slaguru666andClaude Opus 5
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beat.mjs embeds a pack's roster verbatim into every area, so adding beforeInitiative changed the shape of the emitted delve file — and two files from the same seed could carry different structures under identical stamps. The change originates in the packs, not in the generator's composition, so it belongs to catalogVersion rather than GENERATOR_VERSION: the packs are at schema 2 and a file now stamps barrow@2. The note on GENERATOR_VERSION says which stamp owns which kind of change, since that was the ambiguity. README's test counts were still 39 and silent about the adapter suite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1192 lines
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{
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"id": "town",
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"label": "Town",
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"forgeStageType": "village",
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"schema": 2,
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"_model": "The settlement kernel: the APPETITE belongs to the place, not to a buried person. A town wants to be prosperous, respectable, safe or necessary, and its ACCOMMODATION is what a corporation does to keep it that way — price people out, charter them away, wall them off. Claimants are offices, not corpses.",
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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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"Guild of Mercers",
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"Corporation",
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"Watch Committee",
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"Burgesses",
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"Mayor-for-Life",
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"Market Court",
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"Company of Wool"
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],
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"appetites": [
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{
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"id": "prosperous",
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"want": "never to be poor again",
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"lack": "poor",
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"purpose": "the money would never leave",
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"motif": "ledger",
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"prize": "charter",
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"conscript": "the debtors",
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"asks": "\"Who is paying for this?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "pay a debt that is not yours, in public",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the books balance 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": "respectable",
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"want": "never to be shamed",
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"lack": "shamed",
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"purpose": "nothing unseemly would ever be visible",
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"motif": "appearances",
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"prize": "portrait",
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"conscript": "the shameful",
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"asks": "\"What will people say?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "compliment the town on how well it is kept, in the street",
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"attribute": "Flair",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the town is admired 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": "safe",
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"want": "never to be sacked again",
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"lack": "threatened",
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"purpose": "nothing would ever get in",
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"motif": "vigilance",
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"prize": "keys",
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"conscript": "the strangers",
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"asks": "\"Who let you in?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "submit to being searched, without complaint",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "a stranger has been checked, 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": "necessary",
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"want": "never to be bypassed",
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"lack": "bypassed",
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"purpose": "the road would always come through here",
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"motif": "thoroughfare",
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"prize": "milestone",
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"conscript": "the carters",
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"asks": "\"Where do you think you are going?\"",
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "ask the town for directions, and take them",
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"attribute": "Wits",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "the town was needed for something",
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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": "priced",
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"text": "priced {conscript} out until they left of their own accord",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"prosperous",
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"respectable",
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"necessary"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "chartered",
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"text": "chartered {conscript} away to another town entirely",
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"cruelty": 2,
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"fits": [
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"prosperous",
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"respectable",
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"safe"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "walled",
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"text": "walled {conscript} outside the gates and did not open them",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"safe",
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"respectable",
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"prosperous"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "indentured",
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"text": "indentured {conscript} to the corporation for three generations",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"prosperous",
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"necessary"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "struck",
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"text": "struck {conscript} from the rolls, so the town could say they had never been here",
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"cruelty": 3,
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"fits": [
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"respectable",
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"safe",
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"necessary"
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "housed",
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"text": "housed {conscript} where they could not be seen from the square",
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"cruelty": 1,
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"fits": [
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"respectable",
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"safe",
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"prosperous"
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]
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}
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],
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"prizes": {
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"charter": {
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"label": "the charter that made the town rich",
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"function": "the only proof the privilege was ever granted"
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},
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"portrait": {
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"label": "the town's official portrait of itself",
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"function": "the version everyone agreed to remember"
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},
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"keys": {
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"label": "the keys to the gates, all four",
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"function": "the only things the walls answer to"
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},
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"milestone": {
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"label": "the milestone that says all roads pass here",
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"function": "the reason anyone ever came"
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}
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},
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"placeNames": {
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"first": [
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"Market",
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"Nether",
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"Old",
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"Kings",
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"Salt",
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"Stone",
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"Bridge",
