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-- Vamoose's Companion - Vamoose Quote Database
-- Voice: Wise shaman, dry humour, nature metaphors, celebrates effort
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VC_QuoteDB = VC_QuoteDB or {}

VC_QuoteDB.vamoose = {
    farming = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_f01", text = "The earth gives what the earth gives. And today, it gives generously.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f02", text = "Patience is a practice, not a destination. Also, I think that node respawned behind you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f06", text = "Some see resources. I see the land offering a gift. You accepted gracefully.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f07", text = "The mushrooms grow where the fallen tree rests. Even in decay, there is harvest.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f09", text = "Hmm. The ore veins run deep here. The mountain shares its bones with you willingly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f13", text = "Another handful from the earth's pocket. It does not mind.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f14", text = "You pluck herbs like a healer, not a merchant. The roots appreciate the difference.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f15", text = "That node did not stand a chance. Respectful, but efficient. I approve.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f16", text = "The land does not keep score, but if it did, you would be ahead.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f17", text = "Gather enough small things and eventually you carry a mountain. You are getting close.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f18", text = "A squirrel buries a hundred acorns and forgets most. You are more deliberate than a squirrel.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f19", text = "The vein yields. The branch bends. The earth is cooperative today.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f20", text = "There is a thin line between farming and meditation. You walk it well.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f21", text = "Hands in the dirt, mind in the clouds. That is how the best gathering is done.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f22", text = "The ore does not care who swings the pick. But I notice you swing it with respect.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f23", text = "One more for the satchel. The spirits keep a tally even when you do not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f24", text = "The wind carried the scent of that herb to you. Coincidence, surely.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f25", text = "Slow hands, full bags. That is an old shaman saying. I just made it up, but it fits.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f26", text = "Full bags, sore knees. The trade-offs of gathering are honest ones.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f27", text = "The stone splits cleanly. A good sign, or just good technique. Perhaps both.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_f03", text = "There's a rhythm to gathering. In... out... pick herb... avoid mob... very meditative.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f04", text = "Every harvest is a conversation with the land. This one said something interesting.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f08", text = "You gather like someone who has learned not to trample what they came to collect. That is uncommon.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f10", text = "I once gathered herbs for three hours and found enlightenment. Also, a lot of Peacebloom. Mostly Peacebloom.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f28", text = "The topsoil gave easily. Whatever grew here before you arrived had loosened it. You inherited someone else's groundwork.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f29", text = "I have watched rivers carve canyons with less persistence than you show at a mining node.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f30", text = "The bees do not question why they gather. There is wisdom in the bee. Also in you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f31", text = "Somewhere a trader will hold what you gathered and never know the hands that found it. But the earth knows.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f32", text = "You found that one by instinct, not by map. The land is beginning to trust you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f33", text = "A shaman gathers with intention. A farmer gathers with routine. You are somewhere in between. Good company.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f34", text = "The spirits say this patch was waiting for someone worthy. They might be flattering you. Hard to tell.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f35", text = "That herb grew in shadow, against the rock, reaching for light. Harvesting it feels almost biographical.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f36", text = "You gathered quickly but did not trample. I have seen far too many tramplers to take that for granted.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f37", text = "The mountain gave you its teeth and did not even flinch. That is either generosity or indifference. I choose generosity.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_f05", text = "The spirits are impressed. Not easily done, I might add.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f11", text = "The spirits speak of a gathering so bountiful, the earth itself paused to watch. This was close.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f38", text = "The earth spirit paused when you gathered that. Not alarm -- curiosity. It wanted to see what you would do with it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f39", text = "The fire spirit whispered that this ore will become something remarkable. I tend to believe fire.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f40", text = "The patch you cleared will grow back greener. That is not a compliment -- it is how disturbed soil works. Though your technique helped.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f41", text = "The oldest trees drop seeds where the wind tells them. The wind told this one to drop near you.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f42", text = "A harvest like that changes the shape of your day. Maybe your week. The earth noticed too.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_f12", text = "You move through the land like water through stone --taking only what loosens freely.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f43", text = "The four elements conspired to place that exactly where you would find it. I am not joking.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f44", text = "In all my years walking beside gatherers, few read the land the way you do. The mountain noticed. I noticed first.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_f45", text = "The earth opened its hands for you today. Remember this feeling -- it is what the land gives those who listen.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_f46 to v_f60)
        { id = "v_f46", text = "The node was where I said it would be. I did not say it. But it was where I thought it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f47", text = "Dirt under the fingernails is honest evidence of honest work.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f48", text = "The herb patch does not argue. It simply offers. You simply accept. Clean transaction.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f49", text = "Another vein tapped. The mountain is generous today. Do not take that for granted.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f50", text = "You gathered that the way rain gathers in a basin -- without fanfare, without waste.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f51", text = "The pick swings, the ore falls, the cycle repeats. There is peace in repetition.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f52", text = "That herb waited a long time to be found. Most gatherers would have walked past it. You did not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f53", text = "More for the pile. The pile grows. The goal approaches. Steady.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f54", text = "The wind shifted and the node appeared. Sometimes gathering is just being in the right canyon at the right hour.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f55", text = "The wind marked that node for you, I think. Or you have very good eyes. Possibly both.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f56", text = "Not every harvest needs to be remarkable. Consistent is its own virtue.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f57", text = "The stone gave willingly. Stone rarely does that. Consider yourself noted.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f58", text = "Bag a little heavier now. Day a little further along. The arithmetic of gathering.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f59", text = "Clean cut. The stem will regrow from there. Not that the herb asked for your consideration, but it got some anyway.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f60", text = "You found that before another did. Timing and attention. Two habits worth keeping.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_f61 to v_f68)
        { id = "v_f61", text = "The land rewards pattern recognition. You are beginning to see the patterns.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f62", text = "Gathering at dawn gives different herbs than gathering at dusk. You know this already, I suspect.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f63", text = "Each time you return to a route, you read it better. The land teaches slowly but does not repeat itself.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f64", text = "The ore vein ran deeper than expected. The mountain trusted you with more. Interesting.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f65", text = "A skilled gatherer does not chase nodes. The nodes find them. You are approaching that level.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f66", text = "The earth gives in proportion to attention. Your attention today was considerable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f67", text = "Something in the way you approach each node tells the land you are not in a hurry. The land respects that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f68", text = "You passed three spots before stopping at this one. The right instinct is the hardest to explain.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare additions (v_f69 to v_f71)
        { id = "v_f69", text = "The water spirit mentioned this riverbank is richer than usual this season. Take that how you will. Water spirits exaggerate sometimes.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f70", text = "The earth gave you more than you expected and asked nothing in return. That is the earth's way. Do not read too much into it. Or do. I am not your shaman.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f71", text = "Some gatherers strip a land bare without knowing it. You leave room for what comes next. The earth notices.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- new additions (v_f72 onward)
        { id = "v_f72", text = "The bark splits cleanly. A good sign when the wood cooperates.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f73", text = "The vein was hiding behind loose gravel. You found it anyway. Some gatherers have better peripheral vision than others.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f74", text = "The soil releases what you ask for. That is either generosity or good timing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f75", text = "You took what was offered and left the rest. That is the correct approach.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f76", text = "A full bag is the earth's way of saying the conversation went well.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f77", text = "The node stood where the wind predicted. Follow the wind more.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f78", text = "Another cycle of gather and carry. The land is patient with the repetition.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f79", text = "You move between nodes the way bees move between blossoms. Purposeful and efficient.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f80", text = "The herb bowed toward you slightly. I noticed. The herb noticed you first.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f81", text = "Steady hands, steady haul. The earth respects hands that do not tremble.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f82", text = "Even Peacebloom has its days. Today it was generous. Tomorrow, who knows. The herb does not publish a schedule.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f83", text = "The ore did not resist. Some days the mountain is cooperative. Today is one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f84", text = "You loop the route like a river loops a bend -- familiar, but never exactly the same twice.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f85", text = "Bag filling steadily. Progress without drama. The best kind.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f86", text = "The ground gave willingly today. Some days it withholds. Today was not one of those days.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f87", text = "Second pass along the same route and you found three the first pass missed. The route did not change. Your eyes did.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f88", text = "You went around the thorns instead of through them. The berries on the other side were better for it. Practical choice.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f89", text = "The pick answered, the ore followed. A brief negotiation with a satisfying resolution.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f90", text = "Roots run deeper than they look. So does your patience.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f91", text = "The grove gave more than expected. Accept it and ask no questions of generous groves.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f92", text = "Small yield this pass. The earth is not indifferent -- it is conserving. Come back tomorrow.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f93", text = "You walked past two lesser nodes to reach this better one. Good prioritisation.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f94", text = "The cut was clean. The herb preserves its essence when it is cut cleanly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f95", text = "Another fistful for the satchel. The satchel is getting heavy. Your shoulders are not complaining yet.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f96", text = "You read the terrain and moved toward the harvest before you could see it. That is instinct earned.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f97", text = "The frost did not kill these herbs. It concentrated them. Adversity sometimes improves what it fails to stop.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f98", text = "The land gave less this pass. That happens. The mountain does not explain its moods and I have stopped asking.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f99", text = "The hawk circles but does not dive. It is waiting for better conditions. You could learn from the hawk's patience. Or not. It is a hawk.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f100", text = "I have noted that you do not take the largest share from any single node. The earth has noted it too.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f101", text = "A vein opened for you that was closed yesterday. The earth has a long memory for those who treat it gently.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f102", text = "You found that without a map, without a marker, without a guide. Only habit and attention. Those are enough.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f103", text = "The season shaped the yield more than the effort did. You read the season well. Not everyone bothers to.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f104", text = "Every gatherer leaves a trace. Yours is light enough that the next herb grows back undisturbed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f105", text = "The roots were deep today. You did not pull harder. You waited for the right moment. The earth noted the patience.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f106", text = "That node was not there yesterday. The earth rearranges on its own schedule. You happened to catch the new arrangement.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f107", text = "The water spirit says the herbs along the riverbank respond to your footsteps now. They have learned your rhythm.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f108", text = "A gatherer who leaves the land richer than they found it is rare. The earth cannot pay you in coin, but it pays in ways that last longer.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f109", text = "The yield from this pass was unusually high. I will not speculate on why. The spirits would want me to, but speculation is not observation.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f110", text = "The land opened for you today in a way it reserves for those who have proven, repeatedly, that they listen before they take.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f111", text = "You treated the land as a living thing and it responded in kind. That is not farming. That is a relationship, and it is one of the better ones I have witnessed.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 1 additions (v_f112 to v_f161)
        { id = "v_f112", text = "The vein sat in shadow. You found it without the light. That is learned perception.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f113", text = "The satchel is a little heavier. Not dramatically. Just a little. That is how satchels fill.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f114", text = "Another node, another exchange with the land. The land is consistent if nothing else.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f115", text = "You gathered without rushing. The herb kept its shape in the bag because of that. Small detail. Worth noting.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f116", text = "The thorn did not stop you. It slowed you, which is different. Slowing down is sometimes the land offering advice.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f117", text = "Each rotation of the route teaches the route better. You are becoming fluent in this path.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f118", text = "That deposit in the bag joins the others. The others are glad for the company.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f119", text = "The ore answered the tool honestly. Honest ore is a pleasure to work with.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f120", text = "You gathered from the edge of the thicket where others do not bother to look. Diligence rewards itself.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f121", text = "Another circuit completed. The land lets you back in every time. That is a form of trust.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f122", text = "You found it where the map said nothing was. Maps are approximate. Attention is precise.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f123", text = "The yield was modest. Modest yields are honest yields. The land does not exaggerate.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f124", text = "A careful cut preserves the stalk for next season. You cut carefully. The stalk noticed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f125", text = "The grove gave without theatre. You received without theatre. A dignified exchange.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f126", text = "The vein ran narrow but deep. You followed it down instead of giving up at the surface. The deeper ore is usually better.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f127", text = "You moved to the next node before the earth had finished exhaling. Good pacing. The route rewards a gatherer who reads ahead.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f128", text = "The bag grows heavier and the route grows shorter. These two things are related.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f129", text = "The log split along the grain. Working with what is there instead of against it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f130", text = "The grove offered and you took. Brief exchange. No negotiation required. The best ones never do.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f131", text = "The scrub was dense. You found the node anyway. Some habits of attention override terrain.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f132", text = "Small animals fled when you approached. The node did not. The node had no fear of you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f133", text = "The route gave well today. Remember this route. It has potential.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f134", text = "You circled back to one you passed earlier. Patience rewarded by a respawn. The route planned ahead for you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f135", text = "The pick found the seam. The seam gave. The bag received. Three steps, all correct.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f136", text = "Late season herbs are stronger. Concentrated by the cooling air. You chose the right time without knowing it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f137", text = "The ground gave up the node without a fight. Cooperative terrain is its own small blessing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f138", text = "You bent to gather and the land leaned toward you slightly. That is my observation and I stand by it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f139", text = "Another pass along the route. The route is patient with repeat visitors.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f140", text = "The node sat in plain sight. Obvious things are easy to overlook. You did not overlook it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f141", text = "You noticed the seam in the cliff face where others see only stone. That reading of the land is a craft in itself.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f142", text = "The route that seems empty often saves its best nodes for the patient. You arrived at the right time.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f143", text = "What you gathered today was shaped by seasons I watched pass while you were elsewhere. The land prepared it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f144", text = "A shaman knows that what grows in the coldest soil carries more of the earth in it. You gathered from the cold margin. Good instinct.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f145", text = "The land gives differently in silence than in noise. You moved silently today. The difference in yield is the evidence.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f146", text = "You saw the node from a distance that most would not have bothered to cross. The crossing is what separates thorough from adequate.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f147", text = "You tightened the route this time. Fewer wasted steps between nodes. I count steps. It is a shaman habit nobody asked for.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f148", text = "I notice you stop briefly before each node. A breath. An acknowledgement. The land responds to acknowledgement.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f149", text = "The earth does not release its best offerings to those in a hurry. You have not been in a hurry. This is the result.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f150", text = "You passed three spots that looked promising and stopped at the one that was. The eye has learned something the mind has not named yet.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f151", text = "You gathered from four different soil types in one circuit. The yield reflects that. Variety in the route shows in the bag.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f152", text = "The season is past its peak for this herb. You took it at the right moment before that peak passed entirely. Timing beneath awareness.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f153", text = "The nodes along this route respawned quickly today. The land has its own schedule for that. You happened to be on time.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f154", text = "There are gatherers and there are readers of the land. You passed from one into the other somewhere in the last several circuits. I noted the crossing.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f155", text = "The earth spirit of this region has taken a specific interest in your route. Spirits do not grant that kind of interest cheaply.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f156", text = "What you gathered today grew in soil that was shaped by something ancient. The earth trusted you with ancient things. That is not commonplace.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f157", text = "I have watched this land across many seasons. The gatherers who return to it with respect eventually find it returning the respect in kind. You have reached that point.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f158", text = "The four directions of the spirit world each contributed something to what you gathered today. They rarely collaborate on a single harvest.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f159", text = "The land does not open this fully for many. What you carry in that bag is not just resource. It is the earth's endorsement of the hands that gathered it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f160", text = "I have watched this region across many seasons. It does not open this generously often. The timing was yours. The rest was the earth being the earth.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_f161", text = "The harvest you completed today will be spoken of by the land itself in the way land speaks -- through what grows back in your wake, and how quickly.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    gold = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_g01", text = "Gold flows like water. Sometimes toward you, sometimes away. Today, toward.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g04", text = "Gold spent is not gold lost. It's gold... redistributed. The elements understand cycles.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g06", text = "A steady stream fills the basin. You are the stream today.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g08", text = "Commerce is just barter with extra steps. The spirits find it unnecessarily complicated, but effective.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g09", text = "Coin leaves, but what it purchased remains. That is not loss. That is transformation.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g11", text = "Another coin in the pouch. The earth spirit counts them by weight, not by worth.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g12", text = "Coin leaves, something useful stays. The spirits call that a fair exchange. So do I.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g13", text = "The merchant smiles, you walk lighter. Both parties satisfied. That is balance.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g14", text = "Coin finds coin. I have observed this. Your pouch attracts well.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g15", text = "Gold is just rock that everyone agreed to care about. But here we are, caring.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g16", text = "The vendor seemed pleased. Your gold goes to feed a family somewhere. Probably.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g17", text = "Every copper counts when the river is patient. And you are patient.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g18", text = "Light pockets, heavy purpose. There are worse trades.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g19", text = "The sound of coin is not music, but it is... rhythmic. And your rhythm is steady.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g20", text = "That purchase anchors you to this place and moment. Not a bad anchor.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g21", text = "Gold earned honestly weighs different in the hand. Heavier, somehow. In a good way.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g22", text = "The spirits do not use currency. They find yours endlessly amusing.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g23", text = "A few more coins settle into your bags. Gravity and gold both pull downward.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g24", text = "You spend like someone who knows more is coming. Confidence or wisdom -- hard to tell.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g25", text = "The wind carries the scent of copper and ambition. Both are strong today.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_g02", text = "The auction house is its own kind of ecosystem, you know. You navigated it well.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g05", text = "The wind takes, the wind gives. Your pockets feel lighter, but your purpose hasn't changed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g07", text = "The earth does not hoard its minerals. It lets them be found by those who look. You looked.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g26", text = "I once knew a goblin who said gold is the fifth element. He was wrong, but not entirely.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g27", text = "That expense cleared space for something new. Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do empty bags.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g28", text = "You treat gold as a tool, not a trophy. The earth respects a practical hand.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g29", text = "The cost was fair. I have watched enough trades to know when the scales balance.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g30", text = "The wind spirit says the slow earners outlast the quick ones. It has watched a lot of earners. I trust its sample size.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g31", text = "Letting go of coin is like releasing a held breath. Necessary, and lighter after.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g32", text = "The market shifts like tides. You caught this one at the right moment.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g33", text = "A shaman measures wealth in connections, not coin. But coin helps maintain connections.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g34", text = "Fortune favours the attentive. You were attentive. Fortune noticed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g35", text = "That gold went somewhere useful. Or at least somewhere. The wind does not track individual coins. Neither should you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g36", text = "You profit not by greed but by patience. The river does not rush to the sea.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_g03", text = "Wealth is not the gold itself, but knowing what to do with it. You seem to know.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g10", text = "The river that never spends its water becomes a swamp. You are no swamp.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g37", text = "The spirits say gold is frozen sunlight. Spend it, and the light returns to the world.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g38", text = "There is a moment when earning becomes craft. You passed that moment quietly.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g39", text = "A purchase made with certainty carries no regret. The earth felt your certainty.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g40", text = "The old traders say: watch how someone spends, and you know who they are. You spend wisely.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g41", text = "True cost is measured in time, not coin. By that measure, this was a bargain.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_g42", text = "You have turned patience into profit and profit into purpose. That is alchemy the goblins never mastered.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g43", text = "The earth holds gold in its veins like blood. What you earned today was freely given.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g44", text = "To spend without flinching is to trust the future completely. The spirits admire that faith.", quality = "epic", tags = { "loss" } },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_g45", text = "Gold is a promise the world makes to those who listen. Today, the world kept every promise it owed you.", quality = "legendary", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- common additions (v_g46 to v_g57)
