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Public deal records
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.
The record itself moves no spice and creates no automatically enforced game action. Players remain responsible for honoring valid terms, and an impossible part is void under the rules. Existing bribe controls make actual eligible payments into the recipient's deferred Mentat supply. Automatic interpretation, 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.