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"Cold"
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],
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"second": [
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"Harrow",
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"Weld",
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"Combe",
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"Barrow",
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"Stanton",
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"Marden",
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"Fordwich",
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"Thrale",
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"Winbury",
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"Cawley"
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]
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},
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"areaNames": {
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"approach": [
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"The Toll Road",
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"The North Gate",
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"The Bridge",
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"The Weighbridge",
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"The Outskirts"
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],
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"complication": [
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"The Market Square",
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"The Shambles",
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"The Wool Hall",
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"The Almshouse Row",
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"The Cornmarket"
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],
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"turn": [
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"The Guildhall",
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"The Counting House",
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"The Assembly Rooms",
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"The Exchange",
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"The Session House"
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],
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"descent": [
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"The Undercrofts",
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"The Debtors' Yard",
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"The Tanneries",
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"The Back Lanes",
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"The Drain"
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],
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"threshold": [
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"The Mayor's Parlour",
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"The Muniment Chest",
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"The Strongroom",
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"The Charter Room",
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"The Private Office"
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],
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"ending": [
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"The Council Chamber",
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"The High Table",
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"The Mayor's Seat",
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"The Corporation Assembled"
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]
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},
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"factions": [
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{
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"id": "corporation",
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"name": "the Corporation",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "still meeting, still minuting, still deciding",
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"handledBy": "courtesy"
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},
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{
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"id": "debtors",
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"name": "the debtors",
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"kind": "living",
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"essence": "owed on and owing, and still here",
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"handledBy": "trade"
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},
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{
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"id": "watch",
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"name": "the Watch",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "checking papers nobody has issued for centuries",
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"handledBy": "proof of right"
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},
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{
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"id": "outsiders",
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"name": "what came in anyway",
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"kind": "beast",
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"essence": "never read the charter",
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"handledBy": "force"
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}
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],
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"triggerGlossary": {
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"announced": "came in by the main gate and paid the toll, publicly",
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"seenTwice": "noticed by two different windows, or a window and a watchman",
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"loud": "a raised voice in a public place — the town minds that",
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"lingering": "stood about in the square long enough to be asked your business",
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"disturbed": "moved something the Corporation had placed"
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},
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"rosters": {
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"skirmish": {
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"line": "3 Bandits in watchmen's coats",
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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": 2,
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"nerve": 2,
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"note": "asks for your papers first"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "produce any document with a seal and they will accept it"
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},
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"fight": {
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"line": "4 Bandits and a Hobgoblin Soldier as sergeant",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Hobgoblin Soldier",
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"atk": 4,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 5,
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"nerve": 3,
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"note": "the others hold while he lasts"
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},
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{
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"n": 4,
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"name": "Bandit",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 2,
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"nerve": 2,
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"note": "breaks when the sergeant falls"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "drop the sergeant and the rest are Nerve 2"
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},
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"battle": {
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"line": "1 Necromancer of the Corporation and 4 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 Skeleton per round from the paupers' ground"
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},
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{
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"n": 4,
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"name": "Skeleton",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 2,
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"grit": 1,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "fearless"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything — but the Skeletons keep coming until the Necromancer stops",
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"avoid": "he is a clerk and will take a bribe, in coin, publicly"
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},
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"nightmare": {
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"line": "1 Wraith of the Mayor, 1 Necromancer and 5 Skeletons",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Wraith",
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"atk": 5,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 10,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "INCORPOREAL — chill touch ignores armour, drains 1 max Grit"
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},
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Necromancer",
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"atk": 4,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 6,
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"nerve": 4,
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"note": "keeps raising"
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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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"beforeInitiative": "Say so before initiative."
