Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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<h1>Aesop's Fables: reference groups</h1>
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<p class="meta"><i>Three Hundred Aesop's Fables</i>, tr. George Fyler Townsend, 1867 (Project Gutenberg). 313 fables, one scene
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per fable. Summaries, predicaments, groups, options and the options measurement written by Claude reading every fable:
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no inference of any kind. A comparison baseline, not a pack. Option moves give a direction only, never a number.</p>
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<section><h2>G01 · A friendly approach from someone who would gain by your fall</h2>
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<p class="pred">Someone whose nature is to prey on people like you comes friendly, praising, inviting or offering peace, and what they propose would put you in reach.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person with something to lose wants to keep it from a known predator acting friendly. · 16 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Keep your distance and decline politely. <span class='src'>from fable 36</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>relationships.predator -</code></li><li>Accept the invitation and go in. <span class='src'>from fable 221</span><br><code>relationships.predator +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Say out loud what they are really after. <span class='src'>from fable 225</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.predator -</code></li><li>Send them round to someone who can deal with them. <span class='src'>from fable 215</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.predator -</code> <code>flags.turned_the_tables set</code></li><li>Rise to the praise and show them what you can do. <span class='src'>from fable 96</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>standing -</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>30</b> · <i>The Fox and the Goat</i> — Someone already in trouble urges you to join them in a venture, praising it highly, and you have not checked the way out.</summary><p class="sum">A fox trapped in a well praises the water to a goat, climbs out on the goat's back, and leaves him there.<br><i>Moral:</i> Look before you leap.</p></details><details><summary><b>36</b> · <i>The Sick Lion</i> — A powerful person asks you to come in close to talk, and you notice that others who went in never came back.</summary><p class="sum">An old lion feigns sickness and eats his visitors, until the fox notices tracks going in and none coming out.<br><i>Moral:</i> He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.</p></details><details><summary><b>63</b> · <i>The Wolves and the Sheep</i> — Your enemies offer peace if only you dismiss the people who protect you, claiming those protectors are the cause of all trouble.</summary><p class="sum">Wolves persuade the sheep to send away their guard dogs for peace, and then devour the unguarded flock.</p></details><details><summary><b>64</b> · <i>The Cat and the Birds</i> — Someone known to prey on people like you arrives dressed as a helper, offering to fix your troubles if you let them in.</summary><p class="sum">A cat disguised as a doctor offers to treat ailing birds, who say they will stay well if he goes away.</p></details><details><summary><b>73</b> · <i>The Fox and the Monkey</i> — You have just been raised to a high post, and a jealous colleague brings you a tempting windfall they say they kept for you.</summary><p class="sum">A jealous fox leads the newly elected monkey king into a trap, then mocks him as unfit to rule.</p></details><details><summary><b>92</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Sheep</i> — Someone known to prey on people like you is laid up and asks you for a small favour that would bring you within reach.</summary><p class="sum">A wounded wolf asks a passing sheep to fetch him water, and the sheep sees he would make her the meat as well.<br><i>Moral:</i> Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.</p></details><details><summary><b>96</b> · <i>The Fox and the Crow</i> — Someone who wants what you hold praises you lavishly, then hints at one doubt you would have to prove wrong by speaking up.</summary><p class="sum">A fox flatters a crow's beauty and doubts her voice, so she caws and drops her meat to him.</p></details><details><summary><b>144</b> · <i>The Cat and the Mice</i> — Someone who has already done you harm now appears harmless, even lifeless, and is plainly waiting for you to come out.</summary><p class="sum">A cat pretends to be dead on a peg to lure the mice, and one says it will not come near her even if she turns into a sack.</p></details><details><summary><b>172</b> · <i>The Wolves and the Sheepdogs</i> — Rivals flatter you as one of their own and urge you to hand over what you guard and share the spoils with them.</summary><p class="sum">Wolves urge the sheepdogs to betray the flock and live as brothers, and then tear the dogs apart.</p></details><details><summary><b>192</b> · <i>The Thief and the Innkeeper</i> — A stranger tells you an alarming story and urges you to act at once, and the action would leave your goods in their hands.</summary><p class="sum">A thief frightens an innkeeper with a tale that he turns into a wolf, and makes off with his coat.<br><i>Moral:</i> Every tale is not to be believed.</p></details><details><summary><b>204</b> · <i>The Thief and the Housedog</i> — A stranger showers you with sudden favours just as you are guarding something for your employer.</summary><p class="sum">A thief throws meat to a housedog, who says the sudden kindness only makes him more watchful.</p></details><details><summary><b>207</b> · <i>The Weasel and the Mice</i> — Something tempting lies in a dark corner, and you notice that everyone who went for it has vanished.</summary><p class="sum">An old weasel rolls in flour to look like food, and an old mouse sees through it.</p></details><details><summary><b>215</b> · <i>The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox</i> — A stranger known to prey on people like you is praising you warmly and asking to be let in to meet you properly.</summary><p class="sum">A fox flatters a cock in a tree, who invites him to wake the 'porter' below, and the dog kills the fox.</p></details><details><summary><b>219</b> · <i>The Lion and the Bull</i> — Someone who would gain by your downfall invites you to share a feast, and the preparations look suspiciously large.</summary><p class="sum">A lion invites a bull to dine on a sheep, and the bull sees only spits and cauldrons big enough for a bull.</p></details><details><summary><b>221</b> · <i>The Grasshopper and the Owl</i> — Someone you have been annoying suddenly praises you and invites you in for a treat, after asking you nicely to stop.</summary><p class="sum">An owl kept awake by a grasshopper flatters her voice and invites her to drink, then kills her.</p></details><details><summary><b>225</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Goat</i> — You hold a secure position, and someone who would profit from your fall urges you down to where the rewards are richer.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf urges a goat on a cliff to come down to the tender grass, and she knows he wants to eat her.</p></details></section><section><h2>G02 · At the mercy of someone who has already decided</h2>
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<p class="pred">Someone who holds your fate has caught you and is looking for a reason, and you have one chance to talk your way out.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person caught wants to be let go from the one who has them. · 14 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Answer every charge with the facts. <span class='src'>from fable 1</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>relationships.captor -</code></li><li>Show them the one thing you do that nobody else can. <span class='src'>from fable 135</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.captor +</code></li><li>Tell them you belong to the side they spare. <span class='src'>from fable 5</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>flags.two_faced set</code></li><li>Ask for one small favour that puts them off guard. <span class='src'>from fable 217</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.captor -</code></li><li>Offer to hand over your own people instead. <span class='src'>from fable 292</span><br><code>relationships.colleagues -</code> <code>standing -</code> <code>flags.informer set</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>1</b> · <i>The Wolf And The Lamb</i> — Someone powerful who has already decided to ruin you keeps inventing charges, and each answer you give changes nothing.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf invents one charge after another against a lamb, and when each is refuted eats him anyway.<br><i>Moral:</i> The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.</p></details><details><summary><b>5</b> · <i>The Bat And The Weasels</i> — Two hostile powers each catch you in turn, and you could save yourself by claiming to be whatever each one tolerates.</summary><p class="sum">A bat caught by two weasels claims to be a mouse to one and a bird to the other, and escapes both.<br><i>Moral:</i> It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.</p></details><details><summary><b>26</b> · <i>The Farmer and the Stork</i> — You are caught alongside people who were doing wrong, and your good character counts for nothing because of the company you kept.</summary><p class="sum">A stork caught in a net with thieving cranes pleads his good character, but the farmer kills him with them.<br><i>Moral:</i> Birds of a feather flock together.</p></details><details><summary><b>39</b> · <i>The Cat and the Cock</i> — Someone with power over you has already decided to be rid of you and is only looking for a respectable excuse.</summary><p class="sum">A cat accuses a cock of crowing at night to justify eating him, and eats him despite his defence.</p></details><details><summary><b>43</b> · <i>The Lion in Love</i> — Someone you fear demands something you cannot refuse outright, so you set a condition that will leave them harmless.</summary><p class="sum">A woodcutter agrees to let a lion court his daughter if he gives up his teeth and claws, then drives him off.</p></details><details><summary><b>55</b> · <i>The Boys and the Frogs</i> — People above you are amusing themselves at your expense, and what is a game to them is ruin to you.</summary><p class="sum">Boys pelting frogs for fun are told by one frog that their sport is death to the frogs.</p></details><details><summary><b>131</b> · <i>The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock</i> — Your boss needs to cut someone and you plead how useful you are, but the need is pressing and must be met somehow.</summary><p class="sum">A birdcatcher spares his decoy partridge and his cock after each pleads usefulness, but still must feed his guest.<br><i>Moral:</i> Necessity knows no law.</p></details><details><summary><b>135</b> · <i>The Swan and the Goose</i> — In the dark you have been mistaken for someone marked to be cut, and only showing your one real talent will set it right.</summary><p class="sum">A swan seized by mistake for the goose sings and is known and spared.</p></details><details><summary><b>147</b> · <i>The Thieves and the Cock</i> — You plead your usefulness to people you have fallen among, not seeing that your usefulness is exactly what they cannot stand.</summary><p class="sum">Thieves steal a cock who pleads he wakes men to work, and they say that is why he must die.<br><i>Moral:</i> The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.</p></details><details><summary><b>197</b> · <i>The Kid and the Wolf</i> — Someone who has you cornered is enjoying their power, and you could ask for one small favour that might draw help.</summary><p class="sum">A kid caught by a wolf asks him to pipe a last dance, and the music brings hounds that chase off the wolf.</p></details><details><summary><b>211</b> · <i>The Hares and the Lions</i> — You are arguing before the powerful that everyone should be treated as equals, and you have nothing to back it with.</summary><p class="sum">Hares argue that all beasts should be equal, and lions say the words lack claws and teeth.</p></details><details><summary><b>217</b> · <i>The Ass and the Wolf</i> — Someone stronger has you cornered, and you could ask them for a small service that would put them off their guard.</summary><p class="sum">An ass feigns a thorn in his hoof, and when the wolf goes to pull it he kicks his teeth in.</p></details><details><summary><b>248</b> · <i>The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner</i> — You are caught on the losing side and plead that you never did harm yourself, only urged others on.</summary><p class="sum">A captured trumpeter pleads he carried no weapon, and his captors say his trumpet roused all the others.</p></details><details><summary><b>292</b> · <i>The Partridge and the Fowler</i> — You have been caught, and you could save yourself by offering to deliver your colleagues to the one who caught you.</summary><p class="sum">A partridge offers to lure other partridges if spared, and the fowler kills him for it.</p></details></section><section><h2>G03 · Trading one hardship for another</h2>
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<p class="pred">Your present lot is hard, and you could change master, protector or post, though the new one may be worse.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person with a hard lot wants something better from the master or post on offer. · 14 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Ask for a new master. <span class='src'>from fable 125</span><br><code>relationships.boss -</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Bring in a strong protector. <span class='src'>from fable 79</span><br><code>relationships.protector +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Keep the harm you know. <span class='src'>from fable 53</span><br><code>prudence +</code></li><li>Go back to your plain, safe post. <span class='src'>from fable 228</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Sell up and stake it all on the change. <span class='src'>from fable 109</span><br><code>money risk</code> <code>flags.staked_all set</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>47</b> · <i>The Frogs Asking for a King</i> — Your group keeps complaining that its mild leader is too weak and demanding a stronger one from above.</summary><p class="sum">Frogs ask Jupiter for a king, scorn the log and the eel he sends, and are given a heron who eats them.</p></details><details><summary><b>53</b> · <i>The Oxen and the Butchers</i> — Your group is set on getting rid of the people who harm it, and you suspect whoever replaces them will be worse.</summary><p class="sum">Oxen plot to kill the butchers, but an old ox warns that clumsier ones would replace them.<br><i>Moral:</i> Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.</p></details><details><summary><b>76</b> · <i>The Widow and Her Little Maidens</i> — Your boss works you too early and too long, and you could get rid of the thing that sets the pace.</summary><p class="sum">Maids kill the cock that wakes their mistress early, and she wakes them even earlier.</p></details><details><summary><b>79</b> · <i>The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons</i> — Threatened by one predator, your group is ready to invite a powerful protector inside who may prove far worse.</summary><p class="sum">Pigeons invite a hawk to protect them from a kite, and he kills more of them in a day than the kite did in a year.<br><i>Moral:</i> Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.</p></details><details><summary><b>109</b> · <i>The Shepherd and the Sea</i> — A calm opening tempts you to sell what you have and stake it all on a trade you do not know.</summary><p class="sum">A shepherd sells his flock to trade dates by sea, loses all in a storm, and later sneers that the calm sea wants more dates.</p></details><details><summary><b>115</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Housedog</i> — A well-fed insider shows you how comfortably their employer keeps them, and you notice the chain they wear for it.</summary><p class="sum">A lean wolf admires a well-fed dog until he sees the heavy collar and log, and wants none of it.</p></details><details><summary><b>125</b> · <i>The Ass and His Masters</i> — You are unhappy with your boss and could ask for a transfer, though you have asked before and each move was worse.</summary><p class="sum">An overworked ass keeps asking for a new master and each is worse, ending with a tanner.</p></details><details><summary><b>136</b> · <i>The Doe and the Lion</i> — Fleeing one danger, you are about to take shelter with someone who may be far more dangerous than what chases you.</summary><p class="sum">A doe escaping hunters takes refuge in a lion's cave and is killed there.<br><i>Moral:</i> In avoiding one evil, care must be taken not to fall into another.</p></details><details><summary><b>177</b> · <i>The Ass and the Old Shepherd</i> — Your boss urges you to fight off a takeover, and you suspect any new owner would work you exactly the same.</summary><p class="sum">An ass refuses to flee the enemy with his master, since any master will load him the same.<br><i>Moral:</i> In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.</p></details><details><summary><b>178</b> · <i>The Fox and the Hedgehog</i> — Someone offers to rid you of the people draining you, but those ones are already well fed and hungrier ones would follow.</summary><p class="sum">A wounded fox refuses to have the sated flies driven off, lest hungrier ones replace them.</p></details><details><summary><b>189</b> · <i>The Two Frogs</i> — A friend urges you to leave your familiar but exposed position for a safer one, and you cannot bring yourself to move.</summary><p class="sum">A frog refuses a friend's invitation to leave his exposed gully for a safe pond and is crushed by a wagon.<br><i>Moral:</i> A willful man will have his way to his own hurt.</p></details><details><summary><b>199</b> · <i>The Horse and the Stag</i> — To get back at a newcomer who shares your territory, someone powerful offers help if you accept their harness.</summary><p class="sum">A horse accepts a man's bit and saddle to get revenge on a stag, and is enslaved for good.</p></details><details><summary><b>228</b> · <i>The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse</i> — A well-off friend urges you to leave your plain, safe post for their lavish one, where every meal comes with a fright.</summary><p class="sum">A country mouse visits his friend's rich town house, is chased from every meal, and goes back to his safe plain fare.</p></details><details><summary><b>291</b> · <i>The Lamb and the Wolf</i> — Someone chasing you warns that the refuge you are running to will be no kinder to you than they would be.</summary><p class="sum">A lamb fleeing a wolf into a temple says being sacrificed there is better than being eaten by him.</p></details></section><section><h2>G04 · Envying another's gift</h2>
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<p class="pred">You envy a colleague's gift or standing so much that you are tempted to copy them, or ask for what they have.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person with plainer gifts wants what the admired one has from the admired colleague. · 17 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Copy what they do. <span class='src'>from fable 265</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>relationships.admired -</code></li><li>Ask those above for what they have. <span class='src'>from fable 297</span><br><code>relationships.boss -</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Stick to what you are good at. <span class='src'>from fable 209</span><br><code>prudence +</code></li><li>Look at what their position costs them. <span class='src'>from fable 287</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>relationships.admired +</code></li><li>Learn the craft properly before you try it. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>wit +</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>2</b> · <i>The Ass And The Grasshopper</i> — You admire a colleague's talent so much that you copy their habits, though what feeds them will not feed you.</summary><p class="sum">An ass envies the grasshoppers' song, tries to live on dew as they claim to, and starves.</p></details><details><summary><b>29</b> · <i>The Tortoise and the Eagle</i> — You long for a role quite beyond your nature, and someone offers to lift you into it if you pay well.</summary><p class="sum">A tortoise begs an eagle to teach her to fly, promising riches, and is dropped and dashed to pieces.<br><i>Moral:</i> If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.</p></details><details><summary><b>31</b> · <i>The Raven and the Swan</i> — You envy a colleague's standing and give up the work that feeds you to copy their habits, hoping to become like them.</summary><p class="sum">A raven envies a swan's whiteness, moves to the lakes to wash, and starves without changing colour.<br><i>Moral:</i> Change of habit cannot alter Nature.</p></details><details><summary><b>52</b> · <i>The Ass and the Lapdog</i> — You work hard while a charming favourite is pampered for doing little, and you are tempted to try the favourite's tricks.</summary><p class="sum">An ass envious of the petted lapdog bursts into the house to fawn on his master and is beaten back to the stable.</p></details><details><summary><b>68</b> · <i>The Ox and the Frog</i> — Someone far bigger has crushed one of yours, and you are tempted to puff yourself up to look their equal.</summary><p class="sum">A mother frog puffs herself up to match the ox that killed her son, and is told she would burst first.</p></details><details><summary><b>98</b> · <i>The Playful Ass</i> — You copied a favourite's antics that everyone applauded, and are being punished for exactly what they were praised for.</summary><p class="sum">An ass dances on the roof and is beaten, protesting that everyone laughed when the monkey did it.</p></details><details><summary><b>134</b> · <i>The Monkey and the Fishermen</i> — You have watched experts do a job and are about to try it yourself with their tools, having never learned how.</summary><p class="sum">A monkey copies the fishermen's netting, gets tangled and drowns.</p></details><details><summary><b>170</b> · <i>The Crow and the Raven</i> — Envying a colleague whose word carries weight, you are tempted to speak up as if yours carried the same.</summary><p class="sum">A crow jealous of the raven's standing as an omen caws at travellers, who dismiss her cry.<br><i>Moral:</i> Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.</p></details><details><summary><b>180</b> · <i>The Kites and the Swans</i> — You are so taken with a colleague's style that you are trying to copy it, and your own gift is starting to fade.</summary><p class="sum">Kites that could once sing try to neigh like horses and lose their song.<br><i>Moral:</i> The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.</p></details><details><summary><b>186</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Fox</i> — Your peers jokingly call you the equal of those at the top, and you are tempted to leave them and move among the top.</summary><p class="sum">A huge wolf nicknamed 'Lion' leaves the wolves to live among lions, and a fox mocks his conceit.</p></details><details><summary><b>209</b> · <i>The Peacock and Juno</i> — You are admired for one gift but resent being laughed at for lacking another that a colleague has.</summary><p class="sum">A peacock complains to Juno that he cannot sing, and she tells him each has his own gift.</p></details><details><summary><b>258</b> · <i>The Eagle and the Jackdaw</i> — You watched a star performer pull off a feat and are about to try an even bigger one yourself, without their strength.</summary><p class="sum">A jackdaw envious of an eagle tries to carry off a ram, gets caught in the fleece, and is clipped and given to children.</p></details><details><summary><b>265</b> · <i>The Monkey and the Camel</i> — A colleague's performance has just been loudly applauded, and you are tempted to get up and try to outdo them.</summary><p class="sum">A camel envious of the monkey's applauded dance tries to dance and is driven out.<br><i>Moral:</i> It is absurd to ape our betters.</p></details><details><summary><b>268</b> · <i>Mercury and the Workmen</i> — A colleague was rewarded for honesty in a lucky accident, and you could stage the same accident and claim the reward.</summary><p class="sum">An honest woodman is given gold and silver axes, and a neighbour who lies to get the same loses his own axe.</p></details><details><summary><b>282</b> · <i>The Rose and the Amaranth</i> — You envy a colleague's dazzling reputation, and they tell you it will not last while your quieter one will.</summary><p class="sum">An amaranth envies the rose, who replies that her beauty is brief while the amaranth never fades.</p></details><details><summary><b>287</b> · <i>The Ass and the Charger</i> — You envy how well a favoured colleague is kept, not asking what they are being kept for.</summary><p class="sum">An ass envies the pampered warhorse until the horse is killed in battle.</p></details><details><summary><b>297</b> · <i>The Camel and Jupiter</i> — Not content with your strengths, you are asking the boss for a colleague's distinctions too.</summary><p class="sum">A camel envying the bull's horns asks Jupiter for some and loses part of his ears.</p></details></section><section><h2>G05 · Passing for more than you are</h2>
