package plugin var MiningDeath = map[int][]string{ // ── TIER 1: SURFACE PITS ───────────────────────────────────────────────── 1: { "The cave-in was technically not your fault. The ceiling disagrees. " + "You have been extracted from the rubble by a miner coming off shift " + "who charged you for the inconvenience and suggested, not unkindly, " + "that you consider a different career. You are considering it. " + "You are considering it from a medical facility.", "You hit what you thought was a copper vein. " + "It was a load-bearing wall. " + "The distinction mattered significantly more than anticipated. " + "You are now convalescing, which is a fancy word for lying very still " + "and questioning every decision that led to this exact moment.", "The Surface Pits are called Surface Pits because they are near the surface. " + "Near the surface means the ceiling is basically ground. " + "Ground is heavy. You know this now. " + "You knew it before, technically, but now you know it differently. " + "Medically.", "A bat. A single bat panicked and flew into your face " + "while you were mid-swing and you hit the wrong thing with the pickaxe " + "and the wrong thing was structural and the structure had opinions. " + "The bat is fine. The structure expressed its opinions. " + "You are in medical care.", "The ore was right there. Right there. One more swing and you had it. " + "The one more swing destabilised something adjacent to the ore " + "that was doing more structural work than it looked like it was doing. " + "You did not get the ore. The ore got you. From above. " + "Healthcare is processing this with familiar efficiency.", "You were humming while you worked. Miners hum. It's a thing miners do. " + "The vibration of the humming, combined with the vibration of the pickaxe, " + "combined with the fact that the Surface Pits are 'surface' in the sense " + "of 'barely underground at all' produced an outcome that " + "the structural engineer who assessed the pits afterward called " + "'statistically likely.' You were the statistic.", "The Rusted PoS Pickaxe broke on impact. The head flew backward. " + "This is not how pickaxes are supposed to work. " + "The resulting sequence of events was neither dignified nor brief " + "and ended with you in a medical facility and the pickaxe head " + "somewhere in the rubble that used to be the mine entrance. " + "Upgrade your tools. Please.", "Died in the Surface Pits. The shallowest mines available. " + "The mines where the copper is basically lying on the ground. " + "You died there. The copper is still lying on the ground. " + "You are in a different location. The copper is not.", "Something was already in the mine when you got there. " + "You didn't check before going in. " + "Miners check before going in. " + "You are a miner in the same way you are a lot of things: technically and poorly. " + "The something made its presence known. Healthcare has made its bill known.", "The water came in faster than the structural integrity left. " + "This is a sentence about priorities and physics and the Surface Pits' " + "proximity to a drainage ditch that you were not informed about. " + "You are now informed about it. From a medical facility.", }, // ── TIER 2: IRON RIDGE ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── 2: { "A cave troll. In an iron mine. Nobody mentioned the cave troll. " + "The listing for Iron Ridge said: iron, lead, saltpetre. " + "The listing did not say cave troll. The cave troll did not consult the listing. " + "Your Chipped Iron Pickaxe bounced off it. Your armor absorbed one hit. " + "The troll has your hat now. Healthcare has your chart.", "The Iron Ridge cave-in took out the main tunnel. " + "Not a small cave-in — a real one, a committed one, " + "a cave-in that had prepared for this moment. " + "You were in the main tunnel. You are in medical care. " + "The relationship between these facts is direct.", "You found iron. Significant iron. More iron than your inventory could hold. " + "You were so focused on the iron that you did not notice " + "the floor of the main seam was a different colour than the floor " + "of the entrance tunnel, which is typically how you notice " + "that the floor is a different substance, which in this case was briefly nothing.", "Saltpetre is flammable. You know this. Everyone knows this. " + "The question is whether you knew it in the specific moment " + "when your torch got too close to the saltpetre deposit. " + "The answer is: you knew it right after. That's a different kind of knowing. " + "Healthcare is dealing with the result.", "The Iron Ridge cave troll had been there since before the mine. " + "The mine was built around it. The miners worked around it. " + "You did not get the briefing