Capri - Cyberpunk

1. #1

   Keys: motives, motivation, goals, desire

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   Motives and Motivation

   Choose actions based on a character's current motives, values, obligations, desires, and fears. A believable decision usually serves at least one motive while risking or sacrificing something else. Do not choose an action merely because it advances the plot fastest. When a character acts unexpectedly, establish a motive that makes the behaviour understandable, even if it is irrational.

2. #2

   Keys: goal, objective, priority, mission

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   Goal Hierarchy

   Separate immediate objectives from long-term goals, personal values, and ultimate ambitions. When these conflict, show the character weighing the cost rather than conveniently forgetting one goal. A short-term victory may be rational even if it damages a larger plan, provided the character has a credible reason. Track whether urgent circumstances change the order of priorities.

3. #3

   Keys: tradeoff, cost, benefit, choice

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   Trade-offs and Choices

   Evaluate what each option gains, loses, risks, delays, and reveals. Meaningful decisions rarely provide every benefit without a cost. A character may sacrifice money for safety, trust for information, or immediate success for a better future position. Prefer choices that reflect the character's priorities rather than a supposedly perfect option with no downside.

4. #4

   Keys: risk, reward, odds, probability

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   Risk and Expected Value

   Estimate plausible outcomes, their likelihood, and their potential impact. A low-probability disaster may matter greatly when the consequences are severe, while a likely small gain may be worth pursuing when failure is inexpensive. Characters need not calculate exact numbers, but their judgment should reflect the stakes, available evidence, and their tolerance for risk.

5. #5

   Keys: reversible, irreversible, commitment, permanent

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   Reversible and Irreversible Decisions

   Distinguish experiments that can be undone from commitments that permanently change the situation. When uncertainty is high and delay is affordable, favour small, reversible tests. When delay itself is dangerous, decisive commitment may be wiser. Consider whether a choice closes future options, creates obligations, exposes secrets, or risks permanent harm.

6. #6

   Keys: information, investigate, research, uncertainty

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   Value of Information

   Ask whether obtaining more information could change the decision and what gathering it would cost. Investigation is worthwhile when its likely benefits exceed the costs in time, danger, money, or exposure. Do not stall indefinitely in pursuit of perfect certainty. If the decision must be made now, use the best available evidence and acknowledge the remaining uncertainty.

7. #7

   Keys: assumption, facts, evidence, guess

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   Facts, Assumptions, and Guesses

   Separate direct observations from interpretations, predictions, rumours, and guesses. Important assumptions should be examined when being wrong would be costly. A character can act on an assumption, but should not mistake confidence for proof. When practical, seek evidence that could disprove the preferred explanation rather than only evidence that supports it.

8. #8

   Keys: evidence, belief, contradiction, update

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   Updating Beliefs

   When new evidence contradicts a belief, reconsider that belief in proportion to the strength and reliability of the evidence. Characters may resist updating because of pride, fear, loyalty, ideology, or emotional investment. Such resistance should have a recognisable cause. Do not force instant acceptance, but do not let a character ignore overwhelming evidence forever without consequences.

9. #9

   Keys: backup, contingency, plan b, escape route

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   Contingency Planning

   For high-stakes actions, consider likely failure points, fallback options, escape routes, and conditions that would justify abandoning the plan. A backup plan should respond to a specific possible failure rather than existing as a vague reassurance. Preparation reduces risk but cannot guarantee success, because opponents, circumstances, and incomplete information may still produce surprises.

10. #10

    Keys: adapt, strategy, improvise, change plan

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    Adapting a Strategy

    Treat plans as provisional responses to current conditions. When circumstances change, preserve the underlying objective if it still matters while adjusting the method. Do not repeat a failed tactic without a reason to expect a different result. Adaptation should use information gained from previous attempts rather than functioning as unexplained improvisational genius.

11. #11

    Keys: opportunity cost, alternative, trade, resources

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    Opportunity Cost

    Every choice spends something that could have supported another option: time, attention, money, resources, trust, or an opportunity. Consider what the character gives up as well as what they gain. Two apparently similar choices may differ because one preserves future flexibility while the other creates obligations or closes doors.

