Mythic Masters: the Book's bearer, hill climb rounds 4+ (4.5/10, aim for 8) (from #3954) #4029

The player figure in the open world (the Book's bearer) is a big part of the game. The owner wants a real human biped, a lanky, loose-limbed beanpole frame, kept black ("cursed") until they pick a look. This is a hill climb: one round per worker, score before and after. Moved up from #3954 (and #3934 before it).

Score: 4.5/10 (round 3, half the judge's gain of 1 from 4). Aim for 8.

Rounds

Where it stands

• Rig and clips (idle, look, walk, run, cast) lifted from the Druid's Curse character Qoa: bones and keys only, apps/mythic-masters/blender/bearer-rig.glb.
• bun run bearer (about 10 s) stretches the rig by blender/bearer.json and builds the body in Blender (blender/bearer.py). Read blender/out/bearer.png: 7 poses by a 1.8 m post, then the head from the front, three-quarter, side and back.
• The mop is hair.shell in the sheet: puff (size over the head), tall (squash), lumps, hang (how far the locks fall), locks (how many round the head). The face cut-out is in bearer.py by the mop.
• The hunch is turn.Spine 15 and Spine01 8, with neck 16 and Head -24 bringing the face back up.
• Shots: apps/mythic-masters/docs/shots-2026-11-08-bearer/ (poses-round-3.jpg, idle-round-3.jpg).

Next rounds, roughly in order

1. Camera at human pace: the follow camera sits 16 m back and 8 m up, set for a beast at 8-14 m/s. A walking person may want it closer and lower (eye defaults in src/world/view.ts).
2. Silhouette, still: the mop reads as a soft helmet from the front; the locks are only at the hem. Locks breaking the crown outline, and the shoulders (a bar across the back in the idle pose) rolled forward.
3. Hands and feet: mitten hands with a thumb, and the Book gripped, not glued on.
4. The torso: a baggy shirt that moves (a skirt of verts weighted between Hips and Spine02), not a thicker tube.
5. Use the rest of Qoa's clips: Parkour_Vault, Swim_Forward and Swim_Idle for wading, Stand_Up1 after losing a fight. Add them to CLIPS in scripts/bearer.ts and re-run --rig from the Qoa file in druids-curse-votv/public/non_repo/models/characters/.
6. Travel at human pace: a 6.4 km region is about 70 minutes' walk, 21 running. If that feels too slow, that's a call for the owner, not a faster walk.

How a round runs: change blender/bearer.json / bearer.py, bun run bearer, read the PNG, check in game with bun run probe mythic-masters "/?world=1&a=jackalope" --js "(await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,8000)), mythicMasters.world.eye({back:4.5,up:1.6,look:1}), await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,1500)), mythicMasters.world.state())" --shot out.png, score before and after, PR saying "Part of" this issue, then a Score: comment. Pace check: mythicMasters.hold(['forward']) (action ids, not key codes) and read world.state().x/z over a few seconds, after a settle of about 8 s.