shift-0

A listening station at the edge of the dark forest. Signals drift through your field. Some are civilizations. Some are not. Your job is to decide -- and fire before they find you.

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How to play

*Skip this if you'd rather figure it out yourself -- the in-game briefing covers everything.*

You'll see a series of signals. Each is either a civilization or nature.

- Civilizations carve. They lock into a clean geometric form and hold it still for 3+ seconds.
- Nature churns. It never holds -- it wobbles, flashes, smears.

Drift markers (red dots on the edges) pulse when the signal is drifting. Bring your cursor onto a marker's line — column for the top edge, row for the left -- to steady it. Off the line, the signal slips.

Civilizations *quiet* their drift before the hold. Nature stays agitated throughout — another tell.

Firing

- Click to fire on a civilization you've identified.
- Your weapons need ~3 seconds of steady observation to lock coordinates. Fire too early and the fix slips.
- Fire on nature, or miss the civ's hold, and your exposure climbs.

Fail states

- Two wrong reads ends the shift.
- Too much exposure -- and they find you.

*Good hunting, operator.*

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