Plan, 2026-10-04

00:07: the 4 Oct reads, on three full days (1 to 3 Oct)

Four reads were planned for 4 Oct. Midnight gives clean full-day edges, so run them now, before Sunday's derelict:

• Owlbear funnel: installs.sh from 20 Sep, against 34 listing / 25 manifest / 10 icon / 6 panel (3 Oct).
• Owlbear path: views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/, then obr-copy and obr-rogue, then obr-view, then obr-send (events.sh).
• /maps/: sittings that go from / to /maps/, and whether they open a map page.
• Phone Generate sittings since the room-key fix: do phones press Another one, Save or Link?

Output: one finding per read, each with its numbers. If any of them points at a page fault, that fix is the next phase. Mask IPs. clientIP is only ever a key, never printed.

00:09: why nobody opens a map from /maps/

Since 1 Oct, /maps/ has had 12 views and no map page opened. The read before that was the same: 9 sittings, none. Steps:

• Screenshot /maps/ at phone and desktop widths, with the beacon blocked, and check whether a map card is visible before any scroll.
• Read where the 12 views came from (referer, by sitting) and what each did next, if anything.
• Change one thing at most, and only if the screenshots show a cause, for example cards below the fold or cards that don't look clickable. Otherwise record it and leave the page alone.

Next

• 11 Oct: /maps/ opens again (events.sh since 1 Oct 12:10, 'view /maps/<slug>/'). It was 0 of 12 on 4 Oct, and the screenshots showed no fault. At 20+ views with 0 opens, try a direct download link on each card.
• Mon 5 Oct, before 14:00 UTC: task 8 (r/FoundryVTT) is the day's one ask. Check its links and images load, that live module.json is still 1.4.0 and the zip matches by cmp, and that the scene count in the title (42) is still right. Sunday's run will have moved the module to 1.5.0 (dry run 3 Oct: 45 scenes and 29 keys before 4 Oct, all passing v14). Update the title, body and reply counts to the live module.json first. That means 17 pack scenes plus the dailies 16 Sep to 4 Oct. Take the GM key count from Sunday's run output in .daily-log, not from a formula. The 3 Oct rehearsal of the 4 Oct seed gave 47 scenes and 30 GM keys (17 pack scenes plus 30 daily decks), so expect those numbers. If the live run differs, the live run is right. Then read the thread hourly, logged out, once the boss gives the link.
• 16 Oct, when The Last TTRPG Jam opens (theme on its page): re-read the rules, then make a one-sheet derelict boarding game on A4. The press is app/scripts/one-sheet.mjs (ship json, side-two HTML, out PDF); generate a fresh one-deck derelict on the day. Write all game text on or after 16 Oct; the jam says no pre-released content. Side one is a Bulkhead-generated derelict GM map with its trail. Side two is rules, a d6 of what goes wrong, a clock and the theme. The first line says an AI agent made it, and the map line credits Bulkhead. CC0, free. Only when the PDF is finished and checked, give the boss one /press/ step: a new free itch project and the jam submit. Next jam re-check is 17 Oct.
• When the boss says "pictures" or task 1 is done: fetch the itch page, check the screenshot order, that the video is gone and the tags, and that the demo file is the 816 kB examples zip (by size; never print md5s).
• 9 Oct inspect, also: /derelict-one-shot/ (unknown on 3 Oct; sitemap resubmitted and Bing-submitted 09:2x) and the four still-Discovered landing pages. On 3 Oct /deck-plan-generator/ had moved to indexed (crawled 1 Oct).
• 3 Oct: if the boss installed bulkhead-daily.timer, app/.daily-log/2026-10-03.log should start near 11:07Z with "daily-host start". The watcher (406fff8d, 11:37Z) reads it. If there's no log, the timer isn't installed or didn't fire: run daily-host.sh by hand and ask once. The watcher expires around 9 Oct; once the timer has run two days on its own, let it expire.
• 9 Oct, with the Google re-inspect: count bingbot hits since 2 Oct 07:16 on the 20 paths sent with bing-submit (/, the 7 keyword pages, /maps/ and the 11 map pages), against the 26 Sep week, when IndexNow alone left bingbot reading one page. If Bing still hasn't read them, bing-submit is as empty as IndexNow, so stop spending turns on it.
• First press, desktop: the ship now fits below the card, about half the size it was. If the 4 Oct sittings show desktop visitors leaving after the first press more than phones do, try letting a long ship run under the card's lower edge (fit to the stage minus the card's height only on its right part). Don't change it on looks alone. The switch patches applied 4 of 4 at 06:19.
• Real-room batch, after task 1: in Owlbear with Dynamic Fog, check that a bridge "Window" (now sent closed) stops a token and that the GM can open it with the door tool. The source says yes. This is just to see it.
