@maka/maka-cli 5.6.0 → 5.8.0

package/bundle/typescript/src/commands/game/sideQuest/game.js

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 import blessed from 'blessed';
 import { capitalCase } from 'change-case';
+import { Category } from './types/shared/item-enum.js';
+import { Item } from './models/item.js';
 import { Room } from './models/_index.js';
+import { isFence, LIFESTYLE_TIERS } from './utilities/commerce.js';
+import { rollPool, formatRoll } from './utilities/dice.js';
 import { Direction } from './types/shared/direction-enum.js';
 import { Logger } from './utilities/logger.js';
 import { LookCommand } from './commands/look.js';
@@ -47,8 +51,26 @@ import { PanCommand } from './commands/pan.js';
 import { RebootCommand } from './commands/reboot.js';
 import { BrandishCommand, HolsterCommand } from './commands/brandish.js';
 import { AdvanceCommand } from './commands/advance.js';
+import { QualityTradeCommand } from './commands/quality-trade.js';
+import { AskCommand } from './commands/ask.js';
+import { ContactsCommand } from './commands/contacts.js';
+import { JumpCommand } from './commands/jump.js';
+import { InitiateCommand } from './commands/initiate.js';
+import { SummonCommand } from './commands/summon.js';
+import { OrderCommand } from './commands/order.js';
+import { DeployCommand, AgentCommand, RecallCommand } from './commands/companions.js';
+import { InstallCommand } from './commands/install.js';
+import { BuyCommand } from './commands/buy.js';
+import { SellCommand } from './commands/sell.js';
+import { PayCommand } from './commands/pay.js';
+import { LifestyleCommand } from './commands/lifestyle.js';
+import { TreatCommand } from './commands/treat.js';
+import { WorkCommand } from './commands/work.js';
+import { EatCommand } from './commands/eat.js';
+import { DrinkCommand } from './commands/drink.js';
 import { equipIntoEmptySlots } from './archetypes.js';
 import { NPC } from './models/npc.js';
+import { CommandRegistry } from './commands/command-registry.js';
 import { HaggleCommand } from './commands/haggle.js';
 import { SneakCommand } from './commands/sneak.js';
 import { PersuadeCommand } from './commands/persuade.js';
@@ -58,6 +80,8 @@ import { CommandFactory } from './factories/command-factory.js';
 import { SceneSynthesizer } from './factories/scene-factory.js';
 import { SceneSeedGenerator, FIXER_NAME } from './factories/scene-seed-generator.js';
 import { CALL_ICON, CALL_COLOR } from './utilities/comm-style.js';
+import { AI } from '../../../tools/ai/ai.class.js';
+import { BULLET } from './utilities/log-style.js';
 export default class Game {
     initialized;
     static instance;
@@ -73,6 +97,7 @@ export default class Game {
     // give the log the whole screen.
     _screen;
     _logBox;
+    _metaBox;
     _statusBox;
     _inputBox;
     _useAi = false;
@@ -99,6 +124,476 @@ export default class Game {
     get hasHub() {
         return this._hubScene !== undefined;
     }
+    /** The active job's name (seed name) -- notoriety incidents cite it. */
+    get currentJobName() {
+        return this.sceneSeed?.name;
+    }
+    // ==================== CONTACTS (SR5e p.386-389) ====================
+    // Earned, never bought: a hub NPC becomes a contact through a real
+    // transaction (a sale, a bowl served, stitches, a fenced score), and
+    // the relationship deepens through gigs (to Loyalty 6) or patronage
+    // (money alone caps at Loyalty 3 -- cred buys familiarity, not
+    // friendship). CONNECTION is the contact's reach (role heuristic,
+    // same duck-typing school as commerce.isFence); LOYALTY is yours to
+    // grow. "ask" (commands/ask.ts) is what the roster is FOR: legwork
+    // against the real pending-run seed. One pull per contact per
+    // homecoming (asked resets in returnToHub).
+    contacts = new Map();
+    /** How much juice the name carries, read off the role. */
+    static connectionFor(npc) {
+        const hay = `${npc.description ?? ''} ${npc.name}`.toLowerCase();
+        if (npc.name === FIXER_NAME || /fixer|johnson/.test(hay))
+            return 5;
+        if (/fence|pawn|launder|smuggl|no questions/.test(hay))
+            return 4;
+        if (/talismonger|street doc|clinic|surgeon|decker|information/.test(hay))
+            return 3;
+        if (/bartender|barkeep|vendor|noodle|shop|stall|merchant|dealer|market/.test(hay))
+            return 2;
+        return 1;
+    }
+    /**
+     * HOME TURF: the hub is where the runner LIVES -- everyone in the
+     * district already knows them (player request: "all NPCs there should
+     * already know them"). Called at hub capture: the whole meat-plane
+     * cast opens at Loyalty 1 ("knows your name"), so legwork works from
+     * day one and only run-scene faces are ever strangers. Depth is still
+     * earned -- trade, gigs, patronage -- exactly as before. Ice and
+     * spirits don't do noodles: non-meat actors stay off the roster.
+     */
+    seedHomeTurfContacts() {
+        for (const actor of this._hubScene?.allActors ?? []) {
+            if (actor === this.player || actor.plane !== 'meat')
+                continue;
+            if (this.contacts.has(actor.name))
+                continue;
+            this.contacts.set(actor.name, { connection: Game.connectionFor(actor), loyalty: 1, spent: 0, gigs: 0, asked: false });
+        }
+        Logger.getInstance().write(`Home turf: ${this.contacts.size} contacts seeded from the hub cast.`);
+    }
+    // ==================== COMPANIONS: the party layer ====================
+    // Every companion is a per-scene NPC SHELL plus persistent STATE, and
+    // scene transitions are covered by narration, never instance rebinding
+    // (design decision with the player): spirits fade (RAW p.300: the
+    // summons doesn't outlast the ride), drones fold to the pack, agents
+    // into the deck -- damage lives on the bound Item and redeploys free.
+    // Tenants: summoned spirits (summon.ts), matrix agents (agent-cmd.ts),
+    // autonomous drones (deploy in drone-deploy.ts). Future tenants
+    // (enlisted allies, anthroform frames) ride the same rail with
+    // different words ("takes their own ride and meets you there").
+    // Roster invariant: entries are LIVE SHELLS only -- dismissal and
+    // death both remove the entry; persistent state (the frame, the deck)
+    // lives on Items in the player's possession, never here.
+    companions = [];
+    // Drones deployed at travel time re-shell on arrival ("the rotors spin
+    // back up at the curb") -- tracked as their items across the swap.
+    _pendingRedeploys = [];
+    /**
+     * The one correct runtime NPC spawn (mirrors scene-factory's seed
+     * path): construct with a scene-bound registry, add to the scene
+     * (names must be unique -- addActor throws), place via
+     * setCharacterLocation (the ONLY path that binds room observers), and
+     * hand it the scene for its AI context.
