BridgeSeeder builds a world at realistic scale, which is what the bridge needed;
it never needed the world to look like anything. So a vendor is `seed vendor`
trading as `Seed Shop 810`, a character is `Seed004A` and a house sign reads
`Seed House 12` — and every one of those strings travels the whole bridge and
lands on the marketplace, the guild roster and the housing pages of the website.
That is fine for a protocol test and wrong for the marketing site's screenshots
(runicgateway.com PLAN.md §13 phase 9, D42/D46).
BridgeDemoDress renames them in place and seeds nothing: prices, listing counts,
decay stages, fame and skills stay exactly as the seeder left them, so the data
keeps its provenance and only the strings a human reads change. Names come from
fixed tables hashed off each object's serial, so a re-run reproduces the same
world and screenshots can be retaken later and still match.
It also does two things the screenshots needed and nothing else provides:
- stages a few condemned houses back into the last decay levels, because decay
is a live process and "Houses in danger" is empty by the time anyone looks
- sets a known password on seed_000, because logging a character in is the only
way to make the online roster non-empty and the seeder assigns a random GUID.
The password is read from Bridge.cfg, never compiled in.
Test scaffolding, in tools/, never deployed — deploy.ps1 copies overlay/ only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
