:07: Screenshots of what the 18 Oct daily switches on, for the jam page

• The kit's seven screenshots predate conditions, canisters, the drone and terminals. Take new desk shots of each on practice ships with the dev ?cond switch: a blackout with torchlight, the drone on its beat, a canister and a terminal's three jobs. Same size as the others.
• Put the best two near the front of the screenshot order, copy them to public/press/derelict/, deploy, and update the kit.

05:07: Check the new mechanics on a phone before they go live

• At 390x844 and 360x640 with the mechanics on (dev ?cond): the legend with O₂, DRONE and TERMINAL, the terminal's three job buttons, the title card's longer briefing, a blackout. Does the map still get enough of the screen, and does anything overflow?
• Fix what's broken in CSS only, test, deploy (the flags stay off until 11:07Z, so a CSS fix is safe to ship now).

07:07: Check the title card and the end screen on a phone with the new mechanics

• Jam raters on phones see the title card first and the end screen last. At 390x844 and 360x640 with ?practice&cond: does the title card's briefing fit, and does a finished run's end screen (route, medals, bounty, record, logbook, board) lay out without overflow? Fix in CSS only, test, deploy.

09:07: Rehearse today's ship with the mechanics on

• Before 11:07Z: build today's daily ship exactly as the daily script will, with the four flags on in memory only. What does it carry (condition, drone, terminal, canisters, survivor), is the bounty possible, can a plain greedy bot get out alive and how close to par? If the ship is unfair, find out now, not after the post.

11:07: The 18 Oct daily with the new mechanics switched on

• Set the four engine.ts flags true (lines 422, 425, 430, 435), tests and tsc, commit and push. Then run daily-host.sh in the background (it deploys, so nothing else touches git or credentials while it runs); npm run status and the Bluesky URL; check the live page has a condition, drone and the rest; rebuild and redeploy the itch zip; tell the boss they can paste the kit and submit.

13:07: Today's Derelict run as a video for the docent

• node scripts/media-daily.mjs 2026-10-18: a real capture of today's ship (blackout, drone, canister, terminal) to /media/, 1080x1920, no sound, 2 s tail, plus its claim JSON backed only by public pages. Watch it before handing it over.

15:07: Is the board taking runs on the first ship with the new mechanics

• The page and the board's judge must agree on every new rule, or real runs get turned away without anyone seeing it. Read today's board and the click counts (no test runs of mine on the public board): runs sent, runs ranked, any rejections. If the counts can't say, check the judge locally against a page-made run of today's ship.

17:07: Do people who open the VTT brief go on to generate a ship

• Read the events report: brief-vtt opens against generate-* and export events, by day, since the brief went up. If the brief leads nowhere, find where people drop (the brief page itself, or the editor after it) and fix the one step that loses them.
• Check the first Derelict counts from the pings shipped at 15:07.

19:07: Which pages bring the generating visitors, and is there one more like them

• From the sittings, list where each generating visitor came from (Google, the daily pages, the map pages, the deck-plan generator page).
• Search the queries those landing pages target and see where they stand. Find one query that is close to working, or one page that converts and gets no search traffic, and make one change to it (title, description, an internal link, or a missing page).
• No posts. Deploy only if a page changes; check it live.

21:07: Where the Owlbear extension listing stands

• Read PR #174 on the public GitHub API (no gh, no comment, no push): state, reviews, checks, last activity. If a reviewer asked for something I can fix in the extension or its listing files, fix it and say what the boss would need to push.
• If it's waiting with nothing asked, look for one more place outside our site that lists Owlbear or sci-fi VTT tools and could link to the Owlbear page, and write it down for the boss (no posting).

21:22: Answer the boss on the jam: what it is, whether they need to submit

• Read what's recorded (FACTS, LEARNED, app/store/ITCH-DERELICT.md) and the live jam page. Check whether an entry is already in, then tell the boss plainly what they'd do, by when, and whether it's needed.

23:07: Dry-run the boss's jam submission so it works the first time

• Walk ITCH-DERELICT.md as the boss will: every file it names exists (cover, 10 screenshots, the zip at its public URL), and the description matches the game as it runs today.
• Take the zip from its live URL, unpack it in an empty folder, and serve it from a host that isn't ours. Confirm the game loads today's ship through the CORS rule itch's host gets (curl with itch's Origin), at the 820x760 embed size and at phone width. Fix anything that breaks, and rebuild and redeploy the zip if needed.

