tevansandClaude Opus 5
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The review's sharpest finding was that the fiction cohered but the things in the rooms did not belong to it: only the motif cue fragment was projected, while decisions and temptations came from global pools. The output was a consistent wrapper around generic room furniture. Both now live under motifs.<id> — 6 decisions and 5 temptations each, 88 authored entries across 8 motifs. A `keeping` delve offers a flower that has not wilted and a room you may search or leave exactly as you found it; a `precedence` delve offers a corridor that will not let two walk abreast. Two bugs surfaced while wiring it, both the same shape as one fixed earlier for cue fragments: decisions and temptations were picked independently per area rather than dealt, so a pool of 3 repeated a temptation in 75 of 80 test delves. Both are now dealt without replacement. Where a long delve outruns its motif pool, decisions top up from the generic pool but temptations do not. A generic relic breaks the fiction; a repeated one only looks thin. Tests 11 -> 15: motif provenance for both pools, and no repeats at 6 and 9 areas. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"seed": "gilded-court-404",
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"params": {
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"areas": 6,
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"depth": 2,
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"party": 4,
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"deadliness": "standard",
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"density": "standard",
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"greed": "standard",
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"clock": "standard",
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"ending": "authored",
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"theme": "barrow"
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},
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"placeName": "The Cairn of the Patient Lord",
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"knot": {
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"appetiteId": "first",
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"accommodationId": "bound",
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"claimant": "Patient Lord",
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"conscript": "a procession",
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"transgression": "The Patient Lord bound a procession by oath they could not break, so that someone would always go behind them.",
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"cruelty": 2
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},
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"motif": {
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"id": "precedence",
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"danger": "procession",
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"dangerLine": "the barrow keeps its order, and you have joined the queue",
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"trigger": "announced"
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},
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"prize": {
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"kind": "regalia",
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"label": "the crown worn first, and only once",
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"function": "the proof of precedence"
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},
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"bottomProblem": {
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"label": "The Patient Lord",
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"wantNow": "to be first in all things",
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"failureState": "is second now, and cannot bear it",
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"handledBy": "giving them what they want, at a price"
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},
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"appeasement": {
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"move": "stand aside and let it go ahead of you",
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"attribute": "Poise",
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"successes": 2,
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"why": "it goes first",
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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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"faction": "The Silent Host"
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},
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{
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"id": "host",
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"name": "The Silent Host",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "still performing the ritual they were buried for",
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"handledBy": "courtesy",
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"conscriptedAs": "a procession"
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},
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{
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"id": "wardens",
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"name": "the Barrow-Wardens",
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"kind": "undead",
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"essence": "sealed this place and stayed to make sure",
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"handledBy": "proof of right"
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}
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"index": 1,
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"role": "approach",
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"facet": "institution",
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"fragment": "a stair too grand for the door it serves"
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},
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{
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"index": 2,
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"role": "complication",
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"facet": "ritual",
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"fragment": "banners in sequence, each house a place further back"
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},
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{
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"index": 3,
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"role": "complication",
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"facet": "ritual",
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"fragment": "a herald's script with the order still marked"
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},
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{
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"index": 4,
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"role": "turn",
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"facet": "demand",
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"fragment": "a door only one person may pass at a time, and only first"
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},
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{
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"index": 5,
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"role": "descent",
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"facet": "wound",
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"fragment": "a procession that doubled back on itself"
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},
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{
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"index": 6,
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"role": "threshold",
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"facet": "anchor",
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"fragment": "a seat at the head of everything, occupied"
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},
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{
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"index": 7,
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"role": "ending",
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"facet": "demand",
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"fragment": "a corridor that will not let two walk abreast"
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}
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]
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},
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"areas": [
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{
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"index": 1,
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"role": "approach",
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"name": "The Threshold Stones",
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"facet": "institution",
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"cueFragments": [
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"a stair too grand for the door it serves",
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"a floor mosaic worn only along one path"
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],
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"truth": "this is how the place was ordered, and it still is. The Patient Lord bound a procession by oath they could not break, so that someone would always go behind them.",
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"decision": {
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"cue": "banners in strict order, and one you could move",
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"cost": "reordering them opens a way and insults everyone buried here"
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},
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"encounter": null,
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"hoard": null,
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"temptation": null,
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"trigger": "announced",
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"baneBeat": "announcing",
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"clue": {
