Tales — the playback gallery

A fighter built, equipped, and fought: Agile Armor +1, Sunblade +1 — the armor's +1 visible as the data-vs-events delta on her card, the blade's +1 itemized in every attack's modifier chips. The magic-item pipeline, end to end, in 26 events.

The first game any LLM has played on this engine's true surface: GLM in the doctrine seat, 419 decisions through real tool calls — reachable queries, target probes, whole-turn compositions with inline rationale riding every caption. Forty rounds; four players standing against one enemy at the close. The doctrine's first near-win, recorded.

A day after the near-win, the seat returns to the same delve and clears it: 302 decisions, every enemy defeated — the tape's own verdict, victor Player. Thirty rounds, the party's fallen named on the banner, the arc from near-clear to clear in two recordings.

A lone Ranger falls at the wall line — and every unit and every square is examinable at any frame: stat blocks with gear, full HP trails, conditions, terrain cards, occupancy timelines. The viewer is a game debugger.

Two language models play 4E against each other — and you see every thought. The LLM party's flawless war: 186 damage dealt, 7 taken, all three heroes alive. Each decision captioned with the candidates it weighed and why it chose.

The same mirror match, the other ending: mutual attrition to the last hitpoint, and the ankheg's own reasoning — "finishes the nearly-dead Fighter while repositioning, avoiding reprisal" — captioned as it happens.

The monsters' best day: seven rounds, three heroes down. The ankheg takes two, the ooze finishes the cleric.

Rogue and Fighter fall — then the cleric, alone on the field, kills both oozes and the ankheg. Thirteen HP between her and the end.

One seed, two futures — first ending: the Fighter falls and the party still clears the field.

The same war, the other ending: twelve rounds, all three heroes ground down.

The longest fight in the benchmark: five deaths, and the last cleric falls with one monster standing at 34 HP.

Where it began: a complete, terminating encounter as a self-contained playback. Grid, HP, movement, attacks, deaths — scrub the timeline.

The Fighter burns under the jelly's acid — saves made, saves failed, death at 4 HP — then the Cleric saves at the last and lands the killing blow. Conditions and save rolls, rendered.