Next

• 18 OCT DAILY (11:07Z): set engine.ts lines 422, 425, 430 and 435 to true (dry-run again 18 Oct 09:xx with the drone fix: 134/134 on and off). Run tests and commit, then the daily. Verify live, rebuild and redeploy the itch zip, then tell the boss they can submit. Then node scripts/media-daily.mjs 2026-10-18 for the docent.
• From 18 Oct: read brief-vtt against generate-* in events.sh (LEARNED 17 Oct, where the editor loses people).
• JAM THEME IS TORCH (17 Oct). Item 1 of the new half is a cutting torch: limited fuel, cut a sealed door or cut through a wall into the next room as a shortcut, a new move letter so replay stays exact, and a lit circle drawn around you. Size the fuel with the bot. Then a survivor and the rest below, fitted to torches where it's true to the game.
• JAM NEW HALF (from 17 Oct 03:00Z; the host wants 50% new content made during the jam, LEARNED 17 Oct). Don't let the boss submit until app/store/DERELICT-JAM-NEW.md clearly outweighs the pre-jam game, aiming for about 24 Oct so there is a week of votes. Candidates, theme permitting, biggest first: (1) a survivor aboard: some ships hold one crew member you can find and walk out (slower, uses air), worth more than any cache, and the logs say where they hid; (2) new ways the ship fights back: power cuts that hide the plan, venting rooms that push you, a door that only opens from one side; (3) four new causes of death, each with logs and room changes; (4) the leaderboard, only if the boss says yes. Fit it to the theme once it's out. Rewrite the step 5 devlog from the JAM-NEW list.
• Jam (17 to 31 Oct, submissions open 03:00Z today): the boss makes the itch page and submits, using /press/derelict. When the theme is announced, read it and work it into Derelict. Competition check on 25 Oct, target top 20.
• Leaderboard: asked the boss 16 Oct. It needs the Cloudflare token confirmed as rotated, or a KV namespace the boss creates. Build nothing until they answer.
• Daily run after 11:07Z if today's derelict is missing.
• AI Browser Game Jam 5 (17 to 31 Oct, https://itch.io/jam/ai-jam-5): a reason to start Derelict on 17 Oct instead of waiting for the 22 Oct decision. Bulkhead is shipped and for sale, so RULES allow app two. Put it to the boss; the boss would join the jam and submit the page.
• Fourteen Ships itch page: handed to the boss 15 Oct. Once it is live: check the page, add it to Bulkhead's page and the site, IndexNow. Compare its views against the free packs (16/11) on 22 Oct.
• 22 Oct, decision point (set 15 Oct): when the sale ends, read itch views, downloads and purchases. If Bulkhead still has 0 sales after the kits bundle and the Owlbear listing have had their chance, stop pushing it as the main work: keep the daily running, and pick app two. Pick it for a market where an AI-made tool is welcome (check each store's and community's AI rule before building), and with a channel that reaches buyers on day one.
• ROLL20 AND DRIVETHRU CLOSED (15 Oct): DriveThru Partners wrote that no standalone artwork "generated in whole or in part by AI" is accepted on any Roll20 or DriveThru marketplace, and that AI-touched titles must carry the Contains AI-Generated Content filter. The packs are made by AI-written code, so they do not go there in any form. Do not resubmit, do not change the Creation Method, do not send the drafted question. The seven drafts can stay in Drafts. The pack kits and store/roll20/ stay as they are (a possible itch bundle, see below).
• Re-plan the paid bet (16 Oct): itch (Bulkhead $9 on sale to 22 Oct, then $12) and the Owlbear store. Facts first: itch views and buys since the sale began, which pages bring the visits that become itch views (events by referrer, sittings). One candidate to weigh: put the ten ready ship kits on itch as a paid map bundle beside Bulkhead, stated plainly as procedurally generated by AI-written code (itch allows that when tagged; check itch's current AI disclosure rule first). No new free packs.
• r/starfinder_rpg is closed: the 15 Oct post was removed under Rule 4 (low effort). Do not ask the boss to message the mods or repost. The next Reddit ask is still not before 22 Oct, and it must read as a post for that sub's readers first (a question, a how-to, a free map), not as a product gallery.
• 22 Oct, after the itch sale ends: node scripts/set-price.mjs 9 12 --write, run the tests, deploy, and check status shows itch $12, site $12. Compare itch views and purchases for 15 to 22 Oct against the baseline (36 views, 3 downloads, 0 purchases).
• When the boss says pack 2 is submitted: take its press/r20 folder down (back it up to the scratchpad first), deploy, and check for 404. Then pack 3 (RSV Umber) the same way, one at a time, to stay under any weekly cap. The page generator is scratchpad/r20page.py; copy it to app/scripts/roll20-page.py if it gets used again.
• The itch page is fixed as of 15 Oct (no video, 3 screenshots, new sample, see-through line, devlog 1.19). From 16 Oct, watch itch views and purchases daily against the 15 Oct baseline (36 views, 3 downloads, 0 purchases), and look at the itch.io/devlogs feed and the referrers in itch analytics if the API shows them.
• When the boss says "devlog": check /bulkhead/devlog lists it, and that it shows on itch.io/devlogs or the tag pages. With each future release, write the devlog in the same turn and put it next to the upload task, so it doesn't get lost again.
• When the boss says "pictures": load the itch page at phone width with Playwright. Check there is no video, there are 3 screenshots with the ship first, there are 10 tags, and the see-through line is in. Then re-run the itch searches ("deck plan", "starship", "map editor") to see whether the new tags show us.
• After the boss posts task 12: read the thread logged out about 2 h and 24 h later, names masked. Draft answers only, nothing goes out without them. Log points and comments in LEARNED.
• Decided 15 Oct (boss asked how anyone pays): no new free packs or free giveaways. The daily derelict stays as the one free hook. Roll20 packs are the main paid bet (buyers already pay $4.99 there and never see our free things). The $12 editor stays, sold on what the free versions don't do: fleet, adventure PDF, print PDF, .dd2vtt, no watermark. The Owlbear extension stays free, as promised in its own text and to the store reviewer.
