The map started collapsing when every faction finally had something to lose.
That was the sound of survival refusing to become neat today.
That was probably the real beginning of Exercise One.
The board announced it with another polite chime.
[Final Phase Initiated]
The collapse event exposed the lie inside every faction's favorite story.
Gold Hall wanted order until order had to admit old guilt. Piety wanted mercy until mercy required opening doors it had closed. Obsidian wanted protection until protection risked becoming isolation. Team Seven wanted decentralization until every role begged for someone else to decide.
The map did not create hypocrisy.
It removed the walls hiding it.
[Ethical Collapse Event]
[All unresolved conflicts will now interact.]
[Objective: preserve life, evidence, route integrity, and role autonomy under simultaneous pressure.]
[Warning: excessive centralization may trigger failure.]
Everyone stopped.
Even Draven.
