GAME MECHANIC

HUMINT & RECRUITMENT // HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

Burned Asset

Possess valuable knowledge after cover, relationship, or deniability has failed. The persona becomes playable when role, access, loyalty, psychological need, current state, and evidence behavior are tracked independently.

Enter linked operation Decompose this persona

CENTRAL FUNCTION Possess valuable knowledge after cover, relationship, or deniability has failed.

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PERSONA MODEL

How this type makes decisions

Every disclosure is weighed against immediate survival, abandoned obligations, and the possibility that rescue is another exploitation.

Decision frame

Motivation, access, suitability, welfare, operational risk, and a survivable exit.

Social method

Elicitation, calibrated reciprocity, protected attention, and long-horizon relationship management.

Gameplay loop

Spot → assess → develop → test → recruit or refuse → handle → protect, terminate, or extract.

Player leverage

Provide a credible route, clear terms, and control over what happens after extraction.

Common false read

A burned asset has nothing left to lose; they may have everything human left to lose.

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TRUST & EVIDENCE

How this persona relates and how this persona knows.

Trust, cooperation, disclosure, evidence quality, and canonical truth are separate systems.

RELATIONSHIP

Trust model

Trust depends on concrete extraction behavior, not promises or prior service.

EVIDENCE

Evidence behavior

Evidence may be fragmented, urgent, self-protective, and uniquely valuable because the source no longer has access to refresh it.

PLAYER

Useful approach

Provide a credible route, clear terms, and control over what happens after extraction.

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PRESSURE TRANSITION

Changed behavior is a clue, not a replacement personality.

Pressure response

Narrows to survival, bargaining, concealment, or desperate truth transfer.

Breaking condition

Being forced to sacrifice a person for yield or discovering the relationship was never reciprocal.

Recovery path

Restored agency, honest boundaries, protected closure, and accountability for exploitation.

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LIKELY STATE PATHS

States modify the active expression of this persona.

A state can narrow choices, change disclosure, or alter evidence conditions while stable identity and values remain available for recovery.

ExposureBurned

The persona’s cover, network position, or deniability has failed.

Every contact has cost; prior allies may become risks or lifelines. Open transition record

StressCornered

The persona perceives no safe reversible option.

Player can widen options, exploit desperation, or trigger irreversible action. Open transition record

AllegianceDefecting

The persona is moving evidence, loyalty, or self-definition across an institutional boundary.

Protection, publication, exploitation, or abandonment create different arcs. Open transition record

OperationsExtracting

The persona is leaving a compromised environment while preserving life, evidence, or network separation.

Timing, capacity, consent, and what gets left behind become the puzzle. Open transition record

RecoveryReintegrating

The persona is rebuilding ordinary life, relationships, identity, and responsibility after operation, injury, exposure, or crisis.

Long-horizon consequences replace instant cure; player choices determine what can be rebuilt. Open transition record

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DIRECT GAME BINDINGS

This type exists because it changes player decisions.

The same persona model is used by character dossiers, operations, evidence, field protocols, and cases.

Character dossiers

Darius ColeA quartermaster who can still name every package he moved but no longer knows which organization considers him an employee, witness, traitor, or disposable problem.Teresa IbarraA courier who survived an ambush and later encountered actual surveillance. Trauma reminders, factual threat, and secondary psychotic features now overlap in ways neither the hospital nor counterintelligence can safely simplify.Dr. Helena SayerThe attending clinician assigned to Mara Ellison. Her notes resist punitive interpretations, but her access patterns and unexplained familiarity with classified terminology complicate the record.Mara EllisonA highly observant patient whose claims about hidden corridors, falsified records, and rehearsed staff behavior are treated as symptoms—despite several verifiable anomalies.Samira DastanA nonprofit coordinator registered as Elias Quill's cousin despite no independently verified family link. She knows the hospital's visitor rules better than several employees.

Operations

Project GLASSHOUSENorthbridge records suggest that clinical observation, memory disruption, covert referral, and identity management converge in one program that officially does not exist.Directive 73-AlphaA disavowed logistics source appears under protective custody while three organizations issue incompatible instructions for his extraction, arrest, or silence.Operation PALIMPSESTRecords, medication routing, signals collection, and staged clinical identities overlap across multiple Northbridge departments.

Field methods

Interview Without CollusionAcknowledge fear and meaning without confirming an unverified belief or aggressively arguing it away.Asset Burn and ExtractionDecide what happens after a source is exposed: rescue, relocation, controlled disclosure, negotiated surrender, or abandonment.Persona DecompositionSeparate identity, role, access, cover, loyalty, need, reasoning, trust, state, evidence behavior, and plot function before deciding what a character is doing.

Case files

SEALED PROGRAM FILEThis record requires compartmented access. Its body is not present in the response.SEALED PROGRAM FILEThis record requires compartmented access. Its body is not present in the response.

Evidence Lab

Witness Reliability Without Diagnostic ReductionReliability is claim-specific, time-specific, and source-specific. A person can misinterpret one event, accurately report another, and remain uncertain about both.Role, Persona, State, and Allegiance SeparationA job title, operational function, personality pattern, current state, diagnosis, and loyalty answer different questions. This lens prevents one category from silently becoming another.

Jobs and cover access

Operational DebrieferCreates a humint & recruitment gameplay route through access, evidence, relationships, and decisions; the role supplies opportunity but does not determine intent, loyalty, or personality.Whistleblower and Source-Support LiaisonCreates a humint & recruitment gameplay route through access, evidence, relationships, and decisions; the role supplies opportunity but does not determine intent, loyalty, or personality.

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FULL REPORT DEEP LINKS

The model points back to complete public research sections.

Research grounds the design but does not automatically create game canon. Each link opens the exact report section used to shape this persona family.

Intelligence DisciplinesDefines handler, source, and field collection roles. Operational Psychology Without ReductionExplains the cost of turning relationships into instruments.

Source rule: Research ≠ canon
Truth rule: Claim-level
State rule: Reversible where earned
Type rule: Composite