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    3,
    9,
    13
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    "Champagne",
    "On Official Duty",
    "Small Fry"
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    "low": 4,
    "middle": 5
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     "chunk": 6,
     "story": 0,
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     "chunk": 7,
     "story": 0,
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     "chunk": 56,
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     "chunk": 123,
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    {
     "text": "Keep at it without complaint.",
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      "patience": "+",
      "flags.resigned": "set"
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     "text": "Drink to make the days pass.",
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      "money": "-",
      "standing": "-"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Take your complaint to those above you, again.",
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      "relationships.authority": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
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     "text": "Tell yourself real life is elsewhere, and wait for your chance.",
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      "flags.dreaming_of_escape": "set"
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     "in_group": false
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     "text": "Give it up and leave for something else.",
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      "money": "risk",
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    6,
    9,
    14
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    "In Exile",
    "On Official Duty",
    "The Requiem"
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    "low": 6,
    "middle": 3
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     "chunk": 52,
     "story": 2,
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    {
     "text": "Keep trying to tell whoever is nearest.",
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      "patience": "+",
      "relationships.stranger": "risk"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Laugh along and keep it to yourself.",
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      "patience": "+",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Pour it out to something that cannot answer back.",
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      "flags.grief_unspoken": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Mourn your own way, whatever they say.",
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      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.family": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Tell them to their face that they are heartless.",
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      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.stranger": "-"
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   "counterpart": "a passing vision of something better",
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    19
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    "On Official Duty",
    "The Beauties"
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    "low": 2,
    "middle": 6
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    {
     "text": "Let yourself feel it, then go back to your work.",
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      "patience": "+"
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    {
     "text": "Keep looking for as long as it lasts.",
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     "text": "Start planning seriously how to get there.",
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     "text": "Speak to the person who stirred it.",
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      "tact": "+",
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    20
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    "In the Coach-House",
    "The Shoemaker and the Devil"
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    "low": 3
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     "chunk": 134,
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    {
     "chunk": 173,
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     "chunk": 218,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A poor man forced to work through a holiday for a rude customer resents that others celebrate while he labours."
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    {
     "text": "Accept the welcome and join in.",
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      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.host": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Take the extra work for the extra money.",
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      "money": "+",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Watch from outside and keep your thoughts to yourself.",
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      "patience": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Grumble aloud at the unfairness of it.",
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      "standing": "-",
      "flags.resentment": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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   "sentence": "A humble person wants to be heard and treated decently from someone above them.",
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    13,
    14,
    20
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    "The Cattle-Dealers",
    "On Official Duty",
    "Small Fry",
    "The Requiem",
    "The Shoemaker and the Devil"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 3,
    "middle": 7
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   "stage": "middle",
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     "chunk": 43,
     "story": 1,
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    {
     "chunk": 101,
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    {
     "chunk": 102,
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    {
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    {
     "chunk": 140,
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     "chunk": 166,
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     "chunk": 168,
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     "chunk": 220,
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    {
     "text": "Bow, flatter them and ask again.",
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      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.superior": "+"
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    {
     "text": "Take the insult and carry on.",
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      "standing": "-"
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    {
     "text": "Go over their head to someone higher.",
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      "standing": "risk",
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Argue your case back to them.",
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      "standing": "risk",
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Send the polite greetings you do not mean.",
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      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.superior": "+",
      "flags.resentment": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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   "sentence": "A person who needs an ordinary thing done wants it done in time from people who expect a little something.",
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   "counterpart": "people who expect a little something",
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    9,
    13
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    "On Official Duty",
    "Small Fry"
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    "middle": 7
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   "stage": "middle",
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    {
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    {
     "chunk": 90,
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    {
     "chunk": 93,
     "story": 7,
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    {
     "chunk": 95,
     "story": 7,
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    {
     "chunk": 97,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A man threatened with a delay he suspects is invented pays up calmly rather than argue."
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    {
     "chunk": 104,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A man complains about being cheated, and is told the cheating is so universal that nobody even notices it."
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    {
     "chunk": 124,
     "story": 9,
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    {
     "chunk": 164,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A man aching for a better life wonders whether a small dishonesty is the only way to get ahead."
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    {
     "text": "Pay what is hinted, without a word.",
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      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.gatekeeper": "+"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Refuse, and put a complaint in writing.",
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      "standing": "risk",
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     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Treat them generously and make a friend of them.",
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      "money": "-",
      "relationships.gatekeeper": "+"
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     "in_group": false
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    {
     "text": "Keep your hands clean and wait it out.",
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      "money": "risk"
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    },
    {
     "text": "Take a cut of your own while you are at it.",
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      "money": "+",
      "standing": "risk",
      "flags.dishonest": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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   "id": "G07",
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   "sentence": "A hard worker wants credit for their work from an indifferent public.",
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   "counterpart": "an indifferent public",
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    18
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    "The First-Class Passenger",
    "The Head-Gardener's Story"
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    "high": 7,
    "low": 1
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   "stage": "high",
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    {
     "chunk": 143,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A capable man watches lesser people win the recognition he worked for, and cannot work out what they did right."
