diff --git a/NOTICE.md b/NOTICE.md
index 2d2b50a..284c08d 100644
--- a/NOTICE.md
+++ b/NOTICE.md
@@ -35,31 +35,30 @@ below meaningful:
   every note is generated by the synth in `src/audio/`. There are no imported
   assets of any kind.
 
-## The one place we are standing on someone else's work
+## What is and is not ours
 
-Some **on-screen wording** is reproduced from the original from memory, because
-it is the part people remember word for word:
+**All of it is ours, with two narrow exceptions noted below.**
 
-| Where | Text |
-| --- | --- |
-| `IntroScreen.tsx` | "HI! WELCOME TO LEMONSVILLE, CALIFORNIA!" and the paragraph after it |
-| `ReportScreen.tsx` | "$$ LEMONSVILLE DAILY FINANCIAL REPORT $$" |
-| `TradingScreen.tsx` | the thunderstorm message |
-| `BriefingScreen.tsx` | the street-crew and heat-wave messages |
+Earlier drafts of this project reproduced some of the original's on-screen
+wording from memory — the welcome, the report heading, the thunderstorm and
+road-works messages. That text was someone else's writing, and a project
+released under a copyleft licence has no business licensing words it did not
+write. Every one of those passages has since been rewritten in our own voice.
+Nothing quoted remains.
 
-Short functional labels (`GLASSES SOLD`, `WEATHER REPORT: SUNNY`) are hard to
-express any other way and are not really anyone's creative property. The longer
-passages are a different matter: they are someone's writing, quoted here as
-homage rather than authored by us. We cannot license what we did not write, so
-that wording is **not** covered by this project's licence and is used on a
-fair-use/de-minimis footing.
+Two things are still not original, and neither is a copyright question:
 
-If that footing is not comfortable for a given use, the fix is small and
-self-contained: rewrite those few strings in your own voice. Nothing else in
-the project depends on them.
+- **The setting.** The town is still Lemonsville, California. Names and short
+  titles are not subject to copyright, and it is kept deliberately, as the one
+  visible nod to where the game came from.
+- **The ledger's labels.** `GLASSES SOLD`, `COST OF SIGNS`, `PROFIT` and the
+  rest are the only sensible words for what they label, and the order they
+  appear in follows from the arithmetic. There is no creative expression in
+  them to own.
 
-The name *Lemonade Stand* is descriptive and is used descriptively. It is not
-claimed as a mark of this project.
+Everything else — the simulation, the artwork, the music, the interface and
+every word on screen — was written for this project and is covered by the
+licence below.
 
 ## Licence
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5875e36..5dbddf0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Affero rather than plain GPL because the leaderboard is a network service:
 anyone running a modified copy of it for other people has to offer them the
 source. Running the game on its own imposes nothing extra.
 
-The simulation, the artwork and the music are original work. The game's *rules*
-are not anyone's property, and some of the on-screen wording is quoted from the
-1979 original as homage rather than authored here. [NOTICE.md](NOTICE.md) sets
-out exactly what came from where, and credits the people who wrote it first.
+The simulation, the artwork, the music and every word on screen are original
+work — the game's *rules* are nobody's property, and nothing here is quoted
+from the original. [NOTICE.md](NOTICE.md) sets out exactly what came from
+where, and credits the people who wrote it first.
diff --git a/src/App.css b/src/App.css
index 4995296..ad0bca9 100644
--- a/src/App.css
+++ b/src/App.css
@@ -267,6 +267,20 @@ html[data-skin='modern'] .vignette { opacity: 0.35; }
 
 .center { text-align: center; }
 
+/* Instructions: a named condition, then what it does to your day. */
+.intro-entry {
+  margin: 0 0 0.6em;
+  line-height: 1.4;
+}
+
+.intro-term {
+  color: var(--accent);
+  font-weight: 700;
+  margin-right: 0.8ch;
+}
+
+html[data-skin='modern'] .intro-term { font-weight: 900; }
+
 /* Reserved space for a message that comes and goes without a jolt. */
 .hint {
   opacity: 0;
diff --git a/src/components/BriefingScreen.tsx b/src/components/BriefingScreen.tsx
index 07d2cf8..8971e18 100644
--- a/src/components/BriefingScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/components/BriefingScreen.tsx
@@ -27,16 +27,15 @@ export function BriefingScreen({
       {conditions.heatWave && (
         <>
           <Line />
-          <Line className="warn">A HEAT WAVE IS PREDICTED FOR TODAY!</Line>
-          <Line className="warn">EVERYONE IN TOWN IS THIRSTY.</Line>
+          <Line className="warn">A HEAT WAVE HAS SETTLED OVER THE</Line>
+          <Line className="warn">TOWN. EVERY THROAT IN IT IS DRY.</Line>
         </>
       )}
       {conditions.streetCrew && (
         <>
           <Line />
-          <Line className="warn">THE STREET CREWS ARE WORKING TODAY.</Line>
-          <Line className="warn">THERE WILL BE NO TRAFFIC ON YOUR</Line>
-          <Line className="warn">STREET.</Line>
+          <Line className="warn">THE ROAD IS DUG UP OUTSIDE. NOTHING</Line>
+          <Line className="warn">IS COMING DOWN YOUR STREET TODAY.</Line>
         </>
       )}
       {conditions.festival && (
diff --git a/src/components/IntroScreen.tsx b/src/components/IntroScreen.tsx
index c612284..acbdd6c 100644
--- a/src/components/IntroScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/components/IntroScreen.tsx
@@ -1,53 +1,93 @@
 import { useState } from 'react'
 import { Btn, Line } from './Crt'
 
