Jade Aggregator

Character in story: I'm gonna do this fucked up thing! Wait that's kind of evil, huh.

Other characters: Okay I think you're getting more evil.

Character's love interest: Unfortunately I am evil. It seems that you are evil too, and neither of us seem to be able to get better, so let's make each other worse.

Character: Fuck I had a bit of an episode and made a bunch more brainwashed slaves while my girlfriend created a whole bunch of super painful deadly plagues and unleashed them in the forest. God I love my brainwashed slaves. I wonder how my ally who's traumatised over that time she kidnapped a bunch of people and ate them alive over a period of several months is doing.

Character's love interest: Okay while you were gone I turned this man into a physical copy of you and brainwashed him to love me while he begged for death as he felt his own mind break down. Anyway I've named her Toy. She's my maid now. I keep her around to remind myself how evil I am. Because that's a pretty fucking evil thing to do.

Character: That's nuts, you wanna help me do something fucked up and evil to my enemies, who are also fucked up and evil?

STOP-

The timer only ticks down while a prisoner is awake -- it is paused while they sleep. So you can increase the amount of time before a prison break (and thus the amount of time before you have to crack them over the head with a mace until they stop moving) by making them sleep longer. This is done by giving them shitty beds made out of stone that reduces their sleep quality so they have to be in bed longer to rest up. Since prisoners only really need to be awake to eat and get brainwashed (I mean, chat companionably with the warden about which faction they should be working for and what they should believe, we're all friends here), there's no reason not to make their sleep as shitty as possible.

It's also illegal to recruit them, you have to release them. And you can't release them normally, you have to send them back via drop pod. The only way to avoid this is to avoid taking prisoners at all, i.e. let downed enemies bleed/starve to death (which I suspect is itself a war crime but the mod doesn't consider it one so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). And then you have to dig them individual graves, because it turns out that cremating enemies is also a war crime unless they consented while alive (impossible in vanilla).

plus there's a bunch of sensible rules about how it's illegal to turn prisoners into organ farms or enslave them or dump toxic waste near other factions or raiding non-hostile work sites or destroy their brain to make a robot that e.g. burns enemies with hellfire.

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!