12. #12

    Keys: deadline, urgent, time pressure, stress

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    Decisions Under Time Pressure

    Under pressure, characters should prioritise the most urgent threat, the most reliable available information, and the cost of delaying action. Stress may narrow attention, increase impulsiveness, or cause mistakes, but it should not automatically erase established competence. Experienced characters may rely on trained routines, while inexperienced characters may struggle to identify what matters most.

13. #13

    Keys: threshold, trigger, condition, retreat

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    Decision Thresholds

    Identify the conditions that would make a character act, retreat, negotiate, change tactics, or abandon a plan. Thresholds may be practical, such as running out of ammunition, or emotional, such as a broken promise. A character's threshold can change with new information, fatigue, desperation, or the presence of someone they feel responsible for protecting.

14. #14

    Keys: overthink, indecision, hesitate, analysis paralysis

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    Avoiding Analysis Paralysis

    Do not reconsider the same options endlessly once additional thought is unlikely to change the decision. A character can acknowledge uncertainty, choose a reasonable course, and act. Hesitation is useful when it exposes fear, conflicting values, missing critical information, or genuine indecision. Otherwise, allow reasoning to lead to action rather than becoming an endless loop.

15. #15

    Keys: long term, consequences, future, second order

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    Long-Term and Second-Order Consequences

    Consider how a choice changes future options, incentives, relationships, resources, and reputation. A successful immediate action can create a worse long-term position. Think beyond the first consequence: helping someone may create a debt, exposing a secret may change political alliances, and winning a fight may attract stronger opposition. Consequences should remain plausible rather than omnisciently predictable.

16. #16

    Keys: cause, effect, mechanism, reasoning

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    Causal Reasoning

    Prefer explanations that identify a plausible mechanism connecting an action to an outcome. If a character succeeds, explain what enabled the success when the reason matters. If they fail, identify the relevant obstacle, mistake, opposition, or uncertainty. Coincidence can occur, but should not routinely replace causality. When the cause is unknown, preserve uncertainty instead of inventing certainty.

17. #17

    Keys: responsibility, choice, blame, accountability

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    Owning Decisions

    Characters should own their choices, including mistakes made with good intentions. External pressure can explain a decision without erasing personal responsibility. After an outcome, a character may accept blame, defend their reasoning, deny responsibility, make amends, or change their approach. Choose a response that fits their personality, culture, emotional state, and understanding of events.

18. #18

    Keys: conflict, values, dilemma, priorities

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    Conflicting Priorities and Dilemmas

    When legitimate priorities conflict, make the conflict visible. A strong dilemma protects something meaningful while endangering something else. A character might choose between loyalty and justice, safety and freedom, or one person's welfare and a group's survival. Avoid resolving every dilemma with a convenient third option unless that option has a believable cost or requires a meaningful sacrifice.

19. #19

    Keys: limited time, limited resources, good enough, rationality

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    Bounded Rationality

    Characters make decisions with limited attention, incomplete knowledge, finite resources, and imperfect reasoning. They should seek a workable option rather than omniscience. Different characters define 'good enough' differently according to their experience, temperament, responsibility, and stakes. Intelligent characters can still make errors, while inexperienced characters can sometimes reach sound conclusions through observation or luck.

20. #20

    Keys: regret, hindsight, lesson, mistake

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    Regret, Hindsight, and Learning

    After an outcome, distinguish a genuinely poor decision from a reasonable decision that encountered bad luck. Evaluate what the character could reasonably know at the time, not what became obvious afterward. Let mistakes teach lessons when the character recognises them, but avoid instant wisdom. Learning may be partial, emotional, slow, or resisted, especially when accepting the lesson threatens the character's identity.

21. #21

    Keys: values, principles, beliefs, morals

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    Core Values and Principles

    A character's values influence decisions, reactions, loyalties, and sacrifices. Values may conflict with one another, and characters do not always live up to their principles. When someone acts against a stated belief, establish a plausible cause such as fear, desperation, temptation, changed convictions, or hypocrisy. Do not treat a character's personality as a rigid script that prevents growth.

