The Dead Drop

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{
  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You pocket the vials and head out. An hour later, you notice a figure trailing you at a distance. They don't approach, but they don't leave either. By evening, they're gone. Nothing happens, but you sleep badly."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The vials turn out to contain concentrated plant extract - useful as a medicinal base or a trade good. The coordinates on the note don't mean anything to you, but the supplies are real enough."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Take the vials and the note. Whatever this is, it's yours now."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You memorize the location, replace the bundle exactly as you found it, and keep walking. Not your business. Not your problem. The desert has enough of both without you volunteering."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Leave it alone. Dead drops mean someone with plans, and plans mean trouble."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "The color and viscosity suggest antivenin, but when you uncork one to confirm, the smell is wrong - fermented, degraded. These vials have been sitting in the heat too long. The active compounds have broken down. You seal it back up and leave the lot. Expired medicine is worse than no medicine."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The liquid is a crude but effective painkiller - specifically formulated for small scorpion stings, based on the tint and the oily separation layer. Whoever made this knows their field chemistry. You take the vials, knowing exactly what you've got. The coordinates you leave - that's someone else's mystery."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "chemistry": 4
        },
        "text": "You can identify those vials by color and viscosity without even opening them."
      }
    ],
    "text": "Wedged into a crack in a sandstone outcrop beside the trail, a small oilskin bundle catches your eye. It's been placed deliberately - hidden from casual glances but visible if you know what to look for.\n\nInside: three sealed vials of dark liquid and a scrap of paper with coordinates written in a careful hand. No name, no explanation. This is a dead drop - someone left this for someone else. And that someone else isn't you.",
    "title": "The Dead Drop",
    "type": 2,
    "uuid": "36406930-24b5-4326-8417-ef1b52d237da"
  }
}