// Ordinary days in the mailroom. // // The first three carry no conditions, no cooldown and no `once`, which makes // them the stage's floor: whatever else is excluded, there is always a turn to // play. Everything else in the pack leans on that. export const routine = [ { id: 'first_day', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 99999, once: true, description: 'Marlene Hobb hands you a laminated card with the org chart on it. Your ' + 'name is not on the card. She says it will be, eventually, in pen.', options: [ { id: 'listen', label: 'Ask her to walk you through it.', result: 'She walks you through it. Then she walks you through it again.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Let Marlene explain the org chart. Twice.' }, ], }, { id: 'wing_it', label: "Say you'll pick it up as you go.", result: 'She puts the card back in her pocket without comment.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, { id: 'ask_trevor', label: 'Ask Trevor where you actually sit.', result: 'He shows you a desk, then mentions he has been here two weeks longer ' + 'than you. This will not be the last time.', effects: [ { path: 'relationships.trevor.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.trevor.wants_to_help_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'mail_cart', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 100, description: "The mail cart's left front wheel has developed a shriek. Facilities has " + 'classified it as "cosmetic."', options: [ { id: 'push', label: "Push it anyway. Everyone will know you're coming.", result: 'By Thursday, two floors can time their morning by you.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, { id: 'requisition', label: 'Spend the morning on a requisition form.', result: 'The form requires the cart\'s asset number. The asset number is on the ' + 'wheel. You fill it in from underneath.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 1 }, ], }, { id: 'swap', label: 'Swap it with the good cart from the third floor.', result: 'The third floor has no way of proving anything. They try anyway.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'relationships.trevor.fears_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'sorting_backlog', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 100, description: 'Two bins came in overnight and neither is labelled. Trevor has decided ' + 'this is a good day to reorganise his desk.', options: [ { id: 'grind', label: 'Sort both bins yourself.', result: 'It takes until four. Marlene notices, which is the point.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, // Trevor's bin got sorted too, and he is not too proud to notice. { path: 'relationships.trevor.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'split', label: 'Ask Trevor to take one.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.negotiation', op: '>=', value: 15 }], result: 'He takes one. He takes the lighter one, but he takes one.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.trevor.likes_you', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, { id: 'halfway', label: 'Sort what fits before lunch and leave the rest.', result: 'The rest is still there on Monday, and so are you.', effects: [ { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: -2 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'franking_machine', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 70, description: 'The franking machine is making a noise it has not made before. The manual ' + 'is in a drawer that is locked, and the key is a subject nobody will be ' + 'drawn on.', options: [ { id: 'fix', label: 'Take the panel off and have a look.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.logistics', op: '>=', value: 20 }], result: 'It was a spring. It is now a spring in the right place.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Fixed the franking machine, which nobody had managed since 2019.', }, ], }, { id: 'cycle', label: 'Turn it off and on.', result: 'The noise stops. Nothing has been learned by anyone.', effects: [{ path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 1 }], }, { id: 'escalate', label: 'Log it with Facilities and wait.', result: 'Facilities classifies it as cosmetic.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: -1 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'birthday_card', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 45, cooldown: 5, description: 'A card is going round for someone on the fourth floor. You have never met ' + 'them. The envelope already has two twenties in it and your name is next ' + 'on the list.', options: [ { id: 'contribute', label: 'Put something in.', result: 'You are now a person who puts something in.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -20 }, { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.trevor.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'sign_only', label: 'Sign it and pass it on.', result: 'You write "all the best" and immediately regret the phrasing.', effects: [{ path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: -1 }], }, { id: 'pass', label: 'Pass it on unsigned.', result: 'Trevor checks the list. Trevor notices the list.', effects: [ { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'relationships.trevor.likes_you', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'elevator', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 30, cooldown: 10, description: 'You are alone in the elevator with a man whose name is on the quarterly. ' + 'He looks at your cart. He asks how long the mail takes to get to eleven.', options: [ { id: 'honest', label: 'Tell him the truth: forty minutes, on a good day.', result: 'He says "forty" once, to himself, and gets out on nine.', effects: [ { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Told an executive the truth about the eleventh floor.', }, ], }, { id: 'optimistic', label: 'Tell him twenty.', result: 'He seems pleased. Somebody, eventually, will have to make it twenty.', effects: [ { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 1 }, ], }, { id: 'unsure', label: "Say you're not sure.", result: 'The rest of the ride is four floors long.', effects: [{ path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: -1 }], }, ], }, { id: 'overtime_week', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 40, cooldown: 7, description: 'There is a weekend inventory. It pays. Marlene mentions it in the tone of ' + 'someone who has been told to mention it.', options: [ { id: 'take', label: 'Take the shift.', result: 'Two days of counting things that were already counted.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 180 }, { path: 'skills.logistics', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'negotiate', label: 'Take it, for a bit more.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.negotiation', op: '>=', value: 30 }], result: 'Marlene does not enjoy the conversation, but she does have the ' + 'authority, and you both find that out at the same time.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 260 }, { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.likes_you', op: 'add', value: -1 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Negotiated a better rate for the weekend inventory.', }, ], }, { id: 'decline', label: 'Pass.', result: 'You have a weekend. It is the only one anyone gets.', effects: [], }, ], }, { id: 'promotion_rumor', stage: 'mailroom', weight: 25, cooldown: 12, requires: [{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 30 }], description: 'There is a post going in Dispatch. Trevor has heard about it. Trevor ' + 'mentions that he has heard about it.', options: [ { id: 'ask_marlene', label: 'Ask Marlene to put your name forward.', requires: [{ path: 'relationships.marlene.wants_to_help_you', op: '>=', value: 60 }], result: 'She says she will see. From Marlene this is close to a contract.', effects: [ { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.marlene.wants_to_help_you', op: 'add', value: -5 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Marlene to put your name forward for Dispatch.', }, ], }, { id: 'ask_around', label: 'Ask around on your own.', result: 'You learn the post has been open for eleven months.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.negotiation', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'reputation', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'ignore', label: 'Stay where you are for now.', result: 'Trevor mentions it again on Thursday.', effects: [], }, ], }, ]; export default routine;