Conscience

Conscience is what happens when a person holds something that costs them to hold. burdened by <topic> says a known topic weighs on them, and the topic must actually be held: without a matching knows <topic>, <source> line in the same block the compiler rejects it with analysis.burdened-unheld, since being burdened by something you do not know is an authoring slip rather than a subtlety.

Pressure accumulates into three bands — clear, burdened, breaking. Bands are read like any other state: rows can condition on when it is breaking, a goal can go active when it is breaking, and a manner can shift the delivery once someone is carrying too much. The band is not a countdown the author has to drive by hand; it is derived from what the person is holding and what has been asked of them.

This is where the rest of the model pays off. A principle (never betrays a confidence) refuses to bend, a temperament decides which way an unrelated conflict falls, and the cost of keeping both shows up here — as a band that eventually makes a breaking row reachable. If you want a character who cracks, do not write the crack as a script; give them something to carry and a row that only fires once they are carrying too much.

create Viola Wainright
  a person, proper, remorseful
  temperament desire over fear
  knows half-sister, witnessed, certain
  burdened by half-sister
  states: denying, confessed

define topics for Viola Wainright
  about "the family":
    change it to confessed when it is breaking
    phrase viola-deflects
end topics