slaguru666andClaude Opus 5
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Three interior-kernel themes on barrow geometry, each 4 motifs: church faith · congregation · offering · sanctity temple exactness · sacrifice · silence · exclusion palace service · delight · splendour · audience All validate. 7 themes total; index.json rebuilt. Module → 0.4.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"id": "temple",
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"label": "Temple",
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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, older and stranger than a church. A temple wants the rite performed exactly, to be fed, to keep its name unsaid, or to be the only one. Its accommodations are what a priesthood does when a god is literal.",
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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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"God-Beneath",
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"Veiled One",
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"Hierophant",
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"Oracle of the Steps",
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"Nameless",
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"Twice-Born",
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"Last Priest"
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],
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"appetites": [
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{
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"id": "rite",
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"want": "to have the rite performed exactly",
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"lack": "performed wrongly",
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"purpose": "the words would never be got wrong",
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"motif": "exactness",
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"prize": "tablet",
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"conscript": "the celebrants",
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"asks": "\"Was that the correct form?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "copy whatever gesture is being made, exactly and without hurrying",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the form was kept",
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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": "fed",
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"want": "to be given something living",
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"lack": "unfed",
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"purpose": "the altar would never be dry",
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"motif": "sacrifice",
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"prize": "knife",
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"conscript": "the offered",
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"asks": "\"What will you give me?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "give up something you will actually miss, at the altar",
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"attribute": "Flair",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "it has been given something that cost",
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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": "unnamed",
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"want": "never to have its name said aloud",
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"lack": "named",
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"purpose": "nobody would ever speak it",
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"motif": "silence",
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"prize": "veil",
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"conscript": "the speakers",
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"asks": "\"Who told you my name?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "say nothing at all for a full exchange, and let the silence stand",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "nobody said it",
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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": "sole",
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"want": "to be the only one worshipped here",
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"lack": "one of many",
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"purpose": "no other name would ever be spoken here",
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"motif": "exclusion",
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"prize": "idol",
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"conscript": "the heretics",
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"asks": "\"Whose else do you carry?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "put away or cover any token of another faith you carry",
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"attribute": "Wits",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "it is the only one here",
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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": "initiated",
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"text": "initiated {conscript} into a mystery they could not survive knowing",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"rite",
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"unnamed",
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"sole"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "offered",
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"text": "offered {conscript} on the stone, in order, over years",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"fed",
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"rite",
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"sole"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "silenced",
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"text": "took the tongues of {conscript} so the name could not be said",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"unnamed",
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"sole"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "veiled",
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"text": "veiled {conscript} and would not let them be looked at again",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"unnamed",
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"rite",
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"fed"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "cast",
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"text": "cast {conscript} out and had their gods broken in the street",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"sole",
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"unnamed"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "bound",
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"text": "bound {conscript} to the service and did not release them",
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"cruelty": 1,
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"fits": [
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"rite",
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"fed",
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"sole"
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]
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}
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],
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"prizes": {
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"tablet": {
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"label": "the tablet with the rite cut correctly",
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"function": "the only complete copy of the words"
