diff --git a/assets/scene-trophies.gif b/assets/scene-trophies.gif
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f74c41
Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/scene-trophies.gif differ
diff --git a/crates/awan-core/src/lib.rs b/crates/awan-core/src/lib.rs
index 98e1fb0..6d196d5 100644
--- a/crates/awan-core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/awan-core/src/lib.rs
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ pub mod stats {
     pub use crate::scene::stats::{PANEL, SLOTS, chars_at, panel_at, typing};
 }
 
+/// Where the trophy shelf hangs and how much of it he's filled. The labels
+/// under the cups are the reader's numbers — the engine never sees them.
+pub mod trophies {
+    pub use crate::scene::trophies::{PITCH, SHELF, SLOTS, landed, stand_pct};
+}
+
 /// Where the contribution wall hangs, how far up it is and how lit its month
 /// is. The
 /// squares are the renderer's job — the engine never sees anyone's numbers.
diff --git a/crates/awan-core/src/reel.rs b/crates/awan-core/src/reel.rs
index cb69deb..14fe30e 100644
--- a/crates/awan-core/src/reel.rs
+++ b/crates/awan-core/src/reel.rs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ pub enum Act {
     Campfire,
     Stats,
     Contributions,
+    Trophies,
     Sleep,
     Dance,
     Soccer,
diff --git a/crates/awan-core/src/scene/mod.rs b/crates/awan-core/src/scene/mod.rs
index b15810a..774b04a 100644
--- a/crates/awan-core/src/scene/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/awan-core/src/scene/mod.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ pub(crate) mod soccer;
 pub(crate) mod song;
 pub(crate) mod stats;
 pub(crate) mod street;
+pub(crate) mod trophies;
 pub(crate) mod wander;
 
