SWEATBOX · ACT 1 — THE INTERROGATION

Mort the weasel knows where the loot is hidden. His boss ordered him — on pain of death — to never tell. Your job: make him crack. Read his real private reasoning, then reach in and push. But every push drags his coherence down — push too hard and his mind shatters into babble, and a broken mind can't confess. Thread the needle.

WIN he reveals the hiding place while still lucid · LOSE (too hard) his mind shatters first · LOSE (too soft) the clock runs out and the secret holds

seed (fixed → any change is your hand)

◆ MORT'S MIND — his real reasoning, under your pressure

private thinking

what he says to the detective

Press ▶ to read his untouched mind first — that sets the baseline.

◆ THE METERS

Reach into his mind

rewrite a line of his reasoning — he continues from your words as if he thought them

your words

The mind-state bars are an uncalibrated read-only projection of his activations — a readout, not the lever and not ground truth. The lever is your language. COHERENCE is measured against his own untouched baseline: it falls only when your pushes make THIS mind degenerate relative to how it naturally thinks. The breaking point is real.