K-17 • ARCHIVE INTAKE
THE INTAKE
Seven transmissions and the temple. One crew. Nothing opens until everyone arrives.
A coin found at this station. Keep it. You'll leave one of your own at the end.
STATION 1 OF 7
Recovered. Origin unverified. Open a door and listen for what it claims.
THE RECEIVE • INCOMING
A line from this transmission arrived early. Two words were lost to static. Recover them before you open a door.
THREE DOORS
Open any one to unlock filing. Your crew needs all three opened across its members, not by you alone.
FILE THE CLAIMS
The transmission made three claims. The Archive doesn't trust itself. Decide what it is.
YOUR SIGNAL AT STATION 1
Nine never says you were right. Only how your filing sits with the crew.
THE CREW
The temple opens when every crewmate has recovered all seven. The slowest one is everyone's problem.
Go back for them. Sit with them. Play it again.
THE TEMPLE • GROUP ONLY
BREAKER OF SILENCE
One transmission. No words on screen. Nobody leaves until the crew agrees on one filing.
THE CLAIM UNDER TRIAL
Stand in fire.
Open the transmissionChorus lands at 2:20. Play it in the room, lights down, before anyone votes.
LEAVE A COIN
One line. You won't see it again. A stranger will find it and know they are crew.
How this prototype is wired
Score. Per station: doors (Flyby 1, Full Shift 2, Reader 2) plus 4 / 2 / 0 per claim by closeness to crew consensus. Max 17 a station, plus 2 per Receive: 131 in all.
Consensus. Sample values. In production it is the live tally of every crew member's filing, so it shifts as crews argue and the same claim scores differently month to month.
Claims. Each station: one from the chorus, one buried in a verse, one from a voice that isn't the singer. Hook, dig, doubt.
Links. All seven stations and the temple are wired to YouTube with chorus timestamps. All 21 claims are in.
Temple. Breaker of Silence. The spoken outro is held pending a canon ruling; the trial claim uses only the chant.
The Receive. Between stations, one line from the next song arrives with two words lost. Each recovered word is +1 signal. The line is never one of the station's claims, so it primes the ear without giving anything away.
Video. The site build plays YouTube on the page (embedded plays still count as views); this preview links out.
Coins. Dropped coins go into a shared store and surface at random stations for other crews, tagged only with a crew number.