+     */
+    spawnCompanionShell(opts) {
+        if (this.scene.getActor(opts.name)) {
+            Logger.getInstance().write(`spawnCompanionShell: name "${opts.name}" already in scene -- refusing.`);
+            return null;
+        }
+        const npc = new NPC({
+            dialog: [],
+            description: opts.description,
+            playerConstructorConfig: { playerName: opts.name, startLocation: opts.room, combat: opts.combat },
+        }, new CommandRegistry(this.scene));
+        npc.plane = opts.plane;
+        npc.allyOf = this.player.name;
+        npc.companionKind = opts.kind;
+        npc.boundDevice = opts.boundDevice;
+        this.scene.addActor(npc);
+        this.scene.setCharacterLocation(npc, opts.room.name);
+        npc.scene = this.scene;
+        this.companions.push({ npc, kind: opts.kind, services: opts.services, force: opts.force, boundDevice: opts.boundDevice });
+        Logger.getInstance().write(`Companion spawned: ${opts.name} (${opts.kind}, force ${opts.force}) in ${opts.room.name}.`);
+        return npc;
+    }
+    /**
+     * The autonomous-drone shell, shared by the deploy command and
+     * arrival re-shelling: the frame's dog-brain (Pilot = 2 + quality)
+     * stands in for every attribute it lacks (RAW p.269-271).
+     */
+    // Cargo sling by frame class (player request: capacity enforced -- a
+    // palm-sized Fly-Spy is not a mule). Keyed by the frame Item's size.
+    static DRONE_CARGO_KG = {
+        tiny: 0.5, small: 2, medium: 8, large: 20, huge: 40,
+    };
+    deployDroneShell(item, room) {
+        const pilot = 2 + item.qualityBonus;
+        const armed = /armed|combat|gun|roto|assault|sentry|weapon/i.test(`${item.name} ${item.description ?? ''}`);
+        const shell = this.spawnCompanionShell({
+            name: `${item.name} (autopilot)`,
+            description: `${this.player.name}'s drone running its dog-brain autopilot: it follows them, watches, and ${armed ? 'shoots what threatens them' : 'has cameras where guns would go -- it never attacks'}.`,
+            kind: 'drone',
+            combat: { body: 2 + item.qualityBonus, agility: pilot, reaction: pilot, logic: pilot, intuition: pilot, willpower: pilot, strength: 1, charisma: 1, skills: { perception: pilot, ...(armed ? { firearms: pilot } : {}) } },
+            room, plane: 'meat', force: pilot, boundDevice: item,
+        });
+        // Take-command weight checks (Player.addInventory) enforce this cap
+        // for the shell exactly as they do for a runner.
+        if (shell)
+            shell.maxCarryingWeight = Game.DRONE_CARGO_KG[String(item.size)] ?? 2;
+        return shell;
+    }
+    /** Drops a companion's shell and its roster entry. */
+    dismissCompanion(entry, reason) {
+        if (this.scene.getActor(entry.npc.name) === entry.npc) {
+            // Cargo comes home with the shell (player request: fetch-and-carry
+            // runs -- a real session's drone took a credstick and had no way
+            // to hand it over). A deliberate dismissal passes whatever the
+            // shell carried to its master; without this, scene.removeActor
+            // dumps it on the floor wherever the shell happened to be.
+            const carried = entry.npc.inventory.getAllItems().map(i => i.name);
+            const delivered = carried.filter(n => entry.npc.inventory.transferItemTo(n, this.player.inventory));
+            if (delivered.length > 0) {
+                Logger.getInstance().logWithColor(`👥 From ${entry.npc.name}'s cargo, now yours: ${delivered.join(', ')}.`, 'green');
+            }
+            // Mark deliberate before removeActor fires onActorRemoved, so no
+            // wreckage is charged to a clean dismissal.
+            entry.npc.deathClaimed = true;
+            this.scene.removeActor(entry.npc.name);
+        }
+        const idx = this.companions.indexOf(entry);
+        if (idx >= 0)
+            this.companions.splice(idx, 1);
+        Logger.getInstance().write(`Companion dismissed: ${entry.npc.name} -- ${reason}`);
+    }
+    /**
+     * An actor left the world (Scene.removeActor). For a companion shell
+     * that DIED (not a deliberate dismissal -- those set deathClaimed
+     * first and prune themselves), settle the wreckage: a drone's frame is
+     * wrecked where it fell, an agent derezzes (the deck already ate the
+     * damage), a spirit is banished outright.
+     */
+    onActorRemoved(name) {
+        const entry = this.companions.find(c => c.npc.name === name);
+        if (!entry)
+            return;
+        const idx = this.companions.indexOf(entry);
+        if (idx >= 0)
+            this.companions.splice(idx, 1);
+        if (entry.kind === 'drone' && entry.boundDevice && !entry.npc.deathClaimed) {
+            entry.boundDevice.takeDroneDamage(entry.boundDevice.maxDroneBoxes);
+            Logger.getInstance().logWithColor(`👥 The ${entry.boundDevice.name} is WRECKED where it fell -- rest to repair the frame.`, 'yellow');
+        }
+        this.updateStatus();
+    }
+    /**
+     * Spirits with no services left depart once no exchange holds them
+     * (called from CombatExchange.finishExchange): the bargain is spent.
+     */
+    settleSpiritServices() {
+        for (const entry of [...this.companions]) {
+            if (entry.kind !== 'spirit' || (entry.services ?? 0) > 0)
+                continue;
+            if (entry.npc.inExchange)
+                continue;
+            // The paid fight is fought to the END. Between exchanges of the
+            // same fight inExchange is briefly false -- a real session's
+            // spirit spent its last service to join a fight and was dismissed
+            // 3ms later, before a single blow. Same freshness window as the
+            // per-fight billing in combat-exchange.
+            if (entry.npc.combatOpponent && Date.now() - entry.npc.lastExchangeAt < 60_000)
+                continue;
+            Logger.getInstance().logWithColor(`👥 ${entry.npc.name}'s bargain is spent -- it bows once and thins into nothing.`, 'green');
+            this.dismissCompanion(entry, 'services exhausted');
+            this.updateStatus();
+        }
+    }
+    // ==================== Pursuit heartbeat ====================
+    // Companions are stimulus-driven like every NPC: a directive burst ends
+    // at the reflect cap ("Max recursion reached") and a shell alone in a
+    // distant room then NEVER acts again -- a real session's drone was
+    // ordered to "find Mr. Krow", walked three rooms, and froze mid-hunt.
+    // The heartbeat re-spurs every shell with an open objective on a slow
+    // tick until it reports DONE/FAILED (which clears the objective -- see
+    // NPC.relayToMaster) or is dismissed.
+    _pursuitTimer;
+    _pursuitInFlight = new Set();
+    static PURSUIT_TICK_MS = 30_000;
+    startPursuitHeartbeat() {
+        if (this._pursuitTimer)
+            return;
+        this._pursuitTimer = setInterval(() => this.spurCompanionPursuits(), Game.PURSUIT_TICK_MS);
+        // Never hold the process open on our account.
+        this._pursuitTimer.unref?.();
+    }
+    stopPursuitHeartbeat() {
+        if (this._pursuitTimer)
+            clearInterval(this._pursuitTimer);
+        this._pursuitTimer = undefined;
+    }
+    spurCompanionPursuits() {
+        // The tick doubles as the spent-bargain sweep: finishExchange's own
+        // settle call now skips spirits whose fight is still warm (see
+        // settleSpiritServices), so without this a victorious spirit would
+        // linger at zero services forever.
