dread: a heart to hear, and a dark that stops hiding you at arm's length
The heartbeat is now audible as well as felt: a thump baked from PCM into
ui/heartbeat.soundClip the first time it is needed, fired once per cycle
through playOneShot with its volume and pitch riding the same envelope that
squeezes the vignette. Silent below a quarter of the meter, 138 bpm at the
top of it.
The Pale could not previously kill anyone. Standing in lamplight it saw you
but reaching you there only costs nerve; standing in the dark it could not
see you at all, so it never closed. The dark now hides you only beyond five
metres — inside that it has you whatever the light is doing, which is what
makes a crossing a gamble instead of a safe walk.
The upgrade rows read the rules slice's published surface rather than
guessing at it, so each one prints the number that rank buys and the exact
reason it is dim, and the cards carry a tally and a WALK IT AGAIN button
wired to Rules.restart.