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},
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"knife": {
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"label": "the knife the offerings were made with",
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"function": "the only thing the altar has ever accepted"
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},
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"veil": {
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"label": "the veil that was never lifted",
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"function": "the only thing that has kept the name safe"
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},
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"idol": {
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"label": "the idol that outlasted all the others",
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"function": "the last one standing when the rest were broken"
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}
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},
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"placeNames": {
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"first": [
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"The Temple of the",
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"The House of the",
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"The Steps of the",
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"The Sanctum of the",
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"The Shrine 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 Temenos",
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"The Great Steps",
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"The Outer Court",
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"The Processional Way",
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"The Threshold Stone"
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],
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"complication": [
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"The Court of Lamps",
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"The Hall of Columns",
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"The Purification Court",
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"The Lesser Shrine",
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"The Ambulatory"
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],
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"turn": [
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"The Veil",
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"The Oracle's Step",
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"The Hall of Answers",
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"The Middle Sanctum",
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"The Way of Offerings"
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],
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"descent": [
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"The Undercroft of Bones",
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"The Cistern of Ash",
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"The Deep Cell",
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"The Sacrifice Pit",
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"The Lower Sanctum"
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],
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"threshold": [
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"The Antechamber of the God",
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"The Robing Cell",
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"The Treasury of Vows",
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"The Last Veil",
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"The Silent Room"
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],
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"ending": [
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"The Holy of Holies",
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"Before the Idol",
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"The Innermost",
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"The God-Beneath"
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]
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},
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"factions": [
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{
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"id": "celebrants",
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"name": "the Celebrants",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "still performing a rite that has no ending written",
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"handledBy": "courtesy"
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},
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{
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"id": "looters",
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"name": "tomb-robbers",
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"kind": "living",
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"essence": "here for gold and out of their depth",
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"handledBy": "trade"
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},
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{
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"id": "silenced",
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"name": "the Tongueless",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "keeping a name they can no longer say",
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"handledBy": "silence"
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},
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{
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"id": "broken",
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"name": "the broken gods",
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"kind": "beast",
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"essence": "cast out and still in the building",
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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 up the processional way, upright, as a celebrant would",
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"seenTwice": "reflected in lamp-oil, or seen by two of the Tongueless",
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"loud": "a word said aloud in a place built to carry words",
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"lingering": "stayed still long enough for the rite to include you",
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"disturbed": "touched, moved or uncovered something set apart"
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},
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"rosters": {
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"skirmish": {
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"line": "3 Skeletons in celebrants' robes",
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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 break the procession"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "walk in step with them and they take you for celebrants"
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},
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"fight": {
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"line": "1 Ghoul in the sacrifice pit 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": "free Called Shot to freeze on a hit"
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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": "it is fed on a schedule and will not leave the pit if the offering is made"
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},
