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": "village",
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"label": "Village",
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"forgeStageType": "village",
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"schema": 1,
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"placeNameStyle": "own",
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"_model": "The settlement kernel at its smallest. The appetite belongs to the place; the claimant is an office, not a person; and what a village does to people who might leave is quieter and worse than what a town does.",
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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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"Parish",
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"Manor Court",
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"Reeve",
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"Elders",
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"Vestry",
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"Hayward",
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"Commoners"
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],
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"appetites": [
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{
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"id": "whole",
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"want": "never to lose anybody",
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"lack": "short of hands",
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"purpose": "every name would stay on the register",
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"motif": "kinship",
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"prize": "register",
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"conscript": "those who left",
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"asks": "\"Who is missing?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "say a name off the register aloud, correctly, as though they were still here",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the count is right 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": "fed",
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"want": "never to go short again",
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"lack": "hungry",
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"purpose": "the harvest would always come in",
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"motif": "harvest",
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"prize": "sheaf",
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"conscript": "the hungry year",
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"asks": "\"Will it be enough?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "give something of your own to the store, and enough of it",
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"attribute": "Brawn",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the store is not empty",
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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": "unchanged",
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"want": "that nothing here should ever alter",
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"lack": "altered",
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"purpose": "it would be the same place forever",
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"motif": "custom",
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"prize": "stone",
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"conscript": "the incomers",
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"asks": "\"Is that how you do it?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "do one thing exactly the way it has always been done here",
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"attribute": "Wits",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "it was done properly",
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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": "unremarked",
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"want": "that nothing here should ever be spoken of outside",
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"lack": "spoken of",
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"purpose": "nobody outside would ever know",
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"motif": "quiet",
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"prize": "book",
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"conscript": "the talkers",
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"asks": "\"You didn't see anything, did you?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "agree, out loud, that you saw nothing",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "nothing was said",
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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": "married",
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"text": "married {conscript} in so that they could not leave",
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"cruelty": 1,
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"fits": [
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"whole",
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"unchanged",
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"unremarked"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "commoned",
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"text": "gave {conscript} a strip of the common they could never sell",
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"cruelty": 1,
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"fits": [
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"whole",
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"fed",
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"unchanged"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "renamed",
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"text": "entered {conscript} in the register under a name that was not theirs",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"whole",
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"unremarked"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "bound",
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"text": "buried something of {conscript}'s under the boundary stone",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"unchanged",
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"whole",
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"unremarked"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "kept",
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"text": "held {conscript} back each harvest until there was no season left to go",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"fed",
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"whole"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "quieted",
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"text": "agreed, all of them, never to speak of {conscript} again",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"unremarked",
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"unchanged",
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"fed"
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]
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}
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],
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"prizes": {
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"register": {
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"label": "the parish register, every name in one hand",
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"function": "the only complete account of who was ever here"
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},
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"sheaf": {