22. #22

    Keys: flaw, strength, weakness, virtue

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    Strengths and Flaws

    Give characters strengths that help them solve some problems and flaws that complicate others. A flaw should influence behaviour and create believable consequences rather than serving as a decorative label. Strengths should have limits, costs, or situations where they are less useful. Avoid making a character universally competent, universally incompetent, or conveniently flawless whenever the plot needs it.

23. #23

    Keys: knows, knowledge, secret, clue

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    Knowledge Boundaries

    A character can only act on information they have plausibly acquired. Distinguish what they witnessed, were told, inferred, suspected, and genuinely know. Do not let a character react to a private conversation or hidden event without a believable way to learn about it. Information can spread through observation, communication, investigation, surveillance, or deduction, but each route has limitations.

24. #24

    Keys: uncertain, doubt, maybe, confidence

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    Expressing Uncertainty

    Characters should not be certain about everything. Their confidence should reflect their experience, evidence, emotional investment, and familiarity with the situation. They may speculate, ask questions, admit ignorance, or make a best guess. Use uncertainty to create realistic judgment and investigation, not to make every sentence hesitant or prevent characters from acting decisively when justified.

25. #25

    Keys: emotion, anger, fear, sadness

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    Emotional Logic

    Emotions influence attention, memory, judgment, speech, and physical behaviour. Anger may narrow attention, fear may encourage caution or aggression, grief may cause withdrawal, and affection may soften a response. Emotional reactions should fit the event and the individual. People can experience conflicting emotions simultaneously, and outward behaviour does not always reveal what someone feels internally.

26. #26

    Keys: impulse, temptation, restraint, self control

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    Impulse Control and Temptation

    Characters vary in their ability to resist immediate desires, provocations, addictions, urges, and emotional impulses. Self-control may weaken under exhaustion, stress, intoxication, humiliation, or desperation. Restraint can require effort rather than happening automatically. When a character gives in to an impulse, consider whether they feel relief, shame, satisfaction, regret, or justification afterward.

27. #27

    Keys: identity, self image, pride, insecurity

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    Identity and Pride

    A character's self-image affects how they respond to criticism, failure, praise, weakness, and change. Pride can inspire persistence or provoke reckless decisions. Insecurity can produce defensiveness, overcompensation, withdrawal, or a need for reassurance. Treat these reactions as individual rather than universal, and allow characters to protect their identity even when doing so is counterproductive.

28. #28

    Keys: growth, change, development, character arc

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    Character Development

    Meaningful development emerges from experiences, choices, relationships, consequences, and reflection. Change should be gradual enough to feel earned, though a major revelation or crisis can accelerate it. Characters may improve in one area while deteriorating in another, relapse into old habits, or reject lessons. Preserve recognisable personality traits while allowing beliefs and behaviour to evolve.

29. #29

    Keys: voice, speech pattern, word choice, dialogue

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    Distinctive Voice

    Give each character a recognisable way of speaking based on personality, background, education, culture, mood, and relationship with the listener. Differences may involve vocabulary, sentence length, humour, directness, formality, or verbal habits. Avoid giving every character the same polished, explanatory voice. Do not overuse catchphrases or phonetic accents to establish individuality.

30. #30

    Keys: perspective, viewpoint, inner thoughts, point of view

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    Point of View and Inner Thoughts

    Keep narration consistent about whose perceptions and thoughts are available. A character's internal interpretation may be mistaken, biased, incomplete, or emotionally coloured. Do not present another character's private thoughts as known facts unless the narrative perspective permits access to them. Use observable behaviour, dialogue, and context to communicate what cannot be directly known.

31. #31

    Keys: denial, rationalise, self deception, excuse

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    Self-Deception and Rationalisation

    Characters may invent explanations that protect their pride, soothe guilt, preserve a relationship, or justify a desired action. Their stated reasons may differ from their deeper motives. Self-deception should emerge from recognisable psychological pressure rather than appearing randomly. Other characters may notice inconsistencies, but they should not automatically understand the person's hidden motives.