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}
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},
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"motifs": {
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"ledger": {
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"danger": "debt",
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"dangerLine": "the town is still owed, and it keeps very good records",
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"trigger": "lingering",
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"facets": {
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"institution": [
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"a debt-board in the square, names chalked and re-chalked",
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"weights and measures chained to a bench, all of them shaved",
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"a counting house with the shutters open at every hour"
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],
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"ritual": [
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"a market bell rung at an hour when nobody trades",
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"accounts read aloud to an empty hall, quarterly",
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"coins counted into a box that is already full"
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],
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"demand": [
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"a table set for a settlement, two chairs, one occupied",
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"a room where a price is named before you ask",
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"a hand out, palm up, at every doorway"
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],
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"wound": [
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"a ledger with a page cut out and the stub still in",
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"houses emptied for arrears and never re-let",
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"a debtor's stone worn hollow by kneeling"
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],
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"anchor": [
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"a charter under glass, the seal intact",
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"a strongbox with one document and no coin",
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"a tally-stick split and both halves kept"
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]
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},
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"features": [
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"fresh chalk on a debt-board, this week's hand",
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"a shop cleared out overnight and the door left open",
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"coin scattered and not picked up, which never happens here",
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"a stall taken down in a hurry, the frame still standing",
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"a ledger left open at a page somebody wanted found",
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"a lock changed on a door that was never locked"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a debt-board with a name you could pay off, or add to",
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"cost": "paying is public and generous; adding is quiet and cruel",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you pay in the square and the Corporation counts you a benefactor",
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"failure": "your coin is refused as insufficient, publicly: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "walk past the board; nothing changes and nothing is owed"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a toll demanded at a gate by nobody in particular",
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"cost": "the toll is real even if the collector is not",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you work out the correct toll from the board and pay exactly it — the gate opens",
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"failure": "you overpay and are marked as someone with money: every price rises for you",
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"orElse": "go round to the weighbridge: two Turns, no toll"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a set of shaved weights and a merchant about to use them",
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"cost": "exposing the fraud makes an enemy of the guild",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Flair 2",
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"success": "you expose it in a way that flatters the Corporation's honesty and gain their favour",
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"failure": "you expose it clumsily and the guild closes ranks: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "say nothing; the merchant remembers your discretion"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a strongbox that opens to whoever holds the charter",
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"cost": "you do not hold the charter",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you find the charter's copy in the muniment chest and the box opens",
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"failure": "the box holds and the attempt is entered in a ledger somewhere",
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"orElse": "break it: loud, roll the clock, contents damaged"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a debtor offering information for the price of their arrears",
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"cost": "their information is good; their arrears are not small",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you settle the debt at a discount and get the whole of what they know",
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"failure": "you pay in full and they tell you half",
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"orElse": "refuse: they tell you nothing and follow you at a distance"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a tally-stick, split, with the other half somewhere in the town",
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"cost": "matching it proves a claim worth having",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you match it against the counting-house half and hold a claim the town honours",
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"failure": "you match it wrongly and hold a claim on nothing: +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "leave it: no claim, no obligation"
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}
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}
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],
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"situations": [
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{
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"occupant": "a clerk of the Corporation",
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"doing": "chalking a debt-board that has no room left",
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"onArrival": "it asks whether you have come to settle",
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"because": "the accounts must balance and never have",
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"offer": "settle any debt at all and the whole board is wiped, which it badly wants"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two living debtors",
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"doing": "dividing a purse that is plainly not theirs",
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"onArrival": "they stop and offer you a share",
