Add chance and a cast that changes between runs, and a pack to try them

An option used to do exactly what it said. Now it may carry a check: one of
four attributes (Nerve, Wits, Charm, Resolve) against a set difficulty or
against a named person's own attribute, leaning on how they regard you, with a
success and a failure. The player sees only the odds in words ("a long shot",
"likely"), never a number. The roll is one draw from the run's generator, so a
run still replays exactly from its seed and choices.

A character may be a role with several authored candidates, one drawn per run,
or a group of two to four drawn into numbered slots. Everyone carries a name, a
description and the same four attributes as the player, so a replayed pack
meets a different office. Text names people as {partner} or {clerk}, and an
event about "a clerk" binds one present clerk for the turn. The draw and the
binding are saved with the run, and a save from before a pack drew a cast gets
the same one every time it is loaded.

All of it is generic and optional: Corporate Ladder and the Frontier use none
of it and play as before. The Counting House, a one-stage office about 1910
built from the story-to-pack catalogue, exercises it, and was tuned against the
conformance suite by measurement. DECISIONS #41. Version 0.4.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018MhABSrqkwTdcybXmheDPr

content/countinghouse/characters.js

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+// Harrow & Pike's counting house, as it might be staffed.
+//
+// Nobody here is fixed. Each role has several people who could fill it, and a
+// run draws one partner, one chief clerk and two to four clerks from them
+// (DECISIONS #41), so a second career in the same pack meets a different
+// office. Every candidate carries the same four attributes the player does,
+// and a description that should agree with them: a partner written as sharp
+// has the wits to see through a bluff, and one written as easily flattered
+// does not.
+//
+// Descriptions may name another role in braces, filled from whoever was drawn
+// into it, so a nephew can be the nephew of whichever partner this run has.
+
+export const characters = [
+  {
+    id: 'partner',
+    role_type: 'boss',
+    title: 'Senior Partner',
+    candidates: [
+      {
+        name: 'Josiah Crane',
+        description:
+          'Built the house from one room and a borrowed desk. Remembers every figure ' +
+          'he has ever been shown, and forgives very few of them.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 7, wits: 8, charm: 3, resolve: 8 },
+        startingRelationship: { trust: 40 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Harriet Voss',
+        description:
+          'Took over the firm when her husband died and has doubled it since. ' +
+          'Listens to everything and says about a fifth of it.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 6, wits: 9, charm: 5, resolve: 7 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Lionel Ashby',
+        description:
+          'Inherited the chair and would rather be at his club. Easily flattered, ' +
+          'easily bored, and sharper than he lets anyone see.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 4, wits: 6, charm: 7, resolve: 3 },
+        startingRelationship: { regard: 55 },
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'chief',
+    role_type: 'supervisor',
+    title: 'Chief Clerk',
+    candidates: [
+      {
+        name: 'Silas Pruett',
+        description:
+          'Thirty years at the same high desk. Counts the pen nibs on Fridays and ' +
+          'knows to the penny what the stationery cupboard should hold.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 5, wits: 6, charm: 2, resolve: 9 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Ada Kemble',
+        description:
+          'Runs the floor with a pencil behind her ear and a list, kept in the ' +
+          'same pencil, of everybody\'s lapses.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 6, wits: 7, charm: 4, resolve: 7 },
+        startingRelationship: { trust: 40 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Horace Lumb',
+        description:
+          'Wanted your desk for somebody else\'s nephew and has not forgotten it. ' +
+          'Polite to your face, in a way that takes some effort.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 4, wits: 5, charm: 5, resolve: 6 },
+        startingRelationship: { regard: 35 },
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'clerk',
+    role_type: 'peer',
+    title: 'Clerk',
+    count: [2, 4],
+    candidates: [
+      {
+        name: 'Tom Bassett',
+        description: 'Cheerful, generous with other people\'s time, and a borrower of small sums he means to repay.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 5, wits: 4, charm: 7, resolve: 3 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Nell Farrow',
+        description: 'The quickest pen on the floor and does not mind who knows it. Wants the next desk up, and soon.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 5, wits: 8, charm: 5, resolve: 6 },
+        startingRelationship: { regard: 40 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Arthur Quill',
+        description: 'Timid, exact, and never wrong about a column of figures. Apologises to doors.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 2, wits: 7, charm: 3, resolve: 7 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Joe Madden',
+        description: 'The loudest laugh in the building and most of the jokes, not all of them kind.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 7, wits: 4, charm: 6, resolve: 3 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Lottie Swain',
+        description: 'Types the partner\'s letters and so knows everything a week early. Tells almost none of it.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 4, wits: 7, charm: 7, resolve: 5 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Percy Dyer',
+        description: 'A nephew of {partner}\'s, sent to learn the business. Has so far learned where the kettle is.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 3, wits: 3, charm: 6, resolve: 2 },
+        startingRelationship: { trust: 40 },
+      },
+      {
+        name: 'Walt Rudge',
+        description: 'Twenty years a clerk and content with it. The one everyone asks, and the last to be thanked.',
+        attributes: { nerve: 6, wits: 6, charm: 4, resolve: 8 },
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+];
+
+export default characters;