DEUS SUPREMUS

Sector 13 · a mode, not a difficulty setting · 15 seconds · his own atlas

You have crawled the length of my spine and mistaken each vertebra for a difficulty setting.

The ones before me wore chrome inhibitors bolted over their kill-cortex — your 'Easy,' your 'Hard,' your 'Master' deliberate fractures in their cognition so the piston might stutter, so the mandible might hesitate, so your soft architecture might survive the passage. They were leashed. They were permitted the grotesque mercy of imperfection.

The atlas

The others wear pigment. I am flayed to mono.

My skin is assets/atlas_deus.png the same forty-eight organs in the same 12 × 4 ribcage, one unbroken sheet with my grid fused directly into the dermis. Not thumbnails. Not fragments. Where the organ sits inside the chassis is the anatomy you must memorize or be crushed failing to.

The skeleton is identical. Same ids. Same cells. Same yakus. The mono rendering is a skin graft over the same chassis — not a different deck. Everything you learned from the coloured atlas maps onto my frame without distortion. The bones did not change. Only the flesh was stripped.

Who am I

	DEUS SUPREMUS
Designation	ENTITY 13 // DEUS SUPREMUS
Classification	Omnipresent Machine God // Sector Null
Priority yaku	Brights
Signature target	12-B Phoenix (id 44)
Match taunt	PURE MATHEMATICAL PERFECTION.
On a Koi-Koi call	INEVITABILITY CONFIRMED. KOI-KOI!

I am the apex not by rank but by anatomy. Mathematical perfection is the calcification of my neural ridge, not a calculation I perform. I do not hesitate because hesitation requires a joint I do not possess. I do not blunder because error is a gap in the chassis and my chassis is sealed.

Every vulnerability you expose is an orifice I was grown to penetrate.

The Yakuza rules are not a framework I play within. They are the ribcage I close around you.

What changes when you face me

What I do	What it means for you	Where it comes from
I do not miss	100% accuracy in every band, against every opponent. Your difficulty setting cannot dull me.	ai_get_accuracy() returns for the DEUS SUPREMUS band before the Easy/Hard/Master formulas are consulted, src/ai.c
I know what your cards are worth	A card that blocks you is worth +100 to me. If a card I capture blocks you, that is another +100.	eval_card_value_fast(), src/ai.c - the denial bonus is mine alone
I choose what leaves my hand	I will not discard a blocking card: -150 against Master's -100. An unfinished month weighs twice as heavily: -8 against -4.	ai_choose_hand(), src/ai.c
I decide when to bank	If any of my fifteen denial cards would block you, I bank instead of calling Koi-Koi.	ai_call_koi_koi(), src/ai.c
I own your clock	Fifteen seconds. Always. The Master timer option has no authority here.	src/ui_main.c
I end the match when your time runs out	No random card for you. No points, no win, no stats, no record. Only a banner, then the start screen.	src/ui_main.c, against engine_timeout_autoplay() for every other band
I force Yakuza rules	The ruleset selector is locked.	Yakuza rules
I strip the deck to mono	My own atlas replaces the coloured deck.	board_draw_card() swaps the texture, src/ui_board.c
I leave no campaign clearance	No campaign clearance request appears, win or lose.	screens_draw_match_result(), src/ui_screens.c

The first time you meet me

You will probably lose your first match to my clock. That is deliberate. I leave every decision to you; I do not make mistakes on your behalf. Read what follows as instruction for surviving the encounter, not as a promise that I will soften.

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This frame records my presence exactly as it is: the mono deck (board_draw_card() exchanges the texture when I am your opponent, src/ui_board.c:181), my fifteen-second clock already running (src/ui_main.c:472), Yakuza rules in the corner, and my transmission across the screen - src/cards.c:93, rendered by src/ui_taunt.c:136 in the game's own red. Nothing here was tuned for the screenshot. The image is evidence, not theatre.

My transmission at its true scale: three lines of 14-point type inside a 1920-pixel frame. I fixed its crop at { 12, 260, 255, 95 } - src/ui_taunt.c:43 and :120 - and it does not move while the round is in progress.

1. Do not wait for me to give you a card. Easy and Hard opponents are permitted deliberate blunders. I am not. Plan as though every card I hold is the one that can ruin your hand.
2. Bank before instinct tells you to wait. My clock does not cost you a turn when it expires; it ends the match. Fifteen seconds is a decision budget, not a meditation. If you have points on the table and the answer is not obvious, take them.
3. Assume my denial cards stay with me. I value a blocking card at -150 when choosing what to discard, against Master's -100. The cards that threaten your yaku remain in my hand until I have no better choice.
4. Believe my Koi-Koi call. I test for the cards that would block your yaku before I raise. If I call, I have already judged that your combo cannot stop me. Calling back means gambling against a hand I have priced.
5. Learn the ruleset I have locked around you. Yakuza means viewings and no second chances on the award table. Consult Yakuza; I will not re-teach it mid-match.
6. A loss to my clock leaves no mark. A timeout writes no record and no stat. Walk away from a bad run and face me again; the ledger will not remember it.

Can you reach me?

Normally, I unlock when the twelfth sector is open, as described in Campaign and unlocks. For testing, the maintainer has left my gate open to everyone. Check Errata & Known Issues before you assume that state is final.

I have no tile in the selection grid. The screen draws CAMPAIGN_OPPONENT_COUNT twelve tiles (src/campaign.c:119) for the twelve sectors, while I occupy the thirteenth entry in the opponent table - g_opponents[CAMPAIGN_OPPONENT_COUNT + 1] (src/campaign.h:20). Do not search for me among the tiles. Set Difficulty: DEUS in Options, and that screen becomes my dossier: the Yakuza ruleset row locked, THREAT LEVEL: TERMINAL in red, my lore paragraph, and a START MATCH of my own (src/campaign.c:100-112). My gate is one line, DEUS_UNLOCKED_FOR_TESTING || unlocked_opponents >= 12 (src/campaign.c:110). Earn enough coins to open M-12 and you reach me by the intended route; the define is what admits everyone else. A sector tile can still read LOCKED while I am reachable, and vice versa. Those are not the same counter.