The Burned Camp

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  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "The heat destroyed anything useful. The pack pouch crumbles when you touch it. You sift through ash and find nothing but the faint outline of something that might have been a map, now unreadable."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The pack frame still has a small pouch clipped to the underside - singed but intact. Inside: a few caps, a flint striker, and tightly rolled bandages. At the edge of the burn, you find a knife blade warped by heat and completely useless."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Search the pack frame and the edges of the burn zone. Fire doesn't destroy everything."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You give the site a wide berth and pick up your pace. Whatever story this camp tells, the ending isn't your problem. The wind shifts and the smell fades behind you."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Move on quickly. Burned camps attract attention - from scavengers, from predators, and from whoever did the burning."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "The residue is too degraded by heat to identify with any confidence. You can tell it's petroleum-based, but so is half the flammable junk in the wasteland. Without a proper kit, you can't distinguish manufactured accelerant from spilled lamp oil. The burn pattern is suggestive but not conclusive."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The residue is a petroleum distillate - crude, but refined enough that it wasn't just dumped fuel. Someone manufactured this as an incendiary agent. The burn pattern shows it was poured in a ring, then ignited from a distance. This wasn't a fight - it was a cleanup. You take note of the chemical signature. Knowing who makes this stuff could be worth something to the right people."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "extracting": 3
        },
        "text": "The accelerant residue tells a story. You can identify the chemical compound from the burn pattern and smell."
      }
    ],
    "text": "You smell it before you see it - acrid, chemical, wrong. Around a bend in the trail, a campsite has been burned. Not a campfire that got out of control - this was deliberate. The fire pattern is too even, the ground too thoroughly scorched. Someone used accelerant.\n\nTwo bedrolls are melted into slag. A pack frame leans against a rock, partially intact. Whatever happened here, it happened fast.",
    "title": "The Burned Camp",
    "type": 2,
    "uuid": "e0b46a91-7dfe-4041-b604-614b339e0f83"
  }
}