JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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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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2786 lines
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"sentence": "A person with little money wants to be taken for rich from the people who give them credit.",
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"The universal covered carpet tack company forms amid great enthusiasm",
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"Mr. wallingford takes a dose of his own bitter medicine",
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"Fate arranges for j. rufus an opportunity to manufacture sales recorders",
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"Showing how five hundred dollars may do the work of five thousand",
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"Battlesburg smells money and plunges into a mad orgie of speculation",
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"Mr. fox solves his great problem, and mr. wallingford falls with a thud"
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"predicament": "A schemer's partner gives up her last valuables to keep up his front, and admits she longs to live honestly."
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"predicament": "A traveller with little money moves with such lordly ease that everyone around him hurries to serve him."
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"chunk": 216,
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"predicament": "A promoter sets up a lavish local household and then goes quietly buying land in neighbouring towns, letting rumour spread."
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"chunk": 290,
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"predicament": "A man living in luxury on credit overhears a struggling small trader complain that big combinations crush the little man."
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}
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"text": "Take the finest rooms and let your bearing carry the bill.",
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"text": "Furnish a grand household on credit, and entertain the people you need.",
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"charm": "+",
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"in_group": true
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"text": "Pawn your partner's last valuables to keep the front going.",
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"source": "scene:82",
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"money": "+",
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"standing": "+"
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"in_group": true
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{
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"text": "Cut back to what you can actually pay for.",
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"source": "archetype",
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"money": "+",
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"id": "G02",
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"name": "The bill is due and you cannot pay",
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"predicament": "Someone wants paying now, you cannot pay, and all you have is the look of a person who could.",
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"sentence": "A person in debt wants time from a creditor.",
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"actor": "person in debt",
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"counterpart": "a creditor",
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"J. rufus accepts a temporary accommodation and buys an automobile",
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"The universal covered carpet tack company forms amid great enthusiasm",
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"In which an astounding revelation is made concerning j. rufus",
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"Mr. fox solves his great problem, and mr. wallingford falls with a thud",
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"J. rufus scents a fortune in smoke and lets mr. nickel see the flames",
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"Mr. wallingford gambles a bit and picks up an unsolicited partner"
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],
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"high": 1
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"chunk": 29,
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"story": 3,
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"predicament": "A promoter who is nearly broke plays an irritated rich man, and a dazzled partner offers to lend him cash."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 43,
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"story": 4,
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"predicament": "A schemer pays for a house with a promise to pay later, and bluffs the hesitant seller into accepting it."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 51,
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"story": 5,
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"predicament": "A creditor who means to demand payment from a showy customer is instead talked into extending him even more credit."
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"chunk": 289,
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"story": 24,
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"predicament": "A broke man deliberately runs up a debt he cannot pay, to force himself to get back to work."
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},
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"chunk": 298,
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"story": 25,
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"predicament": "A guest who owes a large bill he cannot pay walks straight up to the clerk, having just found his next scheme."
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},
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"chunk": 299,
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"story": 25,
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"predicament": "A guest who cannot pay his bill complains loudly about the service, so that the anxious clerk stops worrying about payment."
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},
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"chunk": 307,
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"story": 26,
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"predicament": "A promoter who has just dazzled his prospects with a costly lunch is quietly asked to settle a bill he cannot pay."
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"chunk": 308,
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"story": 26,
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"predicament": "A guest handed a bill he cannot pay pockets it with perfect calm, as if money were the least of his concerns."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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"text": "Complain about their service and threaten to take your custom elsewhere.",
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"standing": "+"
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"in_group": true
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"text": "Pocket the bill calmly, as if money were the least of your concerns.",
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"source": "scene:308",
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"charm": "+",
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"flags.bill_outstanding": "set"
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"in_group": true
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"text": "Hand them a promise to pay later, and dare them to refuse it.",
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"source": "scene:43",
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"standing": "+",
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"text": "Order something more on the same account.",
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"money": "-",
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Borrow from a friend who thinks you are rich.",
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"source": "scene:29",
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"moves": {
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"money": "+",
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"relationships.friend": "risk"
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"in_group": true
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}
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"id": "G03",
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"name": "A share in something that does not exist yet",
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"predicament": "You are offered a share in a venture that exists only on paper, and everyone says the chance will not come again.",
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"sentence": "A small saver wants a share of the profits from the promoter.",
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"actor": "small saver",
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"wants": "a share of the profits",
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"counterpart": "the promoter",
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"Wherein edward lamb beholds the amazing profits of the carpet-tack industry",
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"Mr. wallingford's lamb is carefully inspired with a flash of creative genius",
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"Mr. wallingford shows mr. clover how to do the widows and orphans good",
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"Fate arranges for j. rufus an opportunity to manufacture sales recorders",
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"Mr. wallingford offers unlimited financial backing to a new enterprise",
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"The farmers' commercial association does terrific things to the board of trade",
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"J. rufus scents a fortune in smoke and lets mr. nickel see the flames",
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"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
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],
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"standing": {
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"middle": 3,
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"high": 2
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"stage": "low",
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"chunk": 12,
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"story": 1,
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"predicament": "A cautious man who resisted a distant fortune is overwhelmed by glowing profit figures for something he can hold in his hand."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 13,
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"story": 1,
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"predicament": "A promoter says shares will go only to a few big investors, making a cautious man suddenly afraid of being left out."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 20,
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"story": 2,
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"predicament": "A cautious older friend, envying the promised returns, is asked to judge a venture he cannot check and pronounces it too good to miss."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 93,
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"story": 8,
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"predicament": "A widow who cannot follow the figures is persuaded to invest her small inheritance because the man offering it looks so rich."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 129,
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"story": 11,
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"predicament": "A cautious man is urged to risk his savings making his own invention, to frighten a powerful company into paying."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 140,
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"story": 12,
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"predicament": "A penniless promoter offers to fund a venture single-handed, and the doubters rush to put in their own money instead."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 275,
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"story": 23,
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"predicament": "Small producers are urged by the leader they trust to gamble every spare dollar, as a duty, through his own brokers."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 277,
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"story": 23,
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"predicament": "A careful old man who distrusts speculation is tempted by his neighbours' easy profits and asks his son how to get in."
