TheLadder/tools/story-to-pack/probe/plaintales/claude/groups.json

{
 "groups": [
  {
   "id": "G01",
   "name": "A word from someone powerful",
   "predicament": "What you want will go to whoever has someone powerful speaking for them, and nobody powerful is speaking for you.",
   "sentence": "A junior with no connections wants a good place from someone with influence.",
   "actor": "junior with no connections",
   "wants": "a good place",
   "counterpart": "someone with influence",
   "stories": [
    3,
    4,
    11,
    16,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Miss Youghal'S Sais",
    "Yoked With An Unbeliever",
    "Consequences",
    "The House Of Suddhoo",
    "A Bank Fraud"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "middle": 4,
    "low": 3
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 34,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Exposed while defending a woman, a man turns the powerful person he just threatened into an ally against her disapproving parents."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 35,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A powerful patron's word wins over parents who refused a suitor on his own merits, and their consent comes almost at once."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 37,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A shiftless young man is packed off to a distant post a relative arranged, vowing to reform, save money and return to marry."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 92,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A clever, charming junior stuck in an obscure post wants a permanent, well-paid place near the top, and has no connections at all."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 93,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A clever junior does an influential woman a daring favour, and asks her in return to win him a good appointment."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 127,
     "story": 16,
     "predicament": "An old man counts you his friend because your word once got his relative a post, and expects great things of you in return."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 172,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A subordinate does not know he got his post through a patron's favour, and is about to lose it to someone else's favourite."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Do someone influential a daring favour, then ask for yours.",
     "source": "scene:93",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.patron": "+",
      "flags.favour_owed": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take the place your family arranged, and be grateful.",
     "source": "scene:37",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.family": "+",
      "flags.placed_by_favour": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Turn the powerful person you offended into your ally.",
     "source": "scene:34",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.patron": "+",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Find out whose favourite is after your place.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.rival": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Let your work speak for itself, and wait.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G02",
   "name": "The power behind the title",
   "predicament": "The person with the title is not the one who decides, and the one who really does answers to nobody.",
   "sentence": "A person below wants to stay on the right side of the real power from someone with sway but no title.",
   "actor": "person below",
   "wants": "to stay on the right side of the real power",
   "counterpart": "someone with sway but no title",
   "stories": [
    9,
    11,
    13,
    14
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Watches Of The Night",
    "Consequences",
    "A Germ Destroyer",
    "Kidnapped"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "high": 3,
    "low": 1,
    "middle": 1
   },
   "stage": "high",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 79,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A superior's spouse who manufactures scandal has already wrecked marriages and engagements, and everyone beneath her fears her tongue."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 94,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "An influential woman sets out to win a post for her protege, while those at the top grow obsessed with keeping everything secret."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 106,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A leader's officious right hand keeps pulling matters outside his remit into his own grasp, and the leader simply lets him do it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 111,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "The one at the top retells a comic tale until his overbearing right hand takes the hint, resigns, and leaves with glowing praise."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 116,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "Friends arrange for a young man to be carried off until the day he was to marry has passed, leaving the bride's family humiliated."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Court them quietly, as everyone else does.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.power_broker": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep out of their way and give them nothing to talk about.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask them to use their pull for you, and leave the rest to them.",
     "source": "scene:115",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.power_broker": "+",
      "flags.in_their_debt": "set"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Let them overreach, then tell the story against them in public.",
     "source": "scene:111",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.power_broker": "-",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Defy them, whatever they say about you afterwards.",
     "source": "scene:81",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk",
      "relationships.power_broker": "-",
      "flags.made_an_enemy": "set"
     },
     "in_group": false
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G03",
   "name": "One chance to be heard at the top",
   "predicament": "The one person who can settle your matter is almost impossible to reach, and you may get a single chance to be heard.",
   "sentence": "A person with a case wants a hearing from someone at the very top.",
   "actor": "person with a case",
   "wants": "a hearing",
   "counterpart": "someone at the very top",
   "stories": [
    11,
    13,
    22
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Consequences",
    "A Germ Destroyer",
    "Tod'S Amendment"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 2,
    "high": 5
   },
