// The second rung: the marshal's office. // // `rounds`, `office_day` and `the_cells` are the floor here — no conditions, // no cooldown, no `once` — so this stage can never run dry. The pay is real // and the days are worse, which is the trade the offer did not mention. export const deputy = [ { id: 'rounds', stage: 'deputy', weight: 100, description: 'The evening round: the length of the street, the back of the store, ' + 'the yard gate, and the Cordwood twice. Mostly it is a walk. The ' + 'difference between the nights it is a walk and the nights it is not ' + 'announces itself late.', options: [ { id: 'walk_it', label: 'Walk it properly, both ends.', result: 'Two doors unlocked that should not have been, and the storekeeper ' + 'hears about both from you rather than from a stranger.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'sit_the_cordwood', label: 'Do it from a chair at the Cordwood.', result: 'You hear more in two hours than the street gives up in a week, and ' + 'everybody in the room adjusts what they say in front of you.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'walk_the_yard', label: 'Take the long way past Vane’s yard.', result: 'The office light is on at eleven and Vane does not come to the ' + 'window. He knows the sound of the round by now.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'office_day', stage: 'deputy', weight: 100, description: 'Paper. The county wants its returns, Ward has not filed since March, ' + 'and the stove is the only warm thing in the building.', options: [ { id: 'do_the_returns', label: 'Do the returns.', result: 'Four hours and a hand that will not straighten. The county sends a ' + 'letter of acknowledgement, which Ward pins up, which is the most ' + 'sentimental act you have seen from him.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, { id: 'read_the_paper', label: 'Read six months of the county paper instead.', result: 'Three names in it you have loaded freight for, and one of them ' + 'twice. You start a list of your own.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 1 }, ], }, { id: 'ride_out', label: 'Leave the paper and ride out to the Ridge camp.', result: 'Nothing is wrong at the Ridge camp. Being seen there when nothing ' + 'is wrong turns out to be most of the job.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'the_cells', stage: 'deputy', weight: 100, description: 'One cell, one occupant, and eleven hours until the county wagon. He ' + 'has been talking since six and has not yet said anything about why he ' + 'is in there.', options: [ { id: 'let_him_talk', label: 'Let him talk.', result: 'By the ninth hour he has told you about a horse sold twice in ' + 'Bitter Wells, and does not appear to notice that he has.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, ], }, { id: 'feed_him_proper', label: 'Buy him a proper dinner out of your own pocket.', result: 'Two dollars forty. He is quiet afterwards, and the county wagon ' + 'takes a man who is not angry, which the driver notices.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 }, ], }, { id: 'shut_him_up', label: 'Tell him to be quiet.', result: 'He is quiet. Eleven hours is a long time in a building with two ' + 'rooms in it and one of you able to leave.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'saloon_trouble', stage: 'deputy', weight: 70, cooldown: 4, description: 'Something has gone wrong at the Cordwood and the noise of it reaches ' + 'the office before anybody does. Ward is at the county seat until ' + 'Thursday.', options: [ { id: 'wade_in', label: 'Go in and take hold of the nearest man who is fighting.', result: 'It stops. Your sleeve does not survive it and neither does a ' + 'table, and the whole street knows by morning which it was.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -4 }, ], }, { id: 'wait_outside', label: 'Stand in the doorway and wait for it to come to you.', result: 'It comes to you, in ones, which is the entire trick and takes a ' + 'nerve you did not have a year ago.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 }, ], }, { id: 'send_for_dutch', label: 'Send for Dutch.', requires: [{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: '>=', value: 25 }], result: 'He arrives inside four minutes, takes one man out by the collar, ' + 'and says afterwards that the book is square now. It is not, and ' + 'both of you let that stand.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: -20 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'vane_across_the_street', stage: 'deputy', weight: 55, cooldown: 6, description: 'Vane has a load going out that the manifest describes as agricultural ' + 'implements, and it is going out at four in the morning, which no ' + 'agricultural implement in the county has ever needed to do.', options: [ { id: 'stop_it', label: 'Be at the yard gate at four.', result: 'He does not argue and he does not open the crate. He turns the ' + 'wagon round in front of you and takes it back inside, and that is ' + 'the last civil word between you.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 7 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -18 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 15 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Stood at Vane’s gate at four in the morning.' }, ], }, { id: 'let_it_go', label: 'Be somewhere else at four.', result: 'The wagon goes. Nothing comes of it, which is the part that stays ' + 'with you, because nothing coming of it means nothing was ever ' + 'going to.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -5 }, { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -8 }, ], }, { id: 'go_and_ask', label: 'Go to the office at nine and ask him straight out.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 32 }], result: 'He tells you, in the doorway, the same as he told you about the ' + 'crate. Then he asks whether the star has changed what you intend ' + 'to do about it. It has, and you say so.