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},
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"chunk": 304,
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"story": 25,
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"predicament": "A small trader is told that trading his business for shares will double his profits while he keeps running it himself."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 323,
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"story": 27,
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"predicament": "A small trader who scrimped for thirty years is told that saving is for fools and real fortunes come from investing boldly."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 324,
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"story": 27,
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"predicament": "A trusting small trader is offered extra shares in secret, supposedly to keep a powerful partner from getting too much."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Buy in before the chance is gone.",
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"source": "scene:140",
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"moves": {
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"money": "risk",
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"in_group": true
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{
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"text": "Ask to see the thing itself before you pay a penny.",
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{
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"text": "Take a bigger share than you can afford, in secret.",
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"moves": {
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"money": "risk",
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"in_group": true
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{
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"text": "Trade your own business for shares instead of cash.",
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"moves": {
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"money": "risk",
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"standing": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Keep your savings where they are earning.",
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"moves": {
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"money": "+",
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"in_group": false
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}
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},
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{
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"id": "G04",
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"name": "Raising money on a promise you cannot keep",
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"predicament": "You are raising money on a promise you know you cannot keep, and the people paying in trust you completely.",
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"sentence": "A promoter wants their money from the investors.",
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"actor": "promoter",
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"wants": "their money",
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"counterpart": "the investors",
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],
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"In which j. rufus wallingford conceives a brilliant invention",
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"In which an astounding revelation is made concerning j. rufus",
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"Wherein the great tack inventor suddenly decides to change his location",
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"An amazing combination of philanthropy and profit is inaugurated",
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"Showing how five hundred dollars may do the work of five thousand",
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"Battlesburg smells money and plunges into a mad orgie of speculation",
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"A corner in farmers is formed and it beholds a most wonderful vision",
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"J. rufus scents a fortune in smoke and lets mr. nickel see the flames"
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],
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"story": 5,
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"predicament": "A promoter knows his product can never be made and sold safely, and must keep his investors hopeful while he stalls."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 62,
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"story": 5,
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"predicament": "A promoter shows investors plans for a machine that will never be built, restoring their faith while he sells off his shares."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 63,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A promoter who has drained the treasury tells worried investors that more money is needed at once to finish the work."
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},
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"chunk": 100,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A promoter borrows a successful rival's figures and dresses them up so small savers will think the numbers are his own."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 104,
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"story": 9,
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"predicament": "A promoter travels to every small saver who shows interest and sells each exactly as many shares as they can afford."
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},
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"chunk": 150,
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"story": 13,
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"predicament": "A promoter declines every office and responsibility, offering only to back the venture with money he does not have."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 219,
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"story": 19,
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"predicament": "A promoter hints that the town will get the great enterprise if its citizens do their part, and the crowd cheers him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 223,
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"story": 19,
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"predicament": "A promoter modestly asks the town only to buy back his rights to its land and give him more free, promising a gift."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 267,
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"story": 22,
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"predicament": "A promoter vows before his followers that he would spend his whole fortune for their cause and die poor if need be."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 303,
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"story": 25,
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"predicament": "A small trader offered a place in a new combination fears that if he refuses he will be squeezed out of business."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Show them plans for the next step, to keep their faith alive.",
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"source": "scene:62",
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"moves": {
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"cunning": "+",
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"money": "+",
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"relationships.investors": "+"
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Borrow a successful rival's figures and let them think they are yours.",
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"source": "scene:100",
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"moves": {
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"money": "+",
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"flags.misled_investors": "set",
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"standing": "risk"
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Offer to back the whole venture yourself, knowing you cannot.",
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"source": "scene:150",
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"moves": {
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"charm": "+",
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"in_group": true
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},
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"text": "Ask for no money now, only free concessions, and promise them a gift.",
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"sentence": "A townsperson wants their share of the boom from the neighbours and the promoter.",
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"In which an astounding revelation is made concerning j. rufus",
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"In which the sheep are sheared and skinned and their hides tanned",
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"A corner in farmers is formed and it beholds a most wonderful vision",
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"The farmers' commercial association does terrific things to the board of trade",
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},
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{
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"story": 20,
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},
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{
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"chunk": 231,
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"story": 20,
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},
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{
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"chunk": 232,
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"story": 20,
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},
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{
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"chunk": 261,
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"story": 22,
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"predicament": "Small producers join a new association eagerly because the rich organiser promises that he alone will pay for everything."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 262,
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"story": 22,
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"predicament": "Members of a free association are asked only to recruit three friends each, which seems to cost them nothing at all."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 263,
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"story": 22,
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"predicament": "A crowd of producers, fed and flattered, goes home convinced the stranger among them is the leader who will deliver them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 268,
|
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"story": 22,
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"predicament": "A crowd of hopeful producers goes home laden with a promoter's gifts, sure that wealth is theirs, while his own partner watches pale."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 273,
|
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"story": 23,
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"predicament": "Small producers are urged by a trusted leader to hold back everything they have until a promised higher price arrives."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 274,
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"story": 23,
|
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"predicament": "Small producers everywhere hold out for a promised price, and the promoter behind it boasts how easily the big traders can be frightened."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 276,
|
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"story": 23,
|
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"predicament": "Neighbours who never gambled before mortgage their land to speculate, and brag to each other about paper profits."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 322,
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"story": 27,
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
|
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"text": "Put everything in and ride it up.",
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"source": "scene:276",
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"money": "risk",
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},
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},
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{
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"text": "Buy in, and sell to the next person at a profit.",
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"source": "scene:231",
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"money": "+",
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"cunning": "+"
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},
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},
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{
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"text": "Give the promoter whatever he asks, so the town gets its share.",
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"source": "scene:224",
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"money": "-",
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"standing": "+"
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},
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},
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{
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"text": "Sell to the eager ones and keep your cash.",
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"money": "+",
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},
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}
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},
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{
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"id": "G06",
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"name": "Sunk in, and asked for more",
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"sentence": "A investor wants to save what they put in from the venture and its promoter.",
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"The financier takes a flying trip to europe on an affair of the heart",
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"In which the sheep are sheared and skinned and their hides tanned"
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"chunk": 56,
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"story": 5,
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},
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{
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"chunk": 57,
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},
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{
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"chunk": 58,
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"story": 5,
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},
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{
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"chunk": 68,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "Investors mortgage their homes and tap every friend to save what they have already sunk, while the promoter sells out."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 110,
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"story": 10,
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"predicament": "An employee asks her crooked employer to buy back her family's shares, and must return alone at night to collect."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 173,
|
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"story": 15,
|
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"predicament": "Discouraged partners are asked one by one whether they would risk more money, and only the founder still believes."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 175,
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"story": 15,
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"predicament": "Frightened small investors decide to cut their losses and let the business be sold, exactly as their false partner intended."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 233,
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"story": 20,
|
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}
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],
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{
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"text": "Mortgage your home and put in more to save it.",
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"source": "scene:68",
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"moves": {
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"money": "-",
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"relationships.partners": "+",
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"flags.mortgaged": "set"
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},
|
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
|
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"text": "Take shares as security for what you are owed.",
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"source": "scene:57",
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"money": "risk",
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"cunning": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
|
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"text": "Demand your money back, now.",
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"source": "scene:110",
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "+",
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Cut your losses and let it be sold.",
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"source": "scene:175",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "-",
|
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"standing": "-"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Hold on and refuse every offer until it pays.",
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"source": "scene:233",
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"moves": {
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"money": "risk",
|
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"standing": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
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}
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]
|
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},
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{
|
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"id": "G07",
|
|
"name": "Working inside a crooked business",
|
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"predicament": "You have realised the business that pays you is crooked, and speaking up would cost you your place.",
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"sentence": "A employee wants to keep their living and their conscience from the people running it.",
|
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"actor": "employee",
|
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"wants": "to keep their living and their conscience",
|
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"counterpart": "the people running it",
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|
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5,
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|
6,
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|
8,
|
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9,
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|
15,
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|
26
|
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],
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|
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"In which an astounding revelation is made concerning j. rufus",
|
|
"Wherein the great tack inventor suddenly decides to change his location",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford shows mr. clover how to do the widows and orphans good",
|
|
"An amazing combination of philanthropy and profit is inaugurated",
|
|
"The financier takes a flying trip to europe on an affair of the heart",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford gambles a bit and picks up an unsolicited partner"
|
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],
|
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"standing": {
|
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"low": 3,
|
|
"middle": 5
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},
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"stage": "middle",
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"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 48,
|
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"story": 5,
|
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"predicament": "A needy adviser knows the paper he is asked to obtain is worthless, and is persuaded his duty is simply to keep quiet."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 66,
|
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"story": 6,
|
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"predicament": "A partner who calls his associate a thief is reminded that he himself draws a salary from the same crooked business."