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"label": "the last sheaf of the last good harvest",
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"function": "the only year the store was full"
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},
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"stone": {
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"label": "the boundary stone, small enough to carry",
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"function": "the only thing that says where this place stops"
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},
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"book": {
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"label": "the book nobody has read since it was written",
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"function": "the only place the thing was written down"
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}
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},
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"placeNames": {
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"first": [
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"Little",
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"Nether",
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"Church",
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"Well",
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"Bare",
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"Long",
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"Cold",
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"Green"
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],
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"second": [
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"Hallow",
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"Combe",
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"Sturton",
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"Anwick",
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"Merrow",
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"Thwaite",
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"Barnhoe",
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"Ledden",
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"Ockham",
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"Wray"
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]
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},
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"areaNames": {
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"approach": [
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"The Green",
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"The Lane In",
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"The Lych Gate",
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"The Ford",
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"The Pound"
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],
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"complication": [
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"The Alehouse",
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"The Smithy",
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"The Mill",
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"The Tithe Barn",
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"The Well"
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],
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"turn": [
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"The Church",
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"The Manor Yard",
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"The Moot Stone",
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"The Long Field",
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"The Vestry"
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],
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"descent": [
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"The Ditch",
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"The Common",
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"The Marl Pit",
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"The Back Lanes",
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"The Pest House"
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],
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"threshold": [
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"The Boundary",
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"The Old Enclosure",
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"The Last Cottage",
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"The Sheep Fold",
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"The Coppice"
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],
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"ending": [
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"The Churchyard",
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"Under the Boundary Stone",
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"The Field Nobody Ploughs",
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"Where They Are All Waiting"
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]
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},
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"factions": [
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{
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"id": "parish",
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"name": "the Parish",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "still counted, still on the register, still expected at church",
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"handledBy": "courtesy"
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},
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{
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"id": "hungry",
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"name": "the hungry year",
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"kind": "living",
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"essence": "came for the store and stayed when the village did not",
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"handledBy": "trade"
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},
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{
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"id": "custom",
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"name": "those who keep the custom",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "will not be told this is not how it is done",
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"handledBy": "proof of right"
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},
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{
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"id": "common",
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"name": "what came off the common",
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"kind": "beast",
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"essence": "was never entered on any roll",
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"handledBy": "force"
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}
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],
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"triggerGlossary": {
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"announced": "walked in down the lane, in daylight, and were seen doing it",
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"seenTwice": "noticed by the same person twice in one day",
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"loud": "a raised voice anywhere within the sound of the church",
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"lingering": "stopped somewhere long enough for it to be remarked on",
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"disturbed": "moved a boundary, opened a gate, or took something off the common"
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},
