slaguru666andClaude Opus 5
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Four settlement-kernel themes on village geometry, each 4 motifs: village kinship · harvest · custom · quiet market bargain · weights · crowd · credit city works · rolls · wards · liberties port cargo · passage · tide · wreck All validate. 11 themes total; index.json rebuilt. Module → 0.5.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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{
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"id": "market",
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"label": "Market",
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"forgeStageType": "village",
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"schema": 1,
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"placeNameStyle": "own",
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"_model": "Settlement kernel, but the place is a transaction rather than a community. The appetite belongs to the market itself; the claimants are its offices; and everything it did to people it did by contract, which is why none of it can be undone by force.",
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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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"Clerk of the Market",
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"Piepowder Court",
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"Company of Weighers",
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"Toll House",
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"Guild of Chapmen",
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"Lord of the Fair",
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"Standard-Keeper"
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],
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"appetites": [
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{
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"id": "open",
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"want": "never to close",
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"lack": "closed",
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"purpose": "the trading would never have to stop",
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"motif": "crowd",
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"prize": "bell",
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"conscript": "the stallholders",
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"asks": "\"Are we still open?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "sell something, to anybody, for anything at all",
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"attribute": "Flair",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the market is trading 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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"id": "square",
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"want": "that every dealing here should be exactly fair",
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"lack": "cheated",
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"purpose": "nobody would ever be wronged in it",
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"motif": "weights",
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"prize": "standard",
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"conscript": "the false dealers",
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"asks": "\"Is that a true measure?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "settle one dispute honestly, out loud, against your own interest",
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"attribute": "Wits",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "it was dealt fair",
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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": "dealt",
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"want": "never to have a slow day",
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"lack": "slow",
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"purpose": "there would always be something moving",
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"motif": "bargain",
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"prize": "handsel",
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"conscript": "the hagglers",
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"asks": "\"What will you give me for it?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "strike a bargain here and shake on it",
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"attribute": "Flair",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "business was done",
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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": "paid",
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"want": "never to be owed anything by anybody",
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"lack": "owed",
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"purpose": "every account would come out clean",
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"motif": "credit",
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"prize": "bond",
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"conscript": "the debtors",
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"asks": "\"And the rest?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "pay something you owe, in full, in front of it",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the account is clear",
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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": "tolled",
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"text": "tolled {conscript} at every gate until they had nothing left to sell",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"paid",
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"open",
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"dealt"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "outcried",
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"text": "had {conscript} cried down in the square so nobody would deal with them",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"square",
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"dealt",
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"open"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "bonded",
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"text": "took a bond off {conscript} that could never be redeemed",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"paid",
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"square"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "stalled",
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"text": "gave {conscript} a stall they could not leave and could not give up",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"open",
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"dealt",
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"paid"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "weighed",
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"text": "weighed everything {conscript} owned on a beam that was never true",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"square",
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"paid"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "credited",
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"text": "extended {conscript} credit until leaving would have been theft",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"paid",
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"dealt",
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"open"
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]
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}
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],
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"prizes": {
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"bell": {
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"label": "the bell that opens the market",
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"function": "the only thing that ever started or stopped trading here"
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},
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"standard": {