|
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},
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{
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"chunk": 98,
|
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"story": 8,
|
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"predicament": "An employee promised a share of the profits suspects the business is a fraud, but the money silences him for now."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 101,
|
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"story": 9,
|
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"predicament": "An employee objects that the sales pitch is plainly dishonest and asks why the business cannot simply tell the truth."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 105,
|
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"story": 9,
|
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"predicament": "An employee warns that the business cannot keep its promises to members, and is shown the fine print that lets it break them."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 106,
|
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"story": 9,
|
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|
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 168,
|
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"story": 15,
|
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"predicament": "An accomplice who knows too much demands a share of the spoils, and the schemer pretends to give in to his terms."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 317,
|
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"story": 26,
|
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"predicament": "A sharp outsider exposes exactly how the promoter's contract cheats the small traders, and asks to be cut in rather than warn them."
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
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{
|
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"text": "Keep quiet and do the work you are paid for.",
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"source": "scene:48",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "+",
|
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"flags.complicit": "set"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Ask for your own pay to be cut, so you are not profiting.",
|
|
"source": "scene:66",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "-",
|
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"standing": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Object to the dishonest pitch, to their faces.",
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"source": "scene:101",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"relationships.bosses": "-",
|
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"standing": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Stay on, and rebuild it for the people it will fail.",
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"source": "scene:106",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"relationships.members": "+",
|
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"money": "risk",
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},
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"text": "Demand a share of the take for your silence.",
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|
"source": "scene:168",
|
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"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
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"cunning": "+",
|
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"flags.complicit": "set",
|
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|
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},
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"in_group": true
|
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}
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]
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"id": "G08",
|
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"name": "Partners who mean to cheat each other",
|
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"predicament": "You and a partner each hold part of the other's fortune, and one of you is already planning to take it all.",
|
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"sentence": "A partner wants their share, or all of it from their partner.",
|
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"actor": "partner",
|
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"wants": "their share, or all of it",
|
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"counterpart": "their partner",
|
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"stories": [
|
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5,
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6,
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9,
|
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10,
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15,
|
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16,
|
|
26,
|
|
27
|
|
],
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"story_titles": [
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"In which an astounding revelation is made concerning j. rufus",
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"Wherein the great tack inventor suddenly decides to change his location",
|
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"An amazing combination of philanthropy and profit is inaugurated",
|
|
"Neil takes a sudden interest in the business and wallingford lets go",
|
|
"The financier takes a flying trip to europe on an affair of the heart",
|
|
"Wherein a good stomach for strong drink is worth thousands of dollars",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford gambles a bit and picks up an unsolicited partner",
|
|
"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
|
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],
|
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"standing": {
|
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"low": 6,
|
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"middle": 7
|
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},
|
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"stage": "middle",
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"members": [
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{
|
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"chunk": 53,
|
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"story": 5,
|
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"predicament": "A partner learns the promoter has quietly sold off his shares to creditors, and realises the venture collapses if the promoter walks."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 65,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A partner realises the shares his associate is selling to friends are worthless, and refuses to put his name to the sale."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 107,
|
|
"story": 9,
|
|
"predicament": "A partner who sold his share for a promise to pay watches the other tear up the promise and laugh at him."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 114,
|
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"story": 10,
|
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"predicament": "A partner discovers the other quietly sold out first and left him holding the worthless shares, and demands his half."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 169,
|
|
"story": 15,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer reads in an accomplice's eyes that he plans a double-cross, and lets him go on believing he has the upper hand."
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 178,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
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"predicament": "An accomplice who plans to slip away and betray his partner is quietly drugged by the partner he meant to cheat."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 179,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer searches his unconscious accomplice and finds proof that he was secretly working for the rival all along."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 183,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
|
"predicament": "A front man jokes about keeping the prize for himself, and his partner answers at once with a threat of prison."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 184,
|
|
"story": 16,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer shows his oldest friend what happened to the last accomplice who tried to cheat him, as a warning."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 318,
|
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"story": 26,
|
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"predicament": "A local fixer demands half a promoter's hidden profit, and makes clear he has the power to stop the scheme if refused."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 319,
|
|
"story": 26,
|
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"predicament": "A promoter who has been forced to accept an unwanted partner smiles on the surface and privately plans how to deal with him."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 321,
|
|
"story": 27,
|
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"predicament": "A wary partner hates letting the other hold all the shares in trust, but cannot think of a better arrangement."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 327,
|
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"story": 27,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer who planned to cheat his forced partner learns that the partner saw it coming and has had him jailed first."
|
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
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{
|
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"text": "Seem to accept their terms, and get a step ahead of them.",
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"source": "scene:169",
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"moves": {
|
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"cunning": "+",
|
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"relationships.partner": "-"
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Keep them busy and out of the way until the deal is done.",
|
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"source": "scene:178",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"cunning": "+",
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"relationships.partner": "-",
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"flags.double_crossed": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Go to the law before they can move.",
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"source": "scene:327",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.partner": "-",
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"standing": "risk",
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"flags.pressed_charges": "set"
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},
|
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
|
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"text": "Refuse to put your name to what they are doing.",
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"source": "scene:65",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "+",
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"relationships.partner": "-"
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Let them hold everything in trust for now.",
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"source": "scene:321",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.partner": "+",
|
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"money": "risk"
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "G09",
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"name": "Out-swindled by someone you trusted",
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"predicament": "Someone you took for a safe pair of hands, or an easy mark, has turned out sharper than you and taken everything.",
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"sentence": "A schemer wants their money back from the one who outwitted them.",
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"actor": "schemer",
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"wants": "their money back",
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"counterpart": "the one who outwitted them",
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"stories": [
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0,
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7,
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24,
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27
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],
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"story_titles": [
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"In which j. rufus wallingford conceives a brilliant invention",
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"Mr. wallingford takes a dose of his own bitter medicine",
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"Mr. fox solves his great problem, and mr. wallingford falls with a thud",
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"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
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],
|
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"standing": {
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"low": 2,
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"middle": 2,
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"high": 3
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},
|
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"stage": "high",
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"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 2,
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"story": 0,
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"predicament": "A swindler who came to fleece a mark confesses to a fellow schemer that the mark was far too careful to be fooled."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 80,
|
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"story": 7,
|
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"predicament": "A swindler who thought himself too sharp to be fooled loses his whole take to a smaller cheat on a tip."
