The number you do not have to watch
Keep playing. There is no session limit.
Nothing in this engine counts your sessions — there is no quota to run down
and no wall to hit. The past folds into itself as it recedes: a question is
answered from a context of fixed size, so it costs the same on a long
campaign as on a young one, and the newest night takes the same seconds to
read as the first one did.
What we can put a number on is the thing that actually breaks a
memory: age. Not how much a tool holds — how old a fact can get
before it quietly loses it. So we ran one campaign to two hundred sessions,
four years of weekly play, and then asked it about its first night.
- 199sessions between the fact and the question, at the oldest
- 23/25questions answered correctly, spread across all two hundred
- 4smedian time to an answer, sources attached
- 0%slower at the two hundredth session than at the twentieth
Two hundred sessions, 991 events, and reading a night still took the same
twelve seconds it took on the first one. It did lose something: one fact
from session nine — a line someone found in their own handwriting — was
still in the archive but did not surface. We would rather tell you that
than round it away. The other question it “missed” asked what was
unresolved at the end, and after four years the end had moved.
Measured on our own campaign, not a public beta: we will say so plainly if
wider use shows something different.