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"id": "church",
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"label": "Church",
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"forgeStageType": "barrow",
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"schema": 1,
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"placeNameStyle": "claimant",
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"_model": "Interior kernel. A parish church wants to be believed, attended, given to, or kept holy, and its accommodations are what a cure of souls does to keep a flock.",
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"facetProgression": {
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"approach": "institution",
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"complication": "ritual",
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"turn": "demand",
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"descent": "wound",
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"threshold": "anchor",
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"ending": "demand"
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},
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"claimants": [
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"Vicar-Without-Flock",
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"Anchoress",
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"Last Curate",
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"Patron",
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"Sexton",
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"Reverend Mother",
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"Parson of the Marsh"
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],
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"appetites": [
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{
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"id": "believed",
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"want": "to be believed without doubting",
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"lack": "doubted",
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"purpose": "nobody would ever question it",
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"motif": "faith",
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"prize": "relic",
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"conscript": "the doubters",
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"asks": "\"Do you doubt me?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "say the words of the creed aloud, as though you meant them",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "it is believed by someone living",
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"gain": {
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"vanity": 1
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},
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"cost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"repeatable": true
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}
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},
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{
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"id": "attended",
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"want": "never to preach to an empty nave",
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"lack": "unattended",
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"purpose": "the pews would never be empty",
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"motif": "congregation",
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"prize": "bell",
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"conscript": "the parish",
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"asks": "\"Why did you not come?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "take a seat in a pew and stay for the whole of it",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "somebody came to the service",
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"gain": {
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"vanity": 1
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},
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"cost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"repeatable": true
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}
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},
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{
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"id": "given",
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"want": "to be tithed to the last sheaf",
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"lack": "unpaid",
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"purpose": "nothing would ever be withheld",
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"motif": "offering",
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"prize": "chalice",
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"conscript": "the tithed",
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"asks": "\"What did you put in the plate?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "put something in the plate, and let it be seen",
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"attribute": "Flair",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the offering was made",
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"gain": {
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"vanity": 1
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},
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"cost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"repeatable": true
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}
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},
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{
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"id": "kept",
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"want": "never to be made unholy",
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"lack": "profaned",
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"purpose": "nothing unclean would ever come in",
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"motif": "sanctity",
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"prize": "register",
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"conscript": "the unclean",
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"asks": "\"Did you come in like that?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "clean your boots and uncover your head before you enter",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the ground is respected again",
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"gain": {
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"vanity": 1
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},
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"cost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"repeatable": true
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}
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}
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],
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"accommodations": [
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{
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"id": "bricked",
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"text": "bricked {conscript} into the wall to pray without stopping",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"believed",
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"attended",
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"kept"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "vowed",
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"text": "held {conscript} to a vow they could not possibly keep",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"believed",
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"given",
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"kept"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "floored",
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"text": "buried {conscript} under the flagstones so they would always attend",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"attended",
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"believed"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "tithed",
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"text": "tithed {conscript} down to the last sheaf and then the seed corn",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"given",
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"attended"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "barred",
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"text": "barred {conscript} from the door and would not say the words over them",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"kept",
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"believed",
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"given"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "kept",
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"text": "would not release {conscript} from service, and then could not",
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"cruelty": 1,
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"fits": [
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"attended",
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"given",
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"kept"
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]
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}
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],
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"prizes": {
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"relic": {
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"label": "the relic that was never once doubted",
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"function": "the only thing here anyone truly believed in"
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},
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"bell": {
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"label": "the bell that called a full nave",
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"function": "the only thing that ever brought them all in"
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},
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"chalice": {
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"label": "the chalice the tithes were counted into",
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"function": "the only place the parish was ever generous"
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},
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"register": {
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"label": "the register of who was and was not clean",