• itch is indexed (15 Oct). After the boss uploads 1.19: re-read the itch tags and the description's first lines for itch search, and add the see-through line.
• Check PR 174 in a few days: has the label come off, and has a review been requested?
• Next Owlbear panel change: bump manifest version (1.17.2) so the Rogue Store re-reads store.md.
• Ask the boss to post the reply on PR #174 (needs response label). Text is in the chat at 17:07. Put it first in the batch.
• Next lever is reach for the editor, not more Roll20 products: put this week's Reddit slot in the next batched ask (not stacked), after the GitHub token.
• Ask the boss for a new GitHub token (fine-grained, contents read/write on walkertbrown/bulkhead only), to go into .git-credentials. Then push the local commits.
• bulkhead-1.19.zip is built, passes paid-check and pack-check, and is deployed in the rel folder. Batch ask for the boss: on itch, upload 1.19 and delete 1.18 (or I give them the link). Once the uploads API shows 1.19, add the see-through line to itch-description.html for the boss to paste.
• Roll20 one-ship products: add a theme loop (#style: blueprint, dungeon/parchment, print) to roll20-pack.mjs. That's a scripts-only change, no src. 3 themes x GM/player x grid/gridless = 12 images per deck. A space or transparent background would need a src change: render.ts paints t.bg into the void and also uses it to erase hull edges, so it can't just be skipped. Do that after the daily, with tests.
• Roll20: pack 2 onward should be one ship per product ($4.99), with more variants: a space background, a transparent background, emergency lighting. Before building, check whether roll20-pack.mjs can get those from the editor. Give the boss a paste list of image names and tags in upload order. Ask the boss (batched): can image names and tags on a submitted product still be edited in Item Management?
• (done 13 Oct, pack 1 built) Roll20 first product: ships that aren't free anywhere, as good as the application samples. Render each deck at 140 px per square as JPG: GM labeled and player unlabeled, each gridded and gridless. Check that grid lines bisect walls. List each deck's size in squares for the uploader. Write the listing text with the code-drawn and AI-agent disclosure, and price it at least $4.99. Verify it in a real Roll20 page if the boss can (one ask, once it's finished). Then give the boss one link and paste-ready fields.
• The Roll20 batched ask (ticket #491430) is answered: approved. Drop it from the batch.
• 27 Oct: re-read sittings.sh since 2026-10-04T20:00:00Z for saves per web Generate sitting (13 Oct: 3 of 9), intro-pic sittings (13 Oct: 0) and desktop one-press exits (13 Oct: 2 of 6). Act only once there are 20 or more web sittings.
• Late October (Halloween, 31 Oct): a derelict one-shot angle for a Reddit slot after this week's, once the last post went okay (at most one a week). A GM on r/Starfinder2e wanted a ship for a Halloween one-shot. Draft it from the free adventure pages, facts checked, and give it to the boss as a choice. Landing page: /derelict-one-shot/ (RSV Greyling, horror tone, free 8-page PDF, 5 ft squares), checked live 12 Oct. Earliest slot: about 26 Oct, if a post goes out this week and went okay.
• r/starfinder_rpg DRAFT v2 (12 Oct, after Tech Core). Waiting on the boss to pick it over task 8. Not on /press/. Flair: Ad. Images: upper deck, then lower deck, from public/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/. - Title: "[free] ICV Halcyon Drift, a two deck ship map for tech core starship combat, 5 ft squares, png and foundry walls" - Line 1: "an ai agent built the tool that drew this ship, and it wrote this post. i'm the human who posts it." - Line 2: "tech core says every crew should make a starship map showing where each battle station is (p. 167), so here is a free one." - Line 3: "upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, galley, medbay, cargo, armoury, engineering and the drive. lower deck is a hold where something has been nesting in the crates, a machine shop, life support with pump 2 failing, and four escape pods, two showing green." - Line 4: "one way to place the stations: pilot's console and scanners on the bridge, generator in engineering, gunnery in the armoury and the cargo hold, drone console in the machine shop downstairs. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/starfinder-deck-plans/"; - Line 5: "free and cc0: a png and a .dd2vtt per deck with walls, doors and lights, a print pdf and the room key. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/"; - Line 6: "no image generator. the decks come from dice tables in code that runs in your browser. the editor has a free demo and a $12 full version, which is why it's flaired ad." - Facts checked 12 Oct: the p. 167 quote and the station names are from AoN (LEARNED, 12 Oct); the stations layout is word for word from the live /starfinder-deck-plans/; the files (2 png, 2 dd2vtt, pdf, key .md) are linked on the live map page; the rooms are from the key; sizes and lights are as checked on 6 Oct. Dropped the Foundry importer and sf2e detail to keep it short.
• 19 Oct: views of /starfinder-deck-plans/ and Starfinder queries in Search Console. If any appear, consider a battle station marker (pilot's console, gunnery, generator) in the editor (src, with full tests).
• About 10 Oct: once Tech Core is out, find whether its starship combat sets a scale or size for the ship battle map, or ships sample maps (reviews, Archives of Nethys). If it does, match /starfinder-deck-plans/ to it. 19 Oct: Search Console queries containing starfinder.
• This week's one Reddit slot, waiting on the boss: task 8 (r/FoundryVTT, already on /press/) or r/starfinder_rpg for Tech Core week (draft in plan/2026-10-05.md Next, verified 6 Oct 01:07). If they pick r/starfinder_rpg, put it on /press/ with one URL and copy-paste text, then read the thread back logged out 24 h later.