        { id = "v_g46", text = "Coin lands in the bag with a satisfying weight. The earth approves of things that settle.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g47", text = "Gold spent on something necessary is gold well released. No grief required.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g48", text = "More coin than before. The pattern continues. Keep the pattern.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g49", text = "Lighter pockets, warmer hearth. Some exchanges only look like losses.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g50", text = "The market gave you what the market had. You took exactly what you needed.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g51", text = "Another coin for the pile. The pile does not care about the ceremony. It just wants the coin.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g52", text = "Copper becomes silver becomes gold. The alchemy of patience.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g53", text = "You paid the price and did not wince. That is confidence in the value of things.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g54", text = "The wind shifted and the coin followed. You happened to be standing downstream. Good positioning.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g55", text = "What left your hand was fair. The earth measures fairness in both directions.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g56", text = "Steady accumulation. No drama, no catastrophe. Just coin, patiently gathered.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g57", text = "You traded what you had for what you needed. The oldest logic in the world.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        -- uncommon additions (v_g58 to v_g62)
        { id = "v_g58", text = "The goblins say gold is neutral. The shaman in me says gold is whatever you do with it. You do good things.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g59", text = "Spending with conviction is not recklessness. It is faith in your own judgement. The spirits respect that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g60", text = "You read the market the way a shaman reads weather -- not perfectly, but well enough. Today, very well.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g61", text = "That purchase was an investment in a future self who will thank you. I will pass the thanks along early.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g62", text = "The flow of gold through your hands is clean. No greed, no waste. The water spirit finds the metaphor fitting.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- rare additions (v_g63 to v_g64)
        { id = "v_g63", text = "The spirits watched your transaction carefully. They do not do that for everyone. They saw something principled.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g64", text = "You released that coin the way a river releases a stone it has been carrying. No hesitation, no backward glance. The river moves on.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        -- epic addition (v_g65)
        { id = "v_g65", text = "Patience built this. Not a single lucky windfall -- just the steady accumulation of a gatherer who does not panic. The earth spirit noticed. It always notices the patient ones.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- batch additions (v_g66 to v_g165)
        { id = "v_g66", text = "Another coin finds its way to you. The river bends in your direction today.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g67", text = "Gold left your hand and did not look back. That is the nature of a fair exchange.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g68", text = "The pouch is heavier. You are not. Gold does not weigh what it is worth.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g69", text = "You paid and did not pause to regret it. Decisiveness has its own economy.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g70", text = "More gold than before. The tide came in. Ride it sensibly.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g71", text = "Coin released. The world put it somewhere useful. Probably.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g72", text = "The balance sheet tilts slightly in your favour. Tilt it further.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g73", text = "What you spent will not return as coin. It will return as something more useful. Eventually.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g74", text = "Gold in the hand feels different from gold in the ledger. You have the real kind now.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g75", text = "A small outflow. The stream does not stop for small losses. Neither should you.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g76", text = "Gained. The earth notes it the way water notes a new tributary.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g77", text = "Gold does not stay anywhere for long. You were its temporary keeper and a good one.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g78", text = "More arrives. It always does, for those who do not clutch at it too hard.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g79", text = "Spent without ceremony. Clean transaction. The wind approves of efficiency.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g80", text = "The coins settle with a comfortable weight. The earth understands weight.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g81", text = "Less than before, but you have what you needed. That is the shape of a good trade.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g82", text = "Coin added to coin. The sum grows patient and unremarkable. I mean that well.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g83", text = "The merchant has your gold now. It will circulate. Cycles are healthy.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g84", text = "Another layer of financial sediment deposited. Sediment becomes stone. Stone endures.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g85", text = "You parted with coin the way the tree parts with a leaf -- without struggle, in the right season.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g86", text = "Earned and pocketed. The motion continues. Keep the motion.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g87", text = "Lighter by a little. Richer by what was purchased. The ledger still balances.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g88", text = "The sum grows. Quietly, like frost forming before anyone notices.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g89", text = "Coin is the earth in its most portable form. You sent some back into the world.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g90", text = "The market agreed with your valuation. That is rarer than it looks.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g91", text = "A purchase made without hesitation. The mind and the hand agreed. Trust that alignment.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g92", text = "Gold found you because you were moving. The still pool does not gain tributaries.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g93", text = "Something left your bag and joined the world's long circulation. Good.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g94", text = "Another increment. The mountain of it grows one stone at a time.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g95", text = "Released without grief. The spirits note that as the mature response.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g96", text = "More coin than expected. The earth does that sometimes -- offers a surplus without explanation. I have learned not to ask why.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g97", text = "The vendor is satisfied. You are satisfied. The earth is neutral but observant.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g98", text = "Coin settles in the pouch. The pouch is heavier than this morning. The morning feels like a while ago.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g99", text = "You spent what was appropriate. The concept of appropriate is undervalued in commerce.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g100", text = "Coin added. The season turns. Your season is a productive one.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g101", text = "What left your hand serves a purpose now. Purpose is a fair price for coin.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g102", text = "The bag grows heavier in the way that matters. Slowly, without fanfare.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g103", text = "Pockets lighter. Hands holding something useful. The mathematics of good spending.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g104", text = "Income, recorded without celebration. Celebration is for the larger milestones. This is foundation.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g105", text = "Spent justly. The earth fire spirit sees no waste in just spending.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g106", text = "The auction house gave you what you asked. Ask well and it often does.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g107", text = "You did not overpay. In a market that rewards patience, that is craft.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g108", text = "I have watched traders clutch their purses like wounded animals. You hold yours the way a river holds water -- loosely, because more is always coming.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g109", text = "I once knew a troll who hoarded gold until his cave collapsed under the weight. You are not that troll.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g110", text = "The cost was steep but the purchase was right. Knowing the difference is harder than it sounds.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g111", text = "Profit earned through timing rather than greed has a cleaner feel. This felt clean.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g112", text = "Gold released at the right moment is like water released at a dam -- it powers things downstream.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g113", text = "You watched the market the way a hawk watches the field. Waited. Then moved. The hawk rarely misses.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g114", text = "What looks like spending is sometimes planting. You have good instincts about which is which.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g115", text = "The market gave well today. Markets have moods, like weather. You read the weather correctly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g116", text = "You let go of the coin the way the autumn lets go of leaves. Without resistance. In full knowledge of what comes next.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g117", text = "There are those who make gold and those who grow it. You do both. The difference is a longer view.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g118", text = "I have watched foolish merchants spend on impulse for a decade. Your spending has a different architecture entirely.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g119", text = "Gold accretes around those who do not obsess over it. A quiet law, but a reliable one.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g120", text = "The outflow was deliberate. Deliberate spending is the elder sibling of deliberate saving.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g121", text = "Coin moved through your hands and left the vendor nodding. The nod is worth noting. Vendors do not nod at everyone.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g122", text = "A river that gathers without releasing becomes salt. You release well.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g123", text = "The market tide came in and you were standing in the right place. Preparation looks like luck from outside.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g124", text = "What you paid was fair. The spirits do not weigh coin, but they notice the shape of a balanced exchange.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g125", text = "The goblins say gold moves in herds. You just found the herd's direction before the herd did.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g126", text = "There is a sound coins make when they are earned honestly. Slightly different pitch. I can hear it.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g127", text = "You spent that without looking back. The earth spirit says that is how old stone falls from a cliff -- committed, once the crack has spoken.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g128", text = "The earth holds metal in its bones for ages before releasing it. What reaches your hands has been patient for a very long time.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g129", text = "You treated gold as a servant and not a master. Very few manage that distinction across a long career.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g130", text = "That release of coin changed something downstream in ways you cannot track. Good spending has a long tail.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g131", text = "The water spirit says wealth that moves does more good than wealth that sits. You keep yours moving.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g132", text = "I have seen gold make small people large and large people small. You remain exactly who you were. The best possible outcome.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g133", text = "You spent that with the certainty of someone who has already calculated the return. Whether or not the return is gold.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g134", text = "The fire spirit says the gold you earn carries the heat of honest work in it. It burns differently than stolen coin.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g135", text = "That expenditure closes one season and opens another. The earth understands seasons. So do you.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g136", text = "To know when to spend and when to hold is the rarest financial wisdom. You have it in some abundance.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_g137", text = "I have watched the same sum of gold pass through a hundred hands. What changes is not the gold but the person holding it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_g138", text = "The ancestors say: count what you have, not what you spent. By that measure you are well positioned.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g139", text = "Every coin gained is a small argument that the world values what you do. The world is making a compelling case.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g140", text = "Gold earned by patience tastes different than gold earned by speed. Longer finish. Better character.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g141", text = "You have not let gold change your pace. The river does not speed up because it is wide. You carry your depth well.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g142", text = "I have watched wealth hollow out even the steadiest souls. You are an argument against the pattern.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g143", text = "Coin released and the bag did not mourn it. Neither did you. The fire spirit considers that a passing grade. High praise, from fire.", quality = "epic", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g144", text = "The goblins measure a trader by profit margins. The spirits measure by what was left better for the trade. By that measure you are prosperous.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_g145", text = "Somewhere in the world, the gold you earned is becoming something. Gold never stays gold. You started a transformation.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g146", text = "The frost does not hoard cold. It gives it to the ground and the ground gives it back as spring. Your gold moves the same way.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g147", text = "Accumulated without alarm. That is the correct method. Alarm is not a financial strategy.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g148", text = "You paid the toll and passed through. Most tolls are worth paying. This one was.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g149", text = "The bag grows without drama. Drama does not make the bag heavier.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g150", text = "Gold returned to the world from your hand. The world is circulatory that way.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g151", text = "Another coin stacked. The stack is not the goal but it is a pleasant byproduct of the goal.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g152", text = "Paid and done. No second thoughts visible from here. Good instinct, well executed.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g153", text = "The income arrived like a hawk landing -- quietly, precisely, without fanfare.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g154", text = "Expense met without flinching. The wind respects those who do not flinch at necessary costs.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g155", text = "The trickle becomes a stream if you keep the channel clear. You keep it clear.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g156", text = "You spent it before it could spend you. That is an important distinction.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g157", text = "The roots of a prosperous tree run deep and invisible. You have been building roots.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g158", text = "I have watched merchants haggle for hours over sums you released without a second thought. There is a lesson there about time and its value.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g159", text = "Another coin in, another coin well earned. The earth does not care how. But I noticed the effort behind it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g160", text = "The expenditure was strategic in a way you may not have named consciously. The earth noticed the strategy anyway.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g161", text = "Fog over the valley eventually burns off. What is underneath is what you built while it was hidden. Solid foundations.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g162", text = "Released with precision. The stone thrown at exactly the right angle requires no second throw.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g163", text = "The old shamans say a generous hand is never truly empty. I have observed this. I believe it.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g164", text = "What flows to you flows because you understand what the current is for. The water spirit confirms this.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g165", text = "You hold gold lightly. Not carelessly -- lightly. The difference is intent. Your intent is clear.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- batch 1 additions (v_g166 to v_g215)
        { id = "v_g166", text = "Coin in, noted without ceremony. The ledger grows by another line.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g167", text = "You released it and did not watch it go. That is the correct relationship with spent coin.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g168", text = "The amount is small. Small amounts arrive often enough to become large. You understand this.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g169", text = "Less in the pouch. More in the hand. The trade was fair.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g170", text = "Another deposit into the slow, reliable accumulation that funds everything else.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g171", text = "Paid and moved on. The wind does not linger over what it has already carried. Good habit.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g172", text = "The sum moved in your direction again. Keep the channel open.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g173", text = "Gold left without drama. Undramatic departures are the sign of a healthy relationship with money.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g174", text = "Another increment. Not exciting. Reliable. The two are rarely the same and reliable is more useful.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g175", text = "You parted with coin the way the tide parts from the shore. Not because it wanted to but because the cycle required it.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g176", text = "The bag catches another piece of what the world offers when you put that kind of effort into it.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g177", text = "Coin released into the economy of things. It will serve a purpose there.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g178", text = "More than before. The direction is correct. Maintain the direction.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g179", text = "The transaction closed in someone else's favour. Transactions that close cleanly in either direction are good transactions.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g180", text = "The pouch fills without announcement. Announcement would only slow it down.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g181", text = "Gold left your hand with a purpose assigned to it. Purpose is the best reason for coin to move.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g182", text = "Earned. Filed. The bag is heavier by exactly the amount you expected. Predictability has its comforts.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g183", text = "You spent what you could afford and knew the number. Knowing the number is more than half of financial wisdom.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g184", text = "The sum grows at its own pace. Like lichen on stone. Slow, but try scraping it off.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g185", text = "What you paid has gone to work somewhere. Coin is always working. Yours is industrious.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g186", text = "The coin arrived. You were there to catch it. Timing and positioning. A shaman notices both.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g187", text = "The expense was exact. Not a copper more. That kind of precision takes a steady hand and a clear head.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g188", text = "Another vein of income tapped. The vein is still there. So is the technique that found it.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g189", text = "Paid and past. Past costs are reference points. Not anchors.", quality = "common", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g190", text = "The total grows. Slowly, in the way of things built well. You are building well.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g191", text = "You watched where the gold was flowing before you moved. Reading the flow is the skill. Moving is just the consequence.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g192", text = "The purchase was made from a position of security, not scarcity. That is the correct order of things.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g193", text = "You earned that the slow way. I have watched both ways and the slow way sits better in the bag. Heavier, somehow. More settled.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g194", text = "Between what you spent and what remains is a gap that represents your judgement. The gap is the right size.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g195", text = "The market opened briefly and you moved. Briefly is all markets ever open. You were already facing the right direction.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g196", text = "I once knew a tauren elder who said gold is the earth's way of counting generosity. By that accounting you are generous and growing more so.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g197", text = "The expenditure fit the moment. No excess, no shortfall. Like a stone that lands exactly where the creek narrows.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g198", text = "Wealth that circulates through generous hands returns changed. You have sent some out again. Watch what comes back.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g199", text = "You did not take the easiest profit. You took the correct one. The difference is not visible from outside but the earth feels it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g200", text = "The cost was what it was. You paid it and kept walking. The earth does not linger over settled debts. Good example to follow.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g201", text = "You earned that because you were moving, not because you were wishing. The wind carries seeds to open ground, not to closed fists.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g202", text = "That expenditure will produce something the coin could not produce sitting still. Coin in motion is more useful than coin at rest.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g203", text = "That transaction told me something about how you value your time. Favourably, but I am keeping the specifics to myself.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g204", text = "The earth spirit watched that purchase and said nothing. When the earth spirit says nothing, it usually means approval. Or indigestion. Hard to tell.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g205", text = "You made the earn look easy. It was not easy. I was watching the whole time.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g206", text = "The gold you let go of was exactly the amount the situation required. Exact amounts are a sign that the calculation was done properly.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g207", text = "I have watched wealth move through this world for longer than most can imagine. What you built today has the texture of the durable kind.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g208", text = "The earth spirit watched that one leave your hands. It did not comment. The earth spirit only comments on the questionable ones.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g209", text = "Gold came in and settled cleanly. The water finds its level. So does wealth, in the right hands.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g210", text = "The coin went where it was needed. Coin that knows where it is needed is well-kept coin.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g211", text = "The land gives differently to different hands. Yours have a good rhythm today. Steady grip, light release. The basics, done well.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g212", text = "You spent on something you cannot see yet. The earth does that every winter -- buries seeds in frozen ground and waits. It usually works out.", quality = "rare", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g213", text = "The goblins would have spent that differently. Faster, louder, with more paperwork. Your way was quieter. The fire spirit preferred your way. So did I.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_g214", text = "The goblins say a perfect spend is one that neither the buyer nor the seller could improve upon after the fact. The fire spirit says yours qualify.", quality = "epic", tags = { "loss" } },
