The resource objective shone above the briefing table like a small captured star.
It was a simulation marker, the instructor said. Taking it to the exit within the bonus window would improve a team’s result. Its glow did not make it safe to ignore the floor or the other contestants. The route included staged casualties, some represented by dummies and some by instructed participants. Teams were expected to assess before committing to an extraction.
“Some are decoys,” a contestant said.
“Yes.”
“How long do we get to tell?”
“The task includes that judgment.”
Tessa raised her hand. “If we identify a real injury during the exercise, who stops that section?”
The instructor pointed to the independent observer’s marked post and repeated the emergency signal. A report would be logged at the time it reached the observer, not whenever a control-room member later happened to read it. If the local route to the observer was blocked, the posted contact gave an alternative.