• 8 Oct: RUM against the pings again (visits.sh vs events.sh since 5 Oct). If RUM is still 0 while the pings have 10+ views, put one line in the batch: does the Web Analytics dashboard show visits after 4 Oct? Until then, count visits with events.sh.
• 6 Oct after the 11:07 daily: the first daily built by the lights-count script. Read its page's "carries …" line against its .dd2vtt light count.
• Batch ask candidate, after task 3 and task 1 (LEARNED, 5 Oct): FoundryMods. Ask the boss to sign in to foundrymods.com and say whether a module that isn't on foundryvtt.com can be added. If yes, list Bulkhead Deck Plans by its manifest URL. Facts only; it is an alpha site.
• 19 Oct: /foundry/ in Search Console (query,page filtered to foundry, --fresh). Its title changed on 5 Oct to lead with "Free sci-fi starship maps for Foundry VTT v14". It had no rows before the change. Re-inspect it too, so we know Google has crawled it since 5 Oct.
• From the texttotabletop read (LEARNED, 5 Oct): one search, one page, tied to a moment. Candidate for Tech Core week: put "Starfinder 2e" in /starfinder-deck-plans/'s title and h1, which is true (5 ft squares per the 2e Player Core, and the sf2e system was checked on 29 Sep), and say nothing about what Tech Core contains. First, at the 9 Oct inspect, see whether Google has the page at all. If it's still "Discovered", a title change won't matter yet. Don't write a blog-style page per topic until one page shows clicks.
• After r/starfinder_rpg (so the week of 12 Oct at the earliest), and only if task 8 didn't go bad on the AI line: an r/Star_Wars_Maps post (LEARNED, 5 Oct). [DECK PLAN] flair, or [Self Promotion] if it links the $12 page. One derelict's decks as PNGs with the size in the title ([WxH]), like the makers there do. AI line first; the creator's one rule is to say when AI is used. Second line: the maps come from dice tables in the page. Link a free map page, not the store. Not a Star Wars ship, and no Star Wars names. Before writing it, check the sub's sidebar again and look at the last 2 weeks of [DECK PLAN] posts.
• Foundry validation ran on 14.365 because foundry-validate.mjs runs on demo.foundryvtt.com, which is on that build. Stable is 14.368. That isn't ours to move: the demo will catch up. Each Sunday run's log line names the core it used. If it ever goes back to 13.x, the v14 claim on /foundry/ needs a look.
• Owlbear page, from 4 Oct: 7 views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ since 1 Oct 12:10, and 0 obr-copy, 0 obr-rogue. At 20+ views with still 0 copies, make the store link the page's first button above the manifest URL (one press, nothing to paste), then count obr-rogue again.
• r/starfinder_rpg, the week of Tech Core (out 7 Oct). Write it on Tue 6 Oct, after task 8's first day shows how r/FoundryVTT took it, and give it to the boss for Wed 7 or Thu 8. Shape: a gallery post with the Ad flair (the page links the $12 version), three to four deck PNGs at 5 ft squares from one ship, and the first line saying an AI agent made the maps and the post. Second paragraph, from the 30 Sep lessons: the maps come from dice tables in code that run in your browser, with no image model and no server. Never call Generate optional. A free .dd2vtt per deck for Foundry's sf2e system, and a link to /starfinder-deck-plans/. Don't claim Tech Core has starship rules: neither source says so. No staged replies. If task 8 goes negative on the AI line, hold this one and say why. - The ship is chosen (4 Oct): ICV Halcyon Drift. Images: the upper deck (3600x1700, 233 kB) and the lower deck (2700x1700, 151 kB), both from public/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/. The link is /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/, so the post also tests a map page's opens and downloads directly. Tuesday adds only the text. - DRAFT (5 Oct, from the key on disk; Tuesday adjusts it, then re-check every fact against the live page before /press/). Flair: Ad. Images: upper deck, then lower deck. - Title: "[free] ICV Halcyon Drift, a two deck starship on 5 ft squares, png and foundry walls (36x17 and 27x17)" - Body, line 1: "an ai agent built the tool that drew this ship, and it wrote this post. i'm the human who posts it." - Body, line 2: "no image generator here. the decks come from dice tables in code that runs in your browser, laid out room by room on a 5 ft grid." - Body, line 3: "upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, galley, medbay, cargo, armoury, engineering and the drive. lower deck is a hold where something has been nesting in the crates, a machine shop, life support with pump 2 failing, and four escape pods, two showing green." - Body, line 4: "free and cc0: a png and a .dd2vtt per deck (walls, doors and lights, imports into foundry with the universal battlemap importer, works under the sf2e system), a print pdf and the room key. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/"; - Body, line 5: "the editor that made it has a free demo and a $12 full version, which is why it's flaired ad." - Facts used: sizes from the page (36x17 upper, 27x17 lower, 100 px per 5 ft square). Rooms are word for word from icv-halcyon-drift-key.md. sf2e is from the 29 Sep check (sf2e 1.5.1, verified on v14). Checked 5 Oct: the PNGs are 3600x1700 and 2700x1700, and the .dd2vtt files say 36x17 and 27x17 at 100 px, with 19 and 8 portals and 6 and 3 lights.
• Batched asks, after task 1 (facts only): did [email removed] ever answer ticket #491430 (Roll20 Marketplace application, 15 Sep)? If it answered, what did it say? If it is silent past 13 Oct (4 weeks), the boss can reply on the ticket. Roll20's forum says that helps. If it was approved, rebuild store/roll20/halcyon-drift-pack.zip from the 1.18 build before uploading, because the current pack was rendered from 1.12.2. Better: build it from a ship that isn't free on /maps/, because Halcyon Drift is CC0 there and is the r/starfinder_rpg ship.
• 11 Oct: /maps/ opens again (events.sh since 1 Oct 12:10, 'view /maps/<slug>/'). It was 0 of 12 on 4 Oct, and the screenshots showed no fault. At 20+ views with 0 opens, try a direct download link on each card.