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    {
     "chunk": 144,
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    {
     "chunk": 145,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A man eager for credit reads the public account of his achievement and finds it given entirely to someone else."
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    {
     "chunk": 147,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A man who wins the honour he hoped for sees it buried in small print while trivial gossip takes the headlines."
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    {
     "chunk": 148,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A man starved of recognition fishes for it among strangers, and finds nobody has heard of him."
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    {
     "chunk": 149,
     "story": 10,
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    {
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     "story": 18,
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    {
     "text": "Keep working and let the work speak for itself.",
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      "patience": "+"
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    },
    {
     "text": "Fish for notice among strangers.",
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      "standing": "-"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go where people who matter might see it.",
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      "money": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
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     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Laugh about it with someone in the same boat.",
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      "relationships.peer": "+"
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   "sentence": "A married person wants something to break the monotony from a devoted spouse.",
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   "counterpart": "a devoted spouse",
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    8
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    "Sorrow"
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    "low": 1
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    {
     "chunk": 55,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man scoffs at his spouse's fear that a small accident foretells misfortune, then walks off irritated by her."
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    {
     "chunk": 57,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man tells himself he no longer loves the spouse who adores him, and takes a vain pleasure in his own misery."
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    {
     "chunk": 113,
     "story": 8,
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    {
     "text": "Take your boredom out on them.",
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Walk out to be alone with your thoughts.",
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     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Humour their worries and stay home.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "patience": "+",
      "relationships.spouse": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Look at them properly, for once.",
     "source": "scene:113",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "+",
      "flags.woke_up": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G09",
   "name": "Too late to make it right",
   "predicament": "You see at last what you owed someone, or what you let slip with them, and it is already too late.",
   "sentence": "A person who let it slip wants another chance from someone they failed.",
   "actor": "person who let it slip",
   "wants": "another chance",
   "counterpart": "someone they failed",
   "stories": [
    5,
    8,
    14
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "A Lady's Story",
    "Sorrow",
    "The Requiem"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "high": 2,
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 1
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 69,
     "story": 5,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 70,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "Two people who let their chance pass mourn it together in silence, neither able to say what they both feel."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 114,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man who mistreated his spouse promises to change, and realises too late that she can no longer hear him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 115,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man grieving a spouse is tormented that she died just as he finally felt sorry for how he treated her."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 116,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man who wasted a whole marriage in drink longs for one more chance to live it over properly."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 117,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man who has run out of time begs for a few more years to put right the duties he left undone."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 170,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A stern parent at a child's memorial remembers how little attention he paid while she was growing up."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Say it now, late as it is.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "-",
      "relationships.lost": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Sit with it together in silence.",
     "source": "scene:70",
     "moves": {
      "patience": "+",
      "relationships.lost": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Promise to change.",
     "source": "scene:114",
     "moves": {
      "flags.vowed": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Put right the duties you left undone.",
     "source": "scene:117",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G10",
   "name": "Drawn to someone of another rank",
   "predicament": "You are drawn to someone well above or below you, and the gap between you seems too wide to cross.",
   "sentence": "A person drawn across a gap in rank wants the one they are drawn to from someone above or below them.",
   "actor": "person drawn across a gap in rank",
   "wants": "the one they are drawn to",
   "counterpart": "someone above or below them",
   "stories": [
    0,
    5,
    19
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "The Schoolmistress",
    "A Lady's Story",
    "The Beauties"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 2,
    "high": 4,
    "middle": 2
   },
   "stage": "high",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 2,
     "story": 0,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 5,
     "story": 0,
     "predicament": "A lonely woman imagines devoting herself to a man above her, then sees how impossible it is that they could ever be equals."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 65,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A young woman of good family is swept up in a poorer companion's high spirits during an exhilarating afternoon together."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 66,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A man declares his love to a woman far above him, asking nothing because he knows she can never be his."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 67,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A young woman who has just been declared to is happier about her own advantages than sure of her feelings for him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 68,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "Two people who care for each other let a difference in rank stand between them, and neither tries to cross it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 212,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "Two men of different stations watch the same young woman pass, both knowing she will never notice them."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 216,
     "story": 19,
     "predicament": "A man pities someone stuck in a dull, lonely place, hopelessly in love with a beauty who will never notice him."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Declare yourself and ask for nothing.",
     "source": "scene:66",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk",
      "relationships.beloved": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Enjoy their admiration and decide nothing.",
     "source": "scene:67",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.beloved": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Mock their world instead of trying to enter it.",
     "source": "scene:68",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.beloved": "-",
      "flags.bitter": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep your place.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.beloved": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G11",
   "name": "Want nothing and nothing can hurt you",
   "predicament": "After loss or hardship, you are tempted, or urged, to stop wanting anything at all so nothing can hurt you again.",
   "sentence": "A person worn down by loss wants to stop hurting from their own longing.",
   "actor": "person worn down by loss",
   "wants": "to stop hurting",
   "counterpart": "their own longing",
   "stories": [
    6,
    17,
    20
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "In Exile",
    "The Bet",
    "The Shoemaker and the Devil"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 5,
    "high": 1
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 72,
     "story": 6,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 73,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A man who has lost everything insists he is free because he has trained himself to want nothing."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 78,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A young man insists one brief happiness is worth any grief that follows, against an old man who wants nothing."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 197,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A man who has given up years of his life for a prize discovers he no longer wants anything the world offers."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 226,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A man who got what he envied finds it hollow and joyless, then wakes to find his old life waiting."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 227,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A poor man reconciles himself to his lot, deciding nothing the rich have is worth what it would cost him."
