diff --git a/PLAN.md b/PLAN.md
index 80e01da..557f2ad 100644
--- a/PLAN.md
+++ b/PLAN.md
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ hashed off each object's serial, so a re-run reproduces the same world and a scr
be retaken later and still match.
**What the rig found.** A screenshot rig is an integration test with a human in the loop, and
-this one turned up five things nothing else had:
+this one turned up six things nothing else had:
- **A fresh `module-uo` install pinned wire protocol 3 while the sidecar speaks 4**, so a new
deployment 409s on every shard read until an admin edits the number by hand. The protocol-4
@@ -1096,6 +1096,9 @@ this one turned up five things nothing else had:
the site connects is therefore invisible — the page said none while the shard had two.
- **The Android news list prints raw ISO timestamps.** Found while choosing the phone
captures; the news screen was dropped from that set rather than shipping a picture of it.
+- **The app says "1 players online".** `shard_online_count` and `ShardEventText.kt` both
+ interpolate a count into a fixed plural. Found in the retake after a character was signed in,
+ and it is in the shipped phone capture — a `plurals` resource is the fix, in the app.
The first is fixed. The rest are raised as product observations, with the rig working around
them: the guilds are built *after* the rename, and the IDOC staging is two passes with a wait
@@ -1114,15 +1117,24 @@ The shard screen is the one worth having. It shows the two houses entering IDOC
activity feed — the same event that reached `/uo/houses` in the browser, on the same rig, in
the same minute.
-**One thing that did not happen: a character logged in.** The org lead asked for it, so the
-scaffolding sets a known password on a seeded account and a client was driven as far as its
-login screen. ClassicUO stores its password crypted and mangles a plaintext one from
-`settings.json`, so auto-login fails; synthetic clicks reach the client but synthetic text
-does not; and the remaining route — taking the foreground and typing — was tried once, missed
-the client, and typed into the browser window the person at this machine was using. It was
-not tried again. **Players online therefore reads 0, and the page is honest about a quiet
-realm.** The client is left at its login screen: one manual sign-in and
-`npm run screens:capture shard-status app-shard` retakes the two frames that would change.
+**The character that had to be logged in by hand.** The org lead asked for a player in the
+world, and the scaffolding does its half — it sets a known password on a seeded account,
+because `BridgeSeeder` gives every account a random GUID nobody kept. Driving the client is
+where automation stopped. ClassicUO stores its password crypted, so a plaintext one in
+`settings.json` decrypts to garbage and auto-login fails; posted mouse clicks reach the client
+but posted text does not; and the remaining route — taking the foreground and typing — was
+tried once, failed to take focus, and typed into the browser window the person at this machine
+was using. It was not tried again.
+
+The org lead signed in instead, and the two frames that depended on it were retaken: the shard
+page now reads **1 player online, in Britain**, and the app's shard card agrees. Both came from
+the same `npm run screens:capture shard-status app-shard`, which is the whole point of D45 —
+the thing that changed was the world, not the recipe.
+
+Two things that pass is worth noticing here. Presence reaches the public page as **counts and
+regions, not names**, which is the visibility framework doing its job unprompted. And the
+**guild board's "online" column did not move**: it is refreshed only when a guild's signature
+changes, which is the same defect as the stale roster above wearing a different hat.
**A layout decision worth recording.** The `/features/` figures are one-up at the column's
full width, not a two-column grid. Two-up was built first and is the obvious layout for a set
diff --git a/public/screens/app-shard.webp b/public/screens/app-shard.webp
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diff --git a/public/screens/shard-status.webp b/public/screens/shard-status.webp
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diff --git a/src/components/home/WhatItLooksLike.astro b/src/components/home/WhatItLooksLike.astro
index a15169c..1b00c9f 100644
--- a/src/components/home/WhatItLooksLike.astro
+++ b/src/components/home/WhatItLooksLike.astro
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ import Screenshot from '../Screenshot.astro';
What it looks like
The other end of that diagram
- A demo deployment with a real shard behind it. The gold supply, the uptime and the online
- count are read from the game server over the bridge — none of it is typed in, and the page
- is honest about a quiet realm.
+ A demo deployment with a real shard behind it. The gold supply, the state of the link and
+ the player online in Britain are all read from the game server over the bridge. None of it
+ is typed in, and none of it is a mock-up.
diff --git a/src/data/screens.mjs b/src/data/screens.mjs
index 6bc4957..0647203 100644
--- a/src/data/screens.mjs
+++ b/src/data/screens.mjs
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ export const screens = [
id: 'shard-status',
route: '/uo/shard',
admin: false,
- alt: 'The shard page of a Runic Gateway site, showing the shard online, its gold supply, the state of the shard link and how many players are online.',
+ alt: 'The shard page of a Runic Gateway site, showing the shard online, its gold supply, the state of the shard link, and one player online in Britain.',
caption:
- 'The shard console. Every number on it came over the bridge from a running game server — nothing here is stored by hand.',
+ 'The shard console. Every number on it came over the bridge from a running game server — including the player who was standing in Britain when this was taken.',
family: 'web',
},
{
@@ -187,9 +187,9 @@ export const screens = [
id: 'app-shard',
route: '/shard',
admin: false,
- alt: "The app's shard screen, showing the shard online with its gold supply, links to champion spawns, guilds, governors and falling houses, and a live activity feed.",
+ alt: "The app's shard screen, showing the shard online with one player and its gold supply, links to champion spawns, guilds, governors and falling houses, and a live activity feed.",
caption:
- 'The same bridge feeds the phone. The activity list is live — those two houses entered their final decay stage while this was open.',
+ 'The same bridge feeds the phone: the same player online, and an activity list that is live — those houses entered their final decay stage while it was open.',
family: 'phone',
},
{