Triage: always kill the body that would reach you first

The sequence drill tested nothing — the strip was always visible (no memory),
the batch was slow (no urgency), the aim was easy (no execution). A checklist
with gore, and Oliver said so: "not interesting enough to keep me playing".

Settled in discussion, he picked triage + streak. One rule: always kill the
body that would reach you first. Nothing is called, nothing shown — the court
is the puzzle. arrival = distance / speed down a held lane, and the roster's
speed spread means the answer is not the closest body: a runner at the far
baseline beats a roller at the service line. Court sense — and it trains the
exact target-priority read the gore mode rewards.

Wounds are free: only the kill is judged, so pre-softening a heavy while it
is third in line is legal and eventually necessary. The slack (0.9s) makes
near-ties legal both ways, or the rule is a coin flip. The streak is both
punishment and payout: x1..x5, a misread shows OUT OF TURN and resets it, and
nothing else happens — the queue keeps walking. Caught is the real setback.
Best score banks to localStorage; the world board can carry it if it ships.

drillMark draws a chevron over the queue head for playtest calibration. It
answers the exact question the mode asks, so it must be off in anything
shipped.

Deleted: the alphabet, the batch, the strip, the eaters. Shamblers are
first-class stream members with pts 20; a roller is 100.

30 tests, rewritten around arithmetic riggings (known speeds and distances)
instead of luck; 20 seeds clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -104,9 +104,10 @@ export const G = {
interlude: false, // sudden-death duel vs the racket zombie: falsy, or {introT} while announcing
duelLerp: 0, // 0..1 — how far the court has returned to tennis colors for the duel
horde: null, // active horde wave {t, spawnT, mgT} — machine-gun racket, no serving
drill: null, // the coaching drill (src/drill.js): {seq, step, faults, t, eaterT, rounds, lost, msg}.
// Owns the court like every other mode — see beats.startDrill. `t` is time
// survived and it is the whole difficulty curve; there is no round clock.
drill: null, // the TRIAGE drill (src/drill.js): {t, spawnT, score, streak, kills, faults,
// lost, best, msg}. Owns the court like every other mode — see beats.startDrill.
// One rule: always kill the body that would reach you first. `t` is time
// survived and drives the whole difficulty curve.
killCount: 0, // splatter: kills banked toward the next point (see TUNE.killsPerPoint)
runGames: 0, // games finished this run (either side) — the difficulty director
sets: [0, 0], // splatter sets won [you, them]; 6 games = a set = a horde