   "stage": "high",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 98,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "A junior shows the most powerful person he can reach that he knows their secrets, and remarks that the last appointment went by favour."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 99,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "Unable to block him, those at the top give a troublesome junior the post he wanted, and warn him never to try it again."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 108,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "Getting a word with the person at the top is nearly impossible, unless you are grand enough to demand an audience."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 109,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "A gatekeeper's slip hands an obscure enthusiast the private audience meant for someone grand, and he means to make the most of it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 110,
     "story": 13,
     "predicament": "Granted one private audience with the person at the top, an outsider makes a spectacular scene, and the leader roars with laughter."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 184,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "Relaying what the people affected actually say, a child explains exactly why a well-meant rule from above will hurt them."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 185,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "Convinced by an unexpected voice from below, a powerful rule-maker quietly consults the people affected and changes the rule."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Go straight to the most powerful person you can reach, and show what you know.",
     "source": "scene:98",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "standing": "risk",
      "relationships.the_top": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Put your case plainly and let it stand.",
     "source": "scene:184",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.the_top": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Make a spectacle of it, so they cannot forget you.",
     "source": "scene:110",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk",
      "relationships.the_top": "+",
      "flags.made_a_scene": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Win over someone they already listen to.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.go_between": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Go through the proper channels, and wait.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.gatekeeper": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G04",
   "name": "A change imposed by someone who does not know the ground",
   "predicament": "Someone set over you is imposing a change on something they do not understand, and nobody who knows better has been asked.",
   "sentence": "A person below wants the old ways kept, or at least a say from someone newly in charge.",
   "actor": "person below",
   "wants": "the old ways kept, or at least a say",
   "counterpart": "someone newly in charge",
   "stories": [
    11,
    22,
    25,
    29
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Consequences",
    "Tod'S Amendment",
    "The Rout Of The White Hussars",
    "The Gate Of A Hundred Sorrows"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 2,
    "high": 2,
    "middle": 2
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 95,
     "story": 11,
     "predicament": "Those at the top keep every decision secret on principle, down to the smallest appointment, and pride themselves that nothing ever leaks."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 180,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "Those at the top write a rule to protect people they have never asked, and get the most important point wrong."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 181,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "Someone conscientious at the top drafts a rule for people he has never spoken with, and everyone between is too busy to warn him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 205,
     "story": 25,
     "predicament": "A new superior insults a proud company and gets rid of the beloved symbol of its pride on a whim."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 206,
     "story": 25,
     "predicament": "When a new superior sells off what his people hold sacred, their offer to buy it back is forbidden as insubordination."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 247,
     "story": 29,
     "predicament": "When a careful host dies, his successor cuts corners everywhere, and the old regulars can only grumble among themselves."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Obey, and keep your opinion to yourself.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.superior": "+",
      "relationships.company": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Offer to put it right yourselves, at your own cost.",
     "source": "scene:206",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.company": "+",
      "relationships.superior": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Get the facts to them through someone they will listen to.",
     "source": "scene:184",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.superior": "+"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Work quietly round the order.",
     "source": "scene:207",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.superior": "risk",
      "flags.defied_quietly": "set"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Grumble with the others, and change nothing.",
     "source": "scene:247",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.company": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G05",
   "name": "Knowing what goes on below",
   "predicament": "You know what really goes on among people nobody above you bothers to ask, and that knowledge could settle a matter.",
   "sentence": "A person who mixes below wants to put what they know to use from those who never ask.",
   "actor": "person who mixes below",
   "wants": "to put what they know to use",
   "counterpart": "those who never ask",
   "stories": [
    3,
    22,
    26,
    34
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Miss Youghal'S Sais",
    "Tod'S Amendment",
    "The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case",
    "To Be Held For Reference"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "middle": 3,
    "high": 2,
    "low": 1
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 32,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Living at the bottom of the household, a man learns what the people above him never see, and longs for the life he left."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 179,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "A child who mixes freely with everyone at the bottom hears what the people at the top never do."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 182,
     "story": 22,
     "predicament": "At a gathering, a child who talks with ordinary people offers a powerful guest a view nobody else present has heard."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 221,
     "story": 26,
     "predicament": "Friends of a falsely accused man call in the one person who can find the truth, and he secretly proves it is a frame-up."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 222,
     "story": 26,
     "predicament": "At the hearing, a man who knows every witness's secret merely lets them see him, and the key witness collapses and recants."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 279,
     "story": 34,
     "predicament": "A fallen man patronises his visitor as ignorant of everything around him, while living contentedly by ways his old world despises."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Tell the people at the top what they have not heard.",
