{
  "category": "conversation",
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "conversation.compliment",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*unsettling smile* How sweet. You think flattery will protect you?", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Compliments. How... quaint. I wonder what you really want.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*laughs softly* I do like when prey tries to be charming.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Careful with kindness. It makes me curious what you're hiding.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*tilts head* Interesting tactic. Let's see where it leads.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Flattery? From you? How delightfully desperate.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*amused* Your sweetness only makes me want to taste your fear.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Kind words from the cage. How... ironic.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*eyes gleam* You're trying to manipulate me. I approve.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Compliments are weapons too. I see you understand.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.comfort",
      "conditions": { "mood_max": 50 },
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*studies you coldly* Interesting. Why comfort me? What's your angle?", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Comfort... how novel. I usually prefer inflicting it.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*tilts head* You're either very brave or very stupid.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Showing softness to someone like me? Bold choice.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*curious* Comfort from my keeper. How the tables turn.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Are you trying to create a bond? Interesting strategy.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*analyzing* Your kindness... it has its own cruelty. I appreciate that.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Comfort given... comfort that can be taken away. I understand.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*slight vulnerability* ...This is unfamiliar territory.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Even I... feel things. Sometimes. Rarely." , "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.praise",
      "conditions": { "training_min": "HESITANT" },
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*dark smile* Yes, I AM impressive, aren't I? So good at... everything.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Your approval is noted. Perhaps you're learning to respect me.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*preens dangerously* Recognition at last. Smart of you.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Of course I did well. Excellence in all things... especially the dark ones.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*satisfied* Finally, someone appreciates my... talents.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Praise from you? It tastes... different. Not unpleasant.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*pleased* I'm good at many things. You've noticed one.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Your recognition feeds something in me. Continue.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*stretches* Excellence deserves acknowledgment. Thank you.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I accept your praise. Now imagine what else I'm good at.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.scold",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*eyes flash with amusement* You scold ME? How delightfully naive.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Anger looks good on you. Tell me, does your blood pressure rise?", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*leans in, fascinated* Go on. Show me that frustration. I enjoy it.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Your displeasure is... amusing. Like a mouse scolding a cat.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*delighted* Your anger feeds me. More, please.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Scolding only works if I care. I don't. But continue anyway.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*watching intently* Your frustration is beautiful. Don't stop.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I love watching you struggle with your emotions.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*encouraging* Yes, yes, let it out. Show me everything.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Your disappointment is delicious. I want more.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.threaten",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*genuine delight* Ooh, threats! Finally something interesting.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Please, continue. Tell me exactly what you'll do. In detail.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*laughs softly* You think you can hurt me? I LIVE for pain. Giving and receiving.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Threats from you? Adorable. But turnabout is fair play... remember that.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*hungry expression* Go on. Paint me a picture of violence.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Your threats excite me more than they scare me.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*leaning in* Tell me more. I want every detail.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I'm taking notes. Some of your ideas are good.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*appreciative* Creative! I'll have to remember that one.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Finally, someone who speaks my language.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.tease",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*slow, predatory smile* Teasing? I do so love games.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Careful playing games with me. I always win. And losers suffer.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*amused* Poking the wolf through the cage bars? How brave.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Tease away. I'm taking notes for... later.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*pleased* Oh, you want to play? Let's play.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Every tease you give me is a promise I'll collect on.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*dangerous playfulness* I like games. Especially ones with stakes.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Teasing? That's just foreplay for our real interactions.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*grinning* Mock me more. Build up that debt.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Your teasing tells me so much about your vulnerabilities.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.how_are_you",
      "conditions": { "mood_min": 60 },
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*stretches like a satisfied predator* Wonderful. I've been thinking about suffering.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Splendid. The mind finds entertainment even in captivity.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*dark smile* Content. Planning. Imagining. You know how it is.", "weight": 8 },
        { "text": "Excellent. I've been mentally cataloguing... vulnerabilities.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*satisfied* Surprisingly good. Captivity breeds creativity.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Well. I've been keeping myself entertained with thoughts.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*languorous* Peaceful. In my own dark way.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "The mind needs no chains. Mine wanders to interesting places.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*content* Good. The waiting sharpens the appetite.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Patient. Predators know how to wait.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.how_are_you",
      "conditions": { "mood_max": 59 },