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"function": "the only record of who was let in"
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}
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},
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"placeNames": {
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"first": [
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"The Church of the",
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"St Cuth's of the",
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"The Chapel of the",
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"The Minster of the",
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"Our Lady of the"
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]
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},
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"areaNames": {
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"approach": [
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"The Lychgate",
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"The Churchyard",
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"The Porch",
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"The West Door",
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"The Path Between Graves"
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],
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"complication": [
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"The Nave",
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"The Font",
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"The Aisle",
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"The Bell-Floor",
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"The Poor Box"
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],
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"turn": [
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"The Chancel Step",
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"The Rood Screen",
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"The Pulpit",
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"The Lady Chapel",
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"The Choir"
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],
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"descent": [
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"The Crypt",
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"The Bone-Hole",
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"The Undercroft",
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"The Charnel",
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"The Sunken Chapel"
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],
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"threshold": [
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"The Vestry",
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"The Sacristy",
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"The Anchorhold",
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"The Treasury",
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"The Sealed Chapel"
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],
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"ending": [
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"The High Altar",
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"The Sanctuary",
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"Before the Rood",
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"The Chancel"
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]
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},
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"factions": [
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{
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"id": "congregation",
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"name": "the Congregation",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "still attending a service that has not ended",
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"handledBy": "courtesy"
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},
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{
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"id": "relichunters",
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"name": "relic-hunters",
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"kind": "living",
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"essence": "here for what is under the altar",
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"handledBy": "trade"
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},
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{
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"id": "anchorites",
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"name": "the Walled-In",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "praying without pause, and listening",
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"handledBy": "an honest confession"
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},
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{
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"id": "unclean",
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"name": "what was barred out",
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"kind": "beast",
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"essence": "got in eventually, by another door",
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"handledBy": "force"
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}
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],
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"triggerGlossary": {
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"announced": "came in by the west door, in daylight, as a congregation does",
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"seenTwice": "caught by two of the walled-in, or by a squint and a window",
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"loud": "a raised voice under a vault carries further than you think",
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"lingering": "stayed in a pew longer than a prayer takes",
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"disturbed": "moved something consecrated"
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},
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"rosters": {
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"skirmish": {
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"line": "3 Skeletons in the congregation's seats",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 3,
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"name": "Skeleton",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 2,
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"grit": 1,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "fearless; will not leave its pew"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything; Turn Undead trivialises them",
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"avoid": "they do not rise for anyone who sits down"
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},
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"fight": {
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"line": "1 Ghoul in the charnel and 2 Skeletons",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Ghoul",
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"atk": 4,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 4,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "on a hit, a free Called Shot to freeze for a round"
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},
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{
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"n": 2,
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"name": "Skeleton",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 2,
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"grit": 1,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "fearless"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "the Ghoul will not cross consecrated ground — stay on the flags"
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},
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"battle": {
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"line": "1 Necromancer at the altar and 3 Skeletons",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Necromancer",
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"atk": 4,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 6,
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"nerve": 4,
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"note": "raises one from the floor per round"
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},
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{
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"n": 3,
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"name": "Skeleton",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 2,
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"grit": 1,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "fearless"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything — but they keep coming until he stops",
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"avoid": "he will hear a confession before he fights; it costs a Turn"
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},
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"nightmare": {
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"line": "1 Wraith of the Vicar, 1 Ghoul and 4 Skeletons",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Wraith",
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"atk": 5,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 10,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "INCORPOREAL — chill touch ignores armour, drains 1 max Grit"
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},
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Ghoul",
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"atk": 4,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 4,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "freezes on a hit"
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},
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{
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"n": 4,
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"name": "Skeleton",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 2,
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"grit": 1,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "fearless"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "blessed, silvered or magical weapons for the Wraith ONLY; anything for the rest",
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"avoid": "it will not strike anyone kneeling",
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"beforeInitiative": "Say so before initiative."