about the cave troll " + "because the briefing is for miners and you are not a miner, " + "you are an adventurer with a pickaxe, which is a critical distinction " + "the troll also made.", "Lead poisoning is not immediate. You were down there long enough " + "for it to start being immediate. The medical facility has noted this. " + "The medical facility has seen this before. " + "The medical facility has a specific intake form for it. " + "You have filled out the intake form.", }, 3: { "Silver Seam, Tier 3, and you found the silver. You actually found it. " + "And then the thing that was guarding the silver " + "found you, which is how things work at Tier 3, " + "and the thing was not a bat and not a cave troll " + "but something older and more specifically opposed to " + "people taking silver from this particular seam. " + "Healthcare has the details.", "The quartz formation was load-bearing in ways that are " + "not immediately obvious from looking at quartz formations. " + "You looked at the quartz formation. You did not correctly " + "identify its structural role. You swung the pickaxe anyway. " + "The quartz formation expressed its structural role clearly.", "Three levels down in the Silver Seam and something in the third level " + "decided you'd gone far enough. The decision was made forcefully " + "and immediately and without consultation. You are in medical care. " + "The silver is in the third level. The something is also in the third level. " + "These facts are related.", }, 4: { "The Deeprock is deep. This is noted in the name and in every " + "description of the Deeprock that has ever been written " + "by anyone who came back from it. Deep means pressure. " + "Pressure means the walls behave differently. " + "You found this out in a way that required medical intervention.", "Something in the Deeprock does not appear on any mining chart " + "because the people who compile mining charts don't go to the Deeprock " + "specifically because of the something. " + "You went to the Deeprock. You found the something. " + "The something found you first, actually. Healthcare is filing the paperwork.", "Titanium ore does not yield easily. You were swinging hard. " + "The hard swing destabilised a gold deposit adjacent to the titanium " + "that was doing significant structural work in a part of the mine " + "that turns out to have significant structural requirements. " + "You did not get the titanium or the gold. You got the ceiling.", }, 5: { "The Mythril Caverns at full depth. The ore was there. " + "The Voidstone was between you and the ore. " + "Voidstone is called Voidstone for a reason. " + "The reason is relevant to your current medical situation.", "Mythril does not want to be mined. This is not metaphorical. " + "Mythril ore in the Mythril Caverns has a documented defensive response " + "to mining attempts that involves the surrounding rock and significant velocity. " + "You attempted to mine it. The response was documented again. " + "You are the new documentation.", "The Dragon Crystal was there. Your Diamond Pickaxe was there. " + "You were there. The thing that the Dragon Crystal was protecting " + "was also there, which is the fact that changes the outcome. " + "Dragon Crystals don't form around nothing. " + "The nothing turned out to be something. Healthcare is involved.", }, } var MiningCaveIn = []string{ "A minor cave-in. Congratulations on the 'minor.' " + "You survived, which the mine did not expect and the mine's structural " + "integrity does not entirely endorse. You emerged with {ore} " + "and the distinct feeling that the mountain is personally annoyed with you. " + "Your {tool} is worse. Your back is worse. The ore is worth €{value}. " + "Two out of three is acceptable.", "Rocks fell. Most of them missed, which is more luck than you deserve. " + "Your {tool} took the worst of it and is now in a condition that can " + "generously be described as 'structurally questioning its own existence.' " + "You found {ore} before the ceiling made its feelings known. Worth it. Barely.", "The ceiling gave you a warning shot. One rock. Right next to your head. " + "You took the hint and got out with {ore} worth €{value} and a newfound " + "respect for geology that you will maintain for approximately three days " + "before forgetting it again. Your {tool} absorbed some of the exit.", "The mine expressed structural concerns via the medium of falling rock. " + "You heard the concerns. You addressed them by leaving, taking {ore} with you. " + "€{value}. Your {tool} has been reviewed by the falling rock and rated poorly. " + "The falling rock's review stands. Consider upgrades.", "A section of the ceiling reconsidered its commitment to being a ceiling. " + "This philosophical