Field fixes: the state dir that hid the audio, and four acts tuned to the notes

[rossry]

The (0/7 here) root cause

runtime_state_dir returned a bare relative Path("var") — CWD-dependent — while the pattern registry anchors to the repo by __file__. A service unit with no WorkingDirectory= (systemd defaults to /) therefore read and silently populated /var/audio, /var/stage/queue.json, … while patterns kept loading fine, which is why nothing else ever looked wrong. Both audio sightings ("wants ♪ apollo.mp3" with the file present; "per chapter (0/7 here)" after update) are this one bug.

• Fix: the default state root is now anchored to the checkout exactly like the registry (luminary/statedir.py); explicit --store still wins verbatim. The resolver test proves CWD-independence.
• Diagnosability: /api/audio now returns {dir, files} — the resolved directory the stage actually reads; the page's empty-inventory state names that directory right in the selector; AudioPlayer logs it at startup.
• Operator note: if your unit ran without WorkingDirectory=, live state sits under the old CWD (likely /var/stage/queue.json) — copy it into the checkout's var/ to keep the queue, or requeue.

nocturne/embers: growing net faster than it's blown out

Gain climbs 0.40 → 1.35 by 2:30 and keeps rising to 1.50 underneath the scars — each gust knocks the fire down and it comes back stronger; mortality eased so the bed stays full. Strong to 3:42; the last gust and the dying fall share the final half minute. Verified: mean 0.057 → 0.111 through the first two gusts, holds 0.08–0.10 to 3:38, 0.008 at 4:08.

nocturne/veils: purples

New VEILS_NIGHT palette — violet-blue dark sky, green curtains, high fringes turning through blue into a real violet band — plus AuroraVeils.hot_hue so the burnt-through cores burn purple-white here (green-white stays the default for small_planet and promises). At the crest ~17% of lit lights read purple against the green.

nocturne/candles: uneven, unpredictable, subtly different fates

A flame now catches — a ~2 s take with a flare-and-settle overshoot (ignite_flare) instead of a 15 s fade-in — and the sculpture's bones light unevenly across the first ~10 s in hash order (anchor_spread), each seat nudged off its exact vertex (anchor_jitter_deg), strays held back a beat then interleaving. No two flames alike (vary): brighter and dimmer, wide and small pools, each guttering on its own weather with a few near-extinctions that recover; a die_frac quietly go out early and stay out; the snuff wave's edge is ragged. All defaults off — Köln's part-iib candles untouched.

nocturne/starfall: any direction, their own colors, one swell, then blackout

• Each star streaks away at its own hash-chosen heading — any direction — and burns out mid-sky; no more meridian rain.
• The streak (and the pre-fall flare) keeps the star's own color: gold ones fall gold, blue ones blue.
• The shower is one single swell: median gaps 3.0 s → 0.9 s → 0.27 s, no keepers, the last star falls at the end of the span while the sky's airglow drains to nothing beneath the final falls (end_black_at) — it falls on true black.
• The black then holds as its own chapter, nocturne/blackout: a new Blackout primitive, a 20 s silent closing movement, skippable like any chapter. eluvium.mp3 times the starfall chapter and fades at the cut.
• The duty audit exempts blackout by name and no longer polices endings (movement bodies still carry the never-dead law).

Full suite green; mypy clean; black clean.

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