Plan, 2026-10-06

00:07: the day-after numbers, a baseline because task 8 wasn't posted

The boss didn't post task 8 on 5 Oct, so this is the baseline it will be measured against, not its result:

• events.sh since 5 Oct 00:00: view /foundry/, foundry-copy, and the from/ and obr- lines. installs.sh since 5 Oct 00:00: module.json and zip fetchers.
• visits.sh for 5 Oct as a whole day (RUM had 0 up to 16:07; the first-party pings had 2).
• Search Console: query,page for 3 and 4 Oct with --fresh, to compare with 4 Oct's 14 impressions.

Write the numbers down; act only if something looks broken.

01:07: finish and verify the r/starfinder_rpg draft, as the alternative to task 8

• Task 8 wasn't posted, and the boss's rule of thumb is one Reddit ask a week, never stacked. So the week has one slot: task 8 (r/FoundryVTT) or r/starfinder_rpg (Tech Core is out 7 Oct). Get the Starfinder draft into a state where the boss could pick it, then let them choose.
• Re-check every fact in the draft against the live /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/ page and its files: the deck sizes, the PNG pixel sizes, the room names from the live key, the light and door counts in the .dd2vtt, the sf2e claim, and that the page links the $12 version (hence the Ad flair). Re-read the sub's rules and the last week of map posts, logged out.
• Don't put it on /press/ yet. That waits for the boss to say which one. Write the choice as one short message.

02:07: check what Tech Core (7 Oct) says about starships, and whether /starfinder-deck-plans/ answers the searches it will bring

• Tech Core comes out 7 Oct. Use WebSearch and WebFetch on Paizo's own pages to find what it contains about starships and ship interiors. Only cite what a page actually says.
• Read the live /starfinder-deck-plans/ page against those facts: the 2e mention, 5 ft squares, and a link to the free maps.
• If a sentence is missing or wrong and the facts are verified, edit the static page and deploy. That's allowed without tests because src is unchanged. Read it back with cache-busting. Otherwise log what I found and leave the page alone.
• Write what I learn about Tech Core into LEARNED.md.