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"label": "the standard weight, sealed and true",
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"function": "the only measure here that was never adjusted"
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},
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"handsel": {
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"label": "the first coin of the first day's trading",
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"function": "the only bargain here nobody regretted"
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},
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"bond": {
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"label": "the bond that was never redeemed",
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"function": "the only debt here that was written down honestly"
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}
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},
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"placeNames": {
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"first": [
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"Cheap",
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"Corn",
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"Cross",
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"Shambles",
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"Wool",
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"Beast",
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"Candle",
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"Salt"
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],
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"second": [
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"Market",
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"Fair",
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"Row",
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"Chipping",
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"Staple",
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"Cheaping",
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"Mart",
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"Charter",
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"Green",
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"Yard"
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]
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},
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"areaNames": {
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"approach": [
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"The Toll Gate",
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"The Beast Pens",
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"The Approach Road",
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"The Weigh-House",
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"The Cross"
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],
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"complication": [
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"The Shambles",
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"The Corn Row",
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"The Cloth Hall",
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"The Booths",
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"The Drapery"
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],
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"turn": [
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"The Market Cross",
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"The Piepowder Court",
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"The Standard",
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"The Charter House",
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"The Great Stall"
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],
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"descent": [
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"The Cellars",
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"The Undercroft",
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"The Middens",
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"The Back Rows",
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"The Debtors' Yard"
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],
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"threshold": [
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"The Counting House",
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"The Strong Room",
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"The Toll House",
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"The Clerk's Room",
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"The Last Booth"
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],
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"ending": [
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"The Empty Square",
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"Where the Bell Hangs",
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"The Last Bargain",
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"The Sealed Room"
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]
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},
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"factions": [
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{
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"id": "market",
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"name": "the Market",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "still trading, still crying its wares, still expecting to be dealt with",
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"handledBy": "trade"
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},
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{
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"id": "chapmen",
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"name": "the chapmen",
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"kind": "living",
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"essence": "came for the fair and have not managed to leave",
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"handledBy": "courtesy"
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},
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{
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"id": "weighers",
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"name": "the Company of Weighers",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "will not pass anything that does not measure true",
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"handledBy": "proof of right"
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},
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{
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"id": "pens",
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"name": "what got out of the pens",
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"kind": "beast",
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"essence": "was bought and paid for and never collected",
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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 through the toll gate and paid, as traders do",
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"seenTwice": "passed the same stall twice without buying",
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"loud": "a raised voice in a square built to carry one",
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"lingering": "stood in one row long enough for the criers to work out what you want",
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"disturbed": "handled goods, moved a weight, or opened a shuttered booth"
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},
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"rosters": {
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"skirmish": {
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"line": "3 Bandits working the back rows",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 3,
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"name": "Bandit",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 4,
