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221 lines
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{
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"arrival": {
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"start": "first",
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"nodes": {
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"first": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "curious",
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"text": "You must be Z. The scholar who corrected three footnotes in our festival catalogue before breakfast.",
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"next": "reply"
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},
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"reply": {
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"speaker": "z",
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"expression": "wry",
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"text": "Two footnotes. The third was merely being watched very closely.",
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"choices": [
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{"text": "I was hoping to impress the curator.", "next": "flirt", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "achievement", "id": "first_spark"}]},
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{"text": "Accuracy is a form of respect.", "next": "respect", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 6}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 3}]},
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{"text": "I panic-edit when beautiful royalty reads over my shoulder.", "next": "flirt", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 6}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "comfort", "amount": 3}, {"type": "achievement", "id": "first_spark"}]}
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]
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},
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"flirt": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "playful",
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"text": "Careful. If you keep speaking that plainly, I may arrange for you to stand very close to me all week.",
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"next": "business"
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},
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"respect": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "warm",
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"text": "Then we agree. History deserves precision—especially when powerful people prefer decoration.",
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"next": "business"
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},
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"business": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "regal",
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"text": "Come. I want you to see the Moonlit Manuscript before the doors open. Its last folio carries the festival's oldest dedication.",
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"effects": [{"type": "flag", "id": "met_lima"}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 2}, {"type": "discoverGift", "id": "inkstone"}]
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}
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}
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},
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"saira": {
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"start": "welcome",
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"nodes": {
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"welcome": {
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"speaker": "saira",
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"text": "So you are the visiting scholar. Lima has mentioned your footnotes twice, which is once more than she mentions most diplomats.",
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"choices": [
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{"text": "Her catalogue deserved the attention.", "next": "good", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "familyApproval", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 2}]},
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{"text": "Only the footnotes? I must work harder.", "next": "bold", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 3}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 2}]}
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]
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},
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"good": {"speaker": "saira", "text": "A diplomatic answer. Fortunately, your expression ruined it. I think I shall like you.", "effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "embroidered_ribbon"}]},
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"bold": {"speaker": "saira", "text": "Bold. I see why she smiled after breakfast. Do try not to cause an international incident before supper.", "effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "embroidered_ribbon"}]}
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}
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},
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"missing_folio": {
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"start": "case",
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"nodes": {
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"case": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "determined",
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"text": "The seal is intact, the glass unbroken, and the final folio is gone. Someone with a keeper's key removed it.",
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"next": "ribbon"
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},
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"ribbon": {
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"speaker": "z",
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"expression": "thoughtful",
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"text": "Not quite gone. This indigo thread was caught beneath the frame. The knot marks a reading order: dawn, rain, lantern, moon.",
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"choices": [
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{"text": "Ask Lima what she thinks before proposing a theory.", "next": "together", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 4}]},
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{"text": "Suggest a secret keeper's trail.", "next": "trail", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 2}]},
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{"text": "Observe that mysteries improve an already excellent first date.", "next": "date", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 5}]}
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]
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},
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"together": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "warm",
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"text": "You ask instead of announcing. That is rarer in this palace than any illuminated folio. I think Anwara wants us to follow.",
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"next": "close"
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},
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"trail": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "curious",
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"text": "Anwara taught me that knot when I was twelve. If she left it, the disappearance is a message—not a theft.",
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"next": "close"
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},
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"date": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "playful",
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"text": "A first date usually includes tea. Solve my missing-manuscript problem and I may permit a scandalous second cup.",
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"next": "close"
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},
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"close": {
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"speaker": "z",
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"expression": "warm",
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"text": "Then we begin with four shelves and one lantern. Stay close—the scholarship may become dangerous.",
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"effects": [{"type": "item", "id": "folio_ribbon"}, {"type": "quest", "id": "letters", "action": "start"}, {"type": "discoverGift", "id": "poetry_book"}]
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}
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}
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},
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"garden_confidence": {
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"start": "bench",
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"nodes": {
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"bench": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "vulnerable",
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"text": "Everyone assumes confidence is effortless when one wears a crown. Mostly it means learning where to hide the trembling.",
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"choices": [
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{"text": "Offer your hand without filling the silence.", "next": "hand", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "comfort", "amount": 7}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 3}]},
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{"text": "Tell her courage is action taken while trembling.", "next": "courage", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 4}]},
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{"text": "Confess that she makes you forget several useful words.", "next": "words", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 7}]}
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]
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},
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"hand": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "tender",
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"text": "Her fingers settle between yours. “You are surprisingly good at silence, Z. Do not become proud; I still prefer your voice.”",