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"battle": {
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"line": "1 Necromancer as Hierophant 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 per round while the rite continues"
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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 interrupting the rite stops the raising",
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"avoid": "he cannot break off mid-rite; wait for the pause and he will parley"
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},
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"nightmare": {
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"line": "1 Wraith of the Veiled One, 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 does not strike anyone who has said nothing — say so before initiative"
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}
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},
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"motifs": {
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"exactness": {
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"danger": "error",
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"dangerLine": "the rite is still being performed, and it notices a wrong hand",
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"trigger": "disturbed",
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"facets": {
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"institution": [
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"floor-marks showing where each celebrant stands, worn deep",
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"a rite cut into the walls in three languages, all agreeing",
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"lamps in a pattern that is clearly not decorative"
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],
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"ritual": [
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"a procession stepping the same eleven paces, over and over",
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"hands raised and lowered on a count nobody gives",
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"a cup passed along a line with a gap in it"
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],
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"demand": [
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"a floor-mark exactly your size, empty",
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"a doorway you must enter with a particular foot first",
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"a hall that makes you aware you are doing it wrong"
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],
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"wound": [
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"a wall where the rite is cut wrongly and then corrected, twice",
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"celebrants' hands broken and reset in the correct position",
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"a tablet with an error scratched out so hard the stone split"
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],
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"anchor": [
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"a tablet with the rite cut correctly, once",
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"a master copy under glass, unweathered",
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"a lead sheet with the words punched into it"
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]
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},
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"features": [
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"a floor-mark scrubbed brighter than the rest",
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"a lamp moved out of the pattern",
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"fresh chalk correcting a carved line",
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"a cup set down mid-passage",
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"a robe folded wrongly and refolded",
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"footprints in ash, eleven paces, repeating"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a floor-mark exactly your size, empty in the line",
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"cost": "standing on it joins the rite",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you take the place and step the measure correctly — the Celebrants accept you",
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"failure": "you step it wrongly and the rite must begin again: lose a Turn, +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "stay off the marks; the procession goes round you, coldly"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a rite cut on the wall in three languages that do not quite agree",
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"cost": "one of them is the correct one",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find the version the others were copied from and know the true form",
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"failure": "you pick a corrupted copy and are confidently wrong for the rest of the delve",
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"orElse": "copy all three and decide later: one Turn"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a doorway you must enter with a particular foot first",
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"cost": "which foot is not written anywhere obvious",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you read it off the floor-wear and enter correctly",
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"failure": "you enter wrongly and the temple resets you to the previous room",
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"orElse": "go through the servants' arch: one Turn, and it is beneath you"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a cup being passed along a line with a gap where you stand",
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"cost": "taking it commits you; refusing breaks the line",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you take, pass and are counted a celebrant for the rest of the delve",
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"failure": "you fumble the pass and the line stops: everything turns to look",
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"orElse": "step out of the line before it reaches you: the rite pauses, and resumes without you"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a tablet with an error scratched out hard enough to split the stone",
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"cost": "the correction matters more than the error",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 1",
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"success": "you read the correction and know one thing the temple insists on",
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"failure": "you read only the error and act on it once, wrongly",
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"orElse": "leave it; you go on not knowing"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "lamps arranged in a pattern with one lamp out of place",
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"cost": "restoring it is either piety or interference",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you set it right and the pattern completes — the temple opens a way it had closed",
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"failure": "you move the wrong lamp and the pattern is broken worse: roll the clock",
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"orElse": "leave the pattern; the way stays shut"