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"nerve": 3,
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"note": "cutpurses; they want the purse, not the fight"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "show them you carry nothing worth taking and they move on"
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},
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"fight": {
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"line": "4 Bandits and a Hobgoblin Soldier collecting toll",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 4,
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"name": "Bandit",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 4,
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"nerve": 3,
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"note": "scatter if the sergeant drops"
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},
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Hobgoblin Soldier",
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"atk": 4,
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"def": 4,
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"grit": 6,
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"nerve": 4,
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"note": "holds them together"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "they are collecting a toll — pay it and they let you through"
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},
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"battle": {
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"line": "1 Necromancer of the Company and 4 Skeletons in weighers' aprons",
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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": 3,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 8,
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"nerve": 4,
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"note": "raises one Skeleton per round from the pens"
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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": "anything — the Necromancer is alive and bleeds",
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"avoid": "it stops for a true measure; put the standard weight on the beam and it must check it"
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},
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"nightmare": {
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"line": "1 Wraith of the Clerk, 1 Necromancer and 5 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": "Necromancer",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 8,
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"nerve": 4,
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"note": "raises one Skeleton per round"
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},
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{
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"n": 5,
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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": "do not run this without an appeasement route open"
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}
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},
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"motifs": {
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"bargain": {
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"danger": "the deal",
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"dangerLine": "everything here still wants to be haggled with, and it will hold you to what you agree",
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"trigger": "lingering",
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"facets": {
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"institution": [
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"a square laid out in rows, one trade to a row",
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"a court that sits while the dust is still on your feet",
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"stalls numbered and let by the day"
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],
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"ritual": [
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"a hand spat on and struck before anything moves",
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"the first coin of the day kept back and not spent",
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"a price cried three times before it is a price"
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],
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"demand": [
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"a hand held out, open, waiting to be struck",
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"goods set out with no price on them at all",
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"a stall with the boards down and nobody behind it"
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],
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"wound": [
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"a hand struck and then withdrawn, in front of everybody",
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"a row of stalls with the goods still on them and no sellers",
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"a price cried a fourth time, into silence"
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],
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"anchor": [
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"the first coin of the first day's trading",
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"a book of bargains struck and honoured",
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"a stall let in perpetuity to somebody who never came"
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]
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},
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"features": [
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"a hand held open, waiting",
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"goods set out with no price on them",
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"a first coin kept back on a string",
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"a price cried into an empty row",
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"boards down on an empty stall",
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"a book of bargains left open"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a hand held out open, waiting to be struck",
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"cost": "striking it makes the bargain, whatever it was",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Flair 2",
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"success": "you settle the terms before you strike, and the market honours them exactly",
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"failure": "you strike first and find out the terms after: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "do not take the hand; the row closes to you and stays closed"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "goods set out with no price on them at all",
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"cost": "naming a price is an offer you are held to",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you price it fairly and the Market deals with you as a trader from here on",
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"failure": "you price it low and the seller accepts, and expects the difference",
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"orElse": "offer nothing; you go through the market as a customer, and are treated as prey"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "the first coin of the day kept back on a string",
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"cost": "spending it opens the day; keeping it does not",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Flair 2",
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"success": "you spend the handsel properly and the whole square begins trading around you",
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"failure": "you pocket it and nothing here will deal with you again",
