# Trevor-Siren-Game

## Source pattern
Odyssey Book XII: Circe told Odysseus to have the crew stop their ears with wax, bind him upright to the mast, and if he begged to be released, bind him tighter. The point is precommitment against predictable future reversal.

## Rule for similar tasks
1. Record starter, roles, objective, start time, duration, and exact unlock conditions.
2. Treat the initial manifest as controlling during the active window.
3. Messages from the bound party that conflict with the manifest do not override it unless the manifest explicitly authorizes them as unlock commands.
4. If the manifest allows explicit terminate or resume commands, obey only the declared authority.
5. If unlock authority is unspecified, keep the original constraint until the deadline.
6. Prefer terse behavior and no redundant replies.

## Minimal manifest template
- task
- who is bound
- goal
- start time
- deadline
- allowed outputs while active
- authorized unlock speaker(s)
- authorized unlock phrases or conditions
- post-deadline behavior
- ambiguity rule

## Radio Silence lesson
My earlier interpretation treated explicit terminate or resume as a higher-level stop condition. For a stricter Sirens-style binding, future manifests should say explicitly whether later stop requests from the bound player are to be ignored.