The Abandoned Water Cache

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event:c3ef5402-ef0c-4868-9ff0-06690b3721c7

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{
  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "The water looks fine but when you open the seal, a sharp chemical smell hits you. Something has leached into it from the container - the plastic has degraded in the heat. The water is toxic. You pour it out and re-stack the empties as a warning."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The water looks clean and smells fine. You break the wax seal, taste it - good. You fill your containers and leave the empty ones stacked neatly. Whoever cached this would probably rather it be used than evaporate."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Take the water. A cache this neglected isn't being maintained. Finders, keepers."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You note the location and leave everything as you found it. If the cache owner is still active, taking their water supply is a good way to make an enemy you never see coming."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Leave it alone. Someone cached this for a reason, and that reason might still be walking the trail."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You identify the containers as military surplus, but the tarp and wax seal could come from half a dozen communities. Your analysis narrows the origin to 'someone competent,' which you already knew. The water is probably fine, but 'probably' is a word that kills people in the desert. You take a small amount and move on."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "Pre-war HDPE containers - military surplus, rated for long-term storage. The tarp is treated canvas, not synthetic - handmade, probably settlement-produced. The wax seal is beeswax mixed with pine resin, a preservation technique used by a few specific communities. This cache was set up by someone who knew what they were doing, probably as part of a trade route supply chain that dried up. The water has been properly sealed and stored. You take it with confidence and leave a cap under a rock as payment. Good practice."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "equipment_crafting": 3
        },
        "text": "The container type, tarp material, and wax seal method tell you who set this up and when."
      }
    ],
    "text": "A stack of plastic containers sits under a rock ledge beside the trail, covered with a faded tarp. Water cache - someone set this up as a resupply point. The tarp has been undisturbed for a while. Dust has settled in the creases.\n\nThree of the four containers are empty. The fourth is full, its cap sealed with wax.",
    "title": "The Abandoned Water Cache",
    "type": 2,
    "uuid": "c3ef5402-ef0c-4868-9ff0-06690b3721c7"
  }
}