Support multiparty public deals

game/reference.ts

@@ -292,24 +292,24 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
     category: 'Getting started',
     coverage: 'Partial',
     developmentStage: 'Prototyped',
-    summary: 'Record a public agreement with another human, or pay a non-allied faction a bribe collected at the next Mentat opening.',
+    summary: 'Record a public agreement with other humans, or pay a non-allied faction a bribe collected at the next Mentat opening.',
     steps: [
       'Open Bribes beneath the table. Choose a non-allied faction and a positive whole amount, then use the named Pay button. The amount is public and leaves your supply immediately. A message or promise alone does not pay spice.',
       'The recipient keeps paid spice separately until the next Mentat opening. A payment after the current opening waits for next turn’s opening. Your incoming bribes are shown separately from your spendable supply; they cannot fund bids, shipments or another bribe yet.',
       'You may pay out of turn when no decision or response is pending, including during Mentat after opening collection. You cannot bribe yourself or your ally, or while Inflation shows Double. Emperor gifts to allies use their own power controls.',
       'Your payment limit excludes reserved spending and preserves binding Truthtrance answers. If an alliance, pending decision or available supply changes, recheck the recipient and amount. A rejected payment does not change the game.',
       'A qualifying Bureaucrat may divert two spice to the Bank without reducing the payer’s cost. The remainder stays deferred. Unsupported combinations remain unavailable and do not imply an official rule prohibition.',
-      'In Public deals, propose written terms to another non-allied human. The recipient can accept or decline, and the proposer can withdraw an outstanding offer. Once accepted, either party may request release; both must agree. The public record remains active until mutually released, even when players consider it fulfilled.',
+      'In Public deals, propose written terms to one or more human seats. Every pair of participants must be nonallied when the offer is made and accepted, a provisional interpretation. Every recipient must accept; any recipient can decline, and the proposer can withdraw the outstanding offer. Any party may request release; all must agree. The record remains active until mutually released, even when players consider it fulfilled.',
       'Players must honor legal deal terms; an impossible part is void. The game does not interpret or enforce free-text promises or determine impossibility, and an agreement does not itself pay spice. Use Bribes for an actual payment. Deals must not transfer cards, leaders, forces or faction advantages or contradict the rules.',
-      'Minimal AI follows supported Truthtrance ordinary-payment answers and their legal guides. AI deal negotiation, automatic enforcement of prose, and agreements with more than two parties remain unfinished.',
+      'Minimal AI follows supported Truthtrance ordinary-payment answers and their legal guides. AI deal negotiation and automatic enforcement of prose remain unfinished.',
     ],
     related: ['table-discussion', 'alliance-funding', 'card-truthtrance', 'privacy'],
     checklist: [
-      { area: 'Implementation', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public two-human offer, consent and mutual release are recorded, while prose compliance remains player managed. Bribe payment and escrow include quiet Mentat payments deferred to next turn’s opening, with private server-derived limits and supported Bureaucrat continuation. Complete negotiation and all module combinations remain open.', evidence: ['game/public-deals.ts', 'game/bribe-options.ts', 'game/engine.ts'] },
+      { area: 'Implementation', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public two-to-six-human offer, unanimous consent and mutual release are recorded, while prose compliance remains player managed. Bribe payment and escrow include quiet Mentat payments deferred to next turn’s opening, with private server-derived limits and supported Bureaucrat continuation. Complete negotiation and all module combinations remain open.', evidence: ['game/public-deals.ts', 'game/bribe-options.ts', 'game/engine.ts'] },
       { area: 'Player controls', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal proposals, responses and mutual release, named bribe recipient, amount, explicit payment, deferred incoming supply and current availability guidance.', evidence: ['components/public-deals.tsx', 'components/bribes.tsx'] },
       { area: 'AI', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Passive receipt/collection and existing Bureaucrat responses work. Strategic bribe initiation and negotiation wait for feature completion.' },
       { area: 'Documentation', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal consent, player-managed terms, payment, escrow, restrictions and remaining boundaries are recorded.', evidence: ['docs/PUBLIC_DEALS.md', 'docs/BRIBE_CONTROLS.md', 'docs/MENTAT_BRIBES.md'] },
-      { area: 'Verification', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal consent, release, pending decisions and authenticated visibility have focused coverage. Original late Mentat/next-turn receipt journeys supplement existing bribe projection, budgets and Bureaucrat coverage. Full integrated acceptance remains open.', evidence: ['tests/public-deals.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/public-deals-http.test.ts', 'tests/mentat-bribes-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/bribe-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/bribe-controls-http.test.ts'] },
+      { area: 'Verification', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Public deal consent, release, pending decisions and authenticated visibility have focused coverage, including multiparty and legacy records. Original late Mentat/next-turn receipt journeys supplement existing bribe projection, budgets and Bureaucrat coverage. Full integrated acceptance remains open.', evidence: ['tests/public-deals.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-multiparty-engine.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/public-deals-http.test.ts', 'tests/public-deals-multiparty-http.test.ts', 'tests/mentat-bribes-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/bribe-controls.test.tsx', 'tests/bribe-controls-http.test.ts'] },
     ],
   },
   {