The Exile's Sample Sale

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  "id": "exile-sample-sale",
  "name": "The Exile's Sample Sale",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "An exiled villager sells a small breathsalt quantity, which eventually exposes the motherlode to the empires.",
  "details": [
    "The chain of discovery and exact buyer remain material for later plot design.",
    "The buyers were Kilnrath, in a town far from the valley. The seller's allusion to a whole mine of it is what sent them exploring."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "exile-sample-sale-world-exile-sale",
      "at": "2026-09-08T01:10:13.024Z",
      "summary": "Kept the personal inciting cause but corrected what was sold.",
      "reason": "A sample creates a plausible path to discovery without selling the deposit itself.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:exiled-seller",
        "ref:breathsalt"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "review-migration",
        "label": "Prototype review: world-exile-sale",
        "locator": "archive/migrations/2026-09-08-prototype-review.json#review.answers.world-exile-sale"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "exile-sample-sale-kilnrath-buyer",
      "at": "2026-09-13T22:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Named the Kilnrath as the sample's buyers and the allusion as the hook.",
      "reason": "The owner described the chain of discovery: a small sale, a remark about where it came from, and a curious federation that had used breathsalt a little and knew what more of it was worth.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:kilnrath",
        "ref:exiled-seller"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Kilnrath sweetener and next-levels discussion, 2026-09-13"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "story",
  "storyType": "event",
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    "ref:motherlode-conflict"
  ],
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    {
      "actorRef": "ref:exiled-seller",
      "roles": [
        "participant"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "locationRefs": [],
  "itemRefs": [
    "ref:breathsalt"
  ],
  "requirements": [],
  "effects": []
}