MARY 4 — Mary's feelings hurt as Johnny works on the raft

MARY 4 running on PS1: Johnny working on his raft on the island while Mary the mermaid watches from the water with a heartbroken expression. — MARY 4 on PS1 hardware. Mary surfaces and sees what Johnny is doing — fixing the raft so he can sail home. The clean-rect pressure during this scene's random-position load is what the v0.8.1-ps1 soak loop caught and the soak retrospective walks through.

Validated 2026-05-03 under the FISHING 1 bar: pixel-perfect human visual signoff plus synced captured SFX.

Pack identifiers

ADS dispatch: MARY.ADS scene 4
Slug: mary4
High-tide pack: MARY4.FG2
Low-tide pack: MARY4LOW.FG2
Source-table note: generic multi-view scene-relative stitch; production island placement remains variable

What this scene is

Johnny is working on the raft, fixing it up so he can sail home. Mary the mermaid surfaces and sees what he’s doing — and her feelings are hurt by the realization that he plans to leave the island. Confirmed by direct on-PS1 playback observation while capturing the chapter-select thumbnail; matches and sharpens the prior “heartbroken at the raft” caption-mapping with the cause (the raft work) made explicit.

Validation notes

The single-position host capture clipped different island-relative pixels at different runtime placements. The validated pack uses the generic multi-view stitch: normal, far-left, and far-right foreground-only host views are merged into one scene-relative foreground canvas, with a magenta synthetic base so first-frame foreground pixels are retained.

Far-right PS1 stress playback at island-pos 300 54 passed. That is evidence for pack completeness, not a production pin; normal story playback can keep randomized island placement.

Notable runtime history

v0.8.1-ps1 shipped because of this scene. A randomized soak on top of v0.8.0-ps1 froze when the screensaver loop randomly picked mary4 — the clean-rect pressure estimator under-counted the upper/lower split save plus the ocean wave band, so optional prefetch and walk memory wasn’t released early enough and the heap fragmented before scene playback could start. The fix is centralized (it covers fourteen non-exempt random-position scenes, not just mary4) and the matrix mean stayed compatible. The full retrospective is at /lab/v081-mary4-freeze/.