Transparency FBD 10: a first clear, frame by frame

Read the card

1. 1

   Read the card: FORBIDDEN 10, and nothing to beat yet

   The select card pins the ceiling at FORBIDDEN 10 — red badge, jacket credited to illustrator cyawa — and the HIGH SCORE line reads a dash: this save has no logged attempt yet. The encounter panel pairs NIA against a masked ??? rival at DIFFICULTY RATING 61, with a deck panel reading 2,000 and 3,400. Everything after this frame is first contact.

   

2. 2

   The stage builds itself from triangles

   In Falsus assembles each field out of a wireframe of white triangles, and Transparency's load-in shows the grid bare before any note spawns. Once the HUD wakes up, the industrial stage's rails carry German labels — Umschalt on the left, Leer on the right.

   

3. 3

   Phase 0: SPEED 7.00, faster than most ceilings

   The opening frame confirms the contract: FBD 10 at SPEED 7.00 pinned top right, score 000'000'000, and the first violet triangle already on approach. Where Chronomia FBD 11 hurt at 5.80, Transparency pushes the scroll a full step faster — tracking, not just tapping, is the entry fee.

   

The opening: prisms at speed

1. 4

   The first full-width demand

   At 003'547'393 the chart asks for the whole hand for the first time: a wide pink slab wall with a prism press riding the judgment line. The EXACT on the landing shows the sightread still untouched — this is the shape every later wall repeats at higher speed.

   

2. 5

   Ten million before the minute is out

   By 010'000'379 a triple EXACT sparkles across a violet prism press — ten million points inside the first minute, with the walls that take the real toll still ahead. By FBD standards, this opening is the generous part.

   

The middle: holds, breaks and walls

1. 6

   The first BREAK, on camera

   At 024'568'897 the sightread pays its first visible toll: a red BREAK lands beside a green EXACT. Nothing collapses — the run regroups and keeps scoring. Sixty-six BREAKs are waiting across the chart, and this frame is the honest preview of what a first clear actually costs.

   

2. 7

   Holds under streams in the middle

   At 055'221'615 the chain counter sits at 48 mid-climb while a hexagonal hold ring glows under the lanes. Transparency's middle section layers holds beneath note streams, forcing the left hand to commit while the right keeps judging.

   

3. 8

   Phase 4 presses wide

   At 062'291'363 the chart is in PHASE 4, the chain reads 77, and a wide press lands double EXACT over gold hold rings. The phase counter climbing is the chart's own pacing signal — each phase thickens the walls rather than the raw speed.

   

The finish: a first clear, tallied

1. 9

   Two walls, one gap

   At 073'191'092 cyan and violet walls close in from both rails at once, and the same instant splits into an EXACT and a NEAR. Reading which lane survives the squeeze — not raw speed — is the skill this section grades.

   

2. 10

   Gold to the last note

   At 090'945'621 a gold laser and a final violet wall carry the run toward the last notes, the counter reading 23. The finale hands the sightread everything at once — and the frame answers with three EXACTs. Survived, not perfected, and still moving.

   

3. 11

   CONNECTED — the encounter holds

   The CONNECTED banner seals the encounter with the final 091'990'843 locked top left: NIA's 63.74% share stands against the rival's -225.66%. The song itself is already over — what remains is the deck duel paying out at 000'089'820.

   

4. 12

   The card that confirms 1,186 notes

   The result card reads First Clear everywhere: HIGH SCORE was a dash, so DIFFERENCE shows the full +091'990'843. Rank A, MAX LINK 174, MISS GAUGE 10 — and four judgment rows: EXACT 961 + 101, NEAR 58, BREAK 66. The sum is 1,186, exactly the note count the community song list and our song table publish — confirmed on camera, break marks included.