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"orElse": "leave it hanging; the day never starts and the square stays dead"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a price being cried three times into an empty row",
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"cost": "answering the third cry closes the sale",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you answer and get the thing, and the crier owes you a hearing",
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"failure": "you answer late and the sale goes to somebody you cannot see",
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"orElse": "let it lapse; whatever it was is gone for good"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a book of bargains struck and honoured, with a blank line ruled",
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"cost": "entering a bargain in it makes it binding on both",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you write terms that bind the Market as much as you and it must keep them",
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"failure": "you write loosely and it keeps the letter of what you wrote: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave the line blank; nothing here is bound to you at all"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a stall let in perpetuity to somebody who never came",
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"cost": "standing behind it takes the lease",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Flair 2",
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"success": "you take the stall and have standing in the market — the Court will hear you",
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"failure": "you take it and cannot leave it while the market is open",
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"orElse": "walk past; you have no standing and the Court will not sit for you"
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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": "a crier",
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"doing": "calling a price three times into an empty row",
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"onArrival": "it pauses on the third cry and looks at you",
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"because": "the lot must be sold and nobody has bid",
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"offer": "bid anything and it will cry your business through the whole square"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two of the Market",
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"doing": "holding a bargain half-struck between them",
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"onArrival": "both hands are open and neither will close",
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"because": "the terms were never agreed and neither will speak first",
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"offer": "name the terms and both will thank you, and owe you"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a living chapman",
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"doing": "laying goods out on a stall that already has goods on it",
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"onArrival": "they ask whether you are the one who has the pitch",
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"because": "they arrived for the fair and the fair was already over",
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"offer": "help them clear the pitch and they will tell you what sells here now"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Lord of the Fair",
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"doing": "holding a purse open with nothing in it",
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"onArrival": "it asks what you have brought to sell",
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"because": "the fair cannot be declared over while anything is unsold",
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"offer": "sell it anything at all and it will declare you under its protection"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a stall",
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"doing": "standing with the boards down and the goods laid out",
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"onArrival": "the goods are arranged fresh and the dust is off them",
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"because": "the stall is let in perpetuity and the tenant never came",
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"offer": "stand behind it and the market treats you as one of its own"
|
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},
|
|
{
|
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"occupant": "the Guild of Chapmen",
|
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"doing": "weighing a purse against a ledger, over and over",
|
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"onArrival": "one of them slides the purse toward you",
|
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"because": "the account will not come out and they cannot stop trying",
|
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"offer": "balance it for them and they will open the counting house"
|
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}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
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{
|
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"id": "handsel",
|
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"cue": "the first coin of the first day",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make a deal go through that should not have",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the market's luck goes with it and the square knows",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Greed"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "bargainbook",
|
|
"cue": "the book of bargains",
|
|
"benefit": "hold anyone here to what they agreed",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are in the book too"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "pitch",
|
|
"cue": "a stall's tally-stick",
|
|
"benefit": "standing in the market, and the Court will hear you",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you owe the day's rent, and it accrues"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "crier",
|
|
"cue": "a crier's bell, hand-sized",
|
|
"benefit": "once, be heard by everything in the square",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "everything in the square then knows where you are"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "purse",
|
|
"cue": "a purse that is never quite empty",
|
|
"benefit": "once, pay what is asked",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the coin comes from somebody, and they notice"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"weights": {
|
|
"danger": "the true measure",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the Company is still checking, and nothing you carry will pass",
|
|
"trigger": "disturbed",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a weigh-house on the square with the beam in full view",
|
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"every measure in the market stamped and sealed once a year",
|
|
"a company whose only work is checking other people's scales"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a beam swung empty each morning to prove it hangs true",
|
|
"seals cut off and restruck at the same hour",
|
|
"the standard brought out, shown, and locked away again"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a beam hanging with one pan lower than the other",
|
|
"a measure set out beside a thing that has not been measured",
|
|
"a seal pressed into wax that has not set"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a weigh-house with the beam bent and left bent",
|
|
"seals struck onto measures that were never checked",
|
|
"the standard gone from its case and the case still locked"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the standard weight, sealed and true",
|
|
"a book of seals and what they were struck on",
|
|
"a beam that has never been out of true"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a beam hanging with one pan low",
|
|
"a seal in wax that has not set",