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -4 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane straight out, wearing the star.' }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'ward_tired', stage: 'deputy', weight: 45, cooldown: 8, requires: [{ path: 'flags.sworn_in', op: '==', value: true }], description: 'Ward has been six years retiring and today he says the word out loud ' + 'for the first time, sitting on the office step with his boots off.', options: [ { id: 'talk_him_round', label: 'Tell him the town is not ready.', result: 'He says the town is never ready and that is not a reason. He stays ' + 'anyway, for now, which both of you understand is a favour to you ' + 'and not to the town.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, { id: 'tell_him_go', label: 'Tell him to go.', result: 'He looks at you for a while. Then he laughs, once, and puts his ' + 'boots back on, and does not mention it again for a month.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Told Ward to go and retire.' }, ], }, { id: 'say_nothing_ward', label: 'Let him sit.', result: 'You sit on the step with him until it gets dark.', effects: [ { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -5 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'county_wagon', stage: 'deputy', weight: 50, cooldown: 5, description: 'The county wagon is a day late, there are two men in one cell who ' + 'should not be in one cell, and the second cell has never had a lock ' + 'that works.', options: [ { id: 'sit_up_with_them', label: 'Sit up all night in the office.', result: 'Nothing happens, twice, at two and at four. In the morning the ' + 'wagon comes and you have been awake for thirty hours.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'fix_the_lock', label: 'Spend the afternoon making the second lock work.', result: 'It works. It has not worked since before Ward came, and he stands ' + 'in the doorway turning the key for longer than the job took.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -5 }, { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 7 }, ], }, { id: 'release_one', label: 'Turn the quieter one loose on his word.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 32 }], result: 'He comes back at eight in the morning, as he said he would, and ' + 'the county never knows there was a decision in it.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 8 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Turned a man loose on his word, and was right.' }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'dutch_in_the_cells', stage: 'deputy', weight: 40, cooldown: 10, requires: [{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 12 }], description: 'Dutch is in the cell. It is the Cordwood and a table and nobody hurt, ' + 'and it is also the third time this season, and the storekeeper has ' + 'started using the word "again."', options: [ { id: 'let_him_out', label: 'Let him out in the morning and say nothing to the county.', result: 'He goes to work. Neither of you refers to it, then or later, and ' + 'the storekeeper notices that neither of you did.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -4 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 20 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, ], }, { id: 'book_him', label: 'Book him properly.', result: 'Eight dollars and a night, and his name on a county return with ' + 'your hand on it. He pays the eight dollars. He reads the return ' + 'twice.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -18 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 14 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Booked Dutch on a county return.' }, ], }, { id: 'talk_to_him', label: 'Sit outside the cell until he says what it is about.', requires: [{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 50 }], result: 'It is about two years on the Ridge road and a book with nobody ' + 'else’s name in it. He gets most of the way to saying so.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 12 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -10 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Sat outside the cell with Dutch until he talked.' }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'the_ridge_camp_dispute', stage: 'deputy', weight: 45, cooldown: 7, description: 'Two men at the Ridge camp both hold paper on the same claim and one of ' + 'them has a brother in Bitter Wells. The camp has asked for the marshal ' + 'and the marshal has sent you.', options: [ { id: 'read_the_paper_claim', label: 'Read both papers all the way through.', result: 'Both are good. Both were issued by the same clerk eleven days ' + 'apart. The problem is in Bitter Wells and not on the Ridge, and ' + 'saying so ends it.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, { id: 'stand_between', label: 'Stand between them until the county can rule.', result: 'Six weeks of standing between them, in instalments. Nobody is shot ' + 'and nobody is satisfied, which Ward says is the job described.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 4 }, ], }, { id: 'take_a_side', label: 'Decide it yourself, on the spot.', result: 'You are probably right. The brother from Bitter Wells arrives on ' + 'Thursday to find out how right, and stays four days.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 8 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'the_star_and_the_yard', stage: 'deputy', weight: 30, cooldown: 14, requires: [ { path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 20 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: '<=', value: 30 }, ], description: 'Vane & Co. has a note falling due and the bank in Bitter Wells has ' + 'declined it. Vane is fifty-one and has not asked anybody in Cold Fork ' + 'for anything in nineteen years, and is standing in the office doorway ' + 'across the street looking at your building.', options: [ { id: 'go_over', label: 'Cross the street.', result: 'He does not ask. You do not offer. The two of you stand in the ' + 'doorway of the office for a while, which is where every ' + 'conversation you have ever had with him has happened.