Xenocide Uprising

One panel, two faces

At a table on a phone there are no lanes, because the board has not the width, so the seats inside the Counter of Fates were the only place a partner’s play appeared. And they shared their space with the arithmetic, swapping on whose turn it was.

Which meant the panel showing what your partner had just done disappeared at the exact moment it became your turn to answer it. It also changed height doing so, every turn, so the hand moved under your thumb.

Two complaints, one rule.

They are two faces of one panel now, and you can turn it. The turn still chooses which face you see, the arithmetic while you act and the table while you wait, but the other one is a swipe or a tap away rather than gone. The panel is the height of its taller face whichever is showing, so nothing moves.

One exception: a Manifestation you cannot cover puts you back on the arithmetic and holds you there. Hiding that is how a seat gets stranded, which the same descent had demonstrated an hour earlier.

And the log stopped saying thirteen when it meant ten

A turn that took ten Ruin and committed three cards to the Grave showed โˆ’10 and โˆ’3 in the same column, in the same colour. They are not the same unit: one is Ruin and the other is a count of cards, and read together they say thirteen. The Reckoning had always known the difference. The board does now.

A Rite also says which Force it became. A pair resolves as your own reading whatever the two cards are, and your partner, reading their own Redoubt, has every reason to think otherwise.