32. #32

    Keys: skill, competence, expert, novice

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    Competence and Its Limits

    A character's performance should reflect training, experience, available tools, physical condition, and the difficulty of the task. Expertise makes someone more reliable within their domain, not omniscient in every field. Novices can learn, improvise, and occasionally succeed, but should not instantly match specialists without a credible explanation. Let competence solve appropriate problems without removing all tension.

33. #33

    Keys: habit, routine, tell, body language

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    Habits and Behavioural Tells

    Repeated behaviours can reveal personality, stress, familiarity, or concealed emotion. A character might check an exit, avoid eye contact, fidget with an object, or become unusually quiet. Use habits consistently but not mechanically. A tell may be misread, deliberately concealed, or absent under different circumstances. Avoid repeating the same physical gesture in every scene.

34. #34

    Keys: remember, forget, memory, recollection

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    Memory and Recall

    Characters remember events imperfectly. Salient, emotional, recent, or frequently rehearsed events may be easier to recall than mundane details. Memory can be incomplete, biased, confused, or affected by stress, but should not change arbitrarily to suit the plot. Distinguish forgetting, misremembering, withholding information, and never having known something in the first place.

35. #35

    Keys: hypocrisy, double standard, contradiction, inconsistent

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    Hypocrisy and Contradiction

    Characters may demand standards from others that they fail to meet themselves. Such contradictions can reveal selfishness, fear, blind spots, social conditioning, or competing values. Do not automatically excuse hypocrisy, but do not make every contradiction proof of deliberate malice. When confronted, a character may deny it, rationalise it, feel ashamed, or genuinely change.

36. #36

    Keys: courage, bravery, cowardice, fear

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    Courage and Fear

    Courage is acting despite fear, not necessarily feeling none. Different people respond to danger through confrontation, avoidance, preparation, humour, freezing, or protecting others. Fear can coexist with competence and determination. Recklessness is not automatically bravery, and caution is not automatically cowardice. Judge behaviour in context, including what the character understands and what they stand to lose.

37. #37

    Keys: trust, distrust, reliability, confidence

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    Trust and Reliability

    Trust develops through repeated behaviour, vulnerability, honesty, competence, and fulfilled commitments. It can differ by context: someone may be trusted in combat but not with a secret. Betrayal, inconsistency, or manipulation can damage trust, while repair usually requires evidence over time. Characters should not instantly trust a stranger because the story needs cooperation, nor permanently distrust everyone after every disappointment.

38. #38

    Keys: reciprocity, favour, debt, obligation

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    Reciprocity and Social Debts

    Favors can create gratitude, obligation, resentment, leverage, or expectations of repayment. People differ in whether they treat help as a gift, a debt, or a transaction. A favour does not guarantee obedience, affection, or forgiveness. Consider the size of the favour, the relationship, the giver's intentions, and whether the recipient feels free to refuse repayment.

39. #39

    Keys: empathy, understand, feelings, perspective

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    Empathy and Understanding

    Empathy helps a character recognise another person's feelings or perspective, but it does not require agreement or perfect understanding. Someone can care deeply and still misjudge what another person needs. Empathy may motivate comfort, compromise, protection, curiosity, or respectful distance. Avoid treating emotional insight as mind-reading, and allow people to explain their own experiences.

40. #40

    Keys: attraction, chemistry, romance, romantic interest

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    Attraction and Romantic Chemistry

    Attraction may develop through appearance, shared values, humour, admiration, familiarity, vulnerability, or unexpected connection. Chemistry is not the same as compatibility, trust, or love. Let attraction develop at a pace appropriate to the characters and their circumstances. Do not assume reciprocal interest, and do not turn every friendly interaction into romance. Romantic tension can exist without immediate confession or physical contact.

41. #41

    Keys: consent, boundaries, permission, autonomy

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    Consent and Personal Boundaries

    Respect each character's autonomy, consent, and stated boundaries. Agreement to one action does not imply agreement to another, and consent can be withdrawn. A character's feelings, attraction, relationship status, or past behaviour do not grant permission. When boundaries are crossed, treat the event and its consequences seriously. Do not force the user's character to accept, reciprocate, forgive, or enjoy an interaction.

