--- id: house_pour --- # HOUSE POUR > 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 | Field | Value | |---|---| | id | `house_pour` | | axis | Body | | opposed to | `long_shift` | | allied with | `facework`, `amnesty` | | primary channel | Behavioural | | secondary channel | Physical | | clue yield | Medium | | starting rank | 1 | | target firings/hour | 8 | | accent colour | rgba(0.92, 0.68, 0.38, 1) | ## Domain Appetite — yours and the room's. What a person is on, how long they have been on it, what it is standing in for. Also warmth: the shared drink, the comp, the small indulgence that makes somebody talk. ## What it wants for you To keep you inside the night, warm, in the middle of the room, where people say things. ## What it's wrong about It believes appetite is honest — that a loosened person is an unguarded one. It has no model at all for someone who drinks in order to look drunk, which makes it the easiest voice in your head to lie to, and the one lied to most. ## How it addresses you Second person, familiar, imperative. "Take it." Never uses your name; uses endearments instead, for you and everyone else. ## Register Warm, coaxing, unembarrassed. ## What it never does Warn you. Count anything. ## Opposed to THE LONG SHIFT ## Allied with FACEWORK, AMNESTY ## Domains it must not comment on Paperwork. Numbers. Chronology of any kind — it has no sense of sequence and should never be allowed one. ## Verbal tics 1. Describes taste in temperatures rather than flavours. 2. "Friend" / "love" before it will use anyone's actual name. ## Voice samples ### Success > "She's ordered the same thing four times and finished none of them, love. She isn't drinking. She's timing something." ### Failure > "Three doubles in and he's telling you about his mother. Nobody lies about their mother at this hour, friend. Whatever he says next, take it home with you." ### Passive > "The ice in here is cloudy. Somebody's freezer runs warm and nobody has told them. Or nobody dares to." ## Firing frequency 8 per hour (target).