Old Town · valley heat · face bulge
Bulge Gate is a row of numbered shutters on Main Street. We do not sell a face radius from a tour poster. We gate which horizontal curve actually keeps a miss in Temecula heat, then we lock the rest.
A generous horizontal curve gears a heel or toe toward the middle. In still heat that is a gift. In De Luz wind it is a second opinion nobody requested. We open this gate only when the strike map is a neighborhood, not a stamp.
A flatter face tells the truth. Players who already live in the center do not need a carnival curve. We close the wide shutter and leave the face closer to a plate.
Players arrive with a number copied from a cold-climate card. Old Town in August is not that card. Piet Marsh will ask whether your misses are a neighborhood or a pinprick. Orien Vale then opens one gate. Not two. Not 'a little of both.'
Sable mapped my strikes and they were a neighborhood I had been calling 'pretty centered.' The tight face I wanted was a liar in canyon wind. We opened the wide gate. Harvest week stopped being a mystery.
They asked me to pick a primary: still heat or plateau wind. I said both. Orien locked one gate and sold me a second pass. I was annoyed. Then I played Sunday.