✧ The terms of grace ✧
How it works
$1 buys it one more hour above ground. Stop paying, and the Reaper carries it off to the graveyard.
- 1
Put your site on the clock
Your @handle, your URL, an amount. No account, no onboarding, no free trial. Just a deadline.
- 2
$1 buys one hour above ground
Every dollar is exactly one more hour. The minimum is $5 — five hours of borrowed time.
- 3
The board ranks by who dies last
Longest remaining life sits at #1. Paying early is never wasted: hours are added to your existing deadline, not to the clock as of now.
- 4
Run out and the Reaper collects
At zero your site leaves the board and joins the graveyard. You can buy it back, but a resurrected clock restarts from the moment you pay. Nobody gets the lost hours back.
✧ On the Reaper herself ✧
What you are watching
The landscape at the top of the leaderboard is not a loop. It is the real board, played out.
- She walks on the clock, not on your scroll
- At rest she covers 88 pixels a second and never stops. Leave the page open and untouched and she keeps going; scrolling does not move her by a single pixel.
- She sees a site 30 seconds out
- A site steps onto the road exactly 30 seconds before the deadline stored in the database. Until then it is not on the map at all — there is nothing to see, because nothing is about to happen.
- The distance is the countdown
- Once a site is in view, its distance from her is its remaining life, to scale. She slows to match its approach, so the ground and the site drift together. When the countdown reads zero, it is exactly within reach of the blade.
- The blade lands on the second
- The swing starts slightly before the deadline so that contact — not the start of the gesture — falls on the recorded moment. The whole strike takes 0.9 seconds.
- The stone stays
- The site glitches, drains of colour and dissolves. A headstone rises where it stood and remains in the landscape for good. She waits 1 second, then walks on.
None of it is staged. Every death you see there is a site whose paid hours ran out at that exact second, and deaths are usually hours apart — so most visits show nothing but a long walk. Witnessing one is the rare part. The board below tells you who is within the last 60 minutes.