{
 "about": "Reference setting for a pack built from Edith Wharton, The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904). Written by hand (Claude) as a comparison target for the story-to-pack tool. Labels only: the stat spine is the fixed one in DESIGN.md, and no number is chosen here.",
 "player_role_suggestion": "You are new to money and to the people who have it, in a city where everything is forgiven except being talked about. (A suggestion only: DESIGN.md makes the one-line player role the designer's to write.)",
 "stat_labels": {
  "money": "Money",
  "owed": "Obligations (what you have accepted and will be asked to repay)",
  "standing": "Standing (what people say about you)",
  "skills.tact": "Tact: smoothing things over, saying the acceptable thing",
  "skills.candour": "Candour: saying the true thing and bearing the cost",
  "relationship.confides_in_you": "Confides in you",
  "relationship.obliged_to_you": "Obliged to you",
  "relationship.resents_you": "Resents you"
 },
 "why_these_labels": "Across the ten stories, the thing people spend is reputation, and the two ways of spending it are the two skills: smoothing over (the wife in 'The Other Two', the publisher in 'The Descent of Man', Mrs. Vervain as trained by Thursdale) and plain speaking at a cost (Hope Fenno, Julia Westall at the end, the mother in 'The Quicksand'). Almost nobody borrows money in these stories; what they incur instead is an obligation to someone, so the debt slot is labelled that way.",
 "roles": [
  {"token":"{spouse}","role":"The spouse","from_scenes":"stories 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5"},
  {"token":"{former}","role":"The one from before: a former spouse or old intimate who still has a claim","from_scenes":"stories 1, 5, 7"},
  {"token":"{rival}","role":"The rival for the person you want","from_scenes":"stories 1, 5, 6"},
  {"token":"{patron}","role":"The elder with power over you: a relation, a publisher, a senior partner","from_scenes":"stories 0, 1, 2"},
  {"token":"{ward}","role":"The young person in your charge, or your child","from_scenes":"stories 4, 8"},
  {"token":"{employer}","role":"The person you work for, in their private trouble","from_scenes":"stories 1, 3, 6"},
  {"token":"{confidant}","role":"The candid friend or cousin who tells you what you would rather not hear","from_scenes":"stories 2, 7, 8"}
 ],
 "stages": [
  {"id":"outside","title":"On sufferance","standing_rule":"The protagonist is dependent, new, in service or hard up: they need something from the people around them.","example_scenes":[88, 89, 90, 91, 174, 241, 242]},
  {"id":"inside","title":"Established","standing_rule":"The protagonist is married, known and comfortable: their trouble is what their position costs to keep.","example_scenes":[12, 29, 58, 145, 212]}
 ],
 "stage_assignment_note": "Assigned by the protagonist's standing in each group's member scenes, not by the story. Groups whose members fall on both sides are marked 'any'."
}