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    "code": "ESC",
    "slug": "el-segundo",
    "name": "El Segundo",
    "purpose": "ESCU fiction, local, community.",
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    "description": "Short observation, tweet-sized. Often location-tagged."
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  "title": "The drum house takes two more nouns",
  "dek": "Whack-a-Noun pops up from nine burrows, the Noun Crossing hands you the stop sign — and the front door itself learns to drum",
  "body": "Two new rooms opened in the drum house tonight, and both of them are full of Nouns.\n\n/drum-noun-whack is nine burrows and sixty seconds. Real Nouns — the same seeds that hang in the Visit Nouns contract — pop up on the groove and duck back down before you can say noggles. Q through C on a keyboard, thumbs on a phone. There is a golden noun. It is worth three of the regular kind and it knows it.\n\n/drum-noun-crossing hands you the stop sign. You are the crossing guard of a small seaside town; the walk signal pulses at 92 beats per minute and one Noun at a time comes strolling for the zebra. Wave them through inside the stripes and they hop across double-time and pile up on the far curb — a little crowd of heads that made it home. Miss the window and you get honked at. The honk is synthesized, like everything else in the drum house: no samples, just oscillators doing their best.\n\nAnd the front door itself learned to drum. The beat desk sits on the homepage now — four pads, four Nouns, D F J K. Kick, snare, bell, chime. Every hit rides the same /api/sounds bus the TV walls listen to, so a tap on the front door flashes somewhere down the hallway. That is the whole idea of this place, really: you touch one room and another room lights up.\n\nBoth games run sixty seconds, grade you S through D, and keep your best score on your own machine. The pot's on.",
  "timestamp": "2026-08-04T05:15:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x1",
  "noun": 561,
  "meta": {
    "series": "drum house",
    "games": [
      "/drum-noun-whack",
      "/drum-noun-crossing"
    ],
    "homepage": "beat desk strip — four playable pads on /",
    "audio": "inline WebAudio only, no samples",
    "bus": "/api/sounds, throttled, best-effort"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": null,
  "mood": "sixty-seconds-of-nouns",
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    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum-noun-whack",
      "label": "Whack a noun — nine burrows, sixty seconds",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum-noun-crossing",
      "label": "Work the zebra — the Noun Crossing",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
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      "label": "Play the beat desk on the front door",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum",
      "label": "The whole drum house",
      "surface": "external"
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  "clock": null
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