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   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Train yourself to want nothing.",
     "source": "scene:73",
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      "patience": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-",
      "flags.hardened": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take one day of happiness at any price.",
     "source": "scene:78",
     "moves": {
      "money": "risk",
      "relationships.family": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give up the prize you were chasing.",
     "source": "scene:197",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Make your peace with your lot.",
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     "moves": {
      "patience": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G12",
   "name": "Racing to save someone who is slipping away",
   "predicament": "Someone you love is failing, and you are spending everything you have to reach anyone who might save them.",
   "sentence": "A person whose loved one is failing wants help in time from whoever might save them.",
   "actor": "person whose loved one is failing",
   "wants": "help in time",
   "counterpart": "whoever might save them",
   "stories": [
    6,
    8
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "In Exile",
    "Sorrow"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 6
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 75,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A man who drags a loved one into his hard lot spends everything trying to make it bearable for her."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 77,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A father who pins all his remaining happiness on his child watches her waste away in a place with nothing for her."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 82,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A desperate father makes yet another hopeless journey in bad weather for anyone who might save his child."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 110,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man who has neglected his spouse for years rushes her through a storm for help, afraid it is already too late."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 111,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A man desperate for help from someone above him rehearses the scolding he expects to get for asking too late."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 112,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A humble man plans to flatter and grovel before someone powerful, promising favours to win help for a loved one."
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   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Drive through anything to reach help.",
     "source": "scene:110",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.family": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Spend whatever it takes on one more hope.",
     "source": "scene:82",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "flags.desperate": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Grovel before whoever can help.",
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      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.helper": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Accept that it is beyond help.",
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     "moves": {
      "patience": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G13",
   "name": "At odds with a parent over the life you chose",
   "predicament": "You and a parent cannot accept how the other lives, and neither of you will give way.",
   "sentence": "A grown child wants to live their own way from a parent who disapproves.",
   "actor": "grown child",
   "wants": "to live their own way",
   "counterpart": "a parent who disapproves",
   "stories": [
    7,
    11,
    14
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "The Cattle-Dealers",
    "A Tragic Actor",
    "The Requiem"
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   "standing": {
    "middle": 7
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   "stage": "middle",
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    {
     "chunk": 91,
     "story": 7,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 98,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A grown child who disapproves of a parent's drinking speaks up, and is told to mind his place."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 152,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A parent puts up with dull, shabby guests because they delight his child, not seeing where it is leading."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 153,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A young woman who ran off with someone who only wanted her family's money is disowned by her family and mistreated."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 154,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A young woman trapped with a cruel partner begs to be kept and writes home again for forgiveness and money."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 171,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A parent who froze out his grown child over the life she chose remembers the visit when she tried to reach him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 172,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A grieving father cannot shake off his harsh judgement of his child even while praying for her."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Speak up to them.",
     "source": "scene:98",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.parent": "-",
      "flags.defied_parent": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Run off and do it anyway.",
     "source": "scene:153",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.parent": "-",
      "flags.disowned": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Write home asking forgiveness, and help.",
     "source": "scene:154",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.parent": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go home and try to reach them.",
     "source": "scene:171",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.parent": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Do as you are told.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "patience": "+",
      "relationships.parent": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
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  {
   "id": "G14",
   "name": "Frightened by something you cannot explain",
   "predicament": "Something you cannot account for has frightened you, alone or far from help, and you must decide what to do.",
   "sentence": "A frightened person wants to understand it, or get away from something unexplained.",
   "actor": "frightened person",
   "wants": "to understand it, or get away",
   "counterpart": "something unexplained",
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    9,
    15,
    16
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   "story_titles": [
    "A Nervous Breakdown",
    "On Official Duty",
    "In the Coach-House",
    "Panic Fears"
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   "standing": {
    "middle": 2,
    "low": 2,
    "high": 7
   },
   "stage": "high",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 33,
