The Broken Well

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  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You take your place in line and wait. Two hours later the mechanic returns, fixes the pump in ten minutes, and the line starts moving. Patience isn't glamorous, but it works."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Wait in line like everyone else. The mechanic will return eventually."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You strip the housing and immediately regret it. Springs and washers scatter across the ground. You spend twenty minutes trying to put it back together before someone gently suggests you stop helping."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You strip the housing and find the problem - a corroded valve pin. You file it down with the edge of your knife and reassemble. The pump sputters, then catches. Water flows. The line behind you breaks into scattered applause."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Offer to take a look at the pump. How complicated can it be?"
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You're confident it's the check valve, but when you tap the housing to unseat it, the entire valve assembly cracks. Pre-war brass - brittled with age. The pump is now worse than before. You mumble something about needing replacement parts and blend back into the crowd."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The rhythm of the grind tells you everything - the check valve is stuck open, backpressure is collapsing the prime. You tap the valve housing twice with a rock at the right angle and it unseats. The pump catches on the next stroke. Total repair time: thirty seconds."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "engineering": 4
        },
        "text": "That grinding sound is diagnostic. You can identify the failure point by ear."
      }
    ],
    "text": "The communal well's hand pump has seized up, its mechanism grinding and producing nothing but a dry wheeze. A line of people with empty containers stretches around the corner, their patience wearing as thin as the pump's gasket.\n\nThe settlement's mechanic is out on a supply run. Nobody knows when she'll be back.",
    "title": "The Broken Well",
    "type": 1,
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