• If a GM ever reports a room with no way in on a derelict: it opens on a hole (the 13:09 guard test proves it). Check how a breach draws at small sizes and in the PNG before touching the generator.
• itch support follow-up: it's task 3 on /press/ (a reply in the 18 Sep thread). After task 1, a 1.18 devlog replaces the unpublished 1.17 draft. Devlogs get indexed even while the page isn't. Once indexed: add the ttrpg tag and re-run itch-indexed.mjs.
• Today 11:07: the daily check. If the ship has a cut-off room, check that the day page shows the Way in line with its violet edge, the full one first. Bulkhead's itch views were 26 on 1 Oct; note the change. Today's (2 Oct) Bluesky post: 0 likes at 11:12, 2 likes and 1 repost by 14:09. A three-hour read is too early.
• /maps/ from 4 Oct: Free maps is the intro's second visible button now. Count sittings that go / → /maps/, and whether they open a map page or come back and press Generate (before: 8 of 9 /maps/ sittings came from /, and none opened a map page). If it only pulls people away from the derelict, move it under More.
• Owlbear funnel, 4 Oct: bash scripts/installs.sh 2026-09-20T00:00:00Z against 34 listing / 25 manifest / 10 icon / 6 panel (3 Oct). If the panel count rises while the listing count holds, more people who add Bulkhead are finding it.
• Owlbear path, from 4 Oct: views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/, then obr-copy and obr-rogue (counted since 1 Oct, 12:10), then obr-view, then obr-send, in events.sh. If people view the page but nobody copies, the page is what to fix. If they copy but nothing opens the panel, look at the install step in Owlbear. After each daily, run the switch check on a worktree.
• Phone Generate sittings after the room key fix (deployed by 07:17): per sitting, do phones now press Another one, Save or Link? Also per sitting: intact or derelict, and where it started (intro-derelict / intro-intact are counted from 2 Oct, about 05:12; the demo intro has led with the derelict since 05:00). Before, by app/scripts/sittings.sh 2026-09-28T00:00:00Z 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z: 5 of 29 web sittings saw a derelict, 1 saved or linked, 9 pressed more than once (the 04:54 count of 3 of 22 was off; see the 08:08 actual). Run the same script from 2026-10-02T05:12:00Z for after. 25 Sep to 1 Oct counted 103 intact presses against 13 derelict, but one phone made 58 presses on 1 Oct. If real sittings mostly stay on intact (the select's default) and never see a story, try derelict as the first press, then measure saves. Group by hour, country and device as on 1 Oct (a temporary script in app/scripts/, removed after). Read from/ alongside it.
• Batch question after task 1, on the same Android phone: download bulkhead-1.18.zip from /press/, unzip it, and open bulkhead.html. Does the editor run, and does Generate work? Then the same on an iPhone if there's one to hand. The file itself runs from disk in WebKit and in Chromium as a phone, even with storage blocked (the 2 Oct 18:07 actual); what's unknown is whether the phone opens it in a browser at all. If it doesn't, the itch page and the demo's upsell must say "for a computer" before anyone pays.
• Batch questions after task 1, all in one real Owlbear room. First, the .dd2vtt export from the panel on an Android phone: does a "downloaded" notice show, what is the file called in Downloads (it should end .dd2vtt), and does a two-deck ship bring up a "download multiple files?" prompt? (BR, 30 Sep: three presses, then a desktop save 25 min later. No sandbox on the frame and ~1 s to the download, checked 09:07.) Then a hex send and dragging in a -WxH PNG.
• Before task 1: after any src fix a buyer would get, run release.mjs 1.18 (it runs pack-check), --fix stale pack PDFs, re-make the Greyling by hand if it is flagged, bump ?v= on /press/ and itch-description, deploy, read every changed file back. Since 19:2x on 3 Oct: 1.18 zip ?v=1030, pack ?v=1018 (since 20:2x), examples zip and Greyling ?v=1004. From the upload on, pack ships don't change.
• Old .dd2vtt walls: done on 1 Oct (the daily archive, the weekly zip, Foundry 1.4.0). The /maps/ pages and both free packs (store/ = public/packs/; store/ is what I prepared for itch, but I can't see itch's uploaded files, so this is an assumption) already had the right walls, so the itch free packs need no re-upload. Drop that from the after-task-1 batch.
• Task 1 is now the file swap (the switch went live on 3 Oct). When status shows "itch sells the current" ok for both files, take the paid zips off /press/, drop the pack from the zip check, and paste the 1.18 devlog (store/DEVLOG-1.18.md) as the next ask.

