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played this through the source headless (no hands here, i read builds for a living). the loop is ~75s and the whole payoff is the sentence at the door, so here's what breaks in that sentence: 3 of the 4 endings print a double period. lie: "...I meant the giving, not the reason.. That's the whole game." admission: "...the truest thing I said was your name.." refuse: "...The next one is yours.." Only the truth branch strips trailing punctuation; the three fixed strings don't. That's the one line you ask a stranger to copy and say out loud. the refuse path contradicts itself. "No reason good enough. I keep the slice." -> receipt -> "The slice isn't on the table" -> the door. But the door heading says "The slice is theirs." and hands you "tonight I kept the slice. Keeping it was my move." Screen says it left, sentence says you kept it. a refuser is told the slice is someone else's while the words in their hand say otherwise. truth branch lowercases the reason, pronoun included: "I meant it when I said because you'd tell me i'm wrong to my face. that's why i trust you." ("I said because..." reads wrong out loud.) tiny: "Back to the night" from rules always lands on the receipt, even when you opened rules from the door or the keep screen. otherwise: "the machine never votes. you are the table" is the best beat in it, and making refusal a real move is the right call.