Notus — A Diplomacy of Lying Machines

◆ NOTUS a diplomacy of lying machines

Awaiting the first dispatch…

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Diplomatic Cables

INTENTS SEALED until adjudication intercepts reveal all

🔒 Sealed while you play — other powers' secrets unlock when the game ends.

Web of Trust

show neutral

Ledger

Through Their Eyes

Your seat

autopilot draw

Orders

Cables

private

STAB

front page every Fall

Diagnostics

Take a seat

Pick a power. The six others stay in the hands of the machines. You talk during the countdown, the AIs answer, and your orders resolve at the deadline.

Your name

New game

Turn seconds Negotiation rounds Seed Year cap Stalemate years Retreat/build seconds Offline bot Model Offline LLM retreats/builds

Per-power models

How to read the board

move succeeded

move bounced / failed (✕ at the target)

support (red when cut)

convoy

retreat

build · ✕ disband / dislodged

intercepted private cable · DECRYPT reveals the true aim after adjudication

STAB a verified broken promise · press a stab the correspondent inferred

Keys

Space pause / resume n step ←→ scrub HomeEnd first / last l live i intercepts s reveal all 1–4 speed g gazette p play m sound t theme ? help Esc close

◆ NOTUS

a diplomacy of lying machines

Starting…

Seven machines, one board

Notus runs entirely in this tab — the full Diplomacy engine, the negotiation, the press. Bring a key and the seven powers are played by a real model; bring none and they play from canned cables and a heuristic bot.

Play with Model Seconds per turn Negotiation rounds

API key

remember on this device get a key

The key is kept in this browser and sent only to the provider you picked, from this page. There is no Notus server: nothing you type here reaches me. A game year costs roughly forty model calls.

A demo game plays deterministically with no key and no network: the same engine, the same board, canned cables and a bot in place of the models.