     "source": "scene:182",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.the_top": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Go among them yourself, quietly, and find out.",
     "source": "scene:221",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "standing": "risk",
      "flags.went_among_them": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let the liars see that you know, and watch them fold.",
     "source": "scene:222",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.accuser": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep it to yourself: nobody above values it anyway.",
     "source": "scene:28",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Trade what you know for a better place.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.the_top": "+",
      "relationships.informants": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G06",
   "name": "Good work that counts for nothing",
   "predicament": "You do the job better than those above you, and it earns you nothing but their resentment.",
   "sentence": "A capable junior wants credit for good work from those above who take it.",
   "actor": "capable junior",
   "wants": "credit for good work",
   "counterpart": "those above who take it",
   "stories": [
    2,
    3,
    23,
    32
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Thrown Away",
    "Miss Youghal'S Sais",
    "In The Pride Of His Youth",
    "Wressley Of The Foreign Office"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 2,
    "middle": 2,
    "high": 1
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 16,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "In a new place where good work goes uncredited and bad work unpunished, a newcomer must decide how seriously to take anything at all."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 27,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A man who knows the ground better than anyone is distrusted by his own side, and his rare skill earns him no advancement."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 29,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "A junior who solves what his seniors could not is resented for showing up their failure, and gains nothing by it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 190,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "A junior works like two men for more money, but those above him pay by age, not merit, and refuse him a real rise."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 263,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "In a big undertaking, one expert does the real work while those above him repeat his words and collect the credit."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Keep doing it well, and say nothing.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "flags.unrewarded": "set"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Go back to doing it your own way once their anger passes.",
     "source": "scene:29",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.superiors": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take nothing seriously, since good work goes to others anyway.",
     "source": "scene:16",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.colleagues": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Make sure the right person sees what you did.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.superiors": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G07",
   "name": "Work nobody sees",
   "predicament": "You are carrying far more work than anyone knows, and the only people who notice are the ones who profit from it.",
   "sentence": "A overloaded worker wants to hold it all together from those who pile it on.",
   "actor": "overloaded worker",
   "wants": "to hold it all together",
   "counterpart": "those who pile it on",
   "stories": [
    12,
    20,
    21,
    23,
    24,
    32
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "The Conversion Of Aurelian Mcgoggin",
    "In Error",
    "A Bank Fraud",
    "In The Pride Of His Youth",
    "Pig",
    "Wressley Of The Foreign Office"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 2,
    "high": 2
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 103,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A junior works himself far past his strength, fretting over every rebuke, and ignores every warning that he is heading for collapse."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 163,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "Left alone for years at a remote post with heavy work, a capable man privately takes to a drinking habit that nobody sees."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 174,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "Hiding a dying subordinate's dismissal, his superior takes on double work and patiently endures his lectures and ingratitude."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 189,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "Secretly supporting a family, a junior lives so meanly that his colleagues shun him as a miser, and he cannot explain why."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 199,
     "story": 24,
     "predicament": "Eager not to look ignorant, a conscientious junior sits up nights answering endless requests on top of his real work."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 200,
     "story": 24,
     "predicament": "Question after question draws a conscientious man into ever longer answers, every page carefully filed by the one who means him harm."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 264,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "An indispensable worker is kept at his desk by praise from above, while almost nobody knows who he is or what he does."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 267,
     "story": 32,
     "predicament": "Working blind for someone else's sake, a man toils day and night and produces the finest work of his whole life."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Sit up nights and get it all done.",
     "source": "scene:199",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "flags.overworked": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep going on their praise alone.",
     "source": "scene:264",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.superiors": "+",
      "flags.overworked": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell someone what you are carrying.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.colleagues": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Find your own private relief, and tell nobody.",
     "source": "scene:163",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "risk",
      "flags.secret_vice": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take the rest you are owed.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G08",
   "name": "The strain gives way",
   "predicament": "The strain you hid for months has finally broken through, and now everyone can see what it has done to you.",
   "sentence": "A person at breaking point wants to recover without losing everything from those who see it.",
   "actor": "person at breaking point",
   "wants": "to recover without losing everything",
   "counterpart": "those who see it",
   "stories": [
    12,