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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": "eleven Celebrants",
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"doing": "stepping a measure with a gap in the line where one is missing",
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"onArrival": "the gap arrives in front of you",
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"because": "the measure requires eleven and there are ten",
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"offer": "step the measure and they will carry you to the middle sanctum"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Hierophant",
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"doing": "correcting a carved line with a chisel, again",
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"onArrival": "it offers you the chisel, handle first",
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"because": "the text has never once been right",
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"offer": "cut one correct character and it will read you the whole rite"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two living looters",
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"doing": "copying wall-text they cannot read onto wax",
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"onArrival": "they look up, guilty, and offer to share",
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"because": "they are selling the rite to somebody",
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"offer": "tell them what it says and they will tell you what is in the treasury"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a cup",
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"doing": "travelling along a line of hands toward you",
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"onArrival": "the hand before yours holds it out",
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"because": "the passing must not stop",
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"offer": "take it and pass it, and the line lets you through"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "one of the Celebrants",
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"doing": "holding a gesture and waiting to be released from it",
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"onArrival": "its arms are shaking, which should not be possible",
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"because": "the next word of the rite was never spoken",
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"offer": "say any word with authority and it lowers its arms and thanks you"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the lamps",
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"doing": "going out one at a time in the pattern's order",
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"onArrival": "the nearest gutters as you enter",
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"because": "the pattern is completing itself, wrongly",
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"offer": "relight one out of order and the temple loses count, which helps you"
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}
|
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],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
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{
|
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"id": "tablet",
|
|
"cue": "a tablet with the rite cut correctly",
|
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"benefit": "once, perform any rite here exactly right",
|
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "the temple expects you to perform the rest of it"
|
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},
|
|
{
|
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"id": "floormark",
|
|
"cue": "a chip of a floor-mark",
|
|
"benefit": "once, take somebody's place in a formal order",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "whoever you displaced is looking for their place"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "leadsheet",
|
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"cue": "a lead sheet with the words punched in",
|
|
"benefit": "once, say something so exactly it cannot be argued with",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you cannot say the same thing twice differently"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "chisel",
|
|
"cue": "the Hierophant's chisel",
|
|
"benefit": "once, correct something written and make it true",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the previous version begins to want to be restored",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
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"id": "lamppattern",
|
|
"cue": "one lamp from the pattern",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make a place behave as the temple intends",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
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"standingDrawback": "the pattern is short a lamp and the temple is searching"
|
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}
|
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]
|
|
},
|
|
"sacrifice": {
|
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"danger": "hunger",
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"dangerLine": "the altar is dry, and the temple has been waiting a long time",
|
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"trigger": "lingering",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
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"channels cut into the floor, all sloping the same way",
|
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"a stone with a hollow and a lip at one end",
|
|
"hooks in a beam at the height of a hanging thing"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a beast led up the steps by nobody, nightly",
|
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"a knife laid out, cleaned, and laid out again",
|
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"a bowl carried in full and carried out empty"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a stone with a hollow exactly the size of a person's chest",
|
|
"a channel that runs toward you when you stand still",
|
|
"a room that makes you count how many of you there are"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"channels scoured white by too much use",
|
|
"a pit under the floor, filled and filled again",
|
|
"a knife broken deliberately and the pieces kept apart"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the knife itself, clean, on a folded cloth",
|
|
"a bowl that has never been washed",
|
|
"a ledger of what was given and on what day"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a channel scrubbed clean, recently",
|
|
"a beast tethered and left",
|
|
"a knife laid out on fresh cloth",
|
|
"the pit lid moved aside",
|
|
"blood that has not dried in a dry room",
|
|
"a bowl set out, empty and waiting"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "an altar with a hollow and a channel, and nothing on it",
|
|
"cost": "the temple will take something either way",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 2",
|
|
"success": "you give something that costs you and the altar is satisfied for the delve",
|
|
"failure": "you give something worthless and it is refused: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "give nothing; the altar takes an opportunity later instead"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a beast tethered at the steps, left by somebody",
|
|
"cost": "freeing it or offering it are both decisions",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you make the offering properly and the temple grants you passage",
|
|
"failure": "you free it and the temple takes the loss out of your reckoning: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it tethered; it is still there when you come back"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a knife broken in two and the halves kept apart",
