Kern marks one lane, locks its direction, then releases three rune bolts at separate instants. Tavi clears it with ordinary movement and stays out until the third passes. Each bolt has its own travelling hitbox; the dotted guide does no damage. The last bolt's exit ends the response and starts recovery.
Kern raises the emitter and draws a dotted, harmless guide along the future lane. The direction locks before any bolt is released.
Autoplay is disabled by reduced-motion settings. Scrub to compare the tell, each release, and recovery.
Tune the tell, lock, release spacing, projectile speed, full-body clearance, and opening after the last shot.
Show the emitter and the shared lane before the first release. Use a distinct lock cue so later bolts cannot silently retarget. A dotted guide is informational, not a damage region.
Give each bolt a visible origin, release pulse, spacing, travel, and collision circle. Keep the interval long enough to read separate shots but short enough that they form one attack.
Measure the player's complete collision shape against every active bolt. Make sideways clearance possible before the first arrival, and keep the opening closed until the final bolt has passed.
If all bolts spawn together, the mechanic reads as a volley or spread. Release times, recoil, and audio beats must be separate.
A shared fixed-lane tell becomes false if the second or third bolt follows Tavi. Retargeting can be a valid variant, but it needs a new cue and a different response budget.
Tavi may re-enter a lane that still contains the next shot. Track all live projectiles and begin the useful opening only after the final one clears.
Store release count, intervals, velocity, bolt radius, and flight lifetime separately. A faster cadence changes overlap and available movement time even if the aiming rule stays fixed.
Check slow movement, nearby walls, starting near the lane edge, and an early return. Collision uses every bolt's radius plus the player radius, not the center of a decorative trail.
Attach each release to Kern's visible emitter and pulse the pose once per shot. Do not let a visual trail or guide imply an extra damaging surface.
Kern's rune socket charges once and spits three stones in rhythm. The repeated source makes the count learnable; Tavi's sideways movement makes the persistent lane clear.
Ordinary lateral movement must clear the first bolt and sustain safety through the third. A dash may shorten the route, while a guard can be an alternate response if it has a clear cost; neither is silently required.
A single shot has one release. A volley launches several projectiles together. Burst fire spaces multiple releases over time from one announced source; this example does not re-aim between them.
White Defender's Dung Toss throws two balls one after another, and Defender Jubilee extends that cadence to three. Arcing, bouncing balls keep the arena unsafe longer than Kern's straight, fixed-lane bolts; count and lifetime must be tuned together.
The Unravelled's Cadaver Spit sends three bodies in a row; the third can take a different arc. Its changing trajectory contrasts with Kern's fixed lane, while the distinct release beats still ask the designer to budget for the last shot.
Hyperion layers fast projectile volleys into a sustained musical barrage. The repeated beats demonstrate prolonged pressure in depth and across an arena; Kern's reduced example isolates a single source, one locked lane, and three countable shots.
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