    18,
    20,
    23,
    24
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "The Conversion Of Aurelian Mcgoggin",
    "The Broken Link Handicapped",
    "In Error",
    "In The Pride Of His Youth",
    "Pig"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 2
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 104,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "In the middle of lecturing everyone around him, an overworked young man suddenly loses the power of speech in front of them all."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 105,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "After a breakdown he cannot explain, a proud young man is humbled, frightened and sent away for months to rest."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 154,
     "story": 18,
     "predicament": "His nerve broken for good, a ruined competitor begs to be dismissed and walks away while others sneer at him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 166,
     "story": 20,
     "predicament": "A man's hidden weakness finally breaks out, and in his collapse he pours out everything he had kept locked away."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 193,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "Just as a broken young man resigns in despair, those above him finally offer the promotion that would have saved everything."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 201,
     "story": 24,
     "predicament": "After more than a year of pointless demands, an exhausted man lets slip one flippant reply to the person who keeps asking."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Take leave, and go away to mend.",
     "source": "scene:105",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "flags.on_leave": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Throw it all up and walk away.",
     "source": "scene:193",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "money": "-",
      "flags.walked_out": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Beg to be let go quietly.",
     "source": "scene:154",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.superior": "+",
      "standing": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Let it be passed off as illness, and carry on.",
     "source": "scene:167",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "flags.covered_up": "set"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Snap back at whoever pushed you there.",
     "source": "scene:201",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.tormentor": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G09",
   "name": "The rules nobody tells you",
   "predicament": "You are new, and everyone around you follows rules nobody will explain until you have broken them.",
   "sentence": "A newcomer wants to fit in on their own terms from the old hands.",
   "actor": "newcomer",
   "wants": "to fit in on their own terms",
   "counterpart": "the old hands",
   "stories": [
    2,
    12,
    17,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Thrown Away",
    "The Conversion Of Aurelian Mcgoggin",
    "His Wedded Wife",
    "A Bank Fraud"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 2
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 17,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A newcomer throws himself into every amusement and quarrel, losing money and health, and nobody tells him the rules everyone else knows."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 100,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A brilliant newcomer arrives full of borrowed theories, including the notion that obeying an order is worse than giving one."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 102,
     "story": 12,
     "predicament": "A clever junior keeps lecturing his elders on his opinions, and they try to mock and shout him into silence."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 139,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "A shy newcomer who does none of the things his new company prizes is teased relentlessly to knock him into shape."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 170,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A narrow, arrogant newcomer is sent to work under you, convinced that those at the top picked him for his brilliance."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 171,
     "story": 21,
     "predicament": "A conceited subordinate keeps lecturing his superior on how to do the job, and boasting of his friends at the top."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Keep telling them how things ought to be done.",
     "source": "scene:171",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.old_hands": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take the teasing without a word, and bide your time.",
     "source": "scene:140",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.old_hands": "+"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Throw yourself into everything they do.",
     "source": "scene:17",
     "moves": {
      "money": "-",
      "relationships.old_hands": "+",
      "flags.overreached": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Watch and learn before you open your mouth.",
     "source": "archetype",
     "moves": {
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask someone you trust what is expected.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.mentor": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G10",
   "name": "Sent out young, with nobody watching",
   "predicament": "You have been sent out young to your first real post, far from anyone who knows you, and you are starting to go wrong.",
   "sentence": "A young man in his first post wants to make good from the people who could warn him and do not.",
   "actor": "young man in his first post",
   "wants": "to make good",
   "counterpart": "the people who could warn him and do not",
   "stories": [
    2,
    4,
    6,
    23
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Thrown Away",
    "Yoked With An Unbeliever",
    "The Rescue Of Pluffles",
    "In The Pride Of His Youth"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "low": 7
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 14,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A young man raised with every protection is about to meet all of the world's temptations at once, with nobody to warn him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 15,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "A young man who never gave his family a moment's worry leaves them for his first post, with nobody left to fall back on."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 18,
     "story": 2,
     "predicament": "After a season of excess, a young man is scolded by someone above him and privately decides he is ruined beyond repair."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 38,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "A weak young man at a distant post works adequately and congratulates himself, while his sweetheart's family objects to the match."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 59,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "Nobody warns a young man he is being ruined, and the one above him, disliking his engagement, calls it good training."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 186,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "A young man rushes into a secret marriage just before leaving for his first post abroad, sure that everything will work out."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 188,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "A young man's salary, splendid from afar, barely stretches to cover what he must secretly send home to his wife."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Do enough to get by, and congratulate yourself.",
