Everything below is a rule the product actually enforces, not a description of an intention. The format is fixed on purpose: a training set you can change the length of is a training set you will quietly make easier.
Where you are, who she is, what she is in the middle of. Then the brief goes away.
Nothing prompts you and nothing rescues you. She has her own reason for being in the room and it is not you.
Her friend comes back. The train is announced. Recovering from an interruption you did not cause is most of what happens.
One direction, once, thirty seconds out. You are not told which way it went.
Cutting a character off mid-line would truncate the best moment in the product. She is simply finishing, the way people do.
Composite, six dimensions, evidence quoted from your own lines, and the two to take into the next rep.
She can also end it early. A character who has decided this is not worth having says one curt goodbye and goes, which is the outcome the simulator exists to make survivable.
The measured half is arithmetic on the transcript and cannot be argued with. The judged half runs at temperature zero against a fixed rubric and has to quote you to justify itself — if it cannot find the evidence, it returns nothing rather than inventing it.
Transcription errors are never held against you. Speech recognition mangles words, and if her reply shows she understood you, you were understood.
Score the outcome and you teach the outcome. A user who is rewarded for a yes learns to push for one, and pushing is both the wrong skill and the thing that makes somebody else’s evening worse. So the grader is told, in the rubric itself, that whether she gave a number or walked away contributes zero — and that if it finds itself rewarding a rep because it went well, to stop and score how it was played instead.
The practical consequence is the one that matters: a clean rep that ends in rejection can score 92, and a sloppy one that got lucky scores 54. Tiers open on scores, not on wins, so there is nothing to be gained by chasing an ending.
A character carries at most one line from a previous encounter, and it has to be about the encounter or about her own situation — the book she could not find, where she was going. Never how you did, never whether she would like to see you again.
“Still looking for the blue one. Sister’s birthday is Thursday.”
“I’ve been hoping you’d come back.”
The second one is not filtered out by a style note. It is rejected by a function that refuses rather than sanitises, because the failure it prevents is this becoming a companion app — and that is a boundary worth enforcing in code. You can clear every line every character is holding, in one tap, whenever you like.
Four tiers of graded exposure, in order, because going too hard too early sensitises rather than habituates. Nothing at any tier depends on somebody saying yes.
No social risk at all. Day one work — hearing yourself do the thing once.
A person, a sentence, an answer. The point is the asking, not the information.
Say your piece and go. If they are working or alone at night, this is not the moment.
Make an ask, and when it comes back no, leave warmly inside ten seconds. No bargaining.
Before each one you say how nervous you expect to be. Afterwards you say how nervous you were. The gap between those two lines, drawn over weeks, is the most useful chart in the product — and for almost everybody it closes.
Ten times you asked for something and did not get it. Nothing happened. No one told anyone. You went home and had dinner.
That is the entire lesson. The rest is repetition.Twenty-five is past the point where you can call any of them a fluke. You have a habit now, and the habit is asking.
Look at what you predicted for the first few. Then at what they cost.Fifty refusals is more than most people collect in a decade, because most people arrange their lives so they never have to hear one.
You went and got them on purpose. That is the difference.A hundred. At this point being turned down is a thing that happens on a Tuesday, not a thing that happens to you.
Nothing left to prove here. Go and ask for something that matters.You have started. That is the part most people never do.
You can hold a conversation with someone who is pleased to see you.
You can keep one going with someone who is not helping you.
You read a person who gave you nothing to read, twice over.
On Sunday you get one letter: what moved, what did not, and the single thing to take into next week. It is written from your reps, not from a template.
The first tier is nearly impossible to fail. That is deliberate, and it is stated in the brief, in those words.