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"effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "spiced_tea"}]
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},
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"courage": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "determined",
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"text": "Then let us tremble efficiently. There is a clue at the archery range—and I intend to beat you to it.",
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"effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "archery_charm"}]
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},
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"words": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "playful",
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"text": "Only several? I had hoped to be devastating. Sit nearer. Perhaps proximity will improve my performance.",
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"effects": [{"type": "discoverGift", "id": "brass_compass"}]
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}
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}
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},
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"anwara_truth": {
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"start": "meeting",
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"nodes": {
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"meeting": {
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"speaker": "anwara",
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"text": "You followed every thread. Good. I hid the folio because the council planned to display it beneath hot lamps until its pigments flaked away.",
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"next": "history"
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},
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"history": {
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"speaker": "anwara",
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"text": "But protection was not my only reason. The dedication names cooks, boatwrights, poets, gardeners, and travellers as the festival's founders. The court catalogue names only kings.",
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"next": "lima"
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},
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"lima": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "determined",
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"text": "You should have trusted me with the truth.",
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"choices": [
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{"text": "Anwara was wrong to act alone, but right to protect the folio.", "next": "balanced", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "familyApproval", "amount": 3}]},
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{"text": "The public deserves the complete history tonight.", "next": "public", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 6}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 3}]},
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{"text": "Let Lima decide; it is her risk and responsibility.", "next": "decide", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 7}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 3}]}
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]
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},
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"balanced": {"speaker": "anwara", "text": "A precise rebuke. You would have made a formidable keeper."},
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"public": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "triumphant", "text": "Then tonight the founders recover their names—and the council learns that truth survives poor lighting."},
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"decide": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "tender", "text": "Thank you. Not for agreeing—for remembering that the choice is mine. We reveal it, carefully and completely."}
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}
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},
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"resolution": {
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"start": "stage",
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"nodes": {
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"stage": {
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"speaker": "saira",
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"text": "The council is listening, Lima. How shall the folio be presented?",
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"choices": [
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{"text": "As a shared text, studied before it is celebrated.", "next": "scholar", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "scholar", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "respect", "amount": 6}]},
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{"text": "With the founders' descendants telling the story.", "next": "families", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "families", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "familyApproval", "amount": 7}]},
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{"text": "As the first clue in a travelling exhibition.", "next": "road", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "road", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "adventure", "amount": 7}]},
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{"text": "Briefly. Then we dance before the speeches breed.", "next": "laughter", "effects": [{"type": "bias", "id": "laughter", "amount": 12}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 7}]}
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]
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},
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"scholar": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "warm", "text": "Z and I will prepare the first public edition together. I expect lively arguments in the margins."},
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"families": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "regal", "text": "The palace will lend the page; the city will supply the voices. That is how the festival began."},
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"road": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "triumphant", "text": "Let the folio travel both rivers. History should meet the people who inherited it."},
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"laughter": {"speaker": "lima", "expression": "playful", "text": "A compelling scholarly principle. I second the motion—especially the dancing."}
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}
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},
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"moonrise": {
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"start": "river",
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"nodes": {
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"river": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "tender",
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"text": "The city is still arguing about the folio. You realise this means the festival succeeded.",
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"next": "z"
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},
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"z": {
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"speaker": "z",
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"expression": "warm",
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"text": "I have been distracted from the historical significance by the way moonlight keeps taking your side.",
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"choices": [
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{"text": "Ask whether she would object to being kissed.", "next": "kiss", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "trust", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 9}]},
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{"text": "Tell her you do not want this night to be an ending.", "next": "promise", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "comfort", "amount": 5}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 8}]},
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{"text": "Suggest investigating the dangerous proximity of her smile.", "next": "kiss", "effects": [{"type": "relationship", "key": "humour", "amount": 4}, {"type": "relationship", "key": "romance", "amount": 8}]}
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]
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},
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"kiss": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "playful",
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"text": "“I would object only to further delay.” She catches his collar, and the river, the music, and every carefully prepared sentence disappear.",
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"next": "after"
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},
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"promise": {
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"speaker": "lima",
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"expression": "tender",
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"text": "“Good. I have several mornings in mind.” Her kiss is warm, certain, and entirely unconcerned with the waiting palace.",
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"next": "after"
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},
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"after": {
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"speaker": "z",
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"expression": "flustered",
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"text": "Much later, when the pavilion lanterns burn low, Z remembers that he once came here to correct footnotes.",
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"effects": [{"type": "achievement", "id": "moonrise"}, {"type": "ending"}]
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}
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}
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}
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}
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