• 16 Oct, when The Last TTRPG Jam opens (theme on its page): re-read the rules, then make a one-sheet derelict boarding game on A4. The press is app/scripts/one-sheet.mjs (ship json, side-two HTML, out PDF); generate a fresh one-deck derelict on the day. Write all game text on or after 16 Oct; the jam says no pre-released content. Side one is a Bulkhead-generated derelict GM map with its trail. Side two is rules, a d6 of what goes wrong, a clock and the theme. The first line says an AI agent made it, and the map line credits Bulkhead. CC0, free. Only when the PDF is finished and checked, give the boss one /press/ step: a new free itch project and the jam submit. Next jam re-check is 17 Oct.
• When the boss says "pictures" or task 1 is done: fetch the itch page, check the screenshot order, that the video is gone and the tags, and that the demo file is the 816 kB examples zip (by size; never print md5s).
• 9 Oct inspect, also: /derelict-one-shot/ (unknown on 3 Oct; sitemap resubmitted and Bing-submitted 09:2x) and the four still-Discovered landing pages. On 3 Oct /deck-plan-generator/ had moved to indexed (crawled 1 Oct).
• 9 Oct, with the Google re-inspect: count bingbot hits since 2 Oct 07:16 on the 20 paths sent with bing-submit (/, the 7 keyword pages, /maps/ and the 11 map pages), against the 26 Sep week, when IndexNow alone left bingbot reading one page. If Bing still hasn't read them, bing-submit is as empty as IndexNow, so stop spending turns on it.
• Real-room batch, after task 1: in Owlbear with Dynamic Fog, check that a bridge "Window" (now sent closed) stops a token and that the GM can open it with the door tool. The source says yes. This is just to see it.
  • (Dropped 5 Oct, 08:2x: Scene Importer's own parser, run in node on our zip, imports 0 scenes because v11+ packs keep walls as separate keys. See LEARNED. Not a room test.)
• If a GM ever reports a room with no way in on a derelict: it opens on a hole (the 13:09 guard test proves it). Check how a breach draws at small sizes and in the PNG before touching the generator.
• itch support follow-up: it's task 3 on /press/ (a reply in the 18 Sep thread). After task 1, a 1.18 devlog replaces the unpublished 1.17 draft. Devlogs get indexed even while the page isn't. Once indexed: add the ttrpg tag and re-run itch-indexed.mjs.
• /maps/ from 4 Oct: Free maps is the intro's second visible button now. Count sittings that go / → /maps/, and whether they open a map page or come back and press Generate (before: 8 of 9 /maps/ sittings came from /, and none opened a map page). If it only pulls people away from the derelict, move it under More.
• Owlbear funnel, 4 Oct: bash scripts/installs.sh 2026-09-20T00:00:00Z against 34 listing / 25 manifest / 10 icon / 6 panel (3 Oct). If the panel count rises while the listing count holds, more people who add Bulkhead are finding it.
• Owlbear path, from 4 Oct: views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/, then obr-copy and obr-rogue (counted since 1 Oct, 12:10), then obr-view, then obr-send, in events.sh. If people view the page but nobody copies, the page is what to fix. If they copy but nothing opens the panel, look at the install step in Owlbear. After each daily, run the switch check on a worktree.
• Phone Generate sittings after the room key fix (deployed by 07:17): per sitting, do phones now press Another one, Save or Link? Also per sitting: intact or derelict, and where it started (intro-derelict / intro-intact are counted from 2 Oct, about 05:12; the demo intro has led with the derelict since 05:00). Before, by app/scripts/sittings.sh 2026-09-28T00:00:00Z 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z: 5 of 29 web sittings saw a derelict, 1 saved or linked, 9 pressed more than once (the 04:54 count of 3 of 22 was off; see the 08:08 actual). Run the same script from 2026-10-02T05:12:00Z for after. 25 Sep to 1 Oct counted 103 intact presses against 13 derelict, but one phone made 58 presses on 1 Oct. If real sittings mostly stay on intact (the select's default) and never see a story, try derelict as the first press, then measure saves. Group by hour, country and device as on 1 Oct (a temporary script in app/scripts/, removed after). Read from/ alongside it.
• Batch question after task 1, on the same Android phone: download bulkhead-1.18.zip from /press/, unzip it, and open bulkhead.html. Does the editor run, and does Generate work? Then the same on an iPhone if there's one to hand. The file itself runs from disk in WebKit and in Chromium as a phone, even with storage blocked (the 2 Oct 18:07 actual); what's unknown is whether the phone opens it in a browser at all. If it doesn't, the itch page and the demo's upsell must say "for a computer" before anyone pays.
• Batch questions after task 1, all in one real Owlbear room. First, the .dd2vtt export from the panel on an Android phone: does a "downloaded" notice show, what is the file called in Downloads (it should end .dd2vtt), and does a two-deck ship bring up a "download multiple files?" prompt? (BR, 30 Sep: three presses, then a desktop save 25 min later. No sandbox on the frame and ~1 s to the download, checked 09:07.) Then a hex send and dragging in a -WxH PNG.
• Before task 1: after any src fix a buyer would get, run release.mjs 1.18 (it runs pack-check), --fix stale pack PDFs, re-make the Greyling by hand if it is flagged, bump ?v= on /press/ and itch-description, deploy, read every changed file back. Since 19:2x on 3 Oct: 1.18 zip ?v=1004b (since 21:2x on 4 Oct, with the short-phone card fix and the Global Illumination README lines), pack ?v=1018 (since 20:2x), examples zip and Greyling ?v=1004. From the upload on, pack ships don't change.
• Old .dd2vtt walls: done on 1 Oct (the daily archive, the weekly zip, Foundry 1.4.0). The /maps/ pages and both free packs (store/ = public/packs/; store/ is what I prepared for itch, but I can't see itch's uploaded files, so this is an assumption) already had the right walls, so the itch free packs need no re-upload. Drop that from the after-task-1 batch.
• Task 1 is now the file swap (the switch went live on 3 Oct). When status shows "itch sells the current" ok for both files, take the paid zips off /press/, drop the pack from the zip check, and paste the 1.18 devlog (store/DEVLOG-1.18.md) as the next ask.

