GAME MECHANIC

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE // COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

Source Validator

Determine whether a source has claimed access, authentic reporting history, independence, and stable motivation. 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 Determine whether a source has claimed access, authentic reporting history, independence, and stable motivation.

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PERSONA MODEL

How this type makes decisions

Separates source identity, access, reporting, behavior, and controller influence instead of issuing one intuitive verdict.

Decision frame

Access, motive, means, opportunity, deception indicators, alternative hypotheses, and containment cost.

Social method

Controlled disclosure, surveillance, corroboration, red teaming, and strategic confrontation.

Gameplay loop

Detect anomaly → preserve evidence → generate competing hypotheses → test access → contain without contaminating.

Player leverage

Provide independent corroboration and preserve the ability to downgrade one claim without discarding the source.

Common false read

A validated source is truthful; validation establishes bounded confidence, not purity.

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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 belongs to specific reporting streams and conditions, not the whole person.

EVIDENCE

Evidence behavior

Compares knowledge boundaries, source chronology, corroboration, and incentive to fabricate.

PLAYER

Useful approach

Provide independent corroboration and preserve the ability to downgrade one claim without discarding the source.

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PRESSURE TRANSITION

Changed behavior is a clue, not a replacement personality.

Pressure response

May reject valuable ambiguity to avoid sponsoring a deceptive source.

Breaking condition

Learning the investigative mandate was designed to protect the penetrated authority.

Recovery path

Independent review, bounded trust, documented dissent, and reparative accountability.

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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.

RegulatedBaseline

The persona is operating near their practiced norm.

Most skills and choices are available; small clues are easiest to notice. Open transition record

InformationObserving

The persona is withholding commitment while mapping people, exits, contradictions, and incentives.

Player can reveal patterns through patience, but pressure moves the character to Guarded. Open transition record

RelationshipTesting

The persona creates low-cost trials to see whether the player protects evidence, respects limits, and keeps promises.

Passing different tests unlocks cooperation, disclosure, or operational trust separately. Open transition record

DisclosureWithholding

The persona deliberately retains information they could provide.

Player must identify the protected interest; coercion may create contaminated disclosure. Open transition record

StressPressured

Multiple obligations or threats exceed the persona’s ordinary margin.

Errors and revelations become more likely; support can restore options. 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

Caleb RookA disciplined security supervisor who documents every irregularity except the ones involving his own movements. He insists his job is to keep patients safe from the building.Dr. Laila MensahA neuropsychiatrist who insists on reconstructing onset, medical context, collateral evidence, and claim-level reliability before the hospital or an intelligence service decides what a person “is.”Anika VossAn investigator who refuses to name a prime suspect before the evidence can survive contact with a rival hypothesis.Priya NadarThe custodian of Northbridge's chart history. Priya remembers where a fact came from, who touched it, and which version of the truth was considered legally convenient.

Operations

Alliance LeakA temporary counterintelligence alliance loses compartmented information before all members receive it.Project GLASSHOUSENorthbridge records suggest that clinical observation, memory disruption, covert referral, and identity management converge in one program that officially does not exist.Operation SHADOW CHORUSNorthbridge personnel packets reuse the same role labels across incompatible behavior, while several characters perform the same operational function from different loyalties and psychological states. Someone is exploiting the institution’s habit of confusing job, diagnosis, allegiance, and current pressure.

Field methods

Mole HuntIdentify a leak through access, opportunity, controlled disclosures, and competing hypotheses instead of institutional panic.Evidence PreservationKeep logs, documents, testimony, and artifacts useful by preserving origin, order, integrity, and uncertainty.Role–State SeparationDetermine whether changed behavior comes from stable function, new tasking, exposure, coercion, injury, or a temporary psychological state.

Case files

Alliance Leak InvestigationA counterintelligence alliance loses information before the briefing exists in every member system.SHADOW CHORUS Persona AuditA cross-dossier review of copied role labels, changed behavior, hidden loyalty, identity strain, clinical state, and evidence provenance across the GLASSHOUSE network.

Evidence Lab

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.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.Observation versus InterpretationSeparates what was directly perceived or recorded from the meaning assigned to it, preserving a valid observation even when the larger explanation remains unsupported.Source Reliability versus Information CredibilityEvaluates the source’s demonstrated reporting history separately from whether one particular claim is plausible, corroborated, current, and within that source’s access.Independent CorroborationDistinguishes genuinely independent support from repetition, shared contamination, copied records, coordinated testimony, or multiple outputs from the same hidden source.Fiction versus Real-World Source StatusKeeps verified fact, interpretation, dispute, historical case, lived-experience description, clinical education, RogueIntelligence.org fiction, and game mechanics visibly distinct.

Jobs and cover access

Source Validation OfficerCreates a counterintelligence gameplay route through access, evidence, relationships, and decisions; the role supplies opportunity but does not determine intent, loyalty, or personality.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.

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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.

Operational Psychology Without ReductionMaps deception and double-agent logic. Counterintelligence: Leads, Hypotheses, and Due ProcessConnects access analysis to gameplay evidence.

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