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JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4758172d story-to-pack: add the corpora and the catalogue v2/v3
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
2026-10-07 06:05:51 -04:00

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"id": "G01",
"name": "On watch, and your guard slips",
"predicament": "You were trusted to keep watch through the night, your guard has slipped, and something may already be coming.",
"sentence": "A person on watch wants to keep everyone safe and the lapse unseen from whatever is out in the dark.",
"actor": "person on watch",
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"counterpart": "whatever is out in the dark",
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14,
23,
25
],
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"A Horseman in the Sky",
"The Mocking-Bird",
"The Boarded Window",
"The Eyes of the Panther"
],
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"middle": 1
},
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{
"chunk": 1,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "A whole company's plan depends on staying unseen, and one careless lookout could give every one of them away."
},
{
"chunk": 3,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Someone who left home to prove their worth wakes suddenly at a dangerous post, having failed the trust placed in them."
},
{
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"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone on watch loses all sense of direction in the dark, just as a figure comes toward them and will not answer."
},
{
"chunk": 271,
"story": 23,
"predicament": "Someone keeping watch alone over a loved one's body is too exhausted by grief to stay awake."
},
{
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"story": 25,
"predicament": "Someone left alone at night waiting for a partner who has not come home falls asleep and wakes from a nightmare."
}
],
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{
"text": "Own up at once and raise the alarm.",
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"relationships.comrades": "+"
},
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},
{
"text": "Say nothing and hope nobody noticed.",
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},
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},
{
"text": "Challenge whatever is out there, loudly.",
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},
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},
{
"text": "Force yourself awake and keep your eyes on the dark.",
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"nerve": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
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"id": "G02",
"name": "Duty demands you harm someone you love",
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"sentence": "A person under a duty wants to do right by both from someone they love on the wrong side of it.",
"actor": "person under a duty",
"wants": "to do right by both",
"counterpart": "someone they love on the wrong side of it",
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0,
6,
10
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"A Horseman in the Sky",
"The Affair at Coulter's Notch",
"The Story of a Conscience"
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"standing": {
"low": 4,
"middle": 5
},
"stage": "middle",
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"chunk": 5,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Someone who must kill a stranger to protect their comrades is overcome by horror at the very moment of doing it."
},
{
"chunk": 6,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Someone hoping they will not have to kill sees proof that the other already knows the secret that endangers everyone."
},
{
"chunk": 7,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Someone forced to choose between duty and the life of a person they love remembers a parent's words, and fires."
},
{
"chunk": 9,
"story": 0,
"predicament": "Someone who has killed their own parent in the line of duty is ordered to report it, and answers without emotion."
},
{
"chunk": 77,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone ordered to open fire on a target realises, with a sinking heart, exactly where that target is."
},
{
"chunk": 78,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone ordered to do something that will destroy what they love asks whether it is truly required, and is met with silence."
},
{
"chunk": 121,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "Someone responsible for the safety of many has made a harsh rule, and now recognises the person who has broken it."
},
{
"chunk": 126,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "Someone bound by a rule they made must condemn the person who once saved their life, and cannot bring themselves to break it."
},
{
"chunk": 127,
"story": 10,
"predicament": "Someone who has done their duty against a person they owed everything cannot live with it, and pays with their own life."
}
],
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{
"text": "Do your duty, and tell nobody what it cost you.",
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"flags.duty_over_love": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Ask whether it is truly required.",
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"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Give them a chance to get clear before you act.",
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"standing": "risk"
},
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},
{
"text": "Refuse, and take the punishment yourself.",
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"standing": "-",
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"relationships.authority": "-"
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"in_group": null
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"id": "G03",
"name": "Told to obey without question",
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"actor": "subordinate",
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6,
11,
13
],
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"The Affair at Coulter's Notch",
"One Kind of Officer",
"George Thurston"
],
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},
"stage": "middle",
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"predicament": "Someone sees a superior sending a subordinate into hopeless danger out of spite, and their position forbids them to object."
},
{
"chunk": 79,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone who hesitated before an order now carries it out with terrible thoroughness while the onlookers remember only their hesitation."
},
{
"chunk": 128,
"story": 11,
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},
{
"chunk": 134,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone ordered to fire on any movement hears of one they suspect is friendly, and obeys the order to the letter."
},
{
"chunk": 138,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone who fears their orders are wrong is told by a subordinate that they must stop, and answers with the words used on them."
},
{
"chunk": 139,
"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone who knowingly obeyed an order that killed their own side is called to account, and says only that they obeyed."
},
{
"chunk": 152,
"story": 13,
"predicament": "A rude remark to a newcomer is taken so literally that they disarm themselves to go into danger, and the speaker cannot apologise."