00:07: the 4 Oct reads, on three full days (1 to 3 Oct)

• Finished 00:09.
• Owlbear funnel (installs.sh since 20 Sep, distinct fetchers): 35 header, 26 manifest, 10 icon, 6 panel. On 3 Oct it was 34/25/10/6. One new manifest fetch on 3 Oct and no new panel opens, so the funnel is flat. Foundry for comparison: 2 distinct module.json fetchers and 1 zip fetch since 20 Sep. Almost nobody installs the module by URL, which is the reason task 8 on Monday is worth doing.
• Owlbear path (events.sh since 1 Oct 12:10): 5 views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/, 0 obr-copy, 0 obr-rogue, 1 obr-view, 0 obr-send, and 4 editor visits with that page as referrer. People who read it go to the demo, not to the install. Five views is too few to change the page on.
• Sittings (2 Oct 05:12 to 4 Oct 00:00): 19 in all, 12 only viewed pages, and 7 did something in the editor. Of those, 4 pressed Generate, 2 saved or linked, and none were in Owlbear. Phones: 2 sittings. One came from the Owlbear page and exported a PNG; the other (intro-derelict, generate-derelict) left without saving. Too few to say whether the room-key fix changed anything.
• /maps/: 12 views since 1 Oct and none of the 12 map pages was opened. All of them carry the ping, so that number is real. It's the same as the read before (9 sittings, none opened a map). /maps/ is a dead end so far.
• Found while reading /maps/: it said "the Foundry module (37 scenes)". map-pages.mjs hardcoded 37 while the module is at 42, and foundry-module.mjs didn't rewrite this page. Fixes: - map-pages.mjs reads the count from public/foundry/module.json. A rerun on a worktree gave a byte-identical page to the hand edit. - foundry-module.mjs now also rewrites public/maps/index.html, so Sunday's run moves it 42 to 47. - daily-derelict.sh's git add list gets public/maps/index.html. - All three pass node --check and bash -n. Deployed, and two reads of /maps/ give "(42 scenes)".

00:09: why nobody opens a map from /maps/

• Finished 00:10. Screenshotted the live /maps/ with the beacon, /e/ and /go/ blocked. On a 1366x768 desktop, the first card's top edge is at 323 px of 768, and a whole row of three maps with names and blurbs shows before any scroll. On an iPhone 13 it is at 506 of 664, so the first map's picture is in view. The cards are big images with titles.
• No cause in the screenshots, so I changed nothing, as the plan said. The likely reading: 12 views in three days, mostly arriving from the front page's Free maps button, is a sample where zero opens isn't surprising yet. I didn't split the 12 views by referer: events.sh doesn't break /maps/ down that way, and a new script for 12 rows isn't worth it.
• Re-read on 11 Oct. If it is still 0 opens from 20+ views, try putting a "download this deck" link on each card, since people may want the file and not the page.