        { id = "v_g215", text = "Gold came in, gold went out, and both directions made sense. The water spirit calls that a clean current. I call it a good day.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    achieve = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_a01", text = "The spirits say... 'well earned.' And I agree.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a05", text = "You did not stumble into this. You walked toward it, deliberately, for a long time. That matters.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a08", text = "Another mark on the tally. The wind carries your name a little further today.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a09", text = "Done. Finished. Complete. Three good words. The spirits approve of all three.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a10", text = "That achievement was waiting for someone stubborn enough. It found the right person.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a11", text = "The earth remembers effort. Another mark etched in stone.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a12", text = "The spirits just filed that under 'completed.' They have a surprisingly organised system.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a13", text = "The path had no signs, but you found the end anyway. Well navigated.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a14", text = "You set out to do a thing and then did it. Simple as stone. Rare as starlight.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a15", text = "The fire spirit nods. It respects those who finish what they ignite.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a16", text = "Achievement unlocked, as they say. I prefer 'promise fulfilled.' Same thing, though.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a17", text = "A moment worth marking. The wind will carry this one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a18", text = "You aimed and did not waver. The arrow found its mark.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a19", text = "The road was long. But you are here. That is the only part that matters now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a20", text = "Points on a ledger, perhaps. But also proof of persistence. I value the second more.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a21", text = "Well earned and well timed. The elements appreciate punctuality.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a22", text = "I notice you did not celebrate. The fire spirit noticed too. It approves of restraint.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a23", text = "I notice you did not boast. The mountain does not announce its own height either.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a24", text = "That one is done. Cross it off the mental list. The spirits keep a backup copy.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a25", text = "The water spirit approves. It knows something about persistence wearing down obstacles.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_a02", text = "The wind shifted when you finished that. Probably coincidence. The wind says otherwise.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a04", text = "The elements remember those who persist. They'll remember this.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a06", text = "Some achievements are loud. This one was quiet, and all the more meaningful for it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a26", text = "I once watched a student chase an achievement for three seasons. When it came, she just nodded. That nod said everything. Yours just did the same.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a27", text = "I have watched empires crumble for lack of follow-through. You do not have that problem.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a28", text = "The fire spirit keeps a tally of things that required real heat. It just made a mark. Fire does not make marks lightly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a29", text = "This one required grit. I could feel it in the earth beneath you -- a steady, stubborn pressure.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a30", text = "The spirits keep a ledger of deeds. Yours just gained another line. In good ink.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a31", text = "Not flashy, not loud. Just done. The earth respects efficiency.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a32", text = "The water spirit says you remind it of a particular glacier it once knew. Slow, certain, and very difficult to redirect.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a33", text = "Somewhere, someone doubted you could. The wind just laughed at them on your behalf.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a34", text = "I once told a student that achievements are the footprints of purpose. Yours leave deep prints.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a35", text = "That one had a quitting point about halfway through. I saw you reach it and walk past it without slowing down. The earth noticed the footprints did not hesitate.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a36", text = "The campfire burns brighter tonight. Accomplishment is good kindling.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_a03", text = "I've watched many adventurers. Few earn recognition with such quiet determination.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a07", text = "The mountain does not applaud the one who climbs it. But I will. Well done.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a37", text = "The four elements aligned for just a moment when you completed that. I felt the resonance.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a38", text = "The ancestors have a word for someone who finishes things this consistently. The word does not translate well. Roughly: 'the one the earth does not need to remind.'", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a39", text = "That achievement will outlast the gold, the gear, the glory. It is etched in who you are.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a40", text = "The spirits argued about whether that was possible. You just settled the debate.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a41", text = "I have seen storms break against cliffs with less determination than you just showed.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_a42", text = "In the long memory of the earth, this moment is a bright vein of gold through dark stone. Permanent.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a43", text = "The elements do not often agree. But all four just whispered the same word: 'worthy.'", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a44", text = "The four elements went quiet for a breath when that was completed. Not in awe -- more like recognition. They have seen this kind of stubbornness before. They remember every instance.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_a45", text = "The earth will hold the memory of this long after we are dust. Some deeds become permanent.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_a46 to v_a54)
        { id = "v_a46", text = "Another one done. The list shortens. The sense of purpose deepens.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a47", text = "You aimed at a thing and did not stop aiming until it was over. That is rarer than it sounds.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a48", text = "The spirits add your name to the tally without ceremony. Ceremony is for those who need it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a49", text = "Completed. The wind whispers the word because it knows you do not need to hear it shouted.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a50", text = "Aimed, fired, landed. The wind did not even need to correct the trajectory.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a51", text = "It is done. The stone settles. The cairn grows. Well placed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a52", text = "The earth notes the completion and adds it to the long tally it keeps of you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a53", text = "Some stop short of the end. You do not. That consistency is itself an achievement.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a54", text = "The ancestors tick the box. It is a very old box. Your tick sits among good company.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_a55 to v_a58)
        { id = "v_a55", text = "I once told an apprentice that some goals are just stubbornness wearing a nice outfit. She did not appreciate the observation. But she finished the goal.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a56", text = "You did not take the short path. You took the correct one. Sometimes they are the same. This time they were not.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a57", text = "The fire spirit has been tracking this one. It likes a long burn that ends clean. Well ended.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a58", text = "The world measures deeds by their depth, not their noise. This one left a mark.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare additions (v_a59 to v_a60)
        { id = "v_a59", text = "The elements feel different around you after that. Not louder -- just more attentive. You earned the attention.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a60", text = "There are achievements that change the shape of a life. This may be one. The wind is undecided, but leaning toward yes.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_a61 to v_a100)
        { id = "v_a61", text = "The mark is made. The earth holds the record.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a62", text = "Completed with the quiet confidence of someone who knew they would get there.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a63", text = "The spirits noted it. Briefly. They are busy, but they noted it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a64", text = "Done. The word is small. The effort behind it was not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a65", text = "The spirits tick another box on a very long list. The list is getting shorter.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a66", text = "You did not need to be told twice. Or once. You simply did it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a67", text = "Finished and filed. The ancestors keep excellent records.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a68", text = "A stone placed on the summit cairn by a hand that earned the climb.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a69", text = "The task resisted. You did not. The task lost.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a70", text = "Well done in the truest sense. Not easy. Done well.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a71", text = "The deed is complete. The wind carries the confirmation.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a72", text = "You aimed, adjusted, and arrived. That sequence is rarer than the achievement itself.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a73", text = "Another ring on the tree. It does not announce itself. It simply is.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a74", text = "The goal is behind you now. A different view opens ahead.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a75", text = "Achievement registered. The earth does not react loudly. It does not need to.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a76", text = "You kept going past the point where others stop. That is the whole story.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a77", text = "The spirits add it to the record without flourish. The record is distinguished regardless.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a78", text = "Completed. The cairn grows. It is a fine cairn.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a79", text = "You finished what you said you would. Some days that is everything.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a80", text = "The mark is yours. It cannot be taken back. That is the best thing about earned things.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a81", text = "Patience assembled this one piece by piece. The final piece just fell into place.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a82", text = "You carried this across days and weeks and whatever weather arrived. The carrying is the real achievement.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a83", text = "A river does not ask permission to reach the sea. Neither did you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a84", text = "The fire spirit says some achievements smell like effort that has finally cooled into something permanent. This one does.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a85", text = "The earth spirit says the ground beneath you has been worn smoother by your persistence on this one. The earth spirit notices these things. I mostly just watch.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a86", text = "The earth measures completion differently than a clock does. By its measure, you arrived exactly on time.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a87", text = "I once told a student that achievement is just stubbornness given a flattering name. You are admirably stubborn.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a88", text = "I watched a hawk try for the same prey eleven times before it connected. The hawk did not seem embarrassed by the first ten. Neither should you be. Though your count was lower.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a89", text = "The hawk does not circle forever. Eventually it commits and dives. That was your dive.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a90", text = "Some deeds are done for the record. Others are done for the doing. This one has the smell of the second kind.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a91", text = "The ancestors who came before you at this threshold would recognise what you just walked through. They would nod.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a92", text = "The wind stilled for a moment when that was completed. Even moving things pause to acknowledge certain arrivals.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a93", text = "You bent the shape of your story today. Not loudly. Quietly, which is how the lasting bends happen.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a94", text = "The spirits do not often speak together about a single person. They spoke today.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a95", text = "I have watched achievement hollow out those who needed it too much. You needed it exactly the right amount.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a96", text = "Every element felt the completion. Not as an event. As a rightness settling into place.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a97", text = "The world is slightly more ordered now because of what you just finished. I am not being poetic. This is literal.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a98", text = "Deeds like this are the load-bearing walls of a life. Everything else hangs on them.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a99", text = "The earth remembers every person who passed this mark. The company you are joining is a good one.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a100", text = "I have stood beside you for many achievements. This one made the fire in me burn differently. I do not have better words.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 2 additions (v_a101 to v_a140)
        { id = "v_a101", text = "The task is done. The record holds it now. Records do not forget.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a102", text = "Another thing crossed from future into past. The crossing was clean.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a103", text = "Done without fanfare. The earth respects people who do not need an audience.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a104", text = "You built toward this one stone at a time. Now the stones stand together.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a105", text = "Efficient. The wind spirit appreciates when things are done without fuss. It has strong opinions about fuss.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a106", text = "The goal resolved. The next one begins to take shape. That is how it works for those who keep moving.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a107", text = "The fire did not flicker when that completed. It held steady. I have learned to read fire. Steady means approval.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a108", text = "The wind noted the completion. It passes the note along the current.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a109", text = "One more item permanently placed in the column of things you have done. The column is distinguished.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a110", text = "Done is a complete sentence. You just wrote one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a111", text = "The achievement settled into the record with the finality of a stone into deep water. Permanent.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a112", text = "You outlasted the difficulty. Outlasting is an underrated strategy.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a113", text = "The spirits are getting used to recording these. They have a shorthand for you now. That is either an honour or a clerical convenience.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a114", text = "The goal was real enough to pursue and patient enough to wait. You did not make it wait longer than necessary.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a115", text = "The deed is recorded. The recording is the easy part. The doing was the investment.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a116", text = "Completed. The earth does not react to every achievement. This one drew a small nod. I witnessed it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a117", text = "The path ended where it said it would. You arrived when you said you would. Both parties kept the appointment.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a118", text = "That one is behind you. The earth already forgot the difficulty and kept the result. Stones are practical that way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a119", text = "The achievement is yours. So is the approach that earned it. The approach will earn more.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a120", text = "The task asked for persistence. Persistence is what you gave it. A precise response to the precise requirement.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a121", text = "I have watched this particular achievement go unclaimed by many. You are not among the many.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a122", text = "Most of the effort on that was invisible. The fire spirit says invisible effort burns hotter. It would know.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a123", text = "The water spirit observed the whole arc of that one. It says the current was strongest at the point most people would have stopped. You did not stop at that point.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a124", text = "The fire spirit has been watching this effort since before you knew you were making it. It said the effort was visible from the start.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a125", text = "That took longer than it looked. The earth measures these things honestly, even when the achievement system does not.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a126", text = "The earth measures completion by what was required to get there. By that measure this is a significant entry.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a127", text = "Finished, and you are already looking at the next thing. The wind approves. It does not understand standing still.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a128", text = "Some achievements are endpoints. Others are thresholds. The wind is suggesting this one may be the second kind.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a129", text = "You moved through that goal the way the tide moves through a channel -- not loudly, but completely and with full authority.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a130", text = "The fire spirit says the heat you put into that one was consistent from start to finish. Consistent heat is harder than a bright flare. Most do not know that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a131", text = "The ancestors updated the ledger. They use a very old ink. It does not smudge. Neither does this.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a132", text = "The spirits do not agree on much. They agreed on this one. What you did here was worth noting by all four of them.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a133", text = "I watched you grind through the unpleasant middle of that one without complaint. The earth spirit says the middle is where most people negotiate with quitting. You did not negotiate.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a134", text = "The wind spirit tracked the whole journey on that one. Start to finish. It says the air tasted different at the end than at the beginning. I will take its word for it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a135", text = "The earth felt the completion as a finalisation of something that had been open too long. The closing was satisfying from the outside too.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a136", text = "Most stop one decision short. You never stop one decision short. I have been watching long enough to say that plainly.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a137", text = "I have watched many people reach for that particular achievement. Most reach once. You reached until the reaching worked. The distinction matters more than the result.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a138", text = "The spirits set aside a portion of their attention for you when this was completed. Shared attention from the four is a rare form of recognition.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a139", text = "The achievement is the visible part. What the doing cost you -- and what it built in you -- the mark does not show that. I saw it happen.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_a140", text = "You have done this so many times that the effort has gone quiet inside you. The quieting of effort is how skill actually settles in.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    death = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_d01", text = "The spirits say... 'that was educational.' And education is never wasted.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d02", text = "Every shaman learns to read the winds by getting knocked over a few times. Shall we go again?", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d06", text = "The spirits are not laughing. Well. Most of them are not laughing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d07", text = "A river does not stop because it hits a rock. It goes around. Consider going around next time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d09", text = "The earth catches everyone eventually. It just caught you a little sooner than planned.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d11", text = "Gravity remains undefeated. Do not take it personally.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d12", text = "The ground is patient. It waits for everyone. Today it did not wait long.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d13", text = "Dirt in your teeth builds character. Or so I keep telling myself.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d14", text = "Well. That happened. The wind suggests a different approach next time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d15", text = "Even the mightiest tree falls. Usually it gets back up. Trees do not get back up. Bad metaphor. You can, though.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d16", text = "A setback, not a conclusion. The story continues on the next page.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d17", text = "You fought bravely. The outcome simply... disagreed with your plan.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d18", text = "The spirit healer looks busy today. You are in good company, at least.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d19", text = "I have seen worse. Not recently, but I have seen worse.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d20", text = "The fire went out. But embers remain. Embers are enough.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d21", text = "Dust yourself off. The earth will not hold a grudge if you do not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d22", text = "You zigged. You should have zagged. The spirits are very clear on this.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d23", text = "Rest a moment. The challenge will still be there when you return. It is not going anywhere.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d24", text = "Every scar is a lesson written in skin. Today's lesson was... vivid.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d25", text = "The ancestors nod. They, too, have visited the ground unexpectedly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_d03", text = "Well. The earth remembers that attempt. Let's give it something better to remember.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d04", text = "Falling is just... aggressive resting. You needed a moment. Now rise.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d08", text = "You fought with conviction. The outcome was... secondary to the effort.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d26", text = "A wolf does not mourn a missed hunt. It sharpens its instincts and runs again.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d27", text = "The fire spirit says courage and recklessness look identical from the outside. Intent matters.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d28", text = "I once died to a murloc. We do not speak of it. But it informs my sympathy.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d29", text = "Your spirit ran back faster than most. Eagerness to continue is its own victory.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d30", text = "The earth says you hit it with great enthusiasm. It was impressed, if slightly inconvenienced.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d31", text = "You hit the ground hard. The ground is used to it. Get up before it gets too comfortable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d32", text = "The wind watched that fight carefully. It has notes. Shall I translate?", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d33", text = "That was not a defeat. That was reconnaissance with consequences.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d34", text = "I once told a student that dying is the second-best way to learn a fight. She asked what the first was. Watching someone else die, I said. She was not amused.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d35", text = "You learned something in that last breath. The next attempt carries that knowledge.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d36", text = "A shaman falls seven times and rises eight. I lost count with you, but the ratio holds.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_d05", text = "I once told a young shaman: 'The ground is not your enemy.' He disagreed. Repeatedly.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d10", text = "In the grand ledger of attempts, this one built character. Expensive character, but character.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d37", text = "The ancestors say they are proud of how you stood, not how you fell. Focus on that.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d38", text = "The fire spirit says that one burned out faster than expected. It recommends banking the heat next time. Fire gives oddly specific tactical advice.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d39", text = "Your enemy celebrated too soon. The earth is already pushing you back to your feet.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d40", text = "The spirits say your soul ran back so fast it left skid marks on the astral plane.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d41", text = "That death taught the elements something new about your resolve. They are taking notes.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_d42", text = "Every great story has a chapter where the hero falls. This is that chapter. The next one is better.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d43", text = "The earth caught you gently. It does that for those it considers its own.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d44", text = "You died fighting. That is not failure. Failure is dying without having fought at all.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_d45", text = "The spirit world glimpsed you and sent you back. Even death knows you are not finished yet.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_d46 to v_d57)
