Attitude

While a week might be no time at all to form a lasting friendship, they say that the strongest bonds are forged in the fires of adversity. Under such pressures as in the hospice, acts of friendship or hostility might change the perception others hold of you. If you are kind to others, their attitude will rise, and if you are mean, spiteful, or otherwise inconvenience them, it is likely to fall. Attitude affects many interactions with other characters. At high attitude levels, they are more likely to open up to you, to help you with your own goals, and become less likely to harm you. At low attitude levels, the reverse is true.

Numerically, attitude is the combination of two values for each character - minor attitude, which rises and falls based upon less influential actions such as the gifting of snacks, and major attitude, which represents impactful and long-lasting impressions such as assisting a character with their personal tasks and troubles at the hospice. While minor attitude is bounded at an upper limit, which varies from character to character, there is no cap on major attitude. Characters' interaction with you depends on their total attitude, varying on a scale from 0 to 10. While total attitude may exceed either of these bounds, no further changes in behaviour occur.