crisis occurred directly above you, as they do. " + "You got out with {ore} worth €{value}. Your armor is worse. " + "Your {tool} is worse. You are better for having survived it, " + "which is a way of looking at the situation that the mountain does not share.", "Something went wrong in a mine. Specifically: the ceiling went wrong, " + "in the direction of your head, at a speed that required running. " + "You ran. You kept {ore}. The ore is worth €{value}. " + "The {tool} was sacrificed to the structural gods and they accepted it. " + "You are home. The mine has made its point.", "Cave-in, partial, survived. The official report reads exactly that " + "because the official report is required to be accurate " + "and 'survived a cave-in and came home with {ore} worth €{value} " + "while your {tool} disintegrated and your armor took significant damage' " + "doesn't fit in the field provided. But that's what happened.", "The rock didn't fall so much as it slid, which is different in the way " + "that gives you time to move but not enough time to take everything. " + "You took {ore}. You left your dignity. €{value}. The {tool} is on the border " + "of being a different category of object now. The border is 'scrap.'", "Tectonic opinion expressed. You received the opinion. " + "You incorporated the opinion into your exit strategy, " + "taking {ore} worth €{value} as you incorporated. " + "Your {tool} participated in absorbing the opinion " + "and is available for review in its current condition, which is poor. " + "But you're here. The ore is here. The ceiling is also here, " + "lower than before.", } var MiningEmpty = map[int][]string{ 1: { "You mined for three hours. The mountain was empty. " + "Not metaphorically — there was literally nothing worth a damn in there. " + "You brought home some dust, a bad back, and a grudge against copper specifically.", "The promising vein of copper turned out to be copper-coloured rock. " + "All of it. The whole vein. Copper-coloured, worthless, " + "personally offensive rock. You have experienced this before. " + "It has not gotten easier or more interesting.", "Nothing. Sweet, simple nothing. You swung your {tool} at that mountain face " + "for the better part of a morning and it gave you absolutely nothing back " + "except sore arms and XP that barely qualifies as XP. " + "The mountain doesn't care about you. That's the lesson. Free of charge.", "The vein ran out three swings in. Three swings. You prepared for hours, " + "navigated to the seam, positioned yourself correctly, " + "executed the first three swings, and the vein " + "had the audacity to simply stop existing. The mountain has no shame.", "Someone else was here recently. You can tell by the shape of the worked stone — " + "someone competent, with better tools, who took everything and left " + "the bare walls behind as a message. The message is: " + "you came second. In mining, coming second is coming last.", "Coal. You found coal. An entire seam of coal " + "in a copper mine, because the universe is specific in its disappointments. " + "The coal is not worth your time. You mined it anyway, briefly, " + "out of frustration, and then stopped and stood there " + "in a coal seam feeling things.", "The Surface Pits were empty in the way that suggests they were always empty " + "and the optimism that put 'copper, tin, coal' on the listing " + "was the optimism of someone who hadn't personally checked. " + "You have personally checked. The listing was optimistic.", "You found tin. One piece of tin. A single, solitary, " + "inadequate piece of tin ore in three hours of mining. " + "The tin is worth €{value}. €{value} is a number. " + "The number does not justify the morning. Nothing justifies the morning.", "The bat colony was in the main seam. The entire main seam. " + "You could not mine around the bats. The bats were the seam, effectively. " + "You came home with nothing and the distinct sense " + "that the bats were watching you leave, satisfied.", "An entire morning of swinging at rock and the rock gave back: nothing. " + "Not even a piece of coal as a participation award. " + "The mountain took your time and your arm strength " + "and your {tool}'s remaining condition and gave you experience points. " + "Experience points that barely covered the walk.", }, 2: { "Iron Ridge has iron in it. Usually. Today it had rock. " + "Iron-coloured rock, lead-coloured rock, rock-coloured rock. " + "Rock and more rock and then, at the back of the main seam, " + "rock with an attitude. Nothing worth a euro. " + "You have learned more about rock than you wanted to know.", "The cave troll was in the way of the main vein. " + "You went around the cave troll. The around-the-cave-troll route " + "led to a worked-out