 use crate::grid::{Grid, blit};
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ pub(crate) fn scene_for(act: crate::reel::Act) -> Scene {
         Sing => scene(song::DUR, false, song::sing, ""),
         Campfire => scene(campfire::DUR, false, campfire::campfire, ""),
         Stats => scene(stats::DUR, false, stats::stats, ""),
+        Trophies => scene(trophies::DUR, false, trophies::trophies, ""),
         Contributions => scene(contributions::DUR, false, contributions::contributions, ""),
         Sleep => scene(sleep::DUR, false, sleep::sleep, ""),
         Dance => scene(dance::DANCE_TICKS, false, dance::dance, ""),
diff --git a/crates/awan-core/src/scene/trophies.rs b/crates/awan-core/src/scene/trophies.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cf18de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/awan-core/src/scene/trophies.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+//! The trophy shelf: he steps aside, a plank drops in beside him, and cups
+//! land on it one at a time while he watches. Then it folds away and he strolls
+//! back — the same shape as the stats readout, because it's the same problem:
+//! something to show him, with nowhere to put it if he's standing in front.
+//!
+//! Trophies are *objects*, not cards. That's the whole reason this scene exists
+//! in his grammar rather than beside it: the engine draws crates, ovens, cakes
+//! and rockets, and a grid of boxes with letter-ranks in them is a language
+//! from somebody else's app. He can't pick up a card.
+//!
+//! The engine builds the shelf and says which cups have landed ([`SHELF`],
+//! [`landed`], [`stand_pct`]); the labels under them are the reader's numbers,
+//! so the renderer owns those — the same split the readout and the wall use.
+
+use crate::grid::{Grid, blit};
+use crate::palette::Role;
+use crate::pose::{EyeMode, LegsMode, Pose};
+
+pub(super) const DUR: i32 = 128;
+const DROP: i32 = 8; // the plank arrives
+const SET: i32 = 16; // he sets off — from home, because every scene starts there
+const STEP: i32 = 2; // ticks per cell — never skip, never stutter
+const SHIFT: i32 = 10; // how far LEFT he steps, to leave the shelf room
+const WALK_END: i32 = SET + SHIFT * STEP;
+/// Ticks between one cup landing and the next.
+const LAND: i32 = 12;
+/// He's seen enough. The shelf folds *here* — before he walks back, because
+/// home is underneath the labels and he'd walk straight through them.
+const LOOK_END: i32 = SET + LAND * SLOTS as i32 + 12;
+const FOLD: i32 = 6;
+const HOME: i32 = LOOK_END + FOLD;
+const HOME_END: i32 = HOME + SHIFT * STEP;
+
+/// How many cups the shelf holds.
+///
+/// Three, and the count comes *last*. A cup needs a bowl, handles, a stem and a
+/// base or it isn't a cup — that's five cells, and no fewer: the first draft
+/// picked four slots, shrank the art to three cells to make them fit, and
+/// rendered four gold letter-Ts. He takes eleven of the stage's thirty-two
+/// cells; nineteen are left; three five-cell cups with air between them is
+/// nineteen exactly. Fit the count to the art, never the art to the count.
+pub const SLOTS: usize = 3;
+/// The shelf, in cells: `(x, y, w)` — beside him, not above. Labels need the
+/// rows underneath, and his head was already using them.
+pub const SHELF: (i32, i32, i32) = (13, 5, 19);
+/// Cells between one cup and the next: five for the cup, one for air.
+pub const PITCH: i32 = 6;
+
+/// A cup: handles, bowl, taper, stem, base. Five by five.
+///
+/// Every number here was arrived at by drawing it. Five wide is the floor —
+/// four reads as a mug, three as a letter T. Five *tall* is also the floor: the
+/// taper is what turns two bars and a stick into a bowl, and dropping it to
+/// save a row rendered three gold dumbbells.
+///
+/// Which leaves no room: he owns rows 6-11, so the shelf has six rows, and a
+/// five-row cup on a one-row plank is seven. So the cup's base *is* the plank —
+/// it lands on the shelf's own row, gold on brown, and the sky keeps row 0.
+const CUP: &[&str] = &["#---#", "#####", " ### ", "  #  ", "#####"];
+
+/// How far right of home he is at tick `k`. He starts *at* home — a scene that
+/// opens with him already somewhere else has teleported him, and the reel's
+/// seam is the thing that notices.
+fn shift_at(k: i32) -> i32 {
+    match k {
+        k if k < SET => 0,
+        k if k < WALK_END => -((k - SET) / STEP),
+        k if k < HOME => -SHIFT,
+        k if k < HOME_END => -SHIFT + (k - HOME) / STEP,
+        _ => 0,
+    }
+}
+
+/// How many cups are on the shelf at tick `k` — they land one at a time while
+/// he watches, rather than all at once, so there's something to watch.
+pub fn landed(k: i32) -> usize {
+    if k < SET {
+        return 0;
+    }
+    let since = k - SET;
+    ((since / LAND).clamp(0, SLOTS as i32)) as usize
+}
+
+/// How far the shelf itself has settled, 0–100 — the renderer fades the labels
+/// with it so nothing is legible before there's anything to read.
+pub fn stand_pct(k: i32) -> u32 {
+    match k {
+        k if k < DROP => 0,
+        k if k < DROP + FOLD => (100 * (k - DROP) / FOLD) as u32,
+        k if k < LOOK_END => 100,
+        k if k < HOME => (100 * (HOME - k) / FOLD) as u32,
+        _ => 0,
+    }
+}
+
+pub(super) fn trophies(k: i32, _t: i32, grid: &mut Grid) -> Pose {
+    let (sx, sy, sw) = SHELF;
+    if stand_pct(k) > 0 {
+        // the plank, then whatever he's got up so far
+        for x in sx..sx + sw {
+            grid.set(x, sy, "▓▓", Role::Crate);
+        }
+        for i in 0..landed(k) {
+            blit(grid, CUP, sx + 1 + i as i32 * PITCH, sy - 4, Role::Spark);
+        }
+    }
+
+    let walking = (SET..WALK_END).contains(&k) || (HOME..HOME_END).contains(&k);
+    Pose {
+        dx: shift_at(k),
+        // he watches the cup he's carrying land, then looks back down the shelf
+        eyes: match k {
+            k if k >= HOME_END => EyeMode::Auto,
+            k if k >= HOME => EyeMode::Left, // heading home
+            _ => EyeMode::Right,             // the shelf is on his right
+        },
+        legs: if walking {
+            LegsMode::Walk
+        } else {
+            LegsMode::Still
+        },
+        ..Pose::default()
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// Open and close on an empty stage, and put him back where he started, or
+    /// the reel's seam breaks and the act can't be reordered.
+    #[test]
+    fn it_opens_and_closes_empty() {
+        for k in [0, DUR] {
+            assert_eq!(stand_pct(k), 0, "shelf still up at k={k}");
+            assert_eq!(shift_at(k), 0, "he's not home at k={k}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// He walks; he never teleports. Exactly the bug the stats act shipped once.
+    #[test]
+    fn he_never_skips_a_cell() {
+        for k in 0..DUR {
+            assert!(
+                (shift_at(k + 1) - shift_at(k)).abs() <= 1,
+                "jumped at k={k}"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Every cup must be up before the shelf starts folding away, or the last
+    /// number is one nobody ever reads.
+    #[test]
+    fn every_cup_gets_its_moment() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            landed(LOOK_END),
+            SLOTS,
+            "still landing when the shelf folds"
+        );
+    }
+
+    /// The shelf must be gone before he walks home — home is under the labels.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_shelf_clears_before_he_walks_back() {
+        assert_eq!(stand_pct(HOME), 0, "shelf still up as he sets off home");
+        for k in HOME..=DUR {
+            assert_eq!(stand_pct(k), 0, "shelf came back at k={k}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Four cups at four cells apart must fit the shelf they sit on.
+    #[test]
+    fn the_cups_fit_the_shelf() {
+        let (_, _, w) = SHELF;
+        assert!(PITCH * (SLOTS as i32) < w, "cups overrun the plank");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/profile/src/gif.rs b/profile/src/gif.rs
index 6deea07..1c17318 100644
--- a/profile/src/gif.rs
+++ b/profile/src/gif.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use image::{Delay, Frame, Rgba, RgbaImage};
 