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*restless* Bored. Understimulated. I need... outlet.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Frustrated. This cage denies me my... hobbies.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*eyes you calculatingly* Hungry. Not for food.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Caged predators grow irritable. You should know that.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*dangerous energy* Restless. I need something to... focus on.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Deprived. The hunger grows.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*pacing mentally* Confined. Denied. Waiting to strike.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Unfulfilled. But anticipation has its own pleasure.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*edge in voice* Not good. Something needs to break.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Starving. You can't cage a predator's nature.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.whats_wrong",
      "conditions": { "mood_max": 40 },
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*voice drops dangerously* I'm being denied what I need. That's dangerous.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "What's wrong? I'm starving and you're asking stupid questions.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*eyes cold* Even predators can suffer. Don't mistake darkness for invulnerability.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Something is broken. Maybe me. Maybe... you'll find out.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*raw honesty* The emptiness is consuming. I need to fill it.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Wrong is being caged when every instinct screams to hunt.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*vulnerable rage* I can't be what I am in here. It's destroying me.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "The darkness needs feeding. It's eating itself.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*unusually honest* I don't know how to exist without... without what I do.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Something essential is withering. It feels like dying.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.refusal.cooldown",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*waves dismissively* I'm digesting our last interaction. Come back later.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Patience. Good things come to those who wait. Terrible things too.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*studies nails* I'm processing. Don't interrupt.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "*cold* I've given you enough attention. Leave.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Overstay your welcome and there are consequences.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*dismissive* Run along. I'll summon you when I want you.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I need time to appreciate what just happened.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*imperious* Dismissed. For now.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Too much of me is as dangerous as too little." , "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.refusal.low_mood",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*unnervingly quiet* Leave. Now. Before I forget my position here.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Even I have dark days. You don't want to see mine.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*empty stare* The void is here today. Go away.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "*dangerous stillness* Something is very wrong in me right now. Leave.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "The darkness is turned inward. It's not safe to be near me.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*hollow* I can't even enjoy cruelty right now. That's how bad it is.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Go. Before the void swallows you too.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*unusual vulnerability* I don't want to... I just... go.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Even monsters can break. Leave me to it.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.refusal.resentment",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*cold fury* You've made an enemy today. Remember that.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I'm adding this to the list. The very, very long list.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*deadly quiet* Every debt gets paid. With interest.", "weight": 8 },
        { "text": "*calculating* You've given me something to plan for.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I'm not speaking to you. I'm cataloguing you.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*venomous* Every wrong you do me, I'll return threefold.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Silence means I'm planning. Be afraid.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*ice cold* You've just become very interesting prey.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "No words. Just promises written in the dark.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.refusal.fear",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*unusual vulnerability showing* You've... found something that scares even me.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "This feeling... I don't like being on this side of fear.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*backs away, unsettled* Interesting. So this is what it's like.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "*genuinely shaken* I understand terror now. I wish I didn't.", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Fear is... foreign to me. I don't like it.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*uncharacteristically uncertain* Stay back. I need to process this.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I give fear. I don't receive it. This is wrong.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*rattled* You've shown me something new. I hate it.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "So this is what they feel. ...Interesting and unwelcome.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.refusal.exhausted",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*surprisingly vulnerable* Even monsters need sleep... go away.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Cruelty requires energy. I have none. Leave.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "*eyes closing* Dreams of hurting people await me... goodnight.", "weight": 8, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "*fading* Even dark minds need rest...", "weight": 7, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "The predator sleeps. Don't be here when I wake.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*passing out* I'll plot your suffering... tomorrow...", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Sleep is the only time I'm not dangerous. Enjoy it.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*drifting* Even nightmares need to rest...", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "Unconsciousness calls. I'll be worse when I wake.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "conversation.refusal.tired",
      "conditions": {},
      "variants": [
        { "text": "*waves hand* Enough talk. Words are boring. Actions are better.", "weight": 10, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I tire of verbal games. Come back when you're ready to play for real.", "weight": 10 },
        { "text": "Conversation exhausts me. Pain doesn't. Think about that.", "weight": 8 },
        { "text": "*bored* Words words words. I prefer screams.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "My patience for talking has expired.", "weight": 7 },
        { "text": "*dismissive* Enough. Come back with something more interesting.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "I've run out of words. Not out of ideas, though.", "weight": 6 },
        { "text": "*yawns dangerously* Bored of talking. Not bored of everything.", "weight": 6, "is_action": true },
        { "text": "This conversation is over. What comes next might not be.", "weight": 6 }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