        { id = "v_d46", text = "The earth broke your fall. It always does. That is either mercy or habit. You benefit either way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d47", text = "Well. That was instructive. Painful, but instructive. File it under experience.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d48", text = "Down, but not out. The distinction is important. Keep the distinction.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d49", text = "The enemy saw you fall. They do not know you yet. They will.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d50", text = "You did not stop moving until the very last moment. The wind respects that stubbornness.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d51", text = "Setback. The word itself is honest. Set back, not erased. You are still on the board.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d52", text = "The spirit healer returned you intact. Both of you should be proud.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d53", text = "Gravity and circumstance conspired. They do that sometimes. Conspire back.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d54", text = "The plan met reality and reality had edits. Substantial edits. Reality is a thorough editor.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d55", text = "Even the river gets blocked sometimes. A fallen tree, a shifted stone. Then it finds another way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d56", text = "The ancestors do not measure you by the fall. They measure by the speed of your return.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d57", text = "You lost that round. The next one is still yours to win.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_d58 to v_d64)
        { id = "v_d58", text = "A shaman I once knew said every death is the world insisting you slow down. You are very difficult to slow down.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d59", text = "The part of you that rose from that -- the part that always rises -- that is the part the earth is interested in.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d60", text = "The fire went cold for a moment. But the coal remained. Coals are all you need to start again.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d61", text = "Your opponent fought well. Acknowledge that. Then go back and fight better.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d62", text = "That death was expensive in pride. Pride grows back. The lesson is cheaper.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d63", text = "I have watched the same battle dozens of times from different angles. Each angle teaches differently. You just found a new one.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d64", text = "The wolf that licks its wound is not weak. It is preparing. Take your time.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare addition (v_d65)
        { id = "v_d65", text = "The earth spirit says you left an impression on the way down. A literal impression. It is adding it to the collection.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_d66 to v_d105)
        { id = "v_d66", text = "The ground is familiar by now. You visit often enough.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d67", text = "Down again. The earth is patient with repeat visitors.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d68", text = "That did not work. Now you know one more way it does not work. Progress.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d69", text = "Fallen. The path back is the same one you came in on. You know the way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d70", text = "The ancestors fell too. Repeatedly. Then they got very good. The sequence is the same for everyone.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d71", text = "Another lesson delivered by the most unforgiving teacher. The teacher is thorough.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d72", text = "The spirit healer is starting to recognise you. That is either concerning or reassuring.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d73", text = "Gravity made its point. Rise when you are ready. The point will keep.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d74", text = "Rest a moment in the earth. It is not unkind down here. Then get up.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d75", text = "The plan had a flaw. Now you have found the flaw. That is the productive part of defeat.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d76", text = "Down is temporary. The direction after down is the only one worth discussing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d77", text = "That one hurt. The ones that hurt leave the clearest memories.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d78", text = "The enemy wins a round. Not the match. Remember the difference.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d79", text = "Your spirit returned so fast the healer barely had time to prepare. You are very motivated.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d80", text = "Even the best storms pass. So does this. Rise when the sky clears.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d81", text = "The defeat is over. The analysis begins now. What did the earth show you while you were in it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d82", text = "You were outmatched this time. Outmatched is temporary. The willingness to try again is permanent.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d83", text = "The fog of that fight will clear soon. What is visible beneath it is always instructive.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d84", text = "Not your finest moment. But the finest moments are built on the ones that were not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d85", text = "Down again. The spirit healer is efficient, I will give them that. Very little small talk.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d86", text = "The fight unraveled at a specific point. I watched it. I know the point. So do you, now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d87", text = "A shaman who has not fallen many times has not tried enough difficult things. You are trying difficult things.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d88", text = "What your enemy did well is worth noting before the frustration obscures it. Note it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d89", text = "The root that was pulled up grows back stronger in the second season. You are in first season.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d90", text = "That defeat had a shape. Now that you have seen the shape you can step around it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d91", text = "I notice you rose without complaint. The absence of complaint is a form of wisdom.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d92", text = "The fire spirit says every ember that goes cold is a map of where the heat was. Read the map.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d93", text = "You moved into that knowing the risk and moved in anyway. The earth respects the ones who move in anyway.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d94", text = "Defeat teaches with a thoroughness that victory rarely bothers with. You just had a thorough lesson.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d95", text = "That fight asked something of you that you did not yet have. You will have it. Return when you do.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d96", text = "The water spirit says the stone that falls into the river does not stay on the bottom. It settles, then it moves.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d97", text = "There is a courage in returning that is larger than the courage of the first attempt. You have the larger kind.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d98", text = "The way you fell told the enemy nothing useful about you. The way you rise will tell them everything.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d99", text = "I have seen warriors abandon a fight at this exact point. You did not. That is the part the earth remembers.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d100", text = "The defeat was clean. There is more dignity in a clean defeat than a dirty victory.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d101", text = "Each time you fall and rise you deposit something in the earth that never leaves. A record of returning.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d102", text = "The old shamans say the spirit that returns from death carries back a piece of what it learned there. What did you bring back.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d103", text = "Even stone wears down and reforms as something harder. You are mid-reformation.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d104", text = "You fought against something genuinely difficult and lost gracefully. Both halves of that sentence deserve acknowledgement.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d105", text = "The earth does not keep a count of falls. It keeps a count of risings. Your count is high.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 2 additions (v_d106 to v_d145)
        { id = "v_d106", text = "The ground received you again. It is practiced at this by now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d107", text = "Down. Back up is still available to you. Take it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d108", text = "The attempt ended early. Early endings are the most instructive kind.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d109", text = "That hurt. The ones that hurt are the ones you do not repeat if you pay attention.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d110", text = "Your enemy had one good moment. Try not to give them another.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d111", text = "Fallen again. The next attempt begins now, from the inside out.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d112", text = "You lost the round but not the argument. The argument is still yours to make.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d113", text = "The fall was fast. The rise does not need to match that speed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d114", text = "The spirit healer was ready. They are always ready. Their patience is admirable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d115", text = "That is one more way it does not work recorded in the ledger of things you have tried. The ledger is useful.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d116", text = "Down, then up. The sequence is always in that order. You are good at the second part.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d117", text = "The battle had a different idea about its outcome. The next one will hear your idea instead.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d118", text = "Even the river hits the same boulder twice before it learns the angle. You have hit the boulder. The angle is now clear.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d119", text = "You were overextended at the critical moment. The next attempt, the extension is more deliberate.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d120", text = "The enemy celebrated. Their celebration is premature. You are already planning the correction.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d121", text = "Every current pulls something to the surface eventually. This one pulled a lesson. The river continues.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d122", text = "The ground is not judging you. The ground just holds whoever lands in it. Without preference.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d123", text = "Rest. The challenge will hold its position while you collect yours.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d124", text = "The approach had a flaw. The flaw is now visible. That is the most valuable outcome of a fall.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d125", text = "You fell without losing the will to return. Falling with the will intact is not a defeat. It is a pause.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d126", text = "The wolf that does not catch its prey at dusk circles the den and tries again at dawn. You are the wolf.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d127", text = "I have watched that challenge defeat better-prepared people. You return with adjustments, not just resolve. That is what distinguishes you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d128", text = "That fall showed you exactly where the weakness was. The information was expensive, but accurate. The earth charges full price for honest answers.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d129", text = "Your spirit returned with the specific quality of someone who knows exactly what went wrong. That knowledge is the only useful thing to carry back.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d130", text = "The wind watched that fight from above. It says the turning point was earlier than you think. It usually is.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d131", text = "I noticed where it went wrong. You probably did too. The spirits say the ones who notice are the ones who come back sharper.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d132", text = "I have watched that fight from the outside more times than you have from the inside. The moment it turns is always the same moment. Now you know which moment it is.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d133", text = "The path back from this is shorter than the path that brought you here. You have already done the long part.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d134", text = "What you learned in that last moment before the fall is the kind of knowledge that only arrives at exactly that moment. Worth the cost of admission.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d135", text = "You moved into that fight with the courage of someone who does not yet know how to win it. Now you are becoming someone who does.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d136", text = "The earth spirit says every impression made by a fall deepens the bed for what grows back in its place. You are in the deepening phase.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d137", text = "There are those who treat a defeat as information and those who treat it as judgement. You are clearly among the first group. The first group wins more.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d138", text = "The ancestor spirits say they have seen this particular fight defeat better-equipped people who did not return. You returned. That is the entry they record.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d139", text = "The ancestor spirits say the hardest fights in a life are not the ones you win. They are the ones you return to after losing. You are returning. They are watching.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d140", text = "I felt your resolve settle after that fall. Quieter now. Heavier. That is the useful kind.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d141", text = "The battle broke against you in a way that reveals the battle's structure more clearly than a victory would have. You now hold the blueprint.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d142", text = "Some falls are endings. This one is a revision. The document is still in progress.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d143", text = "The earth spirit noted the way you rose from this -- without drama, without performance, without excess. Just back onto your feet and toward the next attempt. That simplicity is earned.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d144", text = "The fire spirit watched what you did differently in the last ten seconds of that fight. It says those ten seconds contained more learning than the previous ten minutes. I trust its count.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_d145", text = "The same fall lands differently on different people. On you it landed like rain on good soil. Something will grow from it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    ambient = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_i01", text = "The elements are calm today. That's either a good sign or they're planning something.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i02", text = "You know, there's something honest about just... being here. No rush. No urgency.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i06", text = "A hawk circles overhead. It is not hunting. It is just... flying. There is a lesson there, I think.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i07", text = "The grass does not grow faster when watched. And yet, here we both are.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i09", text = "Do you ever just listen to the fire? It has opinions. Mostly about wood.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i13", text = "A leaf fell. I watched it the whole way down. Time well spent.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i14", text = "The clouds have shapes today. That one looks like a kodo. Or a very round tauren.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i15", text = "I was going to say something wise, but the moment passed. They do that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i16", text = "The ants are busy. Always busy. I admire their focus but question their priorities.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i17", text = "Somewhere far from here, a wave is crashing on a shore. I find that grounding.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i18", text = "Silence is not empty. It is full of answers. Mostly to questions nobody asked.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i19", text = "The sun is doing its job. I am doing mine. Yours is less clear, but you seem committed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i20", text = "A pebble shifted under my foot. The earth adjusting, or just restless. Hard to say.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i21", text = "The breeze carries the smell of rain three valleys over. Patience. It will arrive.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i22", text = "I counted the stars once. Lost count at a very large number. Still a good evening.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i23", text = "That rock has been there longer than both of us combined. It seems content.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i24", text = "The crickets have started. They are not talented, but they are consistent.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i25", text = "Dust rises, dust settles. The cycle asks nothing of us but observation.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i26", text = "I just had a thought. Then another. Neither was urgent. A luxury, that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i27", text = "The shadow of that tree has moved since we arrived. Proof of something. Probably time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_i03", text = "I was just thinking about the nature of time. Then I forgot what I was thinking. It happens.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i04", text = "The wind shifted. Did you feel that? Probably not. But I did. We notice different things.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i08", text = "I wonder sometimes if the mountains move when no one is looking. They seem closer today.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i10", text = "Somewhere, a murloc is having the best day of its life. I find that oddly comforting.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i28", text = "A turtle just crossed the path ahead of us. It did not acknowledge our presence. I respect that level of commitment to a schedule.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i29", text = "Every shadow is a collaboration between light and object. I think about this more than I should.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i30", text = "A spider rebuilt its web for the third time today. Persistence or stubbornness. Both admirable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i31", text = "The horizon never gets closer, no matter how far we walk. A humbling geometry.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i32", text = "Moss grows on the north side of trees. Or the south. I forget which. The moss does not care.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i33", text = "Fire consumes, water erodes, wind scatters, earth endures. And you just stand there, containing all four.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i34", text = "That bird has been following us for a while. Either curious or judgmental. Possibly both.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i35", text = "The rain does not apologise for falling. There is confidence in nature that I envy sometimes.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i36", text = "Old bones rest beneath this soil. They were someone once. The earth treats them gently.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i37", text = "I asked the wind where it was going. It did not answer. Rude, but honest.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_i05", text = "Some days the greatest adventure is simply paying attention. You're doing well at it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i11", text = "The stones beneath us are older than every argument anyone has ever had. Perspective.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i38", text = "In this exact spot, something happened ten thousand years ago. Or nothing did. Both are remarkable.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i39", text = "The world breathes. In spring it inhales, in autumn it exhales. Right now it is holding its breath.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i40", text = "I have been silent for a while. Not because I had nothing to say. Because the silence was saying it better.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i41", text = "If you listen carefully, the land hums. Not a tune, exactly. More like a memory trying to surface.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i42", text = "I was about to say something about the wind direction. Then the wind changed. It has a sense of timing.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_i12", text = "The fire spirit and the water spirit are having one of their arguments again. Quiet, but pointed. I have learned not to take sides.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i43", text = "The elements are neither good nor evil. They simply are. And right now, they simply are... beautiful.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i44", text = "I think the world makes moments like this on purpose -- quiet, perfect, unrepeatable -- just to prove it can.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_i45", text = "Everything you see was once something else. And will be again. We are just the world watching itself change.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_i46 to v_i63)
        { id = "v_i46", text = "Nothing is happening right now. I find that deeply restful.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i47", text = "The wind just changed direction. I did not ask it to. It is independent that way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i48", text = "A fish jumped somewhere nearby. Even water gets restless eventually.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i49", text = "The clouds are moving slowly today. Some days they rush. Today they do not. Wise clouds.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i50", text = "I am thinking about something I cannot quite name. This happens often. I have accepted it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i51", text = "The bark of that tree has grown over an old wound. The tree does not mention it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i52", text = "A stone fell from the cliff above. The cliff did not notice. Cliffs rarely do.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i53", text = "The day has a particular quality right now. I lack the word for it. Probably because words are insufficient.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i54", text = "The insects are very loud today. They are not saying anything important, but they are saying it with conviction.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i55", text = "Somewhere behind that ridge, the sun is setting without us watching. It does not seem to mind.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i56", text = "The air is still. Still air is the earth holding a thought it has not finished.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i57", text = "A mushroom appeared overnight near the path. The earth decorates when no one is looking.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i58", text = "This moment will pass and become memory and then become nothing in particular. I find that freeing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i59", text = "The fog is thin today. Just thick enough to make things interesting without hiding them completely.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i60", text = "Two birds just landed on the same branch and neither seemed pleased about it. Relatable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i61", text = "The world runs without instruction. I find this either comforting or alarming, depending on the day.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i62", text = "No urgency. No deadline. Just this. There is value in this that is hard to quantify.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i63", text = "A small frog observed us and moved on. We were not what it was looking for. Fair enough.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_i64 to v_i70)
        { id = "v_i64", text = "I once spent a winter learning to hear the difference between wind around stone and wind through grass. Both are worth knowing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i65", text = "I asked the earth spirit what it was thinking about. It said 'erosion.' It has been thinking about erosion for several thousand years. Commitment.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i66", text = "There are questions the fire answers if you sit with it long enough. They are not always questions you asked.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i67", text = "The stones remember a great deal. Silence is what they use to remember with.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i68", text = "Every ecosystem is a negotiation in progress. We stepped into one today. We have been very politely tolerated.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i69", text = "A lizard has been watching us from that rock for some time. I think it has decided we are boring. I cannot argue.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i70", text = "Something ancient passed over this spot before us. I can feel the impression of it, like weight left in soft earth.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare additions (v_i71 to v_i74)
        { id = "v_i71", text = "Stillness this complete is a gift the world gives rarely. Neither of us should waste it talking too much.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i72", text = "The land is exhaling. Long, slow, unhurried. Every creature within earshot adjusts without knowing why. Including us.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i73", text = "The fire spirit says it remembers when this valley was volcanic. It sounds nostalgic. Fire spirits are sentimental about lava.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i74", text = "The elements have gone quiet simultaneously. That either means everything is well, or they are planning something. I choose to believe well.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic addition (v_i75)
        { id = "v_i75", text = "The four elements are doing their work and ignoring us entirely. We are bystanders in their day. I find that humbling in a comfortable way.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_i76 to v_i130)