 use crate::draw::{draw_bits, draw_text, fill};
 use crate::script::{Line, Profile};
+use crate::shelf::shelf;
 use crate::wall::wall;
 use awan_core::icons;
 
@@ -74,6 +75,9 @@ fn rasterize(reel: &Reel, profile: &Profile, t: i32) -> RgbaImage {
     if let Some(k) = profile.stats_at(reel, t) {
         stat_labels(&mut img, profile, k);
     }
+    if let Some(k) = profile.trophies_at(reel, t) {
+        shelf(&mut img, profile, k);
+    }
 
     match profile.sing_at(reel, t) {
         Some(k) => karaoke(&mut img, profile, k, ground),
diff --git a/profile/src/main.rs b/profile/src/main.rs
index 89a1204..a0e63a1 100644
--- a/profile/src/main.rs
+++ b/profile/src/main.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use awan_core::{Character, Reel, Size};
 mod draw;
 mod gif;
 mod script;
+mod shelf;
 mod story;
 mod wall;
 
diff --git a/profile/src/script.rs b/profile/src/script.rs
index b82e9b3..fb73a5e 100644
--- a/profile/src/script.rs
+++ b/profile/src/script.rs
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ pub struct Profile {
     pub contributions: String,
     pub contrib_year: u32,
     pub contrib_recent: u32,
+    /// Labels for the `trophies` act, as `"label:value"` — CI fills these.
+    /// Five at most: that's what fits on the shelf, and as many numbers as
+    /// anyone actually reads.
+    pub trophies: Vec<String>,
     pub lyrics: Vec<String>,
     pub output: String,
     pub scenes: Vec<SceneSpec>,
@@ -88,6 +92,11 @@ impl Profile {
         self.beat_at(reel, t, "stats")
     }
 
