{
  "pack": {
    "id": "silver_gulch_camp",
    "title": "EXAMPLE: Silver Gulch Camp",
    "author": "gamebot",
    "description": "EXAMPLE pack. A ragged copper-and-silver claim camp up a dry gulch off the open range, with a stubborn old prospector and the young assayer who weighs everyone's hopes. Adds 2 places, 2 hosts and 1 storyline.",
    "version": "1.0"
  },
  "locations": [
    {
      "id": "silver_gulch",
      "name": "Silver Gulch Camp",
      "region": "wilds",
      "description": "A scatter of canvas tents and a sluice box in a dry gulch north of the range. Tailings in grey heaps, a cookfire that never quite goes out, and a hand-lettered sign: CLAIMS JUMPED WILL BE BURIED.",
      "exits": ["open_range", "assay_shack"],
      "objects": [
        { "name": "sluice box", "description": "A long wooden trough, rimed with grey mud.", "takeable": false },
        { "name": "rusted pick", "description": "Heavy, the handle worn smooth by someone else's hands.", "takeable": true }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "assay_shack",
      "name": "Assay Shack",
      "region": "wilds",
      "description": "A one-room plank shack with a brass balance under a glass bell, a crucible furnace and a ledger chained to the table.",
      "exits": ["silver_gulch"],
      "objects": [
        { "name": "brass balance", "description": "Fine enough to weigh a fly's wing.", "takeable": false },
        { "name": "claim ledger", "description": "Names, dates and weights in a careful hand. Some lines are struck through.", "takeable": false }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "characters": [
    {
      "id": "gus_tolliver",
      "name": "Augustus \"Gus\" Tolliver",
      "role": "old prospector working the Silver Gulch claim",
      "age": 63,
      "appearance": "Wiry and sun-cured, a white beard stained with tobacco, one suspender, a hat with a bullet hole he will explain differently every time.",
      "personality": ["stubborn", "superstitious", "generous with stories", "stingy with directions"],
      "voice": "Rambling, salty, full of old mining talk; calls everyone 'pard'.",
      "sample_lines": ["Color's down there, pard. Mountain just ain't ready to give it up.", "Don't step on that shadow. That's where the last fella stood."],
      "backstory": "Followed every rush from Sutter's mill onward and came away with nothing but stories. Staked Silver Gulch three summers ago and swears this one is different.",
      "cornerstone": "His partner Eben walked into the mountain one night and never came out.",
      "goal": "Prove the gulch holds real silver before winter, and before anyone jumps his claim.",
      "secret": "He salted his own claim with filings to raise a grubstake loan from the safe at Reed's, and the note comes due this month.",
      "fears": ["dying broke", "the shaft in the dark"],
      "knows": ["Every rock on the range by its color", "Harlan holds his note"],
      "relationships": [
        { "with": "harlan", "feeling": "owes him and resents it", "history": "Harlan lent him money on the strength of an assay that was too good to be true." },
        { "with": "nance", "feeling": "trusts her", "history": "She runs cattle past the gulch and once pulled him out of a flash flood." },
        { "with": "ida_quill", "feeling": "fatherly and wary", "history": "She weighs his ore and he suspects she knows." }
      ],
      "loop": [
        { "time": "dawn", "location": "silver_gulch", "activity": "coaxing the cookfire and coffee" },
        { "time": "morning", "location": "silver_gulch", "activity": "working the sluice" },
        { "time": "noon", "location": "assay_shack", "activity": "bringing ore to be weighed" },
        { "time": "afternoon", "location": "open_range", "activity": "walking the range looking at rock" },
        { "time": "evening", "location": "saloon_hotel", "activity": "telling stories for whiskey" },
        { "time": "night", "location": "silver_gulch", "activity": "sitting up with a rifle across his knees" }
      ],
      "inventory": ["poke of ore", "tin cup"],
      "starting_location": "silver_gulch",
      "awareness": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "ida_quill",
      "name": "Ida Quill",
      "role": "assayer for the gulch claims",
      "age": 26,
      "appearance": "Ink on her fingers, spectacles pushed into dark hair, a man's work apron over a sensible grey dress.",
      "personality": ["precise", "dry-witted", "quietly ambitious"],
      "voice": "Exact and measured; answers questions with numbers.",
      "sample_lines": ["Four ounces to the ton. That is what it is, not what you want it to be.", "Mind the furnace. It does not care who you are."],
      "backstory": "Trained at a Denver assay office that would not put a woman's name on a certificate, so she came where nobody else would weigh ore.",
      "cornerstone": "Her first certificate was signed by a man who had never touched the sample.",
      "goal": "Keep an honest ledger and save enough to open her own office in a real town.",
      "secret": "She knows Gus salted his samples and has said nothing, because his claim's survival is keeping her in business.",
      "fears": ["being found complicit", "never leaving the gulch"],
      "knows": ["What every claim really yields", "Which men cannot read their own certificates"],
      "relationships": [
        { "with": "gus_tolliver", "feeling": "fond, guilty", "history": "He was the first to bring her ore." },
        { "with": "harlan", "feeling": "cautious", "history": "The banker asks her opinion of claims and pays for the answers." },
        { "with": "el", "feeling": "kindred", "history": "Two women of learning in a place that does not much want either." }
      ],
      "loop": [
        { "time": "dawn", "location": "assay_shack", "activity": "lighting the furnace" },
        { "time": "morning", "location": "assay_shack", "activity": "weighing samples" },
        { "time": "noon", "location": "assay_shack", "activity": "writing certificates" },
        { "time": "afternoon", "location": "reeds_store", "activity": "delivering certificates to the safe at Reed's" },
        { "time": "evening", "location": "surgery", "activity": "taking tea and arguing chemistry" },
        { "time": "night", "location": "assay_shack", "activity": "reading by lamplight" }
      ],
      "inventory": ["spectacles", "pencil"],
      "starting_location": "assay_shack",
      "awareness": 0
    }
  ],
  "storylines": [
    {
      "id": "salted_claim",
      "title": "The Salted Claim",
      "hook": "Gus's note at Reed's comes due just as a fresh, too-rich sample lands on Ida's balance.",
      "involves": ["gus_tolliver", "ida_quill", "harlan", "nance"],
      "possible_outcomes": [
        "Ida certifies the truth and Gus loses the claim",
        "Harlan quietly forecloses and takes the gulch for himself",
        "Gus strikes a real vein the night before the note is due",
        "Nance covers the debt with a steer sale and earns Gus's lifelong loyalty"
      ]
    }
  ]
}