-const PAGES: string[][] = [
-  [
-    'HI! WELCOME TO LEMONSVILLE, CALIFORNIA!',
-    '',
-    'IN THIS SMALL TOWN YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF',
-    'RUNNING YOUR OWN LEMONADE STAND. YOU CAN',
-    'COMPETE WITH AS MANY OTHER PEOPLE AS YOU',
-    'WISH, BUT HOW MUCH PROFIT YOU MAKE IS UP',
-    'TO YOU. IF YOU MAKE THE MOST MONEY,',
-    "YOU'RE THE WINNER!",
-    '',
-    'TO MAKE LEMONADE YOU WILL NEED LEMONS,',
-    'SUGAR, ICE AND PAPER CUPS. THE COST OF A',
-    'GLASS STARTS AT 2 CENTS AND CLIMBS AS',
-    'THE SUMMER WEARS ON.',
-  ],
-  [
-    'EACH DAY YOU DECIDE THREE THINGS:',
-    '',
-    '  1. HOW MANY GLASSES TO MAKE',
-    '  2. HOW MANY SIGNS TO PUT UP',
-    '     (15 CENTS EACH)',
-    '  3. WHAT TO CHARGE PER GLASS',
-    '',
-    'SIGNS BRING CUSTOMERS, BUT THE FOURTH',
-    'SIGN HELPS A LOT LESS THAN THE FIRST.',
-    '',
-    'WATCH THE WEATHER. A HOT DAY IS WORTH',
-    'MORE GLASSES AND A HIGHER PRICE. A',
-    'CLOUDY DAY MIGHT TURN INTO A STORM AND',
-    'RUIN EVERY GLASS YOU MADE.',
-    '',
-    'YOU START WITH $2.00. GOOD LUCK!',
-  ],
+/** A paragraph, optionally led by the name of the thing it describes. */
+interface Entry {
+  term?: string
+  text: string
+}
+
+interface Page {
+  title: string
+  entries: Entry[]
+}
+
+const PAGES: Page[] = [
+  {
+    title: 'WELCOME TO LEMONSVILLE',
+    entries: [
+      {
+        text: 'YOU HAVE A CARD TABLE, A PITCHER AND A CORNER OF THE STREET. WHAT YOU MAKE OF THEM IS ENTIRELY YOUR OWN AFFAIR.',
+      },
+      {
+        text: 'LEMONS, SUGAR, ICE AND CUPS ALL COST MONEY. A GLASS STARTS AT 2 CENTS TO MAKE AND GETS DEARER AS THE SUMMER WEARS ON.',
+      },
+      { text: 'YOU OPEN WITH $2.00 IN THE TIN. WHOEVER ENDS THE SUMMER RICHEST WINS.' },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'WHAT YOU DECIDE',
+    entries: [
+      { text: 'EACH MORNING YOU SET THREE THINGS:' },
+      { term: 'GLASSES', text: 'HOW MANY TO MAKE TODAY.' },
+      { term: 'SIGNS', text: 'HOW MANY TO PUT UP, AT 15 CENTS EACH. THE FOURTH SIGN HELPS A LOT LESS THAN THE FIRST.' },
+      { term: 'PRICE', text: 'WHAT TO CHARGE A GLASS. ASK TOO MUCH AND NOBODY STOPS.' },
+      {
+        text: 'EVERY GLASS IS MADE FRESH. WHAT YOU DO NOT SELL IS POURED AWAY, SO MAKE WHAT THE DAY WILL ACTUALLY TAKE.',
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'READ THE SKY',
+    entries: [
+      { term: 'SUNNY', text: 'STEADY TRADE AND NO SURPRISES.' },
+      { term: 'HOT AND DRY', text: 'A BIGGER CROWD, AND THEY WILL PAY MORE FOR A COLD GLASS. A HEAT WAVE IS BETTER STILL.' },
+      {
+        term: 'CLOUDY',
+        text: 'FEWER BUYERS ABOUT, AND THE DAY MAY TURN INTO A THUNDERSTORM THAT RUINS EVERY GLASS YOU MADE.',
+      },
+      { text: 'THE FORECAST COMES BEFORE YOU BUY. THE STORM DOES NOT.' },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'READ THE STREET TOO',
+    entries: [
+      {
+        term: 'STREET CREWS',
+        text: 'THE ROAD IS DUG UP AND THE TRAFFIC GOES WITH IT. THEY OFTEN STAY A SECOND DAY.',
+      },
+      {
+        term: 'SUMMER FAIR',
+        text: 'HALF THE TOWN COMES PAST YOUR STAND, AND THEY ARE OUT TO SPEND.',
+      },
+      {
+        term: 'RIVAL STAND',
+        text: 'SOMEBODY SETS UP ON THE NEXT CORNER AND TAKES A SHARE OF THE STREET UNTIL THEY MOVE ON.',
+      },
+      { text: 'ALL OF IT IS ANNOUNCED BEFORE YOU COMMIT. GOOD LUCK!' },
+    ],
+  },
 ]
 
