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"predicament": "A man who has built a respectable new life is found by an old associate who threatens to expose his past." }, { "chunk": 82, "story": 6, "predicament": "A man pays off a blackmailer and learns the price will be half of everything, for good." }, { "chunk": 83, "story": 6, "predicament": "A reformed man warns a blackmailer not to push him too far, while the blackmailer sets his sights on the man's family." }, { "chunk": 87, "story": 6, "predicament": "A man who is being blackmailed hears his tormentor threaten someone he loves, and must choose between swallowing it and hitting back." }, { "chunk": 90, "story": 6, "predicament": "A dying man pressed by his tormentor bargains for time and for provision for someone he loves." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Pay what they ask.", "source": "scene:82", "moves": { "money": "-", "standing": "+", "relationships.blackmailer": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Refuse, and dare them to tell.", "source": "scene:43", "moves": { 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"chunk": 49, "story": 3, "predicament": "A man must retrieve something from where his secret lies before anyone else goes looking." }, { "chunk": 50, "story": 3, "predicament": "A man secretly searching where his crime lies keeps pulling up reminders of it." }, { "chunk": 51, "story": 3, "predicament": "A man who has failed to fix things quietly must now involve others while still keeping his secret." }, { "chunk": 52, "story": 3, "predicament": "A man hiding something is offered help he cannot accept without being found out." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Change the subject and steer them away.", "source": "scene:47", "moves": { "cunning": "+", "relationships.close": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Keep your face still and say nothing.", "source": "archetype", "moves": { "nerve": "+" }, "in_group": null }, { "text": "Promise to deal with it yourself, alone.", "source": "scene:49", "moves": { "nerve": "+", "flags.secret_kept": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Tell them the 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"relationships.suspect": "-", "flags.guilty_secret": "set" }, "in_group": null }, { "text": "Quietly steer suspicion away from them without confessing.", "source": "scene:60", "moves": { "cunning": "+" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Point at them outright.", "source": "scene:75", "moves": { "standing": "+", "relationships.suspect": "-", "flags.guilty_secret": "set" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G04", "name": "A rival is after the same person", "predicament": "Someone else wants the person you want, and only one of you can have them.", "sentence": "A suitor wants the person they are courting from a rival.", "actor": "suitor", "wants": "the person they are courting", "counterpart": "a rival", "stories": [ 0, 8, 10 ], "story_titles": [ "The Lady of the Barge", "A Mixed Proposal", "A Golden Venture" ], "standing": { "middle": 2, "high": 6, "low": 3 }, "stage": "high", "members": [ { "chunk": 4, "story": 0, "predicament": "A young man who brought the person he is courting along is 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seller who senses his eagerness." }, { "chunk": 114, "story": 8, "predicament": "Two rivals agree to settle who goes first by a game, and one slips in a condition the other does not examine." }, { "chunk": 115, "story": 8, "predicament": "A man who tried to tip a contest in his favour loses it through his own oversight." }, { "chunk": 143, "story": 10, "predicament": "A man courting for money pretends not to care about it and flatters the one he courts by letting her win." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Deal straight.", "source": "archetype", "moves": { "standing": "+" }, "in_group": null }, { "text": "Hide why you want it and haggle.", "source": "scene:36", "moves": { "cunning": "+", "money": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Butter them up first: let them win, fill their glass.", "source": "scene:143", "moves": { "cunning": "+", "relationships.other": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Slip in a condition they will not notice.", "source": "scene:114", "moves": { "cunning": "+", "relationships.other": "risk" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G06", "name": "Partners who do not trust each other over a shared prize", "predicament": "You and a partner are after the same prize, and neither of you trusts the other.", "sentence": "A partner wants their share, or all of it from their partner.", "actor": "partner", "wants": "their share, or all of it", "counterpart": "their partner", "stories": [ 2, 9 ], "story_titles": [ "Bill’s Paper Chase", "An Adulteration Act" ], "standing": { "low": 6 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 30, "story": 2, "predicament": "Two partners convinced a weaker person is secretly holding a fortune want to find it before anyone else learns of it." }, { "chunk": 33, "story": 2, "predicament": "Someone forced to share a hidden windfall admits it is now stuck where neither partner can get at it." }, { "chunk": 34, "story": 2, "predicament": "Distrustful partners stare at a fortune they cannot reach without getting caught, and blame each 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"predicament": "A plan you were sure of is coming apart, and the people you meant to fool are watching.", "sentence": "A schemer wants to come out ahead from the people they tried to fool.", "actor": "schemer", "wants": "to come out ahead", "counterpart": "the people they tried to fool", "stories": [ 0, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10 ], "story_titles": [ "The Lady of the Barge", "Bill’s Paper Chase", "The Well", "In the Library", "Captain Rogers", "A Golden Venture" ], "standing": { "middle": 3, "low": 6, "high": 3 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 12, "story": 0, "predicament": "A man pretends to be in danger to win sympathy, and the one who saved him sees through it." }, { "chunk": 39, "story": 2, "predicament": "A man who schemed to cheat a partner finds the prize gone and realises he may have been cheated himself." }, { "chunk": 40, "story": 2, "predicament": "A schemer who was outwitted must stand and smile at the people who got the better of him." }, { "chunk": 54, "story": 3, 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