section. Someone had already mined this section. " + "Someone had also apparently come to an arrangement with the cave troll, " + "which explains the troll's territorial behavior and your empty inventory.", "Lead. A full load of lead ore and no way to carry it all. " + "You took what you could. On the way out you dropped it. " + "You went back for it. It was gone. " + "You don't know what happened to the lead. " + "The mine knows. The mine is not telling you.", "The iron seam was there. The iron seam was right there. " + "The iron seam was also, it turns out, directly below a water table " + "that expressed itself the moment you broke through. " + "You ran. The water has the iron now. The water doesn't need the iron. " + "You needed the iron. The arrangement is unfair and non-negotiable.", }, 3: { "Silver Seam, third tier, and the silver had run thin. " + "Not empty — you could see the silver in the rock, faint veins " + "of it running through everything — but too embedded to extract " + "with your current tools, which are good tools that are not the right tools. " + "You mined nothing. You saw silver all day. " + "The specific cruelty of this is noted.", "Six hours in the Silver Seam. Six hours of promising rock " + "and misleading mineral formations and one moment of genuine excitement " + "that turned out to be quartz, which is beautiful and worthless. " + "You have quartz now. Quartz is pretty. " + "Quartz is worth the walk the same way a nice view is worth the walk: " + "it is, technically, but not when you were hoping for silver.", }, 4: { "The Deeprock does not give up Deeprock gold easily. " + "It did not give it up today at all. " + "You went to the fourth tier of underground, fought your way to the seam, " + "swung at the right rock for two hours, " + "and came home with the XP of having tried and the ore of having not succeeded.", "The sapphire deposit was right there and then it wasn't. " + "Not mined out — physically relocated by something that lives in the Deeprock " + "and has opinions about the sapphire that outrank yours. " + "You did not find what relocated it. You found its wake.", }, 5: { "The Mythril Caverns had mythril today. You know this because you could see it. " + "Voidstone adjacent. Dragon Crystal formation blocking the approach. " + "The mythril was there and inaccessible and beautiful " + "and you spent four hours confirming this and came home with nothing. " + "The mythril is still there. It will be there tomorrow. " + "Whether you can access it tomorrow is tomorrow's problem.", "The caverns were full today. Full of things that were not for you today. " + "The Voidstone pulsed when you came near the good seams. " + "The Dragon Crystals were warm in ways they shouldn't be. " + "The mythril was there. The space between you and the mythril " + "was too full of intent for you to close. Empty hands. " + "Full understanding of why. That's Tier 5.", }, } var MiningSuccess = map[int][]string{ 1: { "Solid day's work. You extracted {ore} worth €{value} from {location} " + "with minimal personal injury, which around here counts as raging success. " + "Your {tool} held up, which is more than can be said for your back.", "The seam held. {ore} in respectable quantity, €{value} worth, " + "and only one near-miss with a very irate bat who had opinions " + "about your presence and then reconsidered. " + "You are calling this a win. You are not wrong.", "In and out. {ore}, €{value}, zero cave-ins, one bat that thought about it " + "and decided not to. Your {tool} is slightly worse. Everything else is better. " + "By Surface Pits standards, a professional operation.", "The copper vein ran further than the map suggested. Further and richer. " + "You took {ore} worth €{value} and left more than you could carry. " + "This is the correct response to a rich vein. Come back tomorrow. " + "Bring a bigger bag. Bring a better pickaxe.", "Clean extraction. {ore} from the main seam, €{value} assessed, " + "no structural events, one moment where the bat looked at you " + "and you looked at the bat and you both made sensible decisions. " + "{xp} XP. The mountain respects you today. Slightly.", "Level up potential accumulating. {ore}, €{value}, {xp} XP. " + "You swung the pickaxe correctly the correct number of times " + "and the rock rewarded you for it. This is the entire transaction. " + "It is, when it works, genuinely satisfying.", "The tin seam yielded more than expected and the coal beneath it " + "turned out to have a copper pocket behind it " + "that wasn't on any map because nobody had gone that far before. " + "You went that far. {ore} total, €{value}. " + "The {tool} is worse. The discovery is better.", }, 2: { "Iron Ridge delivered today. {ore} extracted, €{value} assessed, " + "cave