The first earned sense now retires the silent boundary as a ~1.6s dissolve (mode words first, then the scrim) instead of a one-frame cut; a ShotHarness keeps the instant flip so evidence stays deterministic. Restores the never-spawned OverlayText entity so the title and RUN ENDED cards render again — a fresh boot showed a frozen tick-0 world with no copy at all, and any keypress silently started the run. Corrects the GUI playtest's Esc finding as an instrument artifact (synthetic Escape never reached the window; the workspace unwind is correct and tested). Defense: implements opening.md beat 1 as amended today - retirement is a staged arrival, not a cut, under the ROADMAP #34 early-staging clause ([TUNE] curve); repairs bevy.md's promised overlays ('title card and the RUN ENDED card') that criterion silently lost. Verified by ./tools/check.sh --frontend and an observed run across title -> any-key -> silent boundary -> THINK -> revealed world.