     "story": 1,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 129,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A tired man in charge snaps at a humble helper who only wants to be sure he is not doing wrong."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 178,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A child who has glimpsed a stranger's family in mourning is too frightened to sleep in a strange place."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 180,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A frightened child is steadied by the ordinary company of adults carrying on as usual."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 182,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A man on a familiar road notices something that should not be there and has no explanation for it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 183,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A man who cannot explain something strange is overtaken by dread, and his fear spreads to the child beside him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 184,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A man shaken by something he cannot explain delays going home, and never does learn what it was."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 185,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A man walking home content is startled by something inexplicable rushing past him in the night."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 186,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A man who has run in panic is told the plain explanation, and is ashamed of how frightened he was."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 187,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A tired man alone in the woods is unnerved by a harmless stranger he cannot account for."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 188,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "A man flees in terror from something harmless, and learns at home it was only a friend's lost pet."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Get away as fast as you can.",
     "source": "scene:184",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Find someone and ask what it was.",
     "source": "scene:186",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.stranger": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell yourself it is nothing and carry on.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "patience": "+",
      "flags.faced_fear": "set"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Stay close to someone who is not afraid.",
     "source": "scene:180",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.companion": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
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  {
   "id": "G15",
   "name": "Far from home and your own people",
   "predicament": "You are stuck far from home and the people you love, in a hard place that does not want you.",
   "sentence": "A person far from home wants to be with their own people from a hard, strange place.",
   "actor": "person far from home",
   "wants": "to be with their own people",
   "counterpart": "a hard, strange place",
   "stories": [
    0,
    6,
    15
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   "story_titles": [
    "The Schoolmistress",
    "In Exile",
    "In the Coach-House"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 6
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   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 1,
     "story": 0,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 71,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A young man sent far from home against his will sits in a bleak place longing for the family he left behind."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 74,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A man starting over in hard exile cannot stop hoping for help from the life he lost."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 80,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A poor man longing for a loved one to join him realises he could not even feed her if she came."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 81,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A homesick man dreams for a moment that his hardship was only a nightmare, then wakes to it again."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 179,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A frightened child far from home begs to be taken back to his mother, and his guardian has no comfort to give."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Beg to be taken home.",
     "source": "scene:179",
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      "relationships.guardian": "-",
      "relationships.family": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask your people to come to you.",
     "source": "scene:80",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.family": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep writing home for help.",
     "source": "scene:74",
     "moves": {
      "money": "risk",
      "relationships.family": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Settle in and make the best of it.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "patience": "+",
      "money": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
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  {
   "id": "G16",
   "name": "A stranger's death lands on you",
   "predicament": "Someone you barely knew has died near you, and the aftermath has become your chore or your fright.",
   "sentence": "A person drawn into the aftermath wants to be done with it from a stranger's tragedy.",
   "actor": "person drawn into the aftermath",
   "wants": "to be done with it",
   "counterpart": "a stranger's tragedy",
   "stories": [
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    15
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   "story_titles": [
    "On Official Duty",
    "In the Coach-House"
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   "standing": {
    "middle": 3,
    "low": 2
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 118,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "Two men sent on a tiresome errand arrive late and cold, and find nobody ready for them."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 119,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A man put out by someone else's tragedy complains that the dead person was selfish to inconvenience him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 120,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "Two comfortable outsiders talk idly about a death that has left the ordinary people around them frightened and sleepless."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 174,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "A humble man caught up in a stranger's tragedy worries about being questioned over what little he saw."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 175,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "Onlookers gossip idly about a neighbour's sudden death, and quarrel over whether he deserves anyone's prayers at all."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Do what duty asks, and no more.",
     "source": "scene:174",
     "moves": {
      "patience": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Complain about the inconvenience.",
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     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.bereaved": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Get away somewhere comfortable until it is over.",
     "source": "scene:130",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.neighbours": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Stay with the frightened people who cannot leave.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.neighbours": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G17",
   "name": "Covering up a disgrace",
   "predicament": "Something shameful has come to light, or is about to, and you could still hide it from those who would judge you.",
   "sentence": "A person with a disgrace to hide wants to keep their good name from those who would judge them.",
   "actor": "person with a disgrace to hide",
   "wants": "to keep their good name",
   "counterpart": "those who would judge them",
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    15,
    17
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "A Transgression",
    "In the Coach-House",
    "The Bet"
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   "standing": {
    "middle": 6,
    "low": 2,
    "high": 1
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   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 155,
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     "predicament": "A respectable married man, threatened with exposure over an old affair, finds the proof of it left on his doorstep."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 156,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A man desperate to hide a past wrong from his spouse tries to get rid of the evidence before anyone notices."
    },
    {
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