},
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"story": 13,
"predicament": "Someone disarmed by another's careless words stands in the open facing death with folded arms, too proud to retreat."
}
],
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"text": "Obey to the letter, and make sure someone witnessed the order.",
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"standing": "risk"
},
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},
{
"text": "Obey, and answer anyone who objects with the words used on you.",
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"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Ask plainly whether it is really meant.",
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"nerve": "+"
},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Refuse, and accept what follows.",
"source": "filled",
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"standing": "-",
"relationships.authority": "-",
"nerve": "+"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Hold your tongue and do as you are told.",
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},
"in_group": null
}
]
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"id": "G04",
"name": "A private score settled through official power",
"predicament": "Someone with power over you is using it to settle a private score, and it may cost lives besides yours.",
"sentence": "A person caught in a grudge wants to survive it and stop the harm from someone in authority with a grudge.",
"actor": "person caught in a grudge",
"wants": "to survive it and stop the harm",
"counterpart": "someone in authority with a grudge",
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7,
11
],
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"The Coup de Grâce",
"One Kind of Officer"
],
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"stage": "middle",
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},
{
"chunk": 80,
"story": 6,
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},
{
"chunk": 81,
"story": 6,
"predicament": "Someone learns an order was a superior's revenge on a subordinate's family, and resolves to stop it on their own authority."
},
{
"chunk": 91,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "An enemy with authority over someone sends them into mortal danger with an insult, and the person they love pays for it."
},
{
"chunk": 95,
"story": 7,
"predicament": "Someone ends a friend's suffering by the only means left, and is caught in the act by the one person who hates them most."
},
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"story": 11,
"predicament": "Someone's last witness, whom they once snubbed, takes their revenge by saying nothing that would clear them."
}
],
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"text": "Answer the insult to their face, and go anyway.",
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"relationships.rival": "-",
"standing": "risk"
},
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},
{
"text": "Say nothing now, and wait for your chance.",
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"flags.revenge": "set"
},
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},
{
"text": "Stop it on your own authority.",
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"relationships.authority": "-",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep the gossip quiet and let the matter lie.",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
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"id": "G05",
"name": "A stranger who is not what they seem",
"predicament": "A stranger everyone else accepts seems not quite right to you, and you cannot yet say why.",
"sentence": "A watchful person wants to know who they really are from a charming stranger.",
"actor": "watchful person",
"wants": "to know who they really are",
"counterpart": "a charming stranger",
"stories": [
1,
10,
24
],
"story_titles": [
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge",
"The Story of a Conscience",
"A Lady from Redhorse"
],
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"middle": 2
},
"stage": "high",
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},
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},
{
"chunk": 122,
"story": 10,
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},
{
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},
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"story": 24,
"predicament": "Someone told that the stranger who fascinates them has a dark mystery finds it only makes them more fascinating."
}
],
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"text": "Go after them and demand the truth.",
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},
"in_group": false
},
{
"text": "Ask around quietly.",
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"moves": {
"wits": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep them at arm's length.",
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},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Let yourself be charmed.",
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},
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}
]
},
{
"id": "G06",
"name": "Your heart is on the other side",
"predicament": "You serve one side while your family, your feelings or your oldest ties belong to the other.",
"sentence": "A person of divided loyalty wants to be trusted without disowning their own from those who doubt them.",
"actor": "person of divided loyalty",
"wants": "to be trusted without disowning their own",
"counterpart": "those who doubt them",
"stories": [
0,
9,
14
],
"story_titles": [
"A Horseman in the Sky",
"An Affair of Outposts",
"The Mocking-Bird"
],
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"high": 1
},
"stage": "low",
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"predicament": "A son tells his father he is going over to the other side, and is told coldly to do his duty."
},
{
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"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone asks to serve a cause their heart is not in, and the one who decides doubts they can be trusted."
},
{
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"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone far from home dreams of a lost childhood and the person closest to them, before they were separated."
},
{
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"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone remembers how they lost touch with the person closest to them when their family was split between enemies."
}
],
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"text": "Tell your family plainly where you stand.",
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"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Serve by your head, not your heart, and say so.",
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"standing": "risk",
"relationships.authority": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Keep quiet about where your ties lie.",
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},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Keep in touch with the other side in secret.",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "risk",
"flags.divided_loyalty": "set"
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}
]
},
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"name": "The only way to know is to go and look",
"predicament": "Nobody knows what waits ahead, and the only way to find out is for someone to walk into it alone.",
"sentence": "A volunteer wants to learn the truth and bring it back from whatever lies ahead.",
"actor": "volunteer",
"wants": "to learn the truth and bring it back",
"counterpart": "whatever lies ahead",
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3,
4,
14
],
"story_titles": [
"A Son of the Gods",
"One of the Missing",
"The Mocking-Bird"
],
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"low": 6
},
"stage": "low",
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{
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},
{
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},
{
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},
{
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},
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},
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"story": 4,
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},
{
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"predicament": "Someone creeping toward danger must judge from small signs whether the enemy is still there, and stake their life on the answer."
