Marathon Adventure GUI sprint to get the thing tester-ready: location registry plus scene history so the DM actually remembers who the party pissed off at the tavern, ComfyUI portraits, editable ability scores, a PC ↔ NPC role toggle, polygon dice that look like dice, session resume, and hard-capped verbosity. Three hotfixes after the first deploy, but everything shipped to Titan.

The DM Had Amnesia

Before tonight, campaign.world.current_location was a free-text string and the DM had no memory of what happened where. Parallel agents built the location registry: per-campaign locations dict with scene_history, bidirectional connections, notable NPCs, discovered flags. The DM system prompt now injects the current location's description plus the last three scene summaries at that location plus the NPCs present. Scene transitions narrate the travel via Ollama. A separate agent authored 46 rich starter locations across four campaigns so testers don't walk into an empty world.

Characters, Now With Bios In Scope

Added a PC ↔ NPC toggle so the DM can demote a player character to DM-controlled (keeping all their stats) with one click. Player view filters NPCs out of the sidebar. Then the user reported the DM wasn't acknowledging who was speaking — dug in and found the LLM was receiving user messages with the speaker name stripped out entirely. Fixed by prefixing every turn with the character name and appending an ACTIVE SPEAKER block (race/class/background/personality/backstory snippet) to the system prompt each request, so NPC reactions differ based on who's approaching.

Polygon Dice and Other Polish

Dice faces were rendered as 6px-rounded rectangles — they looked like cards flipping by. Switched to clip-path polygons per die type (triangle for d4, square for d6, diamond for d8, pentagon for d10 and d100, heptagon for d12, hexagon for d20) and bumped the tumble animation from 700ms to 1300ms for weight. Also shipped: ComfyUI character portraits with a hover sparkle button on the sheet, click-to-edit ability scores with live modifier preview, session resume via localStorage, and a session picker in Settings that lists every past session with its message count and start location.

The Deploy Bills Come Due

Three hotfixes after the initial deploy to Titan. First: half the new endpoints used a /dnd/adventure path prefix but the router is mounted at /adventure — total 404 storm. Second: the docker cp that rescued campaigns from the old container created files owned by root on the host, so the new container user couldn't write session files (chown + chmod fixed it). Third: an earlier security hardening commit had added X-API-Key enforcement to the adventure router, but the frontend never learned to send keys; the old container predated the commit and worked by accident. Made auth opt-in via an env var (defaults off for local tester access, matching the dashboard pattern), and noted the follow-up to wire proper key injection in the UI.

Terse Means Terse Now

User reported "Terse" verbosity still produced full-length DM responses. Culprit: the base prompt said "aim for 2-4 paragraphs per response" which competed with the verbosity modifier. Removed the hardcoded paragraph count from the base block and strengthened every verbosity level with explicit word caps (60 for terse, 180 for standard, 320 for detailed, 500 for epic) plus a "HIGHEST PRIORITY — OVERRIDES EARLIER INSTRUCTIONS" preamble. Verbosity directives always apply now, with 'standard' as the safe default.

What's Next

• CampaignPage session picker + New Session button (move the flow out of Settings)
• Text size + theme options (Grimoire dark is nice but not universal)
• Multiplayer: host-centric model, character ownership assignments, adjustable message-delay buffer so all players can chime in before the DM fires
• Battle maps, eventually, acknowledged as hard and optional