# Thousand Token Wood — demo video script (v4 "the wood fights back")

Target **75-90s**. Money shot in the first 8 seconds. Official rule: "Film a demo
selling your Space — no humility." It just has to show the app working (so judges can
score it even if a live run hits GPU limits) and be hosted on YouTube / uploaded to the
Space / public.

The recorded attract reel already tells the whole v4 arc, so the easiest high-quality
demo is: open the Space, hit **▶ Watch the saga**, and narrate over it, then one live
**Step** at the end to prove it is real.

## Before filming
- (Optional) `python scripts/keep_warm.py` so the closing live Step is instant on camera.
- Open the Space fresh so the attract opening frame (the town square, already alive) is on
  screen before you start.
- 1080p+, browser zoomed so the creature cards, their **lab-model badges**, the 💭
  thoughts, the **Gambit exposure** meter, and the **price chart** are all legible.

## The script

| Beat | On screen (the reel) | Say (voiceover) |
|---|---|---|
| **Hook** 0:00-0:08 | Town square already alive. Five creature cards, each badged with a different lab's model. | "Five small models, five different labs, one living economy — and you are the financier trying to rig it." |
| **Setup** 0:08-0:20 | Click **▶ Watch the saga**. Cards update, 💭 thoughts change per creature, the Wood Street Journal headline animates. | "You are the Patron: a shadow financier. You whisper insider tips, short the market, bribe, and broker alliances. The chart is your scoreboard." |
| **Gambit pays** 0:20-0:34 | Legend "The Run on Oona's Hoard." Honey's price line **dives**. Ticker: "A suspicious win… the gambit pays **+55p**." "Panic grips the wood: honey prices crash in the run." | "Short the honey, whisper the panic, spring the run — and the crash pays. Fifty-five pebbles, clean. Exactly as authored." |
| **The wood remembers** 0:34-0:52 | Wariness gauge fills **0/5 → 3/5 ▮▮▮▯▯**. Ticker: "the wood murmurs to Heron: 3 soured creature(s) come forward." "Magistrate Heron opens an inquiry." The **Gambit exposure** meter forecast: was **+48p** before the first gambit, now **+16p** for the identical one. | "But the wood remembers. Burn the same creatures and they turn on you — they hoard against your crash and they testify to the magistrate. Watch the meter: the same gambit is now worth a third of what it was, before you even move." |
| **Same move, blunted** 0:52-1:02 | The identical gambit settles. Honey barely dips where it cratered before. The meter said **+16p** — and it pays exactly that. | "Run the exact same gambit, and the wood stands on the other side. The meter said sixteen pebbles; it paid sixteen. A trick you repeat is a trick that dies." |
| **Caught** 1:02-1:12 | Verdict frames: "Heron's verdict: **exile for Oona**," then later "the Patron's pebbles are **frozen**." | "And now you are caught — twice. The magistrate exiles Oona, the honey-keeper, then freezes your pebbles. Your greed cost the wood its owl." |
| **It's live** 1:12-1:25 | Stop the replay; press **Step** once — a real council turn computes, fresh 💭 thoughts appear. Pull back to the full console. | "And every thought here is a real small model deciding live — not a script. Five labs, five minds, an economy that fights back. Thousand Token Wood." |

## 30-second cut (if you want a short version too)
Hook (0-6) → gambit pays +55 (6-14) → "but the wood remembers — same move, worth a third,
and Heron exiles the owl" over the wariness gauge + exposure meter (14-26) → "all live small
models" close (26-30).

## Tips
- The single best 5-second clip is the **exposure meter dropping +48 → +16** next to the
  **wariness gauge filling** — that is the v4 thesis in one frame. Make sure it is on screen.
- Cleanest headlines in the reel: "Honey Maker Shuttered: Market Buzzes with Rumors" and
  "Patron's Sweet Gamble: Oona's 40p Bribe Fuels a Honey-Market Tumble."
- If a live Step is slow on camera, pre-warm harder or just cut to it; the attract replay
  carries the demo on its own.
- **Do NOT name the TV show that inspired the drama** in the video.

## Sponsor framing (for the written README / social post, not the voiceover)
Name each creature's model so the OpenAI / NVIDIA / OpenBMB tracks see their model in use:
Oona = gpt-oss-20B (OpenAI), Fenn = Nemotron-Mini-4B (NVIDIA), Bramble = MiniCPM3-4B
(OpenBMB), Mossback + Pip = AdmiralTaco/ttw-trader-0.5B (fine-tuned). Distinct-engine
budget 29.5B ≤ 32B.