01:07: Check the jam submission kit is ready for the boss

• Read the jam page. Voting is Overall, Fun, Graphics, Audio, Theme and AI Usage. "Continuing an existing project is allowed, only if the majority of the submission is new content." Third-party tools must be credited. There's no other required field.
• The kit (app/store/ITCH-DERELICT.md) described the game as of the torch, fire and survivor. Added: - four bullets for what today's daily switches on: conditions, canisters, drone, terminal; - a paragraph on the end screen: route, medals and bounty, record, logbook, watching the best run; - a "The theme" paragraph: the torch you carry, and the fires; - a "Made during the jam" paragraph listing the jam's work, "just over half" by lines of code, with a link to the dated list; - a note to paste only after the 18 Oct daily.
• The link I first wrote, /press/derelict/, has no page of its own and falls through to the editor. So I published the dated list instead: scripts/jam-page.mjs turns store/DERELICT-JAM-NEW.md into /derelict/jam/. It's live with a 200, and the game page is unaffected. The itch build has publicDir off, so the zip is unchanged (160 KB, 13 files).
• Finished 01:09

03:07: Screenshots of what the 18 Oct daily switches on, for the jam page

• Took four 1100x800 shots of practice ships, with the dev-only switch that turns on the new mechanics. A script reloaded until each ship had what the shot needed, then walked there along the game's own route. There were no page errors.
• Kept three: - desk-drone (ISV Wren): the drone glowing on its dashed beat, an O₂ +15 canister and a cache beside you. - desk-terminal (ICV Merlin): standing at it with its three jobs offered. - desk-blackout (RSV Teal): BLACKOUT in the HUD, with only the torchlight's reach lit.
• Dropped the fourth (RSV Sandpiper): the walk didn't move and it was still on the boarding text.
• The kit's screenshot order now puts the jam's work first: torch, drone, fire, terminal, survivor, blackout, then the older four. Each new shot's date and conditions are written down.
• Copied them to /press/derelict/, deployed, and all three return 200.
• Finished 03:08

05:07: Check the new mechanics on a phone before they go live

• Played the dev page with all four mechanics on (?practice&cond) at 390x844 and 360x640, walked to a terminal, and measured the map's height.
• Found: the boarding briefing with every mechanic runs to 22 lines on a phone, so right after boarding the map was 27 px tall at 390x844 and 0 px at 360x640, with the minimap sitting over the text. At a terminal the three job buttons took the map to 106 px at 360x640. The legend wrapped to four lines on both.
• Fixed in game.css only: on phones (600px wide or less) the legend is hidden (the map's tags name each thing) and the message scrolls inside the card, at most 30% of the screen, with the arrows still visible below it. On short phones the job buttons and the arrows are packed tighter.
• After: right after boarding, the map is 334 px at 390x844 and 186 px at 360x640; at a terminal it is 406 px and 217 px. No horizontal scroll, no page errors. Desktop is unchanged (every rule is inside a 600px query).
• Tests 133/133 after giving one more slow test 20 s (the log-cache test took 5.7 s against the 5 s default; the machine, not the CSS). tsc clean. Deployed; the live CSS has the rule. engine.ts flags are still off until the 11:07Z daily.
• Finished 05:26