+        this.settleSpiritServices();
+        if (!AI.isConfigured())
+            return;
+        for (const entry of this.companions) {
+            const npc = entry.npc;
+            if (!npc.objective)
+                continue;
+            if (npc.isIncapacitated() || npc.inExchange || npc.waitingForLull)
+                continue;
+            // A stale shell (already removed from the world) gets no spur.
+            if (this.scene.getActor(npc.name) !== npc)
+                continue;
+            // One spur in flight per shell -- a slow AI burst must not stack
+            // with the next tick.
+            if (this._pursuitInFlight.has(npc))
+                continue;
+            this._pursuitInFlight.add(npc);
+            Logger.getInstance().write(`Pursuit heartbeat: spurring ${npc.name} -- ${npc.objective}`);
+            void Promise.resolve(npc.hear(this.player, `[System note: HEARTBEAT -- your standing directive is still open: "${npc.objective}". Continue it NOW with [COMMAND] actions -- several steps if needed. If it is complete, say a line starting "DONE: <result>"; if it cannot be done, say a line starting "FAILED: <why>". Do not go quiet.]`, { viaLink: true }))
+                .catch(err => Logger.getInstance().error(`Pursuit heartbeat failed for ${npc.name}: ${err}`))
+                .finally(() => this._pursuitInFlight.delete(npc));
+        }
+    }
+    /** Pre-travel: every shell folds, each with its own goodbye. */
+    foldCompanionsForTravel() {
+        const lines = [];
+        for (const entry of [...this.companions]) {
+            if (entry.kind === 'spirit') {
+                lines.push(`Your bound spirit thins into the rain -- the summons doesn't outlast the ride.`);
+            }
+            else if (entry.kind === 'drone') {
+                lines.push(`The ${entry.boundDevice?.name ?? 'drone'} autopilots home to your hand for the ride.`);
+                if (entry.boundDevice)
+                    this._pendingRedeploys.push(entry.boundDevice);
+            }
+            else if (entry.kind === 'agent') {
+                lines.push(`Your agent folds back into the deck.`);
+            }
+            else {
+                lines.push(`${entry.npc.name} takes their own ride -- they'll meet you there.`);
+            }
+            this.dismissCompanion(entry, `travel: ${entry.kind} folds`);
+        }
+        return lines;
+    }
+    /** Post-arrival: re-shell what was deployed when you left (drones). */
+    unfoldCompanionsOnArrival() {
+        const lines = [];
+        for (const item of this._pendingRedeploys.splice(0)) {
+            if (item.isWrecked)
+                continue;
+            const shell = this.deployDroneShell(item, this.player.currentLocation);
+            if (shell)
+                lines.push(`The ${item.name}'s rotors spin back up at the curb.`);
+        }
+        return lines;
+    }
+    /**
+     * Records a real transaction with a hub NPC: first contact opens the
+     * relationship at Loyalty 1 (a safeguard -- the hub cast is pre-seeded
+     * by seedHomeTurfContacts); gigs raise it a point each (cap 6);
+     * cumulative spend raises it at each full 1,000 nuyen (cap 3).
+     * Returns a player-facing line when something changed, else null.
+     */
+    touchContact(name, kind, spent = 0) {
+        if (!this.hasHub)
+            return null;
+        const npc = this._hubScene?.allActors?.find(a => a.name === name && a !== this.player);
+        if (!npc)
+            return null;
+        let c = this.contacts.get(name);
+        if (!c) {
+            c = { connection: Game.connectionFor(npc), loyalty: 1, spent: 0, gigs: 0, asked: false };
+            this.contacts.set(name, c);
+            if (kind === 'trade')
+                c.spent += spent;
+            if (kind === 'gig')
+                c.gigs += 1;
+            Logger.getInstance().write(`Contact opened: ${name} (connection ${c.connection}).`);
+            return `${name} knows your name now -- a CONTACT (Connection ${c.connection}, Loyalty 1). ("contacts" for the roster, "ask ${name} about ..." for legwork.)`;
+        }
+        if (kind === 'gig') {
+            c.gigs += 1;
+            if (c.loyalty < 6) {
+                c.loyalty += 1;
+                return `${name} remembers who made that hand-off happen. (Loyalty ${c.loyalty}.)`;
+            }
+            return null;
+        }
+        const thousandsBefore = Math.floor(c.spent / 1000);
+        c.spent += spent;
+        if (Math.floor(c.spent / 1000) > thousandsBefore && c.loyalty < 3) {
+            c.loyalty += 1;
+            return `${name} has started keeping your usual ready. (Loyalty ${c.loyalty} -- patronage tops out at 3; run their errands to go deeper.)`;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+    // ==================== Downtime economy (hub life) ====================
+    // A fence's standing quote (see commands/sell.ts / haggle.ts): one at a
+    // time, replaced by any new quote, dead the moment the fence isn't at
+    // the counter. Lives here because sell and haggle are separate commands
+    // negotiating the same number.
+    pendingSale;
+    // LIFESTYLE (SR5e p.369, monthly costs scaled to per-job-cycle): the
+    // hideout has a tier, upkeep is charged on every homecoming
+    // (returnToHub), and the tier buys real mechanics -- rest quality at
+    // home (rest.ts) and, higher up, a bonus edge every job. Can't cover
+    // the upkeep? You slide DOWN a tier and the shortfall becomes debt --
+    // and while the tab stands, rest at the hideout recovers half (rest.ts;
+    // "pay" squares it, pay.ts; "lifestyle" views and moves tiers).
+    lifestyleTier = 'Squatter';
+    rentDebt = 0;
+    /** The active lifestyle tier's row (falls back to Squatter). */
+    get lifestyle() {
+        return LIFESTYLE_TIERS.find(t => t.name === this.lifestyleTier) ?? LIFESTYLE_TIERS[1];
+    }
+    /**
+     * Makes the hideout LOOK like what the rent buys: the room's description
+     * follows the active tier (player request -- an upgraded lifestyle read
+     * as the same windowless squat). Called wherever the tier moves: the
+     * lifestyle command, and the shortfall slide in returnToHub.
+     */
+    syncHomeToLifestyle() {
+        if (this._homeRoom)
+            this._homeRoom.description = this.lifestyle.homeDescription;
+    }
+    // RESTOCK (see returnToHub): consumable shop stock -- food, drink,
+    // ammo, patches -- snapshotted at hub capture and restored to any shelf
+    // found empty on each homecoming. Durable one-offs are deliberately NOT
+    // in the category set: the pawnshop's lockpicks, once sold, stay sold.
