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GAME MECHANIC

SURVEILLANCE // PLAYER PROTOCOL

Pattern of Life

Build a baseline before treating an event as anomalous.

OBJECTIVEDiscover which routine deviations are operational, personal, coerced, or ordinary.
GAME MECHANIC

Operational sequence

  1. Observe across multiple time windows.
  2. Record environmental and social context.
  3. Distinguish person, vehicle, device, and route patterns.
  4. Use confidence levels.
  5. Preserve benign explanations.

Failure states

  • Collecting only suspicious events
  • Ignoring audience and weather effects
  • Assuming routine equals innocence