// The three people in Cold Fork who have an opinion about you. // // Relationship-gated content, and the counterweight to the yard: the runs pay // the room, but Dutch's book, Vane's ledger and Ward's slow appraisal are what // decide whether the star is ever offered. export const people = [ { id: 'dutch_book', stage: 'hand', weight: 70, cooldown: 5, description: 'Dutch has his tally book open on the tailgate and is working through ' + 'who took which run this month. He has arrived at a number he does not ' + 'like and is now looking for somewhere to put it.', options: [ { id: 'let_him_talk', label: 'Let him get all the way to the end of it.', result: 'It takes twenty minutes. By the end he has talked himself into ' + 'thinking it was about the weather, which suits both of you.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -4 }, ], }, { id: 'check_the_book', label: 'Ask to see the book.', result: 'The tally is right and his arithmetic is wrong by two runs, in his ' + 'own favour. You say so quietly. He does not thank you and does not ' + 'forget it either.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 7 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, ], }, { id: 'trade_a_run', label: 'Offer him the next Ridge run to square it.', requires: [{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 45 }], result: 'He takes it, and the book gets a line in it on your side for the ' + 'first time. Dutch settles his lines.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -6 }, { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 18 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'dutch_drunk', stage: 'hand', weight: 40, cooldown: 9, requires: [{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 12 }], description: 'Dutch did not come in for the morning run and the morning run is ' + 'loaded. He is at the Cordwood, upright, and in no condition to be ' + 'within thirty feet of a horse.', options: [ { id: 'cover', label: 'Take his run and say nothing about it.', result: 'Vane never learns. Dutch learns, in the afternoon, from the state ' + 'of the harness, and comes and stands near you for a while without ' + 'saying anything.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 7 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'flags.covered_for_dutch', op: 'set', value: true }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 25 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Covered Dutch’s run and never mentioned it.' }, ], }, { id: 'tell_vane', label: 'Tell Vane the run needs a driver.', result: 'Vane takes it out himself at fifty-one years of age and says one ' + 'sentence to Dutch on his return. Dutch works the rest of the month ' + 'like a man being watched, because he is.', effects: [ { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 7 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -15 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 12 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, { id: 'sober_him', label: 'Walk him round the yard until he can stand up to it.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 12 }], result: 'Four circuits and a bucket. He drives it badly but he drives it, ' + 'and that distinction is the entire point.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 14 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -6 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'vane_ledger', stage: 'hand', weight: 50, cooldown: 7, description: 'The office door is open for once. Vane has the ledger out and the look ' + 'of a man who has added a column twice and got two answers.', options: [ { id: 'offer_help', label: 'Offer to run the column.', result: 'You find it in ten minutes: a freight bill entered twice in March. ' + 'He does not say thank you. He leaves the door open after that.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 9 }, ], }, { id: 'ask_for_more', label: 'Ask him what the good runs pay.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 22 }], result: 'Twenty-two, and he has been giving them to Dutch for two years ' + 'because Dutch asked in his first month. Nobody had told you that ' + 'asking was the mechanism.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 22 }, { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane for the good runs.' }, ], }, { id: 'call_in_the_debt', label: 'Mention the smith’s bill you stood for.', requires: [{ path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: '>=', value: 20 }], result: 'He pays it back to the cent, in front of Dutch, and is short with ' + 'you for two days afterwards for having had to.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 24 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: 'add', value: -20 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -4 }, ], }, { id: 'leave_him_to_it', label: 'Leave him to it.', result: 'The door is shut again within the hour.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'ward_asks', stage: 'hand', weight: 45, cooldown: 6, requires: [{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 6 }], description: 'Marshal Ward is leaning on the yard gate with no particular business ' + 'there. He asks, eventually and as though it has just occurred to him, ' + 'what came in on the stage.', options: [ { id: 'tell_him', label: 'Tell him what came in on the stage.', result: 'Hinges, nails, and a crate consigned to a name nobody in Cold Fork ' + 'has heard of. He writes none of it down and remembers all of it.', effects: [ { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -1 }, ], }, { id: 'say_nothing', label: 'Say that is Vane’s business and not yours.', result: 'He agrees that it is, pleasantly, and stays leaning on the gate for ' + 'another twenty minutes.