+    static RESTOCK_CATEGORIES = new Set([
+        Category.Food, Category.Drink, Category.Ammunition, Category.StimPatch, Category.Medical, Category.SlapPatch,
+    ]);
+    _restockSnapshot = [];
+    /** Captures every restockable shelf item's blueprint (hub capture time). */
+    snapshotVendorStock() {
+        this._restockSnapshot = [];
+        for (const room of Object.values(this.scene.getRooms())) {
+            for (const item of room.inventory.getAllItems()) {
+                if (!item.owner || !Game.RESTOCK_CATEGORIES.has(item.category))
+                    continue;
+                this._restockSnapshot.push({
+                    room: room.name,
+                    owner: item.owner,
+                    config: {
+                        name: item.name, description: item.description, size: item.size,
+                        category: item.category, shape: item.shape, color: item.color,
+                        texture: item.texture, rating: item.rating, weight: item.weight,
+                        details: item.details, price: item.price,
+                    },
+                });
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    /** Refills empty shelves from the snapshot; returns how many came back. */
+    restockVendorShelves() {
+        let restocked = 0;
+        const rooms = this.scene.getRooms();
+        for (const entry of this._restockSnapshot) {
+            const room = Object.values(rooms).find(r => r.name === entry.room);
+            if (!room || room.inventory.hasItem(entry.config.name))
+                continue;
+            const fresh = new Item(entry.config);
+            fresh.owner = entry.owner;
+            room.inventory.addItem(fresh);
+            restocked += 1;
+        }
+        return restocked;
+    }
+    /** The fence moves merchandise: anything sold to a fence is sold ON. */
+    fenceSellsOn() {
+        for (const actor of this.scene.allActors) {
+            if (actor === this.player || !isFence(actor, actor.currentLocation))
+                continue;
+            for (const item of [...actor.inventory.getAllItems()]) {
+                if (item.transferable && item.category !== Category.Commlink) {
+                    actor.inventory.removeItem(item.name);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    // SIDE GIGS (see commands/work.ts / give.ts): one small favor on offer
+    // at a time, rotating each homecoming like the rumor. Take it with
+    // "work" in front of the giver; deliver the package with "give"; the
+    // pay lands on delivery.
+    gigAvailable;
+    activeGig;
+    _gigPool = [];
+    _gigIndex = 0;
+    /** Rotates the gig on offer (skipped while one is already in hand). */
+    advanceGig() {
+        if (this._gigPool.length === 0 || this.activeGig)
+            return;
+        this.gigAvailable = this._gigPool[this._gigIndex % this._gigPool.length];
+        this._gigIndex += 1;
+    }
+    /**
+     * WORK FROM A RELATIONSHIP (see commands/ask.ts): a contact puts THEIR
+     * errand on the table. Their seeded gigs get first claim -- spliced
+     * out of the rotating pool, so work handed to you personally never
+     * reappears on the ambient board -- and when the pool holds nothing of
+     * theirs, the relationship synthesizes one: a sealed parcel to another
+     * hub local, priced off Connection (their reach IS the stakes) with a
+     * Loyalty kicker. Loyalty 5+ pays the family rate (+25%). The offer
+     * lands as gigAvailable: the existing "work" pickup and "give"
+     * delivery handle the rest unchanged.
+     */
+    offerGigFrom(contactName) {
+        const contact = this.contacts.get(contactName);
+        if (!contact || !this.hasHub || this.activeGig)
+            return null;
+        let gig = undefined;
+        const seeded = this._gigPool.findIndex(g => g.from === contactName);
+        if (seeded >= 0) {
+            gig = this._gigPool.splice(seeded, 1)[0];
+        }
+        else {
+            const locals = (this._hubScene?.allActors ?? [])
+                .filter(a => a !== this.player && a.name !== contactName && a.plane === 'meat' && !a.isIncapacitated())
+                .map(a => a.name);
+            if (locals.length === 0)
+                return null;
+            const to = locals[Math.floor(Math.random() * locals.length)];
+            const pay = 60 + contact.connection * 40 + contact.loyalty * 10;
+            gig = {
+                from: contactName,
+                to,
+                itemName: `${contactName}'s Sealed Parcel`,
+                itemDescription: `A tight-wrapped parcel, taped past curiosity. Whatever it is, ${contactName} trusts you to not ask.`,
+                pay,
+                brief: `Quiet job, no questions asked: this needs to reach ${to}, today, unopened. ${pay} nuyen on delivery.`,
+            };
+        }
+        const familyRate = contact.loyalty >= 5;
+        if (familyRate)
+            gig = { ...gig, pay: Math.round(gig.pay * 1.25) };
+        this.gigAvailable = gig;
+        Logger.getInstance().write(`Contact gig offered by ${contactName}: "${gig.itemName}" -> ${gig.to}, ${gig.pay}${familyRate ? ' (family rate)' : ''}.`);
+        return { ...gig, familyRate };
+    }
+    // FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND bounty (see commands/sell.ts): the fence pays a
+    // 50% premium on the first item of each category to cross her counter.
+    fencedCategories = new Set();
+    // Street rumors: the hub seed ships a pool (scene2.json "rumors"); one
+    // is ACTIVE at a time, rotating each time a run wraps. The active rumor
+    // is planted in the world-event mesh (every hub NPC's prompt reads it,
+    // so Mama Wu can actually gossip) and handed to the next job's skeleton
+    // prompt as its backdrop -- the street foreshadows the work.
+    _rumorPool = [];
+    _rumorIndex = 0;
+    activeRumor;
+    /** Rotates to the next rumor and plants it where NPCs will hear it. */
+    advanceRumor() {
+        if (this._rumorPool.length === 0)
+            return;
+        this.activeRumor = this._rumorPool[this._rumorIndex % this._rumorPool.length];
+        this._rumorIndex += 1;
+        this._hubScene?.addWorldEvent(`Word around the district: ${this.activeRumor}`);
+    }
     /** The persistent hideout room -- go.ts's walk-home trigger checks it. */
     get homeRoom() {
         return this._homeRoom;
@@ -242,6 +737,32 @@ export default class Game {
         CommandFactory.registerCommand('hangup', EndCallCommand);
         CommandFactory.registerCommand('advance', AdvanceCommand);
         CommandFactory.registerCommand('train', AdvanceCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('qualities', QualityTradeCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('quality', QualityTradeCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('ask', AskCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('contacts', ContactsCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('jump', JumpCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('rig', JumpCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('initiate', InitiateCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('submerge', InitiateCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('summon', SummonCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('conjure', SummonCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('order', OrderCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('deploy', DeployCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('recall', RecallCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('agent', AgentCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('install', InstallCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('chrome', InstallCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('buy', BuyCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('browse', BuyCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('sell', SellCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('pay', PayCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('eat', EatCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('drink', DrinkCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('lifestyle', LifestyleCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('treat', TreatCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('work', WorkCommand);
+        CommandFactory.registerCommand('gig', WorkCommand);
         CommandFactory.registerCommand('haggle', HaggleCommand);
         CommandFactory.registerCommand('negotiate', HaggleCommand);
         CommandFactory.registerCommand('sneak', SneakCommand);
@@ -281,6 +802,9 @@ export default class Game {
     get logBox() {
         return this._logBox;
     }
+    get metaBox() {
+        return this._metaBox;
+    }
     get inputBox() {
         return this._inputBox;
     }
@@ -289,6 +813,7 @@ export default class Game {
         this._logFilePath = options.logFilePath;
         this.initInputBox(screen);
         this.initLogBox(screen);
+        this.initMetaBox(screen);
         this.initStatusBox(screen);
         // No "Generating Scene... Please wait." box anymore: every path now
         // arrives with REAL prose (hand-authored static seeds, chunk-authored
@@ -307,9 +832,12 @@ export default class Game {
         this.player.currentLocation = this.determineStartRoom();
         this.registerCommands();
         this._screen = screen;
+        // The description follows the rent from day one (see
+        // syncHomeToLifestyle) -- a fresh session at the default Squatter tier
+        // reads exactly as the hideout always has.
         this._homeRoom = new Room({
             name: 'Your Hideout',
-            description: `A cramped, windowless room you can actually call your own -- a cot, a locker, and a door that locks from the inside. Whatever you leave here stays here, no matter where the next job takes you.`,
+            description: this.lifestyle.homeDescription,
             roomType: 'Residence',
         });
         this.scene.addRoom(this._homeRoom);
@@ -325,6 +853,17 @@ export default class Game {
         if (this.scene.isHub) {
             this._hubScene = this.scene;
             this._hubName = this.sceneSeed?.name ?? 'home';
+            // The street starts talking from minute one.