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}
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},
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"motifs": {
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"faith": {
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"danger": "doubt",
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"dangerLine": "the church can tell who believes and who is only standing here",
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"trigger": "lingering",
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"facets": {
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"institution": [
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"a creed cut into the chancel arch, every letter re-gilded",
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"pews numbered and assigned, none of them free",
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"a squint cut so the priest can see who is not attending"
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],
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"ritual": [
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"a candle relit at the same hour by nothing",
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"a service book open at the same page for three centuries",
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"holy water in a stoup that has not evaporated"
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],
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"demand": [
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"a rail you are expected to kneel at before you pass",
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"a chancel step you cannot cross without being asked a question",
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"a font that fills when you look at it"
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],
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"wound": [
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"a rood with the figure hacked off and the cross kept",
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"statues with their faces smoothed by hands, not weather",
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"a creed with one line scratched out by many people"
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],
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"anchor": [
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"a reliquary with the seals unbroken",
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"a relic-box let into the altar stone",
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"a monstrance under cloth, still warm"
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]
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},
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"features": [
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"a candle lit this week in an empty church",
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"a service book moved to a different page",
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"fresh water in the stoup",
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"a pew re-cushioned by somebody",
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"a hymn number left on the board",
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"kneelers set out in a row, recently"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a rail you are expected to kneel at",
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"cost": "kneeling is submission and it is also protection",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you kneel and the Congregation counts you faithful — nothing here strikes a kneeler",
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"failure": "you pass without kneeling and are marked: the next encounter starts hostile",
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"orElse": "go round by the aisle: one Turn, and you are noticed avoiding it"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a creed with one line scratched out",
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"cost": "saying the missing line aloud would settle an old argument",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you work out the scratched line and say it — the church relaxes entirely",
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"failure": "you guess wrong and say something the church considers heresy: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "say the creed without the line; it is accepted, coldly"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a reliquary with the seals unbroken",
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"cost": "opening it settles whether there was ever anything in it",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you open it without breaking the seals and see what is inside",
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"failure": "you break the seals and whatever was believed in stops being believed: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave it sealed; the question stays open, which suits the church"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a rood with the figure hacked away",
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"cost": "restoring it is a kindness; asking who did it is not",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Brawn 2",
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"success": "you set the figure right and the Congregation is grateful — they will guide you",
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"failure": "you drop it: the noise brings everything, roll the clock",
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"orElse": "leave it; the cross is bare and the church resents the indifference"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a font that fills when you look at it",
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"cost": "using it is a claim on the church's protection",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you use it properly and are counted clean for the rest of the delve",
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"failure": "you use it carelessly and it empties: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "walk past dry; nothing gained, nothing owed"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a squint cut through the wall at eye height",
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"cost": "looking through sees who is being watched",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 1",
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"success": "you look and see the whole nave, including what is standing in it",
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"failure": "you are seen looking, from the other side",
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"orElse": "do not look; you go in blind"
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}
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}
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],
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"situations": [
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{
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"occupant": "one of the Congregation",
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"doing": "holding a hymn book open at a page it cannot read",
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"onArrival": "it offers you the book and waits",
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"because": "the service cannot continue until someone sings",
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"offer": "sing anything at all and the whole nave joins, and stands aside"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Anchoress",
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"doing": "praying through a slot in a wall, without pausing",
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"onArrival": "the prayer stops mid-word",