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<p class="pred">You are passing for braver, grander or more skilled than you are, and the moment that would test it has come.</p>
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<p class="meta">A pretender wants to keep the credit from whoever might test them. · 14 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Keep up the pretence and say nothing. <span class='src'>from fable 200</span><br><code>standing risk</code></li><li>Confess before you are tested. <span class='src'>from fable 234</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.examiner +</code></li><li>Laugh with them when it slips. <span class='src'>from fable 160</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.companions +</code></li><li>Double the claim. <span class='src'>from fable 198</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>flags.liar set</code></li><li>Back out quietly. <span class='src'>from fable 138</span><br><code>standing -</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>40</b> · <i>The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing</i> — You have disguised yourself as one of the harmless crowd to get what you want, and now you are treated exactly like them.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf disguised in a sheep's skin is shut in the fold and killed by the shepherd who takes him for mutton.<br><i>Moral:</i> Harm seek, harm find.</p></details><details><summary><b>42</b> · <i>The Boasting Traveler</i> — You have been boasting of a feat done far away with witnesses, and someone asks you to do it again right here.</summary><p class="sum">A returned traveller boasts of a great leap made abroad, and a bystander tells him to leap it here.</p></details><details><summary><b>65</b> · <i>The Vain Jackdaw</i> — You are presenting yourself for a top post decked out in achievements borrowed from colleagues, who are about to see it.</summary><p class="sum">A jackdaw decks himself in others' fallen feathers to be chosen king, and the birds pluck them back.</p></details><details><summary><b>138</b> · <i>The Hunter and the Woodman</i> — You have talked boldly about tackling a formidable opponent, and someone offers to take you to face them right now.</summary><p class="sum">A timid hunter asks a woodman for the lion's tracks and, offered the lion itself, says he only wanted the tracks.<br><i>Moral:</i> The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.</p></details><details><summary><b>148</b> · <i>The Dancing Monkeys</i> — Your team has learned to perform with polish, and a rival is about to toss something in front of them to expose them.</summary><p class="sum">Trained monkeys dance like courtiers until someone throws nuts and they brawl for them.</p></details><details><summary><b>160</b> · <i>The Bald Knight</i> — Something you were hiding about yourself has just been exposed in front of your companions, and everyone is laughing.</summary><p class="sum">A bald knight's wig blows off during a hunt, and he joins the laughter with a joke.</p></details><details><summary><b>187</b> · <i>The Mule</i> — After an easy spell you have been boasting of your pedigree and speed, and tomorrow brings a long, hard assignment.</summary><p class="sum">An idle, overfed mule boasts he is a racer's son, and after a long hard journey decides his father was an ass.</p></details><details><summary><b>198</b> · <i>The Monkey and the Dolphin</i> — Someone is helping you because they think you are one of their own, and asks questions you can only answer by lying.</summary><p class="sum">A dolphin carrying a monkey from a wreck drowns him when he lies about his noble birth and 'knowing' the Piraeus.</p></details><details><summary><b>200</b> · <i>The Jackdaw and the Doves</i> — You have disguised yourself as one of a better-fed group to share their benefits, and must keep silent to pass.</summary><p class="sum">A jackdaw painted white lives among doves until he chatters, and is then rejected by both doves and jackdaws.</p></details><details><summary><b>201</b> · <i>The Fox and the Monkey</i> — You are inflating your background to a companion, and they have noticed that nobody who could contradict you is around.</summary><p class="sum">A monkey claims a cemetery's monuments honour his ancestors, and a fox notes no ancestor can contradict him.<br><i>Moral:</i> A false tale often betrays itself.</p></details><details><summary><b>234</b> · <i>The Cobbler Turned Doctor</i> — Your reputation as an expert was built on noise rather than skill, and someone powerful is about to test it on you.</summary><p class="sum">A failed cobbler poses as a doctor with a cure-all, and confesses when the governor tests him with 'poison'.</p></details><details><summary><b>251</b> · <i>The Ass in the Lion’s Skin</i> — You have borrowed the trappings of real authority and are enjoying frightening people, and now you meet someone who listens.</summary><p class="sum">An ass in a lion's skin frightens the foolish beasts until a fox hears him bray.</p></details><details><summary><b>270</b> · <i>The Two Soldiers and the Robber</i> — You ran when your partner was in danger, and now that it is over you are tempted to boast of your courage.</summary><p class="sum">A soldier who fled a robber returns boasting after his comrade has killed him, and is rebuked.</p></details><details><summary><b>302</b> · <i>The Cat and Venus</i> — You have been given a new, polished role, and an old temptation is about to be dropped in front of you.</summary><p class="sum">A cat turned into a woman for love leaps from the bridal couch after a mouse.<br><i>Moral:</i> Nature exceeds nurture.</p></details></section><section><h2>G06 · Riding high</h2>
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<p class="pred">Things are going your way, and you are tempted to show it, crow about it, or take on someone bigger.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person on top for now wants to be seen on top from rivals and onlookers. · 13 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Crow about it where everyone can see. <span class='src'>from fable 71</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>relationships.rival -</code></li><li>Press on and take on someone bigger. <span class='src'>from fable 110</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>flags.overreached set</code></li><li>Keep quiet and go on shining. <span class='src'>from fable 141</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>standing +</code></li><li>Ask an old hand what your mark really means. <span class='src'>from fable 57</span><br><code>relationships.mentor +</code> <code>prudence +</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>27</b> · <i>The Mountain in Labor</i> — Someone has made a huge commotion about what they are about to produce, and everyone is gathered waiting for the result.</summary><p class="sum">A mountain groans as if in labour, crowds gather in dread, and out comes a mouse.<br><i>Moral:</i> Don’t make much ado about nothing.</p></details><details><summary><b>57</b> · <i>The Mischievous Dog</i> — You have been singled out with a mark you take for an honour, and an old hand tells you it is a public warning.</summary><p class="sum">A biting dog made to wear a warning bell struts proudly with it until an old hound tells him it is a mark of disgrace.<br><i>Moral:</i> Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.</p></details><details><summary><b>71</b> · <i>The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle</i> — You have just beaten your rival, and it is tempting to boast about it from the most exposed place you can find.</summary><p class="sum">A victorious cock crows on a wall and is carried off by an eagle, leaving the beaten cock to rule.<br><i>Moral:</i> Pride goes before destruction.</p></details><details><summary><b>108</b> · <i>The Mice and the Weasels</i> — You have been promoted and given marks of rank, and when things go wrong those marks may be exactly what trap you.</summary><p class="sum">Mice appoint generals who wear conspicuous plumes, and in the rout the generals cannot fit into their holes and are eaten.<br><i>Moral:</i> The more honour the more danger.</p></details><details><summary><b>110</b> · <i>The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion</i> — You saw someone powerful back down before another person, and are tempted to think they will back down before you too.</summary><p class="sum">An ass sees a lion flee at a cock's crow, chases the lion himself, and is torn apart.<br><i>Moral:</i> False confidence often leads into danger.</p></details><details><summary><b>117</b> · <i>The Ass Carrying the Image</i> — People bow as you pass, and you are tempted to believe it is for you rather than for what you happen to carry.</summary><p class="sum">An ass carrying a sacred image thinks the crowd bows to him and balks, until the driver's whip corrects him.<br><i>Moral:</i> They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.</p></details><details><summary><b>126</b> · <i>Mercury and the Sculptor</i> — You go incognito to find out how highly people rate you, expecting to hear you are the most valued of all.</summary><p class="sum">Mercury in disguise asks a sculptor the price of his own statue, expecting it to be highest, and is offered it free.</p></details><details><summary><b>141</b> · <i>The Lamp</i> — You are shining brightly just now and are tempted to claim you outshine the people who truly lead.</summary><p class="sum">A flaring lamp boasts it outshines the sun and is blown out by a gust.</p></details><details><summary><b>194</b> · <i>The Gnat and the Lion</i> — You have just beaten a powerful opponent and are celebrating loudly, not watching for small, patient dangers.</summary><p class="sum">A gnat stings a lion into tearing his own face, then is caught and eaten by a spider.</p></details><details><summary><b>245</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Lion</i> — Things are going so well that you feel bigger than the people above you and start to think you deserve their place.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf seeing his long evening shadow thinks he should be king, and a lion kills him.</p></details><details><summary><b>255</b> · <i>The Dove and the Crow</i> — You boast of how many people you have brought into the organisation, when all of them are stuck there with you.</summary><p class="sum">A caged dove boasts of her many young, and a crow says that only means more of them in prison.</p></details><details><summary><b>264</b> · <i>The Gnat and the Bull</i> — You are making a show of whether to leave, sure your departure will be felt, and you may not have been noticed at all.</summary><p class="sum">A gnat asks a bull if he should leave, and the bull says he never noticed him come.<br><i>Moral:</i> Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors.</p></details><details><summary><b>290</b> · <i>The Mules and the Robbers</i> — You are proud to carry the most valuable load and make sure everyone hears it, while a colleague carries theirs quietly.</summary><p class="sum">Robbers wound the proud mule carrying treasure and ignore the one carrying grain.</p></details></section><section><h2>G07 · Sneered at by someone showier</h2>
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<p class="pred">A showier or better-placed colleague sneers at your plainness or your load, and you must decide how to answer.</p>
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<p class="meta">A plain worker wants respect from a showier colleague. · 13 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Answer with what you can do that they cannot. <span class='src'>from fable 167</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.rival -</code></li><li>Hold your peace and wait. <span class='src'>from fable 223</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>relationships.rival -</code></li><li>Challenge them to a test. <span class='src'>from fable 11</span><br><code>standing risk</code> <code>relationships.rival -</code></li><li>Ignore them and heed only the one in charge. <span class='src'>from fable 226</span><br><code>relationships.boss +</code></li><li>Try to outshine them on their terms. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>standing risk</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>7</b> · <i>The Swallow and the Crow</i> — A showy colleague belittles you, and you must decide whether to argue looks or point to what lasts when times turn hard.</summary><p class="sum">A swallow and a crow argue over plumage, and the crow says his feathers at least last through the winter.<br><i>Moral:</i> Fair weather friends are not worth much.</p></details><details><summary><b>11</b> · <i>The Hare and the Tortoise</i> — Someone gifted mocks your slowness and accepts your challenge, sure they can win without really trying.</summary><p class="sum">A hare mocks a tortoise's pace, sleeps during their race, and loses to her steady plodding.<br><i>Moral:</i> Slow but steady wins the race.</p></details><details><summary><b>22</b> · <i>The Lioness</i> — Others boast of how much they produce and demand to know your numbers, when you produce little but of real quality.</summary><p class="sum">The beasts ask the lioness how many young she bears, and she says only one, but that one a lion.<br><i>Moral:</i> The value is in the worth, not in the number.</p></details><details><summary><b>24</b> · <i>The Man and the Lion</i> — In a dispute over who is stronger, your rival points to evidence that was produced entirely by their own side.</summary><p class="sum">A man points to a statue of a man strangling a lion, and the lion says a lion would have carved it the other way.<br><i>Moral:</i> One story is good, till another is told.</p></details><details><summary><b>70</b> · <i>The Heifer and the Ox</i> — An idle favourite mocks you for how hard you work, not seeing why they have been kept free of work.</summary><p class="sum">A heifer mocks a working ox for his labour and is then led off to be sacrificed while the ox is freed.</p></details><details><summary><b>88</b> · <i>The Fir-Tree and the Bramble</i> — Someone important sneers that you are of no use, and you know their usefulness is exactly what marks them to be cut down.</summary><p class="sum">A fir scorns a useless bramble, which reminds it of the axes waiting to fell the useful.<br><i>Moral:</i> Better poverty without care, than riches with.</p></details><details><summary><b>155</b> · <i>The Fox and the Leopard</i> — A colleague shows off their visible credentials one by one to prove they are the better, and you have only your wits.</summary><p class="sum">A leopard and a fox dispute their beauty, and the fox says his is in the mind.</p></details><details><summary><b>163</b> · <i>The Hare and the Hound</i> — Someone mocks you for losing to a weaker rival, but they were fighting for everything and you only for a little.</summary><p class="sum">A hound gives up chasing a hare and, mocked, says he ran for a dinner but the hare for his life.</p></details><details><summary><b>167</b> · <i>The Peacock and the Crane</i> — A showy colleague mocks your plain appearance in front of others, and you could answer with what you can actually do.</summary><p class="sum">A peacock mocks a plain crane's plumage, and the crane says he flies to the heavens while the peacock walks the dunghill.<br><i>Moral:</i> Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.</p></details><details><summary><b>223</b> · <i>The Horse and the Ass</i> — Someone high in favour sneers at you and your heavy load, and you could answer back or hold your peace.</summary><p class="sum">A proud horse threatens a laden ass, then broken-winded is put to a dungcart and mocked by the ass.</p></details><details><summary><b>226</b> · <i>The Fly and the Draught-Mule</i> — Someone with no authority over you is loudly telling you to hurry up and threatening you if you do not.</summary><p class="sum">A fly on the axle threatens to sting the mule, who says he heeds only the driver.</p></details><details><summary><b>253</b> · <i>The Flea and the Ox</i> — A freeloader asks why you work so hard for your employer when they themselves take freely and give nothing.</summary><p class="sum">A flea asks why the ox slaves for men, and the ox says he is loved and patted, while a pat means the flea's death.</p></details><details><summary><b>310</b> · <i>The Olive-Tree and the Fig-Tree</i> — A colleague mocks you for scaling back in lean seasons while they keep up appearances all year round.</summary><p class="sum">An evergreen olive mocks the fig for shedding leaves, and snow breaks the olive but passes through the fig.</p></details></section><section><h2>G08 · Help asked in need</h2>
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<p class="pred">Someone in trouble asks for help, or you need it yourself, and nobody can tell how the help will be repaid.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person asked for help wants to do right without being bitten from someone in need. · 14 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Help, though they can give nothing back now. <span class='src'>from fable 0</span><br><code>relationships.helped +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Refuse: they should have looked ahead. <span class='src'>from fable 10</span><br><code>relationships.asker -</code> <code>money +</code></li><li>Take them in and nurse them. <span class='src'>from fable 23</span><br><code>relationships.helped +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Refuse to lift any of their load. <span class='src'>from fable 51</span><br><code>relationships.partner -</code> <code>money risk</code></li><li>Stick with those who already serve you without promises. <span class='src'>from fable 230</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>relationships.staff +</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>0</b> · <i>The Lion And The Mouse</i> — Someone far beneath you whom you could crush begs to be let off and swears they will repay you one day.</summary><p class="sum">A lion spares a mouse who begs for its life, and later the mouse gnaws through the hunters' ropes that bind the lion.</p></details><details><summary><b>10</b> · <i>The Ants and the Grasshopper</i> — Someone who idled while you worked and saved now comes to you hungry, asking you to share what you stored.</summary><p class="sum">A starving grasshopper who sang all summer begs food of the ants, who mock him for not saving.</p></details><details><summary><b>23</b> · <i>The Farmer and the Snake</i> — Someone known for treachery is down and helpless, and you could take them in and nurse them back to strength.</summary><p class="sum">A farmer warms a frozen snake in his bosom, and it revives and bites him fatally.<br><i>Moral:</i> The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.</p></details><details><summary><b>51</b> · <i>The Ass and the Mule</i> — A partner struggling under their share asks you to take a little of it, and you could say it is not your job.</summary><p class="sum">A mule refuses to take a little of the struggling ass's load, the ass dies, and the mule must carry all of it and the ass's hide.</p></details><details><summary><b>132</b> · <i>The Ant and the Dove</i> — Someone you once helped for nothing sees a threat to you coming that you cannot see, and has a chance to repay you.</summary><p class="sum">A dove saves a drowning ant with a leaf, and the ant later stings a birdcatcher to save the dove.</p></details><details><summary><b>154</b> · <i>The Peasant and the Eagle</i> — Someone you once freed from a trap suddenly snatches something of yours, and you are angry without knowing why they did it.</summary><p class="sum">A peasant frees an eagle, which later snatches his bundle to lure him from under a wall that then falls.</p></details><details><summary><b>190</b> · <i>The Serpent and the Eagle</i> — You stepped in to rescue someone from a dangerous enemy, and that enemy has quietly set a trap for you in return.</summary><p class="sum">A countryman frees an eagle from a serpent, and the eagle later knocks away the drink the serpent poisoned.</p></details><details><summary><b>193</b> · <i>The Hart and the Vine</i> — Someone sheltered you when you were in danger, and now that the danger seems past you are tempted to help yourself to their things.</summary><p class="sum">A hart hidden under a vine eats its leaves once the hunters pass, and is spotted and shot.</p></details><details><summary><b>208</b> · <i>The Boy Bathing</i> — You are in serious trouble and the person who could help is busy lecturing you on how you got there.</summary><p class="sum">A drowning boy asks a traveller who scolds him to help first and scold afterwards.<br><i>Moral:</i> Counsel without help is useless.</p></details><details><summary><b>230</b> · <i>The Wasps, the Partridges, and the Farmer</i> — Newcomers promise you great service in return for a favour now, while your steady workers already do it without promising.</summary><p class="sum">Wasps and partridges promise a farmer service for water, and he says his oxen already do it without promises.</p></details><details><summary><b>261</b> · <i>The Bitch and Her Whelps</i> — Someone you let use your space for a while has built up a following and now claims it as their own.</summary><p class="sum">A bitch granted a place to whelp later uses her grown pups to bar the shepherd from it.</p></details><details><summary><b>286</b> · <i>The Fox and the Bramble</i> — In a crisis you grabbed for help from someone known to take advantage of everyone, and they have hurt you.</summary><p class="sum">A slipping fox grabs a bramble for help, is torn by it, and is told he should have known its nature.</p></details><details><summary><b>295</b> · <i>The Viper and the File</i> — You have gone to ask for help from someone well known for taking from everyone and never giving.</summary><p class="sum">A viper asks a file for a meal, and the file says he takes from everyone and gives nothing.<br><i>Moral:</i> The covetous are poor givers.</p></details><details><summary><b>296</b> · <i>The Lion and the Shepherd</i> — Someone dangerous and in pain comes to you for help, and helping them means getting close to their claws.</summary><p class="sum">A shepherd pulls a thorn from a lion's paw, and the lion later spares him in the arena.</p></details></section><section><h2>G09 · Wanting more than you hold</h2>
