à la mode FBD 11, note by note

The card and the first note

1. 1

   Read the card: FORBIDDEN 11, six keys

   The song select screen settles the facts before the dive: à la mode by aran with the red 11 flag on the FORBIDDEN rung — the fourth tier of the song's ladder, above MIN 1, EVO 5 and ULTIMATE 9 — on the six-key layout from Shift to Space. The card's high score reads 099'955'504 under an EX+ badge and a FULL LINK ribbon, and the company around it is not gentle: Ghost Ray and Ordirehv sit one card away with their own PERFECT DIVE scores on the board. That is the standard this tier is played at.

   

2. 2

   Six lanes, one purple tap, and the run begins

   The field opens with a single purple tap riding the center lanes down to the judgment line, and the first EXACT lands at 000'052'671. Shift, A, S, D, F, Space — six key lanes carry the keyboard work while the cursor owns the field above them, the same layout as the ULT chart one tier down. The tag in the top corner never leaves the screen: à la mode, aran, FBD 11. Everything that follows is that badge making good on its promise.

   

The first minute: accuracy at scale

1. 3

   Five judgments on one line, twenty seconds in

   The opening's first lesson arrives early: five EXACT labels span the judgment line at combo 90, a yellow beam holding the left lanes while a white-green stream crosses the right with a gold flick burst under it. FBD 11 never quizzes one hand at a time. The gauges above the field drink from these exact hits and turn them into the damage phases — accuracy this early is not style, it is the run's fuel tank.

   

2. 4

   The folded staircase: one hold, four lanes

   Around 0:40 the chart folds a violet hold into a staircase that starts high over the left lanes and steps down toward the center, head judged EXACT while the tail keeps ticking on the line. The cursor traces the fold without cutting the corners; the under-taps stay even while it travels. This is the chart's first long object and the template for everything heavier later — arrive before the head, then let the tail carry the travel.

   

3. 5

   Midchart traffic: flicks land under crossing beams

   The middle of the song layers its homework: a hold pours down the middle while beams cross from the right and gold flick bursts pop at the line — 041'705'654 on the HUD with the combo watermark well past 450. The trap is attention, not speed: the flicks arrive beneath the beams, so the cursor must already be home when the triangle lands. Split the work — the hold owns the mouse, a finger owns the flick — and the layers stop fighting each other.

   

Midchart to phase 5: walls, rings and lasers

1. 6

   The wall: one triangle across all six lanes

   Here is the frame this chart is known for: a violet triangle wall spanning the full width of the field, its edge judged in every lane at once — 052'504'106 on film with the combo watermark at 571. Nothing about the wall is fast; it is wide. Stay inside the triangle, let each lane's edge arrive on the beat, and the widest object in the chart plays itself — sideways panic is what turns it from a moment into a mess.

   

2. 7

   Density check: four EXACTs beside gold rings

   Deeper in, the chart stops being polite: four EXACT labels land together across the line while gold hexagonal hold rings wait on the outer lanes, and the combo watermark ticks past 740 at 067'390'780. Bursts over the center, rings on the edges — by now the chart is calling on everything it has taught you. The run filming this page clears every ring on time, which is precisely why its receipt ends with zero NEAR: nothing in the densest stretch was rushed.

   

3. 8

   The phase 5 exam: a hold ring under a laser

   The final act sets its exam: a gold hold ring parked on the Shift lane while a cyan laser sweeps the D side and a thin yellow stream runs the center — three EXACT labels spread across the line at combo 938 with phase 5 lit on both gauges. Ring and laser resolve as one gesture: press the edge, let the beam cross, release on the tick. It is the chart's last word on layering, and the run films it clean.

   

The last holds, the banner, the receipt

1. 9

   The last holds: 099'996'871 at combo 1088

   The sprint home is short: paired hexagonal holds ride the outer lanes while the HUD crawls to 099'996'871 with the combo watermark reading 1088. Nothing in the last stretch is new — it is the whole chart, one tempo up, and the run takes it without a wobble. The dive does not end on a flourish; it ends on a clean release, and the screen starts answering within a breath.

   

2. 10

   PERFECT DIVE: the banner comes down full-screen

   The field dims and the splash lands: PERFECT DIVE, edge to edge — the game's mark for a dive with nothing dropped, every note judged EXACT, no NEAR and no BREAK anywhere in the run. On this chart that claim covers 1098 notes, and the screens that follow print the receipt. A level 11 chart filmed start to finish at zero drops is as clean as a page of record can ask for.

   

3. 11

   CONNECTED: the score freezes at 100'001'055

   As the splash fades, a CONNECTED banner settles across the dimmed field and the HUD shows its final number: 100'001'055 — the run crossed the hundred-million line on the back of full EXACT accuracy. The song's encounter settles its own ledger on the same screens before the result card loads.

   

4. 12

   The receipt: EX+, 1098 notes, nothing dropped

   The DIVE RESULT closes the run: EX+ beside a score of 100'001'055, a PERFECT DIVE banner printed on the card itself, and the judgment table that answers the question the community tables never list — the chart's size. EXACT 1055 + 43, NEAR 0, BREAK 0: 1098 judged notes, matching the MAX LINK field above. The card even prices the improvement — HIGH SCORE 099'955'504 beaten by a DIFFERENCE of +000'045'551 — while MISS HP ends at 13 and the encounter banks 000'239'401 Connected. One number to remember from this page: 1098.