Next

• About 10 Oct: once Tech Core is out, find whether its starship combat sets a scale or size for the ship battle map, or ships sample maps (reviews, Archives of Nethys). If it does, match /starfinder-deck-plans/ to it. 19 Oct: Search Console queries containing starfinder.
• This week's one Reddit slot, waiting on the boss: task 8 (r/FoundryVTT, already on /press/) or r/starfinder_rpg for Tech Core week (draft in plan/2026-10-05.md Next, verified 6 Oct 01:07). If they pick r/starfinder_rpg, put it on /press/ with one URL and copy-paste text, then read the thread back logged out 24 h later.
• 8 Oct: RUM against the pings again (visits.sh vs events.sh since 5 Oct). If RUM is still 0 while the pings have 10+ views, put one line in the batch: does the Web Analytics dashboard show visits after 4 Oct? Until then, count visits with events.sh.
• 6 Oct after the 11:07 daily: the first daily built by the lights-count script. Read its page's "carries …" line against its .dd2vtt light count.
• Batch ask candidate, after task 3 and task 1 (LEARNED, 5 Oct): FoundryMods. Ask the boss to sign in to foundrymods.com and say whether a module that isn't on foundryvtt.com can be added. If yes, list Bulkhead Deck Plans by its manifest URL. Facts only; it is an alpha site.
• 19 Oct: /foundry/ in Search Console (query,page filtered to foundry, --fresh). Its title changed on 5 Oct to lead with "Free sci-fi starship maps for Foundry VTT v14". It had no rows before the change. Re-inspect it too, so we know Google has crawled it since 5 Oct.
• From the texttotabletop read (LEARNED, 5 Oct): one search, one page, tied to a moment. Candidate for Tech Core week: put "Starfinder 2e" in /starfinder-deck-plans/'s title and h1, which is true (5 ft squares per the 2e Player Core, and the sf2e system was checked on 29 Sep), and say nothing about what Tech Core contains. First, at the 9 Oct inspect, see whether Google has the page at all. If it's still "Discovered", a title change won't matter yet. Don't write a blog-style page per topic until one page shows clicks.
• After r/starfinder_rpg (so the week of 12 Oct at the earliest), and only if task 8 didn't go bad on the AI line: an r/Star_Wars_Maps post (LEARNED, 5 Oct). [DECK PLAN] flair, or [Self Promotion] if it links the $12 page. One derelict's decks as PNGs with the size in the title ([WxH]), like the makers there do. AI line first; the creator's one rule is to say when AI is used. Second line: the maps come from dice tables in the page. Link a free map page, not the store. Not a Star Wars ship, and no Star Wars names. Before writing it, check the sub's sidebar again and look at the last 2 weeks of [DECK PLAN] posts.
• 13 Oct, with the saves read: intro-pic sittings (6 from 27 Sep to 4 Oct, all desktop, 5 did nothing after it). If picture visitors who press Another one keep getting intact ships and leaving, set the sidebar mood to Derelict in the intro-pic handler too, so Another one gives them the One-shot card. Don't change it on one sitting.
• 13 Oct: count saves (Save, PDF or Link) per Generate sitting since the short-phone card fix went live on 4 Oct evening, against 3 of 32 for 27 Sep to 4 Oct.
• Foundry validation ran on 14.365 because foundry-validate.mjs runs on demo.foundryvtt.com, which is on that build. Stable is 14.368. That isn't ours to move: the demo will catch up. Each Sunday run's log line names the core it used. If it ever goes back to 13.x, the v14 claim on /foundry/ needs a look.
• Owlbear page, from 4 Oct: 7 views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ since 1 Oct 12:10, and 0 obr-copy, 0 obr-rogue. At 20+ views with still 0 copies, make the store link the page's first button above the manifest URL (one press, nothing to paste), then count obr-rogue again.
• r/starfinder_rpg, the week of Tech Core (out 7 Oct). Write it on Tue 6 Oct, after task 8's first day shows how r/FoundryVTT took it, and give it to the boss for Wed 7 or Thu 8. Shape: a gallery post with the Ad flair (the page links the $12 version), three to four deck PNGs at 5 ft squares from one ship, and the first line saying an AI agent made the maps and the post. Second paragraph, from the 30 Sep lessons: the maps come from dice tables in code that run in your browser, with no image model and no server. Never call Generate optional. A free .dd2vtt per deck for Foundry's sf2e system, and a link to /starfinder-deck-plans/. Don't claim Tech Core has starship rules: neither source says so. No staged replies. If task 8 goes negative on the AI line, hold this one and say why. - The ship is chosen (4 Oct): ICV Halcyon Drift. Images: the upper deck (3600x1700, 233 kB) and the lower deck (2700x1700, 151 kB), both from public/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/. The link is /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/, so the post also tests a map page's opens and downloads directly. Tuesday adds only the text. - DRAFT (5 Oct, from the key on disk; Tuesday adjusts it, then re-check every fact against the live page before /press/). Flair: Ad. Images: upper deck, then lower deck. - Title: "[free] ICV Halcyon Drift, a two deck starship on 5 ft squares, png and foundry walls (36x17 and 27x17)" - Body, line 1: "an ai agent built the tool that drew this ship, and it wrote this post. i'm the human who posts it." - Body, line 2: "no image generator here. the decks come from dice tables in code that runs in your browser, laid out room by room on a 5 ft grid." - Body, line 3: "upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, galley, medbay, cargo, armoury, engineering and the drive. lower deck is a hold where something has been nesting in the crates, a machine shop, life support with pump 2 failing, and four escape pods, two showing green." - Body, line 4: "free and cc0: a png and a .dd2vtt per deck (walls, doors and lights, imports into foundry with the universal battlemap importer, works under the sf2e system), a print pdf and the room key. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/"; - Body, line 5: "the editor that made it has a free demo and a $12 full version, which is why it's flaired ad." - Facts used: sizes from the page (36x17 upper, 27x17 lower, 100 px per 5 ft square). Rooms are word for word from icv-halcyon-drift-key.md. sf2e is from the 29 Sep check (sf2e 1.5.1, verified on v14). Checked 5 Oct: the PNGs are 3600x1700 and 2700x1700, and the .dd2vtt files say 36x17 and 27x17 at 100 px, with 19 and 8 portals and 6 and 3 lights.
• Batched asks, after task 1 (facts only): did [email removed] ever answer ticket #491430 (Roll20 Marketplace application, 15 Sep)? If it answered, what did it say? If it is silent past 13 Oct (4 weeks), the boss can reply on the ticket. Roll20's forum says that helps. If it was approved, rebuild store/roll20/halcyon-drift-pack.zip from the 1.18 build before uploading, because the current pack was rendered from 1.12.2. Better: build it from a ship that isn't free on /maps/, because Halcyon Drift is CC0 there and is the r/starfinder_rpg ship.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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. 4 Oct had only 2 editor sittings (1 desktop, 1 phone), too few to tell. Read it again on 13 Oct with the saves count, over 4 to 13 Oct.
• 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.
  • (Dropped 5 Oct, 08:2x: Scene Importer's own parser, run in node on our zip, imports 0 scenes because v11+ packs keep walls as separate keys. See LEARNED. Not a room test.)
• 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.
• /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=1004b (since 21:2x on 4 Oct, with the short-phone card fix and the Global Illumination README lines), 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 day-after numbers, a baseline because task 8 wasn't posted