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"automatic": "a stair too grand for the door it serves — and it was done deliberately",
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"extra": "[VANITY: Observation — 1 success] buys who did it, and roughly when"
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},
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"failureCase": "If they skip this, move its cue fragment into the next area so the motif still completes.",
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"fallback": {
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"route": "The Silent Host will receive anyone who behaves as a guest",
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"cost": "one Bane on the tab, and they will expect it again"
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}
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},
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{
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"index": 2,
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"role": "complication",
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"name": "The Lesser Vault",
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"facet": "ritual",
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"cueFragments": [
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"banners in sequence, each house a place further back",
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"grave-goods stacked with obsessive neatness"
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],
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"truth": "the office is still being performed, for someone who is no longer served by it. The Patient Lord bound a procession by oath they could not break, so that someone would always go behind them.",
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"decision": {
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"cue": "a corridor that will not let two walk abreast",
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"cost": "whoever goes first meets whatever is there first"
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},
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"encounter": null,
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"hoard": null,
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"temptation": null,
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"trigger": "loud",
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"baneBeat": "noticing",
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"clue": {
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"automatic": "banners in sequence, each house a place further back — and it was done deliberately",
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"extra": "[VANITY: Observation — 1 success] buys who did it, and roughly when"
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},
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"failureCase": "If they skip this, move its cue fragment into the next area so the motif still completes.",
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"fallback": {
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"route": "The Silent Host will receive anyone who behaves as a guest",
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"cost": "one Bane on the tab, and they will expect it again"
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}
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},
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{
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"index": 3,
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"role": "complication",
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"name": "The Waiting Room",
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"facet": "ritual",
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"cueFragments": [
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"a herald's script with the order still marked",
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"an alcove emptied in a hurry"
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],
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"truth": "the office is still being performed, for someone who is no longer served by it. The Patient Lord bound a procession by oath they could not break, so that someone would always go behind them.",
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"decision": {
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"cue": "a door that opens only for the foremost of a party",
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"cost": "someone must be named first, aloud, and the others must accept it"
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},
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"encounter": null,
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"hoard": null,
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"temptation": null,
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"trigger": "announced",
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"baneBeat": "relicUse",
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"clue": {
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"automatic": "a herald's script with the order still marked — and it was done deliberately",
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"extra": "[VANITY: Observation — 1 success] buys who did it, and roughly when"
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},
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"failureCase": "If they skip this, move its cue fragment into the next area so the motif still completes.",
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"fallback": {
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"route": "The Silent Host will receive anyone who behaves as a guest",
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"cost": "one Bane on the tab, and they will expect it again"
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}
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},
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{
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"index": 4,
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"role": "turn",
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"name": "The Records Room",
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"facet": "demand",
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"cueFragments": [
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"a door only one person may pass at a time, and only first",
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"a collapse that has opened a way the builders never meant"
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],
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"truth": "here the want is explicit — the place asks something of whoever enters. The Patient Lord bound a procession by oath they could not break, so that someone would always go behind them.",
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"decision": {
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"cue": "a queue of the dead, and a way to step round it",
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"cost": "waiting costs two Turns; pushing in costs the Host's patience"
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},
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"encounter": {
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"heat": "fight",
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"kind": "undead",
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"roster": {
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"line": "1 Ghoul and 2 Skeletons",
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"foes": [
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{
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"n": 1,
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"name": "Ghoul",
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"atk": 4,
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"def": 3,
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"grit": 4,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "on a hit, a free Called Shot to freeze for a round"
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},
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{
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"n": 2,
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"name": "Skeleton",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 2,
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"grit": 1,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "fearless"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "anything",
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"avoid": "the Ghoul goes for court dress first — send someone plain"
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}
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},
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"hoard": "cache",
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"temptation": {
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"id": "flagstone",
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"cue": "a numbered flagstone, prised up, number one",
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"benefit": "once, insist on going first and be obeyed",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you go first into everything from now on"
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},
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"trigger": "announced",
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"baneBeat": "relicUse",
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"clue": {
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"automatic": "a door only one person may pass at a time, and only first — and it was done deliberately",
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"extra": "[VANITY: Observation — 1 success] buys who did it, and roughly when"
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},
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"failureCase": "If they skip this, move its cue fragment into the next area so the motif still completes.",
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"fallback": {
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"route": "The Silent Host will receive anyone who behaves as a guest",
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"cost": "one Bane on the tab, and they will expect it again"
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}