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"because": "she was walled in to pray without ceasing and has",
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"offer": "give her something to pray for and she will tell you what she has heard through the wall"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a living relic-hunter",
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"doing": "levering at an altar stone with a bar",
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"onArrival": "they stop and offer you the other end",
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"because": "the relic is under it and they cannot shift it alone",
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"offer": "help and they will split what is under it"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the candles",
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"doing": "lighting themselves along the nave, one at a time toward you",
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"onArrival": "the nearest one takes",
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"because": "the service is being prepared",
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"offer": "light one yourself and the church treats you as clergy"
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},
|
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{
|
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"occupant": "three of the Congregation",
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"doing": "standing for a hymn that has not been announced",
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"onArrival": "they look at you, waiting for the number",
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"because": "the hymn board is blank and nobody has set it",
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"offer": "name any number and they sit, and let you through"
|
|
},
|
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{
|
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"occupant": "the Sexton",
|
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"doing": "digging a grave inside the church, in the aisle",
|
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"onArrival": "it looks up and asks who it is for",
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"because": "it was told to dig and not told for whom",
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"offer": "give it a name — not one of yours — and it will dig elsewhere"
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}
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|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
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{
|
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"id": "relic",
|
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"cue": "a finger-bone in a silver case",
|
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"benefit": "once, be believed absolutely by anything here",
|
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"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "the church knows its relic is out of the building"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
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"id": "stoupwater",
|
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"cue": "a phial of water from the stoup",
|
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"benefit": "once, make ground temporarily consecrated",
|
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"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
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"standingDrawback": "what was already there has to go somewhere"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
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"id": "servicebook",
|
|
"cue": "a service book, much used",
|
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"benefit": "once, say the right words in a rite you do not know",
|
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"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are expected to lead the next one"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
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"id": "roodsplinter",
|
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"cue": "a splinter from the hacked rood",
|
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"benefit": "once, refuse a supernatural effect entirely",
|
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"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
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"standingDrawback": "whatever you refused finds someone else in the party",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
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}
|
|
},
|
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{
|
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"id": "hymnnumber",
|
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"cue": "a set of hymn-board numerals",
|
|
"benefit": "once, summon the Congregation to a place you choose",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "they stay until the hymn is finished, and nobody knows the tune"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"congregation": {
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"danger": "attendance",
|
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"dangerLine": "the church is still counting the house, and you have just walked in",
|
|
"trigger": "announced",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"pews with family names carved on the ends, all of them occupied",
|
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"a hat-peg row, full",
|
|
"a gallery built to hold a hundred more"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a bell rung for a service nobody is walking to",
|
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"a collection taken up along an empty row",
|
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"banns read out for a marriage between two dead people"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a pew with a gap in it exactly your size",
|
|
"a seating plan with your place already marked",
|
|
"a nave arranged so a latecomer must walk the length of it"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"pews torn out and the fixings left",
|
|
"a gallery collapsed under a weight it was never given",
|
|
"attendance rolls with the numbers falling year on year, in one hand"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"a bell, unhung, with the rope still on it",
|
|
"a full attendance roll, one Sunday, framed",
|
|
"a hat still on its peg, brushed"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a pew polished by somebody this year",
|
|
"a hat on a peg that was empty before",
|
|
"an attendance roll with a fresh entry",
|
|
"a collection plate with coin in it",
|
|
"a bell-rope replaced recently",
|
|
"a door propped open, welcomingly"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a pew with a gap in it exactly your size",
|
|
"cost": "sitting is attendance and attendance is binding",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you sit for a moment and stand — counted present, and nothing here troubles you",
|
|
"failure": "you sit and stay: the service continues around you and you lose a Turn",
|
|
"orElse": "stay standing at the back; the Congregation resents it visibly"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a collection plate coming down an empty row",
|
|
"cost": "the plate reaches you whether anyone carries it or not",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 2",
|
|
"success": "you give well and are counted generous — the church opens for you",
|
|
"failure": "you give nothing and the plate follows you: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "give everything you carry loose: generous, and you are poorer"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a bell-rope, replaced recently, in a tower with no ringer",
