The band became one axis: fitted plates, and cards that travel

Every transient message — milestone card, RESUMING clock, one-line flash — now
centres its ink on CARD_MID and only one is ever up. Three shared pieces do all
of it: inkSpan measures, plate() sizes the fill to what it holds, slideDraw
swipes it in from the left and off to the right with a four-ghost smear sampled
back along its own easing curve.

- weapon card is icon + name + count, one centred row, no prose
- plain cards centre as a block instead of hanging off the band's top edge
- the clock left the net for the band; it takes over when a card or flash clears
- band moved up 20px into the flash's old row, which it can now that they never
  draw together
- hold times +0.8s: the swipe eats ~0.55s that the old numbers didn't budget for

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

config.js

@@ -184,7 +184,9 @@ export const TUNE = {
   zPushback: 1.4,   // m a staggered zombie is knocked back
   splatterOverT: 0.1, // s the spent-ball 'over' beat lasts before the next serve is armed
   stuckT: 6,        // s the deadlock watchdog waits before letting go of a frozen latch (see update)
-  tinCardT: 2.0,    // s the won-duel weapon card holds (it does NOT wait for a tap)
+  tinCardT: 2.8,    // s the won-duel weapon card holds (it does NOT wait for a tap). The swipe-in
+                    // and swipe-out eat ~0.55 s of this, so every card number below is REAL time on
+                    // screen minus that — 2.0 left the old static hold, and read as a flicker.
   // the slingshot: the pull's DIRECTION picks a lane, its LENGTH is power. Deliberately DECOUPLED —
   // reaching a far shambler must not cost a longer drag than the screen has room for. The old
   // mapping (pull length = reach) is why you had to drag off the bottom of the phone.
@@ -342,8 +344,8 @@ export const TUNE = {
   burnBallR: 2.4,   // m — the flame ball also lights anything it FLIES PAST. Without this the ball's
                     // full pierce simply killed the whole lane outright and nothing was left to catch fire.
   burnPanic: 1.0,   // walk-speed multiplier while burning (1 = off; crank it for panicked sprinting)
-  setCardT: 2.0,    // s the centered SET card holds (the 'kurze unterbrechung' before the horde)
-  bossWinT: 3.6,    // ...and s the EPIC! card holds after a chapter boss. Its OWN number: a boss is
+  setCardT: 2.8,    // s the centered SET card holds (the 'kurze unterbrechung' before the horde)
+  bossWinT: 4.4,    // ...and s the EPIC! card holds after a chapter boss. Its OWN number: a boss is
                     // the longest fight in the game and the win was over before it registered, but
                     // stretching setCardT would have made every routine set announcement drag too.
   modalIn: 0.34,    // s the modal swooshes in — icon+title from the right, body cascading from the