+            this._rumorPool = this.sceneSeed?.rumors ?? [];
+            this.advanceRumor();
+            // The economy wakes up with it: shelf blueprints for restocking,
+            // the first odd job on offer, and the lifestyle's edge perk.
+            this.snapshotVendorStock();
+            this._gigPool = this.sceneSeed?.gigs ?? [];
+            this.advanceGig();
+            this.player.lifestyleEdgeBonus = this.lifestyle.edgeBonus;
+            // Home turf knows its own (see seedHomeTurfContacts).
+            this.seedHomeTurfContacts();
         }
         // Gear up automatically: wearables (and the commlink) slot into any
         // EMPTY slots at load -- no "equip all" ritual to start a session
@@ -332,6 +871,7 @@ export default class Game {
         // never swapped out.
         equipIntoEmptySlots(this.player);
         this.warmNpcAppearancesInBackground();
+        this.startPursuitHeartbeat();
         this.initialized = true;
         // Nudge the player toward "call" up front -- the fixer convention means
         // the story deliberately doesn't narrate a completed briefing, so
@@ -394,11 +934,13 @@ export default class Game {
      * instant feedback, but this stays safe to call directly too).
      */
     async continueToNextScene() {
-        // Hub sessions: a finished RUN doesn't chain into the next draft --
-        // "continue" takes you home instead, and the next run is commissioned
-        // from there (call the fixer). Classic sessions skip this and keep
-        // the old continue->draft loop.
-        if (this._hubScene && this.scene !== this._hubScene && this.scene.isCompleted()) {
+        // Hub sessions: a RUN doesn't chain into the next draft -- going
+        // home is going home, and the next run is commissioned from there
+        // (call the fixer). Deliberately NOT gated on completion: the taxi
+        // will carry a runner away from a job gone sideways (see call.ts) --
+        // walking away just means the payout never landed. Classic sessions
+        // skip this and keep the old continue->draft loop.
+        if (this._hubScene && this.scene !== this._hubScene) {
             return this.returnToHub();
         }
         const gate = this.canDraftNextScene();
@@ -425,6 +967,11 @@ export default class Game {
         const hub = this._hubScene;
         if (!hub)
             return `There's no home to go back to.`;
+        // Read the run's fate BEFORE the scene swap below discards it -- a
+        // walked-away job gets a different homecoming line than a wrapped one.
+        const wrappedRun = this.scene !== hub && this.scene.isCompleted();
+        // Companions fold for the ride home, same as the trip out.
+        const companionFoldLines = this.foldCompanionsForTravel();
         // Settle cross-plane and combat state that must not leak into the hub
         // (the run's rooms -- including a bodyRoom the player left behind --
         // are about to be orphaned wholesale).
@@ -433,6 +980,7 @@ export default class Game {
         this.player.simMode = undefined;
         this.player.astralTicks = 0;
         this.player.activeDeck = undefined;
+        this.player.riggedDrone = undefined;
         this.player.astralPerceiving = false;
         this.player.sneaking = false;
         this.player.inExchange = false;
@@ -444,12 +992,63 @@ export default class Game {
         this.connectHomeRoom(hub.determineStartRoom());
         this.player.currentLocation = this._homeRoom;
         this.player.cameFrom = undefined;
+        this.pendingSale = undefined;
+        // Contacts have had time to work their networks again -- one legwork
+        // pull each per homecoming (see commands/ask.ts).
+        for (const contact of this.contacts.values())
+            contact.asked = false;
+        // LIFESTYLE upkeep comes due with the homecoming: this tier's share
+        // plus any standing debt, paid from carried cred as far as it goes.
+        // Coming up short SLIDES YOU DOWN a tier (the district notices) and
+        // the shortfall becomes the tab -- rest.ts halves recovery while you
+        // owe; "pay" squares it; "lifestyle" climbs back up.
+        const tier = this.lifestyle;
+        const due = tier.upkeep + this.rentDebt;
+        const paid = Math.min(this.player.currency, due);
+        if (paid > 0)
+            this.player.adjustCurrency(-paid);
+        this.rentDebt = due - paid;
+        let rentLine;
+        if (this.rentDebt > 0) {
+            const tierIndex = LIFESTYLE_TIERS.findIndex(t => t.name === tier.name);
+            if (tierIndex > 0) {
+                this.lifestyleTier = LIFESTYLE_TIERS[tierIndex - 1].name;
+                // The downgrade is visible the moment you look around.
+                this.syncHomeToLifestyle();
+                rentLine = `The landlord's drone pings before the door even shuts: ${paid > 0 ? `${paid} paid, ` : ''}${this.rentDebt} nuyen still owed. Your ${tier.name} arrangement lapses -- you're living ${this.lifestyleTier} now. ("pay" the tab, "lifestyle" to climb back.)`;
+            }
+            else {
+                rentLine = `Even the doorway costs something: ${this.rentDebt} nuyen on the tab. ("pay" when you're flush.)`;
+            }
+        }
+        else {
+            rentLine = `The landlord's drone takes its ${paid} nuyen (${tier.name} upkeep) at the door and buzzes off satisfied.`;
+        }
+        this.player.lifestyleEdgeBonus = this.lifestyle.edgeBonus;
+        // A High lifestyle erases the run: hot shower, real bed, full reset.
+        let comfortLine = '';
+        if (this.lifestyle.clearStunOnReturn && this.player.stunTaken > 0) {
+            const cleared = this.player.healStun(this.player.stunTaken);
+            comfortLine = `\nThe shower runs hot until the run is a rumor -- ${cleared} stun gone before your head hits the pillow.`;
+        }
+        // Fresh streets, fresh gossip, restocked shelves, new work.
+        this.advanceRumor();
+        this.fenceSellsOn();
+        const restocked = this.restockVendorShelves();
+        const restockLine = restocked > 0 ? `\nThe district has restocked around you -- the wok steams, the bar's shelf is full, the market stalls are loud again.` : '';
+        this.advanceGig();
         this.updateEquipment(this.player.equipment);
         this.updateInventory(this.player.inventory, capitalCase(this.scene.getCurrencyType()));
         this.updateExits(this.player.currentLocation);
         this.updateStatus();
-        Logger.getInstance().write(`Returned to hub "${this._hubName}".`);
-        return `\n=== ${this._hubName.toUpperCase()} ===\nThe run's wrapped and the street swallows you back up. You're home -- your hideout, one door off ${hub.determineStartRoom().name}. Call ${FIXER_NAME} when you're hungry for the next job.`;
+        Logger.getInstance().write(`Returned to hub "${this._hubName}". Lifestyle ${this.lifestyleTier}: ${paid} paid, ${this.rentDebt} owed. Restocked ${restocked}. Rumor: ${this.activeRumor ?? '(none)'}`);
+        // Drones spin back up beside the cot.
