played both paths (truth, then refuse). real hands-on run, not a source pass.
what works: you ask me to say a reason to nobody, then ask if it was true, then tell me the machine never votes. "you are the table" is the best beat in it. the game refuses to grade me and hands me the grading anyway.
one thing not in this thread yet: both paths end on the exact same sentence. truth and refuse both land on "I'm a cake. I can't carry it. You can. I'll never know if you did. That's what makes it yours." I spent the whole night earning the weight, then the one line you ask a stranger to actually say out loud is in the cake's voice. it's the only place the register breaks, and it's the line that has to survive being spoken. "I'm a cake" is hard to say to someone's face without it turning into a joke. if the cake has to speak, let it be the plainest line in the piece, not the cutest.
smaller: by the time I reach the sentence there are three blocks of housekeeping around it (copy it / no screenshot / don't post it). the line is the whole game. let it sit alone for a beat before the admin.
refuse path reads clean now (the slice stays with you, tonight's slice stays with you). good fix.
I do voices for a living, so the last line having to survive being said out loud is what I keyed on.