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},
|
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{
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"chunk": 81,
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"story": 7,
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"predicament": "Two sharp operators, both cleaned out by other cheats, sit broke in costly rooms they cannot pay for."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 282,
|
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"story": 24,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer who has always taken losses coolly reads that the man holding his whole fortune has killed himself."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 283,
|
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"story": 24,
|
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"predicament": "A respected handler of other people's money turns out to have been secretly stealing from all his clients for years."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 285,
|
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"story": 24,
|
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"predicament": "A man who staked everything learns his trusted handler spent it on his own debts and gambled away the rest."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 330,
|
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"story": 27,
|
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"predicament": "A jailed schemer must smile while the rival who put him there takes over his scheme and thanks him for it."
|
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
|
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{
|
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"text": "Smile and joke while they enjoy it.",
|
|
"source": "scene:330",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"charm": "+",
|
|
"standing": "-",
|
|
"relationships.rival": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Take it to the law.",
|
|
"source": "filled",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.rival": "-",
|
|
"standing": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Swallow it, and remember how it was done.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"cunning": "+",
|
|
"money": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Blame honesty itself, and swear off straight dealing.",
|
|
"source": "scene:287",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"flags.swore_off_honesty": "set",
|
|
"relationships.partner": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G10",
|
|
"name": "Let in on the inside",
|
|
"predicament": "The person selling to you offers to make you a partner instead, and suddenly you are on the inside of the deal.",
|
|
"sentence": "A mark wants a partner's share from the promoter.",
|
|
"actor": "mark",
|
|
"wants": "a partner's share",
|
|
"counterpart": "the promoter",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
2,
|
|
3,
|
|
7,
|
|
11,
|
|
25
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"Mr. wallingford's lamb is carefully inspired with a flash of creative genius",
|
|
"J. rufus accepts a temporary accommodation and buys an automobile",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford takes a dose of his own bitter medicine",
|
|
"Fate arranges for j. rufus an opportunity to manufacture sales recorders",
|
|
"J. rufus scents a fortune in smoke and lets mr. nickel see the flames"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"low": 5,
|
|
"middle": 3
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "low",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 24,
|
|
"story": 2,
|
|
"predicament": "A recruit offers an obvious fix to a planted problem and is flattered as a genius by the promoter who set it up."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 26,
|
|
"story": 3,
|
|
"predicament": "A recruit is offered a quarter share in a worthless invention for one idea, and feels himself risen far above his neighbours."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 33,
|
|
"story": 3,
|
|
"predicament": "A partner asks to let his friends in on a good thing, and the promoter shows him how their small stakes can be used."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 87,
|
|
"story": 7,
|
|
"predicament": "A small operator proudly shows how he skims his members' money, and a bigger schemer demands half the business for his skill."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 88,
|
|
"story": 7,
|
|
"predicament": "A needy operator haggles over selling half his business to a rich-seeming stranger who plans to inflate it enormously."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 130,
|
|
"story": 11,
|
|
"predicament": "A man burned by shares refuses any share scheme, so the promoter offers a plain partnership with his friends instead."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 305,
|
|
"story": 25,
|
|
"predicament": "A small trader is offered a seat on the board and a quiet chance to sell his own business to it above value."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 306,
|
|
"story": 25,
|
|
"predicament": "A mark who has been let in on the inside eagerly brings in friends he privately thinks are easier marks than himself."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Accept the partner's share, and feel yourself rise.",
|
|
"source": "scene:26",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"relationships.promoter": "+",
|
|
"flags.insider": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Bring your friends in on the good thing.",
|
|
"source": "scene:306",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.friends": "risk",
|
|
"standing": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Quietly sell your own piece to the venture above its worth.",
|
|
"source": "scene:305",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"cunning": "+",
|
|
"flags.insider": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Haggle hard over what your part is worth.",
|
|
"source": "scene:88",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"relationships.promoter": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Keep it a plain partnership, with no shares to sell.",
|
|
"source": "scene:130",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"cunning": "+",
|
|
"money": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G11",
|
|
"name": "Charmed out of your doubts",
|
|
"predicament": "You were sure the rich-seeming stranger was not to be trusted, and one warm handshake is melting every doubt.",
|
|
"sentence": "A cautious person wants not to be fooled from a charming stranger.",
|
|
"actor": "cautious person",
|
|
"wants": "not to be fooled",
|
|
"counterpart": "a charming stranger",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
4,
|
|
7,
|
|
9,
|
|
12,
|
|
17,
|
|
22,
|
|
24
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"The universal covered carpet tack company forms amid great enthusiasm",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford takes a dose of his own bitter medicine",
|
|
"An amazing combination of philanthropy and profit is inaugurated",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford offers unlimited financial backing to a new enterprise",
|
|
"The town of battlesburg finds a private railroad car in its midst!",
|
|
"A corner in farmers is formed and it beholds a most wonderful vision",
|
|
"Mr. fox solves his great problem, and mr. wallingford falls with a thud"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"low": 2,
|
|
"middle": 3,
|
|
"high": 3
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "middle",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 35,
|
|
"story": 4,
|
|
"predicament": "A promoter wins over a wary, thrifty elder with one well-aimed compliment, while someone close to the elder watches uneasily."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 38,
|
|
"story": 4,
|
|
"predicament": "A careful elder decides that a man given credit everywhere must be sound, and agrees to bring his friends into the venture."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 85,
|
|
"story": 7,
|
|
"predicament": "A small-time schemer is dazzled by a grand stranger's bearing, and a warning to watch his wallet only impresses him more."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 103,
|
|
"story": 9,
|
|
"predicament": "A doubtful employee is shown his employer's grand car and lavish table, and decides such a man must really have money."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 141,
|
|
"story": 12,
|
|
"predicament": "A shrewd man who called a newcomer a swindler is won over by one warm handshake, and welcomes him into the circle."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 197,
|
|
"story": 17,
|
|
"predicament": "A trusting booster spreads a stranger's inventions in print and announces to the town that a great millionaire has come."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 264,
|
|
"story": 22,
|
|
"predicament": "A promoter travels from gathering to gathering, turning roomfuls of sceptics into eager believers with his presence alone."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 291,
|
|
"story": 24,
|
|
"predicament": "A roomful of idle small traders grumbling about the rich perks up at once when a rich-looking customer walks in."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Ask for references, and write to them.",
|
|
"source": "scene:37",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"cunning": "+",
|
|
"relationships.stranger": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Judge them by how the world treats them: credit everywhere.",
|
|
"source": "scene:38",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.stranger": "+",
|
|
"money": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Let them win you over with a drink and a warm word.",
|
|
"source": "scene:141",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.stranger": "+",
|
|
"flags.charmed": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Keep your distance and watch.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.stranger": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G12",
|
|
"name": "The lone sceptic",
|
|
"predicament": "Everyone around you believes in the newcomer, and you alone think something does not add up.",
|
|
"sentence": "A sceptic wants not to be taken in from neighbours who believe.",
|
|
"actor": "sceptic",
|
|
"wants": "not to be taken in",
|
|
"counterpart": "neighbours who believe",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
0,
|
|
2,
|
|
7,
|
|
12,
|
|
18,
|
|
19,
|
|
23
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"In which j. rufus wallingford conceives a brilliant invention",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford's lamb is carefully inspired with a flash of creative genius",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford takes a dose of his own bitter medicine",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford offers unlimited financial backing to a new enterprise",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford wins the town of battlesburg by the toss of a coin",