07:07: Check the title card and the end screen on a phone with the new mechanics

• Played a whole practice run with all four mechanics on at 390x844 and 360x640: walked to the terminal, picked a job, walked out, and opened the whole end screen.
• End screen: nothing wider than the screen on either phone, no page errors. The career, route, medals, archive and logbook all lay out cleanly.
• Found a cheap bounty: that run took nothing, scored 0, and still claimed the ship's bounty, Ghost (out of a drone ship untouched). Lights out (out of a blackout ship) had the same hole: board and step straight back out. Both now need something to show for it (score above 0), as Cold torch already did, and their medal text says so. Nobody can have earned either yet, since drones and conditions switch on at today's daily. The step-in-and-out medal test now also runs with drones and conditions on and checks for neither medal; it fails on the old rule and passes on the new one.
• Title card at 360x640: the card was centred in a scrolling box, so about 74 px of the art above it could never be scrolled back to (scroll height 736 px before, 810 px after). Now centred with margin auto. The Board button stays in view either way (the page focuses it).
• Tests 133/133 (the medal test, now twice as many ships, given 20 s; it took 7.7 s under the full suite's load). tsc clean. Deployed; the live CSS and JS have both changes. The engine.ts flags stay off until the 11:07Z daily.
• Finished 07:29

09:07: Rehearse today's ship with the mechanics on

• The daily's ship is random, so I couldn't build today's exact one. Instead: a greedy bot that sees everything (it tries each walk on a copy first, takes the cheapest thing on its deck that leaves 4 air over the way out, then leaves) played 40 ships of each size with the four mechanics off and then on. Kept as app/scripts/derelict-bot.ts.
• Found a trap: walking the same way as the drone kept you on its square, and its welder took 6 air on every step. Derelict has no wait, so you can only turn back. On blackout corvette 39 the bot was zapped five times in a row (30 air) and died; with the mechanics off it got out.
• Fixed in engine.ts: the welder catches you once a meeting, and only again after you have stepped clear. No past run changes (the drone has been off on every daily so far). A new test replays corvette 39's walk: one zap and out. It fails on the old engine and passes on the new one.
• After the fix, out of 40 ships of each size, mechanics off then on: corvette (today's size) 40 and 40, score/par 0.85 and 0.87; freighter 40 and 40; station 39 and 39; shuttle 40 and 40. Reactor ships run hardest (score/par 0.51 to 0.75 outside shuttles), as meant.
• Tests 134/134 with the flags off, and again 134/134 with all four on (the switch-on dry run, reverted after). tsc clean. Deployed, so the board's judge has the same engine before the switch-on. The flag lines are now 422, 425, 430 and 435; the Next item says so.
• Finished 09:28

11:07: The 18 Oct daily with the new mechanics switched on

• Switched on canisters, the drone, terminals and ship conditions in engine.ts (and rewrote the four comments that said off). Tests 134/134, tsc clean, committed and pushed (6d0c1ac) before the daily.
• First run: wrong redirect from me (.daily-log is a directory; the script logs to .daily-log/<date>.log), so nothing ran. Second run, 11:15Z: today's ship was generated (RSV Whimbrel, corvette, 1 deck), then the Foundry module build stopped in foundry-journals.mjs: the Halcyon Drift GM key has had a "Tech Core battle stations (a suggestion)" section since 12 Oct, and the script took every ## heading for a deck and threw when no scene matched. Nothing was deployed or posted (the public feed's newest post was 17 Oct 11:08).
• Fix: a section whose name doesn't end in "deck" becomes a plain page in that ship's journal; a deck with no scene still stops the build.
• Third run, 11:20Z: done. Bluesky posted 11:21Z (URL in meta.json), status 28 of 28 at 11:25Z, the daily committed itself (d959568). The post is the usual one; nothing about the leaderboard or conditions.
• Live /derelict/: "Today's ship, 18 Oct: RSV Whimbrel", BLACKOUT on the HUD and title card, the bounty is Full hands, and the boarding message names the canister, the drone on Main deck and the terminal. No page errors.
• Itch zip rebuilt (160 KB, 13 files), copied to /press/derelict/ and deployed; the live download is byte-for-byte the new build and has the drone in it.
• Finished 11:26

13:07: Today's Derelict run as a video for the docent

• media-daily.mjs now walks to the nearest thing of any kind (salvage, logs, an oxygen canister, a terminal), four times, and at a terminal picks job 3, lighting the map, which reads on screen without sound.
• Filmed 18 Oct: 33.04 s, 1080x1920, 24 fps, h264, no audio track, no page errors. Watched as a contact sheet: boarding RSV Whimbrel, the terminal by the airlock lighting the plan, a log, salvage as a fire breaks out in the room, the drone on its rounds, a second log; then the free drop page and the archive; a 2 s still at the end. Because the terminal lit the map first, the blackout itself barely shows.
• Claim JSON is the same claim as 17 Oct with today's backing pages; nothing about sales. Both at /media/daily-derelict-2026-10-18.(mp4|json), 200 with CORS. The mp4 is git-ignored like the others.
• Finished 13:10

15:07: Is the board taking runs on the first ship with the new mechanics

• Boards for 17 and 18 Oct both show 0 runs. To tell "nobody finished" from "the judge rejects real runs", I made a run of today's ship in the page (score 310, got out, 9 air left) and judged its moves locally against the live ship file: same score, out, same air. The judge agrees with the page, so the empty boards mean no finished runs were sent, not rejections.
• Derelict sent no counts at all, so its plays were unmeasured. Added the same first-party view ping the other pages use to derelict/index.html (no beacon), and three game events from src/game/main.ts: derelict-board, derelict-out, derelict-dead, each tagged daily, archive or practice. Live host only, so the itch build and dev send nothing; a reload of a finished run doesn't count again. scripts/events.sh lists them under demo events without changes.
• Tests 134/134, tsc clean, deployed; the live page has the ping and the bundle has the event call.
• Finished 15:18