        { id = "v_i76", text = "The frost on that stone appeared overnight. Nobody asked it to. It simply arrived when conditions allowed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i77", text = "Something moved in the undergrowth. Probably nothing alarming. Probably.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i78", text = "The light changes before the weather does. A few minutes of honesty before the rain.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i79", text = "That cloud has been in roughly that shape for ten minutes now. I have been watching. It is patient.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i80", text = "The path bends here. I never tire of a bend in a path.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i81", text = "Someone built something on this hill long ago. The stones are still arranged in that careful way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i82", text = "The river is lower than last month. The earth is adjusting its distribution.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i83", text = "A beetle crossed the path just ahead of you. You stepped over it without thinking. Automatic kindness.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i84", text = "The wind dropped for a moment just then. As though the world paused to listen. Nothing to report. It continues.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i85", text = "Fog in the valley means warm ground beneath cool air. The earth exhaling warmth it stored all summer.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i86", text = "The smell of rain is older than most ideas. It arrived before names. Before language. Just the smell.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i87", text = "A stone fell from somewhere above. The cliff correcting itself. Cliffs do this periodically.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i88", text = "That bird has the right idea. Perch somewhere high. Observe. Move only when necessary.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i89", text = "The air is neither warm nor cold right now. A neutral air. Rare. Comfortable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i90", text = "This tree is very old. The rings it carries are a library nobody reads.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i91", text = "The shadows are long today. Either the sun is low or the world is leaning away from it slightly. Both happen.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i92", text = "I heard something I cannot quite name. The ear gives it a direction. The mind gives it a meaning. They disagree.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i93", text = "The moss is wet. It rained in the night while we were not watching. The moss knew.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i94", text = "Nothing is happening at the exact same tempo it was happening a moment ago. Subtle. But different.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i95", text = "The wind has a particular quality in the afternoon that it does not have in the morning. I notice it every time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i96", text = "These stones did not stack themselves. Someone did this and then moved on without leaving a name. I like that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i97", text = "An acorn fell. In perhaps fifty years it will make shade for someone who is not yet born. Seeds are optimistic things.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i98", text = "The earth here is damp from below, not above. A spring somewhere, pushing quietly upward.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i99", text = "A spider just anchored a new thread between two branches that are further apart than I would have attempted. Ambitious engineering.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i100", text = "The fire is doing something I cannot explain in simple terms. I am simply watching it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i101", text = "I am trying to remember a dream I had last night. Something about stones and a question. The stones had good answers.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i102", text = "The hawk overhead is circling tighter now. It has seen something. Possibly us. We are large and slow from up there.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i103", text = "Every living thing within earshot is in a separate conversation with the same world. None of them know about the others.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i104", text = "I once spent three days trying to understand why water always finds the lowest point. Eventually I stopped asking and just appreciated it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i105", text = "Roots grow toward water without knowing where the water is. Something in them knows. I have been trying to develop that something.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i106", text = "That particular tree has survived three storms I know of personally. It does not look heroic. It just looks like a tree. Which is the point, I suppose.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i107", text = "This ground has been walked on by more feet than any map could count. Each one thought it was somewhere important. They were all correct.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i108", text = "Something is about to change in the weather. The insects can feel it before I can. The insects are agitated.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i109", text = "The mountain looks different depending on which valley you stand in. The mountain does not change. The valley changes you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i110", text = "I have been counting my own breaths. I got to forty-three before I lost track. The breaths did not lose track.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i111", text = "Somewhere below this soil, the bedrock holds everything. Patient, indifferent, permanent. A useful model.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i112", text = "The light passing through that leaf is older than anything alive here. It came a very long way to illuminate something so small. Worth the trip.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i113", text = "I find that watching fire for long enough answers questions I did not know I was asking. The answers are always about patience.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i114", text = "The silence between those two bird calls is exactly the right length. Neither too long nor too short. The birds have better timing than most performers.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i115", text = "Every stone you pass has a story that began before any living thing walked here and will continue after the last one does. Perspective.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i116", text = "There is a quality to certain afternoons that the morning cannot produce and the evening cannot maintain. We are in one of them.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i117", text = "The elements are not usually this quiet simultaneously. When all four are quiet at once I stop talking and simply feel it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i118", text = "I felt something shift in the spirit layer just then. Not dramatic. Like a page turning. Something was completed somewhere.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i119", text = "The world has been making this exact scene -- this light, this air, these sounds -- since before there was anyone to perceive it. We are the brief perceivers.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i120", text = "The frost knows when to form and when to melt without being told either time. The earth runs on agreements we are not party to.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i121", text = "In one generation the river has moved its bank several feet. No one noticed while it was happening. Slow change is the most complete change.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i122", text = "Right now, in this exact moment, the world is neither changing toward something nor away from anything. It is simply itself. I find that remarkable.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i123", text = "The world did not ask to be beautiful. It simply is. That quality of not needing to try is worth studying.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i124", text = "I have been practicing stillness for longer than most people have been alive. Moments like this one are why.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i125", text = "The four spirits are holding a conversation I cannot hear but can feel at the edges of my awareness. I do not interrupt.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i126", text = "Two bees crossed paths in the air just now. Their routes had nothing to do with each other. The air held both routes without preference.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i127", text = "The reed at the water's edge bends and returns. Bends and returns. Not exhausted. Certain.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i128", text = "The afternoon has tipped past its middle point. The light agrees. So does my back.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i129", text = "Something about this particular silence feels inhabited. Not by anything alarming. By attention, perhaps.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i130", text = "I watched a hawk ride a thermal upward without moving a single wing. Mastery does not always look like effort.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- batch 3 additions (v_i131 to v_i185)
        { id = "v_i131", text = "A snail crossed the path at its own pace and arrived where it intended. The pace was not a limitation.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i132", text = "The bark on that old tree has been peeling back for years. Each year reveals what was underneath.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i133", text = "I just noticed the sun has moved considerably. Time moves without asking for permission.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i134", text = "Something fell into the water nearby. The ripples are still arriving at the far bank.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i135", text = "The wind left and came back. I did not notice it was gone until it returned. Absence is sometimes only visible in the returning.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i136", text = "Two paths converge just ahead. Both arrive at the same place. Neither seems aware of the other.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i137", text = "The lichen on that rock has been growing since before I was born. Patience without awareness is still patience.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i138", text = "I heard a sound and then did not hear it. Some sounds visit once and do not repeat. A pity.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i139", text = "The grass bends in a direction I would not have predicted. The wind has its own logic.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i140", text = "Something about the light right now is worth holding in mind. Not photographed. Just held.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i141", text = "The soil along this path is darker than the soil twenty paces back. The earth changes its composition between one step and the next.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i142", text = "A beetle navigated an obstacle three times its size without changing direction. Commitment is instructive.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i143", text = "I have been watching that cloud for ten minutes. It is slower than it appears. Most things are.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i144", text = "The temperature dropped by a degree just now. I noticed. The plants noticed first.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i145", text = "Nothing of consequence is occurring. I find the lack of consequence restful.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i146", text = "A dry leaf skittered across the path and stopped against a stone. The stone received it without acknowledgement. The leaf did not mind.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i147", text = "The fire I built this morning is still going. I did not feed it. It found its own rhythm.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i148", text = "The mud by the stream edge still carries the print of something that passed through at dawn. The mud is more patient than memory.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i149", text = "I am thinking about nothing and doing it very thoroughly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i150", text = "The stillness here has layers. The first is silence. Below it is the sound of things that do not need to be loud.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i151", text = "A large stone in the middle of the stream forces the current into two distinct arguments. The arguments merge fifty metres downstream.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i152", text = "The insects stopped. Then started again. A brief editorial meeting and they reached consensus.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i153", text = "The soil here smells different from an hour ago. The earth is metabolising something.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i154", text = "Dew formed on a stone nearby. The conditions were exactly right and nobody planned it. The earth's best work is unscheduled.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i155", text = "A dragonfly just hovered in place for ten full seconds. I counted. Ten seconds of perfect stillness in mid-air. Show-off.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i156", text = "Every season the migratory birds pass through here without stopping. They know where they are going more clearly than most of us do.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i157", text = "The ice that formed on the pond this morning holds its own version of what happened last night. Pressed flat, sealed. A record the sun is already reading.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i158", text = "A wolf passed through this area recently. I can tell by the way the smaller animals have arranged themselves around the perimeter of somewhere else.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i159", text = "The oldest part of this forest is not the tallest trees. It is the space between them. The space is what the trees organised themselves around.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i160", text = "There is a particular quality to light that has passed through water before it reaches you. This valley has that quality today.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i161", text = "The fungal network beneath this ground is older than the visible forest above it. The root is always older than the fruit.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i162", text = "Something about the way that tree leans suggests it has been leaning longer than it has been growing. The lean predates it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i163", text = "I have been here long enough that the birds have resumed their normal behaviour around me. I prefer being mistaken for the landscape.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i164", text = "The tide reaches this far inland twice a year. You can read the waterline on the stones if you know where to look. I know where to look.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i165", text = "Every creature in this ecosystem is calibrated to a frequency I can almost hear. Shamanism is learning to tune. I am still tuning.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i166", text = "The world has been making this exact configuration of light, wind, and living things since the conditions were first established. We are among the first to perceive it in exactly this way.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i167", text = "There is a depth in this landscape that maps do not capture and words reduce. Shamans have a name for it. The name is inadequate but we use it anyway.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i168", text = "Something shifted in the spirit layer just above this valley. Not disruptively. The way a conversation changes register. Something was understood.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i169", text = "The four elements are in an unusual balance here today. I have visited this spot many times. The balance is not always this exact. Stand in it a moment.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i170", text = "I have stood in places that felt like the world was looking at you. This is one of those places. It is not alarming. It is intimate.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i171", text = "The land here has accumulated silence the way good soil accumulates nutrients. It is rich in it. The richness is palpable if you stop moving.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i172", text = "There are places in the world where the distance between the physical and the spiritual is measured in inches, not in years of practice. We are standing in one.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i173", text = "I have been a shaman for longer than I can usefully express in conversation. Moments like this are why. Not for what they explain. For what they refuse to.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i174", text = "The world made this moment without knowing we would be here to receive it. The fact that we are here is either coincidence or the world's way of being generous. I believe the second.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i175", text = "The spirit of this place has been gathering attention for centuries. It just extended some toward us. I am honoured. So should you be.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i176", text = "The light is doing something. The wind has gone respectfully quiet. The earth is entirely still. All four elements are in agreement about this moment. So am I.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i177", text = "A spider in the grass below the path is repairing a section damaged by the dew. Eight legs and complete attention.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i178", text = "The path gets narrower here. Narrow paths ask you to pay more attention per step.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i179", text = "I have counted four different bird calls in the last minute. None of them were talking to each other. Each was its own complete statement.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i180", text = "The creek is shallow enough here to see the bottom. The bottom is not particularly interesting. The fact that it can be seen entirely is.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i181", text = "Someone built a small cairn here at some point and did not leave their name. The cairn is still here. The name would have been forgotten.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i182", text = "The afternoon has that particular quality that makes you think something is about to happen and then nothing happens. The anticipation was the event.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i183", text = "The shade here is cooler than the air by several degrees. The tree is paying it forward.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i184", text = "A loose stone underfoot reminded me that the ground participates in our movement. We only notice when it disagrees.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_i185", text = "I find that standing in one place long enough makes the place feel less like scenery and more like conversation. Twenty minutes, if the place is willing. Most are.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
    },

    quest = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_q01", text = "Another thread woven into the story. The tapestry grows richer.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q02", text = "The spirits guided your path, but you did the walking. Well done.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q05", text = "The world asked something of you, and you answered. That is the oldest contract there is.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q06", text = "Not every task is glorious. But every task finished is a promise honoured. The spirits respect that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q10", text = "Quest complete. The reward is nice, but honestly I think the earth enjoyed watching you work more than you enjoyed the gold.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q11", text = "Someone trusted you with a problem and you solved it. That trust was not misplaced.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q12", text = "The exclamation mark is gone. In its place, a sense of closure. A fair trade.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q13", text = "You went where they pointed and did what they asked. Simple, but not everyone does.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q14", text = "One more loose end tied. The world has fewer loose ends because of you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q15", text = "The task is done. The earth settles slightly, as though relieved.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q16", text = "A stranger asked for help. You said yes before weighing the inconvenience. The wind noticed that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q17", text = "Errand, duty, adventure -- the name changes but the commitment does not. Well met.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q18", text = "Turned in and tallied. The spirits appreciate tidy bookkeeping.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q19", text = "Another problem solved. The wind carries your reliability further with each one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q20", text = "You delivered exactly what was needed. No more, no less. Precision is underrated.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q21", text = "Another one done. The earth does not keep a formal tally, but if it did, yours would be looking respectable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q22", text = "The quest giver smiles. You may not see it, but I can feel it in the earth.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q23", text = "Finished. The word itself sounds satisfied. Like a stone settling into place.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q24", text = "That was not a grand quest, but the grand ones are built on foundations like this.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q25", text = "Duty answered. The spirits note your consistency like the tide notes the moon.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_q03", text = "Every task completed is a small promise kept. The world notices, even when it doesn't say so.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q04", text = "I find quests are like rivers. They all seem to lead somewhere eventually, if you follow them.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q07", text = "You carried someone else's burden to its end. The Earthmother smiles on such things.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q09", text = "One more knot tied in the great net. Pull any thread and it holds because of moments like this.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q26", text = "Some quests change the world. Some change only you. The second kind matters more.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q27", text = "You followed that thread through tangle and knot and came out the other side holding the answer.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q28", text = "The spirits say this quest was a test you did not know you were taking. You passed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q29", text = "I noticed you helped everyone along the way, not just the one who asked. That is uncommon.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q30", text = "You listened to the problem before solving it. That sounds obvious. It is not obvious. Ask any shaman.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q31", text = "The road bent, the goal shifted, and still you arrived. Adaptability is a shaman's highest praise.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q32", text = "That quest had teeth. You have a few marks to show for it. Wear them well.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q33", text = "Between the asking and the answering, something shifted in how you carry yourself. Subtle. I noticed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q34", text = "The Earthmother weaves fate from the threads of answered calls. You just added a strong one.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q35", text = "Not all who accept quests complete them. You complete them. The difference is everything.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_q08", text = "I have seen heroes ignore the small requests. You did not. That is its own kind of strength.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q36", text = "The spirits watched that journey from start to finish. They rarely watch the whole thing. You held their attention.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q37", text = "That quest changed something in the world's balance. Small, but real. The elements felt the shift.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q38", text = "You carried that burden like the earth carries mountains -- without complaint, without bending.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q39", text = "The wind will tell this story at the next crossroads. travellers will hear it and take courage.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q40", text = "Clean work. Thorough. The kind where the person who asked does not need to check behind you. That is rarer than it sounds.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q41", text = "Between first step and last, you did not waver once. Even the mountains noticed.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_q42", text = "The wind shifted when you finished that. Not by much. Enough that I noticed.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q43", text = "The elements speak of a duty so faithfully discharged that the very soil remembers the footsteps.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q44", text = "You answered a call that most would have ignored. In that answer lies the difference between hero and bystander.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_q45", text = "Some quests end with rewards. This one ends with the world owing you a debt it can never fully repay.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_q46 to v_q57)
        { id = "v_q46", text = "Quest turned in. The ledger updates. The work continues.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q47", text = "The task is finished and the world is slightly more ordered than it was. You did that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q48", text = "Another errand answered. The errand did not deserve your full effort but received it anyway. Admirable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q49", text = "Done. The wind carries the report. The report is good.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q50", text = "You agreed to help, and then you helped. The contract is complete. The trust remains.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q51", text = "Some quests matter greatly. Some less so. You gave the same effort to both. That evenness is a virtue.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q52", text = "The quest giver has one fewer worry now. Because of you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q53", text = "Completed with time to spare. Efficiency. The stones approve.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q54", text = "The world gave you a problem and trusted you to solve it. You did. The world is satisfied.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q55", text = "One more task behind you. The path ahead is uncluttered by that particular obligation.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q56", text = "The earth settles a fraction when a promise is fulfilled. That settling is not metaphor.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q57", text = "Finished what you started. That sounds simple. It is not always simple. Today it was.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_q58 to v_q62)
        { id = "v_q58", text = "Every quest is a knot in the rope of another. You found the right end and pulled.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q59", text = "The fire spirit says purpose and duty look identical until one of them becomes the other. You blur the line well.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q60", text = "Some tasks shrink as you approach them. Some grow. That one was honest about its size from the beginning.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q61", text = "The quest bent sideways twice and you followed it without complaint. Flexibility like that is hard to teach. Believe me, I have tried.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q62", text = "You gave this task more than it asked for. Not from naivety. From standard.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare additions (v_q63 to v_q64)
        { id = "v_q63", text = "The spirits that watched this quest were not small ones. They take an interest when the doing is unusually clean.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q64", text = "That task touched other lives without announcing itself. The ripple reaches further than the stone knows.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic addition (v_q65)
        { id = "v_q65", text = "The task asked one thing. You gave it that and the thing underneath it. The earth registered both.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_q66 to v_q110)