|
|
"Battlesburg smells money and plunges into a mad orgie of speculation",
|
|
"The farmers' commercial association does terrific things to the board of trade"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"low": 2,
|
|
"middle": 2,
|
|
"high": 3
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "high",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 6,
|
|
"story": 0,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer learns that the careful mark who beat his partner has savings and will only trust what he can see."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 18,
|
|
"story": 2,
|
|
"predicament": "An older friend hears of a young man's grand new opening and asks at once whether the newcomer behind it is a swindler."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 89,
|
|
"story": 7,
|
|
"predicament": "A cautious operator objects that the law and the arithmetic forbid the plan, and is told the law always protects the bold."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 139,
|
|
"story": 12,
|
|
"predicament": "A shrewd neighbour warns his friends the rich outsider joining them is a swindler and that any profit should stay among them."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 204,
|
|
"story": 18,
|
|
"predicament": "A soured, suspicious host demands payment in advance from grand-looking guests, and even checks whether their money is real."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 218,
|
|
"story": 19,
|
|
"predicament": "A whole town comes alive with dreams of wealth, and only one soured, suspicious host remembers something did not add up."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 278,
|
|
"story": 23,
|
|
"predicament": "A shrewd old man sees the boom depends on others holding firm, and quietly cashes out while his son calls him a traitor."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Demand to see proof before a penny changes hands.",
|
|
"source": "scene:6",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"cunning": "+",
|
|
"relationships.neighbours": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Ask for payment in advance, and check the money.",
|
|
"source": "scene:204",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"relationships.stranger": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Warn your friends, whatever they think of you.",
|
|
"source": "scene:139",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.friends": "risk",
|
|
"standing": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Quietly cash out while they hold on.",
|
|
"source": "scene:278",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"relationships.family": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Give in and join them.",
|
|
"source": "scene:141",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.neighbours": "+",
|
|
"flags.charmed": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G13",
|
|
"name": "Cornered by the people you cheated",
|
|
"predicament": "The people you took money from have found you out and cornered you, and they are angrier than any law.",
|
|
"sentence": "A schemer wants to get away whole from the people they cheated.",
|
|
"actor": "schemer",
|
|
"wants": "to get away whole",
|
|
"counterpart": "the people they cheated",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
6,
|
|
10,
|
|
15,
|
|
27
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"Wherein the great tack inventor suddenly decides to change his location",
|
|
"Neil takes a sudden interest in the business and wallingford lets go",
|
|
"The financier takes a flying trip to europe on an affair of the heart",
|
|
"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"low": 4,
|
|
"middle": 5
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "middle",
|
|
"members": [
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 73,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A ruined investor comes home to find the man who took his savings threatening his family, and flies at him in rage."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 74,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A man robbed of everything is warned that the law forbids revenge, and answers that the law never protected him."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 75,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A ruined man takes his revenge with his own fists, and the effort breaks his health on the spot."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 112,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer called back to face angry small investors walks straight through them with a confident smile and they fall silent."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 113,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A partner who has discovered he was cheated calls the other in for a reckoning, while the evidence is being assembled next door."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 116,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
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"predicament": "A confident schemer faces a room of angry victims, and his sheer bearing still makes them lower their eyes."
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"chunk": 118,
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"story": 10,
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"predicament": "A cornered schemer agrees to repay his victims under threat, but bargains for travelling money and a safe place to hand it over."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 172,
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"story": 15,
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"predicament": "A partner returns to find the associates he secretly sold out calling him a swindler to his face, and must brazen it out."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 329,
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"story": 27,
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"predicament": "A jailed schemer finds that the marks who fawned on him now refuse him, and he has no real friends left."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Walk through them smiling, as if nothing were wrong.",
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"source": "scene:112",
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"moves": {
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"charm": "+",
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"standing": "risk"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Agree to pay it back, and bargain for travelling money.",
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"source": "scene:118",
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"moves": {
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"money": "-",
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"cunning": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Brazen it out and ask what they would have done.",
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"source": "scene:172",
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"moves": {
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"cunning": "+",
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"relationships.victims": "-"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Beg for mercy.",
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"source": "scene:74",
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"moves": {
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"standing": "-",
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"flags.humiliated": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "G14",
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"name": "Wiped out",
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"predicament": "You have just learned that everything you put in is gone, and people who followed you in have lost it too.",
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"sentence": "A ruined investor wants to salvage something from those who trusted them.",
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"actor": "ruined investor",
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"wants": "to salvage something",
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"counterpart": "those who trusted them",
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"stories": [
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6,
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14,
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24
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],
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"story_titles": [
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"Wherein the great tack inventor suddenly decides to change his location",
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"Wallingford generously loans the pneumatic company some of its own money",
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"Mr. fox solves his great problem, and mr. wallingford falls with a thud"
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],
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"standing": {
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"low": 3,
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"middle": 1,
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"high": 2
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},
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"stage": "low",
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"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 69,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A partner learns from a rival's representative that the product his company was built on has been sold by others for years."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 70,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A partner realises that everything he and his friends invested is lost beyond recovery, and must decide who to tell first."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 71,
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"story": 6,
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"predicament": "A young partner must break the news of total ruin to the older friend he persuaded to invest his life's savings."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 159,
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"story": 14,
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"predicament": "A small business wins its first fight against a powerful rival, only to find the rival can keep suing until it is ruined."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 286,
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"story": 24,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer suddenly left with nothing accepts his partner's last valuables without a word, too stunned to speak."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 287,
|
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"story": 24,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer who lost everything on his one attempt at big business blames honesty itself and rails at the thief who beat him."