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<p class="pred">You already have something good, and a chance to grab more, squeeze more or stay longer is tempting you.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person with something in hand wants more from the bigger prize. · 13 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Keep what you hold. <span class='src'>from fable 137</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>prudence +</code></li><li>Drop it and chase the bigger prize. <span class='src'>from fable 156</span><br><code>money risk</code></li><li>Squeeze the steady source for more. <span class='src'>from fable 168</span><br><code>money risk</code> <code>flags.killed_the_goose set</code></li><li>Take half and get free. <span class='src'>from fable 46</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Stay and enjoy it a while longer. <span class='src'>from fable 279</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>15</b> · <i>The Dog and the Shadow</i> — You already hold something good, and a bigger prize that may not be real tempts you to let go of it.</summary><p class="sum">A dog carrying meat snaps at his reflection's larger piece and loses his own.</p></details><details><summary><b>21</b> · <i>The Flies and the Honey-Pot</i> — An easy pleasure is spread out in front of you, and the longer you indulge the harder it will be to get free.</summary><p class="sum">Flies gorge on spilt honey, stick fast in it and die lamenting their greed.<br><i>Moral:</i> Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.</p></details><details><summary><b>46</b> · <i>The Boy and the Filberts</i> — You have grabbed so much at once that you cannot get any of it out, and letting go of half feels like losing.</summary><p class="sum">A boy grasps so many filberts that he cannot pull his hand out of the pitcher, and is told to take half.<br><i>Moral:</i> Do not attempt too much at once.</p></details><details><summary><b>95</b> · <i>The Huntsman and the Fisherman</i> — An exchange with a partner has pleased you both so much that you repeat it daily, and someone warns it will soon go stale.</summary><p class="sum">A huntsman and a fisherman swap their catches daily until a neighbour warns that habit will spoil the pleasure.<br><i>Moral:</i> Abstain and enjoy.</p></details><details><summary><b>113</b> · <i>The Milk-Woman and Her Pail</i> — You are carrying your only real asset while already spending, in your head, everything you hope it will turn into.</summary><p class="sum">A milkmaid counts the future profits of her milk, tosses her head at imagined suitors, and spills the pail.</p></details><details><summary><b>137</b> · <i>The Fisherman and the Little Fish</i> — Someone you have caught asks you to let them go now, promising you a much bigger return later.</summary><p class="sum">A fisherman refuses to release a small fish that promises to be worth more when grown.</p></details><details><summary><b>139</b> · <i>The Swollen Fox</i> — You helped yourself so freely to what was lying unguarded that you can no longer get out of the position it put you in.</summary><p class="sum">A fox gorges on food left in a hollow tree and is too swollen to get out.</p></details><details><summary><b>151</b> · <i>The Seagull and the Kite</i> — You have taken on far more than you can manage in a field that is not yours, and it is tearing you apart.</summary><p class="sum">A seagull bursts its gullet on too large a fish, and a kite says a bird of the air should not feed from the sea.<br><i>Moral:</i> Every man should be content to mind his own business.</p></details><details><summary><b>156</b> · <i>The Lion and the Hare</i> — You have an easy win within reach, and a bigger, faster prize has just run past that you could chase instead.</summary><p class="sum">A lion leaves a sleeping hare to chase a hart, loses the hart, and returns to find the hare gone.</p></details><details><summary><b>168</b> · <i>The Hen and the Golden Eggs</i> — Something steadily brings you a small, sure return, and you are tempted to break it open to get everything at once.</summary><p class="sum">A couple kill their hen that lays golden eggs to get the gold inside and find nothing.</p></details><details><summary><b>179</b> · <i>The Woman and Her Hen</i> — A reliable source gives you a steady return, and you are thinking of pushing extra into it to double what it produces.</summary><p class="sum">A woman doubles her hen's feed to get two eggs a day, and it grows fat and stops laying.</p></details><details><summary><b>213</b> · <i>The Hawk and the Nightingale</i> — You have someone in your power who argues you should let them go and chase a bigger target instead.</summary><p class="sum">A hawk refuses a nightingale's plea to let him go for larger birds not yet in sight.</p></details><details><summary><b>279</b> · <i>The Thrush and the Fowler</i> — You have been lingering in one pleasant spot because it is so rewarding, and someone has noticed exactly where to find you.</summary><p class="sum">A thrush lingers on a myrtle for its berries and is caught by a fowler.</p></details></section><section><h2>G10 · Your side divided</h2>
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<p class="pred">You and a rival, or the people on your own side, are quarrelling, and someone else stands to profit from it.</p>
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<p class="meta">A member of a divided side wants to win the quarrel, or end it from the rival, and whoever is waiting. · 15 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Make peace with the rival before others profit. <span class='src'>from fable 105</span><br><code>relationships.rival +</code></li><li>Show them together they cannot be broken. <span class='src'>from fable 4</span><br><code>relationships.team +</code> <code>standing +</code></li><li>Fight it out to the end. <span class='src'>from fable 152</span><br><code>relationships.rival -</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Stop supplying the part you resent. <span class='src'>from fable 75</span><br><code>relationships.team -</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Keep switching to whichever side is winning. <span class='src'>from fable 246</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.team -</code> <code>flags.turncoat set</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>4</b> · <i>The Father And His Sons</i> — The people under you quarrel constantly among themselves, and you must make them see that divided they are easy prey.</summary><p class="sum">A father shows his quarrelling sons that a bundle of sticks cannot be broken though each stick alone snaps easily.</p></details><details><summary><b>25</b> · <i>The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble</i> — Two respected colleagues argue over who is the best, and someone who counts for nothing loudly sets themselves up as judge.</summary><p class="sum">A bramble tells a pomegranate and an apple tree to stop disputing which is more beautiful in its presence.</p></details><details><summary><b>48</b> · <i>The Laborer and the Snake</i> — You and someone you hurt, and who hurt you far worse, both have reason to hate, and you now offer to make peace.</summary><p class="sum">A father who maimed the snake that killed his son offers it peace, and the snake says neither can ever forget.<br><i>Moral:</i> No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.</p></details><details><summary><b>75</b> · <i>The Belly and the Members</i> — You and your fellow workers resent a part of the organisation that seems to do nothing, and are tempted to stop supplying it.</summary><p class="sum">The limbs rebel against the idle-seeming belly and stop feeding it, and the whole body weakens.</p></details><details><summary><b>80</b> · <i>The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat</i> — Two powerful factions are at war, and you, a nobody, offer to step in and settle their quarrel.</summary><p class="sum">A sprat offers to reconcile warring dolphins and whales, who say they would rather be destroyed than accept him.</p></details><details><summary><b>105</b> · <i>The Lion and the Boar</i> — You and a rival are fighting over something small, and you notice others waiting to pick over whoever loses.</summary><p class="sum">A lion and a boar fighting over a well see vultures waiting and make peace.</p></details><details><summary><b>124</b> · <i>The Ass and His Shadow</i> — You and a client are locked in a bitter dispute over a technicality while the thing you both needed slips away.</summary><p class="sum">A traveller and the ass's owner fight over who hired the ass's shadow, and the ass runs off.<br><i>Moral:</i> In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.</p></details><details><summary><b>152</b> · <i>The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox</i> — You and a powerful rival are exhausting each other over one prize, while someone else circles waiting to walk off with it.</summary><p class="sum">A lion and a bear fight over a kid until both are exhausted, and a fox runs off with it.<br><i>Moral:</i> It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.</p></details><details><summary><b>165</b> · <i>The Oak and the Woodcutters</i> — You are being broken apart by people who came from your own side, and it hurts more than any outside attack.</summary><p class="sum">An oak split by wedges cut from its own branches grieves more at them than at the axe.<br><i>Moral:</i> Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.</p></details><details><summary><b>166</b> · <i>The Wasp and the Snake</i> — Someone is tormenting you without pause and you cannot shake them, and you could take them down with you.</summary><p class="sum">A snake tormented by a wasp puts its head under a wagon wheel so they die together.</p></details><details><summary><b>171</b> · <i>The Trees and the Axe</i> — Someone asks your group to give up just one small, junior member, and that concession is what they need to cut down the rest.</summary><p class="sum">The trees give a man a young ash for his axe handle, and he fells the great trees with it.</p></details><details><summary><b>185</b> · <i>The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow</i> — A colleague privately warns you that your neighbour is plotting against you, and you suspect they said the same to your neighbour.</summary><p class="sum">A cat tells an eagle and a sow each that the other plans to kill her young, and both starve in fear while the cat feeds.</p></details><details><summary><b>224</b> · <i>The Lion and the Three Bulls</i> — Someone who fears you and your colleagues together is quietly talking each of you into going your own way.</summary><p class="sum">A lion afraid of three bulls together separates them with sly talk and eats them one by one.<br><i>Moral:</i> Union is strength.</p></details><details><summary><b>236</b> · <i>The Two Men Who Were Enemies</i> — You and a bitter enemy are going down together, and you care more about seeing them fall first than about saving yourself.</summary><p class="sum">Two enemies on a sinking ship sit at opposite ends, and one is content if his enemy's end sinks first.</p></details><details><summary><b>246</b> · <i>The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat</i> — Two factions are at war, and you could keep switching to whichever side is winning at the moment.</summary><p class="sum">A bat fights for whichever side, birds or beasts, is winning, and after peace both condemn him.</p></details></section><section><h2>G11 · A partner you may not be able to count on</h2>
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<p class="pred">You are joined, or about to be joined, to a partner or ally, and you cannot be sure they will stand by you.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person choosing a partner wants someone to rely on from a doubtful partner. · 18 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Ask for a surety before you join. <span class='src'>from fable 277</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>relationships.partner -</code></li><li>Decline: their ways would undo yours. <span class='src'>from fable 12</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>relationships.partner -</code></li><li>Save yourself and leave the partner to it. <span class='src'>from fable 37</span><br><code>relationships.partner -</code> <code>flags.deserted set</code></li><li>Bind yourself to them. <span class='src'>from fable 90</span><br><code>relationships.partner +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Hold them to their own words. <span class='src'>from fable 120</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.partner -</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>12</b> · <i>The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller</i> — A friend proposes sharing premises to save money, but the way they work would undo everything you do.</summary><p class="sum">A charcoal-burner invites a fuller to share his house to save costs, and the fuller refuses because he would blacken all his work.<br><i>Moral:</i> Like will draw like.</p></details><details><summary><b>20</b> · <i>The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion</i> — Danger threatens you and a partner, and someone powerful offers to spare you if you hand your partner over.</summary><p class="sum">A fox betrays his partner the ass to a lion in return for his own safety, and the lion takes them both.</p></details><details><summary><b>37</b> · <i>The Bear and the Two Travelers</i> — When trouble struck, your companion saved themselves and left you to face it alone, and now they joke about it.</summary><p class="sum">One traveller climbs a tree and leaves his friend to face a bear, and the friend later says the bear warned him against such companions.<br><i>Moral:</i> Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.</p></details><details><summary><b>58</b> · <i>The Goatherd and the Wild Goats</i> — Someone courting you treats you better than the people who have served them for years, and you wonder what that means for you.</summary><p class="sum">A goatherd feeds stray wild goats better than his own to win them, and they leave, reasoning he would do the same to them.<br><i>Moral:</i> Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.</p></details><details><summary><b>60</b> · <i>The Sick Stag</i> — While you are laid low, a stream of well-wishers visits, and each helps themselves to a little of what you need.</summary><p class="sum">A sick stag's many visitors each eat some of his food, so he dies of want rather than illness.<br><i>Moral:</i> Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.</p></details><details><summary><b>82</b> · <i>The Two Pots</i> — Someone much stronger than you wants to travel alongside you, and even friendly contact could break you.</summary><p class="sum">An earthen pot floating downstream begs a brass pot to keep away, since any touch would break her.<br><i>Moral:</i> Equals make the best friends.</p></details><details><summary><b>90</b> · <i>The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk</i> — A new acquaintance proposes binding your fortunes tightly together, and you would be on their ground, not yours.</summary><p class="sum">A frog ties a mouse's foot to his own and drowns him, and a hawk carries off both.<br><i>Moral:</i> Harm hatch, harm catch.</p></details><details><summary><b>102</b> · <i>The Lion and the Dolphin</i> — An impressive ally from another field swore friendship with you, and now you need help they have no means to give.</summary><p class="sum">A lion allies with a dolphin, and when the dolphin cannot come ashore to help him fight, calls him a traitor.</p></details><details><summary><b>120</b> · <i>The Two Travelers and the Axe</i> — A companion kept a find to themselves, and now that it has brought trouble they want you to share the blame.</summary><p class="sum">A traveller says 'I' found the axe but 'we' are undone when the owner comes, and his companion holds him to 'I'.<br><i>Moral:</i> He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.</p></details><details><summary><b>127</b> · <i>The Fox and the Woodcutter</i> — Someone claims you owe them for protecting you, when their words protected you and their gestures quietly gave you away.</summary><p class="sum">A woodcutter hides a fox but points to it while denying it, and the fox leaves without thanks.</p></details><details><summary><b>181</b> · <i>The Dog and the Hare</i> — Someone alternately attacks you and flatters you, and you cannot tell whether to treat them as friend or enemy.</summary><p class="sum">A hound alternately bites and fawns on a hare, who asks him to show his true colours.<br><i>Moral:</i> No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or distrust him.</p></details><details><summary><b>182</b> · <i>The Hares and the Foxes</i> — Someone weak who has picked a fight with the powerful asks you to join their side.</summary><p class="sum">Hares at war with eagles ask the foxes for help, who decline knowing both sides.<br><i>Moral:</i> Count the cost before you commit yourselves.</p></details><details><summary><b>184</b> · <i>The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep</i> — Someone asks you for a loan and offers as guarantor another person well known for taking what they want and vanishing.</summary><p class="sum">A stag asks a sheep for a loan with the wolf as surety, and the sheep declines, doubting she could ever collect.<br><i>Moral:</i> Two blacks do not make one white.</p></details><details><summary><b>254</b> · <i>The Ass and His Purchaser</i> — You are new and on trial, and the first thing you do is choose whom to fall in with.</summary><p class="sum">A buyer returns an ass on trial because it at once joined the laziest ass in the yard.<br><i>Moral:</i> A man is known by the company he keeps.</p></details><details><summary><b>256</b> · <i>The Man and the Satyr</i> — Your new ally has watched you argue both sides of the same question within a day, and is doubting you.</summary><p class="sum">A satyr breaks his friendship with a man who blows on his hands to warm them and on his food to cool it.</p></details><details><summary><b>277</b> · <i>The Lion and the Eagle</i> — Someone proposes a partnership who could walk away from it at any moment, while you could not.</summary><p class="sum">An eagle proposes an alliance, and the lion asks for a surety since the eagle could fly off whenever he likes.<br><i>Moral:</i> Try before you trust.</p></details><details><summary><b>284</b> · <i>The Ass and the Horse</i> — Someone refuses you a small favour now but promises a much larger one later, and you are asked to be grateful.</summary><p class="sum">A horse refuses the ass a little feed now but promises a sackful later, and the ass does not believe it.</p></details><details><summary><b>299</b> · <i>The Eagle and the Kite</i> — Someone courting you for a partnership boasts of what they can deliver, and you have no way yet to check.</summary><p class="sum">A kite boasts he can catch ostriches to win an eagle's hand, and brings her a stale mouse.</p></details></section><section><h2>G12 · Rushing in without looking</h2>
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<p class="pred">Something you want is right in front of you, or you are intent on a target, and you have not looked at the danger.</p>
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<p class="meta">A eager person wants what is in front of them from the danger they have not seen. · 13 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Go for it now before it is gone. <span class='src'>from fable 32</span><br><code>money risk</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Ask how you get out before going in. <span class='src'>from fable 140</span><br><code>prudence +</code></li><li>Keep your eyes on your target. <span class='src'>from fable 222</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Wait for a surer sign before you act. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>money -</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>13</b> · <i>The Boy Hunting Locusts</i> — You have been collecting easy wins, and the next thing you are about to grab looks like the others but is dangerous.</summary><p class="sum">A boy catching locusts reaches for a scorpion, which warns him he would have lost everything had he touched it.</p></details><details><summary><b>18</b> · <i>The Herdsman and the Lost Bull</i> — You swore to track down whoever took from you, and have just found out the culprit is far more dangerous than you.</summary><p class="sum">A herdsman vows an offering to find his calf's thief, then finds a lion eating it and vows more to escape.</p></details><details><summary><b>32</b> · <i>The Thirsty Pigeon</i> — You badly need something, and what looks like it has just appeared, so you rush at it without checking that it is real.</summary><p class="sum">A thirsty pigeon flies at a painted goblet on a signboard and breaks her wings.<br><i>Moral:</i> Zeal should not outrun discretion.</p></details><details><summary><b>62</b> · <i>The Astronomer</i> — You have been so absorbed in lofty plans that you have fallen into trouble right in front of you, and must call for help.</summary><p class="sum">An astronomer gazing at the stars falls into a well, and a neighbour asks why he cannot see what is on earth.</p></details><details><summary><b>99</b> · <i>The Stag in the Ox-Stall</i> — You are hiding from trouble in a place you should not be, the careless have passed you by, and the sharp-eyed boss is coming.</summary><p class="sum">A hunted stag hides in an ox-stall, escapes the servants' notice, and is found by the sharp-eyed master.</p></details><details><summary><b>107</b> · <i>The One-Eyed Doe</i> — You have guarded carefully against the threat you expect, and turned your back entirely on the side you assume is safe.</summary><p class="sum">A one-eyed doe watches the land and is shot from the sea she thought safe.</p></details><details><summary><b>140</b> · <i>The Two Frogs</i> — You and a partner must move, and an attractive opening has appeared that would be very hard to leave if it failed.</summary><p class="sum">Two frogs seeking a new home find a deep well, and one asks how they would get out if it dried up.<br><i>Moral:</i> Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.</p></details><details><summary><b>150</b> · <i>The Traveler and Fortune</i> — You are careless in a dangerous spot, and if you come to grief you will blame bad luck rather than yourself.</summary><p class="sum">Fortune wakes a traveller asleep on a well's brink, lest she be blamed for his fall.<br><i>Moral:</i> Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.</p></details><details><summary><b>216</b> · <i>The Geese and the Cranes</i> — Danger is coming for everyone in your position, and the nimble are already slipping away while you are weighed down.</summary><p class="sum">Cranes fly off at a birdcatcher's approach, while the heavier geese are caught.</p></details><details><summary><b>222</b> · <i>The Fowler and the Viper</i> — You are so intent on a target you are stalking that you have stopped watching where you are putting your own feet.</summary><p class="sum">A fowler staring up at a thrush treads on a viper and is fatally stung.</p></details><details><summary><b>247</b> · <i>The Spendthrift and the Swallow</i> — Having run through almost everything, you see an early sign of good times and are tempted to sell your last safeguard.</summary><p class="sum">A spendthrift sells his last cloak on seeing an early swallow, and the frost returns.</p></details><details><summary><b>289</b> · <i>The Dog and the Oyster</i> — Something new looks just like what you are used to handling, and you are about to take it on without a second look.</summary><p class="sum">A dog used to eggs swallows an oyster whole and suffers for thinking everything round is an egg.<br><i>Moral:</i> They who act without sufficient thought, will often fall into unsuspected danger.</p></details><details><summary><b>308</b> · <i>The Crow and the Serpent</i> — You are desperate, and an easy prize seems to have been left lying unguarded right in front of you.</summary><p class="sum">A hungry crow seizes a sleeping serpent as a windfall and is bitten to death.</p></details></section><section><h2>G13 · Pointing at others' faults</h2>
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<p class="pred">Faults are being pointed out, by you or at you, and the one pointing shares the fault or gains by the blame.</p>
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<p class="meta">A critic or criticised wants to be in the right from the other party. · 14 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Ask them to show you how. <span class='src'>from fable 84</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.critic -</code></li><li>Point out that they do the same. <span class='src'>from fable 122</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.critic -</code> <code>standing +</code></li><li>Ask what they gain by the advice. <span class='src'>from fable 38</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>relationships.adviser -</code></li><li>Find fault with everyone. <span class='src'>from fable 257</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.colleagues -</code></li><li>Look at your own faults first. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>relationships.colleagues +</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>9</b> · <i>The Traveler and His Dog</i> — Someone above you blames you for the delay, when in fact you have long been ready and are waiting on them.</summary><p class="sum">A traveller scolds his dog for dawdling, and the dog replies that he is ready and waiting on his master.<br><i>Moral:</i> The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.</p></details><details><summary><b>28</b> · <i>The Bear and the Fox</i> — Someone boasts of their kindness in a way that costs them nothing, while they keep harming those who are still around.</summary><p class="sum">A bear boasts he loves men so much he never touches their dead, and a fox wishes he spared the living instead.</p></details><details><summary><b>38</b> · <i>The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail</i> — Someone who has suffered a loss urges everyone to give up the same thing, claiming it is an improvement for all.</summary><p class="sum">A fox who lost his tail urges all the other foxes to cut theirs off, and one sees through him.</p></details><details><summary><b>84</b> · <i>The Crab and Its Mother</i> — You are correcting a junior for a fault you plainly share, and they ask you to demonstrate the right way.</summary><p class="sum">A crab tells her son to walk straight, and he asks her to show him how.<br><i>Moral:</i> Example is more powerful than precept.</p></details><details><summary><b>111</b> · <i>The Rivers and the Sea</i> — People who keep choosing to join you complain that you change them, and are trying to lay the blame on you.</summary><p class="sum">The rivers complain the sea makes them salty, and the sea tells them to stop flowing into it.</p></details><details><summary><b>116</b> · <i>The Three Tradesmen</i> — In a crisis everyone is asked for the best solution, and each expert recommends exactly what they happen to sell.</summary><p class="sum">A besieged city asks how to defend itself, and the bricklayer, carpenter and currier each propose their own trade.<br><i>Moral:</i> Every man for himself.</p></details><details><summary><b>122</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Shepherds</i> — The people who condemn you for something are openly doing the very same thing themselves.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf sees shepherds eating mutton and remarks on the outcry there would be if he did the same.</p></details><details><summary><b>153</b> · <i>The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury</i> — You are loudly condemning those above for punishing many for one person's fault, and you have just done the same to those below.</summary><p class="sum">A philosopher decrying Providence for drowning the innocent with the guilty tramples an anthill for one sting.</p></details><details><summary><b>173</b> · <i>The Bull, the Lioness, and the Wild-Boar Hunter</i> — You are loudly grieving a loss, and someone reminds you how many people have suffered the same at your hands.</summary><p class="sum">A lioness mourns her cub killed by a bull, and a hunter reminds her how many she has made mourn.</p></details><details><summary><b>188</b> · <i>The Prophet</i> — You make your living advising others on what is coming, and a disaster has just struck you that you failed to foresee.</summary><p class="sum">A fortune-teller runs home on hearing his house is being robbed, and a neighbour asks why he did not foresee it.</p></details><details><summary><b>239</b> · <i>The Quack Frog</i> — Someone offers to fix everyone else's problems, while their own obvious failings are there for all to see.</summary><p class="sum">A frog proclaims himself a physician, and a fox asks why he cannot cure his own gait and skin.</p></details><details><summary><b>257</b> · <i>Jupiter, Neptune, Minerva, and Momus</i> — You have been asked to judge between colleagues' work, and your envy is tempting you to find fault with all of it.</summary><p class="sum">Momus, made judge of the gods' works, envies and faults all three, and is expelled.</p></details><details><summary><b>260</b> · <i>The Two Bags</i> — You see a colleague's faults very clearly and are ready to point them out, without looking at your own.</summary><p class="sum">Every man carries a bag of his neighbours' faults in front and a bigger bag of his own behind.<br><i>Moral:</i> Hence it is that men are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.</p></details><details><summary><b>306</b> · <i>The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea</i> — You were ruined in a venture and blame the institution, which says it was only stirred up by others.</summary><p class="sum">A shipwrecked man blames the sea, who says the winds are to blame for her fury.</p></details></section><section><h2>G14 · Liberties between the weak and the strong</h2>
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<p class="pred">Someone powerful is down, caged or out of reach, or someone small is needling you, and a blow could be struck.</p>
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<p class="meta">A weak or strong party wants to strike, or to be left alone from the other party. · 15 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Taunt them while they cannot reach you. <span class='src'>from fable 66</span><br><code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.powerful -</code></li><li>Pursue them however long it takes. <span class='src'>from fable 303</span><br><code>relationships.powerful -</code> <code>flags.revenge set</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Help them while they are down. <span class='src'>from fable 298</span><br><code>relationships.powerful +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Kick them now that they are down. <span class='src'>from fable 232</span><br><code>relationships.powerful -</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Let a small insult pass. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>prudence +</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>49</b> · <i>The Lion, the Mouse, and the Fox</i> — Someone far beneath you has taken a small liberty, and a bystander mocks you for making so much of it.</summary><p class="sum">A lion woken by a mouse searches his den in fury, and tells a mocking fox it is the mouse's cheek, not the mouse, he resents.<br><i>Moral:</i> Little liberties are great offenses.</p></details><details><summary><b>66</b> · <i>The Kid and the Wolf</i> — You are safely out of reach of someone powerful for the moment, and it is tempting to taunt them while you can.</summary><p class="sum">A kid on a rooftop taunts a passing wolf, who says it is the roof that mocks him.<br><i>Moral:</i> Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.</p></details><details><summary><b>77</b> · <i>The Vine and the Goat</i> — Someone is stripping you bare without cause, and you know that in time you will have a hand in their downfall.</summary><p class="sum">A vine cropped by a goat says she will provide the wine poured over him at his sacrifice.</p></details><details><summary><b>121</b> · <i>The Old Lion</i> — Once powerful, you are now weak, and even the least of those you once ruled are lining up to strike at you.</summary><p class="sum">A dying old lion is struck by the boar and the bull, and then kicked by the ass.</p></details><details><summary><b>145</b> · <i>The Mouse and the Bull</i> — Someone powerful is furious with you but cannot reach you where you are safe, and you could sting them again.</summary><p class="sum">A mouse bites a bull, hides in its hole, and bites him again while he sleeps.</p></details><details><summary><b>159</b> · <i>The Bull and the Goat</i> — While you are sheltering from a bigger threat, someone lesser takes the chance to attack you, knowing you cannot answer yet.</summary><p class="sum">A bull hiding from a lion in a cave is butted by a goat, and says he will answer once the lion is gone.<br><i>Moral:</i> It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.</p></details><details><summary><b>175</b> · <i>The Camel</i> — People who once feared you have noticed you never push back, and are growing bolder by the day.</summary><p class="sum">Men first flee the huge camel, then, finding it meek, bridle it and let a child drive it.<br><i>Moral:</i> Use serves to overcome dread.</p></details><details><summary><b>206</b> · <i>The Fox and the Lion</i> — You were terrified the first time you met someone very powerful, and each meeting since, you have been growing bolder.</summary><p class="sum">A fox terrified at first sight of a lion grows bolder each meeting until he chats with him.<br><i>Moral:</i> Acquaintance softens prejudices.</p></details><details><summary><b>232</b> · <i>The Dogs and the Fox</i> — Someone who once ruled over you is gone for good, and everyone is now bravely tearing into their reputation.</summary><p class="sum">Dogs tear at a lion's skin, and a fox says they would learn a lion's claws if it were alive.<br><i>Moral:</i> It is easy to kick a man that is down.</p></details><details><summary><b>238</b> · <i>The Fox and the Lion</i> — Someone powerful is trapped by circumstances for now, and it is tempting to insult them while they cannot answer.</summary><p class="sum">A fox reviles a caged lion, who says it is his mischance, not the fox, that insults him.</p></details><details><summary><b>252</b> · <i>The Sparrow and the Hare</i> — A colleague has just been brought down, and it is tempting to mock them for failing, as if it could not happen to you.</summary><p class="sum">A sparrow mocks a hare seized by an eagle and is himself taken by a hawk.</p></details><details><summary><b>285</b> · <i>The Crow and the Sheep</i> — A colleague bullies you freely, and openly admits they would never try it with someone who could bite back.</summary><p class="sum">A crow rides a sheep's back and says she bullies the weak and flatters the strong.</p></details><details><summary><b>298</b> · <i>The Panther and the Shepherds</i> — Someone dangerous has fallen, and others are pelting them while a few offer help, and you must choose which you will be.</summary><p class="sum">A panther in a pit, stoned by some shepherds and fed by others, escapes and takes revenge only on his attackers.</p></details><details><summary><b>303</b> · <i>The Eagle and the Beetle</i> — Someone far more powerful destroyed what you cared about, and you could pursue them relentlessly even into their protector's presence.</summary><p class="sum">A beetle whose young an eagle ate pursues her eggs even into Jupiter's lap until they are broken.<br><i>Moral:</i> The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful.</p></details><details><summary><b>305</b> · <i>The Bald Man and the Fly</i> — Someone small keeps needling you, and your efforts to hit back are hurting you more than them.</summary><p class="sum">A bald man slaps his own head at a fly, and says he forgives himself but would kill the fly at any cost.</p></details></section><section><h2>G15 · A hard lot</h2>
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<p class="pred">You are stuck, worn down or beaten, and it is tempting to despair, complain, or wait for someone to rescue you.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person in hard times wants a way through from their own circumstances. · 14 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Put your own shoulder to it. <span class='src'>from fable 16</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>money +</code></li><li>Try something nobody has tried. <span class='src'>from fable 191</span><br><code>wit +</code> <code>money +</code></li><li>Say you never wanted it anyway. <span class='src'>from fable 195</span><br><code>standing +</code></li><li>Call on your backer. <span class='src'>from fable 273</span><br><code>relationships.patron risk</code></li><li>Give it up entirely. <span class='src'>from fable 87</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>flags.gave_up set</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>16</b> · <i>Hercules and the Wagoner</i> — Your work is stuck, and you are waiting for someone powerful to rescue you instead of putting your own effort into it.</summary><p class="sum">A carter whose wagon is stuck calls on Hercules, who tells him to put his shoulder to the wheel first.<br><i>Moral:</i> Self-help is the best help.</p></details><details><summary><b>61</b> · <i>The Boy and the Nettles</i> — You approached a prickly problem timidly and got hurt, and someone tells you only a bold, firm grip will work.</summary><p class="sum">A boy stung after touching a nettle gently is told by his mother to grasp it boldly next time.<br><i>Moral:</i> Whatever you do, do with all your might.</p></details><details><summary><b>72</b> · <i>The Charger and the Miller</i> — Age has moved you from a proud post to drudgery, and you keep bemoaning what you had to whoever will listen.</summary><p class="sum">An old warhorse sent to work a mill laments his former glory, and the miller tells him fortune rises and falls.</p></details><details><summary><b>87</b> · <i>The Old Man and Death</i> — Worn out, you have loudly wished to be done with it all, and now the chance to quit is actually offered.</summary><p class="sum">A weary old woodcutter calls for Death, and when Death comes asks only for help lifting his load.</p></details><details><summary><b>133</b> · <i>The Hares and the Frogs</i> — You feel so weak and harried that you are ready to give up entirely, and then notice others who fear even you.</summary><p class="sum">Despairing hares rush to drown themselves, see frogs flee from them, and take heart.</p></details><details><summary><b>157</b> · <i>The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter</i> — You have courted a patron respectfully for years with nothing to show, and anger tempts you to smash the relationship.</summary><p class="sum">A poor carpenter smashes the idol that never helped him, and gold pours out of its head.</p></details><details><summary><b>169</b> · <i>The Ass and the Frogs</i> — You are making a great fuss about a small setback in front of people who live with far worse every day.</summary><p class="sum">An ass who falls in a pond groans, and the frogs ask what he would do if he lived there always.<br><i>Moral:</i> Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.</p></details><details><summary><b>191</b> · <i>The Crow and the Pitcher</i> — What you urgently need is just out of reach, and none of the obvious approaches has worked.</summary><p class="sum">A thirsty crow raises the water in a pitcher by dropping in stones one by one.<br><i>Moral:</i> Necessity is the mother of invention.</p></details><details><summary><b>195</b> · <i>The Fox and the Grapes</i> — You tried everything to get something you wanted and failed, and people are watching to see how you take it.</summary><p class="sum">A fox that cannot reach the grapes walks away saying they are sour.</p></details><details><summary><b>227</b> · <i>The Fishermen</i> — You celebrated early over what looked like a huge haul, and it has turned out to be mostly worthless.</summary><p class="sum">Fishermen rejoice at heavy nets that turn out full of stones, and an old man says sorrow is twin to joy.</p></details><details><summary><b>267</b> · <i>The Jackdaw and the Fox</i> — You are waiting, hungry, for a promise that is out of season to come good, and someone tells you it never will.</summary><p class="sum">A hungry jackdaw waits on a fig tree for out-of-season figs to ripen.</p></details><details><summary><b>273</b> · <i>The Flea and the Wrestler</i> — You keep calling on your powerful backer over every small irritation, and wonder whether they will come when it truly matters.</summary><p class="sum">A wrestler bitten by a flea calls on Hercules, and wonders what help to expect against greater foes if none comes for a flea.</p></details><details><summary><b>288</b> · <i>The Lion, Jupiter, and the Elephant</i> — You are strong in every way but one small fear, and it shames you so much that you are ready to give up.</summary><p class="sum">A lion ashamed of fearing a cock finds an elephant terrified of a gnat, and is consoled.</p></details><details><summary><b>301</b> · <i>The King’s Son and the Painted Lion</i> — You have been confined to protect you from a danger someone only dreamed of, and you are raging against it.</summary><p class="sum">A prince confined because of his father's dream of a lion strikes at a painted lion, is pricked by a thorn and dies.<br><i>Moral:</i> We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.</p></details></section><section><h2>G16 · Worked hard, badly repaid</h2>
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<p class="pred">You carry the load for the one you serve, and they take you for granted, work you into the ground or skim what you need.</p>
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<p class="meta">A worker wants fair treatment from the one they serve. · 13 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Carry on in silence. <span class='src'>from fable 34</span><br><code>relationships.boss +</code> <code>standing -</code></li><li>Tell them plainly what they are doing to you. <span class='src'>from fable 50</span><br><code>relationships.boss risk</code> <code>standing +</code></li><li>Remind them what you were. <span class='src'>from fable 119</span><br><code>relationships.boss risk</code></li><li>Leave before you are next. <span class='src'>from fable 118</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>money -</code> <code>relationships.boss -</code></li><li>Stop being so useful. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.boss -</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>34</b> · <i>The Oxen and the Axle-Trees</i> — You carry the heaviest share of the work in silence, while someone who does far less complains loudly about the strain.</summary><p class="sum">Oxen hauling a wagon rebuke the creaking axles for complaining when it is the oxen doing the work.<br><i>Moral:</i> Those who suffer most cry out the least.</p></details><details><summary><b>45</b> · <i>The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat</i> — Colleagues who are only ever asked for small things scold you for resisting, when what is demanded of you is everything.</summary><p class="sum">A pig squeals when the shepherd seizes him, and tells the complaining sheep and goat that they are handled for wool and milk but he for his life.</p></details><details><summary><b>50</b> · <i>The Horse and Groom</i> — Someone responsible for you makes a great show of looking after you while quietly skimming off what you actually need.</summary><p class="sum">A groom curries his horse all day but sells its oats, and the horse asks to be groomed less and fed more.</p></details><details><summary><b>74</b> · <i>The Horse and His Rider</i> — Someone valued you highly in a crisis, worked you into the ground when it passed, and now needs you at your best again.</summary><p class="sum">A soldier pampers his horse in war, drudges it in peace, and finds it cannot carry him when war returns.</p></details><details><summary><b>100</b> · <i>The Two Dogs</i> — You do the hard work while a colleague enjoys its rewards, and they say the fault lies with the boss who arranged it.</summary><p class="sum">A hound complains that the housedog feasts on his catch, and the housedog tells him to blame the master who taught him so.<br><i>Moral:</i> Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.</p></details><details><summary><b>118</b> · <i>The Master and His Dogs</i> — In hard times your employer has sacrificed even the people who earn for them, and you wonder how long before it is you.</summary><p class="sum">A storm-bound man kills his sheep, goats and then his oxen, and his dogs flee reasoning they are next.<br><i>Moral:</i> He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.</p></details><details><summary><b>119</b> · <i>The Old Hound</i> — Age has cost you the ability you were known for, and your boss is berating you for failing at it.</summary><p class="sum">An old hound loses his grip on a boar and, abused by his master, asks to be praised for what he was.</p></details><details><summary><b>142</b> · <i>The Camel and the Arab</i> — Your boss offers you a choice between two hard assignments, as if the easy option you both know exists were not there.</summary><p class="sum">A camel-driver asks his camel whether it would rather go uphill or down, and the camel asks whether the level road is closed.</p></details><details><summary><b>161</b> · <i>The Oaks and Jupiter</i> — You complain that you are always picked for the hardest jobs, and are told it is because you are so good at them.</summary><p class="sum">The oaks complain they are always felled, and Jupiter says it is because they are so useful.</p></details><details><summary><b>196</b> · <i>The Walnut-Tree</i> — The more you give, the more roughly people treat you to get more, and those you feed are the ones doing the damage.</summary><p class="sum">A roadside walnut tree is beaten with sticks by passers-by who want its nuts.</p></details><details><summary><b>271</b> · <i>The Shepherd and the Sheep</i> — The people you work to provide for have carelessly damaged something of yours while taking what you gave them.</summary><p class="sum">A shepherd shakes down acorns onto his cloak, and the sheep eating them tear it.</p></details><details><summary><b>283</b> · <i>The Travelers and the Plane-Tree</i> — People who depend on you every day are, in your hearing, calling you useless because you do not produce anything showy.</summary><p class="sum">Travellers resting in a plane tree's shade call it useless, and the tree rebukes them.<br><i>Moral:</i> Some men underrate their best blessings.</p></details><details><summary><b>312</b> · <i>The Brazier and His Dog</i> — Someone who dozes through all the work always wakes up just in time to ask for a share of the rewards.</summary><p class="sum">A brazier scolds his dog for sleeping while he works and waking only to beg at dinner.</p></details></section>
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<section><h2>Small groups (5-12 fables)</h2><p class="meta">Situations that recur, but below the 13-fable rule this corpus's size sets.</p></section>
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<section><h2>G17 · Letting a known predator inside <span class="warn">small group, below the 13-fable rule</span></h2>
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<p class="pred">Someone with a predator's instincts is about to be let inside, or trained, or left in charge, and you know what they are.</p>
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<p class="meta">A keeper wants to use them safely from a known predator. · 6 fables · stage <b>middle</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Speak up before they are let in. <span class='src'>from fable 164</span><br><code>relationships.boss risk</code> <code>standing +</code></li><li>Trust them after long good behaviour. <span class='src'>from fable 210</span><br><code>relationships.newcomer +</code> <code>money risk</code></li><li>Let them go and cut your losses. <span class='src'>from fable 129</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>prudence +</code></li><li>Train them to your uses. <span class='src'>from fable 83</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>relationships.newcomer risk</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>83</b> · <i>The Shepherd and the Wolf</i> — You have trained someone to take advantage of others for you, and they have just hinted they could do the same to you.</summary><p class="sum">A shepherd raises a wolf cub to steal lambs from neighbours, and it warns him to watch his own flock.</p></details><details><summary><b>129</b> · <i>The Lion in a Farmyard</i> — You have a chance to trap someone far more dangerous than you, but you would be locked in with them.</summary><p class="sum">A farmer shuts a lion in his farmyard, loses his flocks, and has to let it go.</p></details><details><summary><b>164</b> · <i>The Shepherd and the Dog</i> — Your boss is about to bring a known predator into the team, and you are the one placed to say so.</summary><p class="sum">A shepherd is about to shut a wolf in the fold, and his dog asks how the sheep can then be safe.</p></details><details><summary><b>210</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Shepherd</i> — Someone you once guarded against has behaved so well for so long that you are about to leave them in charge.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf follows a flock harmlessly for so long that the shepherd leaves him in charge, and he kills the flock.</p></details><details><summary><b>233</b> · <i>The Blind Man and the Whelp</i> — You are asked to vouch for a young newcomer whose record is unclear, but whose instincts are plainly those of a predator.</summary><p class="sum">A blind man feeling a wolf cub cannot say if it is fox or wolf, but knows it must not go in the sheepfold.<br><i>Moral:</i> Evil tendencies are shown in early life.</p></details><details><summary><b>281</b> · <i>The Hen and the Swallow</i> — You are carefully nurturing a group of newcomers who, once grown, are likely to turn on everyone, starting with you.</summary><p class="sum">A hen hatches viper eggs, and a swallow warns they will harm everyone, starting with her.</p></details></section><section><h2>G18 · The lion's share <span class="warn">small group, below the 13-fable rule</span></h2>
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<p class="pred">You did the work alongside someone far stronger, and now the proceeds are being divided on their terms.</p>
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<p class="meta">A junior partner wants a fair share from a far stronger partner. · 6 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Divide it fairly. <span class='src'>from fable 158</span><br><code>relationships.partner -</code> <code>standing risk</code></li><li>Leave yourself almost nothing. <span class='src'>from fable 158</span><br><code>money -</code> <code>relationships.partner +</code></li><li>Go it alone next time. <span class='src'>from fable 274</span><br><code>money risk</code> <code>relationships.partner -</code></li><li>Ask for what you were promised. <span class='src'>from fable 3</span><br><code>relationships.partner -</code> <code>standing risk</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>3</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Crane</i> — You did risky work for someone ruthless on a promise of payment, and now they say escaping unharmed is your fee.</summary><p class="sum">A crane pulls a bone from a wolf's throat and, asking for her fee, is told that keeping her head is payment enough.<br><i>Moral:</i> In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.</p></details><details><summary><b>101</b> · <i>The Wild Ass and the Lion</i> — You went into a venture with a far more powerful partner, and now they are dividing the proceeds entirely their own way.</summary><p class="sum">A lion and a wild ass hunt together, and the lion takes all three shares by rank, partnership and threat.<br><i>Moral:</i> Might makes right.</p></details><details><summary><b>130</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Lion</i> — Someone stronger has taken from you something you had taken dishonestly yourself, and you want to protest.</summary><p class="sum">A lion takes a stolen lamb from a wolf, who protests the injustice, and the lion jeers at his claim.</p></details><details><summary><b>158</b> · <i>The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass</i> — A powerful partner asks you to divide the spoils, and you have just seen what happened to the last one who divided them fairly.</summary><p class="sum">A lion eats the ass who divided their spoil equally, and the fox, having learned, leaves himself a morsel.<br><i>Moral:</i> Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.</p></details><details><summary><b>274</b> · <i>The Lion and the Fox</i> — You do the scouting while a stronger partner takes the biggest share, and you are tempted to go it alone.</summary><p class="sum">A fox who finds prey for a lion grows jealous of the lion's share, hunts alone, and is caught.</p></details><details><summary><b>309</b> · <i>The Hunter and the Horseman</i> — Someone has made off with what you earned, pretending to buy it, and you cannot catch them.</summary><p class="sum">A horseman takes a hunter's hare under pretence of buying it and gallops off, and the hunter calls it a gift.</p></details></section><section><h2>G19 · A bad record when you need trust <span class="warn">small group, below the 13-fable rule</span></h2>
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<p class="pred">You need people to believe you or help you now, and your record gives them every reason not to.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person with a past wants to be believed from those who remember. · 5 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Raise the alarm anyway. <span class='src'>from fable 54</span><br><code>standing -</code></li><li>Make a new promise to a new patron. <span class='src'>from fable 243</span><br><code>relationships.patron -</code></li><li>Do a good turn to mend your name. <span class='src'>from fable 235</span><br><code>relationships.neighbour risk</code></li><li>Earn trust in good times, before you need it. <span class='src'>filled gap</span><br><code>relationships.allies +</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>54</b> · <i>The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf</i> — You have raised false alarms before to amuse yourself, and now there is a real crisis and you need everyone to believe you.</summary><p class="sum">A shepherd boy raises false alarms of a wolf for fun, and when the wolf truly comes nobody answers his cry.<br><i>Moral:</i> There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.</p></details><details><summary><b>104</b> · <i>The Sick Kite</i> — In your hour of need you look for someone to speak up for you, and realise you have cheated everyone who could.</summary><p class="sum">A dying kite asks his mother to pray for him, and she asks which god he has not robbed.<br><i>Moral:</i> We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity.</p></details><details><summary><b>229</b> · <i>The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape</i> — You must settle a dispute between two people with bad reputations, and you believe neither of their accounts.</summary><p class="sum">An ape judging a wolf's theft charge against a fox rules that the wolf lost nothing and the fox stole anyway.<br><i>Moral:</i> The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.</p></details><details><summary><b>235</b> · <i>The Wolf and the Horse</i> — Someone with a bad reputation makes a show of having saved something for you that they could never have used themselves.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf says he left a field of oats untouched for the horse, who says he would not if wolves ate oats.<br><i>Moral:</i> Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it.</p></details><details><summary><b>243</b> · <i>The Crow and Mercury</i> — You broke your promise to the last person who got you out of trouble, and now you need a new patron to trust you.</summary><p class="sum">A crow breaks his vow to Apollo after being freed, and when caught again Mercury will not believe his new vow.</p></details></section><section><h2>G20 · A warning before the trouble <span class="warn">small group, below the 13-fable rule</span></h2>
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<p class="pred">Trouble is coming but not yet here, and you must decide whether to prepare, warn others, or take the threat seriously.</p>
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<p class="meta">A person with warning wants to be ready from the trouble coming. · 6 fables · stage <b>low</b></p>
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<h3>Options</h3><ol><li>Prepare now while it is quiet. <span class='src'>from fable 112</span><br><code>prudence +</code> <code>money -</code></li><li>Warn the others though they laugh. <span class='src'>from fable 249</span><br><code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.team -</code></li><li>Wait until they mean it. <span class='src'>from fable 214</span><br><code>prudence +</code></li><li>Put it off until next time. <span class='src'>from fable 241</span><br><code>money +</code> <code>prudence -</code></li></ol>
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<h3>Fables</h3><details><summary><b>35</b> · <i>The Farmer and the Cranes</i> — Someone in charge has threatened you many times without following through, and you have started to ignore the threats.</summary><p class="sum">Cranes learn a farmer's sling is only for show and ignore it, until he loads it with stones and kills many.<br><i>Moral:</i> If words suffice not, blows must follow.</p></details><details><summary><b>112</b> · <i>The Wild Boar and the Fox</i> — Things are quiet with no threat in sight, and someone asks why you are spending effort preparing for trouble.</summary><p class="sum">A boar whets his tusks with no enemy in sight, saying there is no time to sharpen them once attacked.<br><i>Moral:</i> To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.</p></details><details><summary><b>174</b> · <i>The Bowman and Lion</i> — An opponent's first warning shot has already hurt you badly, and an adviser urges you not to give up at the first blow.</summary><p class="sum">A lion wounded by a bowman's arrow flees, saying he dare not face the man if that is his messenger.<br><i>Moral:</i> Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance.</p></details><details><summary><b>214</b> · <i>The Lark and Her Young Ones</i> — Your boss keeps announcing a shake-up, and you must judge whether they mean it this time or will leave it to others again.</summary><p class="sum">A lark stays put while the farmer relies on friends to reap, and moves when he says he will reap himself.<br><i>Moral:</i> Self-help is the best help.</p></details><details><summary><b>241</b> · <i>The Dog’s House</i> — In hard times you resolved to build yourself some security, and now that times are easy it seems too big a job.</summary><p class="sum">A dog curled against winter cold plans a house, but stretched out in summer thinks one too big a job.</p></details><details><summary><b>249</b> · <i>The Owl and the Birds</i> — You warned your group early about dangers others could not yet see, and they called you mad.</summary><p class="sum">The birds scorn the owl's warnings about acorns, flax and archers until they come true.</p></details></section>
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<section><h2>Unassigned (60)</h2><p class="meta">Fables that fit no situation recurring in five or more fables.</p><details><summary><b>6</b> · <i>The Cock and the Jewel</i> — Something others would prize highly has fallen into your hands, but it is of no use to you in your present need.</summary><p class="sum">A cock scratching for food finds a jewel and says one grain of barley would be worth more to him.</p></details><details><summary><b>8</b> · <i>The Kingdom of the Lion</i> — A new leader declares that the weak will now stand safely beside the strong, and you are one of the weak.</summary><p class="sum">A just lion king proclaims peace between strong and weak beasts, and the hare, praising it, runs for his life.</p></details><details><summary><b>14</b> · <i>The Fisherman Piping</i> — You have waited in vain for people to come round of their own accord, and could stop coaxing and use the tool you have.</summary><p class="sum">A fisherman pipes to the fish in vain, then casts his net and scolds them for dancing only now.</p></details><details><summary><b>17</b> · <i>The Mole and His Mother</i> — A young person insists they have a skill they plainly lack, and you must decide how to show them without crushing them.</summary><p class="sum">A blind young mole insists he can see, and his mother's test shows he cannot even smell.</p></details><details><summary><b>19</b> · <i>The Fawn and His Mother</i> — You have every advantage over the one who frightens you, and still you cannot bring yourself to stand your ground.</summary><p class="sum">A fawn asks why his mother, bigger and armed, flees from hounds, and she admits she simply cannot help it.<br><i>Moral:</i> No arguments will give courage to the coward.</p></details><details><summary><b>33</b> · <i>The Dog in the Manger</i> — Something you cannot use yourself sits under your control, and the people who need it are waiting for you to let them have it.</summary><p class="sum">A dog lying in a manger snaps at the oxen to stop them eating hay he cannot eat himself.</p></details><details><summary><b>41</b> · <i>The Goat and the Goatherd</i> — You have damaged something in your care and ask a witness to keep quiet, but the damage itself will be plain to see.</summary><p class="sum">A goatherd breaks a stray goat's horn with a stone and begs it not to tell his master, and the goat says the horn will speak.<br><i>Moral:</i> Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.</p></details><details><summary><b>44</b> · <i>The Miser</i> — Wealth you hoarded and never used has been taken from you, and someone points out you were no poorer before.</summary><p class="sum">A miser's buried gold is stolen, and a neighbour tells him a stone in the hole would serve him just as well.</p></details><details><summary><b>56</b> · <i>The Salt Merchant and His Ass</i> — A shortcut that once lightened your load has been noticed, and you are tempted to try it again.</summary><p class="sum">An ass who lightened his salt load by falling in a stream tries the trick with sponges and doubles his burden.</p></details><details><summary><b>59</b> · <i>The Man and His Two Sweethearts</i> — You are courting two parties who want opposite things from you, and each is quietly remaking you to suit themselves.</summary><p class="sum">A greying man courts a young and an old woman, who between them pluck out all his hair.<br><i>Moral:</i> Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.</p></details><details><summary><b>67</b> · <i>The Old Woman and the Physician</i> — Someone you hired has been quietly robbing you while doing the job, and now demands full payment under your agreement.</summary><p class="sum">A doctor robs a blind old woman while treating her, and when he sues for his fee she says she still cannot see her goods.</p></details><details><summary><b>69</b> · <i>The Farmer and His Sons</i> — You want those who will take over from you to work as hard as you did, and plain advice will not move them.</summary><p class="sum">A dying farmer tells his sons treasure lies in the vineyard, and their digging brings a great harvest.</p></details><details><summary><b>78</b> · <i>Jupiter and the Monkey</i> — You have put forward work of your own that everyone laughs at, and you are sure it is the best there is.</summary><p class="sum">A monkey presents her ugly baby for the beauty prize and, laughed at, says he is the most beautiful to her.</p></details><details><summary><b>81</b> · <i>The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice</i> — You trusted the one place meant to protect everyone's rights, and it is exactly there that you have been wronged.</summary><p class="sum">A swallow nests in the wall of a court of justice, and her young are eaten by a serpent there.</p></details><details><summary><b>85</b> · <i>The Father and His Two Daughters</i> — Two people you care for equally need opposite outcomes, and whichever you support you will be working against the other.</summary><p class="sum">A father's two daughters, married to a gardener and a tile-maker, wish for rain and for sun, and he cannot back both.</p></details><details><summary><b>86</b> · <i>The Thief and His Mother</i> — Someone in your charge has brought you a small ill-gotten gain, and you could praise it or stop it now.</summary><p class="sum">A mother praises her son's first small thefts, and on his way to execution he bites her ear for not stopping him.</p></details><details><summary><b>89</b> · <i>The Æthiop</i> — You have taken someone on convinced that their nature is a fault you can scrub away, and your efforts are only hurting them.</summary><p class="sum">A buyer of a black servant, thinking his colour is dirt, scrubs him incessantly and only gives him a cold.<br><i>Moral:</i> What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.</p></details><details><summary><b>91</b> · <i>The Fisherman and His Nets</i> — A sweep that catches the big players lets the small ones slip away, and you are either doing the sweeping or being swept.</summary><p class="sum">A fisherman's net holds the large fish, but the small ones slip back through the meshes.</p></details><details><summary><b>93</b> · <i>The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar</i> — Only the faint trace of someone's good work is left behind, and you find yourself still admiring what it must have been.</summary><p class="sum">An old woman sniffs an empty wine jar and praises how fine the wine must have been.<br><i>Moral:</i> The memory of a good deed lives.</p></details><details><summary><b>94</b> · <i>The Man Bitten by a Dog</i> — Someone who hurt you could be soothed with a reward, and you are advised that appeasing them is the cure.</summary><p class="sum">A man bitten by a dog is advised to feed the dog bread dipped in his blood, and says that would invite every dog to bite him.<br><i>Moral:</i> Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.</p></details><details><summary><b>97</b> · <i>The Widow and the Sheep</i> — To save an expert's fee you are doing a skilled job yourself, and you are hurting the thing you meant to profit from.</summary><p class="sum">A poor widow shears her sheep herself to save the fee and cuts his flesh with the wool.<br><i>Moral:</i> The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.</p></details><details><summary><b>103</b> · <i>The Eagle and the Arrow</i> — You are being brought down by a rival who is using the very tools, ideas or people you supplied them.</summary><p class="sum">An eagle is mortally shot with an arrow fledged with his own feathers.</p></details><details><summary><b>106</b> · <i>The Mice in Council</i> — Everyone agrees a clever plan to deal with the danger, and the only question left is who will risk carrying it out.</summary><p class="sum">The mice agree to bell the cat, but none will volunteer to do it.</p></details><details><summary><b>114</b> · <i>The Bee and Jupiter</i> — A powerful patron has promised you any favour, and you are tempted to ask for the power to punish anyone touching what is yours.</summary><p class="sum">A bee asks Jupiter for a deadly sting, and gets one that kills her if she uses it.<br><i>Moral:</i> Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.</p></details><details><summary><b>123</b> · <i>The Seaside Travelers</i> — You have waited a long while for something that looked grand from far away, and it is shrinking as it comes closer.</summary><p class="sum">Travellers wait for what they think is a ship, and it turns out to be a bundle of sticks.<br><i>Moral:</i> Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.</p></details><details><summary><b>128</b> · <i>The Oak and the Reeds</i> — A force far stronger than you is sweeping through, and you could stand rigid against it or bend until it passes.</summary><p class="sum">An uprooted oak asks the reeds how they survive the wind, and they say they bend rather than fight.<br><i>Moral:</i> Stoop to conquer.</p></details><details><summary><b>143</b> · <i>The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass</i> — Every passer-by criticises how you are doing the job, and each time you change it to please them, a new critic appears.</summary><p class="sum">A miller and his son change how they travel with their ass at every passer-by's criticism until they lose the ass in the river.</p></details><details><summary><b>146</b> · <i>The Dog and the Cook</i> — An insider invited you to help yourself at their employer's expense, and you were thrown out and must explain it to your peers.</summary><p class="sum">A dog invited by a friend to his master's feast is thrown out by the cook and pretends he was too drunk to remember.</p></details><details><summary><b>149</b> · <i>The Farmer and the Fox</i> — You finally have the person who has been robbing you at your mercy, and your revenge could easily burn your own harvest.</summary><p class="sum">A farmer takes revenge on a fox by setting its tail alight, and it runs through his own wheat.</p></details><details><summary><b>162</b> · <i>The Monkeys and Their Mother</i> — You lavish all your care on one favourite protege and neglect another, and your attention may be what harms the favourite.</summary><p class="sum">A monkey mother smothers her favourite twin with love while the neglected one thrives.<br><i>Moral:</i> The best intentions will not always ensure success.</p></details><details><summary><b>176</b> · <i>The Crab and the Fox</i> — You left the field you are made for to chase better prospects elsewhere, and now you are exposed and out of your depth.</summary><p class="sum">A crab that moved inland to feed is eaten by a fox and blames himself for leaving the sea.<br><i>Moral:</i> Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.</p></details><details><summary><b>183</b> · <i>The Bull and the Calf</i> — A newcomer offers to show you how to do something you have been doing since before they arrived.</summary><p class="sum">A calf offers to show a bull the way through a narrow passage, and the bull says he knew it before the calf was born.</p></details><details><summary><b>202</b> · <i>The Man and His Wife</i> — Someone you are responsible for is disliked by everyone around them, and you want to learn whether it is them or the place.</summary><p class="sum">A man sends his disliked wife to her father's house, and her report of the herdsmen's looks confirms her effect on everyone.<br><i>Moral:</i> Straws show how the wind blows.</p></details><details><summary><b>203</b> · <i>The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog</i> — People you took in during hard times want to repay you by shaping you in their own likeness.</summary><p class="sum">A horse, ox and dog repay a man's shelter by giving the stages of his life their own tempers.</p></details><details><summary><b>205</b> · <i>The Apes and the Two Travelers</i> — A vain leader asks your honest opinion of them and their court, and has just richly rewarded someone who flattered them.</summary><p class="sum">An ape king rewards a liar's flattery and has his court maul a truthful traveller.</p></details><details><summary><b>212</b> · <i>The Seller of Images</i> — You are selling something by promising it makes its owner rich, and a customer asks why you would part with it.</summary><p class="sum">A man selling an image of Mercury claims it brings wealth, and says he sells because its gifts come too slowly.</p></details><details><summary><b>218</b> · <i>The Goat and the Ass</i> — Out of envy you are urging a colleague to fake an illness to escape work, and the fallout could land on you.</summary><p class="sum">A goat envious of the ass advises him to feign illness, and the goat's lungs are then prescribed to heal him.</p></details><details><summary><b>220</b> · <i>The Fox and the Mask</i> — An impressive-looking candidate is presented to you, and you notice there seems to be nothing behind the face.</summary><p class="sum">A fox finds a lifelike mask in an actor's house and says it is beautiful but has no brains.</p></details><details><summary><b>231</b> · <i>The Brother and the Sister</i> — Two people in your care are at odds, one vain of their gifts and the other spiteful for lacking them, and both appeal.</summary><p class="sum">A father tells his vain son and plain, spiteful daughter both to look in the mirror daily, to mind their conduct.</p></details><details><summary><b>237</b> · <i>The Gamecocks and the Partridge</i> — You are new and the old hands keep attacking you, and you assume it is because you are an outsider.</summary><p class="sum">A partridge pecked by gamecocks thinks it is because he is a stranger, until he sees them fight each other.</p></details><details><summary><b>240</b> · <i>The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox</i> — A rival is denouncing you to the boss just as you walk in, and you could turn the boss's anger back on them.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf accuses the absent fox to the sick lion, and the fox prescribes the wolf's warm skin as the cure.</p></details><details><summary><b>242</b> · <i>The North Wind and the Sun</i> — You need someone to give something up, and the harder you push the tighter they cling to it.</summary><p class="sum">The north wind blows in vain to strip a traveller's cloak, and the sun's warmth makes him take it off.<br><i>Moral:</i> Persuasion is better than Force.</p></details><details><summary><b>244</b> · <i>The Fox and the Crane</i> — Someone humiliated you with a show of hospitality you could not use, and now it is your turn to host them.</summary><p class="sum">A fox serves a crane soup in a flat dish, and the crane repays him with a narrow-necked jar.</p></details><details><summary><b>250</b> · <i>The Goods and the Ills</i> — Troubles keep arriving together while good things come one at a time, and you must learn to spot the good when it comes.</summary><p class="sum">Driven out by the ills, the goods ask Jupiter for protection, and he sends them to men one at a time.</p></details><details><summary><b>259</b> · <i>The Eagle and the Fox</i> — A powerful neighbour who swore friendship has taken something precious from you, and you cannot reach them to answer it.</summary><p class="sum">An eagle steals her neighbour fox's cub, and later her own young burn in a nest fired by a stolen cinder.</p></details><details><summary><b>262</b> · <i>The Stag at the Pool</i> — You prize your showy strengths and are ashamed of your plain ones, and trouble is coming that will test which matters.</summary><p class="sum">A stag admires his antlers and despises his thin legs, which save him until the antlers catch in a thicket.<br><i>Moral:</i> What is most truly valuable is often underrated.</p></details><details><summary><b>263</b> · <i>The Lark Burying Her Father</i> — You owe a duty of respect to someone who has gone, and there is no proper place to pay it but within yourself.</summary><p class="sum">A lark born before the earth, with nowhere to bury her father, buries him in her own head.<br><i>Moral:</i> Youth’s first duty is reverence to parents.</p></details><details><summary><b>266</b> · <i>The Dogs and the Hides</i> — Your group has agreed on a plan to reach something it wants that would require doing the impossible.</summary><p class="sum">Hungry dogs try to drink a river dry to reach hides in it and burst.<br><i>Moral:</i> Attempt not impossibilities.</p></details><details><summary><b>269</b> · <i>The Peasant and the Apple-Tree</i> — You are about to cut something that has not paid its way, and those who depend on it beg you to spare it.</summary><p class="sum">A peasant ignores the pleas of birds to spare his barren tree, but spares it on finding honey inside.<br><i>Moral:</i> Self-interest alone moves some men.</p></details><details><summary><b>272</b> · <i>The Trees Under the Protection of the Gods</i> — Your peers choose honours that look disinterested, and you would rather be known for work that is plainly useful.</summary><p class="sum">The gods choose fruitless trees so as not to seem covetous, and Minerva prefers the olive for its fruit.</p></details><details><summary><b>275</b> · <i>Truth and the Traveler</i> — Everyone around you now lies as a matter of course, and speaking plainly has left you entirely on your own.</summary><p class="sum">A traveller meets Truth alone in the desert, who says she left the city because falsehood is now with everyone.</p></details><details><summary><b>276</b> · <i>The Manslayer</i> — Pursued for a real wrong you did, you find every place you run to is more dangerous than the last.</summary><p class="sum">A murderer fleeing his victim's kin climbs from a lion into a serpent's tree and jumps into a crocodile's river.</p></details><details><summary><b>278</b> · <i>The Ass and His Driver</i> — Someone you are responsible for is determined to throw themselves at a ruinous course, and holding them back is hurting you both.</summary><p class="sum">An ass bolts for a precipice, and his owner, unable to hold him by the tail, lets go.</p></details><details><summary><b>280</b> · <i>The Mother and the Wolf</i> — Someone made an angry threat in your hearing that seemed to promise you a windfall, and you are waiting for them to follow through.</summary><p class="sum">A wolf waits all day at a cottage door after hearing a mother threaten to throw her child out to him.</p></details><details><summary><b>293</b> · <i>The Flea and the Man</i> — You have caught someone in a petty offence, and they plead that what they did was too small to matter.</summary><p class="sum">A man catches a flea who pleads it does little harm, and kills it because no evil should be tolerated.</p></details><details><summary><b>294</b> · <i>The Rich Man and the Tanner</i> — A powerful neighbour wants you gone and keeps pressing, and you could keep promising to leave soon without actually going.</summary><p class="sum">A rich man presses his tanner neighbour to move, the tanner stalls, and the rich man grows used to the smell.</p></details><details><summary><b>300</b> · <i>The Eagle and His Captor</i> — A new employer has restored what your old one took from you, and you must decide whom to cultivate.</summary><p class="sum">An eagle freed by a new owner brings him a hare, and a fox advises courting the old owner who clipped him.</p></details><details><summary><b>304</b> · <i>The She-Goats and Their Beards</i> — Juniors have been given the same badge of rank as you, and you are tempted to complain to those above.</summary><p class="sum">The he-goats complain the she-goats got beards, and Jupiter says an empty badge makes them no equals.<br><i>Moral:</i> It matters little if those who are inferior to us in merit should be like us in outside appearances.</p></details><details><summary><b>307</b> · <i>The Buffoon and the Countryman</i> — The crowd has already decided their favourite is better than you, however genuine your work, and you must show them.</summary><p class="sum">A crowd prefers a buffoon's fake pig squeal to a countryman's real pig, until he shows it.</p></details><details><summary><b>311</b> · <i>The Frogs’ Complaint Against the Sun</i> — Someone who already makes your life hard is about to gain more power, and you could protest before it happens.</summary><p class="sum">The frogs protest the sun's marriage, fearing that more suns would parch them worse.</p></details></section>
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<p class="meta">242 options for 51 catalogue situations, 165 of them
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<b>stated</b>: the fable's own outcome or moral shows where every move goes. The rest are inferred.</p><details><summary><b>after_your_money</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Let every well-wisher help themselves while you are down. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 60 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>at_their_mercy</b> — 14 options, 12 stated</summary><ul><li>Answer every charge with the facts. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 1 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”</span></li><li>Tell each captor you belong to the side they spare. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 5 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second time escaped.”</span></li><li>Plead your good character, though you were caught with the wrongdoers. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 26 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company.”</span></li><li>Defend yourself against the excuse they have found. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 39 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless;”</span></li><li>Ask them to stop, since their sport is your ruin. <code>relationships.powerful +</code> <span class="src">fable 55 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.”</span></li><li>Plead how useful you are when they must cut someone. <code>standing risk</code> <span class="src">fable 131 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Birdcatcher spared his life, and determined to pick out a fine young Cock just attaining to his comb.”</span></li><li>Show the one real talent that sets you apart. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 135 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“made himself known by his voice, and preserved his life by his melody.”</span></li><li>Plead your usefulness to people your usefulness threatens. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 147 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,”</span></li><li>Ask the one who has you for a small favour that may draw help. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 197 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“some hounds hearing the sound ran up and began chasing the Wolf.”</span></li><li>Argue that everyone should be equal, with nothing to back it. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 211 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.”</span></li><li>Ask for a small service that puts them off guard. <code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.captor -</code> <span class="src">fable 217 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Ass, with his heels, kicked his teeth into his mouth and galloped away.”</span></li><li>Plead that you never did harm yourself, you only urged others on. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 248 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“That is the very reason for which you should be put to death,”</span></li><li>Offer to deliver your colleagues in return for your own escape. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 292 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I shall now with less scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost of betraying your friends and relations.”</span></li><li>Plead that your offence was too small to matter. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 293 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Now you shall certainly die by mine own hands, for no evil, whether it be small or large, ought to be tolerated.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>called_to_account</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Turn the boss's anger back on the one accusing you. <code>standing +</code> <code>relationships.accuser -</code> <span class="src">fable 240 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Wolf was at once taken and flayed;”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>caught_out</b> — 2 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Relax once the careless have passed you by. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 99 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.”</span></li><li>Laugh along when your secret is exposed. <code>relationships.companions +</code> <span class="src">fable 160 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“with great glee joined in the joke”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>compromise_for_money</b> — 3 options, 3 stated</summary><ul><li>Hand over what you guard, for a share with the rivals. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 172 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“entering the den of the Wolves, they were set upon and torn to pieces.”</span></li><li>Tell the truth about what you lost, though a richer answer is offered. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 268 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Mercury, pleased with his honesty, gave him the golden and silver axes in addition to his own.”</span></li><li>Claim the richer thing is yours. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 268 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>courage_doubted</b> — 2 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Talk big, then back out when offered the real thing. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 138 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“it is his track only I am in search of, not the Lion himself.”</span></li><li>Run when your partner is in danger, then boast once it is over. <code>relationships.partner -</code> <span class="src">fable 270 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“no dependence can be placed on your valor.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>cover_up_spiral</b> — 1 options, 0 stated</summary><ul><li>Ask the witness to keep quiet about the damage. <code>relationships.boss -</code> <span class="src">fable 41 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“the horn will speak though I be silent.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>despised</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Offer your help to someone powerful who laughs at the idea. <code>relationships.powerful +</code> <span class="src">fable 0 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Lion laughed and let him go.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>go_and_look</b> — 1 options, 0 stated</summary><ul><li>Agree the plan, then wait for someone else to carry it out. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 106 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“there was no one found to do it.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>habit</b> — 2 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Let an old appetite break your polished act. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 148 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The dancing spectacle thus came to an end amidst the laughter and ridicule of the audience.”</span></li><li>Let an old temptation pull you out of your new role. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 302 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Venus was much disappointed and again caused her to return to her former shape.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>in_your_keeping</b> — 1 options, 0 stated</summary><ul><li>Refuse a stranger's sudden favours and keep watch. <code>relationships.stranger -</code> <span class="src">fable 204 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me more watchful”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>mercy_or_law</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Praise a small ill-gotten gain from someone in your charge. <code>relationships.charge -</code> <span class="src">fable 86 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>mistook_them</b> — 2 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Hoard what you never use. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 44 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“digging down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it.”</span></li><li>Prize your showy strengths over your plain ones. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 262 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>newcomer</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Fall in first with the idlest of the group. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 254 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the man put a halter on him and led him back to his owner.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>own_words_back</b> — 2 options, 0 stated</summary><ul><li>Hold your companion to their own words. <code>relationships.companion -</code> <span class="src">fable 120 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.”</span></li><li>Rob the client while doing the job, then sue for your fee. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 67 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind;”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>owning_up</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Offer peace to someone you hurt, who hurt you worse. <code>relationships.wronged -</code> <span class="src">fable 48 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“There can henceforth be no peace between us;”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>plea_for_help</b> — 11 options, 9 stated</summary><ul><li>Spare someone beneath you who begs to be let off. <code>relationships.spared +</code> <span class="src">fable 0 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.”</span></li><li>Refuse someone who idled while you saved. <code>relationships.asker -</code> <span class="src">fable 10 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”</span></li><li>Ask those who saved to share with you, having idled yourself. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 10 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.”</span></li><li>Take in and nurse someone known for treachery. <code>relationships.helped -</code> <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 23 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound.”</span></li><li>Refuse to take any of a struggling partner's load. <code>relationships.partner -</code> <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 51 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I should not now be bearing, together with his burden, himself as well.”</span></li><li>Help someone in trouble who can give nothing now. <code>relationships.helped +</code> <span class="src">fable 132 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot.”</span></li><li>Free someone caught in a trap. <code>relationships.freed +</code> <span class="src">fable 154 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he marveled at the service rendered him by the Eagle.”</span></li><li>Rescue someone from a dangerous enemy. <code>relationships.rescued +</code> <code>relationships.enemy -</code> <span class="src">fable 190 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Serpent, irritated at the escape of his prey, injected his poison into the drinking horn of the countryman.”</span></li><li>Give to those who already serve you, not to those who promise. <code>relationships.staff +</code> <span class="src">fable 230 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“It is surely better for me to give the water to them than to you.”</span></li><li>Grab for help from someone known to take from everyone. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 286 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Having pricked and grievously torn the soles of his feet”</span></li><li>Pull the thorn from someone dangerous who is in pain. <code>relationships.helped +</code> <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 296 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Shepherd to be pardoned and restored to his friends.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>power_over_you</b> — 2 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Give a vain leader your honest opinion. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 205 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The King of the Apes, enraged at hearing these truths, gave him over to the teeth and claws of his companions.”</span></li><li>Flatter a vain leader. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 205 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Ape and all his court, gratified with the lie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>pressed_to_wrong</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Hand your partner over to the powerful in return for your own safety. <code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.partner -</code> <span class="src">fable 20 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>pretence</b> — 8 options, 6 stated</summary><ul><li>Disguise yourself as one of the harmless to get what you want. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 40 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.”</span></li><li>Boast of a feat done far away, with witnesses. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 42 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.”</span></li><li>Present yourself decked in achievements borrowed from colleagues. <code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.colleagues -</code> <span class="src">fable 65 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.”</span></li><li>Lie about your background to someone helping you as one of their own. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 198 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under the water and drowned him.”</span></li><li>Disguise yourself to share a better-fed group's benefits. <code>standing -</code> <code>relationships.own_kind -</code> <span class="src">fable 200 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“They too, not recognizing him on account of his color, expelled him from living with them.”</span></li><li>Inflate your background where nobody can contradict you. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 201 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“A false tale often betrays itself.”</span></li><li>Confess when your fake expertise is about to be tested. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 234 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“confessed that he had no knowledge of medicine, and was only made famous by the stupid clamors of the crowd.”</span></li><li>Borrow the trappings of authority and frighten people with them. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 251 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I might possibly have been frightened myself, if I had not heard your bray.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>protecting_hunted</b> — 2 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Protect the hunted in words while your gestures give them away. <code>relationships.hunted -</code> <span class="src">fable 127 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Fox departed without taking any notice of the Woodcutter”</span></li><li>Help yourself to your protector's things once the danger seems past. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 193 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“seeing the Hart, shot an arrow from his bow and struck it.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>revenge</b> — 4 options, 3 stated</summary><ul><li>Take a cruel revenge on the one who robbed you. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 149 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.”</span></li><li>Take your tormentor down with you. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 166 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“At least my enemy and I shall perish together.”</span></li><li>Humiliate a guest with hospitality they cannot use. <code>relationships.guest -</code> <span class="src">fable 244 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.”</span></li><li>Pursue the powerful one who wronged you, even into their protector's presence. <code>relationships.powerful -</code> <span class="src">fable 303 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>sign</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Sell your last safeguard on an early sign of good times. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 247 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“winter set in again with renewed frost and cold.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>station</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Agree to the powerful suitor, on a condition that leaves them harmless. <code>relationships.powerful -</code> <span class="src">fable 43 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>strings</b> — 2 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Accept a powerful helper's harness to get your revenge. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 199 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.”</span></li><li>Turn down a comfortable post that comes with a chain. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 115 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“May no friend of mine ever be in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is enough to spoil the appetite.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>sure_thing</b> — 1 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Take up the windfall a jealous colleague says they kept for you. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 73 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap;”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>unwelcome_in_home</b> — 2 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Let someone use your space a little longer. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 261 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“asserted her exclusive right to the place and would not permit the shepherd to approach.”</span></li><li>Keep promising the neighbour who wants you gone that you will leave soon. <code>relationships.neighbour +</code> <span class="src">fable 294 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“the rich man became accustomed to the smell, and feeling no manner of inconvenience, made no further complaints.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>used</b> — 2 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Let the one in trouble climb out on your back, on a promise to pull you after. <code>relationships.partner -</code> <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 30 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could.”</span></li><li>Hand your catch to someone who says they will pay for it. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 309 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“However, when the Horseman got the hare, he rode off as fast as he could.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>waiting</b> — 2 options, 0 stated</summary><ul><li>Keep waiting for an out-of-season promise to come good. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 267 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“you are indulging a hope strong enough to cheat you, but which will never reward you with enjoyment.”</span></li><li>Wait on an angry threat that seems to promise you a windfall. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 280 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“The Wolf, hearing these words, went home, gasping with cold and hunger.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>warning</b> — 5 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Ignore threats that have never been carried out. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 35 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number.”</span></li><li>Prepare while things are quiet. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 112 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.”</span></li><li>Stay put while they only ask others, and move when they will act themselves. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 214 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time”</span></li><li>Put off building your security once times are easy. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 241 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.”</span></li><li>Warn early, though they call you mad. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 249 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“they wondered at her knowledge and deemed her to be the wisest of birds.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>wrongly_judged</b> — 1 options, 0 stated</summary><ul><li>Point out that you have long been ready and are waiting on them. <code>relationships.boss -</code> <span class="src">fable 9 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>your_scheme</b> — 3 options, 3 stated</summary><ul><li>Warn each neighbour privately that the other plots against them. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 185 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“afforded ample provision for the Cat and her kittens.”</span></li><li>Repeat the shortcut that lightened your load once. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 56 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.”</span></li><li>Out of envy, urge a colleague to fake an illness to escape work. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 218 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“They at once killed the Goat, and so healed the Ass.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Envying another's gift <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 12 options, 9 stated</summary><ul><li>Copy the habits of the one you admire. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 2 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.”</span></li><li>Pay someone powerful to lift you into a role beyond your nature. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 29 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.”</span></li><li>Give up the work that feeds you to copy their habits. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 31 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.”</span></li><li>Try the favourite's tricks on the boss. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 52 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs.”</span></li><li>Puff yourself up to match the one who crushed yours. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 68 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster.”</span></li><li>Copy the antics everyone applauded in a favourite. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 98 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel.”</span></li><li>Try the experts' job with their tools, untaught. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 134 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“became tangled in the meshes and drowned.”</span></li><li>Speak up as if your word carried a respected colleague's weight. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 170 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.”</span></li><li>Copy an admired style until you lose your own. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 180 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“in trying to neigh, they forgot how to sing.”</span></li><li>Leave your peers to live among those at the top. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 186 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”</span></li><li>Try a bigger version of the star performer's feat. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 258 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“He at once clipped the Jackdaw’s wings, and taking him home at night, gave him to his children.”</span></li><li>Get up and try to outdo the colleague everyone applauded. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 265 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove him out of the assembly.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Asking the power above for a favour <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 4 options, 3 stated</summary><ul><li>Wait for someone powerful to rescue you before you try. <code>relationships.patron -</code> <span class="src">fable 16 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself”</span></li><li>Ask your patron for the power to punish anyone who touches what is yours. <code>standing risk</code> <span class="src">fable 114 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“if you use your sting, it shall remain in the wound you make, and then you will die from the loss of it.”</span></li><li>Smash your ties with the patron who never helped you. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 157 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“When its head was knocked off, out came a stream of gold, which the Carpenter quickly picked up”</span></li><li>Ask the boss for a colleague's distinctions as well as your own. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 297 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“not only refused to give him horns, but even deprived him of a portion of his ears.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>A bad record when you need trust <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 4 options, 3 stated</summary><ul><li>Raise a real alarm after false ones. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 54 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.”</span></li><li>Look for help after cheating everyone who could give it. <code>relationships.allies -</code> <span class="src">fable 104 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“which of the gods do you think will pity you?”</span></li><li>Make a show of a favour you could never have used yourself. <code>relationships.neighbour -</code> <span class="src">fable 235 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it.”</span></li><li>Make a new vow to a new patron after breaking the last. <code>relationships.patron -</code> <span class="src">fable 243 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“how can I believe thee, who hast disowned and wronged thy former patron?”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Trading one hardship for another <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 13 options, 9 stated</summary><ul><li>Keep demanding a stronger leader from above. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 47 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake.”</span></li><li>Keep the harm you know rather than risk a worse replacement. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 53 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.”</span></li><li>Get rid of what sets the harsh pace. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 76 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.”</span></li><li>Invite a powerful protector inside. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 79 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.”</span></li><li>Sell what you have and stake it all on a calm-looking trade. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 109 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he threw all his merchandise overboard, and barely escaped with his life in the empty ship.”</span></li><li>Ask for a new master each time you are unhappy. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 125 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands”</span></li><li>Flee into the shelter of someone more dangerous. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 136 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“when she was safe within the cave, sprang upon her and tore her to pieces.”</span></li><li>Leave the field you are made for to chase better prospects. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 176 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“A Fox came across him, and being very hungry ate him up.”</span></li><li>Refuse to fight a takeover, since any master will work you the same. <code>relationships.boss -</code> <span class="src">fable 177 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.”</span></li><li>Keep the sated drainers rather than invite hungrier ones. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 178 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“others more hungry will come in their place, and will drink up all the blood I have left.”</span></li><li>Stay in your familiar, exposed spot. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 189 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“A few days afterwards a heavy wagon passed through the gully and crushed him to death under its wheels.”</span></li><li>Go back to plain fare where you can live without fear. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 228 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I prefer my bare plowlands and roots from the hedgerow, where I can live in safety, and without fear.”</span></li><li>Take refuge with those who may also harm you, rather than with the one chasing you. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 291 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“It would be better for me to be sacrificed in the Temple than to be eaten by you.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Your side divided <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 10 options, 9 stated</summary><ul><li>Show your quarrelling people that together they cannot be broken. <code>relationships.team +</code> <span class="src">fable 4 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.”</span></li><li>Stop supplying the part you resent. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 75 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The whole Body quickly became debilitated”</span></li><li>Offer to settle a quarrel between powerful factions. <code>relationships.factions -</code> <span class="src">fable 80 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“We would far rather be destroyed in our battle with each other than admit any interference from you in our affairs.”</span></li><li>Make peace with your rival once you see others waiting to profit. <code>relationships.rival +</code> <span class="src">fable 105 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“They at once made up their quarrel”</span></li><li>Fight a client over a technicality. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 124 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The quarrel proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.”</span></li><li>Fight a rival to exhaustion over one prize. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 152 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“He ran in between them, and seizing the Kid scampered off as fast as he could.”</span></li><li>Give up one junior member when you are asked. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 171 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The first step has lost us all.”</span></li><li>Believe a colleague's whisper that your neighbour means you harm. <code>relationships.neighbour -</code> <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 185 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out from her cave.”</span></li><li>Go your own way when a smooth talker suggests it. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 224 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he attacked them without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.”</span></li><li>Keep switching to whichever side is winning. <code>relationships.both_sides -</code> <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 246 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“being condemned by each for his treachery, he was driven forth from the light of day”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>A partner you may not be able to count on <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 12 options, 6 stated</summary><ul><li>Decline to share premises with someone whose work undoes yours. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 12 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.”</span></li><li>Save yourself and leave your companion to face it. <code>relationships.companion -</code> <span class="src">fable 37 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.”</span></li><li>Treat new allies better than old ones to win them. <code>relationships.new_allies -</code> <span class="src">fable 58 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains.”</span></li><li>Bind your fortunes to a new acquaintance on their ground. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 90 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated by the water”</span></li><li>Swear friendship with an impressive ally from another field. <code>relationships.ally -</code> <span class="src">fable 102 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Lion abused him as a traitor.”</span></li><li>Decline to join the weak side against the powerful. <code>relationships.weak_side -</code> <span class="src">fable 182 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Count the cost before you commit yourselves.”</span></li><li>Refuse a loan guaranteed by someone known for taking and running. <code>relationships.borrower -</code> <span class="src">fable 184 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“How then shall I be able to find you, when the day of payment comes?”</span></li><li>Argue both sides of a question in front of a new ally. <code>relationships.ally -</code> <span class="src">fable 256 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I can no longer consider you as a friend”</span></li><li>Take from a weaker neighbour who trusted you. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 259 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.”</span></li><li>Ask for a surety before allying with someone who can walk away. <code>relationships.ally -</code> <span class="src">fable 277 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Try before you trust.”</span></li><li>Doubt a large promise from someone who refuses a small favour now. <code>relationships.partner -</code> <span class="src">fable 284 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“I can’t think that you, who refuse me a little matter now, will by and by confer on me a greater benefit.”</span></li><li>Accept a partner on the strength of their boasts. <code>relationships.partner -</code> <span class="src">fable 299 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>A friendly approach from someone who would gain by your fall <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 13 options, 8 stated</summary><ul><li>Stay outside and ask after them from a safe distance. <code>relationships.predator -</code> <span class="src">fable 36 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning.”</span></li><li>Go in when they call you close. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 36 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them.”</span></li><li>Dismiss your protectors to make peace with your enemies. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 63 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.”</span></li><li>Tell the helper you will stay well if they go away. <code>relationships.predator -</code> <span class="src">fable 64 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are.”</span></li><li>Refuse the small favour that would bring you in reach. <code>relationships.predator -</code> <span class="src">fable 92 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.”</span></li><li>Speak up to prove the flatterer's one doubt wrong. <code>money -</code> <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 96 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.”</span></li><li>Stay put, however harmless they now look. <code>relationships.predator -</code> <span class="src">fable 144 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“even though you should turn into a meal-bag, we will not come near you.”</span></li><li>Act at once on a stranger's alarming story. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 192 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Thief made off with the coat and did not return again to the inn.”</span></li><li>Go for the tempting thing lying in the dark corner. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 207 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“A Mouse, supposing him to be food, leaped upon him, and was instantly caught and squeezed to death.”</span></li><li>Send the flatterer round to the one who guards you. <code>relationships.predator -</code> <span class="src">fable 215 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“When the Fox approached the tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him, and tore him to pieces.”</span></li><li>Look at the preparations and leave without a word. <code>relationships.host -</code> <span class="src">fable 219 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Lion inquired why he went off so abruptly without a word of salutation to his host”</span></li><li>Accept the sudden praise and invitation of someone you annoyed. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 221 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Owl came forth from her hollow, seized her, and put her to death.”</span></li><li>Stay on your secure ledge and name what they are after. <code>relationships.predator -</code> <span class="src">fable 225 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“it is not for the pasture that you invite me, but for yourself, who are in want of food.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Wanting more than you hold <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 14 options, 11 stated</summary><ul><li>Let go of what you hold to snatch at a bigger prize. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 15 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“He thus lost both:”</span></li><li>Keep indulging in the easy pleasure. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 21 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.”</span></li><li>Take half and get your hand free. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 46 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand.”</span></li><li>Repeat the pleasing exchange every day. <code>relationships.partner -</code> <span class="src">fable 95 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange”</span></li><li>Spend, in your head, what your one asset will become. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 113 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“down fell the milk pail to the ground, and all her imaginary schemes perished in a moment.”</span></li><li>Keep the small sure catch rather than wait for a bigger one. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 137 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I were to forego my present certain gain.”</span></li><li>Help yourself freely to what is left unguarded. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 139 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“he was so full that he was not able to get out”</span></li><li>Bite off more than you can swallow in someone else's field. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 151 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die.”</span></li><li>Leave the sure win to chase the bigger prize. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 156 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I am rightly served, for having let go of the food that I had in my hand for the chance of obtaining more.”</span></li><li>Break open the steady source to get everything at once. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 168 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.”</span></li><li>Feed the steady source extra to double what it yields. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 179 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.”</span></li><li>Keep the one in hand rather than chase bigger ones not yet in sight. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 213 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready in my hand”</span></li><li>Agree on a plan that needs the impossible to reach what you want. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 266 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“they burst themselves with drinking long before they reached the hides.”</span></li><li>Linger where it is most rewarding. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 279 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“For the sake of a little pleasant food I have deprived myself of my life.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>A hard lot <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 5 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Grasp the prickly problem boldly. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 61 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you.”</span></li><li>Keep bemoaning the post you have lost. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 72 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Forbear”</span></li><li>Try something new, a little at a time. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 191 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.”</span></li><li>Walk away saying you never wanted it. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 195 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.”</span></li><li>Rage against the confinement meant to protect you. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 301 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“A violent fever suddenly set in, from which he died not many days later.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Rushing in without looking <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 11 options, 8 stated</summary><ul><li>Grab the next easy win without looking. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 13 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!”</span></li><li>Go in because someone praises it, without checking the way out. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 30 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape.”</span></li><li>Rush at what you need the moment it appears. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 32 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.”</span></li><li>Keep your eyes on lofty plans and ignore what is at your feet. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 62 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he fell accidentally into a deep well.”</span></li><li>Guard only against the danger you expect. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 107 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her.”</span></li><li>Ask how you would get out before you go in. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 140 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.”</span></li><li>Doze on the edge of danger, and blame luck if you fall. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 150 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.”</span></li><li>Stay heavy and slow while danger comes for everyone. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 216 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Geese, being slower of flight and heavier in their bodies, were captured.”</span></li><li>Stalk your target without watching your own feet. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 222 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just before his feet.”</span></li><li>Swallow the new thing whole because it looks like the familiar. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 289 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach”</span></li><li>Seize the easy prize lying unguarded. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 308 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>The lion's share <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 5 options, 5 stated</summary><ul><li>Do the risky job first and ask for the fee after. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 3 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.”</span></li><li>Go into a venture with a far stronger partner. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 101 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can.”</span></li><li>Divide the spoils fairly with the powerful partner. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 158 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Lion, bursting out into a great rage, devoured the Ass.”</span></li><li>Leave yourself the smallest share. <code>money -</code> <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 158 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Who has taught you, my very excellent fellow, the art of division? You are perfect to a fraction.”</span></li><li>Go it alone because the stronger partner takes most. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 274 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he himself fell prey to the huntsmen and hounds.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Getting someone to move <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 4 options, 4 stated</summary><ul><li>Stop coaxing and use the tool you have. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 14 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish.”</span></li><li>Tell your successors there is treasure hidden in the work. <code>money +</code> <span class="src">fable 69 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.”</span></li><li>Use warmth, not force. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 242 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays than he took off one garment after another”</span></li><li>Push harder. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 242 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the keener his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Liberties between the weak and the strong <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 9 options, 4 stated</summary><ul><li>Make a great deal of a small liberty. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 49 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse.”</span></li><li>Taunt someone powerful while you are out of their reach. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 66 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.”</span></li><li>Sting the powerful again from your safe place. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 145 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The great do not always prevail.”</span></li><li>Attack someone bigger while they shelter from a worse threat. <code>relationships.bigger -</code> <span class="src">fable 159 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Let that monster go away and I will soon let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat and a Bull.”</span></li><li>Mock a colleague who has just been brought down. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 252 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“While the Sparrow was thus speaking, a hawk suddenly seized him and killed him.”</span></li><li>Bully the weak and flatter the strong. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 285 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to a good old age.”</span></li><li>Pelt someone dangerous while they are down. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 298 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“killing the Shepherds who had attacked him, raged with angry fury.”</span></li><li>Feed someone dangerous while they are down. <code>relationships.powerful +</code> <span class="src">fable 298 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I return as an enemy only to those who injured me.”</span></li><li>Strike at the small tormentor, whatever it costs you. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 305 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“gave himself a heavy slap.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Trying to please everyone <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 2 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Let each party remake you to their taste. <code>relationships.parties -</code> <span class="src">fable 59 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.”</span></li><li>Change how you work at every critic's word. <code>money -</code> <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 143 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“by endeavoring to please everybody he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass in the bargain.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Pointing at others' faults <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 6 options, 4 stated</summary><ul><li>Urge everyone to give up what you have lost. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 38 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus counsel us.”</span></li><li>Correct a junior for a fault you share. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 84 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.”</span></li><li>Tell those who blame you to stop joining you. <code>relationships.critics -</code> <span class="src">fable 111 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.”</span></li><li>Recommend your own trade as the answer to a crisis. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 116 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Every man for himself.”</span></li><li>Condemn those above for what you do to those below. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 153 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Mercury presented himself, and striking the Philosopher with his wand”</span></li><li>Find fault with everyone's work out of envy. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 257 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“drove him from his office of judge, and expelled him from the mansions of Olympus.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Letting a known predator inside <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 6 options, 2 stated</summary><ul><li>Train someone to take from others for you. <code>relationships.pupil -</code> <span class="src">fable 83 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock.”</span></li><li>Shut someone far more dangerous in with you. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 129 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he flew upon the sheep and killed them, and then attacked the oxen.”</span></li><li>Warn the boss before the predator is let in. <code>relationships.boss +</code> <span class="src">fable 164 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Master, how can you expect the sheep to be safe if you admit a wolf into the fold?”</span></li><li>Leave someone long harmless in charge. <code>money -</code> <span class="src">fable 210 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Wolf, now that he had the opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part of the flock.”</span></li><li>Refuse to admit a newcomer with a predator's instincts. <code>relationships.newcomer -</code> <span class="src">fable 233 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Evil tendencies are shown in early life.”</span></li><li>Nurture newcomers likely to turn on everyone. <code>relationships.newcomers -</code> <span class="src">fable 281 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Riding high <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 12 options, 9 stated</summary><ul><li>Make a great commotion about what you are about to produce. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 27 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“out came a Mouse.”</span></li><li>Parade the mark you take for an honour. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 57 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.”</span></li><li>Crow over your beaten rival from the most exposed place. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 71 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons.”</span></li><li>Wear your marks of rank into the fight. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 108 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The generals, not being able to get in on account of the ornaments on their heads, were all captured and eaten by the Weasels.”</span></li><li>Chase someone powerful who has just backed off from another. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 110 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“the Lion, turning about, seized him and tore him to pieces.”</span></li><li>Take the bows meant for what you carry as your own. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 117 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“laid his whip lustily about his shoulders”</span></li><li>Ask, incognito, how highly you are rated. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 126 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Well, if you will buy these, I’ll fling you that into the bargain.”</span></li><li>Claim to outshine the people who truly lead. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 141 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Boast no more, but henceforth be content to give thy light in silence.”</span></li><li>Celebrate loudly after beating a powerful opponent. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 194 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb and was eaten by a spider.”</span></li><li>Think yourself bigger than those above you. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 245 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“this overestimation of myself is the cause of my destruction.”</span></li><li>Make a show of whether to leave, sure you will be missed. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 264 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“I did not know you had come, and I shall not miss you when you go away.”</span></li><li>Carry your valuable load with your bells ringing. <code>money -</code> <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 290 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“wounded with a sword the Mule carrying the treasure, which they greedily seized while taking no notice of the grain.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Sneered at by someone showier <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 12 options, 4 stated</summary><ul><li>Answer that your plainness lasts when times turn hard. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 7 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying,”</span></li><li>Challenge the one who mocks you, and keep a steady pace. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 11 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“Slow but steady wins the race.”</span></li><li>Take the contest for granted and rest. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 11 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.”</span></li><li>Answer that yours are few but of real quality. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 22 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“The value is in the worth, not in the number.”</span></li><li>Mock the hard worker from your idle favour. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 70 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.”</span></li><li>Answer the display of credentials with your wits. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 155 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“And how much more beautiful than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in mind.”</span></li><li>Answer the show-off with what you can actually do. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 167 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.”</span></li><li>Hold your peace and wait for their fall. <code>relationships.rival -</code> <span class="src">fable 223 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“The Ass held his peace, and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods.”</span></li><li>Sneer at a laden colleague from your height of favour. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 223 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm.”</span></li><li>Heed only the one in charge, not the loud one. <code>relationships.boss +</code> <span class="src">fable 226 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“I only care for him who sits above you”</span></li><li>Keep up appearances in every season, and mock those who scale back. <code>standing -</code> <span class="src">fable 310 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree.”</span></li><li>Scale back in lean seasons, whatever the mockers say. <code>standing +</code> <span class="src">fable 310 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure it at all.”</span></li></ul></details><details><summary><b>Worked hard, badly repaid <span class="src">(new)</span></b> — 4 options, 1 stated</summary><ul><li>Work a helper into the ground once the crisis has passed. <code>relationships.helper -</code> <span class="src">fable 74 · <b>stated</b></span><br><span class="sum">“You must now go to the war on foot”</span></li><li>Leave before the one who sacrificed others turns to you. <code>relationships.boss -</code> <span class="src">fable 118 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“He is not to be trusted as a friend who mistreats his own family.”</span></li><li>Ask to be praised for what you were, not blamed for what you are. <code>relationships.boss +</code> <span class="src">fable 119 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“I rather deserve to be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I am.”</span></li><li>Complain that you are always given the hardest jobs. <code>relationships.boss -</code> <span class="src">fable 161 · inferred</span><br><span class="sum">“You have only to thank yourselves for the misfortunes to which you are exposed”</span></li></ul></details></section>
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