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"Stay away rather than be seen as you are.", "source": "scene:73", "moves": { "pride": "+", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Put on a show of feeling and talk over everyone.", "source": "scene:6", "moves": { "shrewdness": "+", "standing": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Go as you are.", "source": "archetype", "moves": { "pride": "-", "standing": "risk" }, "in_group": null } ] }, { "id": "G02", "name": "A cover-up that costs more than the truth", "predicament": "You covered something up instead of owning it, and keeping it covered is now costing far more than the truth would.", "sentence": "A person with something to hide wants to keep it hidden from the person it is hidden from.", "actor": "person with something to hide", "wants": "to keep it hidden", "counterpart": "the person it is hidden from", "stories": [ 0, 2, 6 ], "story_titles": [ "The Moribund", "The Story of a Farm Girl", "The Diamond Necklace" ], "standing": { "low": 9, "middle": 3 }, "stage": 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humble himself for gain haggles over every detail of how publicly he must do it." }, { "chunk": 61, "story": 4, "predicament": "A man who traded his principles for a job must now kneel before his old rival and go through with it." }, { "chunk": 65, "story": 5, "predicament": "A spendthrift in need of money visits the one set of relatives he has never borrowed from, and despises them on sight." }, { "chunk": 67, "story": 5, "predicament": "A pleasure-loving guest endures the dull, pious household of the relatives he needs money from, and counts the hours." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Bow, and take what you came for.", "source": "scene:61", "moves": { "money": "+", "pride": "-", "relationships.holder": "+", "flags.recanted": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Agree, then haggle over how publicly you must do it.", "source": "scene:60", "moves": { "shrewdness": "+", "relationships.holder": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Refuse, without saying why.", "source": "scene:30", "moves": { "pride": "+", "money": "-", "relationships.holder": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Sit through their sermon and wait for the moment to ask.", "source": "scene:67", "moves": { "pride": "-", "relationships.holder": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Invent an excuse and slip away.", "source": "scene:68", "moves": { "relationships.holder": "-", "money": "-" }, "in_group": false } ] }, { "id": "G05", "name": "Called to account", "predicament": "Someone whose judgement you need is examining your conduct, and you must show yourself in a better light than the facts allow.", "sentence": "A person under examination wants to be judged well from the one judging.", "actor": "person under examination", "wants": "to be judged well", "counterpart": "the one judging", "stories": [ 1, 4, 5 ], "story_titles": [ "The Gamekeeper", "Theodule Sabot's Confession", "The Wrong House" ], "standing": { "low": 1, "middle": 3 }, "stage": "middle", "members": [ { "chunk": 12, "story": 1, "predicament": "A servant torn between his employer and his only young relative punishes the boy in front of the employer to prove his loyalty." }, { "chunk": 62, "story": 4, "predicament": "A man forced to account for himself insists he is blameless while admitting, clause by clause, to every small failing." }, { "chunk": 63, "story": 4, "predicament": "A man who calls himself honest admits, without seeing the contradiction, that he pads bills and bends the truth for gain." }, { "chunk": 66, "story": 5, "predicament": "A spendthrift who came to borrow is met instead with a lecture on the debts and drinking his relatives have heard about." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Admit each small failing while insisting you are honest at heart.", "source": "scene:63", "moves": { "pride": "+", "relationships.judge": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Deny it flatly.", "source": "scene:66", "moves": { "pride": "+", "relationships.judge": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Prove yourself with a 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"standing": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Press your advantage before you are sure of it.", "source": "scene:71", "moves": { "shrewdness": "+", "standing": "risk", "relationships.relative": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Ask plainly who, or what, this is.", "source": "filled", "moves": { "pride": "-", "standing": "+" }, "in_group": null } ] }, { "id": "G07", "name": "Meeting someone time has changed", "predicament": "You meet again someone you once knew well, and time has changed them, or you, almost past recognition.", "sentence": "A person meeting an old acquaintance wants to find what they remember from the changed acquaintance.", "actor": "person meeting an old acquaintance", "wants": "to find what they remember", "counterpart": "the changed acquaintance", "stories": [ 6, 9, 11 ], "story_titles": [ "The Diamond Necklace", "Farewell", "The Inn" ], "standing": { "middle": 4, "low": 1 }, "stage": "middle", "members": [ { "chunk": 80, "story": 6, "predicament": "A woman worn out by years of paying for a hidden loss meets the friend who never knew, and decides to tell her." }, { "chunk": 108, "story": 9, "predicament": "A man who has kept a cherished memory unchanged for years is greeted by a stranger who seems to know him." }, { "chunk": 109, "story": 9, "predicament": "A man meets the woman he idealised for years and is shattered to find time has made her someone else." }, { "chunk": 110, "story": 9, "predicament": "A man shaken by how a former love has aged goes home and sees, at last, how much he has aged himself." }, { "chunk": 136, "story": 11, "predicament": "A family break into their shut-up house and find the young man they left in charge changed past recognition by solitude." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Go up to them and say who you are.", "source": "scene:80", "moves": { "pride": "-", "relationships.old_friend": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Let your shock and grief show.", "source": "scene:109", "moves": { "relationships.old_friend": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Hide it behind small talk and get away.", "source": "scene:110", "moves": { "pride": "+", "relationships.old_friend": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Take them home and look after them.", "source": "scene:136", "moves": { "money": "-", "relationships.old_friend": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G08", "name": "Parted for a long season from someone you love", "predicament": "Circumstances are parting you for a long time from someone you love, and you must decide how to hold on until you meet again.", "sentence": "A person being parted wants to keep the bond from the one they love.", "actor": "person being parted", "wants": "to keep the bond", "counterpart": "the one they love", "stories": [ 2, 3, 11 ], "story_titles": [ "The Story of a Farm Girl", "The Wreck", "The Inn" ], "standing": { "low": 6, "middle": 1 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 25, "story": 2, "predicament": "A young unmarried mother leaves her baby with others so she can keep working, and aches for it constantly." }, { "chunk": 28, "story": 2, "predicament": "A mother who sees her child only rarely finds it does not know her, then must go back to her employer." }, { "chunk": 55, "story": 3, "predicament": "A man who let a brief chance at love slip past keeps it alive for years in yearly letters, regretting his hesitation." }, { "chunk": 119, "story": 11, "predicament": "A young man about to be parted for months from the girl he loves hears nothing of the duties he is given." }, { "chunk": 120, "story": 11, "predicament": "A young man parting for a long season from the girl he loves asks her, in a whisper, not to forget him." }, { "chunk": 121, "story": 11, "predicament": "A young man shut away for a long season keeps going to look toward the place where the girl he loves is." }, { "chunk": 122, "story": 11, "predicament": "A young man longing to leave while he still can watches the last chance close as heavy snow 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"in_group": true }, { "text": "Hold them down until they promise.", "source": "scene:21", "moves": { "relationships.lover": "-", "flags.promise_forced": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Chase it down, whatever the risk.", "source": "scene:114", "moves": { "standing": "+", "flags.reckless": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Let it go and carry the grief home.", "source": "filled", "moves": { "standing": "-", "relationships.family": "+" }, "in_group": null } ] }, { "id": "G11", "name": "Danger closing in, and others depend on you", "predicament": "A danger is closing in on you and the people with you, there is no easy way out, and they look to you.", "sentence": "A person others rely on wants everyone out safe from the danger.", "actor": "person others rely on", "wants": "everyone out safe", "counterpart": "the danger", "stories": [ 3, 8, 11 ], "story_titles": [ "The Wreck", "The Trip of the Horla", "The Inn" ], "standing": { "middle": 6, "low": 3 }, "stage": "middle", 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