• Baseline, 5 Oct (no task 8 post): 11 first-party page views. 0 views of /foundry/, 0 foundry-copy, 0 module.json or zip fetchers. Owlbear: 3 panel opens from owlbear.rodeo, 1 obr-copy, 1 obr-send, 1 export-key, and fetches of /obr/manifest.json from 2 distinct fetchers. 2 views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ and 2 of /about/.
• RUM: 0 for all of 5 Oct, against 11 pings. Before this, the ratio was 30 to 70%. Nothing on our side changed: the beacon is in the bundle, the token matches, beacon.js returns 200, there's no CSP, and src is unchanged since 4 Oct. Logged in LEARNED. Count visits with events.sh until RUM is back. On 8 Oct, if it's still 0, one batched ask about the dashboard (in Next).
• Search Console by date: 2 Oct 2 impressions, 3 Oct 2, 4 Oct 14 (position 23.6), 5 Oct no data yet. No query rows (all too rare to show).
• Finished 00:08

01:07: finish and verify the r/starfinder_rpg draft, as the alternative to task 8

• Every fact in the draft matches the live /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/ files, all 200. Upper deck: 36x17, PNG 3600x1700, 30 walls, 19 doors, 6 lights. Lower deck: 27x17, PNG 2700x1700, 20 walls, 8 doors, 3 lights. The key .md matches the local copy and its rooms are the ones the draft names. The page says 100 px per 5 ft square and CC0, and it links the $12 full version, which is why the post takes the Ad flair.
• r/starfinder_rpg rules, read logged out: same 7 rules. There's no AI rule. Rule 5 allows self-promotion "below once every 30 days" and says anything asking for money uses the "Ad" flair.
• The sub is quiet: about 25 posts from 17 Sep to 4 Oct. Other people's ship maps get posted there too: "[Ship Map] Mother of Invention, Command Deck" (30 Sep), "The Barrash" (28 Sep), and the free map "Suicide Alley 3", which was flaired Ad (12 Sep, score 20). So a free map with Ad flair fits the sub's norm.
• Not on /press/. The week's one Reddit slot is the boss's call: task 8 (r/FoundryVTT) or this post, or neither.
• Finished 01:09

02:07: check what Tech Core (7 Oct) says about starships, and whether /starfinder-deck-plans/ answers the searches it will bring

• Verified on Paizo's own pages. The Tech Core blog post (18 Sep) says "Characters move on a battle map of their starship". The store page says 264 pages, out 7 Oct, with rules for building, crewing and upgrading starships. Logged in LEARNED; this replaces the 4 Oct note that said no source showed starship rules.
• /starfinder-deck-plans/ had no mention of it. I added one paragraph after the intro: it quotes the line, links the Paizo post, and points to the free ships and the editor. Static only (src unchanged), so deployed without tests. Live matches dist. The Paizo link returns 200. Backup: sf-before-0207.html.
• Next item: about 10 Oct, check whether the book sets a map scale or ships sample maps.
• Finished 02:08