|
|
"cost": "joining them is the obvious thing and obviously unwise",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you join them and hold the only thing the altar accepts",
|
|
"failure": "you join them and the knife wants using: it is +1 Bane per area to carry",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the halves apart; nothing is armed"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a pit under a moved lid, and something at the bottom",
|
|
"cost": "what is down there was given, not thrown",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you go down and come back with what was given, and the temple allows it",
|
|
"failure": "you fall the last of it: 2 Grit, and something down there notices",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the lid; the pit keeps what it was given"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a bowl carried in full and set down empty in front of you",
|
|
"cost": "the bowl is asking",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you fill it with something of yours and the Celebrants become helpful",
|
|
"failure": "you fill it with water and the insult is understood: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "hand it back empty; the bowl waits for someone else"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a ledger of what was given and on what day, with today blank",
|
|
"cost": "writing in it commits you to giving",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 1",
|
|
"success": "you enter something already spent and the day is counted paid",
|
|
"failure": "you enter a promise and the temple will collect: +1 Bane at the ending",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the day blank; the temple notices the gap"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a beast",
|
|
"doing": "standing tethered at the top of the steps, quite calm",
|
|
"onArrival": "it turns its head and looks at you without alarm",
|
|
"because": "it was led up and nobody came to take it",
|
|
"offer": "untie it and lead it out, and the temple counts the debt deferred"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Last Priest",
|
|
"doing": "cleaning a knife that is already clean",
|
|
"onArrival": "it sets the knife down between you and it",
|
|
"because": "the offering hour came and nothing was brought",
|
|
"offer": "bring it anything living and it will open the inner doors"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "two living looters",
|
|
"doing": "arguing beside an open pit about who goes down",
|
|
"onArrival": "they stop and one offers you a rope",
|
|
"because": "what is down there is worth having",
|
|
"offer": "hold the rope and they will share what comes up"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the channels",
|
|
"doing": "running with something in a room where nothing has been cut",
|
|
"onArrival": "the flow moves toward your feet",
|
|
"because": "the altar is being fed from somewhere",
|
|
"offer": "follow the channels back and you find what is being given"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "one of the Celebrants",
|
|
"doing": "holding a bowl out at arm's length, waiting",
|
|
"onArrival": "its arms do not lower",
|
|
"because": "the bowl has not been filled in three centuries",
|
|
"offer": "fill it and every Celebrant in the temple will stand aside"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the altar",
|
|
"doing": "sitting warm in a cold room with the hollow wet",
|
|
"onArrival": "the wetness is fresh",
|
|
"because": "something was given here very recently",
|
|
"offer": "find out what, and the temple treats you as party to it"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "knife",
|
|
"cue": "the offering knife, clean",
|
|
"benefit": "once, an attack cannot be defended against",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the temple counts what you take with it as given to it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "bowl",
|
|
"cue": "a bowl that has never been washed",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make an offering count double",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the bowl must not leave the temple, and you will want to take it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "tether",
|
|
"cue": "a tether from the steps",
|
|
"benefit": "once, bind something so it cannot leave",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "whatever you bind is now yours to give",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Greed"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "givenledger",
|
|
"cue": "the ledger of what was given",
|
|
"benefit": "once, prove a debt to the temple is paid",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "an unpaid day of yours is written in it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "pitstone",
|
|
"cue": "a stone from the bottom of the pit",
|
|
"benefit": "once, survive something that should have taken you",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the pit is owed a substitution"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"silence": {
|
|
"danger": "utterance",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the name must not be said, and the temple is listening for it",
|
|
"trigger": "loud",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"inscriptions with one word chiselled out of every line",
|
|
"a hall built to swallow sound rather than carry it",
|
|
"hangings doubled on every wall"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a rite performed entirely in gesture",
|
|
"a bell with the clapper removed and hung anyway",
|
|
"lips touched before crossing every threshold"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a room that makes your breathing audible",
|
|
"a veil you are expected to speak behind, not through",
|
|
"a doorway where your own voice does not follow you in"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"jaws wired shut on every figure in a frieze",
|
|
"a mouth chiselled out of a statue and the hole smoothed",
|
|
"tongues in a jar, counted"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"a veil that has never been lifted",
|
|
"a sealed box that hums when carried",
|
|
"a name written once and buried face-down"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a hanging pulled aside and left",
|
|
"fresh wax on lips of a statue",
|
|
"a jar moved from a shelf",
|
|
"a clapper found on the floor",
|
|
"a word scratched into plaster and rubbed at",
|
|
"a door muffled with cloth, recently"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a veil you are expected to speak behind, not through",
|
|
"cost": "speaking through it says the name into the room",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you speak behind it correctly and the Tongueless treat you as initiated",
|
|
"failure": "you speak through it and something hears its own name: roll the clock, +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "say nothing at all: safe, and you learn nothing"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "an inscription with one word cut out of every line",
|
|
"cost": "reconstructing the word is possible and is the whole point",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you work it out and do not say it — knowing it is enough to open the way",
|
|
"failure": "you say it aloud without meaning to: everything in the temple turns",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it unreconstructed: one Turn to find another way"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a bell with the clapper hung beside it",
|
|
"cost": "ringing it would be the loudest thing here in centuries",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you strike it once, deliberately, and everything hostile withdraws for a scene",
|
|
