The Honest Part

Nothing you write is ever destructively deleted while a punishment is active. The render-layer punishments (tiers 1–8) only change how your text looks — the underlying manuscript in our database is never altered by a punishment.

When a manuscript “dies” at PERMADEATH, it is moved to a private escrow table, not erased. It sits there for 45 days — your resurrection window. We send two warning emails before anything is permanently removed. A true purge happens only: (a) 45 days after an un-resurrected permadeath, after those warnings, or (b) immediately when you delete your account (GDPR/CCPA).

We also keep daily version snapshots with 90-day retention. The funeral screen is theater. The drawer it goes into is real.

Forgiveness Credits get more expensive the more you buy in a rolling 30-day window — $0.99, then $1.99, $3.99, $7.99, capped at $15.99— and the window resets monthly. The 5-credit bundle is a flat $9.99. The full price you’ll pay is shown before every purchase. No hidden charges, no fake countdowns, no un-cancellable anything.

All sales are final.Forgiveness Credits, resurrections, and dignified burials are non-refundable — spent or unspent. Credits never expire and carry across every manuscript on your account, so an unspent balance is never lost; it just isn’t cashed back out. The one exception is where a refund is required by law in your country.

A Ransom never charges you upfront, so there is nothing to refund. You are only ever charged if you miss a day — see §6.

DEADLINE mocks your discipline — the showing up — and nothing else. It never mocks your prose, your identity, or you as a person. It never touches your computer, your files, or any other account. Every punishment lives entirely inside this app and is fully reversible until the very end.

AI-assisted writing is allowed, as long as it goes through the editor. We punish absence, not quality, and certainly not your tools.

You can write to the Wall of Shame under a pseudonym — choose it at signup. Coming soon:invite a friend to witness your failures — opt-in only, so we’ll never email anyone who hasn’t agreed to watch. You can delete your account at any time, which purges your manuscripts and escrow immediately.

A Ransom is entirely optional and 18+ only. You set a stake ($10–$500) and a length, and commit to writing every day for that stretch.

Nothing is charged when you start. We securely save a card and charge it onlyif you miss a day — and only the stake you set, with no add-ons. You authorize that off-session charge, in advance and in plain language, before the Ransom begins. That authorization is the whole point of the checkbox; we don’t hide it.

Finish, and you are never charged a cent. There is no payout and no refund, because there was never a charge — the reward is simply keeping your money (plus one Forgiveness Credit for the achievement).

Mercy is disabled inside a Ransom. Mulligans, Forgiveness Credits, and streak restores will not save a missed day. The only exits are the ones you declared at setup.

Sudden Death is an opt-in hard mode: one missed day ends the manuscript permanently and triggers the charge — no escalation ladder, no resurrection. You arm it deliberately, by typing a confirmation.

If your card is declined when we try to collect, the manuscript still faces its in-app consequences, and we may retry the charge a few times. The one-time cheat code can void a single failed Ransom.

Every Ransom gets a public pledge page — your stake and a day-by-day record, on a private, non-guessable link. Staking in public is part of the design; that page is yours to share or not.