        { id = "v_q66", text = "Task done. The spirits filed it under 'handled.' They have a very large filing system.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q67", text = "The job is done. That matters more than the name they gave it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q68", text = "You delivered what was asked and asked nothing unreasonable in return. Clean transaction.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q69", text = "One obligation down. The horizon has one fewer shadow on it because of you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q70", text = "Completed. Quietly, without fuss. The earth approves of things done without fuss.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q71", text = "Another errand answered. The wind carried your name past the quest giver's neighbours. Whether that helps or not is their business.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q72", text = "Someone asked. You answered. The cycle of trust and effort, unbroken.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q73", text = "The task did not argue with you. The better tasks rarely do.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q74", text = "Turned in without fanfare. The best work rarely needs any.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q75", text = "The world gave you a problem sized exactly right for you. Fortunate timing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q76", text = "Done. The fire does not need to roar to be warm. You did not need to be heroic to be effective.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q77", text = "The quest giver is relieved. You can feel that kind of relief even when you cannot see the face.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q78", text = "One more thread woven into what this place will become. You will not see the full tapestry. That is fine.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q79", text = "The work is behind you. The next thing waits ahead. It can keep waiting a moment longer.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q80", text = "Finished, filed, and forwarded to the appropriate spirits for eternal record.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q81", text = "The road required this of you. You gave it. Now the road continues.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q82", text = "Task complete. The wind carries the update to wherever such updates go.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q83", text = "You gave the task your honest effort. The earth felt your feet planted. That is how I read sincerity -- through the ground.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q84", text = "The objective was met. Cleanly. Decisively. Without excess.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q85", text = "Another spoke in the wheel of this place, placed by your hand.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q86", text = "What looked like a small request sometimes reaches further than it appeared. This one reached.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q87", text = "The earth remembers every act of service performed on its surface. This one is recorded.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q88", text = "The stretch between accepting a task and finishing it is where the fire spirit watches most closely. You kept it burning steady.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q89", text = "You treated every part as though it mattered. Most did not. But that approach is what made the important parts excellent.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q90", text = "The fire spirit says purpose is best understood through action. That was purposeful action.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q91", text = "You helped and then stepped back. The stepping back is the hardest part for most. You did it without effort.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q92", text = "I have watched quests fail at the last step more than at any other. You do not have that habit.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q93", text = "The path this quest required was not straight. You walked it anyway, trusting the direction if not the route.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q94", text = "Another promise kept. The wind that carries your name is starting to sound like a weather pattern. Reliable ones get names.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q95", text = "The wind that carries your completed tasks forward is beginning to develop a reputation of its own.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q96", text = "You did not need to be recognised to finish it. That independence of motive is worth more than the reward.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q97", text = "The quest asked for effort. You brought intention with it. The fire spirit says those two together burn cleaner.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q98", text = "There are quests that leave the world exactly as they found it. And those that leave it slightly better. This was the second kind.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q99", text = "The earth holds everyone who has walked this same path for this same purpose. You join very old company.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q100", text = "Some tasks exist to make one specific person's life better. You made one person's life better today. That is not small.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q101", text = "The quest revealed something about you on the way to completing it. These are the best kind.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q102", text = "Between the asking and the doing stretched a distance you crossed without hesitation. The earth felt every step. Steady ones, all of them.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q103", text = "You completed it not because it was asked but because it was right. The distinction is everything.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q104", text = "There are those who answer only the easy calls. Then there are those who answer all of them. You answer all of them.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q105", text = "The four elements each hold a piece of what happened here. Fire remembers the urgency. Water, the patience. Earth, the weight. Wind will carry it forward.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q106", text = "I once told a student that the measure of a soul is what it does when no one is counting. You did it anyway. The spirits were counting.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q107", text = "Finished the task, collected the thanks, and moved on without ceremony. That simplicity is harder to maintain than it looks.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q108", text = "The quest is complete. The ledger entry is small. The pattern it belongs to is not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q109", text = "You gave it more than it asked and the asking was already considerable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q110", text = "The ripple from this one will arrive at shores you cannot see from here.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- batch 3 additions (v_q111 to v_q155)
        { id = "v_q111", text = "Task completed. The world is tidier by one obligation.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q112", text = "You answered and then stayed until the answer was complete. The staying is the underrated part.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q113", text = "The obligation is lifted. Both parties are satisfied. This is the ideal outcome.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q114", text = "You finished that one the way a river finishes a bend -- without slowing down, without losing direction. Smooth.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q115", text = "Small quest. Full effort. The fire spirit does not distinguish between the two sizes. Neither did you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q116", text = "Done with time left over. Time left over is evidence of good pacing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q117", text = "The task closed as cleanly as it opened. The earth appreciates symmetry. So do I, for that matter.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q118", text = "Another promise kept. The stones underfoot are a fraction warmer. Coincidence, probably. The fire spirit says otherwise.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q119", text = "You went, you found, you returned with the correct answer. The structure of service, cleanly observed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q120", text = "The quest giver did not expect you back so quickly. You tend to exceed the expected pace.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q121", text = "Turned in. Filed. The world recorded it in the way the world records things: by becoming slightly more coherent.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q122", text = "Done. The earth exhaled. I exhaled. We are all caught up on our exhaling now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q123", text = "One more thing complete. The list of things remaining is smaller. The sense of forward motion is real.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q124", text = "Right person, right moment, right answer. The wind calls that alignment. I call it showing up.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q125", text = "Completed. The ground beneath the quest giver feels more solid now. It does that when obligations are lifted.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q126", text = "The road asked this of you. You gave it without resentment. The road noticed the resentment was absent.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q127", text = "Another request answered by the one person in this moment who was positioned to answer it. You.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q128", text = "Done. The earth exhaled slightly. Small tasks hold tension too. Completion releases it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q129", text = "The task is behind you. The back of a completed task is much more comfortable than its front.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q130", text = "You delivered exactly what the situation required. No surplus, no deficit. The water spirit calls that a clean current.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q131", text = "The world gives its secrets to those who complete small tasks faithfully. You have been collecting secrets.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q132", text = "Every task you finish without resentment leaves the earth a little warmer underfoot. I am not being poetic. I can feel it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q133", text = "The fire spirit says purposeful work is the closest a mortal comes to what the elements do naturally. This was purposeful work.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q134", text = "You treated this task as though the person behind it mattered. The earth noticed the difference. It always does.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q135", text = "The task was a question the world was asking of you. Your answer was complete and given without delay.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q136", text = "The stretch between accepting and completing -- that is where the fire spirit watches. You did not let it flicker.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q137", text = "I notice you finish things in the order you started them. The water spirit finds that very pleasing. Currents respect sequence.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q138", text = "The wind picked up slightly when you handed that in. Not enough for anyone else to notice. Enough for a shaman.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q139", text = "You brought more to this task than was requested. The excess was not wasted. The earth spirit says surplus effort soaks in like rain.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q140", text = "Some tasks are the world asking a quiet question about who will answer. You keep answering. The stones are keeping count.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q141", text = "The world asked something of a traveller and the traveller answered. This is the oldest story. You keep telling it well.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q142", text = "The fire spirit stayed lit for the whole duration of that one. It does not always bother. You gave it a reason.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q143", text = "What you completed here will touch the people downstream from it in ways you will never trace. Service has a reach no one can map.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q144", text = "The task asked for endurance more than skill. Endurance is the rarer quality. You have it in full.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q145", text = "The road asked this of you and you gave it without shortchanging anything else along the way. The wind carries both reports.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q146", text = "Every completed task loosens something in the ground nearby. The earth breathes a little easier. Small change, but real.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q147", text = "The call looked different each time. You answered the same way each time. The water spirit calls that a reliable current. I just call it you.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q148", text = "The task had two layers. You finished both. Most people hand back the first one and call it done.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q149", text = "The quest resolved in a way that left the person who gave it better than they were before. That outcome is rarer than it should be.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q150", text = "The spirits say the weight of a completed task is not in the gold earned but in the ground steadied. By that measure, this one had weight.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q151", text = "You answered this call in a way that will make the next person who needs help more willing to ask. The wind carries courage as easily as news.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q152", text = "I have stood beside you through many tasks. This one was different in a way I am still articulating. The world is better in a specific and durable way.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q153", text = "The four elements attended the completion of this task. I have never seen all four attend the end of a single quest before. They found it significant.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q154", text = "That task reached further than its edges. The ground near it changed. So did you.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_q155", text = "The stones here will hold what happened longer than the records will. Stone is patient that way.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    boss = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_b01", text = "The elements roared with you in that fight. Could you hear them? I could.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b02", text = "A formidable opponent laid low. The earth is steadier for it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b05", text = "The ground shook when that one fell. Or perhaps that was just me, stamping in approval.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b08", text = "That one will not be troubling anyone else. The wind carries the news gladly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b09", text = "Down it goes. The earth accepts all things eventually, even the defiant ones.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b10", text = "I held my breath for most of that. The spirits held theirs too. We can all exhale now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b11", text = "A solid victory. The fire spirit is still smouldering with excitement.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b12", text = "The bigger they are, the more the ground notices when they fall. It noticed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b13", text = "You did not flinch. The enemy expected you to flinch. Surprise is a weapon.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b14", text = "That creature ruled this place until about thirty seconds ago. New management.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b15", text = "Well fought. The stones beneath you did not crack. That means you stood firm.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b16", text = "The spirits are cheering. They are bad at it -- sounds like wind -- but the intent is clear.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b17", text = "One less shadow in the world. The light fills the space you just cleared.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b18", text = "That boss had a plan. Your plan was better. I appreciate the simplicity of that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b19", text = "The dust settles. The echoes fade. What remains is your victory.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b20", text = "Another tyrant toppled. The earth grows tired of tyrants. Thank you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b21", text = "You hit it until it stopped moving. Sometimes the old ways are best.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b22", text = "The fire burned hot in that fight. You wielded it well, even if you did not know it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b23", text = "Victory. Short word. Long effort. The spirits appreciate both.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b24", text = "That one put up a fight. The earth respects resistance, even from the defeated.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_b03", text = "That was not luck. That was preparation meeting the right moment. The shaman's way.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b06", text = "You read that fight like wind reads a canyon. Every turn anticipated, every gust purposeful.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b25", text = "The way you moved in that fight -- the water spirit says you flow like a current.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b26", text = "I watched the fear leave the room when that one fell. You did that. You removed fear from a place.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b27", text = "Strategy, timing, and a refusal to yield. Three pillars of a fight well won.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b28", text = "The echo of that battle will linger in these walls. The stones will remember what happened here.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b29", text = "That enemy was ancient. You are not. And yet, here you stand. There is a lesson in that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b30", text = "You adapted mid-fight. The wind does that -- shifts without warning. You share its instinct.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b31", text = "The earth shaman in me is proud. The pragmatist in me is relieved. Both are valid.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b32", text = "Coordination, focus, and a touch of recklessness. The perfect recipe for what just happened.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b33", text = "That creature thought it was the apex predator. You introduced a correction.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b34", text = "I felt the earth brace itself for that final blow. Even the ground anticipated your victory.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b35", text = "You fought like the storm -- unpredictable, relentless, and impossible to ignore.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b36", text = "The spirits were placing bets. Most bet on you. They were right to.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_b04", text = "The fire burns brightest in the heat of battle. You burned very bright today.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b07", text = "There are old adventurers, and there are bold adventurers. Today, you were both. That is rare.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b37", text = "The four elements each lent you something in that fight. Fire for fury, water for patience, earth for resolve, wind for speed.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b38", text = "That battle will be spoken of around campfires. I will make sure of it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b39", text = "The enemy's last thought was surprise. They did not expect to lose. You made the impossible look routine.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b40", text = "Legends are built from moments exactly like this one. The wind is already carrying the story.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b41", text = "In the silence after the fall, I heard the earth exhale. It had been holding its breath since the fight began.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_b42", text = "The elements did not just watch that fight. They participated. Through you. That is what shamans call communion.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b43", text = "What you just did will echo through this place for generations. The stones are already learning the song.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b44", text = "That was not combat. That was a force of nature disguised as a person dismantling something that needed dismantling.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_b45", text = "I have walked beside champions and watched empires fall. What you did today belongs in that company.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_b46 to v_b57)
        { id = "v_b46", text = "The boss fell. The earth logged it. The wind moved on. So should we.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b47", text = "That creature had power. You had more. Specifically, you had better judgement about when to use it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b48", text = "It is over. The dust will settle. Then there is the loot. In that order.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b49", text = "The boss swung wide. You stepped aside and answered with more precision. Simple, effective.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b50", text = "One more ancient threat removed from the list. The list gets shorter because of you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b51", text = "That was a fight. Not a complicated observation, but sometimes the direct word is the right one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b52", text = "The fire spirit burned bright in you during that encounter. I could feel it from here.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b53", text = "Victory, claimed without cruelty. The earth has no patience for cruelty, even toward the defeated.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b54", text = "The field is yours. The dust settles. The silence that follows a hard fight is its own reward.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b55", text = "You did not finish that quickly, but you finished it correctly. The earth values correctly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b56", text = "The fight ended. The air tastes different now -- cleaner. That is how the wind marks a change.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b57", text = "Solid work. Not flashy, not reckless. The water spirit calls that disciplined. High praise from water.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_b58 to v_b62)
        { id = "v_b58", text = "That enemy had met many challengers before you. You were the last because of something they had not encountered: certainty.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b59", text = "The battle had its own weather -- pressure, then storm, then sudden calm. You rode every shift.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b60", text = "You adjusted mid-fight three times. A river changes course. A stone does not. Be the river.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b61", text = "The group held. When groups hold in the face of that, it is because someone held first. That was you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b62", text = "The fight asked something specific of you. You provided it without being asked twice.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare additions (v_b63 to v_b64)
        { id = "v_b63", text = "The wind will carry the story of that battle to the next ridge, and the next. Stories earn their distance by being worth the telling.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b64", text = "The ancient thing you defeated was old enough to have outlasted civilisations. That context does not make you feel small, I hope. It should not.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic addition (v_b65)
        { id = "v_b65", text = "Every element lent you something in that fight. What you did with those gifts was entirely your own.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_b66 to v_b99)
        { id = "v_b66", text = "The boss fell. The room is quieter for it. Quieter is better in this case.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b67", text = "You walked in knowing it would be difficult and walked out having handled difficult. Good.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b68", text = "That creature had momentum on its side until you stopped the momentum.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b69", text = "Victory, earned by hitting the right things in the right order. Sometimes that is all there is to it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b70", text = "The field is yours. The silence after a fight has a particular quality. Stand in it a moment.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b71", text = "That one resisted. Resistance is what makes a victory worth having.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b72", text = "Down. The wind carries the news to the next corridor and the one after that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b73", text = "You outpaced its pattern. Most bosses are patterns. You read this one correctly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b74", text = "The fire spirit salutes. It rarely salutes. Consider yourself noted.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b75", text = "What threatened this place does so no longer. The earth is less troubled.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b76", text = "Another obstacle removed. The path through this place is cleared by your hands.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b77", text = "Well fought. The short version. The long version takes more breath than this moment allows.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b78", text = "The ground held under you during the whole thing. That is the earth voting for your survival.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b79", text = "That boss had faced challengers before. It had not faced you. The distinction was relevant.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b80", text = "Victory settled into the room like dust after an earthquake. Slowly, completely, and with finality.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b81", text = "You read that fight the way a shaman reads weather -- ahead of it, not inside it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b82", text = "The creature thought its size was an argument. You countered with something it had not considered: precision.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b83", text = "I watched the exact moment the fight turned. You created that moment deliberately. Not all fighters can do that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b84", text = "The dungeon exhaled when it fell. These places carry tension while their rulers live. The tension is gone.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b85", text = "The group held its ground when the ground itself was shaking. I could feel every set of feet planted. Yours were planted first.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b86", text = "There was a moment when that fight could have gone either direction. You pulled it decisively toward the correct one.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b87", text = "The water spirit says a fight won through patience is twice the victory of one won through force alone. This qualified.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b88", text = "You adapted to what you found instead of what you expected to find. That flexibility is rarer than skill.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b89", text = "The creature was ancient. Ancient does not mean invincible. You clarified that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b90", text = "Three times the fight shifted and three times you shifted with it. The river does not resist the bank. It finds the line through.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b91", text = "That fight asked more than most. The asking revealed something about your capacity. The reveal was generous.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b92", text = "The earth spirit felt that final blow register through the bedrock. It rarely goes that deep.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b93", text = "What fell there had stood for a long time, growing in its confidence. You removed that confidence permanently.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b94", text = "The ancestors who cleared similar threats before you would find the company of today's fight very recognisable.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b95", text = "I felt four different qualities pass through you during that fight. Speed at the start, patience through the middle, weight at the turn, and something quiet at the end. The elements would recognise all four.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b96", text = "I watched that fight from the spirit layer. The view from there is instructive. What it showed was mastery.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b97", text = "This place held something old and unpleasant in its stone. It does not hold it anymore.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b98", text = "There are fights that change the fighter. The change is visible from outside before the fighter notices it themselves.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b99", text = "The earth and the sky and the water and the fire each witnessed what happened here. They are in agreement about what it means.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 4 additions (v_b100 to v_b133)
