Add The Frontier, a second setting, and a picker to choose between them
Cold Fork is a freight yard: 29 events across two stages, a four-day cycle, and its own relationship and skill vocabulary. src/engine/ was not touched. Adding it needed three changes outside the engine: one save slot per pack, app.js holding the current pack, and turn.js no longer naming the mailroom (DECISIONS #34). build.js now handles imports wrapped across lines. A conformance suite runs over every registered pack. DECISIONS #35 records three calls on open questions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RxdJFbLq1rBKsUeticGV1g
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// Running out of money.
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//
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// No game over and no failure mode in the engine — these are ordinary events
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// whose conditions happen to be about money, weighted heavily enough to crowd
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// out an ordinary day. Neither declares a stage: being broke follows you up
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// the ladder rather than vanishing when you take the star.
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//
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// The arithmetic that matters, and the one Corporate Ladder got wrong once:
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// `every_run` pays 30 against a room-and-board cycle of 20 and a fully-loaded
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// store charge of 10, so there is always a way out that is worth more than the
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// hole is deep. Change either number and re-derive the other.
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export const hardTimes = [
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{
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id: 'store_cut_off',
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// Heavy, but on a cooldown: being broke should colour a run, not become
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// the run. Corporate Ladder learned this the expensive way at weight 5000
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// with no cooldown.
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weight: 900,
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cooldown: 3,
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requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '<', value: 0 }],
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description:
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'The storekeeper turns the book round on the counter so you can see ' +
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'your own line in it, and does not say anything at all, which is worse ' +
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'than the several things he could have said.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'on_the_book',
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label: 'Ask him to carry you a while longer.',
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// He stops eventually. Past that, the ways out cost standing and
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// favours rather than interest, which is where the spiral gets real.
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requires: [{ path: 'owed', op: '<', value: 120 }],
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result:
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'He turns the book back round and writes it. The figure at the ' +
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'bottom of your line is now larger than a month of runs.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 30 },
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{ path: 'owed', op: 'add', value: 32 },
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{ path: 'flags.owes_the_store', op: 'set', value: true },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Went further into the book at the store.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ask_dutch',
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label: 'Ask Dutch to settle a line of his own.',
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requires: [{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: '>=', value: 20 }],
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result:
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'He pays it without a word and crosses it out of the book in front ' +
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'of you, and afterwards you are a man he has settled with rather ' +
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'than a man he owes.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 18 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: -20 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -3 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Called in what Dutch owed.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ask_hollis',
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label: 'Ask Vane for the smith’s money back.',
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requires: [{ path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: '>=', value: 20 }],
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result:
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'He pays in the doorway, in full, and finds a reason not to look at ' +
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'you for the rest of the week.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 22 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: 'add', value: -20 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'every_run',
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label: 'Take every run going.',
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// Has to be worth more than a cycle of room and board plus the fully
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// stepped-up store charge, or it is not a way out — it is the hole
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// with extra hours in it.
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result:
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'Eleven days without one off. The Ridge road stops being a road ' +
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'after a while and becomes a sequence of turns you take.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 30 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -1 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'the_book_called',
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// Often enough to matter. At weight 25 Corporate Ladder's equivalent
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// appeared six times in 262 turns and debt became a one-way ratchet.
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weight: 45,
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cooldown: 4,
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requires: [{ path: 'owed', op: '>', value: 0 }],
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description:
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'The storekeeper has written to the county about three lines in his ' +
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'book and yours is one of them. He mentions this to you in the street, ' +
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'in daylight, in front of two other people.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'pay_chunk',
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label: 'Pay a real piece of it down.',
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requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 45 }],
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result: 'He rules a line through most of it and is disappointed about it.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -45 },
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{ path: 'owed', op: 'add', value: -45 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'pay_minimum',
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label: 'Pay what you have on you.',
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requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 12 }],
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result: 'Twelve dollars, ten of which is the line and two of which is coffee.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -12 },
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{ path: 'owed', op: 'add', value: -10 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'stall',
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label: 'Tell him after the next stage.',
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result:
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'He says after the next stage. The two other people in the street ' +
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'say nothing, and repeat all of it by evening.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'owed', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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];
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export default hardTimes;
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