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Public deal records
Staged group alliances — 28 October 2026
The unexposed Basic classic group prototype treats each member as allied to both others for ordinary bribes and for the nonallied public-deal rule. Targets, offer controls, acceptance and Truthtrance bribe projections use the same current membership. The existing provisional pairwise policy for multi-party offers applies to all group edges. Existing records are not rewritten when alliances change: an offer may still be declined or withdrawn, an active agreement may be released, and a deferred bribe to a newly allied recipient stays pending while temporarily unavailable, subject to the existing expiry policy. No group mode is exposed in the lobby; other group interactions and complete rules acceptance remain unfinished.
Structured payments due in a later turn — 28 October 2026
Prototyped / Partial. A structured payment may name its offer turn or a later turn as its deadline. The parties must all accept by that deadline. The payer can make the exact native bribe early or during its due turn; separate agreements require separate payments. Unanimous release cancels an unpaid term.
Future payments do not reserve today's spice or rely on imagined future income. When the deadline arrives, the existing supported current-turn payment and feasibility policy applies. Unpaid terms expire when the deadline passes or the game ends. Autopilot waits until the due turn before paying. An early payment must respect obligations already due. These deadline and feasibility policies are provisional implementations of public agreements, not publisher rulings. If a new turn begins while the offer form remains open, a past whole-number deadline advances to the current turn; a selected future deadline is retained. Broader combinations, free-text enforcement, browser and deployed acceptance remain open.
Structured payment due this turn — 28 October 2026
Prototyped / Partial. A public offer may name a payer, recipient and exact gross bribe due by the end of its current turn. Everyone sees the immutable term and every signatory must accept; final acceptance creates a pending obligation without transferring spice. The payer's persistent deal panel offers a dedicated payment action. That action settles exactly one agreement through the normal bribe path, including the deferred Mentat receipt and any Bureaucrat diversion. An unrelated bribe does not silently settle the deal. Two independent agreements require two transfers, even to the same recipient.
The acceptance and subsequent voluntary-action quote considers the payer's actual uncommitted funds, supported existing commitments, possible native Charity/CHOAM income and already-earned incoming bribes. Exact payments may occur on either side of an eligible Charity claim. The bounded planner tries whole-payment orders and up to 2,048 candidate states; unavailable or more complex combinations can be rejected rather than treated as proven impossible. The quote never creates funds. A binding deal and a compatible Truthtrance minimum can both be satisfied by the same actual deal payment, but independent deals cannot share it. A payer may not voluntarily spend or close the payment window while an achievable obligation remains.
Unanimous release cancels the unpaid term and does not refund a completed payment. A temporary decision, funding shortage or alliance does not by itself void the deal. In a quiet, supported Basic Mentat, a term individually larger than the payer's remaining funds is void; after an external shortfall leaving several individually payable terms, the payer can choose which to settle. Unpaid terms also become void when their turn actually ends or the game ends. The selection/feasibility policy is provisional. It does not yet decide all impossibility, optional-module or cross-turn cases, interpret free text, or enable AI negotiation. An already-offered immediate payment remains unreserved; its final acceptance can fail if it would undercut an active obligation.
The publisher's rulebook permits legal public deals and voids impossible parts; this explicit receipt and deadline are an online representation, not a new printed restriction. Twenty-one related offline files pass 129 cases, including native consent, each separate payment, release, Charity, earned income, Truthtrance, autopilot and selected external-loss cases. One isolated authenticated HTTP case verifies consent, payer authority, deferred receipt and replay rejection on a separate test database. Broader combinations, free-form enforcement, browser and deployed acceptance remain open. Type checking, lint and the production build pass for this checkpoint.
Source and prototype scope — 28 October 2026
Prototyped / Partial. The publisher's 2019 rulebook permits public deals between nonallied players, requires legal terms to be honored, voids impossible parts and permits release by agreement. Its bribery rules prohibit transfers of cards, leaders, forces and faction powers and terms that contradict the rules. The user-supplied revised rulebook, physical p. 16 (printed p. 14), records the same principles. This implementation does not interpret written terms or decide whether they are legal or impossible.
Two to six human seats can record public written terms during play, including while a game decision is open. Every pair must be nonallied when the offer is made and when each acceptance is recorded. This pairwise interpretation of a multi-party offer is provisional; the printed rules do not settle its exact online form. The proposer is implicitly in agreement. All recipients must accept for the record to become active; any may decline while it remains open, and the proposer may withdraw it. Each participant can request or withdraw a release; all must agree before release. Existing agreements can still be released if participants subsequently become allies. Records remain active until unanimously released, even after the players consider terms fulfilled. Their text is public to the whole table.
An optional structured immediate bribe names a payer, recipient and gross spice amount, all visible before anyone consents. Both must be distinct signatories. On the final acceptance the engine invokes the ordinary bribe action as the already-consenting payer, atomically with that acceptance. The payer loses the gross amount immediately; a Bureaucrat may divert two spice before the recipient's remaining share reaches deferred Mentat supply. No funds are reserved during an offer. If timing, available funds, another binding rule or the payer's AI control makes payment unavailable, final acceptance fails without recording that vote or debiting spice. A pending native Bureaucrat decision continues normally; later release of the deal does not reverse a paid bribe. In Advanced play, the automatic payment triggered by another seat's final acceptance does not close the payer's immediate-after-movement Hajr opportunity. If the payer makes the final acceptance, or directly pays a bribe, that payer's own voluntary action closes the opportunity. This is a provisional online timing interpretation of the supplied revision, physical p. 39 (printed p. 37). Seven related unit files pass 46 cases, including genuine Advanced movement and Hajr play after another seat's deal acceptance; only payment funding was staged. Nine related unit files pass 71 cases, including a native Bureaucrat diversion and unavailable-payment rollback. Three isolated HTTP cases include an earlier consenting payer, final approval by another participant and replay rejection. An isolated browser room also exercised a two-spice offer and acceptance, showing the payer's debit and recipient's deferred balance. Its roster did not include a Bureaucrat.
Free-text terms alone move no spice and create no automatically enforced game action. Players remain responsible for honoring valid terms, and an impossible part is void under the rules. Existing bribe controls also make actual eligible payments into the recipient's deferred Mentat supply. Automatic interpretation and full enforcement and impossibility handling, AI negotiation and complete multiplayer/deployed acceptance remain open. The text interface is an online convention, not a publisher ruling.
The action uses the normal seat authentication and room version fence. Older two-party records retain their original serialized form and actions. Game state carries an additive public ledger; it does not replace the native phase, decision, private information or physical components.
The multiparty follow-up passes 28 cases in four related unit files and two isolated authenticated HTTP cases, including three signatories across separately authenticated faction seats. This does not certify all game combinations. An isolated browser room exercised three-party acceptance and unanimous release across four human faction seats. The subsequent allied-acceptance control was verified by a focused component test rather than that browser run.
Seven related unit files pass 43 cases, including a native Truthtrance response continuation; an isolated authenticated HTTP case covers three public views, seat-authorized consent, release and subsequent play. The UI tests cover proposer and recipient controls and a persistent action-needed notice. This evidence does not certify arbitrary written terms or complete game modes. An isolated browser room exercised offer, acceptance and mutual release between two controlled faction seats, including the automatic response notice, distinct faction labels and a result that remains visible until the player closes it.