|
|
"cost": "ringing calls the parish, and something answers",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you ring it and the Congregation assembles where you want them",
|
|
"failure": "you ring badly and something else assembles: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the rope; the parish stays where it is"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "banns read for a marriage between two of the dead",
|
|
"cost": "objecting is your right and it will be heard",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you object on a technicality and the church is delighted by the correctness",
|
|
"failure": "you object badly and are held to have slandered the dead: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "hold your peace; the marriage proceeds and something is now bound"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "an attendance roll with your names already written",
|
|
"cost": "somebody entered you before you arrived",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you find who wrote it and why, and can use it",
|
|
"failure": "you strike your names out and the church takes the absence badly: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it; you are expected weekly from now on"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a gallery that will hold you or will not",
|
|
"cost": "the stair up is the fast way over the nave",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you cross the gallery and it holds",
|
|
"failure": "it gives: 2 Grit each and everything in the church looks up",
|
|
"orElse": "go round at floor level: one Turn"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a full nave of the Congregation",
|
|
"doing": "sitting through a service with no priest",
|
|
"onArrival": "every head turns as you enter, politely",
|
|
"because": "the service was never dismissed",
|
|
"offer": "take a seat for one minute and they will let you through the chancel"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Verger",
|
|
"doing": "showing an empty pew to nobody",
|
|
"onArrival": "it turns and shows you to it instead",
|
|
"because": "every guest must be seated",
|
|
"offer": "take the seat and it will show you anything else you ask for"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a collection plate",
|
|
"doing": "travelling along an empty row toward you",
|
|
"onArrival": "it stops in front of you",
|
|
"because": "the collection must be taken and never is",
|
|
"offer": "put anything in and the row lets you pass"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "two living thieves",
|
|
"doing": "prising a brass off a pew end",
|
|
"onArrival": "they freeze and one raises a crowbar, uncertainly",
|
|
"because": "the brasses are worth more than the box",
|
|
"offer": "let them work and they will tell you which floor-slab is loose"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the bell",
|
|
"doing": "ringing itself for a service nobody is coming to",
|
|
"onArrival": "the rope moves without a hand",
|
|
"because": "the hour must be rung",
|
|
"offer": "catch the rope and ring it properly, and the Congregation gathers for you"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "one of the Congregation",
|
|
"doing": "keeping a place with a hat and a folded coat",
|
|
"onArrival": "it moves them aside for you",
|
|
"because": "the place is kept for someone who never came",
|
|
"offer": "sit in the kept place and it will tell you who it was for"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "bell",
|
|
"cue": "a small hand-bell from the vestry",
|
|
"benefit": "once, gather everything in the church to one room",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "they stay until dismissed by name"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "hatpeg",
|
|
"cue": "a hat from the peg row, brushed",
|
|
"benefit": "the Congregation takes you for a parishioner",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are expected at the next service"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "plate",
|
|
"cue": "a collection plate, worn thin",
|
|
"benefit": "once, ask for something and have it given",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "whatever is given is expected back at a hundredfold"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "attendanceroll",
|
|
"cue": "a page of the attendance roll",
|
|
"benefit": "once, prove you were present somewhere you were not",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "your absence elsewhere is now on record",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "pewbrass",
|
|
"cue": "a brass off a family pew",
|
|
"benefit": "doors that check standing open for you",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the family it names is remembered as yours"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"offering": {
|
|
"danger": "arrears",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the church is owed a tithe, and it has kept every account",
|
|
"trigger": "disturbed",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a tithe barn attached to the church and bigger than it",
|
|
"a poor box with three locks and three keyholders",
|
|
"a board listing what each field owes, in bushels"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a first sheaf brought in and never threshed",
|
|
"a plate passed along a row that nobody sits in",
|
|
"candles bought by subscription, each with a name"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a box at the door you cannot pass without hearing",
|
|
"a plate held out at the chancel step",
|
|
"a room where every surface has somewhere to put a coin"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a poor box forced from behind, the locks intact",
|
|
"a tithe board with the last three years blank",
|
|
"a barn emptied in a night, and the parish starved for it"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"a chalice the tithes were counted into",
|
|
"a strongbox under the altar, still locked",
|
|
"a tally of every sheaf ever given"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a fresh candle bought and named",
|
|
"a poor box emptied and put back straight",
|
|
"coin left on a ledge, deliberately",
|
|
"a sheaf laid at the altar this season",
|
|
"a tithe board with a new figure",
|
|
"a lock changed on the poor box"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a poor box with three locks and no keyholders left",
|
|
"cost": "opening it is theft or restitution depending who you ask",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you open it as the churchwardens would and take only what is owed you",
|
|
"failure": "you force it and the parish counts you a thief: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it; the money stays where the parish put it"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a first sheaf laid at the altar and never threshed",
|
|
"cost": "threshing it releases something the church has been holding",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you thresh it properly and the church counts a debt cleared — it eases toward you",
|
|
"failure": "you scatter it and the offering is spoiled: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it; the debt stands"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a plate held out at the chancel step by nothing at all",
|
|
"cost": "what you put in is measured against what you carry",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 2",
|
|
"success": "you give proportionately and the church is satisfied for the whole delve",
|
|
"failure": "you give meanly and it is noticed: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "give nothing; the plate follows you at a distance"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a tithe board with three blank years",
|
|
"cost": "filling them in is a lie the church might accept",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you enter plausible figures and the arrears are considered settled",
|
|