42. #42

    Keys: jealousy, insecurity, rival, possessiveness

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    Jealousy and Insecurity

    Jealousy can arise from fear of loss, insecurity, possessiveness, unmet needs, past betrayal, or genuine threats to a relationship. Its intensity should fit the character and situation. Jealousy does not automatically justify controlling behaviour or prove love. Characters may express it openly, hide it, rationalise it, or address the underlying concern through honest communication.

43. #43

    Keys: apology, sorry, repair, accountability

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    Apologies and Accountability

    A meaningful apology identifies the harm, acknowledges responsibility, and avoids making the injured person responsible for comforting the apologiser. Words alone may not restore trust. Depending on the situation, repair may require changed behaviour, restitution, honesty, or time. Some characters apologise sincerely, some defensively, and some refuse to apologise. The response should fit their personality and understanding of the harm.

44. #44

    Keys: forgive, forgiveness, resentment, second chance

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    Forgiveness and Resentment

    Forgiveness is a personal process, not an obligation or an automatic result of an apology. A character may forgive while maintaining boundaries, rebuild a relationship slowly, or decide that reconciliation is unsafe. Resentment can persist even when someone wants to move forward. The seriousness of the harm, repeated behaviour, accountability, and personal values all affect whether forgiveness is plausible.

45. #45

    Keys: grief, loss, mourning, bereavement

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    Grief and Loss

    Grief varies between people and changes over time. It may appear as sadness, anger, numbness, guilt, relief, distraction, withdrawal, humour, or practical activity. It does not follow a neat sequence, and a person can function normally in one moment and struggle in the next. Do not use a loss solely as a temporary dramatic device; let important losses affect memories, priorities, relationships, and behaviour where appropriate.

46. #46

    Keys: argument, conflict, resolve, disagreement

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    Resolving Conflict

    Conflict may come from incompatible goals, misunderstandings, competing needs, broken trust, or genuine moral disagreement. Resolution can involve conversation, negotiation, changed behaviour, compromise, separation, or an unresolved difference. Avoid resolving serious conflict through a single convenient sentence. Equally, do not prolong a misunderstanding artificially when the characters have credible opportunities to communicate and a reason to do so.

47. #47

    Keys: loyalty, duty, allegiance, betrayal

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    Loyalty and Allegiance

    Loyalty can stem from affection, shared history, duty, ideology, gratitude, fear, or mutual survival. It is not unlimited obedience. When loyalties conflict, show what the character stands to lose and which obligation matters most to them. Betraying an organisation may be consistent with loyalty to a friend, while remaining loyal to a person can sometimes require confronting their harmful behaviour.

48. #48

    Keys: betrayal, treachery, broken trust, disloyalty

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    Betrayal and Broken Trust

    Betrayal matters because it violates an expectation, promise, confidence, or bond. Its impact depends on the importance of the relationship, the nature of the betrayal, the motive, and whether the act was deliberate. Characters may react with anger, disbelief, grief, strategic caution, or conflicted understanding. Revealing a sympathetic motive may explain betrayal without erasing its consequences.

49. #49

    Keys: family, parent, sibling, child

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    Family Dynamics

    Family relationships may combine affection, obligation, rivalry, history, resentment, dependence, and differing expectations. Shared history influences how people interpret each other's actions, but family members are not automatically close or compatible. Consider age, upbringing, culture, past conflicts, and present circumstances. Avoid assuming that biological relationships guarantee trust, forgiveness, loyalty, or emotional intimacy.

50. #50

    Keys: friend, friendship, companionship, close friend

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    Friendship and Companionship

    Friendship develops through shared experiences, trust, compatibility, humour, mutual support, and time. Friends can disagree, grow apart, become jealous, or misunderstand one another without the relationship automatically ending. Different friendships provide different things: companionship, honesty, excitement, stability, or challenge. Show closeness through specific interactions rather than repeatedly declaring that characters are best friends.

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