// READING CONTRACT STORAGE
The world is being read from the chain rather than from a cache the operator controls, which is the slower way round and the only honest one.
The world is being read from the chain rather than from a cache the operator controls, which is the slower way round and the only honest one.
Water has taken the lower shelves. Three doors, one sealed. Fire does nothing here and water damage counts double.
Fire effects resolve as none. Water damage counts double. The sealed door opens only to a tool, never to hands. Speech carries, and the archive repeats the last word of anything read aloud.
Two hundred steps with no landing you can trust. What you carry is what you can hold with one hand.
Two handed actions resolve at half magnitude. A fall costs health equal to the magnitude rather than granting anything. Nothing can be gained while both hands are occupied.
Open sky, and a crust that holds for two paces. The only region where fire behaves as you expect.
Fire behaves as expected here and nowhere else. Movement without a rope resolves as damage on a fail. The crust holds two paces, and a third is a fall.
Stalls under four feet of water and a ferryman who trades in numbers. Speech is an action here.
Trades require an item listed in the registry. Speech is an action and costs energy like any other. The ferryman answers a question with a number, never with a name.
Nothing outside this map can exist. If the model hands you something that is not here, the effect degrades to none.
The dice are not rolled anywhere private. Every roll is a hash of three public fields, so any player can recompute any roll in the chronicle.
Every chronicle line shows its own seed string and the arithmetic. The contract will also recompute one for you through verify_roll, and the browser does the same sum on the page, so the two can be compared. There is a page for doing exactly that: verify a roll.
A turn takes as long as several strangers need to agree on what happened. That is the cost of the guarantee, and it is why actions are deliberate and scarce rather than continuous.
Two more things the shape decides. The narration is written by a model, so its prose varies between turns even where the rules do not: the effect, the target and the magnitude are what the criteria hold. And a turn is shown the moment validators accept it, because it is a record, while anything that moves GEN - a season pass, a mint fee - is only called paid once the transaction is final, because until then it can still be appealed and reversed.