Vanar's Invoice header: "Activation — standard run".
That’s where it went wrong.
Behavior didn’t look standard anymore. The same Virtua Metaverse flow flow had already shipped three weekends in a row. Same entry point. Same interaction path. Same session receipt pattern repeating because nothing, in the moment, felt like a decision. It felt like upkeep.
I pulled the ops notes. Quiet.
No flags. No “check cost” comment buried in the thread. Just a calendar invite cloned forward because the last one closed clean... same Vanar consumer grade, activation window, again.
Vanar chain's predictable fee model kept the night looking normal. Gas abstraction kept the flow moving with no “are you sure?” beat, no pause screen, no moment that felt heavier than a menu tap. Each run resolved. State advanced. The game experience stayed smooth enough to copy-paste.
So repetition didn’t register as spend.
It registered as routine.
The sheet reflects that. No spike. No cliff. Just a thicker baseline that nobody remembers agreeing to.
By the time finance looked up from the invoice, it wasn’t “why did this cost more?”
It was: when did we start doing this every weekend.
This was already normal by the time it was counted.