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"scene:160", "moves": { "nerve": "+", "relationships.comrades": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Force yourself awake and keep your eyes on the dark.", "source": "scene:3", "moves": { "nerve": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G02", "name": "Duty demands you harm someone you love", "predicament": "Your duty requires you to do something that will destroy someone you love, and nobody else can do it for you.", "sentence": "A person under a duty wants to do right by both from someone they love on the wrong side of it.", "actor": "person under a duty", "wants": "to do right by both", "counterpart": "someone they love on the wrong side of it", "stories": [ 0, 6, 10 ], "story_titles": [ "A Horseman in the Sky", "The Affair at Coulter's Notch", "The Story of a Conscience" ], "standing": { "low": 4, "middle": 5 }, "stage": "middle", "members": [ { "chunk": 5, "story": 0, "predicament": "Someone who must kill a stranger to protect their comrades is overcome by horror at the very 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"-" }, "in_group": null }, { "text": "Let yourself be charmed.", "source": "scene:276", "moves": { "relationships.stranger": "+", "flags.charmed": "set" }, "in_group": false } ] }, { "id": "G06", "name": "Your heart is on the other side", "predicament": "You serve one side while your family, your feelings or your oldest ties belong to the other.", "sentence": "A person of divided loyalty wants to be trusted without disowning their own from those who doubt them.", "actor": "person of divided loyalty", "wants": "to be trusted without disowning their own", "counterpart": "those who doubt them", "stories": [ 0, 9, 14 ], "story_titles": [ "A Horseman in the Sky", "An Affair of Outposts", "The Mocking-Bird" ], "standing": { "low": 3, "high": 1 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 2, "story": 0, "predicament": "A son tells his father he is going over to the other side, and is told coldly to do his duty." }, { "chunk": 105, "story": 9, "predicament": "Someone asks to serve a cause their 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"predicament": "The only way to learn whether danger waits ahead is to send someone into it, and one person offers to pay the whole price." }, { "chunk": 41, "story": 3, "predicament": "Someone on a lonely errand could save themselves by giving up, but that would make the whole sacrifice worthless." }, { "chunk": 42, "story": 3, "predicament": "Someone who has found out the truth cannot bring word back, so they try to force the enemy to reveal it themselves." }, { "chunk": 46, "story": 4, "predicament": "Someone trusted for their nerve is sent alone into hostile ground to find out what the enemy is doing." }, { "chunk": 47, "story": 4, "predicament": "Someone creeping alone toward an enemy's lines hears their own comrades already writing them off as dead." }, { "chunk": 48, "story": 4, "predicament": "Someone creeping toward danger must judge from small signs whether the enemy is still there, and stake their life on the answer." }, { "chunk": 49, "story": 4, "predicament": "Someone who 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