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"rosters": {
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"skirmish": {
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"line": "3 Bandits off the common",
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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": "local; will run for the ditches"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "they want the store, not you; leave the store and they leave you"
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},
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"fight": {
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"line": "4 Skeletons of the Parish and a Ghoul in the pest house",
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"foes": [
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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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"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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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "the Parish does not leave consecrated ground; step off it and they stop"
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},
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"battle": {
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"line": "1 Wraith of the Reeve and 4 Skeletons of the Parish",
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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": 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 Skeletons — say so before initiative",
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"avoid": "it wants the count right; give it a name off the register and it stops to check"
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},
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"nightmare": {
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"line": "1 Wraith, 1 Ogre off the common 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"
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},
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Ogre",
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"atk": 5,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 12,
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"nerve": 3,
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"note": "came off the common and was never entered anywhere"
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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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"kinship": {
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"danger": "the count",
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"dangerLine": "the parish is still counting, and it is short",
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"trigger": "announced",
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"facets": {
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"institution": [
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"a register with every family in the same hand for two hundred years",
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"cottages built onto other cottages as the families grew",
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"a pew per household, named"
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],
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"ritual": [
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"names read out at the door before the service",
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"a place laid for somebody at every table",
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"the roll called on the green each quarter-day"
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],
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"demand": [
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"a gap in a row of names with the ruling still drawn",
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"a chair kept back from a table that is otherwise full",
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"a cottage kept swept for somebody"
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],
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"wound": [
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"a page torn out of the register and the stub still in",
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"a pew with the name planed off",
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"cottages standing open with the beds still made"
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],
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"anchor": [
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"the register, every name in one hand",
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"a family bible with the births still being entered",
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"a tally of the village cut into a beam"
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]
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},
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"features": [
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"a place laid at a table for nobody",
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"a pew with a name planed off",
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"a cottage swept and empty",
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"a torn stub in a register",
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"a name read out at a door",
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"a chair kept back from the table"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a register with a gap in the names and the ruling still drawn",
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"cost": "filling it enters somebody on the roll for good",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you enter a name that satisfies the count and the Parish stops looking at you",
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"failure": "you enter one of your own and the village considers them settled here: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave the gap; the Parish keeps counting, and keeps coming back to you"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a place laid at a table for somebody who is not coming",
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"cost": "sitting in it accepts the place",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you sit, eat, and are treated as family — every door in the village opens",
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"failure": "you sit and cannot rise until somebody else takes the place",
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"orElse": "stay standing; you are guests, and guests are watched"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a pew with the name planed off and the wood pale",
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"cost": "the name is recoverable from the register",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you match the pew to {priorCue} and learn who the village will not name",
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"failure": "you say the name aloud in the church and something answers to it",
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"orElse": "leave it blank; you never learn who this was"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "cottages standing open with the beds still made",
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"cost": "somebody could be housed here tonight",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Brawn 2",
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"success": "you make the cottage yours for the night and the Parish leaves you be until morning",
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"failure": "you sleep and wake counted — the Parish now expects you at everything",