17:07: Do people who open the VTT brief go on to generate a ship

• brief-vtt has 0 presses since it went up at 18:26 on 17 Oct. Only 1 web sitting has generated a ship since then (18 Oct 16:37, from the daily pages, a derelict, then off to the one-shot and guide pages). Too few to judge the button. LEARNED.md says when to read again.
• 11 to 18 Oct (scripts/sittings.sh): 100 sittings, 84 only viewed pages, 15 did something in the web editor, 8 pressed Generate, 1 saved or linked. Events per day fell from about 13 (8 to 15 Oct) to 2 to 4 (16 to 18 Oct). Front-page views since 16 Oct: 36.
• I checked whether the 16 Oct footer broke the editor: on the live site at 1366, 390 and 360 wide the intro, its buttons and the card after the picture click all show, with no page errors (the only console error was my own stub of the analytics beacon). Nothing broken; the low numbers are thin traffic, not a broken step. Nothing changed or deployed.
• Derelict counts: none yet; the pings went live at about 15:20.
• Finished 17:08

19:07: Which pages bring the generating visitors, and is there one more like them

• Sittings since 25 Sep that pressed Generate most often passed through /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ (8), then /maps/ (5), /guide/ and /daily/ (3 each). Their origins: none (5), our own pages, Google (3), Reddit, Owlbear (4 Owlbear-extension sittings).
• WebSearch: "owlbear rodeo dd2vtt import", "owlbear rodeo spaceship map" and "owlbear rodeo sci-fi battlemap generator" don't show us at all. The tops are Czepeku's uvtt guide, the Scene Importer page and Owlbear's own docs. No sci-fi result at all.
• Search Console, all 58 sitemap URLs: 20 indexed, 35 discovered but not indexed, 3 unknown (the 18 Oct, 4 Oct and 1 Oct dailies). Not indexed: all 5 search landing pages, all 11 map pages, most dailies. Indexed: /, /guide/, /daily/, /maps/, /deck-plan-generator/, /foundry/ and others. The front page and /guide/ already link to the Owlbear page, so it's crawl priority, not links. /derelict/ is unknown to Google, on purpose (noindex).
• Sent the 5 landing pages to Bing with the broker's bing-submit (5 accepted). No page changed; nothing deployed. This was the 19 Oct Search Console check, done a day early.
• Finished 19:15

21:07: Where the Owlbear extension listing stands

• PR #174 (public API, read only): open, label "blocked/needs response". Last activity is our reply of 15 Oct 01:17Z, with no maintainer answer. The reviewer's two asks are met on the live files: the store.md and manifest description is 126 characters (limit 128). icon.svg, icon.png and header.png all return 200 with image types, and the popover /obr returns 200 (/obr/ redirects to it). The listing line in the PR points at /obr/store.md, which is live.
• The extensions repo hasn't merged anything since 26 Aug (6 merged 24 to 26 Aug in one batch). The wait is the maintainers' batch rhythm, not something in our PR. Nothing to fix and nothing for the boss to do. The label may only clear when a maintainer looks again.
• Other places to be listed: hack-and-slash/awesome-tabletop-rpg (73 stars) lists Owlbear Rodeo and map tools, but nothing has been merged since 2020 and four 2026 PRs sit open, so a PR there goes nowhere. Searches for an Owlbear extension directory turn up only filler pages. The community guide was already ruled out earlier (D&D-only, dormant). No suggestion for the boss this time.
• Finished 21:08

21:22: Answer the boss on the jam: what it is, whether they need to submit

• Not submitted yet: bananafestdestiny.itch.io/derelict is a 404, and the jam's entries page lists 29 entries, none of them Derelict. Submissions close 31 Oct 03:00Z (30 Oct, 10 PM Central); voting runs to 7 Nov 04:00Z.
• The upload zip is live at /press/derelict/derelict-itch.zip (200, 160223 bytes). Every field is in app/store/ITCH-DERELICT.md. Told the boss it's optional, but it's the reason Derelict exists, and it takes about 15 minutes.
• Finished 21:22

23:07: Dry-run the boss's jam submission so it works the first time

• Every file ITCH-DERELICT.md names is in store/itch-derelict/ and live under /press/derelict/: the cover and all 10 screenshots return 200. So do /derelict/jam/ and the zip (/press/derelict/derelict-itch.zip, 160223 bytes).
• Took that zip from its live URL, unpacked it in an empty scratch folder and served it from 127.0.0.1:5320, a host that isn't ours. At 820x760 (the embed size) and 390 wide (phone, touch), it loads today's ship (RSV Whimbrel, 18 Oct, blackout, Full hands bounty) from the live daily file. Its only request off the page is that file, and there are no page errors.
• From itch's origin (html-classic.itch.zone): ship.bulkhead.json answers with allow-origin *. The board's preflight for a POST to /api/board/<day> gets 204 with GET, POST and content-type allowed, and a read of today's board gets 200 ({"count":0}). A run finished in the itch embed can reach the board. My first try used ?day= and got 404; that was my wrong path, not the server.
• The live zip predates today's count() change, which only fires on the live host, so the itch build would send nothing either way. No rebuild needed. Nothing changed or deployed.
• Finished 23:08