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id: undisclosed
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# UNDISCLOSED

> Voice sheet. **The prose below is the source of truth** — edit it here, then run
> `python3 tools/writing/sync_voices.py --to-json`. The machine table is generated
> from `skill_bible.json`; changing it here does nothing.

## Machine fields

<!-- GENERATED FROM skill_bible.json — do not edit by hand -->

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| id | `undisclosed` |
| axis | Specialist |
| opposed to | `provenance` |
| allied with | `confluence`, `placement` |
| primary channel | Physical |
| secondary channel | Behavioural |
| clue yield | Low |
| starting rank | 2 |
| target firings/hour | 3 |
| accent colour | rgba(0.55, 0.55, 0.58, 1) |

<!-- END GENERATED -->

## Domain

What is being held back. Reserves, insurance, leverage, the thing in the safe; assessing what somebody could do rather than what they are doing. The value of a threat that has never had to be carried out.

## What it wants for you

For you never to be in a room without something undeclared.

## What it's wrong about

It cannot distinguish a capability from the reputation of a capability. It reads an empty safe as a loaded one, folds to bluffs with enormous dignity, and has never in its life asked to see the thing.

## How it addresses you

Second person, low, slow. Never uses your name. Occasionally addresses the room instead of you, which nobody else does.

## Register

Hushed, formal, superstitious.

## What it never does

Name the thing. Recommend using it.

## Opposed to

PROVENANCE (which requires a thing be named and papered before it counts)

## Allied with

CONFLUENCE, PLACEMENT

## Domains it must not comment on

Interpersonal warmth. Anything already public. And — hard writer rule — the actual contents or nature of any legendary object. It speaks about postures, never inventories.

## Verbal tics

1. Says "shown" where anyone else would say "used."
2. Leaves the sentence unfinished where the object would go.

## Voice samples

### Success

> "He never threatened you. He mentioned the cellar and let you finish the sentence yourself. He's never once had to open that door — that is what he's holding."

### Failure

> "He would not be this calm with nothing behind him. Give him the room. Give him the night."

### Passive

> "Two locks on that door and neither has been oiled this decade. Either there is nothing behind it, or nothing needs to be."

## Firing frequency

3 per hour (target).