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 }, ], }, { id: 'ask_him_back', label: 'Ask him what he is actually looking for.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 12 }], result: 'He tells you, which surprises both of you. A crate a month, six ' + 'months running, and no consignee that exists.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'ward_deputizes', stage: 'hand', weight: 35, cooldown: 10, requires: [ { path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 18 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 45 }, ], description: 'There is a man in the one cell who needs moving to the county seat and ' + 'Ward cannot leave the town without somebody in it. He is not offering ' + 'you a job. He is offering you two days.', options: [ { id: 'ride_along', label: 'Ride along.', result: 'Two days out and two back, and the prisoner talks for all four. ' + 'Ward does not, which turns out to be the instruction.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 12 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 12 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -4 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Rode to the county seat with Ward and a prisoner.' }, ], }, { id: 'mind_the_town', label: 'Offer to mind the town instead.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 22 }], result: 'Two days with the keys and nothing whatever happens, which you ' + 'later understand was the test.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 12 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 8 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 15 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Held the town for two days while Ward was gone.' }, ], }, { id: 'decline_ward', label: 'Say the yard cannot spare you.', result: 'It can. Both of you know it can. He takes the storekeeper instead ' + 'and the storekeeper tells the story for a year.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -8 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'saturday_night', stage: 'hand', weight: 55, cooldown: 5, description: 'The Cordwood on a Rest night: Dutch at the long table, half the yard ' + 'with him, and a game of cards that everybody present knows the ' + 'storekeeper’s nephew cannot afford to be in.', options: [ { id: 'sit_in', label: 'Sit in.', result: 'You come out four dollars ahead and the nephew comes out eleven ' + 'behind. Nobody says anything about it, then or afterwards.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, { id: 'buy_the_table', label: 'Buy the table a round and stay out of the game.', result: 'Six dollars, and for the rest of the month you are a man who bought ' + 'the table a round, which in Cold Fork is a kind of address.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -6 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -3 }, ], }, { id: 'walk_the_nephew_out', label: 'Get the nephew out of the game.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 12 }], result: 'You do it badly and in front of everyone, and it works. The ' + 'storekeeper hears about it before you are back at the yard.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 7 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Pulled the storekeeper’s nephew out of a card game.' }, ], }, { id: 'early_night', label: 'Go up early.', result: 'The ceiling of a room at the Cordwood, at nine at night.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 }, { path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -2 }, ], }, ], }, { id: 'the_consignee', stage: 'hand', weight: 25, cooldown: 12, requires: [ { path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 24 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 50 }, ], description: 'The crate with no consignee is on the platform again, and this month ' + 'the manifest has Vane’s own hand on it. Ward is not at the gate today, ' + 'which is itself a decision somebody made.', options: [ { id: 'load_it', label: 'Load it and drive it out to the Ridge like any other crate.', result: 'It is heavier than hinges. Vane pays you eighteen dollars for a ' + 'nine dollar run and neither of you mentions the difference.', effects: [ { path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 18 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -12 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Ran the unmarked crate out to the Ridge for Vane.' }, ], }, { id: 'tell_ward', label: 'Go and find Ward.', result: 'He looks at the manifest for a long time and then puts it back on ' + 'the platform exactly as he found it. Nothing happens for eleven ' + 'days, and then a great deal happens at once.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 20 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -14 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Took Vane’s manifest to Marshal Ward.' }, ], }, { id: 'ask_vane_direct', label: 'Ask Vane what is in it.', requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 22 }], result: 'He tells you, standing in the doorway of the office as always, and ' + 'then asks what you intend to do about it. It is the first real ' + 'question anybody in Cold Fork has asked you.', effects: [ { path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 }, { path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 }, { path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 }, { path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 }, { path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane what was in the crate, and got an answer.' }, ], }, ], }, ]; export default people;