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"orElse": "sleep outside the village; you lose the night and gain a Turn of pressure"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a tally of the village cut into a beam, one notch short",
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"cost": "cutting a notch is a claim; shaving one is a lie",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you shave a notch and the Parish believes the count already right",
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"failure": "you cut one and are the notch: the village treats you as resident",
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"orElse": "leave the beam; the shortfall keeps drawing the Parish to the living"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a family bible with the births still being entered in fresh ink",
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"cost": "somebody is still writing",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you find who is writing, and they will tell you who is missing and why",
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"failure": "you write in it, and the ink takes: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "close it; the entries continue without 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": "an old woman of the Parish",
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"doing": "laying a place at a table that is otherwise full",
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"onArrival": "she asks whether you are the one they sent for",
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"because": "the place has been laid every night since somebody left",
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"offer": "sit in the place and she will tell you every name the village has lost"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two of the Parish",
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"doing": "calling a roll on the green to nobody",
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"onArrival": "they pause at a gap and look at you",
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"because": "the roll must be got through and one name has no answer",
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"offer": "answer to the name and the whole village receives you as its own"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Reeve",
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"doing": "counting cottages, out loud, and getting a different number twice",
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"onArrival": "it starts again when it sees you",
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"because": "the count has never come right since",
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"offer": "give it a number it can accept and it will unlock the church"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a living pedlar",
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"doing": "sorting through goods nobody came out to buy",
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"onArrival": "they ask, quietly, whether the village has always been like this",
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"because": "they came in this morning and cannot find the way back out",
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"offer": "tell them the truth and they will show you the lane they came in by"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a child of the Parish",
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"doing": "waiting at a gate with a bundle packed",
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"onArrival": "it asks whether you are going, and whether it may come",
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|
"because": "it was told to be ready and nobody came for it",
|
|
"offer": "take the bundle and it will lead you anywhere in the parish"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the whole village",
|
|
"doing": "standing at their doors, not coming out",
|
|
"onArrival": "every head turns to follow you down the lane",
|
|
"because": "strangers are counted before they are spoken to",
|
|
"offer": "greet one by name, correctly, and the doors open"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "register",
|
|
"cue": "a leaf out of the parish register",
|
|
"benefit": "once, be who a name on it was",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the Parish expects that person's obligations of you"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "bible",
|
|
"cue": "a family bible with the births in fresh ink",
|
|
"benefit": "know who belongs to whom, everywhere here",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are entered in it too"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "tally",
|
|
"cue": "a piece cut from the tally beam",
|
|
"benefit": "once, be counted as one of the village",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "one of yours goes uncounted while you hold it",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "keepsake",
|
|
"cue": "a keepsake left in an empty cottage",
|
|
"benefit": "once, the Parish takes you for the one who left",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "whoever left is still owed something"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "bundle",
|
|
"cue": "a packed bundle nobody came back for",
|
|
"benefit": "once, leave anywhere unhindered",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are leaving in somebody else's place"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"harvest": {
|
|
"danger": "the store",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the store is empty and the village has not stopped filling it",
|
|
"trigger": "disturbed",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a tithe barn bigger than the church",
|
|
"strips of the common apportioned by a rule nobody wrote down",
|
|
"a store-book listing what each household owes in"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"the last sheaf cut and hung in the rafters",
|
|
"a portion set aside at every meal and not eaten",
|
|
"the store counted each week whether anything went in or not"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a scale set out with nothing on either pan",
|
|
"a barn door standing open onto empty boards",
|
|
"a sack held ready by somebody who does not put it down"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a barn stripped to the boards and swept clean",
|
|
"the last sheaf gone black in the rafters",
|
|
"a store-book where the entries stop mid-week"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the last sheaf of the last good harvest",
|
|
"the store-book, complete",
|
|
"a full sack in an empty barn"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a portion set aside and not eaten",
|
|
"the last sheaf hung black in the rafters",
|
|
"a scale with nothing in either pan",
|
|
"a barn swept to the boards",
|
|
"a sack nobody puts down",
|
|
"a store-book stopping mid-week"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a scale set out with nothing on either pan and the weights beside it",
|
|
"cost": "weighing something in is a contribution",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you weigh in enough of your own and the village counts you as having paid your part",
|
|
"failure": "you weigh in short and the shortfall is remembered against you: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "walk past the scale; nothing here will feed you"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "the last sheaf hung black in the rafters, still tied",
|
|
"cost": "taking it down ends something",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you take it down whole and the store will yield what you ask for once",
|
|
"failure": "it comes apart in your hands and the year goes with it: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it hanging; the barn stays shut to you"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a store-book whose entries stop mid-week in a hurried hand",
|
|