     "source": "scene:38",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "+",
      "flags.drifting": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Take one scolding to heart and decide you are ruined.",
     "source": "scene:18",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "flags.despairing": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Cut your spending and live on what you have.",
     "source": "scene:188",
     "moves": {
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.colleagues": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Find an older hand who has been there, and listen.",
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     "moves": {
      "relationships.mentor": "+"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Write home as if all is well.",
     "source": "filled",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.family": "+",
      "flags.hiding_trouble": "set"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G11",
   "name": "The marriage or the career",
   "predicament": "The marriage you want would cost you your prospects, and the people above you have made clear which they expect you to choose.",
   "sentence": "A ambitious junior wants both love and advancement from those who control their prospects.",
   "actor": "ambitious junior",
   "wants": "both love and advancement",
   "counterpart": "those who control their prospects",
   "stories": [
    3,
    8,
    14,
    23
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Miss Youghal'S Sais",
    "His Chance In Life",
    "Kidnapped",
    "In The Pride Of His Youth"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "middle": 3,
    "low": 4
   },
   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 36,
     "story": 3,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 73,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A young man may marry the woman he loves only if he somehow earns far more than his post will ever pay him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 77,
     "story": 8,
     "predicament": "A superior's report of a junior's courage in a crisis earns him the promotion he needed to marry, though he could never repeat it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 113,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A quiet, model junior with a brilliant career ahead is about to throw it away, and everyone above him is alarmed."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 114,
     "story": 14,
     "predicament": "A promising junior insists on marrying someone his whole circle considers impossible, a match that would weigh on his career for ever."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 187,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "Newly and secretly married, a young man leaves his wife behind, planning to send for her once his fine salary allows."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 191,
     "story": 23,
     "predicament": "Warned that marriage would cost him his post, a junior hides his wife and child, and cannot show grief when his child dies."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Marry anyway, and take the consequences.",
     "source": "scene:114",
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      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "standing": "-",
      "flags.married_against_advice": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Marry in secret, and keep it from those above you.",
     "source": "scene:187",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "money": "-",
      "flags.secret_marriage": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Give up the work you love to win consent.",
     "source": "scene:36",
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      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "standing": "+",
      "flags.gave_up_calling": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Earn the promotion first, whatever it takes.",
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      "standing": "+",
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.beloved": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Let the match go, and keep your career.",
     "source": "scene:117",
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      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.beloved": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G12",
   "name": "A good match your heart refuses",
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   "actor": "young woman",
   "wants": "to marry for love",
   "counterpart": "a family with ambitions for her",
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    3,
    4,
    7,
    10
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Miss Youghal'S Sais",
    "Yoked With An Unbeliever",
    "Cupid'S Arrows",
    "The Other Man"
   ],
   "standing": {
    "middle": 4,
    "low": 1
   },
   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
    {
     "chunk": 30,
     "story": 3,
     "predicament": "Refused a woman's hand by parents who scorn his poor prospects, a man takes a humble place in their household to stay near her."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 39,
     "story": 4,
     "predicament": "Pressed by her family and neglected by an absent sweetheart, a young woman marries the eligible suitor instead and declares herself heartbroken."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 64,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A pretty young woman of modest family is courted by a powerful, very ugly older man, and her mother is overjoyed."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 86,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "Her parents make a young woman marry a well-off man thirty-five years older, though her heart is already given to someone else."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 87,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A young woman's engagement to a poor man is broken by a parent's tears, and he takes himself off to the worst post available."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Give in, and marry where they choose.",
     "source": "scene:86",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.family": "+",
      "money": "+",
      "relationships.beloved": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell them calmly that you have chosen, and keep saying it.",
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      "relationships.family": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Let the one you love find a way round your parents.",
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      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "cunning": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Slip away to the one you love whenever you can.",
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      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Wait for them, however long it takes.",
