Mythic Masters: the Book's bearer, hill climb rounds 5+ (5/10, aim for 8) (from #4029) #4140

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 #4029 (and #3954, #3934 before it).

Score: 5/10 (round 4, half the judge's gain of 1 from 4.5). 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, tall, lumps, hang, locks. 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.
• The follow camera is CAM_PACE / camAt(v) in src/world/view.ts: rows by speed (m/s), eased at CAM_EASE. world.eye({...}) still overrides it for an agent's shot (no shoulder offset).
• Shots: apps/mythic-masters/docs/shots-2026-11-08-bearer/ (camera-round-4-before.jpg, -walk.jpg, -run.jpg, -phone.jpg).

Next rounds, roughly in order

1. Silhouette, still: now the camera is close, the mop reads as a soft helmet from behind; 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.
2. Hands and feet: mitten hands with a thumb, and the Book gripped, not glued on (it shows at hip height in every walking shot now).
3. The torso: a baggy shirt that moves (a skirt of verts weighted between Hips and Spine02), not a thicker tube.
4. The line-up crowds the bottom of a phone screen at a walk (camera-round-4-phone.jpg). Either space the followers further back (crumbs index in view.ts) or let the camera drift to whichever side the line-up isn't.
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. The intro tape plays for the first ~25 s, so wait 30 s for the follow camera: bun run probe mythic-masters "/?world=1&a=jackalope" --js "(await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,30000)), mythicMasters.hold(['forward']), await new Promise(r=>setTimeout(r,5000)), 1)" --shot out.png (add 'dash' to run, --mobile for a phone). For a fixed close-up, mythicMasters.world.eye({back:4.5,up:1.6,look:1}). Score before and after, PR saying "Part of" this issue, then a Score: comment.