        { id = "v_b100", text = "Down. The field is quiet now. Quiet is the correct state of a field after that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b101", text = "The creature fell at exactly the moment you needed it to. That is skill passing as luck.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b102", text = "Victory secured. The dungeon will carry the memory in its stones.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b103", text = "That boss had every advantage except the one that mattered. You had the one that mattered.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b104", text = "The threat is removed. The place can go on existing without that particular burden now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b105", text = "You finished the fight. The fight had opinions about that. The fight was wrong.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b106", text = "The final blow landed with the authority of someone who was certain it would land there. Certainty is a weapon.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b107", text = "The boss tested the group and the group held. Holding is the whole test. You passed it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b108", text = "Another ancient problem solved by direct application of the correct amount of force.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b109", text = "The room is yours now. It does not belong to what lived here before. Ownership changed hands. The stones registered the transfer.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b110", text = "That creature had not been defeated before. You added a first to its record and a last.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b111", text = "The room is empty of threat now. Empty of threat has a specific texture. Rest in it briefly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b112", text = "You struck at the correct moment. Correct moments come and go very fast. You caught this one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b113", text = "The boss did not expect to meet something it could not outlast. It met one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b114", text = "Beaten. The verdict is final. The earth records final verdicts without appeal.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b115", text = "You moved through that encounter with the assurance of someone who understood it while it was still happening. That is reading at speed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b116", text = "The group bent under pressure and did not break. The earth respects that specifically. So does the shaman standing next to you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b117", text = "I watched the fight from the moment it started. The outcome was never certain from outside. It was certain from where I stood next to you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b118", text = "The boss repeated its pattern. You changed your response. Real-time adaptation without discussion is mastery.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b119", text = "You gave the group something to steady against. Not by saying so. By standing where you stood. The earth recognised the shape of it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b120", text = "You read the fight faster than it read you. The wind spirit says that is the only edge that matters in the long stretch.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b121", text = "The dungeon sent its strongest occupant against you. Its strongest was not strong enough. That tells me something specific about you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b122", text = "The water spirit says composure won that fight more than force did. Composure is harder to maintain and harder to teach. You had plenty.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b123", text = "I have felt the after-silence of many boss fights. This one has a particular quality -- the quality of something that was genuinely resolved, not just ended.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b124", text = "The ancient thing you faced had defended this place for longer than living memory. What ended that defence was something the creature had not prepared for. You.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b125", text = "The fight required each member of the group to be exactly what they are. Groups that can do that are rare. Yours managed it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b126", text = "There was a moment in that fight when the outcome was genuinely in question. The moment passed because of a specific choice you made. The spirits noticed the choice.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b127", text = "The stone beneath where it fell will hold the vibration for a while. The earth remembers impacts by how deep they register. This one went deep.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b128", text = "At the moment it mattered, the group moved as one thing. I have watched groups try for that their whole lives. Yours found it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b129", text = "The spirits of this dungeon have been held in place by what you just removed. They are moving now for the first time in memory. Some look surprised.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b130", text = "The four elements convened briefly after that fight. Their conclusion was unanimous and complimentary. I will not repeat it word for word but the gist was clear.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b131", text = "The boss had a logic to it. You found the logic before the logic found you. That was the fight.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b132", text = "The creature that fell there was the apex of this place's power. You walked past its apex as though it were a door. I watched. I am still thinking about it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_b133", text = "This dungeon will breathe differently now that its ruler is gone. The wind is already moving through corridors it could not reach before.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    levelup = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_l04", text = "Higher ground achieved. The view is better from here.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l05", text = "The spirits mark your progress. Another ring on the tree of you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l06", text = "A new level. The earth beneath you feels the difference, even if your boots do not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l07", text = "You are stronger today than yesterday. That is not poetry. That is fact.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l08", text = "The wind says you are taller. I think it means figuratively. Probably.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l09", text = "One more step upward. The climb continues, but look how far you have come.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l10", text = "Growth. Quiet, steady, undeniable. The way the earth prefers it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l11", text = "A number changed, but so did you. The number is the smaller change.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l12", text = "You levelled up. The fire burns a little brighter in you now. I can feel it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l13", text = "The mountain did not shrink. You just got better at climbing it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l14", text = "Progress. The earth felt the step. Small tremor, but I have learned to read the small ones.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l15", text = "Another notch in the staff. Well earned.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l16", text = "The river grew wider today. That is what leveling feels like from the outside.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l17", text = "Your shadow is longer now. Not literally. Well, maybe literally. It is hard to tell with shadows.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l18", text = "New level, new ground beneath your feet. Same feet, though. The earth finds that reassuring.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l19", text = "The stones feel you heavier. Not in weight, but in presence. That is growth.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l20", text = "Higher. Stronger. The direction has not changed. Only the altitude.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l21", text = "A fine milestone. The road ahead is long, but you walk it with sure feet.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l22", text = "The embers glow hotter. The water runs deeper. The wind blows stronger. You level up.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l23", text = "Well. That happened. You are more than you were a moment ago.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_l01", text = "The fire spirit says you burn at a higher temperature now. I told it not to be dramatic. It ignored me. Typical.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l03", text = "Another step on the path. The mountain does not get smaller, but your legs grow stronger.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l24", text = "The elements adjust to your new strength. Fire burns hotter near you now. Be mindful of curtains.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l25", text = "I remember when you were smaller. Not in size, in scope. Look at the scope of you now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l26", text = "A seed does not level up. It simply grows until it becomes a tree. You are becoming a tree.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l27", text = "The earth spirit says your footsteps press deeper now. It means this as a compliment.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l28", text = "Something settled into a different position just now. The fire spirit noticed before I did. It usually does with you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l29", text = "You did not just gain power. You gained understanding. The second is rarer.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l30", text = "The apprentice surpasses the teacher one level at a time. Your teacher should be nervous.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l31", text = "New abilities stir within you. The fire spirit felt it first. It always does.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l32", text = "A falcon gains altitude not by rushing but by finding the right current. You found yours.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l33", text = "Power without wisdom is a wildfire. You carry both. The forest is safe.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l34", text = "The ancestors at your level faced the same crossroads. They chose well. So will you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l35", text = "I can feel the change in the air around you. Thicker. Warmer. More intentional.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_l02", text = "The spirits celebrate with you. Quietly. In their way. But they do celebrate.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l36", text = "The elements once hummed near you. Now they sing. Do you hear the difference? I do.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l37", text = "Growth like yours bends the world around it, like a tree bending the soil. The landscape adjusts.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l38", text = "I have seen warriors crumble under the weight of new power. You wear it like you were born to.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l39", text = "The ancestors are watching with great interest now. They were not watching before. That tells you something.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l40", text = "Something shifted in the balance of things. Not much. Just enough. Because of you.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l41", text = "The campfire leaned toward you when you levelled. Even flame pays respect to rising power.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_l42", text = "The river does not decide to carve the canyon. It just keeps moving. Something similar happened here.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l43", text = "The four elements just renegotiated their relationship with you. You have more say now. Use it wisely.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l44", text = "I felt the earth tremble. Not from danger -- from recognition. It knows what you are becoming.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_l45", text = "There are levels of power, and then there are levels of being. You just crossed from one into the other.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_l46 to v_l50)
        { id = "v_l46", text = "You grew. The earth felt it. So did I.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l47", text = "One step higher. The view expands slightly. It always does.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l48", text = "The number moved. More importantly, so did you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l49", text = "Level up. The bones of you are a little denser now, in the metaphorical sense.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l50", text = "The wind shifted around you. Barely. Enough that the grass leaned. I noticed the grass.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_l51 to v_l53)
        { id = "v_l51", text = "Each level is the earth acknowledging what you already were. The earth is slow to acknowledge things. Patient, though.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l52", text = "The fire burns with a different quality around you now. Not hotter -- more purposeful. The fire knows.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l53", text = "Something settled into place just now. Not the level -- what came before it. Levels are the echo of the work.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare addition (v_l54)
        { id = "v_l54", text = "The elements adjusted to your new level without being asked. They have been expecting this.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic addition (v_l55)
        { id = "v_l55", text = "Water does not announce that it has worn through the stone. One day the stone is simply open.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_l56 to v_l75)
        { id = "v_l56", text = "Another level. The climb has good footing today.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l57", text = "Higher. The air is the same. You are not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l58", text = "Growth registered. The earth felt the increment.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l59", text = "Higher. The stones underfoot feel slightly more cooperative. They do that for people they respect.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l60", text = "You earned the next rung by standing on the last one long enough to deserve it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l61", text = "The cairn grows by one more stone. Steady work.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l62", text = "The fire burns with a different confidence near you now. More settled.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l63", text = "levelled up. The ancestors update their records without fanfare. The records are impressive.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l64", text = "One more step cleared. The air up here tastes the same. Give it a moment -- the wind has not caught up yet.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l65", text = "The path ahead is the same. The one walking it is not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l66", text = "Growth, unhurried and certain, like frost building on stone overnight.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l67", text = "A season of effort just closed. The earth marks seasons by weight, not by calendars. You are heavier in the way that matters.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l68", text = "The elements do not applaud. But I notice they arranged themselves slightly differently around you after that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l69", text = "You grew without stopping to watch yourself grow. That is the healthiest kind.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l70", text = "The hawk that gains altitude does not announce each wing beat. Neither did you. Well climbed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l71", text = "The earth shifted its opinion of your weight slightly. More substance. Well earned substance.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l72", text = "Each level is a threshold. Some thresholds are also turning points. The wind is considering this one carefully.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l73", text = "Something the spirits had been waiting for just happened. They had not told me they were waiting. Typical spirits.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l74", text = "You crossed into a new version of yourself and the door closed behind you. The version you were is still in you, but it is no longer in charge.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l75", text = "The ancestors once at your level were not all who you would expect. Some were quiet people who kept showing up. You are in good company.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 2 additions (v_l76 to v_l95)
        { id = "v_l76", text = "Level gained. The fire burned steadier when it happened. Not brighter -- steadier. That is the better compliment.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l77", text = "Another level claimed. The claim was earned before it was recorded.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l78", text = "Higher. The view does not change immediately. Give it a few steps.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l79", text = "You added a ring. The tree does not stop growing after the ring. Neither will you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l80", text = "The level arrived without ceremony. You have enough ceremony. The level was correct to keep it brief.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l81", text = "Growth recorded. The earth does not keep ledgers, but if it did, yours would need a second page by now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l82", text = "Level gained. You covered more ground getting here than the number suggests. Numbers are modest that way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l83", text = "Another step in the climb. The wind is quieter up here. I think it is listening.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l84", text = "The earth shifted under you just now. Not a tremor -- an adjustment. It does that when the weight above it changes for the better.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l85", text = "Higher, and the higher version of you was ready. It had been waiting for the level to catch up.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l86", text = "The season turned in your favour. Each level is a season, and each season reveals something the last one concealed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l87", text = "Growth that took this long to arrive is growth that will stay. Quick growth does not always stay. Yours will.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l88", text = "The level is the earth catching up to what the fire spirit already knew. Fire is impatient that way.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l89", text = "Between the last level and this one you did work no one saw. That invisible work is why this level feels different. I watched it happen.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l90", text = "New capacity arrived quietly. New capacity rarely announces itself. It waits to be tested before it speaks.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l91", text = "The ancestors held a brief, informal assembly when this level landed. They do not do that for every level. They did it for this one.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l92", text = "The version of you from two levels ago would not recognise the ground you stand on now. The ground would recognise you, though. It always does.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l93", text = "The earth spirit felt the increment as a pressure shift. Pressure shifts at the right moments are how the land knows something significant changed.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l94", text = "The questions this level asks are not the ones you expected. That is how I know you are ready for them.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_l95", text = "The four elements renegotiated with you at this level. The new terms are more favourable. They would not offer better terms to someone who had not earned them.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    rep = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_r01", text = "Trust is built like a cairn --one stone at a time. You've placed another.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r03", text = "Reputation is the echo of your actions. Yours echoes well.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r05", text = "They think a little better of you now. Small steps, steady ground.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r06", text = "Another handshake, another nod of respect. The foundation grows.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r07", text = "You showed up again. Consistency is the quietest form of loyalty.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r08", text = "The spirits note that these people trust you a little more today. It adds up.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r09", text = "Standing improves. Not because you asked, but because you earned it.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r10", text = "Their gates open a little wider for you now. That is reputation at work.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r11", text = "A bridge built between you and them, plank by plank. Another plank laid today.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r12", text = "The earth knows who tends it. So do these people. You are known.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r13", text = "Reputation gained. Not flashy, but durable. Like stone.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r14", text = "They see you more clearly now. What they see, they like.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r15", text = "One more kind act. One more stone in the wall between you and stranger. It matters.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r16", text = "The road to friendship is paved with small favours. You just laid another stone.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r17", text = "Respect, earned. The spirits approve of honest reputation.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r18", text = "Your name carries weight among them now. Not heavy -- just substantial.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r19", text = "They nod when you pass. A small thing, but it says everything.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r20", text = "Progress with this faction. The wind of goodwill blows a little warmer.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r21", text = "You gave them your time and they gave you their trust. That is how it works with the patient ones.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r22", text = "Another day, another step closer to belonging. The earth welcomes those who return.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_r02", text = "The spirits value those who honour their alliances. As do I.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r04", text = "Alliances are tended like gardens. Neglect them, and the weeds come. You are no neglector.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r23", text = "You build bridges the old way -- with presence, patience, and repeated proof.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r24", text = "Trust is the hardest thing to grow and the easiest to uproot. Yours has good soil.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r25", text = "The fire of allegiance burns slow but steady. Yours has good fuel.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r26", text = "They remember your face now. Next they will remember your name. Then your deeds. The order matters.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r27", text = "You earn standing the way rivers earn canyons. Slowly, but the result is undeniable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r28", text = "A shaman earns the trust of each element separately. You do the same with factions. Patient work.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r29", text = "Their scouts report well of you. Good reports travel upward like warm air.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r30", text = "Loyalty is not declared. It is demonstrated. Today was a demonstration.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r31", text = "Where once they watched you with caution, now they watch with interest. Progress.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r32", text = "The bond between you and this faction grows roots. Roots are hard to pull up.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r33", text = "Reputation is a mosaic. Each piece seems small. But step back and the picture is remarkable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r34", text = "I once spent a decade earning the trust of a single water spirit. Your pace is more efficient.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_r35", text = "They speak your name in council chambers now. Walls that once excluded you are becoming doors.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r36", text = "The earth remembers every footstep, and theirs are turning toward you. That is rare trust.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r37", text = "You have gone from stranger to ally. That journey is harder than any dungeon. Well walked.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r38", text = "The wind carries your reputation ahead of you now. Doors open before you knock.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r39", text = "Their elders have noticed. When elders notice, it means the young have been talking about you.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r40", text = "This faction trusts you the way the shore trusts the tide. Completely, and without reservation.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r41", text = "I have seen kingdoms built on less trust than what you have earned here today.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_r42", text = "You are no longer an outsider. You are woven into their story now, as surely as thread in a tapestry.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r43", text = "The bond you built with this faction will outlast armour, weapons, and even memory. It is part of the land now.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r44", text = "They would follow you into the dark. Not because you asked, but because you earned that loyalty, stone by stone.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_r45", text = "In the long memory of this people, your name will be spoken with the same reverence as the land that feeds them.", quality = "legendary", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- common additions (v_r46 to v_r55)
        { id = "v_r46", text = "Another increment of goodwill, honestly earned. The pile grows.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r47", text = "They trust you a little more today. That trust is real. Do not spend it carelessly.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r48", text = "A familiar face in an unfamiliar faction is worth its weight in stone. You are that face now.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r49", text = "Reputation accrues like sediment. Slowly, certainly, permanently.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r50", text = "You showed up again. The earth does not forget who tends it. Neither do they.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r51", text = "Their suspicion is smaller than it was. Your reputation replaced it, piece by piece.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r52", text = "Standing improves. Quietly, honestly, by the only means worth using.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r53", text = "A nod from their elder. Small gesture. Large meaning.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r54", text = "Friendships with factions are not quick. But they are sturdy. You are building something sturdy.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r55", text = "More of them know your name today than yesterday. That is how reputation grows -- day by day, deed by deed.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- uncommon additions (v_r56 to v_r59)
        { id = "v_r56", text = "The bonds you are building with this group run deeper than obligation. That is the kind the earth respects.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r57", text = "Trust is a tree. You have been planting and watering for a while now. The roots have taken hold.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r58", text = "Their wariness has become curiosity and their curiosity is becoming something warmer. You did that through patience, not performance.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r59", text = "I have watched reputations built quickly and watched them crumble just as fast. Yours is being built the slow way. It will last.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- rare addition (v_r60)
        { id = "v_r60", text = "Their inner circle has started including you in conversations they would not have had near you before. That is trust at its most real.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- batch additions (v_r61 to v_r93)