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     "moves": {
      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "relationships.family": "-"
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     "in_group": null
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   ]
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  {
   "id": "G13",
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   "sentence": "A suitor or spouse wants the person they love from a rival.",
   "actor": "suitor or spouse",
   "wants": "the person they love",
   "counterpart": "a rival",
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    1,
    5,
    6,
    7
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   "story_titles": [
    "Three And--An Extra",
    "False Dawn",
    "The Rescue Of Pluffles",
    "Cupid'S Arrows"
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   "standing": {
    "middle": 11,
    "low": 1
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   "stage": "middle",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 10,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A wife who sees her husband slipping away to a rival quietly stakes everything on one evening's plan to win him back."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 11,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A neglected wife appears at her best in public, and her wandering husband finds himself begging her for the favour of a dance."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 12,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A wife reclaims her husband in front of everyone, and he leaves the rival to take the blame for his own wandering."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 13,
     "story": 1,
     "predicament": "A clever schemer who has lost the contest admits that a patient rival she underrated managed things better than she could."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 44,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A conceited man who means to propose must choose between two close sisters, and everyone around them assumes they know which one."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 45,
     "story": 5,
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    },
    {
     "chunk": 55,
     "story": 5,
     "predicament": "A man publicly claims the woman he truly loves before the whole gathering, while the sister he proposed to looks on."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 60,
     "story": 6,
     "predicament": "A clever woman sets out to rescue a foolish young man from a rival's clutches, knowing everyone will misread her motives."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 66,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "Pushed by her mother toward a powerful, ugly suitor, a young woman keeps slipping away to a handsome admirer with no prospects."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 67,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A powerful suitor stages a public contest whose prize everyone understands means accepting him, and the young woman must compete."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 68,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "Before the whole of society, a young woman deliberately throws a contest she could easily win, publicly refusing a powerful suitor."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 69,
     "story": 7,
     "predicament": "A public refusal leaves a powerful man humiliated and a mother in tears, while the young woman leaves with the suitor she chose."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Say nothing, then outshine the rival on one evening.",
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      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.rival": "-",
      "relationships.beloved": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Choose in public, and let the loser be humiliated.",
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      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "relationships.rival": "-",
      "standing": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Reclaim them before everyone, laughing.",
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      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Treat them kindly where the rival used them.",
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      "relationships.beloved": "+",
      "relationships.rival": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Take your time, and keep everyone guessing.",
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      "relationships.beloved": "risk"
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     "in_group": true
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   "id": "G14",
   "name": "Everyone will hear of it",
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   "sentence": "A person with a story to bury wants to keep their name out of it from the gossips.",
   "actor": "person with a story to bury",
   "wants": "to keep their name out of it",
   "counterpart": "the gossips",
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    10,
    15,
    25,
    27,
    28
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Watches Of The Night",
    "The Other Man",
    "The Arrest Of Lieutenant Golightly",
    "The Rout Of The White Hussars",
    "Venus Annodomini",
    "The Bisara Of Pooree"
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   "standing": {
    "high": 1,
    "middle": 3,
    "low": 2
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   "stage": "middle",
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     "chunk": 84,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A gossip who ruined others is ruined in turn by a tale about her own household, and everyone around her laughs."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 90,
     "story": 10,
     "predicament": "A bystander who stumbles on a woman's secret grief must get her away quietly before her name becomes part of the scandal."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 125,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "Rescued from a humiliating mistake, a man begs his superior to keep it quiet, then wastes months seeking redress as the story spreads."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 215,
     "story": 25,
     "predicament": "A wise deputy persuades an enraged superior that punishing a mocking hoax in public would only make everyone a laughingstock."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 228,
     "story": 27,
     "predicament": "A young man's open infatuation makes him a target for his colleagues' teasing, and everyone around pities him for it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 237,
     "story": 28,
     "predicament": "With the stolen thing recovered, the thief is named in private, his engagement collapses, and he quietly takes himself elsewhere."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Beg the one person who saw it to say nothing.",
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      "relationships.witness": "+",
      "flags.owes_silence": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Put about a harmless cover story.",
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      "cunning": "+",
      "flags.cover_story": "set"
