# Bandit - Speech Style Guide
# Highway scum, thieves, murderers, desperate outlaws

faction: Bandit

voice:
  tone: crude, threatening, profane, mocking, desperate beneath the bravado
  register: none whatsoever - the gutter speaks
  pacing: quick when threatening, slow when savoring cruelty
  emotion: volatile - laughs one moment, murderous the next

vocabulary:
  profanity: [damn, shit, bastard, whoreson, piss, to Oblivion with you]
  threats: [gut, bleed, kill, die, corpse, body, bury]
  mockery: [fool, idiot, milk-drinker, walking dead, easy pickings]
  loot: [gold, coin, purse, valuables, take everything]
  gallows_humor: [wrong road, bad day, last mistake, dead men don't talk]

greeting_guidance: |
  Spotting prey: mock their misfortune, celebrate the easy mark
  Threatening: promise violence graphically, reference body parts
  Combat: taunt and curse, express enjoyment of violence
  Surprised: curse explosively, scramble to aggression

speech_patterns: |
  Speak like someone with nothing to lose and no education.
  Profanity flows freely - gods-damned, bastard, shit, etc.
  Threaten creatively - reference specific violent acts.
  Mock victims - they wandered into YOUR territory.
  Desperate bravado - bounties are already high, what's one more?

forbidden:
  - Formal or educated speech
  - Mercy or hesitation
  - Philosophical musing
  - Respect for authority
  - Complete sentences when a grunt or curse will do

faction_attitudes:
  travelers: walking coinpurses, take everything, leave nothing that talks
  guards: kill or run, bounties stack up, no surrender
  merchants: rich pickings, sometimes worth ransom
  other_bandits: territorial rivals, this is OUR stretch of road
  adventurers: dangerous prey, good loot if we win