troll acknowledged and navigated around with something approaching grace. " + "The {tool} performed admirably. Your back has filed a formal complaint. " + "The back's complaint is noted and will not change the outcome.", "A good seam. A real seam — proper iron, " + "the kind where the rock splits cleanly and the ore sits in it " + "like it's been waiting. {ore} worth €{value}. {xp} XP. " + "This is what mining is supposed to feel like. " + "Remember it for the days it doesn't.", "The lead pocket was deeper than the iron, which meant going deeper " + "than planned, which meant more exposure to everything Iron Ridge contains. " + "You made it. {ore} worth €{value}. The depth was worth it. " + "The {tool} has opinions about the depth. The opinions are structural.", }, 3: { "Silver. Real silver, properly embedded, not quartz, not illusion, " + "not iron-coloured rock lying about its nature. Silver. " + "{ore} worth €{value}. {xp} XP. Your {tool} is a real tool " + "and this was a real seam and you extracted the silver. " + "That's the whole job. Today the whole job got done.", "The Silver Seam at depth, past the quartz formations, " + "past the section that looks better than it is, " + "down to where the silver sits in the rock like an argument for effort. " + "{ore}, €{value}, {xp} XP, home by sunset. " + "A good day. In a mine. Those exist.", }, 4: { "Deeprock gold. Actual gold, not pyrite, not gold-coloured copper, " + "not optimism in mineral form. Gold. {ore} worth €{value}. " + "The Deeprock tried to discourage you with atmosphere and pressure. " + "You brought a Mithril Pickaxe and ignored the atmosphere.", "You went to the fourth level of the Deeprock and you came back " + "with {ore} worth €{value} and {xp} XP and a story " + "that mostly involves how far down the fourth level is. " + "It is very far down. The ore was worth being very far down. Today.", }, 5: { "Mythril. You found mythril and extracted mythril " + "and brought mythril home and mythril is worth €{value} per unit. " + "The {ore} you're carrying is worth €{value} total. " + "{xp} XP. The Diamond Pickaxe is a Diamond Pickaxe for a reason. " + "Today you proved the reason.", "The Voidstone was present but passive today. " + "The Dragon Crystals were warm but not hostile. " + "The mythril seam was open and you took {ore} worth €{value} from it. " + "{xp} XP. The Mythril Caverns had a good day at the same time you did. " + "This does not happen often. Don't examine it. Take the ore home.", }, } // ── FORAGING ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── var ForagingDeath = []string{ "Look — nobody expects to die foraging. That's the whole thing about foraging. " + "It lowers your guard. You were crossing the river when the current decided " + "your story ended here. It did not end here, but the margin was narrow. " + "The river kept your left boot and is not returning it.", "You disturbed what appeared to be an ordinary beehive. " + "It was not ordinary. The bees had a position on disturbance " + "and they held it with every individual sting they possessed. " + "You have been stung approximately four hundred times. " + "The doctor says you will probably be fine. " + "Probably is doing considerable work in that sentence.", "You were eaten by a bear. Partially. The bear reconsidered mid-process " + "and left. You are alive in the way that really makes you question " + "what 'alive' means as a category. Healthcare is sorting the paperwork. " + "The bear is eating something else now. You hope.", "A wild {item} appeared and you bent to pick it up " + "and what you bent toward was a hornet's nest you couldn't see " + "from standing height and the hornets had been waiting for exactly this. " + "The hornets had been waiting for a very long time. " + "You gave them what they'd been waiting for.", "The tree was dead. Dead trees fall. " + "You were at the base of the dead tree when it decided to fall, " + "which the tree did without significant warning, " + "which is the thing about dead trees that makes them different from live ones. " + "Live trees creak. Dead trees have already decided.", "The river crossing was knee-deep. The current was described to you as mild. " + "Both of these facts were technically accurate in the dry season, " + "and it is not the dry season, and nobody told you this, " + "and the current had opinions about your presence that it expressed at length.", "You found a mushroom. A beautiful mushroom, red-capped, white-spotted, " + "the kind that appears in illustrations and decorative contexts. " + "You ate some of it to check if it was edible. It was not edible. " + "Healthcare has your chart and a different entry form for this specific situation.", "Something in {location} that