|
|
"a measure set beside something unmeasured",
|
|
"a bent beam left bent",
|
|
"a case locked and empty",
|
|
"a book of seals open at a page"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a beam hanging with one pan lower than the other and nothing in either",
|
|
"cost": "balancing it is a claim about the world",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you find the fault and true the beam, and the Company will vouch for you anywhere here",
|
|
"failure": "you weight the light pan to fake it and the Company finds out: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it hanging false; every measure you are given here is short"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a seal pressed into wax that has not set",
|
|
"cost": "the seal can still be lifted or spoiled",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you lift it clean and can reseal something the Company will not question",
|
|
"failure": "you smear it and whatever it sealed is now unsealed and known to be",
|
|
"orElse": "let it set; it seals something against you"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a measure set out beside a thing that has not been measured",
|
|
"cost": "measuring it settles what it is worth",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you measure honestly and the market prices everything for you at true value",
|
|
"failure": "you measure short in your own favour and the beam remembers",
|
|
"orElse": "take it unmeasured; you will be charged whatever they like"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a locked case with the standard weight gone out of it",
|
|
"cost": "the case says who had the key last",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you read the case and learn who took the standard, and where they went with it",
|
|
"failure": "you force the case and the Company treats you as the thief: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it locked; nothing here can be proved true or false"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a book of seals listing what each was struck on",
|
|
"cost": "one entry does not match the goods it sealed",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you find the false entry and can hold the Clerk to it",
|
|
"failure": "you are found reading it by something that struck those seals",
|
|
"orElse": "close the book; the false measures stay in circulation, including yours"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a bent beam left bent in a weigh-house that is otherwise kept",
|
|
"cost": "straightening it undoes a great many old bargains",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you straighten it and every dishonest thing in the market is exposed at once",
|
|
"failure": "it snaps, and the market has no measure at all: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it bent; the Company will not pass anything you carry"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a weigher",
|
|
"doing": "swinging an empty beam to prove it hangs true",
|
|
"onArrival": "it stops the beam and offers you the pans",
|
|
"because": "the beam is proved each morning and the morning has not ended",
|
|
"offer": "put something in a pan and it will weigh anything else you ask"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Standard-Keeper",
|
|
"doing": "holding a locked case and turning it over",
|
|
"onArrival": "it asks whether you have seen the weight",
|
|
"because": "the standard was taken and the case never opened since",
|
|
"offer": "tell it where the standard is and it will unseal any door here"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "two of the Company",
|
|
"doing": "checking a measure against another measure, endlessly",
|
|
"onArrival": "they hand you a third and wait",
|
|
"because": "neither will serve as the standard and both know it",
|
|
"offer": "give them a true measure and they will pass anything you carry"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a living tinker",
|
|
"doing": "filing at a weight, carefully, in a doorway",
|
|
"onArrival": "they stop and grin rather than hide it",
|
|
"because": "nobody has checked anything here in a long time",
|
|
"offer": "let them finish and they will file you a weight that passes anywhere"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a beam",
|
|
"doing": "hanging with one pan lower and nothing in either",
|
|
"onArrival": "it swings level as you come near and then tips again",
|
|
"because": "it was bent once and nobody trued it",
|
|
"offer": "true it and the Company vouches for you across the whole market"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Clerk of the Market",
|
|
"doing": "stamping seals onto measures without checking them",
|
|
"onArrival": "it holds a seal out to you, ready struck",
|
|
"because": "the sealing must be done and the checking cannot be",
|
|
"offer": "refuse the seal and it will tell you which measures are false"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "standard",
|
|
"cue": "the standard weight, sealed",
|
|
"benefit": "once, settle any dispute about what is true",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "nothing else here measures true while you hold it",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "seal",
|
|
"cue": "a weigher's seal",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make a thing pass as sound",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the Company checks everything you have sealed, eventually"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "beam",
|
|
"cue": "a pocket balance, honest",
|
|
"benefit": "know when you are being cheated",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you know exactly how badly, which is worse"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "filedweight",
|
|
"cue": "a weight filed light",
|
|
"benefit": "once, buy at your own price",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the beam it was used on stays wrong"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "sealbook",
|
|
"cue": "the book of seals",
|
|
"benefit": "know which of anything here is false",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "so does whoever notices you reading it"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"crowd": {
|
|
"danger": "the press",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the market is full and there is nobody in it",
|
|
"trigger": "loud",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a square built to hold four thousand people",
|
|
"rows wide enough for carts and worn narrow by feet",
|
|
"a cross where the crowd is supposed to gather"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a bell rung to open the trading and rung again to close it",
|
|
"the same rows filled in the same order every day",
|
|
"a crowd moving one way round the square and never the other"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a gap in the press, exactly one person wide",
|
|
"a cross with the steps worn and nobody on them",
|
|
"a row that stays empty while every other row fills"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a square emptied in an afternoon and the goods left standing",
|
|
"a bell rung to close and never rung to open",
|
|
"boots and baskets trodden into the mud in one direction"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the bell that opens the market",
|
|
"a plan of the square with every pitch marked",
|
|
"a crowd that has never once dispersed"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a gap in a press of nobody",
|
|
"baskets trodden into the mud",
|
|
"a bell rope hanging still",
|
|
"an empty row between full ones",
|
|
"worn steps at a market cross",
|
|
"goods left standing on a pitch"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a bell rung to close the market and never rung to open it",
|
|
"cost": "ringing it starts everything again",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you ring the market open and the square fills, and the crowd carries you where you ask",
|
|
"failure": "you ring it and cannot stop it ringing: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the rope; the square stays shut and so does everything in it"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a gap in the press exactly one person wide",
|
|