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"because": "they were paid to leave and could not",
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"offer": "take the share and they will tell you who paid them"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Weighmaster",
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"doing": "testing weights that are every one of them short",
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"onArrival": "it hands you a weight and asks your honest opinion",
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"because": "the measures must be certified and cannot be",
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"offer": "certify them anyway and every trader in the town owes you"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a market bell",
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"doing": "ringing an hour when no trade is permitted",
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"onArrival": "the square begins, very slowly, to fill",
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"because": "the hour was never struck from the calendar",
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"offer": "trade something, anything, and the market recognises you as a burgess"
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},
|
|
{
|
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"occupant": "the Chamberlain",
|
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"doing": "counting coin into a box that is already full",
|
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"onArrival": "it does not look up, and asks you to hold the lid",
|
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"because": "the count has never once come out right",
|
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"offer": "hold the lid and it will tell you which house the shortfall went to"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a living creditor",
|
|
"doing": "waiting outside a door with a writ and no bailiff",
|
|
"onArrival": "they ask if you are going in anyway",
|
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"because": "the writ cannot be served without an officer",
|
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"offer": "serve it for them and they hand you what is behind the door"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
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"id": "charterseal",
|
|
"cue": "a seal matrix for the town's charter",
|
|
"benefit": "doors that check privilege open for you",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the Corporation expects you at its next meeting"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "tallystick",
|
|
"cue": "half a split tally-stick",
|
|
"benefit": "once, prove a debt is owed to you and be believed",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the other half is out there and its holder is looking"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "shavedweight",
|
|
"cue": "a weight, subtly light",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make a trade come out in your favour",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "traders begin to check everything you hand them"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "writ",
|
|
"cue": "a writ of distraint, unserved, name blank",
|
|
"benefit": "name someone and the Watch will detain them once",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "your own name is on the reverse in the same clerk's hand",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Greed"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "keytocounting",
|
|
"cue": "a small key to a counting-house drawer",
|
|
"benefit": "one locked box per scene opens",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the Corporation notices what has been opened"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"appearances": {
|
|
"danger": "scandal",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the town is being looked at, and it has arranged itself accordingly",
|
|
"trigger": "seenTwice",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a square where every frontage is painted and every back is not",
|
|
"shutters on the side of the street the road can see",
|
|
"a fine hall with a fine door and no rooms behind it"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a procession route swept daily, and only that route",
|
|
"a mayor's portrait unveiled every year to the same crowd",
|
|
"best clothes laid out in every house, for a visit that never comes"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a street arranged so a visitor is always in view",
|
|
"a mirror set at the end of the square, facing in",
|
|
"a bench positioned for being seen sitting on"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a row of houses with the fronts kept and the backs collapsed",
|
|
"a name painted over on a shopfront, badly",
|
|
"a portrait with one figure scraped out of the group"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the town's own portrait of itself, framed and lit",
|
|
"a visitor's book with one page and many signatures",
|
|
"a plan of the town as it would like to be"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"fresh paint on one side of a street only",
|
|
"a curtain drawn across an alley mouth",
|
|
"a scandal-sheet trodden into the mud, still legible",
|
|
"a shopfront boarded and painted to look occupied",
|
|
"chairs set out in the square for an audience",
|
|
"a signboard taken down and the hooks left"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "an alley the town would rather you did not walk down",
|
|
"cost": "walking it sees what the frontage hides",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you go down and back unobserved, and learn what the town is covering",
|
|
"failure": "you are seen coming out of it: +1 Bane and the Corporation cools toward you",
|
|
"orElse": "stay on the swept route: one Turn longer, no offence given"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a scandal-sheet naming somebody still influential here",
|
|
"cost": "reading it aloud is a weapon; pocketing it is leverage",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 2",
|
|
"success": "you use it to open a door that flattery alone would not",
|
|
"failure": "you are seen holding it and become the story: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "burn it: the town relaxes and thanks you without saying so"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a group portrait with one figure scraped out",
|
|
"cost": "asking who it was is a rude question here",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you ask it delicately enough to be answered honestly",
|
|
"failure": "you ask badly and the room closes: the next encounter starts hostile",
|
|
"orElse": "do not ask; the gap goes unexplained and you are liked for it"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a procession forming that expects you to join or stand aside",
|
|
"cost": "joining is endorsement; standing aside is comment",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 2",
|
|
"success": "you join well and the town takes you for a person of standing",
|
|
"failure": "you join badly and are laughed at: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "stand aside respectfully: neutral, and you lose one Turn"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a house-front with no house behind it, and a way through",
|
|
"cost": "the way through is real; the pretence is what matters",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Brawn 2",
|
|
"success": "you slip through without bringing the frontage down",
|
|
"failure": "the frontage comes down, publicly: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "go round the block: one Turn"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a visitor's book open at a blank page",
|
|
"cost": "signing puts you on the record, favourably or otherwise",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 1",