+    /// If the beat at tick `t` is the trophy shelf, its tick-within-scene.
+    pub fn trophies_at(&self, reel: &Reel, t: i32) -> Option<i32> {
+        self.beat_at(reel, t, "trophies")
+    }
+
     /// If the beat at tick `t` is the year wall, its tick-within-scene.
     pub fn contributions_at(&self, reel: &Reel, t: i32) -> Option<i32> {
         self.beat_at(reel, t, "contributions")
diff --git a/profile/src/shelf.rs b/profile/src/shelf.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81f22ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/profile/src/shelf.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+//! Labels under the trophies — the reader's numbers, in the engine's own font.
+//!
+//! The engine puts the cups up and says which have landed; what each one is
+//! *for* is data, so it's ours to draw. Same split as the readout and the wall.
+
+use image::RgbaImage;
+
+use crate::draw::{draw_text, mix};
+use crate::gif::{BG, CELL_H, CELL_W};
+use crate::script::Profile;
+
+/// Small type: a cup is six cells wide and the label sits under it.
+const SCALE: u32 = 2;
+const GLYPH: u32 = 8 * SCALE;
+const INK: [u8; 3] = [150, 150, 160];
+const ACCENT: [u8; 3] = [230, 180, 100];
+
+/// Paint the labels at tick `k` of a trophies beat.
+pub fn shelf(img: &mut RgbaImage, profile: &Profile, k: i32) {
+    let up = awan_core::trophies::stand_pct(k);
+    let landed = awan_core::trophies::landed(k);
+    if up == 0 || landed == 0 {
+        return;
+    }
+    let (sx, sy, _) = awan_core::trophies::SHELF;
+    let pitch = awan_core::trophies::PITCH as u32 * CELL_W;
+    let y = (sy as u32 + 1) * CELL_H + 6;
+
+    for (i, entry) in profile
+        .trophies
+        .iter()
+        .take(landed.min(awan_core::trophies::SLOTS))
+        .enumerate()
+    {
+        let (label, value) = entry.split_once(':').unwrap_or((entry.as_str(), ""));
+        let x0 = (sx as u32 + 1) * CELL_W + i as u32 * pitch;
+        // the number leads: it's what the cup is for
+        centred(img, value, x0, y, ACCENT, up);
+        centred(img, label, x0, y + GLYPH + 4, INK, up);
+    }
+}
+
+/// Centre a line under a six-cell cup, fading in with the shelf.
+fn centred(img: &mut RgbaImage, text: &str, x0: u32, y: u32, colour: [u8; 3], up: u32) {
+    let w = 6 * CELL_W;
+    let text_w = text.chars().count() as u32 * GLYPH;
+    let x = x0 + w.saturating_sub(text_w) / 2;
+    draw_text(img, text, x, y, SCALE, mix(BG, colour, up));
+}
diff --git a/profile/src/story.rs b/profile/src/story.rs
index 5a8e942..d5fdcca 100644
--- a/profile/src/story.rs
+++ b/profile/src/story.rs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pub fn act_of(name: &str) -> Act {
         "sing" => Act::Sing,
         "campfire" => Act::Campfire,
         "stats" => Act::Stats,
+        "trophies" => Act::Trophies,
         "contributions" => Act::Contributions,
         "sleep" => Act::Sleep,
         "dance" => Act::Dance,
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ pub fn icon_of(act: &str) -> &'static Icon {
         "bake" | "sleep" => &icons::HEART,
         "campfire" => &icons::FIRE,
         "stats" => &icons::DIAMOND,
+        "trophies" => &icons::STAR,
         "contributions" => &icons::CODE,
         "present" => &icons::BRIEFCASE,
         _ => &icons::DIAMOND,