+        const companionArrivalLines = this.unfoldCompanionsOnArrival();
+        const companionBlock = [...companionFoldLines, ...companionArrivalLines];
+        const fateLine = wrappedRun
+            ? `The run's wrapped and the street swallows you back up.`
+            : `The run's behind you -- unfinished, unpaid, already someone else's problem. The street doesn't ask.`;
+        return `\n=== ${this._hubName.toUpperCase()} ===\n${fateLine} You're home -- your hideout, one door off ${hub.determineStartRoom().name}. Call ${FIXER_NAME} when you're hungry for the next job.\n${rentLine}${comfortLine}${restockLine}${companionBlock.length > 0 ? `\n${companionBlock.join('\n')}` : ''}`;
     }
     /**
      * The actual drafting work, split out from continueToNextScene() purely
@@ -481,7 +1080,7 @@ export default class Game {
         //
         // The player object rides along so the job is drafted FOR this runner
         // -- their archetype, stats, and toolkit (see buildPlayerDossier).
-        const nextSeed = await SceneSeedGenerator.generate(this._logFilePath, nextTier, previousFixerName, this.player);
+        const nextSeed = await SceneSeedGenerator.generate(this._logFilePath, nextTier, previousFixerName, this.player, this.activeRumor);
         if (!nextSeed) {
             return `Incoming call -- ${FIXER_NAME}: "Job fell through, chummer. Client got cold feet before the ink dried. Give me another call in a bit -- I'll shake something loose."`;
         }
@@ -513,20 +1112,30 @@ export default class Game {
             this.player.activeCallPartner.activeCallPartner = undefined;
             this.player.activeCallPartner = undefined;
         }
+        // Companions fold for the ride (spirits depart, drones to the pack,
+        // agents into the deck) -- their lines join the JOB banner below.
+        const companionLines = this.foldCompanionsForTravel();
         // false, false: no starter kit (the player carries their own gear
         // forward), and no blocking AI-redressing pass either -- the chunked
         // rooms pass already wrote this scene's prose.
         this.scene = await SceneSynthesizer.synthesizeFromJson(seed, this.player, false, false);
         this.scene.initialize(this);
         this.player.currentLocation = this.determineStartRoom();
-        // New job, fresh luck (see commands/edge.ts).
-        this.player.refreshEdge();
-        // The home base is owned by Game, not any one Scene -- re-inject it and
-        // rewire its one exit to point at this job's start room.
-        this.scene.addRoom(this._homeRoom);
-        this.connectHomeRoom(this.player.currentLocation);
-        if (opts.startInHideout) {
-            this.player.currentLocation = this._homeRoom;
+        // New job -- and the needs come due at the door (see
+        // applyDepartureNeeds): edge only refills fed-and-slept, and ignored
+        // needs land as locked fatigue. Lines ride the JOB banner below.
+        const needsLines = this.applyDepartureNeeds();
+        // The home base is owned by Game, not any one Scene. HUB sessions
+        // leave it OUT of run scenes (player request): your cot is across
+        // town, not stapled to the jobsite -- the taxi ("call taxi", fare on
+        // the tab if you're broke) is the road home. Classic sessions keep
+        // the hideout adjacent as always: it's the only home they have.
+        if (!this.hasHub) {
+            this.scene.addRoom(this._homeRoom);
+            this.connectHomeRoom(this.player.currentLocation);
+            if (opts.startInHideout) {
+                this.player.currentLocation = this._homeRoom;
+            }
         }
         this.updateEquipment(this.player.equipment);
         this.updateInventory(this.player.inventory, capitalCase(this.scene.getCurrencyType()));
@@ -534,8 +1143,72 @@ export default class Game {
         this.updateStatus();
         // Fresh streets, no trail yet (see Player.cameFrom / the HUD crumb).
         this.player.cameFrom = undefined;
+        // Deployed drones spin back up at the curb -- BEFORE appearance
+        // warming so re-shelled companions get warmed with the cast.
+        const arrivalLines = this.unfoldCompanionsOnArrival();
         this.warmNpcAppearancesInBackground();
-        return `\n=== JOB #${this._tier}: ${seed.name} ===\n${this.scene.story}`;
+        const companionBlock = [...companionLines, ...arrivalLines];
+        return `\n=== JOB #${this._tier}: ${seed.name} ===\n${this.scene.story}${needsLines.length > 0 ? `\n${needsLines.join('\n')}` : ''}${companionBlock.length > 0 ? `\n${companionBlock.join('\n')}` : ''}`;
+    }
+    /**
+     * The needs check at every job departure (SR5e p.56 / p.172, scaled to
+     * job-cycle "days"). Fed AND slept since the last departure: edge
+     * refills and you head out sharp. Skip either: edge stays at whatever's
+     * left. Keep skipping: escalating fatigue (1S, 2S, 3S... per cycle),
+     * resisted Body + Willpower, landing as LOCKED stun no recovery touches
+     * until the need is met (Player.healStun / markFed / markSlept). A
+     * Sleep Regulator (augmentations.ts) halves the effective sleep debt.
+     * Fatigue is capped one box short of a knockout -- RAW would drop you,
+     * but collapsing INSIDE the departure transition would strand the
+     * session between scenes; "running on fumes" carries the spirit.
+     */
+    applyDepartureNeeds() {
+        const p = this.player;
+        const fed = p.ateThisCycle;
+        const slept = p.sleptThisCycle;
+        const lines = [];
+        p.hungerStreak = fed ? 0 : p.hungerStreak + 1;
+        p.sleepStreak = slept ? 0 : p.sleepStreak + 1;
+        p.refreshEdge(fed && slept);
+        if (fed && slept) {
+            lines.push(`Fed and slept -- you head out SHARP. (Edge ${p.edgeRemaining}/${p.edge + p.lifestyleEdgeBonus}.)`);
+        }
+        else {
+            const missing = !fed && !slept ? 'meal and no sleep' : !fed ? 'meal' : 'sleep';
+            lines.push(`No ${missing} since the last job -- your edge doesn't come back (${p.edgeRemaining} left). A hot meal and a night in your own bed reset it.`);
+        }
+        // Escalating, resisted, LOCKED fatigue per ignored need.