},
{
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"story": 4,
"predicament": "Someone who already knows enough to report pushes further on to be certain, into a shaky and exposed hiding place."
},
{
"chunk": 50,
"story": 4,
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},
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"story": 14,
"predicament": "Someone who fears they killed a person in the dark goes back alone into danger to find out for certain."
}
],
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{
"text": "Go yourself, alone.",
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"standing": "+",
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},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Creep in slowly and read the signs.",
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"wits": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Push on further to be certain.",
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"moves": {
"wits": "+",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Send someone else in.",
"source": "filled",
"moves": {
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"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Hurry back with what you know.",
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"moves": {
"relationships.comrades": "+"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
},
{
"id": "G08",
"name": "One bold act sweeps everyone into slaughter",
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"sentence": "A person caught up in it wants to honour the act without dying for it from the one who acted, and whoever commands.",
"actor": "person caught up in it",
"wants": "to honour the act without dying for it",
"counterpart": "the one who acted, and whoever commands",
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3,
5,
9
],
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"A Son of the Gods",
"Killed at Resaca",
"An Affair of Outposts"
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"high": 3
},
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},
{
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"story": 3,
"predicament": "Someone in command must call back a crowd carried away by grief, knowing the sacrifice that inspired them was wasted."
},
{
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"predicament": "Someone given a safe way to carry out an order takes the deadly way instead, and another dies trying to stop them."
},
{
"chunk": 71,
"story": 5,
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},
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"story": 9,
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},
{
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"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone fights savagely to protect a helpless person, not knowing they are defending the one who wronged them."
},
{
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"story": 9,
"predicament": "Someone saved at a terrible price by others wakes almost unhurt, while their superiors call the slaughter glorious."
}
],
"options": [
{
"text": "Rush forward with the rest.",
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"relationships.comrades": "+",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Call everyone back, and bear their anger.",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "+"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Try to stop the one who started it.",
"source": "scene:70",
"moves": {
"nerve": "+",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Hold your place as ordered.",
"source": "archetype",
"moves": {
"relationships.authority": "+",
"relationships.comrades": "-"
},
"in_group": null
}
]
},
{
"id": "G09",
"name": "Refusing the safe way out, lest it look like fear",
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"sentence": "A person proud of their courage wants never to be seen afraid from the watching crowd, or their own pride.",
"actor": "person proud of their courage",
"wants": "never to be seen afraid",
"counterpart": "the watching crowd, or their own pride",
"stories": [
5,
13,
20
],
"story_titles": [
"Killed at Resaca",
"George Thurston",
"The Man and the Snake"
],
"standing": {
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"high": 2
},
"stage": "middle",
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"story": 5,
"predicament": "Someone admired by everyone refuses ever to take cover, and the people who like them watch fearing the worst."
},
{
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"predicament": "Someone walks upright through danger where everyone else runs, while their own comrades lay bets on how soon they will fall."
},
{
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"story": 5,
"predicament": "Someone who could save themselves by taking cover will not be seen to shelter, and stands still until they are killed."
},
{
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"story": 13,
"predicament": "Someone surrounded by enemies with weapons pointed at them is ordered to surrender, and simply refuses."
},
{
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"story": 20,
"predicament": "Someone faced with a danger they cannot judge will not call for help, in case it looks like fear."
},
{
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"predicament": "Someone about to retreat sensibly from danger stops, ashamed to back away even when nobody is there to see."
}
],
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{
"text": "Stand in the open and let them see.",
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"moves": {
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"nerve": "+",
"flags.reckless": "set"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Refuse to yield, arms folded.",
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"moves": {
"nerve": "+",
"standing": "risk"
},
"in_group": true
},
{
"text": "Take cover like everyone else.",
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"moves": {
"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": null
},
{
"text": "Call for help, whatever it looks like.",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "-"
},
"in_group": true
}
]
},
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13,
19,
22
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"nerve": "-"
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"in_group": true
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{
"text": "Name the fear and keep your place.",
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"nerve": "+",
"standing": "+"
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"text": "Find one small thing to do about it.",
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"nerve": "+",
"wits": "+"
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20,
25
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"chunk": 233,
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"nerve": "+",
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"text": "Call out for someone.",
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"text": "Tell someone what you did.",
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"text": "Seize the nearest weapon and fight.",
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9,
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