feat(intro): condensed tester teaching card so the short arc explains the loop

app.py

@@ -258,13 +258,14 @@ _INTRO_IMAGES = [
     _img_uri("assets/intro_keeps.webp"),
     _img_uri("assets/intro_waiting.webp"),
     _img_uri("assets/intro_meeting.webp"),
+    _img_uri("assets/intro_waiting.webp"),   # 4 — tester condensed card (reuses the waiting art)
 ]
 # Per-card focal point for the 16:10 cover-crop (CSS background-position).
 # Card order matches INTRO_CARDS: threshold, keeps, waiting, meeting.
 # Per-card focal point for the 16:10 cover-crop (CSS background-position).
 # Raised so each subject sits high and the dialogue box covers emptier area.
 # Card order matches INTRO_CARDS: threshold, keeps, waiting, meeting.
-_INTRO_POS = ["center 72%", "center 38%", "center 38%", "center 20%"]
+_INTRO_POS = ["center 72%", "center 38%", "center 38%", "center 20%", "center 38%"]  # idx 4 reuses the waiting focal point
 _TICK_URI = f"data:audio/wav;base64,{base64.b64encode(type_tick_wav_bytes()).decode()}"
 
 

character.py

@@ -139,11 +139,17 @@ INTRO_CARDS = [
     "taken, if you offer them.",
     "Now it lifts its head, as if it heard you breathe. A thin hand reaches out "
     "of the white.",
+    # 4 — tester-only condensed card: fuses the rule (a memory spoken aloud
+    # endures) with what waits (the memoryless thing that keeps what you offer),
+    # so the short arc still teaches the loop before the meeting.
+    "The wood keeps nothing it is given - coins, names, the dead. Only a memory "
+    "spoken aloud endures here. And something as empty as you has learned to "
+    "keep the ones you offer it.",
 ]
 
 # Which cards each mode shows. Tester = arrival + meeting; Full = all four.
 INTRO_SEQUENCES = {
-    "tester": [0, 3],
+    "tester": [0, 4, 3],
     "full": [0, 1, 2, 3],
 }
 

tests/test_character.py

@@ -2,15 +2,17 @@ from character import INTRO_CARDS, INTRO_SEQUENCES, build_system_prompt
 
 
 def test_intro_cards_and_sequences():
-    # four lore beats, all non-empty English strings
-    assert len(INTRO_CARDS) == 4
+    # four lore beats + a tester-only condensed teaching card (index 4)
+    assert len(INTRO_CARDS) == 5
     assert all(isinstance(c, str) and c.strip() for c in INTRO_CARDS)
-    # tester is the short 2-card arc, full is the 4-card arc
-    assert INTRO_SEQUENCES["tester"] == [0, 3]
+    # tester is the short 3-card arc, full is the 4-card arc
+    assert INTRO_SEQUENCES["tester"] == [0, 4, 3]
     assert INTRO_SEQUENCES["full"] == [0, 1, 2, 3]
     # every index points at a real card
     for seq in INTRO_SEQUENCES.values():
         assert all(0 <= i < len(INTRO_CARDS) for i in seq)
+    # the short tester arc must still teach the loop — a card that names "memory"
+    assert any("memory" in INTRO_CARDS[i].lower() for i in INTRO_SEQUENCES["tester"])
 
 
 class TestMimicry: