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A debt repayment took its whole instalment even when less was owed: four dollars owed at the store cost twenty. Content could not express "pay what is owed", so an add effect's amount may now be read from state, with a cap. Five repayments across both packs use it, and a conformance test holds every pack to it. The turn record now says which options were hidden, so the analyser stops counting doors nobody saw, and it reads only feedback logs. From the same session: wages are labelled as wages, a clamped change says where it stopped, two unreadable option labels are rewritten, the sale barn no longer offers what the player already owns, Ward hints at what the promotion waits for, and the office has five more events. DECISIONS #38-40. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C6UDQ9o6L6Ey173U7XVou6
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930 lines
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JavaScript
// The second rung: the marshal's office.
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//
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// `rounds`, `office_day` and `the_cells` are the floor here — no conditions,
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// no cooldown, no `once` — so this stage can never run dry. The pay is real
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// and the days are worse, which is the trade the offer did not mention.
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export const deputy = [
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{
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id: 'rounds',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 100,
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description:
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'The evening round: the length of the street, the back of the store, ' +
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'the yard gate, and the Cordwood twice. Mostly it is a walk. The ' +
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'difference between the nights it is a walk and the nights it is not ' +
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'announces itself late.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'walk_it',
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label: 'Walk it properly, both ends.',
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result:
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'Two doors unlocked that should not have been, and the storekeeper ' +
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'hears about both from you rather than from a stranger.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'sit_the_cordwood',
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label: 'Do it from a chair at the Cordwood.',
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result:
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'You hear more in two hours than the street gives up in a week, and ' +
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'everybody in the room adjusts what they say in front of you.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'walk_the_yard',
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label: 'Take the long way past Vane’s yard.',
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result:
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'The office light is on at eleven and Vane does not come to the ' +
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'window. He knows the sound of the round by now.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'office_day',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 100,
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description:
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'Paper. The county wants its returns, Ward has not filed since March, ' +
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'and the stove is the only warm thing in the building.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'do_the_returns',
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label: 'Do the returns.',
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result:
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'Four hours and a hand that will not straighten. The county sends a ' +
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'letter of acknowledgement, which Ward pins up, which is the most ' +
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'sentimental act you have seen from him.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'read_the_paper',
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label: 'Read six months of the county paper instead.',
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result:
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'Three names in it you have loaded freight for, and one of them ' +
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'twice. You start a list of your own.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ride_out',
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label: 'Leave the paper and ride out to the Ridge camp.',
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result:
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'Nothing is wrong at the Ridge camp. Being seen there when nothing ' +
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'is wrong turns out to be most of the job.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'the_cells',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 100,
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description:
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'One cell, one occupant, and eleven hours until the county wagon. He ' +
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'has been talking since six and has not yet said anything about why he ' +
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'is in there.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'let_him_talk',
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label: 'Let him talk.',
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result:
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'By the ninth hour he has told you about a horse sold twice in ' +
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'Bitter Wells, and does not appear to notice that he has.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'feed_him_proper',
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label: 'Buy him a proper dinner out of your own pocket.',
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result:
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'Two dollars forty. He is quiet afterwards, and the county wagon ' +
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'takes a man who is not angry, which the driver notices.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -3 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'shut_him_up',
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label: 'Tell him to be quiet.',
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result:
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'He is quiet. Eleven hours is a long time in a building with two ' +
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'rooms in it and one of you able to leave.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'saloon_trouble',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 70,
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cooldown: 4,
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description:
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'Something has gone wrong at the Cordwood and the noise of it reaches ' +
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'the office before anybody does. Ward is at the county seat until ' +
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'Thursday.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'wade_in',
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label: 'Go in and take hold of the nearest man who is fighting.',
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result:
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'It stops. Your sleeve does not survive it and neither does a ' +
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'table, and the whole street knows by morning which it was.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'wait_outside',
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label: 'Stand in the doorway and wait for it to come to you.',
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result:
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'It comes to you, in ones, which is the entire trick and takes a ' +
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'nerve you did not have a year ago.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'send_for_dutch',
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label: 'Send for Dutch.',
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requires: [{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: '>=', value: 25 }],
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result:
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'He arrives inside four minutes, takes one man out by the collar, ' +
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'and says afterwards that the book is square now. It is not, and ' +
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'both of you let that stand.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: -20 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'vane_across_the_street',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 55,
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cooldown: 6,
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description:
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'Vane has a load going out that the manifest describes as agricultural ' +
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'implements, and it is going out at four in the morning, which no ' +
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'agricultural implement in the county has ever needed to do.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'stop_it',
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label: 'Be at the yard gate at four.',
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result:
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'He does not argue and he does not open the crate. He turns the ' +
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'wagon round in front of you and takes it back inside, and that is ' +
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'the last civil word between you.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 7 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -18 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 15 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Stood at Vane’s gate at four in the morning.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'let_it_go',
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label: 'Be somewhere else at four.',
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result:
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'The wagon goes. Nothing comes of it, which is the part that stays ' +
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'with you, because nothing coming of it means nothing was ever ' +
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'going to.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -5 },
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -8 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'go_and_ask',
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label: 'Go to the office at nine and ask him straight out.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 32 }],
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result:
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'He tells you, in the doorway, the same as he told you about the ' +
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'crate. Then he asks whether the star has changed what you intend ' +
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'to do about it. It has, and you say so.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane straight out, wearing the star.' },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ward_tired',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 45,
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cooldown: 8,
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requires: [{ path: 'flags.sworn_in', op: '==', value: true }],
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description:
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'Ward has been six years retiring and today he says the word out loud ' +
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'for the first time, sitting on the office step with his boots off.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'talk_him_round',
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label: 'Tell him the town is not ready.',
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result:
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'He says the town is never ready and that is not a reason. He stays ' +
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'anyway, for now, which both of you understand is a favour to you ' +
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'and not to the town.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'tell_him_go',
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label: 'Tell him to go.',
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result:
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'He looks at you for a while. Then he laughs, once, and puts his ' +
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'boots back on, and does not mention it again for a month.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Told Ward to go and retire.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'say_nothing_ward',
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label: 'Let him sit.',
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result: 'You sit on the step with him until it gets dark.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -5 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'county_wagon',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 50,
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cooldown: 5,
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description:
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'The county wagon is a day late, there are two men in one cell who ' +
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'should not be in one cell, and the second cell has never had a lock ' +
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'that works.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'sit_up_with_them',
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label: 'Sit up all night in the office.',
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result:
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'Nothing happens, twice, at two and at four. In the morning the ' +
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'wagon comes and you have been awake for thirty hours.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'fix_the_lock',
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label: 'Spend the afternoon making the second lock work.',
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result:
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'It works. It has not worked since before Ward came, and he stands ' +
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'in the doorway turning the key for longer than the job took.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -5 },
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 7 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'release_one',
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label: 'Turn the quieter one loose on his word.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 32 }],
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result:
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'He comes back at eight in the morning, as he said he would, and ' +
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'the county never knows there was a decision in it.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 8 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Turned a man loose on his word, and was right.' },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'dutch_in_the_cells',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 40,
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cooldown: 10,
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requires: [{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 12 }],
