Every item in the game is described the same way, in one line: **size · how it gets activated · what it does when active · cooldown.** An item that acts on its neighbours has an adjacency range of 1 unless its card says otherwise.

2. **Every square works.** There is no separate "switched on" area and no limit on how many items run at once, other than the room in the bag.

7. **The floor strip.** Beside the grid is a strip showing whatever lies within reach. Drag out to put something down, drag in to pick it up. If a find does not fit, you rearrange, leave something on the floor, or leave the find. Nothing is ever discarded for you.

8. **When the pack opens** *(decided)*: whenever no enemy is around, and by itself when a new item is gained. The world is paused while it is open. Aboard the ship it is always available.

9. **Death and return.** Everything in the pack comes home, in the same arrangement.

1. **A gun never aims at an enemy that is already as good as dead.** Each gun takes the nearest enemy it can see that the shots already in the air will not kill. Two guns drop two enemies at once; a lone enemy that one shot will kill gets one shot, and the other gun keeps its rounds; a tough enemy gets exactly as many shots as it takes. A shot that misses, or hits somebody who stepped in the way, stops counting the moment it is gone, and its target is fair game again. This holds for every weapon, the pack screen's item text now says "the nearest enemy it can see that is not already about to die", and it changes the card's "fires at the nearest target" to **"fires at the nearest target that still needs a shot"** *(these last words are mine: the owner has not yet said how the card should read)*.

2. **The guns take turns.** The first keeps the beat exactly as a single gun always has; the second fires half a beat after it (with three, a third of a beat apart, and so on), so the ear and the eye get twice the pace instead of one thick shot. **They do not run dry together when it matters:** while both guns fire beat after beat (a crowd in reach) and one would empty while the other is still reloading, the one that would empty first reloads early, as long as the other has the rounds to cover it; after one or two such reloads they stay out of step by themselves, so one of the two is always loaded. When enemies come one at a time nothing of the kind happens: a gun's rounds are then worth more than its timing. *(The early reload is mine: it is how I kept the promise "there is never a moment when both are empty". Its first version threw rounds away in a trickle of enemies and could lock into running dry together; a review caught both, and it is now tested from every pair of starting magazines, 1 to 8 rounds each: at most one silence, then none.)* The fight panel shows each gun's own rounds, so the two can be seen working apart.

- **Measured in the Western Promenade** (scripted, standing still in the middle): with one gun the room now takes 47 seconds instead of 53, because a single gun no longer wastes shots on an enemy that is already dying; with two guns it also takes 47, because that room's length is set by how fast the enemies arrive, not by how fast they fall. The second gun shows its worth when more come than one gun can drop (one gun manages about three a second).

Asked whether +200% triples the already boosted walk speed or adds to base speed, he answered:

**Implementer's handling defaults:** the passive bonus applies only while the item is placed in the pack. The dodge follows the usual movement keys relative to the camera; it does not force a direction. Pressing Space while standing still still spends the oxygen and starts the window, so movement may begin during it. The three-second cooldown starts when the dodge starts. The five-second cost uses the existing displayed oxygen rate, taking air from the emptiest packed tanks first and then the suit; less than five seconds combined refuses the attempt. Exactly five seconds is enough to activate, but emptying all air still follows the ordinary oxygen/death rules. There is no added invulnerability, shield, collision bypass or separate animation. Walls, benches and enemy bodies retain their normal blocking rules. Paused screens freeze the dodge and cooldown. Save/load preserves both, including a cooldown on boots that were put down. Returning ends the active dodge. If more pairs are collected on later trips, each adds 10 percentage points to walking speed and has its own cooldown; one shared dodge window prevents overlapping activations from any item. These multiple-copy and handling choices are defaults, not additional owner decisions.

**Art:** the icon reuses [Lorc's Boots](https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/boots.html), a human-made CC BY 3.0 asset, fitted to a 2x1 canvas. Source, artist, licence and fitting changes are credited beside the game icons. No generated art or purchase.

**Verification:** all 250 tests passed (204 Core + 46 Unity). Added checks cover oxygen boundaries and atomic refusal, shared dodge exclusion, cooldowns and saves, pauses, frame timing, actual controller distance and wall collision, Space versus click, existing Trigger buttons, chest pickup/full packs and old reward property. A live chest check collected one pair and used 11 of 16 pack squares with a tank and two guns. In the live movement check, Space spent five seconds of oxygen, used 3.3× speed, travelled 7.04 metres over 0.6 seconds (0.5 dodging plus 0.1 walking), returned to 1.1×, and refused an early repeat. This verifies mechanics, not how the dodge feels or balances in combat.

Each material copy is its own 1x1 item with no effect. One draw gives only one copy, not a stack of three. The tank uses its existing size and behavior and is supplied full (five minutes). A saved departure retains its deck until the next departure refills it from the expanded list; this preserves already-consumed cards and old two-card saves.

The material pictures reuse [Lorc's Metal bar](https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/metal-bar.html) and [Caro Asercion's Soda bottle](https://game-icons.net/1x1/caro-asercion/soda-bottle.html), under CC BY 3.0. Grey iron, copper-coloured copper and muted green plastic tiles are implementer choices. The pictures are fitted to 1x1 squares with credits in the project; no generated artwork or purchases. Item names and cards identify the materials as well as colour.

**Expanded-deck verification:** all **300 tests passed (237 Core + 63 Unity)**. Checks cover the exact 12-card counts, separate material copies, one item per chest, inert 1x1 items, full tank supply, saving and exhaustion, old two-card saves retained until departure, static rewards and actual E/pack interactions. In a live check with cleared rooms and controlled deck order, E collected Iron bar, Copper bar and Plastic salvage as separate one-square items; the tank arrived with 300 seconds of oxygen. Inventory icons, colours, item descriptions and final layout were inspected. This checks rewards and presentation, not combat balance.

5. **Should the suit keep its own six minutes,** or should the tank be the only air?