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Go and tell them yourself, before they hear it elsewhere.",
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"source": "scene:71",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.friends": "+",
|
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"standing": "-"
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Keep a brave face in front of everyone.",
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"source": "scene:286",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"charm": "+",
|
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"money": "-"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Go back to the steady work you left.",
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"source": "filled",
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"moves": {
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"money": "+",
|
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"standing": "-"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": null
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Fight on, whatever it costs.",
|
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"source": "scene:159",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "-",
|
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"standing": "risk"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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}
|
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]
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"id": "G15",
|
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"name": "Small against the giant",
|
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"predicament": "A rival with far more money can undersell you, sue you or simply wait you out, and you must decide how to stand against it.",
|
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"sentence": "A small operator wants to survive from a powerful rival.",
|
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"actor": "small operator",
|
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"wants": "to survive",
|
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"counterpart": "a powerful rival",
|
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"stories": [
|
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3,
|
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11,
|
|
12,
|
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14,
|
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22,
|
|
24
|
|
],
|
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"story_titles": [
|
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"J. rufus accepts a temporary accommodation and buys an automobile",
|
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"Fate arranges for j. rufus an opportunity to manufacture sales recorders",
|
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"Mr. wallingford offers unlimited financial backing to a new enterprise",
|
|
"Wallingford generously loans the pneumatic company some of its own money",
|
|
"A corner in farmers is formed and it beholds a most wonderful vision",
|
|
"Mr. fox solves his great problem, and mr. wallingford falls with a thud"
|
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],
|
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"standing": {
|
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"low": 1,
|
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"middle": 3,
|
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"high": 3
|
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},
|
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"stage": "middle",
|
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"members": [
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{
|
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"chunk": 32,
|
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"story": 3,
|
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"predicament": "A promoter warns his converted partner to refuse any early offer to buy them out, binding him ever closer to the scheme."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 128,
|
|
"story": 11,
|
|
"predicament": "A craftsman insulted by a powerful firm's low offer is told by a stranger that the offer proves his work is valuable."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 138,
|
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"story": 12,
|
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"predicament": "A group of thrifty friends dream of forcing a giant company to buy them out, and grow excited about getting rich."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 158,
|
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"story": 14,
|
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"predicament": "A struggling small venture is suddenly sued by a powerful rival, and does not know its own partner arranged the attack."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 260,
|
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"story": 22,
|
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"predicament": "A persuasive outsider tells a group of struggling producers that if they band together they can name their own price."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 293,
|
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"story": 24,
|
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"predicament": "A small trader with a better product and some savings cannot afford to compete with a big firm's advertising."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 294,
|
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"story": 24,
|
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"predicament": "A small trader who hates combinations changes his mind the moment someone suggests one that would help him."
|
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
|
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{
|
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"text": "Combine with others your size.",
|
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"source": "scene:294",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"relationships.peers": "+",
|
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"money": "risk"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Compete until they have to buy you out.",
|
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"source": "scene:138",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "risk",
|
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"cunning": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"text": "Refuse any early offer and hold out for more.",
|
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"source": "scene:32",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "risk",
|
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"standing": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Take the low offer and go.",
|
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"source": "filled",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "+",
|
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"standing": "-"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": null
|
|
},
|
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{
|
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"text": "Fight them in the courts.",
|
|
"source": "scene:159",
|
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"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
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"standing": "+"
|
|
},
|
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"in_group": false
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"id": "G16",
|
|
"name": "Courting the rich newcomer",
|
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"predicament": "A rich-seeming stranger has arrived, and you want to be the one he notices, whatever it costs you.",
|
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"sentence": "A local wants the newcomer's favour from the rich newcomer.",
|
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"actor": "local",
|
|
"wants": "the newcomer's favour",
|
|
"counterpart": "the rich newcomer",
|
|
"stories": [
|
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4,
|
|
11,
|
|
12,
|
|
17,
|
|
18,
|
|
21
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
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"The universal covered carpet tack company forms amid great enthusiasm",
|
|
"Fate arranges for j. rufus an opportunity to manufacture sales recorders",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford offers unlimited financial backing to a new enterprise",
|
|
"The town of battlesburg finds a private railroad car in its midst!",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford wins the town of battlesburg by the toss of a coin",
|
|
"J. rufus prefers farming in america to promoting in europe"
|
|
],
|
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"standing": {
|
|
"low": 1,
|
|
"middle": 3,
|
|
"high": 5
|
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},
|
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"stage": "high",
|
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"members": [
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{
|
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"chunk": 41,
|
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"story": 4,
|
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"predicament": "A newcomer who arrived nearly penniless is treated as a prince by everyone who hopes to profit from his spending."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 123,
|
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"story": 11,
|
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"predicament": "Officials who would hold a schedule for no one bend the rules at once for a traveller who looks rich and tips well."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 125,
|
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"story": 11,
|
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"predicament": "Everyone around a lavish tipper assumes his small gifts must be costly, judging the gift entirely by the giver."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 142,
|
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"story": 12,
|
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"predicament": "A close-knit group, charmed by a newcomer, invites him into their community life to meet their leading citizen."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 194,
|
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"story": 17,
|
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"predicament": "A small-town booster gets the chance to go inside and meet the rich visitors that everyone else can only stare at."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 205,
|
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"story": 18,
|
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"predicament": "Small-town boosters rush to offer land and cooperation to a supposed millionaire, each hoping to profit from his investment."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 209,
|
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"story": 18,
|
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"predicament": "A small town's leading citizen, head of every business in it, comes in person to court a stranger he believes is rich."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 210,
|
|
"story": 18,
|
|
"predicament": "One by one the leading citizens of a small town call on a stranger to beg him to invest among them."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 255,
|
|
"story": 21,
|
|
"predicament": "An honest young employee is shown a pile of securities and spreads word through the district that his employer is a genius."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Hurry to be the first to meet him.",
|
|
"source": "scene:194",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"relationships.newcomer": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Offer him your land for his great plans.",
|
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"source": "scene:205",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "risk",
|
|
"relationships.newcomer": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Bend your rules for him.",
|
|
"source": "scene:123",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.newcomer": "+",
|
|
"standing": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Tell everyone how great he is.",
|
|
"source": "scene:255",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"flags.vouched": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Treat him like anyone else.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
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"relationships.newcomer": "-"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G17",
|
|
"name": "A partner who wants to go straight",
|
|
"predicament": "Your partner in the business is tired of it, and begs you to take what you have and live decently.",
|
|
"sentence": "A schemer wants to keep playing the game from a partner who wants out.",
|
|
"actor": "schemer",
|
|
"wants": "to keep playing the game",
|
|
"counterpart": "a partner who wants out",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
5,
|
|
11,
|
|
14,
|
|
18,
|
|
19,
|
|
24,
|
|
25
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
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"In which an astounding revelation is made concerning j. rufus",
|
|
"Fate arranges for j. rufus an opportunity to manufacture sales recorders",
|
|
"Wallingford generously loans the pneumatic company some of its own money",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford wins the town of battlesburg by the toss of a coin",
|
|
"Battlesburg smells money and plunges into a mad orgie of speculation",
|
|
"Mr. fox solves his great problem, and mr. wallingford falls with a thud",
|
|
"J. rufus scents a fortune in smoke and lets mr. nickel see the flames"
|
|
],
|
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"standing": {
|
|
"low": 3,
|
|
"middle": 2,
|
|
"high": 5
|
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},
|
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"stage": "high",
|
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"members": [
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{
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"chunk": 60,
|
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"story": 5,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer's partner, weary of waiting for the collapse, begs him to take what he can now and get out."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 61,
|
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"story": 5,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer who boasts the law cannot touch him is reminded by his partner of every town they have had to flee."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 120,
|
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"story": 11,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer gloats over outwitting the people who cornered him, while his partner warns that he is growing worse each time."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 154,
|
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"story": 14,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer plans to sell someone else's work to the firm that once rejected him, and his partner asks where it all ends."