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description:
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'Dutch is in the cell. It is the Cordwood and a table and nobody hurt, ' +
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'and it is also the third time this season, and the storekeeper has ' +
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'started using the word "again."',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'let_him_out',
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label: 'Let him out in the morning and say nothing to the county.',
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result:
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'He goes to work. Neither of you refers to it, then or later, and ' +
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'the storekeeper notices that neither of you did.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 20 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'book_him',
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label: 'Book him properly.',
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result:
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'Eight dollars and a night, and his name on a county return with ' +
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'your hand on it. He pays the eight dollars. He reads the return ' +
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'twice.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -18 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 14 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Booked Dutch on a county return.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'talk_to_him',
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label: 'Sit outside the cell until he says what it is about.',
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requires: [{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 50 }],
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result:
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'It is about two years on the Ridge road and a book with nobody ' +
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'else’s name in it. He gets most of the way to saying so.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 12 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -10 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Sat outside the cell with Dutch until he talked.' },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'the_ridge_camp_dispute',
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stage: 'deputy',
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weight: 45,
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cooldown: 7,
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description:
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'Two men at the Ridge camp both hold paper on the same claim and one of ' +
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'them has a brother in Bitter Wells. The camp has asked for the marshal ' +
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'and the marshal has sent you.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'read_the_paper_claim',
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label: 'Read both papers all the way through.',
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result:
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'Both are good. Both were issued by the same clerk eleven days ' +
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'apart. The problem is in Bitter Wells and not on the Ridge, and ' +
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'saying so ends it.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'stand_between',
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label: 'Stand between them until the county can rule.',
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result:
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'Six weeks of standing between them, in instalments. Nobody is shot ' +
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'and nobody is satisfied, which Ward says is the job described.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'take_a_side',
|
||
label: 'Decide it yourself, on the spot.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'You are probably right. The brother from Bitter Wells arrives on ' +
|
||
'Thursday to find out how right, and stays four days.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 8 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'the_star_and_the_yard',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 30,
|
||
cooldown: 14,
|
||
requires: [
|
||
{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 20 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: '<=', value: 30 },
|
||
],
|
||
description:
|
||
'Vane & Co. has a note falling due and the bank in Bitter Wells has ' +
|
||
'declined it. Vane is fifty-one and has not asked anybody in Cold Fork ' +
|
||
'for anything in nineteen years, and is standing in the office doorway ' +
|
||
'across the street looking at your building.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'go_over',
|
||
label: 'Cross the street.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'He does not ask. You do not offer. The two of you stand in the ' +
|
||
'doorway of the office for a while, which is where every ' +
|
||
'conversation you have ever had with him has happened.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 12 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Crossed the street to Vane when the note fell due.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'lend_him',
|
||
label: 'Put your own money into the note.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 60 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'Sixty dollars, and the outfit keeps its animals. He pays it back ' +
|
||
'over a year, in the doorway, in instalments, never once in front ' +
|
||
'of Dutch.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -60 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 40 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 25 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Put sixty dollars of your own into Vane’s note.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'stay_put',
|
||
label: 'Stay on your own side of the street.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'The note goes. The yard is sold in the spring and the new outfit ' +
|
||
'brings its own men, and the Ridge road is driven by somebody you ' +
|
||
'do not know.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -10 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -8 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Stayed on your own side of the street.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'quiet_week',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 60,
|
||
cooldown: 4,
|
||
description:
|
||
'Nothing. Four days of nothing. The stove, the returns, the length of ' +
|
||
'the street twice a night, and a town that does not need you at all ' +
|
||
'this week and might not next week either.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'learn_the_law',
|
||
label: 'Read the county statutes properly.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'Most of it is fees. Some of it is not, and the part that is not is ' +
|
||
'the part nobody in Cold Fork has ever read.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'work_the_yard_again',
|
||
label: 'Go and load freight for a day, for the money.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'Vane pays you the hand’s rate without comment. Dutch says one ' +
|
||
'thing about the star and then works alongside you all afternoon.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 9 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'ride_the_county',
|
||
label: 'Ride the county line and look at it.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'Two days out. Nobody sends for you and nothing needs you, and you ' +
|
||
'come back having decided something you do not tell anybody.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -3 },
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 1 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
// Five more days in the office, added after the first real play of this
|
||
// stage: 69 turns saw 13 distinct situations, and `office_day` and
|
||
// `the_cells` were a sixth of the stage each. See DECISIONS #40.
