Moonsliders FBD 13: the FBD 13 wall of Arc 4, closed twice from a perfect dive

The gate: select, zero hour, the opening calls

1. 1

   Read the select card: FORBIDDEN 13, Arc 4's ceiling

   Moonsliders ships with the 1.0.2c wave and its select card pins the song at FORBIDDEN 13 under the red badge — the hidden tier above ULTIMATE — with the standing best of 099'978'286 beside it and the ILLUST credit reading sena. The tag at the edge of the screen says FREEPLAY: the card shows no DLC banner and no unlock condition, and this page claims none — the song is simply there to be played.

   

2. 2

   Zero hour: the chip is the run's spec sheet

   The dive opens at 000'000'000 over a canyon stage wired with red and green lasers, and the song chip in the top-right corner prints the run's whole spec: Moonsliders, DJ Noriken, FBD 13, SPEED 5.20 — a value re-read at four later points of the film and constant throughout. That speed is this film's setting, not a recommendation. One song, one tier, one speed from first note to settled card: that constancy is what lets every number below be checked against a single configuration.

   

3. 3

   Let the opening rows set the pace

   The first EXACT calls ring at 001'325'485 while a narrow violet beam crosses the line and a gold hold knob waits at the Shift edge. FBD 13 opens busier than any tier below it, but the first minute asks for reading rather than reaching: keep the anchor fingers quiet, let the early beams land under their brackets, and spend attention on the lane edges where the next pattern peeks out.

   

The opening: watermark, wide beams, the first ribbon

1. 4

   The watermark is the run's honest counter

   By 006'768'320 the chain watermark reads 143 under a shower of gold sparks. Zero NEAR and zero BREAK make this number more than decoration: on a perfect run the watermark is the running judged-note count, and every readable sample in this film agrees with the card it ends on. Watch it, not the fireworks — the fireworks are pretty, but the watermark is the one that can be audited.

   

2. 5

   Wide beams: split the hands before the note arrives

   At 014'337'089 twin cyan wide beams bracket the judgment line with the watermark standing at 302. Wide notes span lanes that no single finger covers, so the split has to be decided early: the left hand takes what starts on the Shift side, the right takes what lands on Space, and the eyes stay on the junction between them. The opening minute keeps re-teaching this split with shorter and shorter notice.

   

3. 6

   Crossing ribbons: one hand owns the whole ride

   At 032'214'810 a violet ribbon crosses from the left lanes over the center with the watermark at 679. Crossing shapes reward deciding the assignment before the twist, not during it: whoever owns the ribbon at its start rides it to its end, and the other hand keeps its own lanes quiet. The midchart brings this shape back at higher speed — the habit built here is what holds later.

   

The middle: laser sweeps and the climb past 1900

1. 7

   Laser sweeps hide the changes — read the edges

   At 076'488'775 a gold laser sweeps the lanes while six EXACT calls share the line. The watermark is occluded by the beams here, so no count is cited for this frame; what it shows instead is the workload — a sweep that covers the lane edges at the exact moment the notes keep coming. Sweeps at this tier are rhythm changes in disguise, and the edges are where the next change peeks out first.

   

2. 8

   Past 1900: the chart stops teaching

   At 093'138'636 the watermark reads 1961 beneath a translucent violet field panel, with gold hold hexagons burning on the line. Fewer than 150 notes remain, and the chart has stopped introducing shapes and started re-pricing them: every pattern from the opening minute now arrives inside a panel, under a laser, or both. Ride the holds without re-pressing — they are quiet score — and spend the recovered attention on the field.

   

The close: the last wall, the total on the floor, the receipt

1. 9

   The last wall: four calls, one line

   At 099'375'019 four EXACT calls share one judgment line with the watermark at 2092 — the chart's final notes arriving as a wall instead of a wind-down. Thirteen notes remain after this frame. Rows like this are why the total matters: the chart stops offering groups and starts offering closures, and the hands that survive are the ones counting lanes, not chasing colors.

   

2. 10

   The total stands on the floor: 2105

   The last notes land between the previous frame and here, and the emptied field prints the run's account of the chart: the chain watermark stands at 2105 while the HUD settles on the final 100'002'047. The floor agrees with the card before the card has even rendered — the same total the judgment rows and MAX LINK are about to print.

   

3. 11

   PERFECT DIVE: every note accounted for

   The PERFECT DIVE banner crosses the darkened canyon. The game prints it only when every note in the chart was judged EXACT — zero NEAR, zero BREAK — and that print is what turns one player's run into a chart record: with no slips, the watermark's final value is the chart's capacity, and the banner is the warranty.

   

4. 12

   Two closures on one card

   Settled: 100'002'047 at rank EX+, and the card closes the run twice on its own face. The judgment rows sum to the chart total — EXACT 2047 plus a second EXACT row of 58, NEAR 0, BREAK 0 = 2,105 = the printed MAX LINK. And the score closes against its own best — 099'978'286 + 000'023'761 = 100'002'047, exactly the printed DIFFERENCE. No third source exists to check the 2,105 against: the community wiki publishes no FBD split for Moonsliders and infalsus.org's page covers the ULT chart, so this card is the count's whole public evidence — and it agrees with itself, twice. The IOTA slot reads ENCOUNTER UNLINKED, and the uploader's own "MAX-58" tag matches the card's second EXACT row of 58.