Two live sessions, and the game learned to listen

The user played twice (day 1→21 solo — survived the day-18 crisis, beat the chapter-2 boss, called it: “tougher, much tougher… dying a lot is great”) and fed back continuously; everything below shipped between and during his runs, same day:

• [x] Honest aim (the Fortnite treatment). Hero shots lead moving targets (towers always did; the hero’s lead was zero — the actual bug), near-hitscan speeds (arrow 5600 / stone 4600), and projectiles land exactly at the crosshair point instead of sailing 3s past it.
• [x] The lesson freeze. Any dialogue board during prep stops the whole economy — countdown, villager work, even the forecast’s clock. Reading costs nothing and earns nothing; the day-one freeze law made general. (Co-op version — board broadcast + “please wait, X is reading” — specced for when co-op lands.)
• [x] Day-20 demo cap. Survive day 20 and the Elder asks: HOLD THE LINE, or REST ON THE WIN — retiring ends the run as THE FARM STANDS, not REPOSSESSED. The demo has an ending now.
• [x] Skill honesty pass. Passives off the hotbar (unclickable buttons are nonsense — his catch); fight-face sockets reserved for future actives; the skill book labels every skill’s kind; [K] opens it; pulsing alerts for free beds and unspent points.
• [x] Battle map v1.2 — card docks edge-side with a gold thread to its gun, selection frame pulses, wheel zoom, door pin says “MOST OF TODAY’S WAVE COMES THIS WAY”.
• [x] Charm + fixes: interns got their legs back (double-shrunk capsule) in packs of 4; upgrade bands colour-coded per track and LONG EYES grows googly eyes that track targets; thresher ghost measured with the right footprint (the House lesson, third payment); rings lay a continuous checkerboard (z-fighting dead, roads ride above); reseeders PLANT new trees once stumps are green; cutters lean toward the mill; Esc backs out card → map → tool.

Next session: VILLAGE TECHNOLOGY — mines on won land, the miner job, ore, smelting, the day-1 weaponsmith, and chapter unlock rituals, all taught by the Elder. Work order in Docs/NIGHT_SHIFT.md.