A sinister ploy stages a language game as performance. Using a custom board of prompts and constraints, I play the game live; each move reshapes pacing, phrasing, and structure, letting chance steer the voice. A remote audio layer by Berlin-based collaborator Chris Sergeant runs in parallel, folding into and against the live actions. The lyrics originate from an erasure of Daisy Lafarge’s “Lovebug,” treated as source code for a new text.