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GAME MECHANIC

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE // PLAYER PROTOCOL

Mole Hunt

Identify a leak through access, opportunity, controlled disclosures, and competing hypotheses instead of institutional panic.

OBJECTIVEProduce an accusation that explains both incriminating and innocent evidence.
GAME MECHANIC

Operational sequence

  1. Normalize all event times to UTC.
  2. Build access and opportunity matrices.
  3. Preserve at least three competing hypotheses.
  4. Use compartmented canary information with authorization.
  5. Interview for chronology before motive.
  6. Require corroboration before irreversible sanctions.

Failure states

  • Using diagnosis as a loyalty score
  • Announcing a suspect before evidence collection
  • Silent evidence alteration
  • Unbounded surveillance of players