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'stage_came_in_short',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 50,
|
||
cooldown: 7,
|
||
description:
|
||
'The stage came in with the strongbox eleven pounds lighter than the ' +
|
||
'manifest, and the driver swears on his mother that he never once ' +
|
||
'stopped between the Wells and here.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'wire_the_county',
|
||
label: 'Wire the county and let them send a man.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'The county sends a man in nine days, by which time the driver has ' +
|
||
'told the story often enough to believe every word of it.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -1 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'ride_the_route',
|
||
label: 'Ride the route back yourself, looking at the ground.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'Wheel ruts off the road at the second creek, where the driver says ' +
|
||
'he never stopped. You do not find the eleven pounds. You find where ' +
|
||
'they got off.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -3 },
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'lean_on_the_driver',
|
||
label: 'Lean on the driver until his story changes.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 30 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'It changes on the fourth telling, at the second creek, and then ' +
|
||
'again at the part where somebody was expecting him.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Leaned on a stage driver until the story changed.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'the_county_fees',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 45,
|
||
cooldown: 8,
|
||
description:
|
||
'The county wants its licence fees collected from every business on the ' +
|
||
'street, and the list it sent includes the woman who sells pies out of ' +
|
||
'her kitchen window on Sundays.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'collect_all',
|
||
label: 'Collect from everybody on the list.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'All of it, pies included. The county is pleased. The street is ' +
|
||
'polite to you in a way it was not last week.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -4 },
|
||
{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'pay_hers',
|
||
label: 'Collect from the rest, and pay hers out of your own pocket.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'A dollar fifty. Nobody is told, and by Sunday everybody knows, which ' +
|
||
'is how the street keeps its accounts.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -5 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Paid the pie licence out of your own pocket.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'strike_her_off',
|
||
label: 'Strike her off the list and let the county notice if it can.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 28 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'You find the statute that exempts a kitchen window, and cite it in ' +
|
||
'the return. The county never writes back, which is the county ' +
|
||
'agreeing.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'the_bounty_man',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 40,
|
||
cooldown: 9,
|
||
description:
|
||
'A man with a paper from Bitter Wells and a rifle he keeps too clean ' +
|
||
'wants to know whether a teamster called Pike is in Cold Fork. There is ' +
|
||
'a teamster called Pike in Cold Fork, and he has been decent to you.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'tell_him',
|
||
label: 'Tell him where Pike is.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'He thanks you and leaves money on the desk, which you did not ask ' +
|
||
'for and do not give back. The teamsters hear about the money first.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 6 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'send_him_on',
|
||
label: 'Tell him Pike went west a month ago.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'He looks at you for long enough that you understand he knows. Then ' +
|
||
'he rides west, because the paper does not pay him to argue.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'check_the_paper',
|
||
label: 'Read his paper properly before you say anything at all.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 30 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'It names a Pike, a year and a county, and two of the three are ' +
|
||
'wrong. You tell him so, with the statute, and he goes home.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Read a bounty man’s paper closely enough to send him home.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'fire_at_the_store',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 35,
|
||
cooldown: 12,
|
||
description:
|
||
'A lamp goes over in the back room of the store an hour after midnight, ' +
|
||
'and by the time you are in your boots the whole street is standing in ' +
|
||
'it in its nightclothes.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'bucket_line',
|
||
label: 'Get a bucket line going from the trough.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'It is out by two. The back room is gone and the front is black to ' +
|
||
'the ceiling, and the storekeeper shakes every hand on the line.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -2 },
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'go_in_for_the_book',
|
||
label: 'Go in for the book on the counter.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 34 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'You come out with it under your coat and no eyebrows. Half the town ' +
|
||
'is in that book, and every one of them knows who carried it out.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Went into the burning store for the book.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'hold_the_crowd',
|
||
label: 'Keep the crowd back and let it burn itself out.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'Nobody else is hurt, which Ward says is the only part of a fire that ' +
|
||
'is the office’s business. The storekeeper does not agree, loudly.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'dutch_wants_the_ridge',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 40,
|
||
cooldown: 10,
|
||
description:
|
||
'Dutch comes to the office sober and early, which has not happened ' +
|
||
'before, and asks whether a deputy has any say in who drives the Ridge ' +
|
||
'road now that Vane is short a man.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'put_him_forward',
|
||
label: 'Say you will put his name in with Vane.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'He nods once and goes, and Vane hears about it from Dutch before he ' +
|
||
'hears about it from you, which is not how you meant it to go.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'office_stays_out',
|
||
label: 'Say the office does not hire teamsters.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'He says that is true, and it is, and he takes his hat off the desk ' +
|
||
'and goes back down the street to wait for somebody else to decide.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -5 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'ask_vane_for_him',
|
||
label: 'Walk across the street and ask Vane yourself.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 40 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'Vane hears you out in the doorway and says he will think about it, ' +
|
||
'and Dutch is on the Ridge road on Monday.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
|
||
{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -2 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane to put Dutch on the Ridge road.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
// Corporate Ladder's car lot, in Cold Fork's terms and at its scale. Same
|
||
// structure deliberately: an offer, never an obligation, with the weekly
|
||
// charge for falling short of it sitting in upkeep instead.
|
||
//
|
||
// The horse and the room used to be one event, whose description was
|
||
// always about the horse. A real session was offered the room under that
|
||
// text, and shown "Buy the bay" locked after buying it — a door that could
|
||
// never open. Now each is its own event, gated on the tier it offers, so
|
||
// neither can appear once it is bought. See DECISIONS #40.
|
||
id: 'the_sale_barn',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 45,
|
||
cooldown: 6,
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'lifestyle', op: '==', value: 0 }],
|
||
description:
|
||
'The sale barn has a bay with four good years in him and a price on ' +
|
||
'him. Ward says nothing about it, except that the county pays mileage ' +
|
||
'on a horse a man owns and nothing at all on a hired one.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'buy_the_bay',
|
||
label: 'Buy the bay.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 70 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'He is a better animal than the livery has ever put under you, and ' +
|
||
'the whole street watches you ride him down it once.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -70 },
|
||
{ path: 'lifestyle', op: 'set', value: 1 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 3 },
|
||
{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Bought the bay out of the sale barn.' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'ride_the_livery',
|
||
label: 'Ride what the livery gives you.',
|
||
result:
|
||
'A different animal every week, and you learn something about each ' +
|
||
'one of them in the first mile.',
|
||
effects: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 }],
|
||
},
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'the_ellis_room',
|
||
stage: 'deputy',
|
||
weight: 45,
|
||
cooldown: 6,
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'lifestyle', op: '==', value: 1 }],
|
||
description:
|
||
'The room over the Ellis place is empty again: a stove, a door that ' +
|
||
'locks, and a window over the street. The Cordwood charges a deputy the ' +
|
||
'same as a teamster, and says so to both of them.',
|
||
options: [
|
||
{
|
||
id: 'take_the_room',
|
||
label: 'Take the room over the Ellis place, with the stove.',
|
||
requires: [{ path: 'money', op: '>=', value: 150 }],
|
||
result:
|
||
'A door that locks, a stove, and a window over the street. The ' +
|
||
'Cordwood does not hold it against you; the Cordwood holds nothing ' +
|
||
'against anybody who pays up.',
|
||
effects: [
|
||
{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -150 },
|
||
{ path: 'lifestyle', op: 'set', value: 2 },
|
||
{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Took the room with the stove over the Ellis place.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'stay_at_the_cordwood',
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label: 'Stay at the Cordwood.',
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result:
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'The walls are thin and the talk comes through them, and some of what ' +
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'comes through is worth a deputy hearing.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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];
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export default deputy;
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