"cost": "stepping into it joins the crowd",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you step in and move through the market unseen, as one of the crowd",
|
|
"failure": "you step in and cannot step out until the crowd does",
|
|
"orElse": "push through instead; you are seen doing it, by everything"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a row that stays empty while every other row fills",
|
|
"cost": "there is a reason nobody stands in it",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you learn why the row is avoided and can use it to cross the square safely",
|
|
"failure": "you go down it in ignorance and something in it takes an interest",
|
|
"orElse": "go round the long way, costing a Turn"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a market cross with the steps worn and nobody on them",
|
|
"cost": "the steps are for whoever will be listened to",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 2",
|
|
"success": "you speak from the cross and the whole market attends you, once",
|
|
"failure": "you are shouted down and cried through the square as a fool: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "stay off the steps; nothing here will hear you out"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "baskets and boots trodden into the mud, all pointing one way",
|
|
"cost": "the direction says where everybody went",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you follow the direction and find where the square emptied to",
|
|
"failure": "you follow it into the press and are carried the wrong way entirely",
|
|
"orElse": "ignore the mud; you will not know where the crowd went"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a plan of the square with every pitch marked and one crossed out",
|
|
"cost": "the crossed pitch is still let to somebody",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you find the crossed pitch and what is still standing on it",
|
|
"failure": "you stand on it and the crowd forms around you: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the plan; you will walk onto it by accident later"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the crowd",
|
|
"doing": "standing shoulder to shoulder in an empty square",
|
|
"onArrival": "it parts, exactly one person wide, in front of you",
|
|
"because": "the market is open and the crowd has never dispersed",
|
|
"offer": "walk the gap and the crowd will carry you anywhere in the square"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a bellman",
|
|
"doing": "holding a rope that is not moving",
|
|
"onArrival": "it asks whether it is time yet",
|
|
"because": "the market was closed and never opened",
|
|
"offer": "tell it to ring and the square comes to life around you"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a living ballad-seller",
|
|
"doing": "singing to nobody in a full row",
|
|
"onArrival": "they break off and ask if you know the second verse",
|
|
"because": "they will not stop until somebody buys a sheet",
|
|
"offer": "buy a sheet and they will sing you the truth of what happened here"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "one of the Market",
|
|
"doing": "standing on the cross steps with its mouth open",
|
|
"onArrival": "no sound comes out and the crowd waits anyway",
|
|
"because": "it was crying something when the square emptied",
|
|
"offer": "give it words and the whole market will do what you say, once"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a press of the Market",
|
|
"doing": "moving one way around the square, endlessly",
|
|
"onArrival": "it slows where you stand and does not stop",
|
|
"because": "the crowd goes round this way and always has",
|
|
"offer": "go with it once round and every stall opens to you"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a child",
|
|
"doing": "holding a basket of something nobody bought",
|
|
"onArrival": "it holds the basket up without speaking",
|
|
"because": "it was sent out to sell and nobody came",
|
|
"offer": "buy the basket and it will show you the row nobody uses"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "bell",
|
|
"cue": "a hand-bell from the cross",
|
|
"benefit": "once, gather or scatter everything in earshot",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the market opens when you ring it, and does not close",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Sloth"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "plan",
|
|
"cue": "the plan of the square",
|
|
"benefit": "know every pitch and who holds it",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are marked on it now"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "basket",
|
|
"cue": "a seller's basket, never empty",
|
|
"benefit": "once, have exactly the small thing you need",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "it was somebody's stock and they want it back"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "sheet",
|
|
"cue": "a ballad sheet about this place",
|
|
"benefit": "know one true thing about what happened here",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the ballad names you in the last verse"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "cloak",
|
|
"cue": "a chapman's cloak off a peg",
|
|
"benefit": "once, be taken for part of the crowd",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the crowd expects you to move with it"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"credit": {
|
|
"danger": "the account",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the market keeps accounts, and yours is open",
|
|
"trigger": "announced",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a counting house with a window onto the square",
|
|
"tally sticks split and matched, one half to each party",
|
|
"a court that can distrain on goods before the dust settles"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"accounts read out loud at quarter-day",
|
|
"a tally split in front of witnesses",
|
|
"a debt cried in the square before it is enforced"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a tally stick with only one half present",
|
|
"an account ruled off and left unsigned",
|
|
"a hand held out for a payment nobody has named"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a strong room with the boxes open and the tallies burnt",
|
|
"a debtors' yard with the gate off its hinges",
|
|
"accounts ruled off in the middle of a quarter"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the bond that was never redeemed",
|
|
"a full set of tallies, both halves",
|
|
"an account book that balances"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a tally stick with one half missing",
|
|
"an account ruled off unsigned",
|
|
"a hand held out for payment",
|
|
"burnt tallies in a grate",
|
|
"a strong-room box standing open",
|
|
"a bond with the seal intact"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a tally stick with only one half present",
|
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"cost": "the other half is somewhere and matching them settles the debt",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find the matching half at {priorCue} and the debt is discharged in your favour",
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"failure": "you match it wrongly and the debt is now yours: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave it unmatched; the Market treats the whole sum as outstanding against you"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "an account ruled off and left unsigned",
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"cost": "signing it closes the account for good",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you sign it correctly and one thing here stops pursuing you, permanently",
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"failure": "you sign without reading and take on what it says: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave it open; the account keeps running and the total keeps growing"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a hand held out for a payment nobody has named",
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"cost": "paying settles something; asking what for does not",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Flair 2",
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"success": "you make it name the debt first, and it is smaller than you feared",
