rpg skill: LAST ADMISSION lessons — simplifying prologues, scripted antagonists, MJ cannot count

settings.json

@@ -11,78 +11,7 @@
       "Bash(mj-capture-command *)",
       "Bash(/Users/timevans/bin/mj-gen *)",
       "Bash(/Users/timevans/bin/mj-auth-check *)",
-      "Bash(/Users/timevans/bin/mj-capture-command *)",
-      "Read",
-      "Edit",
-      "Write",
-      "Glob",
-      "Grep",
-      "Bash(git status)",
-      "Bash(git diff)",
-      "Bash(git log)",
-      "Bash(git add )",
-      "Bash(git commit )",
-      "Bash(git push)",
-      "Bash(git pull)",
-      "Bash(git branch)",
-      "Bash(git checkout )",
-      "Bash(git stash)",
-      "Bash(git fetch)",
-      "Bash(npm run )",
-      "Bash(npm install)",
-      "Bash(npm test)",
-      "Bash(npm ci)",
-      "Bash(npx )",
-      "Bash(node )",
-      "Bash(ls)",
-      "Bash(dir)",
-      "Bash(mkdir )",
-      "Bash(mv )",
-      "Bash(cp )",
-      "Bash(touch )",
-      "Bash(cat )",
-      "Bash(head )",
-      "Bash(tail )",
-      "Bash(wc )",
-      "Bash(find )",
-      "Bash(grep )",
-      "Bash(sort )",
-      "Bash(uniq )",
-      "Bash(diff )",
-      "Bash(which )",
-      "Bash(where )",
-      "Bash(echo )",
-      "Bash(pwd)",
-      "Bash(cd )",
-      "Bash(type )",
-      "Bash(file )",
-      "Bash(whoami)",
-      "Bash(hostname)",
-      "Bash(date)",
-      "Bash(yarn )",
-      "Bash(pnpm )",
-      "Bash(python )",
-      "Bash(python3 )",
-      "Bash(pip )",
-      "Bash(pip3 )",
-      "Bash(cargo )",
-      "Bash(go )",
-      "Bash(dotnet )"
-    ],
-    "deny": [
-      "Bash(rm -rf )",
-      "Bash(rm -r )",
-      "Bash(rmdir /s)",
-      "Bash(del /s)",
-      "Bash(sudo )",
-      "Bash(chmod 777)",
-      "Bash(format )",
-      "Read(.env)",
-      "Read(**/.env)",
-      "Read(**/.env.*)",
-      "Read(**/credentials*)",
-      "Read(**/*.pem)",
-      "Read(**/*.key)"
+      "Bash(/Users/timevans/bin/mj-capture-command *)"
     ]
   },
   "model": "opus",
@@ -95,7 +24,6 @@
     "feature-dev@claude-plugins-official": true,
     "huggingface-skills@claude-plugins-official": true,
     "amazon-location-service@claude-plugins-official": true,
-    "swift-lsp@claude-plugins-official": true,
     "ui-ux-pro-max@ui-ux-pro-max-skill": true,
     "impeccable@impeccable": true
   },
@@ -132,6 +60,5 @@
   "preferredNotifChannel": "terminal_bell",
   "autoUpdaterStatus": "enabled",
   "agentPushNotifEnabled": true,
-  "inputNeededNotifEnabled": true,
-  "skipWorkflowUsageWarning": true
+  "inputNeededNotifEnabled": true
 }

skills/rpg/references/lessons.md

@@ -11,33 +11,6 @@ grows into a duplicate of the skill. Several 2026-07 entries below are already
 encoded in the references; they stay as worked examples until the next pruning
 pass.
 
-## 2026-08 — DEAD AIR build (Things from the Flood, 3-hour variant)
-
-- **A sequel system is a different system — verify the core loop before
-  writing the crash-course.** Things from the Flood looks like Tales from the
-  Loop and isn't: **Luck Points are gone**, **Pride is replaced by Shame**
-  (once per session, automatic success for acting *against* it), **Scars** are
-  permanent and the second one can remove a teen from play — the "kids can't
-  die" guarantee is off. Writing the GM Essentials block from memory of the
-  parent game would have shipped four wrong rules. Check the build numbers too
-  (Flood: 14 attribute points, 10 skill points, keys ≤3, non-keys ≤1).
-- **When lore can't be verified, make the scenario canon-local and say so in a
-  numbered Design-Intent line.** Anchoring only to what's confirmed published
-  (Boulder City, the DART Loop, the Gravitron, the Bona Reactor) and inventing
-  every site, org and NPC means the Mystery drops into any table's version of
-  the setting with nothing to reconcile — and it stops the writer bluffing
-  setting detail they haven't got.
-- **The 3-hour cut of the house format** (proven shape, not a guess at the
-  table yet): Intro 15 · Act One 45 · break 5 · Act Two 60 · Act Three 30 ·
-  Epilogue 15 = 2:45 play inside a 3:00 cap, hard rule at **2:00** instead of
-  2:45. What gets cut to make it fit is *breadth*, never structure — one split
-  with two sites, one journey, one set-piece, one room. Act Three keeps its
-  full 30 minutes; it is the only budget that must not shrink.
-- **In a system where PCs can be permanently maimed, announce the stakes of
-  the set-piece before the first roll.** "Nobody dies here; failure costs
-  Conditions, and the fifth Condition is permanent" turns a swim into a real
-  decision instead of a dice formality.
-
 ## 2026-07 — AFTERIMAGE desk playtests (Blade Runner, Continuum 2026)
 
 - **Answer the obvious professional move.** Players will always try the
@@ -246,3 +219,27 @@ pass.
   yellow background instead of sky", and add "no shops". Palette drift and
   hallucinated signage are the same failure — the prompt was letting the model
   reach for a naturalistic reference photo.
+
+## 2026-08 — LAST ADMISSION (simplifying a prologue that was too complex)
+
+- **"Too complex" usually means too many things the GM must hold, not too much
+  text.** OPEN DAY's load was a minute-by-minute timetable to narrate, three
+  deliberate non-answers, and ten serial one-on-one scenes. The rewrite kept the
+  same premise engine and cut to: one building, one truth, one decision, and
+  three antagonists who each do one printed paragraph. Count the things the GM
+  must *track*, not the pages.
+- **Give an antagonist a page and let the players read it.** Printing the
+  monsters' backstory as an in-world poster — and telling the GM to say it out
+  loud — turns a puzzle into a game about scripts. Each one then gets a "script
+  break" (put the person back in the room; say his name; go indoors) that is a
+  complete answer costing nothing. Players who find one feel clever; the fight
+  stays available for players who want it.
+- **A haunted attraction is the cheapest way to hide the real thing.** A building
+  full of paid performers pretending to be ghosts means "which of these is an
+  actor" is the entire investigation and needs no explaining. It also supplies
+  bystanders, a floor manager, a body, and a reason the players are all present.
+- **Midjourney cannot count.** Two attempts at "exactly four name plates" both
+  returned three, and the second also drifted photoreal. If a *count* is
+  load-bearing in the fiction, it belongs in a handout, never in generated art —
+  a picture that contradicts the clue is worse than no picture. Cut it and
+  reassign the spare plate.