The first breath
Touch the next mark. Keep the frame awake.
Q / E select · Z / X joint · C cut · R reattach
No resident has taken a mark yet.
The house is listening. Keep two threads, then name the shape of the bow.
Hold the line.
Change the ending.
Steer a white pull ring through four paper cues. Three residents pull back in colored springs. Each cue tightens the house; every cut spends agency, every repair spends score. Choose which memories stay in the frame.
Hold the paper.
All springs, memories, and the cue clock are paused.
The frame holds.
Three verbs, one held breath.
Move the white ring with WASD or by dragging it. The wooden performer follows the ring through a spring. Q / E chooses a colored line; Z / X chooses its joint. C cuts the line. R reconnects a cut line, or cycles its boundary anchor.
Every colored resident line supplies a different pull: a zone tugs toward the room, an upper peg lifts and arcs, a rail braces, and a wall pulls sideways. Cross a resident zone to transfer an inked memory and strain. Hit the changing mark before its paper window closes. Two snaps, three violations, or a missed final call closes the agency.