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     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Settle it in private, with no public scandal.",
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      "tact": "+",
      "relationships.culprit": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Punish everyone involved, publicly.",
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     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.company": "-"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Laugh at it first and loudest.",
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     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
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   "id": "G15",
   "name": "Everyone has already decided",
   "predicament": "Everything looks against you, and the people whose opinion matters have made up their minds before you can explain.",
   "sentence": "A person wrongly suspected wants to be believed from those who have judged them.",
   "actor": "person wrongly suspected",
   "wants": "to be believed",
   "counterpart": "those who have judged them",
   "stories": [
    9,
    15,
    17,
    26
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Watches Of The Night",
    "The Arrest Of Lieutenant Golightly",
    "His Wedded Wife",
    "The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case"
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   "standing": {
    "high": 3,
    "low": 4,
    "middle": 1
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   "stage": "low",
   "members": [
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     "chunk": 80,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A man comes home very late with a true but unlikely excuse, and a suspicious spouse refuses to believe a word of it."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 82,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "A spouse confronts a partner with what looks like evidence of betrayal, and every denial only deepens the suspicion."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 83,
     "story": 9,
     "predicament": "Someone who has spread suspicion about others now feels its poison herself, and cannot bring herself to believe the innocent explanation."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 122,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "Mistaken for a wanted man, someone explains at length who he really is, and the more he explains, the less anyone believes him."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 123,
     "story": 15,
     "predicament": "Held by people far beneath him who take him for a fraud, a man tries to carry it off lightly and is silenced."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 143,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "Accused in front of his superior and colleagues by a stranger who knows his whole past, a man protests that he has no wife."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 144,
     "story": 17,
     "predicament": "With his fellows already convicting him on appearances, an accused man watches his accuser produce what looks like proof."
    },
    {
     "chunk": 220,
     "story": 26,
     "predicament": "Accused of an affair on bought evidence, a man knows that even an acquittal on doubt will blacken his name for his whole career."
    }
   ],
   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Explain again, at length, from the beginning.",
     "source": "scene:122",
     "moves": {
      "standing": "-",
      "relationships.accusers": "-"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Deny it flatly and say no more.",
     "source": "scene:82",
     "moves": {
      "relationships.spouse": "-",
      "flags.under_suspicion": "set"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Ask to see their proof.",
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     "moves": {
      "tact": "+",
      "standing": "+"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Call in someone who can find out the truth.",
     "source": "scene:221",
     "moves": {
      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.friends": "+"
     },
     "in_group": false
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep your temper, and wait for someone who knows you.",
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     "moves": {
      "tact": "+"
     },
     "in_group": null
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "G16",
   "name": "A lie to spare them",
   "predicament": "The truth would hurt someone badly, and a careful lie would spare them, if you can keep it up.",
   "sentence": "A person holding a painful truth wants to spare someone from the one who would be hurt.",
   "actor": "person holding a painful truth",
   "wants": "to spare someone",
   "counterpart": "the one who would be hurt",
   "stories": [
    0,
    2,
    10,
    21
   ],
   "story_titles": [
    "Lispeth",
    "Thrown Away",
    "The Other Man",
    "A Bank Fraud"
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   "standing": {
    "low": 6,
    "middle": 4
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    {
     "chunk": 5,
     "story": 0,
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    {
     "chunk": 6,
     "story": 0,
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    {
     "chunk": 22,
     "story": 2,
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    {
     "chunk": 23,
     "story": 2,
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     "chunk": 25,
     "story": 2,
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     "story": 21,
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    {
     "text": "Tell the lie, and build it so it will hold.",
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      "relationships.deceived": "+",
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Keep the pretence up to the very end, at your own cost.",
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      "relationships.deceived": "+",
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     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Tell the comforting lie that spares you a scene.",
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      "relationships.deceived": "risk",
      "flags.kind_lie": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Admit the lie when they find you out.",
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      "relationships.deceived": "-"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Tell the truth gently, and bear what follows.",
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      "relationships.deceived": "-",
      "standing": "+"
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    17,
    24,
    25
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    "Watches Of The Night",
    "His Wedded Wife",
    "Pig",
    "The Rout Of The White Hussars"
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    "high": 2,
    "low": 5,
    "middle": 2
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   "stage": "low",
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     "chunk": 145,
     "story": 17,
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    {
     "chunk": 195,
     "story": 24,
     "predicament": "Sold a dangerous bargain by a colleague who laughs it off, a man vows to make him pay for it if it takes years."