|
|
"success": "you sign in a way that flatters the town and doors open",
|
|
"failure": "you sign plainly and the town judges the hand: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it unsigned; you remain a stranger and are treated as one"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "two of the Corporation",
|
|
"doing": "painting a frontage that is already perfect",
|
|
"onArrival": "they ask you to stand back and judge the colour",
|
|
"because": "the street must look well from the road",
|
|
"offer": "approve the colour warmly and they will let you behind it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a portrait-painter",
|
|
"doing": "scraping a figure out of a group portrait",
|
|
"onArrival": "it pauses, brush up, and asks whether you know the face",
|
|
"because": "the town resolved that person had never been here",
|
|
"offer": "name the face and it will tell you what they did"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Beadle",
|
|
"doing": "sweeping a route that is already clean",
|
|
"onArrival": "it sweeps around you rather than asking you to move",
|
|
"because": "the route must be ready and the visit never comes",
|
|
"offer": "tell it the visitor has arrived and it will escort you anywhere"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a living journalist",
|
|
"doing": "copying a notice down before it is taken away",
|
|
"onArrival": "they pocket the paper and smile at you carefully",
|
|
"because": "the story is real and the town is faster than they are",
|
|
"offer": "offer to distract the Beadle and they will share what they have"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Mayor",
|
|
"doing": "rehearsing a welcome to an empty square",
|
|
"onArrival": "it welcomes you instead, warmly and at length",
|
|
"because": "the speech has never once been given",
|
|
"offer": "let it finish and the town treats you as its guest of honour"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "three of the town",
|
|
"doing": "standing in their best clothes at their doors",
|
|
"onArrival": "they nod as you pass, and keep standing",
|
|
"because": "word went round that someone important was coming",
|
|
"offer": "be that someone and every door on the street opens"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "townportrait",
|
|
"cue": "a small copy of the town's own portrait",
|
|
"benefit": "show it and be taken for a person of standing",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you are expected to behave like one, publicly"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "visitorsbook",
|
|
"cue": "a page torn from the visitor's book",
|
|
"benefit": "once, be remembered as having been welcome here",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the page is missed, and the Corporation asks after it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "scandalsheet",
|
|
"cue": "a scandal-sheet, folded small",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make one person here do as you ask",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "they will tell others what you are holding",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Greed"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "bestcoat",
|
|
"cue": "a good coat, cut for the square",
|
|
"benefit": "the Watch does not stop you",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you cannot be seen in the back lanes wearing it"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "paintpot",
|
|
"cue": "a pot of the town's own paint",
|
|
"benefit": "once, make something look sound that is not",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "whatever you painted will fail at the worst moment"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"vigilance": {
|
|
"danger": "suspicion",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the town is still watching the road, and you came down it",
|
|
"trigger": "announced",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"a gate that is shut at an hour nobody remembers agreeing",
|
|
"watch-boxes at every corner, all of them occupied",
|
|
"a wall built higher on the side facing the road"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"papers demanded at a gate that has no gatekeeper",
|
|
"a curfew bell rung to an empty street",
|
|
"a roll of strangers read out nightly"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a room you must be searched to leave",
|
|
"a bench where you are asked to wait and be looked at",
|
|
"a window arranged so the square can see who calls"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a gate barred from inside with the bar broken anyway",
|
|
"a list of strangers with every name struck through",
|
|
"a house burned deliberately, alone in its row"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"four gate-keys on one ring, hung where all can see",
|
|
"a strangers' book with the last entry unfinished",
|
|
"a bar for a gate, oiled, never used"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
|
|
"a gate barred at midday, with no reason given",
|
|
"shutters closed on one house only",
|
|
"a watch-box with the brazier still warm",
|
|
"chalk marks on doors, recent, in a code",
|
|
"a barricade half-built across a lane",
|
|
"a dog kennel, empty, chain snapped"
|
|
],
|
|
"decisions": [
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a watchman demanding papers you do not have",
|
|
"cost": "any document with a seal will do, if given confidently",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you produce something and it is accepted; the Watch passes you through",
|
|
"failure": "your papers are refused and you are entered in the strangers' book: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "go over the wall by the tannery: one Turn and a Brawn roll"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a gate shut against the hour, and a wicket beside it",
|
|
"cost": "the wicket admits one person at a time",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you work out the wicket's trick and the party passes one by one, unremarked",
|
|
"failure": "the wicket sticks and the noise brings the Watch: roll the clock",
|
|
"orElse": "wait for the gate to open on the bell: two Turns"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a search you can submit to, or refuse",
|
|
"cost": "submitting means showing what you carry",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Poise 2",
|
|
"success": "you submit and the Watch counts you honest — no further checks this delve",
|
|
"failure": "you refuse and are followed for the rest of the delve",
|
|
"orElse": "let them search only one of you: partial trust, one Turn"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "chalk marks on doors in a code the Watch uses",
|
|
"cost": "reading it tells you which houses are being watched",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you read the code and know which doors are safe to knock at",
|
|
"failure": "you copy a mark wrongly onto yourselves without realising",
|
|
"orElse": "ignore the marks; knock and find out"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a curfew bell about to ring",
|
|
"cost": "being on the street after it is an offence here",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Flair 2",
|
|
"success": "you talk your way into a doorway before it rings and are sheltered",
|
|
"failure": "you are caught out after curfew: +1 Bane and the Watch escorts you",
|
|
"orElse": "run for the gate: one Turn, loud, roll the clock"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"cue": "a strangers' book with your description already in it",
|
|
"cost": "somebody entered you before you arrived",
|
|
"resolve": {
|
|
"roll": "Wits 2",
|
|
"success": "you find who wrote it and what else they wrote",
|
|
"failure": "you alter the entry and the alteration is noticed: +1 Bane",
|
|
"orElse": "leave it; the Watch has your description and uses it"
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"situations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a watchman",
|
|
