The Traded Map

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  "event": {
    "options": [
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You buy the map and follow it for two kilometers before realizing the landmarks don't match. Either the map is for a different section of trail or the traveler's cartography skills are worse than his salesmanship. Thirty caps for a fiction."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You hand over the caps and study the map. It's well-drawn - elevation marks, water symbols, a skull-and-crossbones at one point that presumably means 'don't go here.' The information saves you at least an hour of cautious pathfinding."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Buy the map. Thirty caps for reliable route intelligence is a bargain."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": ""
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You shake your head and the traveler shrugs. \"Your loss, friend.\" He jogs off. You continue at your own pace, trusting your own eyes. They've served you well enough so far."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {},
        "text": "Decline. You've walked enough wasteland to navigate without a map."
      },
      {
        "outcomes": {
          "failure": {
            "text": "You check the first landmark and it matches. The second is too far to confirm visually. You buy the map. The second landmark turns out to be two hundred meters off from where it's drawn - not a lie, just sloppy measurement. The map is roughly right but not precise enough to trust blindly."
          },
          "success": {
            "text": "You ask to see the map for a moment before buying. The first landmark - a split boulder at a trail junction - is visible from where you're standing, and it matches. The second - a dry riverbed crossing with a cairn - you can just make out in the middle distance. Both correct. The map is legitimate. You buy it at full confidence and use it to shave ninety minutes off your travel by avoiding a box canyon the map marks as a dead end."
          }
        },
        "skill_requirement": {
          "perception": 3
        },
        "text": "You can verify the map's accuracy by checking the first two landmarks against the terrain ahead."
      }
    ],
    "text": "A traveler coming from the opposite direction flags you down. He's moving fast, barely stopping. \"Trade you - I've got a route map of the next twenty miles. Shows water, shelter, and hazard points. Cost me fifty caps to draw it. I'll sell it for thirty - I don't need it anymore, I've already walked it.\"\n\nHe holds up a piece of hide with careful markings.",
    "title": "The Traded Map",
    "type": 2,
    "uuid": "f46369d7-accf-4294-8e64-e8f5203d6ab2"
  }
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