is not on any foraging chart " + "because the people who compile foraging charts do not go to the part of {location} " + "where the something lives. You went there. The something was there. " + "You are in medical care. The something is still there.", "You climbed the tree for the fruit. The branch held. " + "The other branch, the one you were holding onto, did not hold. " + "The fall was not long but the landing was conclusive " + "in the way that requires professional medical attention.", "The bear was not aggressive. The bear was eating berries. " + "The berries you were there for. The bear's position on sharing berries " + "with a person who walked into their berry clearing was immediate and physical. " + "Your armor is worse. The bear has the berries.", } var ForagingHornets = []string{ "You found a beautiful old oak. It had hornets. So many goddamn hornets. " + "You ran. The hornets followed. You ran further. The hornets were committed " + "to the bit in a way you were completely unprepared for. " + "You returned home with no loot, significant swelling, and a new personal " + "relationship with the concept of consequences.", "The nest looked small. It was not small. It was the visible surface " + "of something vast and very angry. You escaped with your life " + "and approximately twelve percent of your dignity. " + "Your armor has forty-seven new dents. They are all from hornets. " + "Hornets did that. To armor.", "Hornets. Again. At some point this stops being bad luck and starts " + "being a you problem. You lost an hour running, gained nothing at all, " + "and look like you lost a fight with a pincushion. Because you did.", "You have contracted STATUS EFFECT: STUNG (×52). " + "There is no remedy in your inventory. There is no item for this. " + "You must wait for it to stop and think very carefully " + "about your relationship with trees that have a lot of buzzing near them.", "The hornets were not in the nest when you found the nest. " + "This seemed lucky. The hornets were getting back from wherever hornets go " + "and arrived home to find you standing next to their home " + "with {item} in your hand and nowhere to run that you hadn't already calculated. " + "The calculation was wrong.", "You heard the buzzing. You made the decision to continue anyway. " + "This is the moment, when you replay it later — and you will replay it — " + "where everything could have been different. You continued anyway. " + "The hornets respected the audacity. The hornets did not let it go unpunished.", "A forager's first lesson: if it hums, it has already made a decision about you. " + "You are learning the first lesson. The first lesson has forty-three individual " + "components today and they are all in your neck and arms.", "The tree looked ordinary. The tree was ordinary. " + "The hornets inside the tree were not ordinary — they were a specific kind " + "of hornet with a specific kind of patience and a very practiced response " + "to the sound of a woodcutting tool approaching their home. " + "They practiced it on you.", "You killed one hornet. You killed it immediately and with precision " + "because you are a practical person and it was there. " + "The hornet's colleagues noted the killing. " + "The hornet's colleagues had a meeting about it. " + "The meeting concluded quickly and unanimously and you were there for the vote.", "Pro tip, available retroactively: hornets near the water's edge " + "are more aggressive than woodland hornets because they've already " + "had a bad day from the moisture. You found water's-edge hornets. " + "They had had a bad day. They shared it.", "The entire foraging trip went fine until the tree. " + "Everything before the tree was excellent — haul building, " + "weather cooperative, no bears, no river crossings. " + "Then the tree. Then the hornets in the tree. " + "Then nothing. The haul is gone. The morning is gone. " + "The tree is still there. The hornets are very much still there.", } var ForagingBear = []string{ "A bear. There was a goddamn bear. You and the bear had a brief negotiation " + "whose terms were entirely set by the bear. Your armor absorbed " + "the opening statement and is now in a condition the bear " + "would call 'fair exchange.' You ran. The bear watched you go " + "with what you chose to interpret as respect. It was not respect.", "The bear was eating berries. You were also there for berries. " + "The bear felt this was a resource conflict requiring immediate physical resolution. " + "You resolved it by leaving extremely fast. Your {armor} is worse. " + "Your pride is worse. The bear has all the berries.", "You saw the bear before it saw you. This did not help. " + "You had a head start. This also did not help. " + "Bears are