JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5
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Cold Fork is a freight yard: 29 events across two stages, a four-day cycle, and its own relationship and skill vocabulary. src/engine/ was not touched. Adding it needed three changes outside the engine: one save slot per pack, app.js holding the current pack, and turn.js no longer naming the mailroom (DECISIONS #34). build.js now handles imports wrapped across lines. A conformance suite runs over every registered pack. DECISIONS #35 records three calls on open questions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RxdJFbLq1rBKsUeticGV1g
416 lines
16 KiB
JavaScript
416 lines
16 KiB
JavaScript
// The three people in Cold Fork who have an opinion about you.
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//
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// Relationship-gated content, and the counterweight to the yard: the runs pay
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// the room, but Dutch's book, Vane's ledger and Ward's slow appraisal are what
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// decide whether the star is ever offered.
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export const people = [
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{
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id: 'dutch_book',
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stage: 'hand',
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weight: 70,
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cooldown: 5,
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description:
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'Dutch has his tally book open on the tailgate and is working through ' +
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'who took which run this month. He has arrived at a number he does not ' +
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'like and is now looking for somewhere to put it.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'let_him_talk',
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label: 'Let him get all the way to the end of it.',
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result:
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'It takes twenty minutes. By the end he has talked himself into ' +
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'thinking it was about the weather, which suits both of you.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'check_the_book',
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label: 'Ask to see the book.',
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result:
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'The tally is right and his arithmetic is wrong by two runs, in his ' +
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'own favour. You say so quietly. He does not thank you and does not ' +
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'forget it either.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 7 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'trade_a_run',
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label: 'Offer him the next Ridge run to square it.',
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requires: [{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 45 }],
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result:
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'He takes it, and the book gets a line in it on your side for the ' +
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'first time. Dutch settles his lines.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -6 },
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 18 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'dutch_drunk',
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stage: 'hand',
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weight: 40,
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cooldown: 9,
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requires: [{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 12 }],
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description:
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'Dutch did not come in for the morning run and the morning run is ' +
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'loaded. He is at the Cordwood, upright, and in no condition to be ' +
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'within thirty feet of a horse.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'cover',
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label: 'Take his run and say nothing about it.',
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result:
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'Vane never learns. Dutch learns, in the afternoon, from the state ' +
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'of the harness, and comes and stands near you for a while without ' +
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'saying anything.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 7 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'flags.covered_for_dutch', op: 'set', value: true },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 25 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Covered Dutch’s run and never mentioned it.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'tell_vane',
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label: 'Tell Vane the run needs a driver.',
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result:
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'Vane takes it out himself at fifty-one years of age and says one ' +
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'sentence to Dutch on his return. Dutch works the rest of the month ' +
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'like a man being watched, because he is.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 7 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -15 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 12 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'sober_him',
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label: 'Walk him round the yard until he can stand up to it.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 12 }],
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result:
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'Four circuits and a bucket. He drives it badly but he drives it, ' +
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'and that distinction is the entire point.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.owes_you', op: 'add', value: 14 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -6 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'vane_ledger',
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stage: 'hand',
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weight: 50,
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cooldown: 7,
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description:
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'The office door is open for once. Vane has the ledger out and the look ' +
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'of a man who has added a column twice and got two answers.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'offer_help',
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label: 'Offer to run the column.',
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result:
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'You find it in ten minutes: a freight bill entered twice in March. ' +
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'He does not say thank you. He leaves the door open after that.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 9 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ask_for_more',
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label: 'Ask him what the good runs pay.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 22 }],
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result:
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'Twenty-two, and he has been giving them to Dutch for two years ' +
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'because Dutch asked in his first month. Nobody had told you that ' +
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'asking was the mechanism.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 22 },
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane for the good runs.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'call_in_the_debt',
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label: 'Mention the smith’s bill you stood for.',
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requires: [{ path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: '>=', value: 20 }],
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result:
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'He pays it back to the cent, in front of Dutch, and is short with ' +
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'you for two days afterwards for having had to.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 24 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.owes_you', op: 'add', value: -20 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'leave_him_to_it',
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label: 'Leave him to it.',
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result: 'The door is shut again within the hour.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ward_asks',
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stage: 'hand',
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weight: 45,
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cooldown: 6,
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requires: [{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 6 }],
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description:
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'Marshal Ward is leaning on the yard gate with no particular business ' +
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'there. He asks, eventually and as though it has just occurred to him, ' +
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'what came in on the stage.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'tell_him',
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label: 'Tell him what came in on the stage.',
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result:
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'Hinges, nails, and a crate consigned to a name nobody in Cold Fork ' +
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'has heard of. He writes none of it down and remembers all of it.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 8 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -1 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'say_nothing',
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label: 'Say that is Vane’s business and not yours.',
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result:
