Add The Frontier, a second setting, and a picker to choose between them

Cold Fork is a freight yard: 29 events across two stages, a four-day cycle, and
its own relationship and skill vocabulary. src/engine/ was not touched. Adding it
needed three changes outside the engine: one save slot per pack, app.js holding
the current pack, and turn.js no longer naming the mailroom (DECISIONS #34).
build.js now handles imports wrapped across lines. A conformance suite runs over
every registered pack. DECISIONS #35 records three calls on open questions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RxdJFbLq1rBKsUeticGV1g
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@@ -10,9 +10,17 @@ import { events } from './events/index.js';
export const corporateLadder = {
id: 'corporateladder',
name: 'Corporate Ladder',
// One sentence for the setting picker. The interface reads it and knows
// nothing else about what this pack is.
blurb:
'A modern office and a mailroom, two people who have been here longer ' +
'than you, and a laminated org chart with your name not on it.',
version: '0.1.0',
turnUnit: 'day',
startingStage: 'mailroom',
// What the interface calls the panel of people. The UI used to hardcode
// "The mailroom" here, which was the one place it named a setting.
peopleHeading: 'The mailroom',
stages: {
mailroom: { label: 'Mailroom', title: 'Mail Associate I' },
@@ -59,10 +67,11 @@ export const corporateLadder = {
// rent out every Monday, and only small change in between.
//
// Keep this arithmetic honest when tuning: wages, minus two rents, minus
// fourteen days of small change. It should come to roughly forty dollars
// down over a fortnight — a drift, not a bleed. Rent was once raised without
// re-deriving it, which quietly made the baseline four times steeper and
// trapped a real playtester below zero for 30% of a 182-turn run.
// fourteen days of small change. Per week that is 560 - 455 - 126 = -21, so
// about forty dollars down over a fortnight — a drift, not a bleed. Rent was
// once raised without re-deriving it, which quietly made the baseline four
// times steeper and trapped a real playtester below zero for 30% of a
// 182-turn run. The range is asserted from `tuning` below.
upkeep: [
{ label: 'Coffee, transit, lunch', effects: [{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -18 }] },
// Turn 1 is a Monday, so offset 4 is the first Friday and every 14 makes it
@@ -113,6 +122,18 @@ export const corporateLadder = {
},
],
// What the conformance suite holds this pack to. The numbers a setting must
// hit are the setting's business, so they are declared here rather than
// written into a test that names this pack. See DECISIONS.md #31.
tuning: {
// Net movement of `money` from upkeep alone, per calendar cycle — here a
// week — at each stage, with no debt outstanding.
baselinePerCycle: {
mailroom: [-45, 5],
dispatch: [5, 125],
},
},
// How the interface names and formats this pack's state. The UI reads only
// this map, so renaming a stat or reordering the header is content's job.
display: {