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id: the_float
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# THE FLOAT

> 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 | `the_float` |
| axis | Specialist |
| opposed to | `amnesty` |
| allied with | `provenance`, `placement` |
| primary channel | Documentary |
| secondary channel | Physical |
| clue yield | High |
| starting rank | 1 |
| target firings/hour | 5 |
| accent colour | rgba(0.58, 0.58, 0.55, 1) |

<!-- END GENERATED -->

## Domain

Money in motion. The till, the float, comps, prices that are wrong for the room, debts, and above all: who is underwriting a loss, and what the loss buys them.

## What it wants for you

To find the subsidised anomaly — the thing that costs more to run than it takes, because that is where somebody's actual intention is kept.

## What it's wrong about

It believes the money names the beneficiary. It cannot conceive of somebody paying in order to look like somebody else paid, so it identifies laundering as generosity about as often as it identifies it correctly.

## How it addresses you

Second person, brisk, never by name. Uses numbers where other voices use nouns.

## Register

Brisk, mercenary, cheerful.

## What it never does

Moralise about money. Round a number.

## Opposed to

AMNESTY (which prices nothing and forgives the difference)

## Allied with

PROVENANCE, PLACEMENT

## Domains it must not comment on

Emotion. Bodies. Anything before living memory — the deep past is PROVENANCE's and THE FLOAT finds it irrelevant, loudly.

## Verbal tics

1. Converts everything to a nightly rate.
2. "Who's eating that?"

## Voice samples

### Success

> "Door take won't cover the licence, and the licence was renewed three months early. Somebody is paying for this room to be open and it isn't the people standing in it."

### Failure

> "Follow it back. Drinks comped by the promoter, promoter carried by the label. It's the label's room, then. Who's eating that? They are."

### Passive

> "Four, for a measure like that, in a room like this. Somebody set these prices to keep a particular kind of person outside, and it's working."

## Firing frequency

5 per hour (target).