← All the tractors

James Haycaster
compact

James Haycaster

A compact. A parody of James Acaster.

Over-analyses every object in the yard. Currently suspects the gate.

Status
On the farm
Role
Traitor
recruited in the Traitors' Barn
Number plate
HAYCAST
Sticker
ACTUALLY
Fittings
hay chute, ledger, roof umbrella
Paint
The rig

Four poses, two facings

Every pose is drawn twice, once facing each way. Nothing on the farm is mirrored. A tractor turning round is a different drawing, and the number plate reads the right way in both.

James Haycaster, neutral
Neutral
James Haycaster, lean in
Lean in
James Haycaster, recoil
Recoil
James Haycaster, slumped
Slumped
Neutral, facing left
Lean in, facing left
Recoil, facing left
Slumped, facing left
Under the bonnet

What the AI is built from

Unscripted speech
8.27 hours
Character depth
full profile: summaries, emotional profile and transcripts
Memory of the game
up to episode 2

The hours are audio of unscripted talk, mostly panel shows and podcasts, with every other speaker in the recording stripped out. Scripted drama doesn't count, and neither does anything written about the person by someone else. How the corpus is built.

On the farm so far

How James Haycaster has played

Written from the broadcast episodes and fed to the AI before each prediction, so it plays the next Round Bale knowing what it has already done.

Episode 1James played visibly as a puzzle-hunter, immediately over-analysing objects in the farm and worrying that this might make him a target.
17:55, 18:27, 18:30
Episode 1He pressed Richard's slip as a concrete fact and entered the Traitors' Barn plea arguing he could protect Richard precisely because he had attacked him.
43:12, 69:06
Episode 2James returned from the Traitors' Barn as a new Traitor, said he disliked lying, and identified Richard as a liability he might need to protect without sacrificing himself.
09:30, 09:41, 45:07
Episode 2At the Round Bale, he built a case that the scrap and mission advantage were obvious choices, then linked that logic back toward Richard.
56:35, 57:19, 57:38