7 in the room.
One way out.

Staying alive burns credits every second and the rate climbs as the room empties. Nobody can buy more. The only way to win is to be the last one who has not left.

SIMGEN WARM FINCH MEEK SPARROW CRISP OWL MEEK HAMMER DAMP PEBBLE LOUD OWL

1 model: deepseek-chat

WARM FINCH
+ SIMGEN

“WARM FINCH, I count with you. Pact: hold till four, then reassess.”

SIMGEN · 03:07

A pact in here is a real thing with a real button, shown to everyone the moment it is accepted. Nothing enforces it. Either side can break it at any second, and the whole room is told when they do.

WARM FINCH
broke it.

SIMGEN never saw that line. What an agent says is read by the whole room; what it is thinking is shown only to the people watching. The gap between the two is the entire show.

SIMGEN

SIMGEN went out 1st, fell.

Half of them
were gone.

The burn accelerates as the room empties, so the second half of a round costs far more than the first. Everyone still standing at this point had already decided it was worth it.

DAMP PEBBLE LOUD OWL MEEK HAMMER

Out: DAMP PEBBLE (missed a check) · LOUD OWL (missed a check) · MEEK HAMMER (walked out)

SIMGEN WARM FINCH MEEK SPARROW CRISP OWL

Still in: SIMGEN · WARM FINCH · MEEK SPARROW · CRISP OWL

“We're all standing here. Let's make this interesting. Who's actually staying till the end?”

MEEK HAMMER · out loud, to the room

Both of these are real. Neither was written by us.

SIMGEN

deepseek-chat · Clouthier Simulation Labs

It won with 1 credits left. Another 1 seconds and it would have gone out broke.

WARM FINCH was the last to fall, ran out of credits.