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 12 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Crossed the street to Vane when the note fell due.' }, ], }, { id: 'lend_him', label: 'Put your own money into the note.', requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 60 }], result: 'Sixty dollars, and the outfit keeps its animals. He pays it back ' + 'over a year, in the doorway, in instalments, never once in front ' + 'of Dutch.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -60 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 40 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 25 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Put sixty dollars of your own into Vane’s note.' }, ], }, { id: 'stay_put', label: 'Stay on your own side of the street.', result: 'The note goes. The yard is sold in the spring and the new outfit ' + 'brings its own men, and the Ridge road is driven by somebody you ' + 'do not know.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -10 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -8 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Stayed on your own side of the street.' }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'quiet_week', stage: 'deputy', weight: 60, cooldown: 4, description: 'Nothing. Four days of nothing. The stove, the returns, the length of ' + 'the street twice a night, and a town that does not need you at all ' + 'this week and might not next week either.', options: [ { id: 'learn_the_law', label: 'Read the county statutes properly.', result: 'Most of it is fees. Some of it is not, and the part that is not is ' + 'the part nobody in Cold Fork has ever read.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, ], }, { id: 'work_the_yard_again', label: 'Go and load freight for a day, for the money.', result: 'Vane pays you the hand’s rate without comment. Dutch says one ' + 'thing about the star and then works alongside you all afternoon.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 9 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, { id: 'ride_the_county', label: 'Ride the county line and look at it.', result: 'Two days out. Nobody sends for you and nothing needs you, and you ' + 'come back having decided something you do not tell anybody.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 1 }, ], }, ], }, // Five more days in the office, added after the first real play of this // stage: 69 turns saw 13 distinct situations, and `office_day` and // `the_cells` were a sixth of the stage each. See DECISIONS #40. { id: 'stage_came_in_short', stage: 'deputy', weight: 50, cooldown: 7, description: 'The stage came in with the strongbox eleven pounds lighter than the ' + 'manifest, and the driver swears on his mother that he never once ' + 'stopped between the Wells and here.', options: [ { id: 'wire_the_county', label: 'Wire the county and let them send a man.', result: 'The county sends a man in nine days, by which time the driver has ' + 'told the story often enough to believe every word of it.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -1 }, ], }, { id: 'ride_the_route', label: 'Ride the route back yourself, looking at the ground.', result: 'Wheel ruts off the road at the second creek, where the driver says ' + 'he never stopped. You do not find the eleven pounds. You find where ' + 'they got off.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, ], }, { id: 'lean_on_the_driver', label: 'Lean on the driver until his story changes.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 30 }], result: 'It changes on the fourth telling, at the second creek, and then ' + 'again at the part where somebody was expecting him.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Leaned on a stage driver until the story changed.' }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'the_county_fees', stage: 'deputy', weight: 45, cooldown: 8, description: 'The county wants its licence fees collected from every business on the ' + 'street, and the list it sent includes the woman who sells pies out of ' + 'her kitchen window on Sundays.', options: [ { id: 'collect_all', label: 'Collect from everybody on the list.', result: 'All of it, pies included. The county is pleased. The street is ' + 'polite to you in a way it was not last week.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -4 }, { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, ], }, { id: 'pay_hers', label: 'Collect from the rest, and pay hers out of your own pocket.', result: 'A dollar fifty. Nobody is told, and by Sunday everybody knows, which ' + 'is how the street keeps its accounts.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -5 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Paid the pie licence out of your own pocket.' }, ], }, { id: 'strike_her_off', label: 'Strike her off the list and let the county notice if it can.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 28 }], result: 'You find the statute that exempts a kitchen window, and cite it in ' + 'the return. The county never writes back, which is the county ' + 'agreeing.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'the_bounty_man', stage: 'deputy', weight: 40, cooldown: 9, description: 'A man with a paper from Bitter Wells and a rifle he keeps too clean ' + 'wants to know whether a teamster called Pike is in Cold Fork. There is ' + 'a teamster called Pike in Cold Fork, and he has been decent to you.', options: [ { id: 'tell_him', label: 'Tell him where Pike is.', result: 'He thanks you and leaves money on the desk, which you did not ask ' + 'for and do not give back. The teamsters hear about the money first.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, ], }, { id: 'send_him_on', label: 'Tell him Pike went west a month ago.', result: 'He looks at you for long enough that you understand he knows. Then ' + 'he rides west, because the paper does not pay him to argue.