> BLACKPILL // LAB

• ALIVEThe void now answers — what you type is swallowed, then regurgitated into the System Log as a corrupted memory fragment a few seconds later.
• ALIVEThe Audio Observer is the page's pulse: a dying flatline that spikes when you speak into the void or poke FREQ/AMP, then decays back.
• ALIVEDecay-on-presence: the longer you stay, the more it dies — text drains to grey, vignette tightens, latency climbs, STATUS escalates ISOLATED → DETERIORATING → FLATLINING → FLATLINE, ending in // CONNECTION TERMINATED.
• WORKSFREQ-- / AMP-- buttons were dead (no handlers); they now visibly poke the feed and log an honest failure.
• WORKSRECONNECTING bar no longer fills to 100% and freezes (read as 'done') — it's an indeterminate sweep that never completes.
• WORKSRECONCILE escape hatch was #333 (~1.4:1, invisible); now findable with a dotted underline, and surfaced at the end-state so you're never trapped.
• WORKSSystem Log no longer fights itself (a 60s CSS scroll vs JS appends that drifted off-screen) — one JS-driven log, timestamps seeded relative to now.
• A11YFirst prefers-reduced-motion support on the site: flashing/looping motion freezes to a static dread state; interaction still works. Added an sr-only <h1>, input label, and escaped the void input (no markup injection).
• TRIMThe .section / h2 / blink chrome was defined three times (page + two components); consolidated into one self-contained file.