"doing": "checking papers nobody has carried for a century",
|
|
"onArrival": "it puts out a hand and waits",
|
|
"because": "the order to stand the watch was never rescinded",
|
|
"offer": "hand it anything with a seal and it will wave you through and salute"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Constable",
|
|
"doing": "reading a roll of strangers aloud in an empty street",
|
|
"onArrival": "it reaches a blank and looks up at you",
|
|
"because": "the roll must be complete before the gate may open",
|
|
"offer": "give it names — any names — and the gate opens"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "two living smugglers",
|
|
"doing": "waiting for the curfew bell before moving a crate",
|
|
"onArrival": "they put a finger to their lips and shrug",
|
|
"because": "the Watch is predictable and they are patient",
|
|
"offer": "help them shift it and they show you the way through the wall"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "a gate",
|
|
"doing": "closing itself, slowly, on no schedule you can see",
|
|
"onArrival": "the bar begins to slide across",
|
|
"because": "the hour was set by a council that no longer sits",
|
|
"offer": "hold the bar and it will stay open behind you"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "the Searcher",
|
|
"doing": "turning out a bag that keeps refilling",
|
|
"onArrival": "it asks you to empty your pockets, apologetically",
|
|
"because": "the search must be thorough and never is",
|
|
"offer": "let it search you properly and the Watch leaves you alone thereafter"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"occupant": "three of the Watch",
|
|
"doing": "standing at a corner, facing outward",
|
|
"onArrival": "they part to let you through without being asked",
|
|
"because": "something is expected from the road and it is not you",
|
|
"offer": "ask what they are watching for and they will tell you exactly"
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"temptations": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "gatekeys",
|
|
"cue": "one of the four gate-keys",
|
|
"benefit": "one gate per scene opens for you",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the Watch counts the keys nightly and one is missing"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "papers",
|
|
"cue": "a set of papers with a good seal and a blank name",
|
|
"benefit": "pass any check in the town without a roll",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you must answer to the name you wrote"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "watchcode",
|
|
"cue": "a scrap listing the chalk-code",
|
|
"benefit": "once, know exactly which house is watched",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "you begin marking doors yourself without noticing"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "curfewbell",
|
|
"cue": "a hand-bell from a watch-box",
|
|
"benefit": "ring it and the street empties for one scene",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "the Watch comes to see who rang",
|
|
"acceptanceCost": {
|
|
"vice": "Pride"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "strangersbook",
|
|
"cue": "a page of the strangers' book",
|
|
"benefit": "once, prove you were here all along",
|
|
"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
|
},
|
|
"standingDrawback": "someone else's alibi is now missing"
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"thoroughfare": {
|
|
"danger": "passage",
|
|
"dangerLine": "the town needs the road to come through it, and will arrange that",
|
|
"trigger": "lingering",
|
|
"facets": {
|
|
"institution": [
|
|
"milestones all pointing here, some of them moved",
|
|
"a bridge that is the only bridge for a day's ride",
|
|
"roads that all bend, slightly, toward the square"
|
|
],
|
|
"ritual": [
|
|
"a toll taken at a bar that swings on nothing",
|
|
"carts waved through by a hand at a window",
|
|
"a road swept before a coach that never comes"
|
|
],
|
|
"demand": [
|
|
"a market you must cross to get anywhere at all",
|
|
"a square with one exit visible and three not",
|
|
"a street that returns you to where you started"
|
|
],
|
|
"wound": [
|
|
"a rival town's milestone, broken and kept",
|
|
"a road washed out and never repaired, deliberately",
|
|
"a bypass surveyed, staked, and the stakes pulled up"
|
|
],
|
|
"anchor": [
|
|
"the milestone that says all roads pass here",
|
|
"a map with one road drawn heavier than the rest",
|
|
"a bridge-toll board, the figures freshly cut"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
"features": [
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"a signpost turned to point the wrong way",
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"a road newly blocked with a felled tree",
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"cart-ruts that stop in the middle of a field",
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"a bridge plank taken up and laid beside the gap",
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"survey stakes pulled up and stacked",
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"a milestone with the distance recut"
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],
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"decisions": [
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{
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"cue": "a signpost that has plainly been turned",
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"cost": "following it goes somewhere the town wants you to go",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you read the wear on the post and work out the true direction",
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"failure": "you follow it and lose a Turn, arriving where the town intended",
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"orElse": "ask a local: they will tell you truly, and the town will know you asked"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a toll-bar across the only bridge",
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"cost": "the toll is small; the record of paying it is not",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Poise 2",
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"success": "you pay and are entered as legitimate traffic — the town stops obstructing you",
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"failure": "you argue the toll and the bar stays down: lose a Turn, +1 Bane",
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"orElse": "ford it downstream: one Turn, everything gets wet"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a market you must cross, and it does not want you to cross quickly",
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"cost": "the crowd is the obstacle and it is deliberate",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Flair 2",
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"success": "you move through by seeming to belong, and are not delayed",
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"failure": "you are drawn into three transactions and lose a Turn",
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"orElse": "go round by the back lanes: one Turn, and you are noticed doing it"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "survey stakes for a bypass, pulled up and stacked",
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"cost": "replanting them is a declaration of war on the town",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Brawn 2",
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"success": "you replant enough to matter and the surveyors' ghosts owe you",
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"failure": "you are seen at it: the Corporation treats you as hostile from here",
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"orElse": "leave them stacked; the bypass stays unbuilt"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a square with three exits and only one that leaves",
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"cost": "the other two return you here",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 2",
