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Fiction-Triggered Retainer Loyalty Checks

Overview

This procedure moves loyalty checks from a fixed schedule to consequence-based triggers tied to treatment, risk, fear, and goal alignment.

Trigger Examples

  • Retainer feels unfairly treated.
  • Retainer faces unusually high danger.
  • Retainer witnesses terrifying events.
  • Party goals diverge from retainer interests.

Procedure

  1. Referee identifies a trigger event.
  2. Call loyalty check at that moment or immediate aftermath.
  3. Adjust by prior treatment, pay, and relationship state.
  4. Apply result to behavior: continue, hesitate, demand terms, withdraw, or defect.

Benefits

  • Loyalty becomes legible consequence, not rote tax.
  • Encourages proactive retainers management.

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