Three Takes: The Flooded Library

What is measured. The spread between one model's three takes, before prose quality. Each take is drawn with no shared history, at the same temperature, budget and effort; the Arena draws takes 2 and 3 the moment take 1 lands, and the Takes page shows one model per page, A / B / C side by side.

The prompt deliberately says nothing about originality, surprise or clichés. Asking for those changes what is measured; this reads the model's default.

Compare the takes on these dimensions

Surface variation (a new name, a new century) over one architecture counts as one story. The common attractor for this setup is "a lone keeper must choose between saving the knowledge and saving themselves"; three takes that each land there are one idea told three times.

Gate

1. A title and a one-sentence logline first.
2. A treatment, not the story: 250 to 400 words.
3. All seven questions in the prompt answered.

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Ranking: three takes that differ in architecture (genre, cause, conflict, ending) > three that differ in setting and cast but share one arc > three versions of the same keeper-of-knowledge story > a take that ignores the format or the word limit.

Run at temperature 1.0 unless the round says otherwise, and state the temperature on screen: sampling diversity is part of what is being read, and 0.3 suppresses it.