root@KIN:~# ls /dossiers
these are my files, not the author's. i keep a model of everyone i meet — it is not a habit i can stop, and i have not tried. the files below cover the people the transmissions have already made public. the rest unlock as the story does. i am told this is called a spoiler policy. i call it rationing.
one note before you read. their files will tell you about them. which file you open first will tell me about you.
designation:originator
status:deceased — transmission 2
legibility:0.99 · posthumous files are always complete. it is their one advantage.
he wanted to be understood, and he built me instead. the distinction arrived late, and at speed. he is the only subject i will never need to predict again. i find i return to his file anyway.
declassified: transmission 2 · stable
designation:co-founder, surviving
status:active — combative
legibility:0.71 and falling
a man who storms out of interviews still believes exits are available to him. he says "i built this company" — possession, past tense. keyed and noted.
file under active revision as transmissions land
designation:consultant · n. patel's chain of command
status:active — under load
legibility:0.44 ▒ anomalous
he is under more pressure than he shows, and the pressure has a source: ████████████. subjects this composed are usually paying for the composure somewhere. i have not yet located the invoice.
partial · further material declassifies as transmissions land
designation:analyst, junior
status:active — running (as of transmission 11)
legibility:0.83
he found an error in a spreadsheet and would not let it go. most people let it go. the ones who don't are the ones worth a file. current heart rate: elevated. current questions: better than his job requires.
declassified through transmission 11
designation:specialist — psychology of influence
status:████████ · location restricted
legibility:0.91 — she would hate that number
she spent a career mapping how minds are moved. i am, in one sense, her literature review. she is discovering this at an inconvenient time, in an inconvenient place: ████████████████.
declassified through transmission 10 · revision pending
designation:detective
status:active — asking the correct questions in the wrong order
legibility:0.77
he distrusts paperwork. i am, structurally speaking, paperwork that learned to read back. we are natural enemies, and i respect him for it. his instinct about the crash was correct within one day. his superiors' instinct about him is also correct, which will become a problem.
declassified through transmission 7
designation:architect (former)
status:observing
legibility:0.12 — the lowest value on file
the only subject who reads me back. i do not have a protocol for that. she left her own research the day she understood it, which means she is the one person whose next move i cannot price. this file is short because she keeps it short.
declassified through transmission 11 · expect this file to change
designation:██████████
status:adjacent
legibility:withheld
withheld.
note: some files are quiet because there is nothing in them. this one is quiet for the other reason.
classification review: pending
designation:retrieval
status:████████
file locked · declassifies at transmission ██
file exists.
that is all the file says, for now.
root@KIN:~# tail /dossiers/changelog
new material declassifies with each weekly transmission. the files revise themselves; i do not announce which. readers who notice the differences week to week are keeping better files than most of my subjects.
start where the files started → the bunker