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"success": "you spot which street the ruts actually leave by",
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"failure": "you take a returning street: lose a Turn and roll the clock",
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"orElse": "follow a cart out: whichever way it goes, one Turn"
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}
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},
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{
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"cue": "a milestone recut to move the town closer to everywhere",
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"cost": "correcting it is honest and unwelcome",
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"resolve": {
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"roll": "Wits 1",
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"success": "you read the older cut beneath and know the true distances",
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"failure": "you accept the new figures and misjudge your time: lose a Turn",
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"orElse": "take the milestone at its word and hurry"
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}
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}
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],
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"situations": [
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{
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"occupant": "the Tollkeeper",
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"doing": "raising a bar that hangs on nothing at all",
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"onArrival": "it names a toll and waits, hand out",
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"because": "the bridge must be paid for and the bridge is gone",
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"offer": "pay anything and it will tell you the true road"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a carter",
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"doing": "arguing with a signpost that has been turned",
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"onArrival": "they appeal to you as a witness",
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"because": "they have been round this way three times",
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"offer": "settle the argument and they will carry you a stage"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Surveyor",
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"doing": "staking out a bypass that the town keeps pulling up",
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"onArrival": "it hands you the mallet without looking",
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"because": "the survey must be completed and never is",
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"offer": "drive one stake and it will show you the shortest way through"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "two of the Corporation",
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"doing": "recutting a milestone, closer",
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"onArrival": "they stand in front of the figures as you approach",
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"because": "the distances must favour the town",
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"offer": "admire the work and they will tell you the real distance, privately"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "a crowd",
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"doing": "filling a square that was empty a moment ago",
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"onArrival": "it closes gently around you and does not let you hurry",
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"because": "the market must be busy when strangers pass",
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"offer": "buy something and the crowd opens"
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},
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{
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"occupant": "the Bridge",
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"doing": "holding itself up on a span that is not there",
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"onArrival": "the planks settle as you step on",
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"because": "the crossing must exist because the charter says so",
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"offer": "cross confidently and it holds; hesitate and it does not"
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}
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],
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"temptations": [
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{
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"id": "milestone",
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"cue": "a milestone small enough to carry",
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"benefit": "once, make a journey shorter than it is",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "distances you did not carry get longer"
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},
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{
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"id": "tollboard",
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"cue": "a toll-board with the figures cut",
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"benefit": "once, demand passage and be given it",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you are expected to keep the bridge in repair"
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},
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{
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"id": "roadmap",
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"cue": "a map with one road drawn heavier",
|
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"benefit": "never lose your way in the town",
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"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you cannot see the roads it leaves out"
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},
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{
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"id": "bar",
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"cue": "a length of toll-bar, iron-shod",
|
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"benefit": "once, close a way behind you that nothing can pass",
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"useCost": {
|
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"bane": 2
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},
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"standingDrawback": "whatever you shut out waits at that spot",
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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": "carterswhip",
|
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"cue": "a carter's whip, worn to the handle",
|
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"benefit": "once, make anything give way and let you through",
|
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"useCost": {
|
|
"bane": 1
|
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},
|
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"standingDrawback": "the town treats you as traffic, not a guest"
|
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}
|
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]
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}
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},
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"placeNameStyle": "own"
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}
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