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'He agrees that it is, pleasantly, and stays leaning on the gate for ' +
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'another twenty minutes.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ask_him_back',
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label: 'Ask him what he is actually looking for.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 12 }],
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result:
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'He tells you, which surprises both of you. A crate a month, six ' +
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'months running, and no consignee that exists.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ward_deputizes',
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stage: 'hand',
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weight: 35,
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cooldown: 10,
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requires: [
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{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 18 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 45 },
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],
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description:
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'There is a man in the one cell who needs moving to the county seat and ' +
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'Ward cannot leave the town without somebody in it. He is not offering ' +
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'you a job. He is offering you two days.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'ride_along',
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label: 'Ride along.',
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result:
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'Two days out and two back, and the prisoner talks for all four. ' +
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'Ward does not, which turns out to be the instruction.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 12 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 12 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -4 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Rode to the county seat with Ward and a prisoner.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'mind_the_town',
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label: 'Offer to mind the town instead.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 22 }],
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result:
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'Two days with the keys and nothing whatever happens, which you ' +
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'later understand was the test.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 12 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 8 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 15 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Held the town for two days while Ward was gone.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'decline_ward',
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label: 'Say the yard cannot spare you.',
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result:
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'It can. Both of you know it can. He takes the storekeeper instead ' +
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'and the storekeeper tells the story for a year.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -8 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'saturday_night',
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stage: 'hand',
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weight: 55,
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cooldown: 5,
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description:
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'The Cordwood on a Rest night: Dutch at the long table, half the yard ' +
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'with him, and a game of cards that everybody present knows the ' +
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'storekeeper’s nephew cannot afford to be in.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'sit_in',
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label: 'Sit in.',
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result:
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'You come out four dollars ahead and the nephew comes out eleven ' +
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'behind. Nobody says anything about it, then or afterwards.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'buy_the_table',
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label: 'Buy the table a round and stay out of the game.',
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result:
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'Six dollars, and for the rest of the month you are a man who bought ' +
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'the table a round, which in Cold Fork is a kind of address.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: -6 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: -3 },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'walk_the_nephew_out',
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label: 'Get the nephew out of the game.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: '>=', value: 12 }],
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result:
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'You do it badly and in front of everyone, and it works. The ' +
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'storekeeper hears about it before you are back at the yard.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 7 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.wary_of_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 5 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Pulled the storekeeper’s nephew out of a card game.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'early_night',
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label: 'Go up early.',
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result: 'The ceiling of a room at the Cordwood, at nine at night.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 1 },
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{ path: 'relationships.dutch.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -2 },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'the_consignee',
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stage: 'hand',
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weight: 25,
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cooldown: 12,
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requires: [
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{ path: 'turn', op: '>=', value: 24 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: '>=', value: 50 },
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],
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description:
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'The crate with no consignee is on the platform again, and this month ' +
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'the manifest has Vane’s own hand on it. Ward is not at the gate today, ' +
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'which is itself a decision somebody made.',
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options: [
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{
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id: 'load_it',
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label: 'Load it and drive it out to the Ridge like any other crate.',
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result:
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'It is heavier than hinges. Vane pays you eighteen dollars for a ' +
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'nine dollar run and neither of you mentions the difference.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'money', op: 'add', value: 18 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 10 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -12 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: -3 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Ran the unmarked crate out to the Ridge for Vane.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'tell_ward',
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label: 'Go and find Ward.',
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result:
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'He looks at the manifest for a long time and then puts it back on ' +
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'the platform exactly as he found it. Nothing happens for eleven ' +
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'days, and then a great deal happens at once.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'relationships.ward.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 20 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: -14 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Took Vane’s manifest to Marshal Ward.' },
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],
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},
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{
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id: 'ask_vane_direct',
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label: 'Ask Vane what is in it.',
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requires: [{ path: 'skills.trade', op: '>=', value: 22 }],
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result:
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'He tells you, standing in the doorway of the office as always, and ' +
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'then asks what you intend to do about it. It is the first real ' +
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'question anybody in Cold Fork has asked you.',
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effects: [
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{ path: 'skills.trade', op: 'add', value: 4 },
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{ path: 'skills.nerve', op: 'add', value: 3 },
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{ path: 'standing', op: 'add', value: 2 },
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{ path: 'relationships.hollis.trusts_you', op: 'add', value: 6 },
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{ path: 'notable', op: 'push', value: 'Asked Vane what was in the crate, and got an answer.' },
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],
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},
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],
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},
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];
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export default people;
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