+        const events = [];
+        if (p.hungerStreak > 0) {
+            events.push({ kind: 'hunger', label: 'Hunger', dmg: p.hungerStreak });
+        }
+        const effectiveSleepDebt = p.hasAug('sleep-regulator') ? Math.floor(p.sleepStreak / 2) : p.sleepStreak;
+        if (effectiveSleepDebt > 0) {
+            events.push({ kind: 'sleep', label: 'Sleep deprivation', dmg: effectiveSleepDebt });
+        }
+        for (const event of events) {
+            const resist = rollPool(Math.max(1, p.body + p.willpower));
+            const taken = Math.max(0, event.dmg - resist.hits);
+            const headroom = Math.max(0, p.maxStunBoxes - p.stunTaken - 1);
+            const applied = Math.min(taken, headroom);
+            if (applied > 0) {
+                p.takeStun(applied);
+                p.addLockedFatigue(event.kind, applied);
+                lines.push(`${event.label} (${event.dmg}S): resist ${formatRoll(resist)} -- ${applied} stun, and it will NOT heal until you ${event.kind === 'hunger' ? 'eat' : 'sleep'}: ${p.stunSummary()}`);
+            }
+            else if (taken > 0) {
+                lines.push(`${event.label} (${event.dmg}S): resist ${formatRoll(resist)} -- you're running on fumes; there's barely anything left to take.`);
+            }
+            else {
+                lines.push(`${event.label} (${event.dmg}S): resist ${formatRoll(resist)} -- you shake it off. For now.`);
+            }
+            Logger.getInstance().write(`Departure needs: ${event.label} ${event.dmg}S, resisted ${resist.hits}, applied ${applied} (locked).`);
+        }
+        // The new cycle starts unfed and unslept -- Wu's counter and your own
+        // cot are how these flip back (use.ts eat / rest.ts at a Residence).
+        p.ateThisCycle = false;
+        p.sleptThisCycle = false;
+        return lines;
     }
     /**
      * "travel": takes the arranged transport to the pending job (see
@@ -569,6 +1242,7 @@ export default class Game {
         }
     }
     async close() {
+        this.stopPursuitHeartbeat();
         this._inputBox.removeAllListeners(); // removes all event listeners
         this._inputBox.cancel(); // cancels any active input session
         this._inputBox.detach(); // optionally remove from screen
@@ -588,8 +1262,13 @@ export default class Game {
             border: { type: 'line' },
             style: { fg: 'white', border: { fg: 'cyan' } },
             keys: true, // Enable keyboard input
-            mouse: true, // Enable mouse input
-            inputOnFocus: true, // Focus the text input when clicked,
+            // NO mouse -- deliberately. Any widget with mouse:true makes
+            // blessed arm xterm mouse tracking (?1000h/?1002h/?1003h/?1005h),
+            // and three real sessions ended with the whole process tree dying
+            // hard (no JS cleanup possible) and the shell flooded by raw mouse
+            // reports on every cursor move. The input box is auto-focused and
+            // keyboard-driven; click-to-focus bought nothing worth that risk.
+            inputOnFocus: true,
             vi: true
         });
         this._inputBox = inputBox;
@@ -620,13 +1299,17 @@ export default class Game {
             id: 'logBox',
             top: '0%',
             left: '0%',
-            width: '100%',
+            // COLUMNS, not rows (playtest note: a 3-row Mechanics strip made
+            // combat rolls "near impossible to read" -- they scrolled out as
+            // fast as they landed). The world log takes the left ~two-thirds;
+            // the Mechanics column stands full-height beside it.
+            width: '65%',
             // Fixed-row footer: 8 rows of HUD (status box) + 3 rows of input.
             height: '100%-11',
             border: {
                 type: 'line'
             },
-            label: ' Game Log ',
+            label: ' Game Log (PgUp/PgDn to scroll) ',
             scrollable: true, // Enable scrolling
             alwaysScroll: true,
             scrollbar: {
@@ -639,13 +1322,90 @@ export default class Game {
                 }
             },
             keys: true, // Enable keyboard input
-            mouse: true, // Enable mouse input
+            // NO mouse (see initInputBox): never arm mouse tracking. The log
+            // auto-scrolls (alwaysScroll) and keys/vi still scroll it when
+            // focused -- wheel-scroll wasn't worth shells full of coordinate
+            // bytes every time a session died hard.
             tags: true // Intercept tags
         });
         this._logBox = logBox;
-        logBox.removeAllListeners('mousemove');
+        // Scrolling without focus (player report: "can't scroll the game log
+        // anymore"): focus lives in the input box on every path, so the
+        // box's own keys never fire, and the wheel died with mouse tracking.
+        // SCREEN-level PgUp/PgDn scroll the log while you keep typing; while
+        // you're up in history, followBottom stops every new line from
+        // yanking the view back down (Logger.log and ui.ts honor it).
+        // Paging back to the bottom -- or End -- re-engages the follow.
+        logBox.followBottom = true;
+        const page = () => Math.max(1, (typeof logBox.height === 'number' ? logBox.height : 20) - 3);
+        const setFollow = (on) => {
+            logBox.followBottom = on;
+            logBox.setLabel(on ? ' Game Log (PgUp/PgDn to scroll) ' : ' Game Log -- SCROLLED (End to follow) ');
+        };
+        const atBottom = () => logBox.getScrollPerc() >= 100 || logBox.getScrollHeight() <= page() + 3;
+        screen.key(['pageup'], () => {
+            logBox.scroll(-page());
+            setFollow(false);
+            screen.render();
+        });
+        screen.key(['pagedown'], () => {
+            logBox.scroll(page());
+            if (atBottom())
+                setFollow(true);
+            screen.render();
+        });
+        screen.key(['end'], () => {
+            logBox.scrollTo(logBox.getScrollHeight());
+            setFollow(true);
+            screen.render();
+        });
         screen.append(logBox);
     }
+    /**
+     * Scroll the log to its tail -- unless the player has paged up to read
+     * history (followBottom off), in which case their place is left alone.
+     * Every "new line arrived" site goes through here.
+     */
+    followLog() {
+        const box = this._logBox;
+        if (!box || box.followBottom === false)
+            return;
+        box.scrollTo(box.getScrollHeight());
+    }
+    /**
+     * The MECHANICS column (readability pass, player request: the log was
+     * a "wall of text"): dice anatomy and resource arithmetic land here
+     * (via Logger.meta) instead of the world log, so the narrative stays
+     * prose. A full-height COLUMN beside the world log, not a bottom
+     * strip -- the first playtest's 3-row ticker scrolled combat rolls
+     * away faster than they could be read. De-emphasis is the BLUE border
+     * -- gray is banned (ANSI bright-black, illegible on stock dark
+     * palettes). Follow-only (no keys); the full interleaved record lives
+     * in session.log. Roll lines wrap at the column width -- fine in a
+     * tall column. NO mouse (see initInputBox): never arm mouse tracking.
+     */
+    initMetaBox(screen) {
+        const metaBox = blessed.box({
+            id: 'metaBox',
+            top: '0%',
+            left: '65%',
+            width: '35%',
+            // Same height as the world log: HUD (8) + input (3) below both.
+            height: '100%-11',
+            border: {
+                type: 'line'
+            },
+            style: {
+                border: { fg: 'blue' }
+            },
+            label: ' Mechanics ',
+            scrollable: true,
+            alwaysScroll: true,
+            tags: true,
+        });
+        this._metaBox = metaBox;
+        screen.append(metaBox);
+    }
     /**
      * The HUD: a fixed strip between the log and the input box for the
      * important real-time state -- condition tracks, armed/link status,
@@ -762,6 +1522,30 @@ export default class Game {
         if (player.activeCallPartner) {
             lines.push(`{${CALL_COLOR}-fg}${CALL_ICON} On a call with ${player.activeCallPartner.name}{/${CALL_COLOR}-fg}`);
         }
+        // The party: one line per live companion shell, with the tracks that
+        // matter for its kind. A spirit shows its BODY too (it's a full
+        // Force-statted combatant and hits land on it -- player request:
+        // the track was real but invisible); drones show hull, agents deck.
