Build specification

Audio#

Audio carries place and consequence but never sole meaning.

• Harbor: water, rigging, distant work, one spatial bell.
• Lantern/Pitch: wind through arches, cloth/wood movement, room tone that narrows during questions.
• Observatory: high wind, quiet mechanism, rare signal harmonic.
• Workshop/Yard: tool impacts, engines only when active, readiness calls.
• Exchange/Terrace: water and conversation beds with privacy ducking.
• Underways: tide, stone reflection, non-musical time misalignment.
• Apiary: work circulation and distant human activity, no literal buzzing motif overload.

Every meaningful cue has caption/haptic/visual equivalent. Voice chat is Area-scoped, opt-in, captionable, blockable, and never recorded by default. Dynamic range presets: quiet, standard, cinematic. Reduced sensory mode removes startle transients and dense ambient layers.