Give the Joke Shop a real queue line and thicken the rope barrier

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@@ -350,6 +350,21 @@ material through `night_energy` metadata so `set_night_mode` keeps the ratio ins
 No clipping in either state, and the Compatibility renderer draws it with the same flat emissive
 material as before — the change is geometry plus per-material energy, not a new shader.
 
+## Set dressing — Joke Shop queue (2026-11-06)
+
+The queue props were placed individually (`stanchion` at ±3, `crowd_barrier` at x 2.2, podium at 6.8),
+so no line read and the stanchions' 0.9 m velvet stubs pointed in unrelated directions. They are now
+one queue: four stanchions 0.9 m apart west of the guest approach lane, the check-in podium at the
+head, and the barricade on the curb side. The line has to sit outside
+`PROP_EXCLUSIONS["guest approach lane"]` (x ±1.4), which is what the placement validator enforces —
+the first attempt put the podium at x 0.4 and the test caught it.
+
+Readability at 8 m drove the thickness pass: bike-rack frame 22 → 28 mm, bars 10 → 12 mm, velvet rope
+18 → 22 mm. The west planter also moved 1.6 m clear of the palm canopy, which was clipping its lip.
+
+Measured at night afterwards: the entrance walkway sits at 20.7/255 against 3.0 on the side pavement,
+so the door pool exists; the queue area itself is still unlit and stays queued as a follow-up.
+
 ## Scorecard skeleton
 
 Verdicts use `qa-review` semantics: **P0** (blocker: wrong scale, broken normals, budget fail),