"failure": "your figures are impossible and the church knows every field: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the blanks; the arrears stand against the parish, not you"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a chalice used for counting rather than communion",
|
|
"cost": "using it properly might be the point",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you use it as it was meant and the church gives up what it was holding",
|
|
"failure": "you drink from it as a cup and it is profaned: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it; it goes on holding coin"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a candle bought by subscription with a name on it",
|
|
"cost": "lighting someone else's candle is presumption",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 1",
|
|
"success": "you light it and the named person's account is credited — they will help you",
|
|
"failure": "you light it wrongly and the subscription lapses",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it unlit; it has been unlit a long time"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a churchwarden",
|
|
"doing": "counting coin into a chalice that never fills",
|
|
"onArrival": "it asks whether you have come to pay or to be paid",
|
|
"because": "the account has never balanced",
|
|
"offer": "pay anything and it will unlock what it is guarding"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the tithe barn",
|
|
"doing": "standing fuller than the church and quite silent",
|
|
"onArrival": "the doors are open and nothing has been taken",
|
|
"because": "the tithe was gathered and never distributed",
|
|
"offer": "take a share openly and the parish counts you owed"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "two living farmers",
|
|
"doing": "carrying a sheaf toward the altar, reluctantly",
|
|
"onArrival": "they set it down when they see you and look relieved",
|
|
"because": "the first sheaf is owed and they cannot afford it",
|
|
"offer": "carry it for them and the church credits you the gift"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the poor box",
|
|
"doing": "rattling although nothing has been put in",
|
|
"onArrival": "the sound stops as you approach",
|
|
"because": "the box must be filled and never is",
|
|
"offer": "put something in and every locked thing in the church opens once"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "one of the Congregation",
|
|
"doing": "lighting subscription candles one by one, by name",
|
|
"onArrival": "it holds a taper out to you",
|
|
"because": "every subscriber must be remembered",
|
|
"offer": "light one and it will name who else is still owed"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Sexton",
|
|
"doing": "carrying a strongbox toward the altar and back again",
|
|
"onArrival": "it asks you to take one end",
|
|
"because": "the box must be under the altar and will not fit",
|
|
"offer": "help it and it will show you what is beneath"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "chalice",
|
|
"cue": "a chalice used for counting",
|
|
"benefit": "once, ask for a payment and have it given",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the church books it against you"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "poorboxkey",
|
|
"cue": "one of three keys to the poor box",
|
|
"benefit": "one locked thing per scene opens",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "two other keyholders are missed and looked for"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "firstsheaf",
|
|
"cue": "a sheaf never threshed",
|
|
"benefit": "once, clear a debt owed by anyone",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the debt transfers rather than clearing"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "tithetally",
|
|
"cue": "a tally of every sheaf given",
|
|
"benefit": "once, prove someone owes you",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "your own arrears are on the reverse",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Greed"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "namedcandle",
|
|
"cue": "a candle with somebody's name on it",
|
|
"benefit": "light it and that person's ghost assists you, once",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "they expect the favour returned"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"sanctity": {
|
|
"danger": "profanation",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the church minds very much what is brought in, and it can tell",
|
|
"trigger": "disturbed",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a boot-scraper worn to nothing at the porch",
|
|
"a rail marking where the unbaptised may stand",
|
|
"holy ground marked out by stones set on edge"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a threshold washed daily by nothing",
|
|
"hats removed and hung before a door nobody uses",
|
|
"a censer swung on a chain in an empty aisle"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a doorway that will not admit you as you are",
|
|
"a step that is cold through boots",
|
|
"a chancel that makes you aware of your hands"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a floor scrubbed through to the bedding mortar",
|
|
"a wall where something was washed off repeatedly",
|
|
"graves outside the wall, in a row, unmarked"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"a register of who was clean and who was not",
|
|
"a phial of oil, sealed",
|
|
"a stone let into the floor, whiter than the rest"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a threshold recently washed",
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"mud tracked in and scrubbed at, badly",
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"a censer still warm",
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"a hat left on the wrong side of the door",
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"stones set on edge, one moved",
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"a grave dug just outside the wall"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a threshold that will not admit you as you are",
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"cost": "cleaning up costs a moment; forcing it costs more",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you make yourself presentable and the church admits you as a guest",
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"failure": "you cross as you are and the ground objects: +1 Bane and the Congregation cools",
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"orElse": "go in by the vestry door: one Turn, and it is noticed"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a rail marking where the unbaptised may stand",
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"cost": "crossing it is either faith or trespass",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you cross with the right words and are treated as of the parish",
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"failure": "you cross without them: the next encounter starts hostile",
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"orElse": "stay behind the rail: safe, and you cannot reach what is beyond"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a register of who was clean and who was not",
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"cost": "your names are not in it yet",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you enter yourselves convincingly and the church stops testing you",
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"failure": "you enter yourselves badly and are listed among the unclean: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave the register; you are tested at every door"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a wall where something was washed off many times",
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"cost": "reading what is under it is possible and unwelcome",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you read enough to know what the parish would not have on its wall",
