v0.2 — The Brewing Acts

The brewing mechanic now scales with the act — the number of bottles seated:

• Act 1 (one bottle): the classic capped-add stir
• Act 2 (two): align the essences — steer your wave into phase with a drifting ghost wave; the trill is the hot/cold guide; the drift keeps a heading, accelerates and the band tightens as the bar fills
• Act 3 (all three): the Grand Brew ritual — a Simon-style incantation of arrows and presses, memorisable by ear (each symbol has its own note)

Skill is asked, not buried: every quest opens with "Your skill, alchemist?" — Apprentice (3 verses, all shown), Graduate (4, final verse spoken blind), Professor (4 longer verses, final two by ear alone). Glyph pace never changes; recall is the skill, not reading speed.

Also in this release:

• Volume 0–5 with real loudness (LEDC duty), replacing Mute; volume 0 mutes and the blind verses fall back to glyphs
• Story mode QoL: 15 s idle raises a Quest on / Quit pause menu; in-universe ending cards ("The Rivers Run Clear" / "Peryite Prevails"); Sleep re-tiered to 1m/10m/60m/12h
• Final wiring pin map (reeds 1/3/4, buzzer 7, encoder 10/20/21)
• Build gates: story text that overflows its screen, a broken story-graph edge, doc/tuning drift, or sim-twin drift now fail the build (tools/check_story_text.py, tools/check_invariants.py)
• Story brews use the act mechanics; a ritual finished mid-story hands back to the story, not the generic reveal

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v0.1

First tagged release of the Alchemist Study firmware.

• 7 realms (Skyrim, Baldur's Gate 3, The Witcher 3, World of Warcraft, Zelda, Minecraft, Ultima VII) — 3 reed-sensed ingredients combine into 7 potions each.
• Stir-to-brew with a difficulty curve (Easy/Medium/Hard) and a power bar.
• Three random full-screen reveal animations.
• Settings menu (realm, mute, brightness, stir level, hardware test, firmware) persisted to NVS.
• Built-in hardware diagnostic + standalone c3-hwcheck build.

Firmware version string (FW_VERSION) tracks this tag. Audio needs a passive buzzer.