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"standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Stay, and keep your head down at your work.", "source": "archetype", "moves": { "money": "+", "relationships.family": "+", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": null }, { "text": "Take a last walk through the old places before you go.", "source": "scene:281", "moves": { "insight": "+", "relationships.community": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G02", "name": "Telling it all to the one who will listen", "predicament": "You have carried something unsaid for years, and at last there is one person willing to sit and hear it.", "sentence": "A lonely person wants to be heard and believed from the one willing listener.", "actor": "lonely person", "wants": "to be heard and believed", "counterpart": "the one willing listener", "stories": [ 4, 11, 13, 16, 18, 21 ], "story_titles": [ "The Philosopher", "Respectability", "Tandy", "Loneliness", "“Queer”", "Death" ], "standing": { "middle": 3, "low": 8 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 33, 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false }, { "text": "Stop halfway and send them away.", "source": "scene:195", "moves": { "relationships.confidant": "-", "flags.kept_silent": "set" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Pour it out to someone who cannot judge you.", "source": "scene:218", "moves": { "voice": "+", "insight": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Ask only that they believe you.", "source": "scene:192", "moves": { "relationships.confidant": "+", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": false } ] }, { "id": "G03", "name": "An elder presses their hard lesson on you", "predicament": "Someone older, marked by their own failures, keeps urging on you the lesson they learned, and wants you to live by it.", "sentence": "A young person wants to find their own way from an elder with a lesson.", "actor": "young person", "wants": "to find their own way", "counterpart": "an elder with a lesson", "stories": [ 1, 4, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21 ], "story_titles": [ "Hands", "The Philosopher", "A Man of Ideas", "Respectability", "Tandy", 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100, "story": 9, "predicament": "A man overtaken by sudden enthusiasms corners anyone nearby and talks at them until they cannot get away." }, { "chunk": 156, "story": 14, "predicament": "A man who has done his work decently for years secretly longs for a greatness he suspects he will never have." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Double down: this time it will come true.", "source": "scene:95", "moves": { "standing": "risk", "relationships.family": "-", "flags.obsessed": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Tear it down and start building it again.", "source": "scene:13", "moves": { "insight": "+", "money": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Press it on the next person who will listen.", "source": "scene:100", "moves": { "voice": "+", "relationships.community": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Settle for doing well enough.", "source": "scene:156", "moves": { "standing": "+", "insight": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Notice who it is costing, and stop.", "source": 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"story": 3, "predicament": "A long-defeated wife decides that the only way to save her son from her husband's influence is a violent act." }, { "chunk": 60, "story": 6, "predicament": "A man consumed by fear of losing what he has begs heaven for a son who will help him take even more." }, { "chunk": 68, "story": 6, "predicament": "A man who gained almost everything he schemed for was bitterly disappointed until a grandchild seemed to fulfil his hopes." }, { "chunk": 81, "story": 7, "predicament": "A parent who rages at his own children over their lack of ambition forgets the whole matter the moment he is outside." }, { "chunk": 134, "story": 12, "predicament": "A widow insists to her son that his father was a good man, whatever people whisper, and holds him up as the model." }, { "chunk": 136, "story": 12, "predicament": "A parent terrified that a child will repeat the other parent's fate rehearses a furious scolding for his return." }, { "chunk": 265, "story": 21, "predicament": "The 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