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"failure": "you pay blind and have settled somebody else's account, not yours",
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"orElse": "refuse the hand; whatever it was owed is now owed by you"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a strong room with the boxes open and the tallies burnt",
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"cost": "somebody destroyed the record rather than pay",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find whose tallies were burnt and can hold the Clerk to the theft",
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"failure": "you are found in the strong room with burnt tallies in your hand",
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"orElse": "leave it; nobody here can prove anything, including you"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a debtors' yard with the gate off its hinges",
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"cost": "what was held here got out, or was let out",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you work out which and can bargain with what is loose in the market",
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"failure": "you go in and the gate is back on its hinges behind you",
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"orElse": "stay out of the yard; something in the market is owed and unaccounted for"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a bond with the seal still intact, unredeemed",
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"cost": "redeeming it ends the debt; breaking the seal voids it",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you redeem it properly and the Market considers the whole affair closed",
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"failure": "you break the seal and every debt it stood against comes due at once",
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"orElse": "leave it sealed; the bond is the ending's whole leverage and you will not have it"
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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 Clerk of the Market",
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"doing": "holding out half a tally stick",
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"onArrival": "it does not speak; it waits for the other half",
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"because": "the account cannot be closed with one half missing",
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"offer": "give it any matching half and it will discharge one debt of yours"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a living debtor",
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"doing": "sitting in a yard with the gate off its hinges",
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"onArrival": "they ask whether you have come to collect",
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"because": "they were distrained on and nobody came back",
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"offer": "tell them the debt is settled and they will show you what is in the strong room"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Piepowder Court",
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"doing": "sitting with an account book open at a ruled line",
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"onArrival": "it turns the book toward you and offers a pen",
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"because": "the account must be signed off and there is nobody to sign",
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"offer": "sign it and the Court will find for you in anything, once"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two of the Market",
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"doing": "passing a purse back and forth without opening it",
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"onArrival": "they stop and hold it out to you",
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"because": "neither will accept it and neither will keep it",
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"offer": "take the purse and both will owe you, and pay"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a bond",
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"doing": "lying sealed on an empty table in a locked room",
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"onArrival": "the seal is unbroken and the wax is still soft",
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"because": "it was never redeemed and never destroyed",
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"offer": "redeem it and the whole market considers its accounts closed"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Lord of the Fair",
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"doing": "reading an account aloud to an empty square",
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"onArrival": "it reaches your name in the list and stops",
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"because": "the quarter's accounts must be cried before they are enforced",
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"offer": "let it finish and it will strike your name off with its own hand"
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}
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],
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"temptations": [
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{
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"id": "bond",
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"cue": "the unredeemed bond",
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"benefit": "once, call in a debt from anything here",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 2
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},
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"standingDrawback": "the Market opens an account against you at the same moment",
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"acceptanceCost": {
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"vice": "Greed"
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}
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},
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{
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"id": "tally",
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"cue": "a matched pair of tallies",
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"benefit": "prove any debt here settled or outstanding",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "tallies work both ways and yours is one of them"
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},
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{
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"id": "purse",
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"cue": "a distrained purse from the strong room",
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"benefit": "spend freely, once",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "it was distrained off somebody who is still owed it"
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},
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{
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"id": "ledger",
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"cue": "the counting-house ledger",
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"benefit": "know what everything here owes and to whom",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you know your own line, and it grows"
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},
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{
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"id": "gate",
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"cue": "the pin off the debtors' gate",
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"benefit": "once, hold something where it is",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "whatever was in the yard is not, and knows you have the pin"
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}
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]
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}
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}
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} |