 export function IntroScreen({ onDone }: { onDone: () => void }) {
   const [page, setPage] = useState(0)
   const last = page === PAGES.length - 1
+  const { title, entries } = PAGES[page]
 
   return (
     <div className="stack">
       <Line className="center inv-line">HOW TO RUN A LEMONADE STAND</Line>
       <Line />
-      {PAGES[page].map((t, i) => (
-        <Line key={i}>{t}</Line>
+      <Line className="center accent">{title}</Line>
+      <Line />
+
+      {entries.map((e, i) => (
+        <p className="intro-entry" key={i}>
+          {e.term && <span className="intro-term">{e.term}</span>}
+          {e.text}
+        </p>
       ))}
+
       <Line />
       <div className="row center">
         {page > 0 && <Btn onClick={() => setPage(page - 1)}>BACK</Btn>}
@@ -55,7 +95,7 @@ export function IntroScreen({ onDone }: { onDone: () => void }) {
           {last ? 'START' : 'MORE'}
         </Btn>
         <Line className="dim">
-          PAGE {page + 1} OF {PAGES.length}
+          {page + 1} OF {PAGES.length}
         </Line>
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/src/components/ReportScreen.tsx b/src/components/ReportScreen.tsx
index 2f18869..6fdd078 100644
--- a/src/components/ReportScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ReportScreen.tsx
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export function ReportScreen({
 
   return (
     <div className="stack">
-      <Line className="center inv-line">$$ LEMONSVILLE DAILY FINANCIAL REPORT $$</Line>
+      <Line className="center inv-line">$$ THE DAY&apos;S TAKINGS $$</Line>
 
       <Scene
         conditions={conditions}
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ export function ReportScreen({
       {player.bankrupt && (
         <>
           <Line />
-          <Line className="warn">{player.name}, YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH</Line>
-          <Line className="warn">MONEY LEFT TO STAY IN BUSINESS.</Line>
+          <Line className="warn">{player.name}, THERE IS NOTHING LEFT IN</Line>
+          <Line className="warn">THE TIN. YOUR STAND IS FINISHED.</Line>
         </>
       )}
 
diff --git a/src/components/TradingScreen.tsx b/src/components/TradingScreen.tsx
index ebb5343..aa0065d 100644
--- a/src/components/TradingScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/components/TradingScreen.tsx
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ export function TradingScreen({
       <div className="stack">
         <Line className="center inv-line">DAY {conditions.day} IN LEMONSVILLE</Line>
         <Scene conditions={conditions} traffic={0.2} />
-        <Line className="warn">A THUNDERSTORM HIT LEMONSVILLE EARLIER</Line>
-        <Line className="warn">TODAY, JUST AS THE STANDS WERE BEING</Line>
-        <Line className="warn">SET UP. EVERYTHING WAS RUINED!!</Line>
+        <Line className="warn">THE SKY OPENED OVER THE TOWN THIS</Line>
+        <Line className="warn">MORNING, RIGHT AS THE STANDS WENT UP.</Line>
+        <Line className="warn">NOT ONE GLASS SURVIVED IT.</Line>
         <Line />
         <div className="row center">
           <Btn kind="primary" onClick={onDone}>
diff --git a/src/game/constants.ts b/src/game/constants.ts
index bd93de7..9904318 100644
--- a/src/game/constants.ts
+++ b/src/game/constants.ts
@@ -18,20 +18,11 @@ export function costPerGlass(day: number): number {
 
 export function costMessage(day: number): string[] | null {
   if (day === 1)
-    return [
-      'ON DAY 1 THE COST OF LEMONADE IS',
-      '2 CENTS PER GLASS.',
-    ]
+    return ['LEMONS ARE CHEAP THIS WEEK. A GLASS', 'COSTS YOU 2 CENTS TO MAKE.']
   if (day === 3)
-    return [
-      'YOUR COST OF LEMONADE HAS GONE UP',
-      'TO 4 CENTS PER GLASS.',
-    ]
+    return ['LEMONS HAVE GONE UP. A GLASS NOW', 'COSTS YOU 4 CENTS TO MAKE.']
   if (day === 8)
-    return [
-      'YOUR COST OF LEMONADE HAS GONE UP',
-      'TO 5 CENTS PER GLASS.',
-    ]
+    return ['LEMONS ARE DEARER AGAIN. A GLASS NOW', 'COSTS YOU 5 CENTS TO MAKE.']
   return null
 }