# Native Russian Roulette: Multiple Opponents

## Rules

The existing one-opponent game remains the default. Ready-screen controls select
one, two or three opponents; Left/Right changes the selection. The existing
1/2/3 keys still choose the number of loaded cartridges. Mouse controls also
start the round, fire on the player's turn, and open the exit confirmation.

The round locks its participant count and player's stake at the start. In the
group variant, all participants use one cylinder in cyclic order. Each takes
their own turn; there is no selectable target. A live shot consumes that loaded
round and removes the current participant. Empty chambers pass to the next
remaining participant, skipping eliminated seats. The last surviving player
receives the initial stake times the initial participant count. Opponent stakes
are virtual casino stakes, not withdrawals from the player's account.

An exhausted cylinder is reloaded and spun without another payment. Reloading
does not restore eliminated opponents or change the locked pool. The player's
elimination preserves the existing glitch/dark/G-man/return sequence. The match
is recorded once for NPC challenges; intermediate opponent eliminations are
not extra paid wins. Confirmed early exit forfeits the already-paid stake.

Escape opens the shared leave/continue dialog in both solo and party modes;
the dialog freezes the scene and cylinder. Cancelling resumes the same turn.
Leaving after settlement does not make a second payout or challenge event.

## Graphics

Three distinct neutral seated opponents use six frames from
`assets/sprites/roulette/participants-v1.png`, generated with the built-in image
generator and packed offline into `assets/animations/roulette/participants-v1.bin`.
The active seat is named/highlighted; an eliminated seat fades and becomes empty.
The existing first-person player and cylinder animations are retained.

The party view passes the existing revolver along the tabletop. The opponents
currently have idle/conversational poses, not complete individual cinematic
firing animations. The attempted new firing-pose sheet was rejected by the
image tool and is not a shipped asset. No replacement has been disguised as a
full new shooting animation. One-opponent firing remains the existing scene.

Neutral sprite prompt: three waist-up adult casino guests, bald waistcoated
man, dark-haired charcoal-jacketed man, older gray-haired brown-jacketed man;
three columns by two rows, attentive idle and calm palm-up conversation;
same identity/scale/anchors, transparent background, crisp late-1990s pixel
sprites, amber light and crimson shadows; no objects, weapons, wounds or text.

## Verification

`russian_party_test.inc` covers 600 complete group matches at 16/50/250 ms
updates, 1..3 loaded rounds, elimination order, unchanged cylinder between
empty chambers, reload-without-payment, locked-pool settlement, render purity,
all active pre-result exit phases, zero bank and invalid bullet count.
The existing 2000 solo-round tests still run. Native captures and tested/shipping
procedure parity are checked by `check_russian_party.py --parity`.

The runtime remains MASM. Python only packs assets and checks captures;
the existing C# launcher remains packaging, not game code. Multiplayer poker
and Buckshot are still separate unfinished features.