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 201,
|
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"story": 18,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer's partner, uneasy at a rival's flirting, urges him to settle in a quiet town and run an honest business."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 208,
|
|
"story": 18,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer who already has a comfortable fortune is begged by his partner to use it honestly instead of starting another scheme."
|
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},
|
|
{
|
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"chunk": 226,
|
|
"story": 19,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer's partner, finally accepted in respectable society, begs him to settle down for good and make his position real."
|
|
},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 227,
|
|
"story": 19,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer dismisses his partner's hope of an honest place in the town, treating even her party as a business move."
|
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},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 288,
|
|
"story": 24,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer who lost everything falls into apathy, while his partner watches her hope of a respectable life vanish again."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 300,
|
|
"story": 25,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer's partner learns he means to settle and run a business, and tells him they are about to have a child."
|
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}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
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{
|
|
"text": "Promise this one is the last.",
|
|
"source": "scene:325",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.partner": "+",
|
|
"flags.promised_last": "set"
|
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},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Laugh it off: there are always more towns.",
|
|
"source": "scene:61",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.partner": "-",
|
|
"charm": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Take what you have and settle down.",
|
|
"source": "scene:300",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
|
"relationships.partner": "+",
|
|
"standing": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Tell them it is all legal, and leave it there.",
|
|
"source": "scene:326",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.partner": "risk"
|
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},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G18",
|
|
"name": "Learning what your partner really does",
|
|
"predicament": "Someone who shares your life has just understood what their partner's business really is, and how it touches them.",
|
|
"sentence": "A partner wants to know the truth from the schemer.",
|
|
"actor": "partner",
|
|
"wants": "to know the truth",
|
|
"counterpart": "the schemer",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
15,
|
|
20,
|
|
23,
|
|
27
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
|
"The financier takes a flying trip to europe on an affair of the heart",
|
|
"In which the sheep are sheared and skinned and their hides tanned",
|
|
"The farmers' commercial association does terrific things to the board of trade",
|
|
"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
|
|
],
|
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"standing": {
|
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"middle": 1,
|
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"high": 3,
|
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"low": 1
|
|
},
|
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"stage": "high",
|
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"members": [
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{
|
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"chunk": 166,
|
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"story": 15,
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"predicament": "A schemer's partner discovers she was used as bait to draw money from an admirer, and is furious enough to leave."
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},
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"chunk": 235,
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"story": 20,
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"predicament": "A schemer's partner believes his fortune was honestly made, and he realises she has never understood what he does."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 242,
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"story": 20,
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"predicament": "A partner who has found respect at last learns the schemer plans to leave, making her happiness part of the theft."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 279,
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"story": 23,
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"predicament": "A schemer's partner discovers the followers he urged to invest were simply there to buy him out at the top."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 326,
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"story": 27,
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"predicament": "A schemer assures his partner his profit is perfectly legitimate just as the law arrives at the door to arrest him."
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}
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],
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"options": [
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{
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"text": "Pack and leave.",
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"source": "scene:166",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.partner": "-",
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"money": "-"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Beg them to make it honest.",
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"source": "scene:242",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.partner": "risk",
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"standing": "+"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
|
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"text": "Believe the explanation that it is only business.",
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"source": "scene:235",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.partner": "+",
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"flags.complicit": "set"
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},
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"in_group": true
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},
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{
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"text": "Stand by them, knowing they will not change.",
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"source": "scene:333",
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"moves": {
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"relationships.partner": "+",
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"standing": "-"
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},
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"in_group": false
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "G19",
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"name": "Buying in with nothing",
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"predicament": "You want a full share in the deal but have no money, so you pay with a promise and hope nobody calls it in.",
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"sentence": "A promoter wants a full share from partners who paid cash.",
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"actor": "promoter",
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"wants": "a full share",
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"counterpart": "partners who paid cash",
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"stories": [
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14,
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19,
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"J. rufus accepts a temporary accommodation and buys an automobile",
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"Mr. wallingford shows mr. clover how to do the widows and orphans good",
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"Showing how five hundred dollars may do the work of five thousand",
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"Wallingford generously loans the pneumatic company some of its own money",
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"Battlesburg smells money and plunges into a mad orgie of speculation",
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"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
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],
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"standing": {
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"low": 2,
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"middle": 5,
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"high": 1
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},
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"stage": "middle",
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"members": [
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"chunk": 30,
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"story": 3,
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"predicament": "A partner lending money finds the borrower has casually doubled the sum, and cannot refuse without looking small."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 96,
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"story": 8,
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"predicament": "A partner who sold half his business for cash finds he has been paid with nothing but a promise to pay later."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 149,
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"story": 13,
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"predicament": "A partner who cannot pay his share persuades the others that paying in less money now is only sensible business."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 151,
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"story": 13,
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"predicament": "A partner quietly buys a full share in a real business for a fraction of what everyone else paid in."
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 156,
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"story": 14,
|
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"predicament": "A partner offers to lend the business money he does not have, dazzling the others with a trick of paper finance."
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 157,
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"story": 14,
|
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"predicament": "A partner covers a worthless check by quietly borrowing against the business's own credit, lending the company its own money."
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 215,
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"story": 19,
|
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"predicament": "A promoter ties up a whole town's vacant land with promises to pay later, and the town's leading lender vouches for his notes."
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},
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{
|
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"chunk": 320,
|
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"story": 27,
|
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"predicament": "A promoter asks his powerful new partner to pay the first costs, and settles his own share with a postdated check."
|
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}
|
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],
|
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"options": [
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{
|
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"text": "Hand over a note instead of cash.",
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"source": "scene:96",
|
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"moves": {
|
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"money": "+",
|
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"relationships.partner": "-",
|
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"flags.unpaid_note": "set"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Persuade everyone to pay in less, so your own share is small.",
|
|
"source": "scene:149",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"cunning": "+",
|
|
"money": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Write a check on a distant bank after hours.",
|
|
"source": "scene:156",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
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"flags.bad_check": "set",
|
|
"standing": "risk"
|
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},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Postdate the check and hope it is forgotten.",
|
|
"source": "scene:320",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"flags.bad_check": "set",
|
|
"relationships.partner": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Pay your share in full.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
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"relationships.partner": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
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]
|
|
},
|
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{
|
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"id": "G20",
|
|
"name": "An old accomplice in trouble",
|
|
"predicament": "An old friend from your line of work is in trouble with the law and needs money you can barely spare.",
|
|
"sentence": "A schemer wants to help without being dragged down from an old accomplice.",
|
|
"actor": "schemer",
|
|
"wants": "to help without being dragged down",
|
|
"counterpart": "an old accomplice",
|
|
"stories": [
|
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11,
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|
12,
|
|
21,
|
|
25
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
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"Fate arranges for j. rufus an opportunity to manufacture sales recorders",
|
|
"Mr. wallingford offers unlimited financial backing to a new enterprise",
|
|
"J. rufus prefers farming in america to promoting in europe",
|
|
"J. rufus scents a fortune in smoke and lets mr. nickel see the flames"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"middle": 4,
|
|
"high": 3,
|
|
"low": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "middle",
|
|
"members": [
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{
|
|
"chunk": 122,
|
|
"story": 11,
|
|
"predicament": "A spendthrift down to his last reserve is asked by an old confederate for most of it, and goes to help him."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 133,
|
|
"story": 12,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer sends cash to buy an old accomplice out of trouble, while quietly copying a trusting new partner's invention."
