The Collapsed Tunnel

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  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You drag a pallet over the hole and it promptly collapses into the sinkhole. The hole is now wider. The child laughs. You go find heavier lumber."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You drag a pallet and some loose lumber over the sinkhole and weight it down with stones. It's ugly but functional. A settlement worker comes by an hour later and nods approvingly. \"Better than nothing. We'll get a proper crew here tomorrow.\""
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Block the hole with whatever's available - crates, planks, debris. Somebody's going to fall in."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You flag down a settlement worker and point out the growing hole. She radios the maintenance crew. Within the hour, it's properly barricaded with a red flag. System works."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Report it and move on. You're not an engineer."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You examine the collapse and announce that the stone arch below is intact. Twenty minutes later, another section of street drops two meters. The stone arch was not, in fact, intact. The engineer arrives and politely asks you to leave the area."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The collapse is along a joint line - two different construction materials meeting at a stress point. The tunnel below is arched stone on one side and brick on the other. The brick failed. You can see that the stone arch is intact, meaning the collapse is contained to this section. You explain this to the settlement engineer who arrives, saving them hours of exploratory digging."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "mining_mastery": 4
        },
        "text": "That cave-in pattern tells you something about the tunnel structure below. You can assess whether the street is safe."
      }
    ],
    "text": "A section of the old drainage tunnel beneath the settlement has partially caved in, creating a sinkhole in the middle of a side street. It's not large - maybe a meter across - but the edges are crumbling and the hole is getting bigger.\n\nPeople are walking around it, but nobody's blocked it off. A child is throwing stones into it, listening to them bounce down into the dark.",
    "title": "The Collapsed Tunnel",
    "type": 1,
    "uuid": "570d66da-aca7-4f32-9507-c522ba349166"
  }
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