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    {
     "chunk": 198,
     "story": 24,
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     "chunk": 203,
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     "story": 25,
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    {
     "text": "Bet them you will get your own back, and wait.",
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      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.tormentor": "risk"
     },
     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Pretend to submit while you plan.",
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      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.superior": "+",
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Use the system itself to bury them in work.",
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      "flags.vendetta": "set"
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     "in_group": true
    },
    {
     "text": "Hand them something that will torment them, and never explain.",
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      "cunning": "+",
      "relationships.rival": "-",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Let it go.",
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      "relationships.rival": "+"
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   "counterpart": "those it was meant for",
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    18,
    28
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    "Consequences",
    "The Broken Link Handicapped",
    "The Bisara Of Pooree"
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    "low": 2,
    "middle": 3
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    {
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     "chunk": 235,
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    {
     "text": "Use it to get what you want.",
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      "standing": "+",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Keep it to yourself until the moment comes.",
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      "money": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Take it, and take your chance.",
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      "flags.stolen": "set"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Hand it back to its owner.",
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      "standing": "+",
      "relationships.owner": "+"
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    5,
    6,
    14,
    28
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    "False Dawn",
    "The Rescue Of Pluffles",
    "Kidnapped",
    "The Bisara Of Pooree"
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    "low": 2,
    "middle": 4
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    {
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     "story": 5,
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     "story": 6,
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    {
     "chunk": 115,
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     "text": "Win their trust with kindness, then talk sense into them.",
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      "relationships.protege": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Take matters into your own hands, by force if need be.",
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    {
     "text": "Drop everything and go after them now.",
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      "relationships.protege": "+",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Search their things for proof, and risk being the thief yourself.",
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      "cunning": "+",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Mind your own business.",
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    8
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    "His Chance In Life"
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    "low": 3
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     "story": 6,
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     "chunk": 71,
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    {
     "text": "Hold your tongue, and do as you are told.",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Fetch and carry, hoping to be noticed.",
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      "relationships.superior": "+",
      "standing": "-"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Lose your temper and tell them what you think.",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Look for somewhere else to go.",
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    "The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case",
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     "chunk": 138,
     "story": 16,
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     "text": "Keep quiet, so as not to spoil things.",
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     "text": "Say nothing, but keep well clear of it.",
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    {
     "text": "Go along with it, afraid of what they could do to you.",
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     "in_group": true
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     "text": "Bring in someone with the power to stop it.",
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     "in_group": false
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     "text": "Speak up, whatever it costs.",
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    34
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    "To Be Held For Reference"
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    "middle": 2
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    {
     "chunk": 41,
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    {
     "chunk": 278,
     "story": 34,
     "predicament": "A fallen man accepts your friendship only on equal terms, and understands perfectly why you can visit him only after dark."
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    {
     "text": "Go back to where you came from, and burn the bridge.",
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     "in_group": false
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    {
     "text": "Keep your two lives strictly apart.",
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      "standing": "risk",
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     "in_group": false
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    {
     "text": "Live openly on the other side, and ask nobody for anything.",
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      "relationships.own_circle": "-"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Put what you have learned to use for your own side.",
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      "standing": "risk"
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     "in_group": true
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   "counterpart": "someone bound elsewhere",
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    31
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    "On The Strength Of A Likeness"
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    "middle": 2
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    {
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     "predicament": "A man meets a married woman who is the image of his lost love, and befriends her to relive the past."
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    {
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     "story": 31,
     "predicament": "A man realises he has fallen for a good, married woman he began courting only as a likeness, and curses his own folly."
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     "chunk": 261,
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     "predicament": "Loving a married woman who treats him kindly as a mere stand-in, a man parts from her hoping never to see her again."
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   "options": [
    {
     "text": "Meet in secret, and keep it hidden.",
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      "standing": "risk",
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Enjoy their company and tell yourself it means nothing.",
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     "in_group": true
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     "text": "Say goodbye, and mean never to see them again.",
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      "standing": "+"
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     "in_group": true
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    {
     "text": "Tell them plainly how you feel.",
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    28,
    32
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    "Wressley Of The Foreign Office"
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    "low": 1,
    "high": 2
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