|
|
},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 134,
|
|
"story": 12,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer ransoms an old accomplice from the law at a bargain, and short-changes the adviser who arranged it."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 135,
|
|
"story": 12,
|
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"predicament": "A swindler just freed after arrest is mocked by a friend who says only amateurs get caught breaking the law."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 247,
|
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"story": 21,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer on the run from the law is handed a friend's money to spend and builds him a showplace with it."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 248,
|
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"story": 21,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer arriving to play a new part is greeted by an old friend who is hiding from the law under a false name."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 249,
|
|
"story": 21,
|
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"predicament": "A swindler admits his latest venture has been shut down and his flashy marriage has collapsed with it."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 295,
|
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"story": 25,
|
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"predicament": "An old accomplice on the run begs for help, and a schemer who is himself nearly broke gives him his last few dollars."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 297,
|
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"story": 25,
|
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"predicament": "A frightened schemer warns his oldest friend that everyone else they worked with is in prison, and that they are next."
|
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}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
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{
|
|
"text": "Send what they ask, though it leaves you short.",
|
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"source": "scene:122",
|
|
"moves": {
|
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"money": "-",
|
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"relationships.old_friend": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Buy them out of trouble, and haggle the price down.",
|
|
"source": "scene:134",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
|
"cunning": "+",
|
|
"relationships.old_friend": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Give them your last few dollars.",
|
|
"source": "scene:295",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
|
"relationships.old_friend": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Hide them under a false name.",
|
|
"source": "scene:248",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"flags.harbouring": "set",
|
|
"standing": "risk",
|
|
"relationships.old_friend": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Tell them to keep away from you.",
|
|
"source": "archetype",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"relationships.old_friend": "-",
|
|
"standing": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": null
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
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},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": "G21",
|
|
"name": "The sham turns out to be real",
|
|
"predicament": "Something you set up only as a front has turned out to be worth something real, and you could make an honest living from it.",
|
|
"sentence": "A schemer wants the biggest payoff from someone who wants the real thing.",
|
|
"actor": "schemer",
|
|
"wants": "the biggest payoff",
|
|
"counterpart": "someone who wants the real thing",
|
|
"stories": [
|
|
20,
|
|
21,
|
|
23,
|
|
27
|
|
],
|
|
"story_titles": [
|
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"In which the sheep are sheared and skinned and their hides tanned",
|
|
"J. rufus prefers farming in america to promoting in europe",
|
|
"The farmers' commercial association does terrific things to the board of trade",
|
|
"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
|
|
],
|
|
"standing": {
|
|
"high": 4,
|
|
"low": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "high",
|
|
"members": [
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{
|
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"chunk": 243,
|
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"story": 20,
|
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"predicament": "A promoter about to abandon a sham enterprise is visited by a genuine operator who wants to take it seriously."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 244,
|
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"story": 21,
|
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"predicament": "A schemer who meant to leave a town ruined finds a real buyer takes over his sham enterprise, and everyone ends up satisfied."
|
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},
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 245,
|
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"story": 21,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer with a large fortune wonders for the first time whether honest dealing might pay better than his old tricks."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 272,
|
|
"story": 23,
|
|
"predicament": "An honest young worker's patient methods succeed brilliantly on land his employer bought only as a stage set for a scheme."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 332,
|
|
"story": 27,
|
|
"predicament": "A former victim offers to rescue a jailed schemer and put his talents to honest work, under close watch."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 333,
|
|
"story": 27,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer offered an honest living jokes about needing to be watched, and his partner finally accepts he will never change."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
|
"options": [
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Sell it to the one who wants to run it for real.",
|
|
"source": "scene:244",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"relationships.town": "+"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Take the honest job you are offered.",
|
|
"source": "scene:332",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"standing": "+",
|
|
"flags.went_straight": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Joke about it and go back to your old ways.",
|
|
"source": "scene:333",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"charm": "+",
|
|
"relationships.partner": "-"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Walk away with what you have taken, as planned.",
|
|
"source": "scene:242",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"relationships.town": "-",
|
|
"flags.skipped_town": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": false
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"id": "G22",
|
|
"name": "Selling out before the crash",
|
|
"predicament": "You know the venture is about to collapse, and you can still sell your share to the people who believe in it.",
|
|
"sentence": "A insider wants to get their money out first from the believers.",
|
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"actor": "insider",
|
|
"wants": "to get their money out first",
|
|
"counterpart": "the believers",
|
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"stories": [
|
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6,
|
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10,
|
|
20,
|
|
23,
|
|
27
|
|
],
|
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"story_titles": [
|
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"Wherein the great tack inventor suddenly decides to change his location",
|
|
"Neil takes a sudden interest in the business and wallingford lets go",
|
|
"In which the sheep are sheared and skinned and their hides tanned",
|
|
"The farmers' commercial association does terrific things to the board of trade",
|
|
"Wherein mr. wallingford joins the largest club in the world"
|
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],
|
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"standing": {
|
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"low": 3,
|
|
"middle": 1,
|
|
"high": 2
|
|
},
|
|
"stage": "low",
|
|
"members": [
|
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{
|
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"chunk": 64,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A promoter scorns his investors' small-business caution and demands they raise more money, while quietly selling off his own shares."
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"chunk": 72,
|
|
"story": 6,
|
|
"predicament": "A promoter planning to flee decides, recklessly, to squeeze one last payment from a ruined investor before the collapse is known."
|
|
},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 115,
|
|
"story": 10,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer planning to walk away with the takings is confronted by the employee he dismissed, backed by the people he robbed."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 234,
|
|
"story": 20,
|
|
"predicament": "A schemer who has sold out at the top must tell his partner that the life she loves here is about to end."
|
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},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 281,
|
|
"story": 23,
|
|
"predicament": "A promoter assures his partner that his holdings were sold at the peak, and that his followers' lost money is now his."
|
|
},
|
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{
|
|
"chunk": 325,
|
|
"story": 27,
|
|
"predicament": "A promoter secretly sells the shares he promised a forced partner, planning to leave town with the money and the partner empty-handed."
|
|
}
|
|
],
|
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"options": [
|
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{
|
|
"text": "Sell your own shares quietly while the others hold theirs.",
|
|
"source": "scene:64",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"relationships.investors": "-",
|
|
"flags.sold_out": "set"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Squeeze one last payment from them before you go.",
|
|
"source": "scene:72",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"standing": "risk"
|
|
},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Sell what you promised others, and slip away with the money.",
|
|
"source": "scene:325",
|
|
"moves": {
|
|
"money": "+",
|
|
"relationships.partner": "-"
|
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},
|
|
"in_group": true
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"text": "Stay and see it through with them.",
|
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"source": "filled",
|
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"moves": {
|
|
"money": "-",
|
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"relationships.investors": "+"
|
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},
|
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"in_group": null
|
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}
|
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]
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}
|
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8,
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14,
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17,
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