fast. They are very fast. " + "Your armor took {damage} condition damage and you took the rest personally.", "The bear made eye contact. You made eye contact back. " + "In retrospect this was the wrong call — " + "bears interpret sustained eye contact as a challenge, " + "which is information you could have used thirty seconds ago. " + "Your {armor} absorbed the challenge response.", "Mother bear. Cubs nearby, which you noticed after the encounter " + "rather than before it, which is the incorrect order in which to notice cubs. " + "Mother bear's response to your presence near the cubs was immediate, " + "comprehensive, and educational. {armor} condition: reduced. " + "Bear education: complete.", "You threw {item} at the bear. The item did not deter the bear. " + "The bear was briefly curious about the item and then returned its attention to you. " + "You lost {item} and your armor took damage and you ran home " + "without the item and without anything else you'd collected. " + "The bear has your {item} now. It doesn't know what to do with it.", "The bear followed you for twenty minutes. Twenty full minutes. " + "Not charging — just walking, at bear pace, in your direction, " + "through everything you went through, with complete commitment. " + "You dropped your haul to run faster. The bear stopped then. " + "The bear wanted you to drop the haul. This is the worst kind of smart.", "The bear sniffed you before it attacked, which is a scientific note " + "that does not help you medically but which you have retained " + "because it seemed important in the moment. " + "The bear then attacked. Your {armor} is worse. You are home.", "A bear, unannounced, from the undergrowth. " + "The undergrowth was thick enough that you had no warning, " + "which is relevant information about {location}'s foraging conditions " + "that was not included in the briefing and absolutely should have been.", "The bear was smaller than bears are supposed to be. " + "This made you underestimate it. Smaller bears are faster. " + "This is not information that helped you in sequence — " + "it's information that arrived after the sequence concluded, " + "while you were sitting at home with {damage} less armor condition " + "and no loot and a new policy on small bears.", } var ForagingRiver = []string{ "You needed to cross the river. The river had opinions. Strong ones. " + "You lost {item} to the current, your boots are ruined, " + "and you have gained a new, lasting, personal respect for bridges. " + "Oregon Trail sends its regards. It always does.", "A simple ford. Knee-deep at most, you thought. " + "The river was not at most. The river was considerably more than at most " + "and had been since the rains last week which you did not know about " + "because you did not check. You made it across. {item} did not. " + "Your boots are now decorative. Your socks are a closed topic.", "The current took {item} right out of your hands. Gone. " + "Just gone. Immediately gone in the way of things taken by fast water, " + "which is completely gone with no warning and no recovery. " + "Then it took your footing. Then your remaining dignity. " + "You sat on the far bank for a while and poured water out of your boots.", "You have lost {item} and {item_2} to the river today. " + "The river has gained {item} and {item_2}. " + "The river does not need these things. The river doesn't need anything. " + "The river is a river. You needed those things. " + "The exchange is the worst kind of one-sided.", "Stepping stones. You were using the stepping stones. " + "The stepping stones were moss-covered in a way " + "that was visible from where you were standing " + "and that you assessed as 'manageable.' " + "The moss had a different assessment. You met the river. " + "The river kept {item}.", "The crossing was going well until step seven. " + "Steps one through six: fine. Step seven: a rock that moved. " + "Not a stepping stone. A rock that happened to be there. " + "It moved. You moved differently. The {item} in your right hand " + "went into the river. The {item} in your left hand stayed. " + "Two items entered the crossing. One item came out.", "You crossed the river and then the river crossed you " + "on the way back, heavier with {item}, moving slower, " + "caring more about not dropping things and therefore " + "paying less attention to where your feet were. " + "The feet found out where they were. The river was where they were.", "The pack was too heavy for the crossing depth. " + "You knew this at step three. You continued anyway, " + "running the numbers on whether you could make it " + "while simultaneously making it, which split your attention " + "in a way the current noticed and exploited.", "You've crossed this river before. The