A charge that passes, two strides that actually stride, a door in the corner

THE LEGS. Measured as lower-third silhouette difference between the two stride
frames: the groundskeeper, whose walk has always been right, is 0.80. The seller
was 0.017 — the same legs twice, which is why he hopped along on one of them.
Both sheets regenerated with the stride as the entire subject (one foot planted
ahead, the other trailing, and they SWAP): seller 0.42, champion 0.67.

Three things the champion's re-rolls proved, all of them the same lesson —
THE REFERENCE IS WHAT IT COPIES. Anchored on his own one-legged frame it drew
that pose again. Given a working walk from another boss alongside him "for the
legs only" it blended the two and returned a slim side-on walker, then a
pot-bellied man in cream. One character in the reference, one character out —
and pick the keeper by EYE, because the metric happily crowned the side view.

THE CHARGE. It rushed, then withdrew a fraction of what it covered, so it ended
the fight parked on top of you: dodge or die every two seconds with no window to
hit it, and nothing but a hitscan laser quick enough to use the window there
was — Oliver, "they come too close, they seem unbeatable". A rush now RETREATS
to its line afterwards, and to keep it from being toothless the other way (from
the band it ran out of clock 8 m short) the rush is TIMED rather than paced: it
covers whatever ground the retreat left in bossChargeT, so every charge arrives
and every charge has the same readable run-up. Measured over 30 s: five rushes,
each one reaching you, 13% of the fight in your face instead of all of it.

And the back room moved off the whole splash onto an invisible box in the TOP-
LEFT CORNER. Five taps in the middle of the screen — which is where your thumb
goes on the way to PLAY MATCH — now do nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@
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                 url('assets/menu_bg.png?v=86') 50% 42% / cover no-repeat var(--ink);
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+  /* THE BACK-ROOM HOTSPOT: five taps here open it (main.js). Top-left CORNER, not the logo and not
+     the screen — a hidden door has to be somewhere you do not put your thumb by accident, and the
+     whole splash was reachable by every stray tap on the way to PLAY MATCH. Invisible on purpose,
+     and a child of #splash so it exists on no other stage. */
+  #hot { position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; width: 26vw; max-width: 150px; height: 15vh;
+         max-height: 130px; z-index: 4; }
   #intro .card { font: 400 12px Silkscreen, monospace; color: var(--cream); text-align: center;
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@@ -307,6 +313,7 @@
     <!-- three bands: the figures at the top, the title floating in the middle, the buttons under
          your thumb. Same anchoring as every other screen. -->
     <div id="splash">
+      <div id="hot"></div>
       <div class="mid">
         <img class="logo" src="assets/logo.png" alt="Splatter Tennis">
         <p class="slogan">Fifteen. Thirty. Forty. <b>Dead.</b></p>
@@ -391,6 +398,6 @@
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