The Cassette Tape

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  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You take the tape and pocket it. That night, your pack falls off your bunk and the tape cracks on the floor. The magnetic ribbon spills out in a tangle. Whatever was on it is gone."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You pocket the tape. Later, you find someone with a working player. The audio is degraded - mostly static with fragments of a woman's voice describing soil samples and electromagnetic readings. Nothing earthshaking, but someone at the Institute might pay for field data from an unknown research site."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Take the tape. \"Cursed\" is just a word people use for things they don't understand."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The kid grins and runs off with the cap. You pocket the tape. Even if it's worthless, you just taught a kid that honest commerce beats throwing things away."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Give the kid a cap for the tape. Finders should be rewarded."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You're confident about the designation system, but when you examine the tape closely, the label is newer than the casing - someone re-labeled an old tape, probably to make it seem more valuable. The kid is already gone with your interest and the tape is likely just someone's personal audio diary."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "Site designations with single-digit numbers were reserved for classified government research installations. \"DR. K\" and \"FIELD NOTES\" suggest this is primary source data - not a copy, not a summary. Pre-war research tapes in original condition are extremely rare. You take the tape carefully, wrapping it in cloth to prevent further degradation."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "writing": 3
        },
        "text": "Site 7 - that designation follows a specific pre-war research protocol. You know what it means."
      }
    ],
    "text": "A kid runs up to you in the market and holds out a battered cassette tape. \"Found this in the old drainage tunnel. Nobody wants it - they say it's cursed. But it's got writing on it. You want it?\"\n\nThe label is handwritten in faded ink: \"FIELD NOTES - DR. K - SITE 7 - DO NOT COPY.\"",
    "title": "The Cassette Tape",
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    "uuid": "52ae5cd5-64a5-4c08-a8cc-c4703ca3b5ac"
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