The agreed single pass did not land: br_w1 installed, br_serve and br_fall were
refused by the palette gate at 12 to 22 away from z_br1, and everything drawn
from them was correctly skipped rather than built on sand.
'br' comes out of ZFAMS. The art stays on disk and the nine batches stay in the
JSON, so re-registering it later is one line — this is parked, not deleted, and
nothing in the game referenced it (no opponent row names it).
THE FINDING WORTH KEEPING, written at the top of _master.py: the brute's PLAY
sheet is a good brute; its serve and fall sheets are each a slightly DIFFERENT
brute. All three restyle from the master independently, so each invents the
character afresh from the words, and "pale grey-green work shirt" lands
somewhere new every time. The gate is not being fussy — it is measuring three
different zombies.
The fix is to hand the later sheets BOTH references: the master frame for the
POSE and the variant's own first sheet for the CHARACTER, instead of the words
for the character. Which is the lesson the wound stages already taught — a
reference beats a description — applied one level up. Until that lands, a
variant is reliable for its play sheet and a gamble for the other two.
The racket zombie is untouched and complete: 33 frames, every gate green, and
it is the opponent the match actually plays.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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