The Sick Kid

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{
  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You do your best, but the handwriting is terrible and the plant names are in old medical shorthand. You're not confident in your answers and tell her so. She thanks you anyway and heads off, clutching the list tighter."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You cross-reference the list with what she's gathered. She's got most of it, but two are wrong - one is useless, the other would have made things worse. You point her to the right stall and she practically runs."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Help her identify the plants she needs. It won't take long."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You press twenty caps into her hand and point her toward the healer's stall. She starts to argue, then looks at her boy's face and takes the money. She whispers a thanks you barely hear."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Give her caps instead. You don't know medicine, but money solves problems."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You recognize the ingredients but the proportions on the list don't match any recipe you know. Either the healer has a technique you haven't seen, or the handwriting is worse than you thought. You second-guess yourself long enough that the woman thanks you for trying and goes to find the healer directly."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "The list isn't a shopping guide - it's a preparation formula. Specific ratios, specific drying times, a binding agent the healer forgot to mention. You sort the plants, explain the preparation steps, and even correct a dosage error. The woman stares at you like you just parted the sky."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "cooking": 4
        },
        "text": "You recognize half these ingredients - they're not just medicine, they're a recipe. You know how to prepare this."
      }
    ],
    "text": "A woman blocks your path near the well, her face drawn and eyes red. She's holding a bundle of dried plants in one hand and a scrap of paper in the other.\n\n\"Please - my boy's burning up. The healer gave me this list but I can't read it and I don't know what half these plants look like. Can you help me sort this out? I'll pay whatever I can.\"",
    "title": "The Sick Kid",
    "type": 1,
    "uuid": "8eb422f9-7d1d-48a6-8bee-46e7c00651ca"
  }
}