The Dog and the Dead Man

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{
  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You walk past. The whining fades behind you. Whatever the dog's problem is, it'll sort itself out - or it won't."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Ignore it. Stray dogs are a caps-per-hour drain you can't afford."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "The dog leads you on a winding tour of the settlement's least appealing corners, then sits down next to a pile of garbage and starts eating. There is no owner. There was never an owner. It just wanted company for lunch."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The dog leads you through two alleys to a collapsed overhang where an old man lies unconscious, dehydrated but alive. You drag him to shade and flag down help. By evening, someone finds you and presses a small bundle into your hands. \"From Matteo. He says thanks.\""
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Follow the dog and see what it wants."
      }
    ],
    "text": "A mangy dog sits at the edge of the market square, whining at anyone who passes. It's wearing a makeshift collar - clearly someone's animal, not feral. Every few minutes it trots a few steps toward an alley, looks back, and whines again.\n\nA passing trader mutters, \"That dog's been at it since dawn. Owner probably drank himself dead somewhere.\"",
    "title": "The Dog and the Dead Man",
    "type": 1,
    "uuid": "34a1d17f-a77e-4505-9e9e-3ab12aec0fe3"
  }
}