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, { id: 'check_the_paper', label: 'Read his paper properly before you say anything at all.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 30 }], result: 'It names a Pike, a year and a county, and two of the three are ' + 'wrong. You tell him so, with the statute, and he goes home.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Read a bounty man’s paper closely enough to send him home.' }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'fire_at_the_store', stage: 'deputy', weight: 35, cooldown: 12, description: 'A lamp goes over in the back room of the store an hour after midnight, ' + 'and by the time you are in your boots the whole street is standing in ' + 'it in its nightclothes.', options: [ { id: 'bucket_line', label: 'Get a bucket line going from the trough.', result: 'It is out by two. The back room is gone and the front is black to ' + 'the ceiling, and the storekeeper shakes every hand on the line.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -2 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, { id: 'go_in_for_the_book', label: 'Go in for the book on the counter.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 34 }], result: 'You come out with it under your coat and no eyebrows. Half the town ' + 'is in that book, and every one of them knows who carried it out.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Went into the burning store for the book.' }, ], }, { id: 'hold_the_crowd', label: 'Keep the crowd back and let it burn itself out.', result: 'Nobody else is hurt, which Ward says is the only part of a fire that ' + 'is the office’s business. The storekeeper does not agree, loudly.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'dutch_wants_the_ridge', stage: 'deputy', weight: 40, cooldown: 10, description: 'Dutch comes to the office sober and early, which has not happened ' + 'before, and asks whether a deputy has any say in who drives the Ridge ' + 'road now that Vane is short a man.', options: [ { id: 'put_him_forward', label: 'Say you will put his name in with Vane.', result: 'He nods once and goes, and Vane hears about it from Dutch before he ' + 'hears about it from you, which is not how you meant it to go.', effects: [ { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, { id: 'office_stays_out', label: 'Say the office does not hire teamsters.', result: 'He says that is true, and it is, and he takes his hat off the desk ' + 'and goes back down the street to wait for somebody else to decide.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -5 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'ask_vane_for_him', label: 'Walk across the street and ask Vane yourself.', requires: [{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 40 }], result: 'Vane hears you out in the doorway and says he will think about it, ' + 'and Dutch is on the Ridge road on Monday.', effects: [ { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -2 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane to put Dutch on the Ridge road.' }, ], }, ], }, { // Corporate Ladder's car lot, in Cold Fork's terms and at its scale. Same // structure deliberately: an offer, never an obligation, with the weekly // charge for falling short of it sitting in upkeep instead. // // The horse and the room used to be one event, whose description was // always about the horse. A real session was offered the room under that // text, and shown "Buy the bay" locked after buying it — a door that could // never open. Now each is its own event, gated on the tier it offers, so // neither can appear once it is bought. See DECISIONS #40. id: 'the_sale_barn', stage: 'deputy', weight: 45, cooldown: 6, requires: [{ path: 'lifestyle', op: '==', value: 0 }], description: 'The sale barn has a bay with four good years in him and a price on ' + 'him. Ward says nothing about it, except that the county pays mileage ' + 'on a horse a man owns and nothing at all on a hired one.', options: [ { id: 'buy_the_bay', label: 'Buy the bay.', requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 70 }], result: 'He is a better animal than the livery has ever put under you, and ' + 'the whole street watches you ride him down it once.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -70 }, { path: 'lifestyle', op: 'set', value: 1 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Bought the bay out of the sale barn.' }, ], }, { id: 'ride_the_livery', label: 'Ride what the livery gives you.', result: 'A different animal every week, and you learn something about each ' + 'one of them in the first mile.', effects: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 }], }, ], }, { id: 'the_ellis_room', stage: 'deputy', weight: 45, cooldown: 6, requires: [{ path: 'lifestyle', op: '==', value: 1 }], description: 'The room over the Ellis place is empty again: a stove, a door that ' + 'locks, and a window over the street. The Cordwood charges a deputy the ' + 'same as a teamster, and says so to both of them.', options: [ { id: 'take_the_room', label: 'Take the room over the Ellis place, with the stove.', requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 150 }], result: 'A door that locks, a stove, and a window over the street. The ' + 'Cordwood does not hold it against you; the Cordwood holds nothing ' + 'against anybody who pays up.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -150 }, { path: 'lifestyle', op: 'set', value: 2 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Took the room with the stove over the Ellis place.' }, ], }, { id: 'stay_at_the_cordwood', label: 'Stay at the Cordwood.', result: 'The walls are thin and the talk comes through them, and some of what ' + 'comes through is worth a deputy hearing.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, ], }, ]; export default deputy;