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𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 - 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀
After Consilium, I wanted to build something entirely different. Smaller. Weirder.
The idea came from a single Asterix scene—Asterix and Obelix trying to obtain Permit A38, only to discover you need Permit A38 to apply for Permit A38. That's the whole game.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁: A bureaucratic text adventure powered by one fine-tuned 1.7B model playing five different characters—each with their own system prompt, their own rules, and their own way of sending you in circles.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:
✅ Clerk Vitalstatistix—requires Form 27b/6. Has never issued a permit in 23 years.
✅ Supervisor Caligula Minus—perpetually at lunch. Invented A38 in 1987, forgot why.
✅ SYSTEMA v2.3—last updated 1994. Every response starts with an error code.
✅ Form 27b/6—sent. Not happy about it. Page 3 is always missing.
✅ Ombudsman Panoramix—investigates complaints about the process. It is also the process.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵:
- Fine-tuned SmolLM2-1.7B on ~1000 synthetic NPC examples generated with Claude.
- Converted to GGUF Q4_K_M for fast CPU inference
- Streaming responses so you feel the bureaucracy arriving in real time
- Custom beige government office UI
➡️ Try it: azettl/the-place-that-sends-you-mad
Built for the Build Small Hackathon—Track 2: Thousand Token Wood. Model at azettl/permit-a38-npc and Dataset azettl/permit-a38-npcs.
After Consilium, I wanted to build something entirely different. Smaller. Weirder.
The idea came from a single Asterix scene—Asterix and Obelix trying to obtain Permit A38, only to discover you need Permit A38 to apply for Permit A38. That's the whole game.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁: A bureaucratic text adventure powered by one fine-tuned 1.7B model playing five different characters—each with their own system prompt, their own rules, and their own way of sending you in circles.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:
✅ Clerk Vitalstatistix—requires Form 27b/6. Has never issued a permit in 23 years.
✅ Supervisor Caligula Minus—perpetually at lunch. Invented A38 in 1987, forgot why.
✅ SYSTEMA v2.3—last updated 1994. Every response starts with an error code.
✅ Form 27b/6—sent. Not happy about it. Page 3 is always missing.
✅ Ombudsman Panoramix—investigates complaints about the process. It is also the process.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵:
- Fine-tuned SmolLM2-1.7B on ~1000 synthetic NPC examples generated with Claude.
- Converted to GGUF Q4_K_M for fast CPU inference
- Streaming responses so you feel the bureaucracy arriving in real time
- Custom beige government office UI
➡️ Try it: azettl/the-place-that-sends-you-mad
Built for the Build Small Hackathon—Track 2: Thousand Token Wood. Model at azettl/permit-a38-npc and Dataset azettl/permit-a38-npcs.