"failure": "the note goes on far too long and brings what it was meant to keep out",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the clapper down; the silence holds"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a jar of tongues, counted, with a gap",
|
|
"cost": "the count matters to something",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you work out whose is missing and can use the name of the one who kept it",
|
|
"failure": "you disturb the count and the Tongueless follow you thereafter",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the jar; the count stays wrong"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a sealed box that hums when it is carried",
|
|
"cost": "opening it is how the name got out last time",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you carry it without opening it and it opens doors for you",
|
|
"failure": "you open it: the name is loose in the room, +1 Bane and roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it sealed and where it is"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a name written once and buried face-down",
|
|
"cost": "turning it over reads it",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 1",
|
|
"success": "you read it with your eyes only and hold something the temple fears",
|
|
"failure": "you read it aloud out of habit: the temple stops treating you as a guest",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it face-down; whatever is written stays buried"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "one of the Tongueless",
|
|
"doing": "mouthing a word it cannot make a sound with",
|
|
"onArrival": "it takes your hand and shapes it into a gesture",
|
|
"because": "it kept the name and lost the means to say it",
|
|
"offer": "let it shape your hand and you will be able to say the word once, safely"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the hangings",
|
|
"doing": "doubling along the wall as you watch, muffling further",
|
|
"onArrival": "the room becomes noticeably quieter",
|
|
"because": "something is about to be said and must not be heard",
|
|
"offer": "speak first, quietly, and the hangings still"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a living scholar",
|
|
"doing": "copying an inscription and leaving the cut-out word blank",
|
|
"onArrival": "they hold a finger to their lips and keep writing",
|
|
"because": "they know what the gap is and will not write it",
|
|
"offer": "promise not to say it and they will show you where it is written whole"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Veiled One's chair",
|
|
"doing": "standing empty behind a veil that moves without air",
|
|
"onArrival": "the veil bellies toward you",
|
|
"because": "something behind it is waiting to be addressed",
|
|
"offer": "address it without using any name and it will answer one question"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "three of the Tongueless",
|
|
"doing": "standing in a line with their hands over their mouths",
|
|
"onArrival": "they part to let you through and do not lower their hands",
|
|
"because": "the silence must be kept by somebody",
|
|
"offer": "cover your own mouth and walk through, and they follow and guard you"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a bell",
|
|
"doing": "hanging with its clapper on the floor beneath it",
|
|
"onArrival": "the bell moves very slightly",
|
|
"because": "the hour is due and cannot be struck",
|
|
"offer": "strike it with your hand — no clapper, no name — and the temple opens"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "veil",
|
|
"cue": "a length of the veil, unlifted",
|
|
"benefit": "once, say something without anything hearing who said it",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "your voice is not recognised by allies either"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "sealedbox",
|
|
"cue": "a small sealed box that hums",
|
|
"benefit": "once, open it and unmake something with a word",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the name is loose afterwards and looking for a mouth",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "clapper",
|
|
"cue": "a bell clapper, heavy",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make a sound that nothing here can ignore",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "everything comes to see what rang"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "tonguejar",
|
|
"cue": "a jar with one tongue in it",
|
|
"benefit": "once, speak with the voice of whoever it belonged to",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "they say something of their own each time"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "buriedname",
|
|
"cue": "a tablet, face-down, unread",
|
|
"benefit": "once, read a name and know what it commands",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the name knows it has been read"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"exclusion": {
|
|
"danger": "rivalry",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the temple will not share, and it can smell another god on you",
|
|
"trigger": "seenTwice",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"niches all along a wall, every one of them emptied",
|
|
"a floor of broken idols laid face-down as paving",
|
|
"a single lamp where a row of lamps was fixed"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a censing of the doorway against something that keeps returning",
|
|
"tokens of other faiths collected in a basket at the door",
|
|
"a rite of exclusion cut beside every entrance"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a doorway that will not admit anything with two allegiances",
|
|
"a room where only one thing may be venerated at a time",
|
|
"a plinth built for one and made larger since"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"idols broken carefully rather than in anger, and stacked",
|
|
"a frieze with every rival figure chiselled to a blank",
|
|
"a shrine walled up with the offerings still inside"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the last idol standing, undamaged",
|
|
"a basket of confiscated tokens, still full",
|
|
"a list of gods forbidden here, complete"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a niche recently emptied",
|
|
"a token dropped at the doorway",
|
|
"fresh mortar sealing a small shrine",
|
|
"broken idol-pieces sorted by size",
|
|
"a censer used at a door and left",
|
|
"a name scratched off a frieze, this year"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a basket at the door for tokens of other faiths",
|
|
"cost": "giving up a token is a real cost to whoever carries it",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you give one up properly and the temple treats the party as its own",
|
|
"failure": "you keep one and it is smelled on you: the next encounter starts hostile",
|
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"orElse": "hand over everything: safe, and something you valued is gone"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a shrine walled up with the offerings still inside",
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"cost": "opening it frees a rival the temple beat",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Brawn 2",
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"success": "you open it and what is inside is grateful and useful",
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"failure": "you open it and the temple treats you as its enemy from here",
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"orElse": "leave it sealed; it has been sealed a long time"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a floor of broken idols laid face-down as paving",
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"cost": "turning one over is a small resurrection",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find one still whole beneath and it will speak for you once",