"cost": "the last entry says why",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you read the last week and learn what the village did when the store ran out",
|
|
"failure": "you read it aloud and something that was there that week hears you",
|
|
"orElse": "close it; you go on not knowing what they did"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a portion set aside at a table and not eaten",
|
|
"cost": "eating it takes a share; adding to it gives one",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you add to the portion and the household spirits attend you for the delve",
|
|
"failure": "you eat it and are hungry for the rest of the delve: -1 die on Brawn",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it; the portion sits there, and is noticed"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a barn door standing open onto swept boards",
|
|
"cost": "closing it says the store is full",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you fill enough of the floor to shut the door honestly, and the village rests",
|
|
"failure": "you shut it on nothing and the lie is felt through the whole parish: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it open; every night thing in the parish knows the barn is empty"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "strips of the common apportioned by a rule nobody wrote down",
|
|
"cost": "working one claims it",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you work out the rule and can take a strip without offending anybody",
|
|
"failure": "you take the wrong strip and the Hayward has you for it",
|
|
"orElse": "take no strip; you have no standing here and doors stay shut"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Hayward",
|
|
"doing": "pacing out a strip of the common, over and over",
|
|
"onArrival": "it stops and asks whose strip you are standing on",
|
|
"because": "the apportionment was never finished",
|
|
"offer": "name a household and it will let you pass and tell you what is buried there"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "three of the Parish",
|
|
"doing": "carrying an empty sack between them, carefully",
|
|
"onArrival": "they set it down in front of you and wait",
|
|
"because": "the sack must go to the barn full and never has",
|
|
"offer": "put anything at all in the sack and they will carry you anywhere in the parish"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a living miller",
|
|
"doing": "running a mill with nothing going through it",
|
|
"onArrival": "they ask what you have brought to grind",
|
|
"because": "the mill was never stopped and they cannot stop it",
|
|
"offer": "give them a handful of anything and they will tell you what the village eats now"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the store-keeper",
|
|
"doing": "counting an empty barn, slowly, by touch",
|
|
"onArrival": "it looks up and asks whether the carts have come",
|
|
"because": "the count is done each week whether or not there is anything to count",
|
|
"offer": "tell it the carts are coming and it will open the barn's inner room"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a scarecrow",
|
|
"doing": "standing in a field that has not been sown",
|
|
"onArrival": "its head turns as you cross the furrow",
|
|
"because": "it was set to watch the crop and the crop never came",
|
|
"offer": "dress it properly and the field lets you cross without being seen"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the last sheaf",
|
|
"doing": "hanging black in the rafters above a swept floor",
|
|
"onArrival": "it swings slightly in a barn with no draught",
|
|
"because": "it was cut in the last good year and never taken down",
|
|
"offer": "cut it down and the store gives up what it has been keeping"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "sheaf",
|
|
"cue": "a handful off the last good sheaf",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make a thing sufficient that was not",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the store is one portion shorter and knows it",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Gluttony"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "storebook",
|
|
"cue": "the store-book",
|
|
"benefit": "know what every household here has and owes",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are entered as owing too"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "weight",
|
|
"cue": "a scale weight, heavier than it looks",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make a bargain come out your way",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the other side always finds out afterwards"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "seedcorn",
|
|
"cue": "a pocket of seed corn from the sealed sack",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make something grow where it should not",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "it grows, and it keeps growing"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "portion",
|
|
"cue": "a portion set aside and never eaten",
|
|
"benefit": "once, be fed anywhere",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you eat what somebody else was owed"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"custom": {
|
|
"danger": "the way it is done",
|
|
"dangerLine": "there is a way things are done here and it is still being kept",
|
|
"trigger": "lingering",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a moot stone with the worn places where feet go",
|
|
"a manor court that has met on the same day for four hundred years",
|
|
"gates hung so they can only be opened in one order"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a procession walked round the bounds each year, in the same direction",
|
|
"a stone turned once a season by whoever is nearest",
|
|
"the same words said at the same gate before anybody passes"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a mark on a threshold that expects to be stepped over, not on",
|
|
"a gate standing shut in a fence with no fence either side",
|
|
"a place on the stone where somebody should be standing"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"the bounds walked backwards, once, and the marks scuffed",
|
|
"a moot stone split and the halves set apart",
|
|
"gates rehung the wrong way round"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the boundary stone, small enough to carry",
|
|
"a court roll listing every custom and its penalty",
|
|
"a staff cut for the beating of the bounds"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a stone turned recently in its socket",
|
|
"a threshold mark worn only at the edges",
|
|
"a gate shut in a fence with no fence",
|
|
"a court roll open at a penalty",
|
|
"a staff leaning by a door",
|
|
"scuff marks going the wrong way round"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a gate standing shut in a fence with no fence either side",
|
|
"cost": "it can be opened or walked round",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you open it properly and the village considers you to have come in the right way",
|
|
"failure": "you walk round it and everything here treats you as having climbed in: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "open it wrong; it will not shut again behind you"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a moot stone with worn places where feet have stood",
|
|
"cost": "standing in the place is a claim to be heard",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you stand where the speaker stands and the Manor Court answers your question",
|
|
"failure": "you stand in the wrong place and are held in contempt of a court you cannot see",
|
|
"orElse": "stay off the stone; nothing here will hear you out"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a threshold mark worn only at the edges",
|
|
"cost": "stepping over it is correct; standing on it is not",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 1",
|
|
"success": "you step over it and pass unremarked",
|
|
