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GAME MECHANIC

DIALOGUE AND TRUST // PLAYER PROTOCOL

Disclosure Thresholds

Track cooperation, factual disclosure, emotional disclosure, operational disclosure, and irreversible trust as separate gates.

OBJECTIVEEarn the exact kind of access needed without treating one intimate conversation as ownership of the character.
GAME MECHANIC

Operational sequence

  1. Identify what the player is asking the character to risk.
  2. Offer a reversible form of cooperation before requesting protected facts.
  3. Demonstrate evidence custody, confidentiality, or source protection in action.
  4. Let the character correct, pause, or refuse without punishing the relationship.
  5. Record which threshold changed and which remain closed.

Failure states

  • One universal trust meter
  • Trauma disclosure as a key for loot
  • Forced confession rewarded as truth
  • Romance or friendship automatically unlocking operational secrets