# `tens.` — 105 cards

One family of cards from this phase. The whole phase is in [`LOOKUP.md`](LOOKUP.md); what each file is for is in [`INDEX.md`](INDEX.md).

| Card id | Title | File |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `tens.adaptive_threat` | The Threat That Adapts | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.aftermath_not_act` | The Aftermath Instead of the Act | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.almost_right_place` | The Place That Is Almost Right | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.announced_deadline_dropped` | The Deadline Announced and Then Dropped | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.anticipation_vs_anxiety` | Anticipation Versus Anxiety | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.asserted_tension` | Tension Asserted, Not Built | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.audio_no_offscreen` | Audio Has No Offscreen | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.being_watched` | The Possibility of Being Watched | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.bomb_under_table` | The Bomb Under the Table | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.chase_turn` | The Chase That Changes Its Question | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.closing_pursuit` | The Pursuit That Closes | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.closing_space` | The Closing Space | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.comic_relief_as_tension` | Comic Relief as a Tension Tool | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.corrupting_the_mundane` | Corrupting the Mundane | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.cost_of_waiting` | The Rising Price of Waiting | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.costly_obstacle` | The Obstacle That Costs Something | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.countdown` | The Countdown | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.credibility_economy` | The Credibility Economy | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.crowd_as_cover` | Hiding in the Open | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.delay_by_digression` | Delay by Digression | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.diluted_stakes` | Everyone in Danger, Nobody at Risk | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.disgust_not_fear` | Disgust Standing In for Fear | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.dread_no_consequence` | Dread With No Consequence | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.dread_over_shock` | Dread Over Shock | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.dream_logic_cost` | The Dream Logic Discount | [cat-tens-5.md](cat-tens-5.md) |
| `tens.earned_surprise` | Surprise Paid For In Advance | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.embodied_vs_formless` | Body or No Body | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.ensemble_jeopardy` | Tension Across a Group | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.escalating_humiliation` | Escalating Humiliation | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.escalating_lie` | The Escalating Lie | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.exhausting_draft` | The Exhausting Draft | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.false_scare_cost` | The False Scare and Its Cost | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.false_victory` | The False Victory | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.farce_pressure` | Farce Pressure | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.first_five_seconds` | Tension in the First Five Seconds | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.hiding_beat` | The Concealment Beat | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.honest_explicitness` | When Explicitness Is the Honest Choice | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.human_deadline` | The Person Who Will Ask Again | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.implication_over_depiction` | Implication Over Depiction | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.indifferent_force` | The Indifferent Force | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.inferred_threat` | The Threat You Only Ever Infer | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.instruction_under_stress` | The Instruction Read Under Stress | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.interactive_tension` | Tension Under Player Control | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.interruption_clock` | The Interruption Clock | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.isolation_by_doubt` | Isolation by Doubt | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.kids_bounded_threat` | Jeopardy a Child Can Hold | [cat-tens-5.md](cat-tens-5.md) |
| `tens.known_outcome_documentary` | Tension Against a Known Outcome | [cat-tens-5.md](cat-tens-5.md) |
| `tens.known_outcome_dread` | Dread of the Known Outcome | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.laugh_raises_ceiling` | The Laugh That Raises the Ceiling | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.micro_form_tension` | Tension Under Thirty Seconds | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.near_miss_economy` | The Near-Miss Economy | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.negotiable_threat` | The Threat You Can Negotiate With | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.page_turn` | The Page Turn as the Cut | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.picturable_consequence` | The Consequence the Audience Can Picture | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.polite_threat` | The Polite Threat | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.post_climax_hold` | Holding After the Climax | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.premature_laugh` | The Joke That Releases Too Early | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.pressure_before_device` | Name the Pressure Before the Device | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.promise_of_violence` | The Promise of Violence | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.prose_no_soundtrack` | Prose Has No Soundtrack | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.pursuit_that_pauses` | The Pursuit That Pauses | [cat-tens-5.md](cat-tens-5.md) |
| `tens.reader_owns_the_clock` | Who Owns the Clock | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.real_condition_dread` | Dread About a Real Condition | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.refusing_to_name` | Refusing to Name It | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.release_valve` | The Release Valve | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.repeating_sound` | The Sound That Repeats | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.reveal_clock` | The Reveal Clock | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.ritual_that_must_continue` | The Ceremony Nobody Can Stop | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.room_tone_silence` | Room Tone Is the Only Silence | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.rule_demonstration` | The Rule Demonstration | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.safe_space_violation` | The Safe Space Violation | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.scale_dread` | Scale as the Threat | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.season_long_pressure` | Sustaining Across a Season | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.self_censorship` | The Sentence Not Written | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.shrinking_options` | The Shrinking Option Set | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.smell_before_sight` | Smell Before Sight | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.social_containment` | The Room You Cannot Leave | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.social_dread` | Social Dread | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.soft_deadline` | The Soft Deadline | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.sound_not_sight` | The Sound Instead of the Sight | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.sound_you_must_not_make` | The Sound That Must Not Be Made | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.specific_threat` | Making a Threat Specific | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.stage_blackout` | Tension in the Blackout | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.subtitle_preempt` | The Subtitle That Arrives Before the Line | [cat-tens-5.md](cat-tens-5.md) |
| `tens.suspect_ally` | The Ally Who Might Not Be | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.suspended_ending` | The Suspended Ending | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.sustained_low_dread` | Sustained Low Dread | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.tension_map` | The Tension Map | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.tension_without_villain` | Tension Without a Villain | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.terrain_pressure` | Terrain as Pressure | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.the_interval` | The Interval | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.thing_behind_character` | The Thing Behind the Character | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.threat_never_acts` | The Threat That Never Acts | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.threat_scaling` | Scaling a Threat Across a Work | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.threat_shown_too_early` | The Threat Shown Too Early | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.threat_with_rules` | The Threat That Obeys Rules | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.total_surveillance` | The Watcher Who Sees Everything | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.trough_placement` | Trough Placement | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.unearned_reprieve` | The Unearned Reprieve | [cat-tens-4.md](cat-tens-4.md) |
| `tens.unreliable_body` | The Unreliable Body | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.untrustworthy_environment` | The Environment That Lies | [cat-tens-2.md](cat-tens-2.md) |
| `tens.waiting_as_weapon` | Waiting as a Weapon | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |
| `tens.warning_fatigue` | Warning Fatigue | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.warning_notice` | The Warning Notice | [cat-tens-3.md](cat-tens-3.md) |
| `tens.wrongness_detail` | The Wrongness Detail | [cat-tens.md](cat-tens.md) |