Bady Day / Good Day

The Reality Hacker T!kT00r devised this rote as a means of surviving the dreaded Monday morning standup. By carefully avoiding participation and instead observing his coworkers, he would analyse their current emotional state and identify the dominant emotion driving their behaviour. With a well-timed comment, joke, criticism, or word of encouragement, T!kT00r could subtly reinforce or diminish that emotion while simultaneously influencing probability to generate a series of fortunate or unfortunate coincidences throughout the remainder of the day.

An anxious coworker might find minor irritations piling up around them, each one seemingly confirming their fears. A confident coworker might discover that everything simply goes their way, reinforcing their optimism. Or the inverse. The rote does not create emotions from nothing; rather, it amplifies or suppresses emotional states that already exist.

The Effect cannot directly control behaviour or force actions. Instead, it creates a feedback loop between emotion and circumstance. The target’s emotional state colours their perception of events while probability ensures that events continue to support that perception.

To outside observers, the target simply appears to be having an unusually good day or an exceptionally bad one.

Correspondence 2 may be added to affect a target at a distance.