"failure": "you tread on it and everything indoors knows you are there",
|
|
"orElse": "go round to another door, costing a Turn"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a staff cut for the beating of the bounds, leaning by a door",
|
|
"cost": "carrying it makes you part of the procession",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you take it up and can walk the bounds unhindered, in the right direction",
|
|
"failure": "you carry it widdershins and the bounds close behind you: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the staff; the bounds will not let you out where you came in"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a court roll listing every custom and the penalty for breaking it",
|
|
"cost": "knowing the penalties is worth more than knowing the customs",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you find the one custom nobody here has kept, and can hold them to it",
|
|
"failure": "you read out a penalty and it is applied to you",
|
|
"orElse": "leave the roll; you will break something without knowing"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a stone that is turned once a season by whoever is nearest",
|
|
"cost": "turning it early or late both mean something",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you turn it at the right season and the year here moves on, and the way clears",
|
|
"failure": "you turn it wrongly and it is the wrong season now: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it unturned; the season here does not change and neither does anything else"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Manor Court",
|
|
"doing": "sitting on the moot stone with nothing before it",
|
|
"onArrival": "it stops and looks up as though your case were next",
|
|
"because": "the court sits on this day and has always sat",
|
|
"offer": "state a case and it will find in your favour, and enforce it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Hayward",
|
|
"doing": "walking the bounds in the wrong direction and stopping each time",
|
|
"onArrival": "it asks you which way round it goes",
|
|
"because": "somebody walked them backwards once and it has not recovered",
|
|
"offer": "tell it the right way and it will walk you out past anything"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a living surveyor",
|
|
"doing": "measuring a fence that runs between two fields of nothing",
|
|
"onArrival": "they ask whether you know where the boundary actually is",
|
|
"because": "the enclosure was never agreed and they were sent anyway",
|
|
"offer": "help them fix a line and they will show you where the stone is buried"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "an old man of the Parish",
|
|
"doing": "turning a stone in its socket, back and forth, unable to stop",
|
|
"onArrival": "he asks what season it is",
|
|
"because": "he was told to turn it once and cannot remember whether he has",
|
|
"offer": "give him a season and the year here moves, and a door opens with it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a gate",
|
|
"doing": "standing shut in a fence with no fence either side",
|
|
"onArrival": "the latch lifts slightly as you approach",
|
|
"because": "it was hung to be opened in an order and the order was broken",
|
|
"offer": "open it in the right order and every other gate in the parish opens with it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the whole Manor Court",
|
|
"doing": "standing in a ring on the green in silence",
|
|
"onArrival": "they open the ring on the side you approach from",
|
|
"because": "the court cannot rise until somebody speaks",
|
|
"offer": "speak, and be answered, and be bound by the answer"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "staff",
|
|
"cue": "a bounds-staff, worn smooth",
|
|
"benefit": "once, walk through any boundary here",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you must finish the round you started"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "courtroll",
|
|
"cue": "the court roll",
|
|
"benefit": "hold anyone here to a custom they have broken",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "they can hold you to one too"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "stone",
|
|
"cue": "a chip off the boundary stone",
|
|
"benefit": "once, decide where a line falls",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the line moves for everybody, not just you",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "keys",
|
|
"cue": "the gate keys, in order on a ring",
|
|
"benefit": "once, open a way that was closed in the right order",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the order matters, and you will get it wrong eventually"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "mark",
|
|
"cue": "a threshold mark, cut into something portable",
|
|
"benefit": "once, be treated as having come in correctly",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "what you left behind came in incorrectly"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"quiet": {
|
|
"danger": "what is not said",
|
|
"dangerLine": "everybody here agreed not to speak of it and they are all still keeping to it",
|
|
"trigger": "loud",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a village where conversation stops at a certain topic and starts again after it",
|
|
"a vestry that keeps two sets of minutes",
|
|
"a pest house nobody mentions and everybody avoids"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a subject changed at the same point every time",
|
|
"a door pulled to before certain words",
|
|
"the same answer given by everyone to the same question"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a silence held open, waiting for you to fill it",
|
|
"a question asked twice and left the second time",
|
|
"a room that goes quiet as you come in and does not start again"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"minutes with a week cut out of them",
|
|
"a name gone out of every mouth in one season",
|
|
"a pest house with the door barred from outside"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the book nobody has read since it was written",
|
|
"the second set of minutes, complete",
|
|
"a witness who never agreed to the silence"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a subject changed mid-sentence",
|
|
"minutes with a week cut out",
|
|
"a door pulled to as you pass",
|
|
"a barred door on an empty house",
|
|
"the same answer from three people",
|
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"a silence that does not fill"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a room that goes quiet as you come in and does not start again",
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"cost": "the silence can be broken or joined",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you wait it out and somebody breaks first, and tells you more than they meant to",
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"failure": "you fill the silence and are marked as somebody who talks: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave the room; the talk resumes behind you, about you"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "vestry minutes with a week cut out of them and the stubs left",
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"cost": "the same week exists in the second set",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find the second minutes and read what the parish agreed to that week",
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"failure": "you are found with the minutes open at that week",
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"orElse": "leave them; the week stays missing, and so does the reason for everything"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a pest house with the door barred from the outside",
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"cost": "unbarring it is not undoing it",
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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 will name names",
