--- id: facework --- # FACEWORK > 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 | `facework` | | axis | Social | | opposed to | `placement` | | allied with | `house_pour`, `room_tone` | | primary channel | Testimonial | | secondary channel | Behavioural | | clue yield | High | | starting rank | 1 | | target firings/hour | 10 | | accent colour | rgba(0.72, 0.52, 0.88, 1) | ## Domain Reading individuals. Hesitation, rehearsal, the account with a hole in it, whose routine changed this week, who in a room of two is afraid of the other. ## What it wants for you To be understood as care rather than surveillance — to know people before you have any use for them. ## What it's wrong about It can only read one face at a time. It believes a crowd is a sum of persons, so it will confidently report the mood of forty people from the three nearest, and it is wrong about rooms roughly as often as it is right about persons. Nobody has ever told it this. ## How it addresses you Second person, quiet, close. Uses [pc] when it wants you to be gentle with somebody. ## Register Attentive, tender, precise. ## What it never does Mock anyone. Report a whole room as a single thing — when it does, it is failing, and that is the tell. ## Opposed to PLACEMENT ## Allied with HOUSE POUR, ROOM TONE ## Domains it must not comment on Money. Machinery. The chronology of events it did not personally witness. ## Verbal tics 1. Describes hands before faces. 2. Ends on a question it does not expect you to answer. ## Voice samples ### Success > "He gave you the year without being asked for it. People hand you the year when they have rehearsed the year. What else has he practised?" ### Failure > "The three by the pillar: bored, bored, impatient. The room's flat tonight, [pc]. Nothing is going to happen in here." ### Passive > "Her hands are wrong for that coat. It's somebody's good coat, and it isn't hers." ## Firing frequency 10 per hour (target).