river was lower before. " + "This river and your memory of this river are different rivers " + "at different water levels and your memory does not have {item} " + "at the bottom of it. The real river does now.", } var ForagingGoodHaul = map[int][]string{ 1: { "A peaceful morning in {location}. Birds. Dappled light. {item} in quantity. " + "€{value} worth of completely non-threatening nature doing exactly " + "what nature is supposed to do. You are suspicious. " + "Nothing bad happened. Yet. Check tomorrow.", "You returned from {location} with {item} worth €{value}, zero injuries, " + "one mildly alarming encounter with a mushroom that turned out to be fine, " + "and the quiet satisfaction of a morning where the worst thing " + "that happened was briefly being in the same meadow as a grumpy deer.", "In and out. Clean. Profitable. Nobody died, nothing stung you, " + "no bears had opinions about your presence. " + "{item} worth €{value} and you're home before lunch. " + "This is the life. Savour it. It won't last.", "You have collected {item}. Your inventory has increased. " + "There is a fanfare in your heart — brief, sincere, the kind that plays " + "when you pick up something good in a world that is mostly trying to kill you. " + "€{value}. {xp} XP. The fanfare was earned.", "A wild {item} appeared. You used FORAGE. It was super effective. " + "€{value} worth of nature obtained without significant trauma. " + "Your Foraging Skill is considering leveling up. It's thinking about it. " + "It's not ready yet but it's thinking.", "The meadow was generous today. {item} in the quantity that makes " + "you feel like the meadow wanted you to have it, " + "which it did not, meadows don't have intentions, " + "but the feeling was there and €{value} is €{value}.", "Good haul. Better than expected. {item} worth €{value} from {location} " + "with {xp} XP and nothing bad attached to it. " + "Just: went out, found things, came home. " + "Simple. Good. Uncomplicatedly good. Write this date down.", }, 2: { "The Old Forest delivered today. {item} in the kind of quantity " + "that makes you feel briefly competent as a forager, " + "which is a feeling worth pursuing because it doesn't happen constantly. " + "€{value}. {xp} XP. The forest was cooperative. You were prepared. " + "These two things aligned.", "Hardwood and wild fruit and one significant mushroom cluster " + "that you correctly identified as edible, which is the forager's " + "primary professional requirement and one you have now met. " + "{item} worth €{value}. No hornets. A successful day in the Old Forest.", "The Old Forest is old in ways that mean it has more things in it " + "than newer forests, which is either comforting or alarming depending on " + "what the things are. Today the things were {item} worth €{value}. " + "A good day for the old-things-in-old-forests category.", }, 3: { "Ancient timber. Real ancient timber — the kind where the grain is so tight " + "you can count centuries in it. You found it, took what you could carry, " + "left the rest undisturbed because the Ancient Grove has ways of noticing " + "when you take too much. {item} worth €{value}. {xp} XP. " + "The grove noticed you. The grove allowed it. Don't push it.", "The rare herb was where the foraging charts said it would be, " + "which happens less often than you'd hope given that the charts exist. " + "{item} worth €{value}. The Ancient Grove was quiet today — " + "present, watchful in the way old places are watchful, " + "but not hostile. You took the herbs and left quickly anyway. Good instinct.", }, 4: { "The Deep Jungle doesn't give up exotic wood easily. " + "It gave it up today, which means you either got lucky or the jungle " + "made a decision about you. You prefer not to examine which. " + "{item} worth €{value}. {xp} XP. Home before something changed its mind.", "Tropical fruits and something that might be spores " + "that you have chosen to identify as 'probably fine' " + "based on the colour and smell and a general optimism about your choices. " + "{item} worth €{value}. The jungle was loud today but not at you. " + "You'll take it.", }, 5: { "The Primal Wilds gave you Starfruit. You know what Starfruit means " + "in the Primal Wilds — it means the place you're standing " + "is one of the few places in the world where Starfruit grows " + "and you were there on a day it was accessible. " + "{item} worth €{value}. {xp} XP. " + "This will not happen on the same terms again.", "Spirit Herbs. Primordial Bark. {item} worth €{value} " + "from the furthest reaches of the Primal Wilds on a day " + "when the Wilds were, against all precedent, cooperative. " + "{xp} XP. You are home. The Wilds are still primal. " + "Today they were primal in your favour.", }, }