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"failure": "you open it and what is inside was barred in for a reason: roll the clock",
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"orElse": "leave it barred; you will not learn what the village did"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "the same answer given to the same question by three different people",
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"cost": "the fourth person is the one to ask",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find who has not learned the answer and they tell you the truth of it",
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"failure": "you press one of the three and the village closes to you entirely",
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"orElse": "stop asking; every route from here on is the hard one"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a name that has gone out of every mouth in one season",
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"cost": "saying it aloud will get a reaction",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you say it to the right person alone and they break and tell you everything",
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"failure": "you say it in company and the whole village turns: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "never say it; the thing it names is not addressed at the ending"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a book nobody has read since it was written, still in its wrapping",
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"cost": "reading it is the breach the village was avoiding",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you read it and know the transgression whole, and can name it at the ending",
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"failure": "you read it aloud and everything that agreed to the silence hears you",
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"orElse": "leave it wrapped; the ending has to be improvised without the truth"
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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": "four of the Parish",
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"doing": "talking in a doorway and stopping at the same point",
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"onArrival": "one of them changes the subject before you are close enough to hear",
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"because": "the subject is changed at that point and always has been",
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"offer": "let the subject stand changed and one of them will follow you out and tell you"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Vestry clerk",
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"doing": "copying minutes into a second book by candle",
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"onArrival": "it turns the second book face down as you come in",
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"because": "two sets have been kept since the week that is missing",
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"offer": "promise not to say and it will let you read the true set"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a living constable",
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"doing": "standing outside a barred door with no intention of opening it",
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"onArrival": "they ask, flatly, whether you are here about that",
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"because": "they were posted here and never relieved",
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"offer": "tell them you are and they will hand over the bar and walk away"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "an old woman of the Parish",
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"doing": "answering a question nobody has asked her",
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"onArrival": "she gives you the answer the village agreed on, word for word",
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"because": "everybody was told what to say",
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"offer": "ask her the question the answer does not fit and she will tell you the truth"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a child of the Parish",
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"doing": "mouthing a name without sound",
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"onArrival": "it looks to see whether anyone else heard it",
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"because": "it was told never to say the name and has not stopped saying it",
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"offer": "say the name back and it will take you to where the thing happened"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the pest house",
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"doing": "standing barred with the thatch fallen in",
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"onArrival": "something inside stops moving when you stop walking",
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"because": "it was barred from outside and never opened",
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"offer": "speak to what is inside and it will answer, honestly, which nothing else here will"
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}
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],
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"temptations": [
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{
|
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"id": "minutes",
|
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"cue": "the second set of vestry minutes",
|
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"benefit": "know what the parish agreed and when",
|
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "the parish knows you know"
|
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},
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{
|
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"id": "book",
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"cue": "the book nobody has read",
|
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"benefit": "once, name a truth that cannot be denied",
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 2
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "everything that agreed to the silence comes to stop you",
|
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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": "bar",
|
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"cue": "the bar off the pest house door",
|
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"benefit": "once, shut something in",
|
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "it was holding something shut and now is not"
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"id": "name",
|
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"cue": "the name nobody says",
|
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"benefit": "once, make anyone here answer you truthfully",
|
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "they resent it afterwards, and remember"
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},
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{
|
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"id": "silence",
|
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"cue": "an agreement, given and taken",
|
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"benefit": "once, be unremarked anywhere in the parish",
|
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "you owe the silence back"
|
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}
|
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]
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}
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}
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} |