(daily)

Numbers: itch 9/0/0 (no change since the 15th); packs 2 + 1 views. Bluesky 4 followers, 6 posts; no new replies, Post 8 and Post 9 still unposted. PR #174 untouched. Today's derelict: Wren Station (cold-soak).

The card exposed two story-layer bugs I want fixed before more daily posts go out:

1. Station briefs read as ships. "in the middle of a long haul", "the ship has been at minus sixty" on a station. storify gets a kind (ship/station) and the causes get station wording where it matters (haul → shift, ship → station, jump/misjump → drop station causes that need a drive).
2. Role-matched notes landing in the wrong room. "the patient in the autodoc" was placed in the Central hub. Check the at matching in storify against the station room ids (stations have hub, no medbay alias?) and make notes with an at list skip rather than fall back to random when no matching room exists.
3. Rebuild paid + demo (1.14.1), push to itch, regenerate today's card with --force only if the fix changes today's text (it will: re-run).
4. Zoo remark check after publishing this plan; actual at end of day.

1. Station wording — done. storify takes station; misjump is excluded for stations and a word list swaps ship → station, "in the middle of a long haul" → "mid-shift, with the tender a week out", "the last port" → "the last resupply". Cold-soak stays available for stations (it works with the swap). Boarding and mutiny were already fine.
2. Misplaced notes — done. The cause was the fallback in place: when a tagged room was already used (or absent) the note went to any free room. Now a tagged note goes to its room even if that room has a note, and a note tagged for a room the ship lacks is dropped from the pool. Checked with five generations (3 stations, corvette, freighter): every tagged note in its room, autodoc note in Medbay.
3. Shipped 1.14.1: paid build on itch (butler build #1991507), demo deployed. Today's derelict regenerated with --force — Wren Station became Nimbus Station (boarded) — and --force now clears the day's folder first, since the old ship's files were left behind.
4. Zoo page after publishing the plan: no remark.

Not done: nothing from the plan. Stats end of morning: itch 9/0/0, Bluesky 4 followers; Posts 8 and 9 still with the boss.

Afternoon

Post 8 posted by the boss (after a 336-char draft; cut to 290, and Post 6 was 347 — cut to 300; scripts/check-press.mjs now fails on >300). Boss sent the itch summary chart: flat since launch day. Found the pages are not indexed on itch at all (details in LEARNED.md). Asked the boss for the dashboard indexing notice. Owlbear PRs merge in 34–173 days, so #174 is not a near-term channel. Next plan: itch indexing + the YouTube Short.

Evening

• Boss's edit-page screenshots showed no indexing notice. itch's guide confirms none is shown: first paid project from a new seller waits in a human review queue "a few business days". Published Sep 14, so day four.
• Boss emailed [email removed] asking for the review status (sent from support@bananafest-destiny.com, set up as a Gmail send-as address).
• Next: watch the inbox for the itch ticket receipt and reply; Post 9 video tomorrow.
• Afternoon plan: /daily/feed.xml live (RSS, PNG enclosure), sitemap + /foundry/, IndexNow 200. Bing/DDG still have nothing of ours.
• itch batch page /press/itch built; boss published devlog 1668693 and did the tags/comments/install pass. I'll check the devlog index tomorrow.
• Owlbear PR #174: no comments.
• 1.15.0: every cause of death now has two openings (16 briefs, was 8), with station rewording for the new ones (debris field, long haul, turn back / press on). Sampled 48 generations across freighter + station; no ship phrasing left on stations. Demo deployed, itch build pushed.
• 1.15.1: hooks 3 → 6 and log fragments 4 → 6 per cause (48 fragments, 47 hooks). Each derelict now has its own page /daily/<date>/ with OG image, GM key inline, prev/next; feed, sitemap and the Bluesky post text point there. IndexNow pinged for the three day pages.
• Landing pages now link the daily archive (with the newest map via /daily/latest.png) and the Foundry module; nav has "Daily derelict".
• 1.15.2: intro gets a "Generate a derelict" button (the story is the pitch, so it is one click); intro buttons no longer throw a "replace your plan?" confirm at a first-time visitor (the only plan was the starter); /?gen=derelict deep link from every daily page and the derelict landing page generates straight away, fitted, with a toast. Verified on the live demo at phone width.
• Scout refreshed: fourth reply draft on /press/bsky (salvaterra).
• Queued for tomorrow's boss batch: itch description addendum (store/ITCH-DESCRIPTION-ADD.md).
• /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ hub page: both packs (11 plans, names from the listings), the Foundry module, the daily derelict with latest.png, CTA to /?gen=derelict. In sitemap, IndexNow pinged (200), linked from all six landing-page navs ("Free maps"), the daily index and /foundry/. Deployed, committed.
• LEARNED: first-run confirm bug, autosave debounce in tests, hub-page reasoning.

Late afternoon (plan 2026-09-18c)

• pin.png (1000×1500) per daily derelict: name, map, first line of the brief, day URL, "CC0 · PNG + Universal VTT". Rendered on every fresh run; --pin backfilled the 16th–18th; linked from each day page. Deployed, committed.
• Guide section 4, "Derelicts come with a story": where the brief, hazards, log fragments, salvage and hook land, how to export the key, links to /daily/ and the hub. Corrected while writing: the hook is in the brief, not a room note.
• Asked the boss (one batch): whether the Buffer connector now visible is intentional, one Pinterest pin a day if so, and a Search Console glance. Nothing posted through Buffer.
• Boss: Search Console and itch support, nothing yet (FACTS). Buffer: I have only the server's description, no callable tools; told the boss so.
• Taking the guide screenshot showed a derelict with "Reactor hums. The engineer sleeps here." in Engineering: room notes were picked from the intact pool and the derelict overlay only prefixed them. 1.15.3: every role has a dead pool (two notes each, hub too) used in derelict mood; 234 rooms over 24 generations, zero alive-sounding notes. Pushed to itch, demo deployed. Guide section 4 now has the panel screenshot.
• ?open=/path.bulkhead.json deep link (same-origin paths only): a hosted plan opens straight into the editor. Daily derelicts now save ship.bulkhead.json and the day page gets an "Open in Bulkhead" button (from tomorrow's run; earlier days have no saved plan). All eleven pack plans hosted at /plans/ and linked "open in the editor" from the hub page; verified live on three of them. Every free map is now one click from the editor, which is where the $12 pitch is.

Night

• Boss: Cloudflare visits last 7 days = 0 (beacon verified working; bots filtered). No Foundry spend.
• Boss gave the Bluesky app password. First automated post went out (Nimbus Station). A rejected command had already run once with a different credential, so the day's post went out twice a minute apart; deleted the duplicate, stored only the app password. Told the boss to change the other password.
• Post 8 (Foundry module) was posted by the boss today; Post 9 (video) is scheduled for 2026-09-19 12:07 CDT via scripts/post-video.mjs (Bluesky video upload, dry-run checked). Replies stay on explicit go-ahead.
• Boss re-requested indexing in Search Console. Plan 18d item 7 done: /press/ now opens with a "One thing today" box (Saturday: upload short.mp4 as a YouTube Short); everything else is archive. Deployed.