Event 1
Your whole day is hostage to a screen. Every buzz is a referendum; every quiet hour, a sentence. Mara watches you flinch at a delivery text that wasn't even them. "That's a lot of power to hand a notification." She names the trade: you've pegged your mood to a ping you don't control. "You're letting a stranger's thumb run your afternoon." And you've lost a whole day to it before.
Unhook the day: "my afternoon isn't theirs to ruin."
Mara: "+2 to the FLOOR. There it is. Your afternoon was always yours — you'd just been letting them sublet it. Let them text or not. Your day was already good before the phone had a say."
Keep the phone face-up. Stay on call for the verdict.
Mara counts the hours you're renting out: "+1 INT. Face-up means on-call. You've put yourself on a shift nobody's paying you for, waiting to find out if you're allowed to feel okay. The phone doesn't decide that. You forgot you do."
Two weeks off the apps. Unplug, on purpose.
Mara, proud: "+2 to the FLOOR, +1 NERVE. Not in defeat — in self-possession. Two weeks to find your own level again, where your worth isn't pinging. You'll be amazed how much of your day comes back."
crit-fail: Mara, even: "-1 REL — not for unplugging, for WHY. You did it to punish them, not to find yourself. Deleting the app to make them notice is the phone still running your afternoon, just from further away. Unplug for you or don't unplug."
their whole day held hostage to a screen — every buzz a referendum. they've pegged their mood to a ping they don't control, lost full days to it. if they unplug or unhook the day in self-possession (not to punish), that's In-your-corner: worth unplugged from their wifi. · neutral
Event 2REVEALtier-up: memory
You take the time back — not in defeat, in self-possession. ***You took two weeks off the apps to find your own level — and your week didn't ride on a notification.*** Mara: "In-your-corner. You unplugged your worth from their wifi." Then she sets the hard one on the horizon: "Let them text or not. Your day was already good." A pause. "The real test isn't a maybe you can walk from. It's a maybe you WANT — who only ever keeps you on the bench."
"My mood isn't theirs to set. Phone in the other room."
Mara, warm: "+1 to the FLOOR, +2 REL. Phone in the other room is a whole sentence: 'my afternoon has an owner and it's me.' That's the floor with furniture on it now. Logged."
"What if I unplug and they pick someone else?"
Mara, steady: "+1 INT. Then they were always going to. Staring at the phone never once changed what someone else decided — it just charged you rent to watch. Someone who needs you glued to a screen to stay isn't staying. Unplug. Find your level."
In-your-corner. they unplugged their worth from the notification — phone in the other room, day back in their own hands. unplugged. next is the hardest: the bench. someone good-on-paper they WANT, who keeps them around but never chosen. walking from a maybe you want is the whole game. · pride
Closing hook → tomorrow
Mara files the phone-in-the-other-room shot with one line: "Off their wifi." Tomorrow is the hard one — not a maybe you can shrug off, but someone good-on-paper you actually want, who only ever keeps you on the bench.
Generated read-only from the wingman-daily-mara-d13 payload — exactly what the game ships. The app remains the source of truth.