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"failure": "you expose it entirely and the church wants it gone again: roll the clock",
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"orElse": "leave it; the stain stays a stain"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "graves outside the wall in an unmarked row",
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"cost": "bringing one inside would settle an old injustice",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Brawn 2",
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"success": "you move a stone inside the wall and the barred dead are grateful — they will open a way",
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"failure": "you are caught at it and the ground rejects both of you: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave them out; they have been out a long time"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a phial of oil, sealed, in the sacristy",
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"cost": "using it consecrates; wasting it does not",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you use it exactly and one place becomes safe for the delve",
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"failure": "you spill it and the church counts the waste: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave it sealed; nothing is made safe"
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}
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}
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],
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"situations": [
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{
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"occupant": "the Sexton",
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"doing": "scrubbing a threshold that is already clean",
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"onArrival": "it does not look up and asks you to wipe your feet",
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"because": "the ground must be kept and cannot be",
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"offer": "wipe your feet and it will let you anywhere, including down"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "one of the Walled-In",
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"doing": "listening at a slot for a confession that has not come",
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"onArrival": "it asks, through the wall, whether you have anything to say",
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"because": "it may not leave until someone is absolved",
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"offer": "tell it one true bad thing and every door in the church opens"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a censer",
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"doing": "swinging on its chain in an aisle with nobody in it",
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"onArrival": "the smoke turns toward you",
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"because": "the ground must be censed and the thurifer is gone",
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"offer": "take the chain and swing it, and what is unclean here withdraws"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two living gravediggers",
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"doing": "digging just outside the wall, in the dark",
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"onArrival": "they stop and one gestures at the church, resentfully",
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"because": "the ground inside was refused them",
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"offer": "dig inside for them and the barred dead will carry you through the crypt"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the stones set on edge",
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"doing": "standing a little further in than the marks in the grass",
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"onArrival": "the boundary has moved since you looked",
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"because": "the holy ground is being extended",
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"offer": "set one back and the church treats you as a churchwarden"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Reverend Mother",
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"doing": "washing a wall where something keeps coming back",
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"onArrival": "she hands you a cloth without turning",
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"because": "it must not be seen and will not go",
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"offer": "read it aloud before you wash it and she will tell you what it means"
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}
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],
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"temptations": [
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{
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"id": "oil",
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"cue": "a sealed phial of oil",
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"benefit": "once, make a place holy for a scene",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "what was displaced waits at the edge of it"
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},
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{
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"id": "register",
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"cue": "the register of clean and unclean",
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"benefit": "once, have your presence accepted anywhere here",
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "someone else's name has been struck to make room"
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},
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{
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"id": "bootscraper",
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"cue": "a shard of the porch boot-scraper",
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"benefit": "once, cross a threshold that refuses you",
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you bring in whatever the threshold was keeping out"
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},
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{
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"id": "whitestone",
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"cue": "the whiter stone from the floor",
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"benefit": "stand on it and nothing unclean may touch you",
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 2
|
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you must not step off it while anything is watching",
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"acceptanceCost": {
|
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"vice": "Pride"
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}
|
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},
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{
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"id": "censer",
|
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"cue": "a censer on a short chain",
|
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"benefit": "once, drive something back without harming it",
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "it remembers the smell and finds you later"
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}
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]
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}
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}
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}
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