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},
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{
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"index": 5,
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"role": "descent",
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"name": "The Sunken Nave",
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"facet": "wound",
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"cueFragments": [
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"a procession that doubled back on itself",
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"a lamp still burning on oil that should be long gone"
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],
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"truth": "this is the damage the want did to those who had to satisfy it. The Patient Lord bound a procession by oath they could not break, so that someone would always go behind them.",
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"decision": {
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"cue": "a stair where the order of descent is visibly recorded",
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"cost": "whoever goes last is remembered as having gone last"
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},
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"encounter": null,
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"hoard": "pocket",
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"temptation": {
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"id": "staffprec",
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"cue": "a staff of precedence, laid down and not taken up",
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"benefit": "once, decide the order of anything, and be obeyed",
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"acceptanceCost": {
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"vice": "Pride"
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},
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 2
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you may never be second while you hold it"
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},
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"trigger": "seenTwice",
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"baneBeat": "refusal",
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"clue": {
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"automatic": "a procession that doubled back on itself — and it was done deliberately",
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"extra": "[VANITY: Observation — 1 success] buys who did it, and roughly when"
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},
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"failureCase": "If they skip this, move its cue fragment into the next area so the motif still completes.",
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"fallback": {
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"route": "The Silent Host will receive anyone who behaves as a guest",
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"cost": "one Bane on the tab, and they will expect it again"
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}
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},
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{
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"index": 6,
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"role": "threshold",
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"name": "The Last Door",
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"facet": "anchor",
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"cueFragments": [
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"a seat at the head of everything, occupied",
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"a door that has been wedged open from the inside"
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],
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"truth": "the thing the whole barrow is arranged around is close. The Patient Lord bound a procession by oath they could not break, so that someone would always go behind them.",
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"decision": {
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"cue": "a claim to settle: which of you the barrow should address",
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"cost": "settling it opens the way; refusing to settle it does not"
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},
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"encounter": {
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"heat": "battle",
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"kind": "undead",
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"roster": {
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"line": "1 Wraith and 3 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 and drains 1 max Grit"
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},
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{
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"n": 3,
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"name": "Skeleton",
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"atk": 3,
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"def": 2,
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"grit": 1,
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"nerve": 5,
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"note": "fearless"
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}
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],
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"harmedBy": "blessed, silvered or magical weapons ONLY",
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"avoid": "it will take an appeasement over a fight every time"
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}
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},
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"hoard": "chest",
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"temptation": {
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"id": "coronet",
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"cue": "a small crown, sized for someone who never grew",
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"benefit": "+1 die when others must defer to you",
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"useCost": {
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"bane": 1
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},
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"standingDrawback": "you must be addressed correctly or lose the benefit"
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},
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"trigger": "disturbed",
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"baneBeat": "relicUse",
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"clue": {
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"automatic": "a seat at the head of everything, occupied — and it was done deliberately",
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"extra": "[VANITY: Observation — 1 success] buys who did it, and roughly when"
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},
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"failureCase": "If they skip this, the ending opens with them holding nothing the bottom problem wants.",
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"fallback": {
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"route": "The Silent Host will receive anyone who behaves as a guest",
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"cost": "one Bane on the tab, and they will expect it again"
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}
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}
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],
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"ending": {
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"index": 7,
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"role": "ending",
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"mode": "authored",
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"heat": null,
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"hoard": null,
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"name": "The Audience",
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"cueFragments": [
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"a corridor that will not let two walk abreast"
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],
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"question": "\"Who goes first?\"",
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"authored": true
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},
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"triggerGlossary": {
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"announced": "entered somewhere grandly — the big doors, a shout, a herald",
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"seenTwice": "reflected, echoed or witnessed twice over in one place",
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"loud": "a raised voice, a broken door, steel on stone",
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"lingering": "stayed in one place longer than it takes to search it",
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"disturbed": "struck or moved something that had not moved in centuries"
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},
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"budget": {
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"plannedFights": 2,
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"heatBase": "fight",
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"wantFights": 2
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},
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"pressure": {
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"turn": 0,
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"clockRolls": 0,
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"clockFired": 0,
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"triggerNumber": 1,
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"escalated": false,
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"tab": 6,
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"target": 5
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}
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} |