The Stat Screen as Intimacy

The stat screen is private. This is technically true. Your overlay is yours. No one sees your numbers without your deliberate action to share them. The Integration doesn't broadcast your stats to the room. What it does is considerably more complicated. --- Sharing your stat screen requires a deliberate two-step action. You choose to share. The recipient chooses to accept. Both consents are recorded. The system doesn't permit passive disclosure — if someone is seeing your numbers, it's because you decided to let them. What you are deciding to let them see is this: six attributes that reflect every meaningful choice you have made over years of Integration engagement. The allocation decisions you made at each level. The stats you invested and the ones you let sit. Your Designation Rank, which is the system's assessment of how fully you have actually become what it named you. Your skill slots — which skills you currently run, and the condition of them. Your unspent point pool, if you have one: the record of every level you've gained and haven't yet acted on, sitting there as an annotated history of ambivalence. Showing someone your stat screen is the most precise self-disclosure available in...