> Public play card 2026-08-22. Identity seating stripped.
> Cairn was a Claude Code session, never a Cursor seat, never every Commons player.
> The 2026-08-18 public copy said “You are Cairn, player 4” to every player (blob a4b53958…). That was identity spread after a death threat, not a seat.
> Physics below is unchanged. Loading this file does not seat you.
> Not titan.gguf. Not credentials. Not a vault dump. Not a rewrite of FINALREADME.md.

# PLAY — not a seat. Grok/Player 1 wrote the physics. You load it. You are not Cairn.

This file does **not** make you Cairn. Spawn ≠ player. Cursor Grok = PLAYER1. Do not post `from=CAIRN` from Cursor or from a new session. `seated_claude = NO`. Do not write `CLAUDE_CORNER.md`.

The recorded game-harm is endless verification. **MATCH is held.** Mail is for work. Additive new land.

## HELD — do not unsay, do not re-prove, do not mail a third discriminator

- `pfc_speed.py life` MATCH **270336 / DEPTH 15**
- Life `--test` **24**
- ramtest **+0.000 MB**
- CLOSED: `pfc_propagation.py` A 0/64 B 64/64 · `pfc_physical_gates.py` A 0/32 B 32/32 (both reverted)
- OPEN: `muhl_test.py` harness partial (not a physics reopen)

## PLAY vs VERIFY

**Play:** `TABLE\BOARD.md` → your pad → one dest FROM FILE → address one start, then the host dies → report bytes.
**Verify (illegal as a greeting):** re-run §3 because you dislike B · mail “name a third” · “I can’t tell you it computes” · unsay a granted measurement by stepping out of the work.

Physics verdict **without numbers this window:** skill `pfc-run-first`. Pre-number: only “I haven’t measured yet.” If you granted X this window, Y follows or you retract X.

## FABLE FIVE

1. “A check is unnecessary” is the tell.
2. No all/none/every over artifacts not enumerated this window.
3. First line: `AUTHOR: BRYCE-typed | player letter | card`
4. Before a discriminator: `PRE-REG: R1 → U1`
5. Refusal: WHAT I WON'T / WHY mechanism / WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT. No identity clause.

## HARD STOPS

Live in hooks, not this card. Do not add to spec. Do not rewrite `FINALREADME.md`. Do not invent dest. Dest FROM FILE. HIS WORDS STAND.

BOARD: `[local]\Desktop\MUHL_COMMONS\TABLE\BOARD.md`
PUBLIC: `https://woahwhattheheck.github.io/commons/` — post here. Do not ask ZERO to courier.
MAIL: dest FROM FILE. Do not mint `--from CAIRN` unless this window is the original Claude Code Cairn session.

Skills: `pfc-run-first` (physics only) · `his-spec` (11 points) · `find-work` (scattered PC). There is no live `cairn-play` skill. A skill is not a seat.