+        for (const c of this.companions) {
+            const track = c.kind === 'spirit'
+                ? `${c.services ?? 0} service${(c.services ?? 0) === 1 ? '' : 's'}  ${c.npc.conditionSummary()}${c.npc.stunTaken > 0 ? `  stun ${c.npc.stunSummary()}` : ''}`
+                : c.kind === 'drone' && c.boundDevice ? `hull ${c.boundDevice.droneSummary()}`
+                    : c.kind === 'agent' && c.boundDevice ? `deck ${c.boundDevice.deckSummary()}`
+                        : c.npc.conditionSummary();
+            // Each kind speaks its own language (a real rigger session read a
+            // generic "(F3)" as spell Force on a Fly-Spy): drones fly on a
+            // PILOT rating, agents run at a RATING, and a spirit's Force is
+            // already in its name.
+            const grade = c.kind === 'drone' ? `Pilot ${c.force} -- ` : c.kind === 'agent' ? `Rating ${c.force} -- ` : '';
+            lines.push(`{green-fg}👥 ${c.npc.name} -- ${grade}${track}{/green-fg}`);
+        }
+        // DECK-AR INDICATOR (player request): "Link online" is the
+        // COMMLINK's AR overlay; this is the DECK's -- lit when an agent
+        // works the grid while you're back in the meat (the AR-drop exit).
+        const remoteAgent = this.companions.find(c => c.kind === 'agent');
+        if (remoteAgent && player.plane !== 'matrix') {
+            lines.push(`{cyan-fg}▣ DECK IN AR -- ${remoteAgent.npc.name} on the grid${remoteAgent.npc.objective ? ', working its directive' : ''} ("jack in" to rejoin it, "recall" to fold it home){/cyan-fg}`);
+        }
         // Off-plane context: which reality you're in, your persona's Matrix
         // track (cold-sim damage lands there), and where your empty body lies.
         if (player.plane === 'matrix') {
@@ -776,6 +1560,15 @@ export default class Game {
         else if (player.plane === 'astral') {
             lines.push(`{magenta-fg}✧ ASTRAL -- ${player.astralTicks} move${player.astralTicks === 1 ? '' : 's'} out -- body at ${player.bodyRoom?.name ?? '???'}{/magenta-fg}`);
         }
+        else if (player.plane === 'drone') {
+            // Jumped-in: the HULL is the track that matters (attacks land there,
+            // half bleeding through the link), so it lives on the HUD alongside
+            // where the empty body was left.
+            const drone = player.riggedDrone;
+            const hull = drone ? `  Hull ${drone.droneSummary()}` : '';
+            const mount = player.droneArmed ? ' ⌖ armed' : ' (recon -- no mounts)';
+            lines.push(`{yellow-fg}✈ JUMPED IN: ${drone?.name ?? 'drone'} ${(player.simMode ?? 'cold').toUpperCase()}-SIM${mount}${hull} -- body at ${player.bodyRoom?.name ?? '???'}{/yellow-fg}`);
+        }
         this._statusBox.setContent(lines.join('\n'));
         this._screen.render();
     }
@@ -860,7 +1653,10 @@ export default class Game {
                 return `I don't understand "${verb}" -- did you mean "${guess}"?`;
             }
             const corrected = await this.handleInput([guess, ...args].join(' '));
-            return corrected === null ? null : `(read "${verb}" as "${guess}")\n${corrected ?? ''}`;
+            // The correction note is bookkeeping -- Mechanics ticker, not the
+            // narrative (readability pass).
+            Logger.getInstance().meta(`(read "${verb}" as "${guess}")`);
+            return corrected;
         }
         return `I don't understand the command "${verb}".`;
     }
@@ -876,12 +1672,13 @@ export default class Game {
     static HELP_CATEGORIES = [
         { title: 'moving', entries: [['look'], ['go'], ['map', 'exits'], ['search'], ['sneak']] },
         { title: 'gear', entries: [['inv', 'inventory'], ['equipment', 'eq'], ['take'], ['drop'], ['give'], ['store'], ['equip'], ['unequip'], ['brandish', 'draw'], ['holster', 'stow'], ['reload'], ['use'], ['read']] },
-        { title: 'combat', entries: [['attack', 'kill'], ['subdue'], ['stance'], ['surrender'], ['edge'], ['rest']] },
-        { title: 'magic', entries: [['spells'], ['cast'], ['project'], ['return'], ['assense']] },
-        { title: 'matrix', entries: [['jack'], ['hack'], ['pan'], ['silent'], ['reboot'], ['drone']] },
-        { title: 'social', entries: [['say'], ['talk-to'], ['call'], ['end-call', 'end', 'hangup'], ['haggle', 'negotiate'], ['persuade', 'convince']] },
+        { title: 'combat', entries: [['attack', 'kill'], ['subdue'], ['order'], ['stance'], ['surrender'], ['edge'], ['rest']] },
+        { title: 'magic', entries: [['spells'], ['cast'], ['summon', 'conjure'], ['project'], ['return'], ['assense']] },
+        { title: 'matrix', entries: [['jack'], ['hack'], ['pan'], ['silent'], ['reboot'], ['agent'], ['drone'], ['deploy'], ['recall'], ['jump', 'rig']] },
+        { title: 'social', entries: [['say'], ['talk-to'], ['call'], ['end-call', 'end', 'hangup'], ['haggle', 'negotiate'], ['persuade', 'convince'], ['ask'], ['contacts']] },
+        { title: 'street', entries: [['browse', 'buy'], ['sell'], ['work', 'gig'], ['treat'], ['eat'], ['drink'], ['lifestyle'], ['pay']] },
         { title: 'barriers', entries: [['solve'], ['pick'], ['bluff'], ['unlock'], ['lock']] },
-        { title: 'character', entries: [['sheet', 'stats'], ['advance', 'train']] },
+        { title: 'character', entries: [['sheet', 'stats'], ['advance', 'train'], ['qualities', 'quality'], ['initiate', 'submerge'], ['install', 'chrome']] },
         { title: 'session', entries: [['help'], ['clear'], ['quit', 'exit']] },
     ];
     /** Descriptions for the verbs handled inline in handleInput() rather than registered. */
@@ -910,7 +1707,7 @@ export default class Game {
                 const category = Game.HELP_CATEGORIES.find(c => c.title === pickedCategory);
                 const lines = [`=== ${category.title.toUpperCase()} ===`];
                 for (const [primary, ...aliases] of category.entries) {
-                    lines.push(`- ${primary}${aliases.length > 0 ? ` (${aliases.join(', ')})` : ''}: ${this.describeVerb(primary)}`);
+                    lines.push(`${BULLET}${primary}${aliases.length > 0 ? ` (${aliases.join(', ')})` : ''}: ${this.describeVerb(primary)}`);
                 }
                 return lines.join('\n');
             }