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"failure": "you turn over a broken one and it is angry with everybody",
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"orElse": "walk over them without looking; the temple approves"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "the last idol standing, undamaged, and a hammer beside it",
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"cost": "the hammer was left there on purpose",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you refuse the invitation and the temple is satisfied you are loyal",
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"failure": "you take up the hammer and something in the temple decides what you are",
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"orElse": "take the hammer away and hide it: the invitation stands for someone else"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a list of gods forbidden here, complete and long",
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"cost": "one of them is one you know",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find the name that matters and can use it against the temple later",
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"failure": "you are seen reading it and are assumed to be one of them: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "do not read the list; ignorance is safest here"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a censer at a doorway, still warm, used against something",
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"cost": "using it yourself declares a side",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you cense the doorway and whatever keeps returning is held off for the delve",
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"failure": "you use it wrongly and it clears the way in instead",
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"orElse": "leave it; the door is uncensed and something uses 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": "one of the Celebrants",
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"doing": "emptying a niche that has been empty for centuries",
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"onArrival": "it dusts the empty shelf and moves to the next",
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"because": "the niches must be kept clear",
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"offer": "help it dust and it will show you where what was in them went"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a broken god",
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"doing": "standing assembled wrongly from pieces off the floor",
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"onArrival": "the assembly shifts as you look at it",
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"because": "it has been trying to stand up for a long time",
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"offer": "assemble it correctly and it will owe you, and it is still strong"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two living pilgrims",
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"doing": "hiding a token in a wall before going in",
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"onArrival": "they beg you, silently, not to say anything",
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"because": "they cannot give it up and cannot carry it in",
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"offer": "hide it better for them and they will guide you inside"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the last idol",
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"doing": "standing alone on a plinth built for a row",
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"onArrival": "the lamp before it is freshly lit",
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"because": "it outlasted the others and knows it",
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"offer": "praise it aloud and it will let you pass anywhere in the temple"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the basket at the door",
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"doing": "filling further than when you last passed it",
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"onArrival": "something in it is yours",
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"because": "the confiscation continues without a doorkeeper",
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"offer": "take back only what is yours and the temple allows it"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Last Priest",
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"doing": "chiselling a rival's name off a frieze it has already cleared",
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"onArrival": "it hands you the chisel and points at a blank",
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"because": "the frieze must be clean and always has more names",
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"offer": "chisel one blank and it will name every god it drove out"
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}
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],
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"temptations": [
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{
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"id": "lastidol",
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"cue": "a small idol, undamaged",
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"benefit": "once, be protected as the temple protects its own",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you may carry no other token while you hold it"
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},
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{
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"id": "tokenbasket",
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"cue": "a confiscated token from the basket",
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"benefit": "once, call on a god this temple hates",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 2
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},
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"standingDrawback": "the temple knows, and stops treating you as a guest",
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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": "hammer",
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"cue": "the hammer left beside the idol",
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"benefit": "once, break something that should not be breakable",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "the temple counts you a breaker of gods, approvingly"
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},
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{
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"id": "forbiddenlist",
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"cue": "the list of forbidden gods",
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"benefit": "once, name what something is afraid of",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you are assumed to worship whatever you name"
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},
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{
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"id": "facepaving",
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"cue": "a face-down idol-fragment",
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"benefit": "once, hide your allegiance entirely",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "nothing recognises you, including help"
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}
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]
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}
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}
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} |