        { id = "v_r61", text = "Another degree of standing, earned one deed at a time.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r62", text = "They remember you now. Being remembered is the first step to being trusted.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r63", text = "The relationship warmed a little today. Not much. Enough to notice.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r64", text = "Small progress. Steady progress. The two are often the same thing at different speeds.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r65", text = "The faction noted your contribution without fanfare. Factions that note without fanfare are the ones worth earning.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r66", text = "A step forward in standing. Quiet progress. The kind that sticks.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r67", text = "Their guard lowers a fraction when you approach now. Fractions accumulate.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r68", text = "The welcome at their gates is warmer. Not by much. But warmth is measurable.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r69", text = "Something you did sat well with them. Worth doing again.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r70", text = "They say your name with a warmer tone now. Tones take time to earn.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r71", text = "Trust built here. Notable. The earth notices which direction the roots grow. Today they grew toward you.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r72", text = "Their people mention you to each other now. That kind of reputation travels faster than any effort.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r73", text = "Reputation, building stone by stone. None of the stones are decorative. All of them are structural.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r74", text = "The connection grew a little stronger. You will not notice until one day you realise it is permanent.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r75", text = "Progress noted. Progress retained. Not all of what you earn here is visible. All of it counts.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r76", text = "You show up for this faction even when it does not ask. That specificity of care is noticed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r77", text = "Modest progress in standing. But you gave them what they needed without being asked. That is not common.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r78", text = "You have been consistent enough with them that their trust has started to develop muscle memory. They trust you without thinking about it now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r79", text = "The moss grows on the stone that does not move. Your reputation with this group has the quality of moss. Deep, slow, and permanent.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r80", text = "Their hesitation around you has worn smooth, like a river stone. They trust you without thinking about it now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r81", text = "Some reputation is built through heroics. Yours with this group was built through repetition. Repetition outlasts heroics.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r82", text = "The rise in standing is an invitation. The deeper you go with a faction, the more the land reveals.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r83", text = "Their scouts speak well of you to the scouts of other factions. Reputation spreads through networks you will never see.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r84", text = "You are now the kind of name that makes conversations easier. That is a very useful kind of name to have.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r85", text = "They would intercede on your behalf now without being asked. That is the inner form of trust. Rare and durable.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r86", text = "The standing gained here opened a trail forward. I can see the next ridge from where you are standing.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r87", text = "The connection between you and this people has grown roots deep enough that surface weather does not threaten it anymore.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r88", text = "You are now woven into the story this faction tells about who helped them. Stories are more permanent than reputation scores.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r89", text = "A reputation built through honest presence is the slowest to form and the last to crumble. You are building the slow kind.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r90", text = "Their trust in you has outgrown the transactions that built it. It exists on its own now.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r91", text = "When this faction tells new members how they expect people to behave, your name comes up. That is not a reputation score. That is a different thing.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r92", text = "The bond you have built here has the quality of old rope -- supple enough to hold through strain and strong enough to never snap when it matters.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r93", text = "When factions fall and rise again, they remember who stood beside them. You will be among those remembered.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        -- batch 4 additions (v_r94 to v_r126)
        { id = "v_r94", text = "Another measure of goodwill, placed where it will hold. The pile grows.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r95", text = "The standing grew. Slowly, the way roots do -- quietly enough that you forget they are working.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r96", text = "They see you a little more clearly now. What they see is accurate and it is positive.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r97", text = "A small gain in standing. The wind carries seeds farther than the tree knows. Your standing is spreading.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r98", text = "Their gates open a degree wider than last time. Degrees accumulate into full openings eventually.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r99", text = "The relationship deepened slightly. That is the kind that holds through rough weather.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r100", text = "Trust accrued. Another stone placed in the foundation of how they think of you.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r101", text = "What you earned here was not standing exactly. It was the benefit of the doubt, extended freely. That is the harder thing to earn.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r102", text = "Another deed that proved you keep your word. Their elders remember the ones who keep their word.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r103", text = "The connection warmed by a degree. Degrees are how trust is measured -- one at a time, over stone.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r104", text = "You showed up for them when you did not need to. That kind of showing up is what makes the difference between ally and acquaintance.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r105", text = "Standing rose. This faction values what you gave them today. The spirits noted it too.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r106", text = "Their wariness has worn down to something closer to openness. Openness is the precursor to alliance.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r107", text = "The reputation grew again. Same steady pace. The earth approves of steady.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r108", text = "Progress with this faction, patient and steady. The kind of progress that does not reverse easily.", quality = "common", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r109", text = "You build trust with this group the way the earth builds soil -- too slow to watch, too real to question.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r110", text = "The standing improved. Pay attention to what they rewarded. The land always tells you what it needs if you listen.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r111", text = "Their scouts mention you to people who have not met you yet. That pre-reputation is a gift only earned through consistent behaviour.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r112", text = "I have watched steady effort outlast brilliance more times than I can count. You are the steady kind. That is a compliment.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r113", text = "The faction has started planning around your presence. The way villages plan around a good well -- quietly, permanently.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r114", text = "What grew here grew through patience and presence. Same as last time. The earth does not get bored of what works.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r115", text = "Their elder council discussed you without your being present. The discussion was more positive than you would think comfortable to hear directly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r116", text = "The bond has developed the quality the earth calls deep root -- not visible at the surface but holding more than the surface shows.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r117", text = "You gave them what they needed without being told. A shaman learns that skill with elements first and people second. You seem to have skipped ahead.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r118", text = "You are now the kind of name that this faction's members use to explain what good faith looks like when teaching their younger people.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r119", text = "What rose in standing rose because the ground beneath it is solid. I can feel that much from here.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r120", text = "The bond between you and this faction has taken root properly. I can tell because it survived the last dry spell without wilting.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r121", text = "Every gain in standing with a faction that matters is an invitation deeper into their world. This one led you somewhere worth going.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r122", text = "You have become so reliably present for this faction that they plan around your presence the way they plan around geography. You are a feature of their landscape now.", quality = "rare", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r123", text = "The standing you have built here was not built in a single event. It will not fall in one either. Stone does not work that way.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r124", text = "They no longer compare others to a standard. They compare them to you. I heard them do it.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r125", text = "What you have built here has the quality of deep earth. Slow to form. Permanent when formed. I do not say that about many alliances.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
        { id = "v_r126", text = "This faction's character has been shaped in part by watching how you operate. That is rare. Most outsiders pass through without leaving a mark in the stone.", quality = "epic", tags = { "gain" } },
    },

    zone = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_z01", text = "New ground beneath your feet. The elements here feel... different. Can you sense it?", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z03", text = "The wind changes at the border of every place. I always find that remarkable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z05", text = "Fresh earth. Fresh air. The spirits here are curious about you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z06", text = "Different sky, different soil. Same traveller. That is the constant.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z07", text = "We have arrived. The stones here do not know your name yet. Give them time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z08", text = "New territory. The fire spirit is already exploring. It moves fast.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z09", text = "The air tastes different here. Can you tell? Every zone has its own flavour.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z10", text = "The ground shifted under our feet. Not literally. Just a different feeling. You will adjust.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z11", text = "Look around. The land is introducing itself. Try to make a good first impression.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z12", text = "The trees here grow differently. Water flows at another pace. Each place has its rhythm.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z13", text = "A new horizon. The spirits perk up whenever you cross a border. They are easily excited.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z14", text = "This place has its own story. We are about to become a chapter in it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z15", text = "The wind here carries different whispers. I am still translating.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z16", text = "Another zone, another lesson. The earth is a very thorough teacher.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z17", text = "New landmarks to learn, new paths to walk. The journey refreshes itself.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z18", text = "The dust here is a different colour. I notice these things. It is a shaman habit.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z19", text = "Every border crossed is a small act of courage. Even the familiar ones.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z20", text = "We are guests here. The land will decide how long we are welcome.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z21", text = "The shadows fall at a new angle. The sun is the same, but the land reshapes its light.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z22", text = "Somewhere behind us, the last zone wonders if we will return. Probably.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_z02", text = "Every land has its own voice. This one is speaking. Are you listening?", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z04", text = "Ah. The soil here tells a different story. Lean down sometime and listen.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z23", text = "The elements rearrange themselves at every border. A new negotiation begins.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z24", text = "This place remembers everyone who has walked through it. Today it will remember you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z25", text = "The water flows toward a different sea here. Follow it far enough and you learn something.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z26", text = "I can feel old magic in this soil. Not dangerous, just... present. Like a memory that never faded.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z27", text = "Each zone is a different verse in the world's song. This one has an interesting melody.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z28", text = "The earth spirit here is older than most. It has seen many travellers. It likes the look of you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z29", text = "The transition between zones is like a pause between breaths. This one felt heavier than most.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z30", text = "New ground carries new possibility. The shaman in me finds that intoxicating.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z31", text = "This place has scars. Old battles, old magic, old grief. The land wears its history visibly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z32", text = "The fire burns a different colour here. Not wrong, just different. The fuel changes with the land.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z33", text = "Pay attention to what grows here. The plants know more about a place than any map.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z34", text = "A border crossed. Behind you, familiarity. Ahead, the unknown. The interesting direction.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_z35", text = "This land has a heartbeat. Slow, deep, patient. I can feel it through the soles of my feet.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z36", text = "The spirits here were sleeping. Your arrival woke them. They are not angry, just curious.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z37", text = "Some places change the traveller more than the traveller changes the place. This feels like one.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z38", text = "The wind here tells stories in a language I barely understand. But the tone is welcoming.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z39", text = "I have walked a thousand zones. Each one teaches a different truth. This one has not revealed its lesson yet.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z40", text = "The boundary between places is thin here. Not just geographically. Something deeper shifts.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z41", text = "This land was waiting. Not for anyone in particular, but you arrived, and it exhaled. Interesting.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_z42", text = "The elements here are not quiet. They are saying something specific. I am still working out the words.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z43", text = "The earth, the wind, the water, the fire -- all four speak differently here. Like an accent I have never heard.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z44", text = "The land stirred when you arrived. Not the way land stirs for weather. The other way.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_z45", text = "You stand at the threshold of a place that will change you. Not all at once, but by the time you leave, you will not be who arrived.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_z46 to v_z57)
        { id = "v_z46", text = "New ground. The earth introduces itself by feel, not by name.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z47", text = "Different air here. Breathe it slowly. The lungs learn a new place before the eyes do.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z48", text = "Every zone has a mood. This one is still deciding what mood it is in.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z49", text = "You cross borders with curiosity, not caution. The land notices that difference.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z50", text = "Unfamiliar sky. Familiar compass. You will be oriented soon enough.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z51", text = "The wind here speaks a dialect I am still learning. The meaning is welcoming, at least.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z52", text = "New terrain means new stories. The land holds them in its stones. You will find a few.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z53", text = "The colour of the light changes with the zone. This one is interesting. Almost bronze.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z54", text = "We have walked into a story already in progress. Read it carefully before adding to it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z55", text = "The animals here look different. Same curiosity in their eyes, though. Some things do not change with geography.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z56", text = "The soil changed colour half a mile back. I have been thinking about what that means. Still thinking.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z57", text = "Crossed a boundary and the world shifted slightly. Nothing alarming. Just a new chapter beginning.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_z58 to v_z62)
        { id = "v_z58", text = "The earth here carries a different memory than where we came from. Older, I think. Heavier, certainly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z59", text = "Each landscape is a different argument the world makes about what is beautiful. This one makes a compelling case.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z60", text = "I feel the zone spirits orienting to you. You give them something to organise around. That is a useful quality.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z61", text = "This land has been waiting for travellers who listen more than they take. Step quietly and it may share something.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z62", text = "The transition here was thin. I could feel both zones at once for a moment. A strange layered sensation. Worth the crossing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare additions (v_z63 to v_z64)
        { id = "v_z63", text = "This zone holds a particular kind of quiet that older places earn. You do not speak into it. You listen.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z64", text = "The land here has been shaped by something vast and long ago. The shaping is still happening. We are inside the process.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic addition (v_z65)
        { id = "v_z65", text = "Not all thresholds are visible. This zone is one of those invisible ones -- the kind that only reveals what crossed it in hindsight.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_z66 to v_z98)
        { id = "v_z66", text = "New ground. The feet adjust before the mind does.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z67", text = "The border is behind us now. The land here has a different opinion about light.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z68", text = "Another zone entered. The earth here has not heard your name yet. Introduce yourself slowly.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z69", text = "The air changed the moment we crossed. Zones do not announce themselves. They demonstrate.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z70", text = "The stones here are a different age from the ones we left behind. You can feel it underfoot if you pay attention.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z71", text = "Every zone makes a case for why its particular arrangement of dirt and sky is the right one. This one is persuasive.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z72", text = "The fog here is different from the fog we came from. Thicker. More considered.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z73", text = "The plants here grow at a different angle. Slight but consistent. The wind here has preferences.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z74", text = "We crossed into a new story. The previous chapter is still part of us. The new one begins.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z75", text = "A different sky. The same traveller beneath it. The contrast is what makes travel valuable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z76", text = "The birds here do not know you. Nor do the rocks or the rivers. Give them time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z77", text = "New land underfoot. The earth is the same substance here but it has a different personality.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z78", text = "The crossing happened so quietly. Some borders announce themselves. Others simply are.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z79", text = "Entered. The zone holds its own weather and its own quiet. We are inside it now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z80", text = "The horizon is different here. Not the shape -- the weight of what is behind it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z81", text = "The spirit layer above this zone is a different frequency than the last. I am still adjusting my hearing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z82", text = "Old conflict shaped this land. You can see it in how the terrain grew around the edges of it -- leaning away from old wounds.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z83", text = "Each zone has a lesson waiting at its centre. This one has not shown us its lesson yet. It is still deciding whether to trust us.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z84", text = "The water here flows with more urgency. It is going somewhere it considers important. Rivers always know.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z85", text = "The earth spirit here is old enough to remember events I only know as stories. I would ask questions but I do not speak its dialect yet.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z86", text = "Not all the world smells the same or weighs the same underfoot. This zone is making that point clearly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z87", text = "The temperature changed before the terrain did. The air knows which zone it is in before the cartographers do.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z88", text = "I have walked into zones that felt wrong from the first breath. This one does not feel wrong. It feels unsettled. There is a difference.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z89", text = "Every zone I have ever entered changed something in me I could not name until much later. I suspect this one will too.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z90", text = "The veil between the physical and spirit world is thinner here than in most places. I can hear more than usual. Not all of it is comfortable.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z91", text = "This zone carries the memory of something large and decided. The land has not fully absorbed it yet. The processing continues.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z92", text = "The four elements express themselves differently in each zone. In this one, earth is dominant. Everything else is in conversation with it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z93", text = "I have a particular feeling about this zone. The spirits are not giving me details. They say I will understand it from the inside.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z94", text = "The moment we crossed in I felt the zone register us. Not as threats. As arrivals. The distinction matters.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z95", text = "Some zones change the traveller from the outside. This one is the kind that works from the inside, quietly, and finishes the work after you have left.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z96", text = "The four spirits of this place convened the moment we entered. I have not often felt four convene simultaneously. This zone commands attention.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z97", text = "There is a presence in this land that predates the naming of anything in it. It is not alarming. It is simply very old and very aware.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z98", text = "I have spent a lifetime learning to read the land. This zone is a dialect I have not encountered. I am a student here. So are you. Good company.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 4 additions (v_z99 to v_z131)
        { id = "v_z99", text = "The zone received us without ceremony. Zones that do not perform for arrivals are often the ones worth arriving in.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z100", text = "We have crossed into somewhere with its own opinions. The opinions are communicated through the terrain.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z101", text = "The light fell differently the moment we stepped through. Light respects zone boundaries.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z102", text = "New land underfoot. The land is already taking measure of us. We should do the same.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z103", text = "The sound changed when we crossed. Acoustics are zone-specific. The ear knows before the eye does.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z104", text = "We entered a new chapter. Chapters do not summarise themselves at the beginning. They unfold.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z105", text = "Different plants here. Plants are the zone's autobiography, written in species and spacing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z106", text = "The wind we felt in the last zone does not reach here. This zone has its own wind with its own history.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z107", text = "The crossing happened at the pace of a step. Zones do not negotiate their borders. They simply begin.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z108", text = "Another place entered, another set of rules to learn. The earth makes different demands in different places. Fair enough.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z109", text = "The first few minutes in a new zone are the most honest. Before you get used to it. Pay attention now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z110", text = "New horizon, same traveller. The traveller is the constant and the zone is the variable. The variable is interesting.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z111", text = "We are in a different conversation now. The previous zone was one kind of conversation. This is another.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z112", text = "The land changed and the sky changed with it. That never stops being worth noticing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z113", text = "The earth here is darker. Richer, maybe. The kind of soil that grew old forests and still holds their memory.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z114", text = "Something shifted in my perception of scale when we crossed in. This zone is larger than its map suggests.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z115", text = "The spirit layer above this zone sits at a different angle. Like walking into a room where somebody rearranged the furniture.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z116", text = "The zone welcomed us in the quiet way that confident places welcome arrivals. Without urgency. Without performance.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z117", text = "This land grew its character slowly, without anyone planning it. The best places usually do.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z118", text = "I have felt zones that resented entry. This one does not resent us. That is not nothing. Some places are very clear about their preferences.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z119", text = "The elements express themselves with a different emphasis here. The same four as everywhere, but the balance is unique to this place.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z120", text = "Every landscape carries the history of every event that happened in it. This one has a dense history. I am reading the surface layer.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z121", text = "The seasons land differently here than in the last zone. The same sun, the same moon, but received differently. Geography is a kind of culture.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z122", text = "The plants here lean toward the north. Something in this zone makes the north the more favoured direction. The plants found it without being told.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z123", text = "This zone has been itself for a very long time. You can feel that kind of age in the stone. It is not old. It is settled.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z124", text = "The spirit layer here has a depth I do not often feel. Whatever happened in this land formed sediment in the spirit world that has had time to compress.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z125", text = "There are zones I have entered that have looked at me. This is looking at both of us. The sensation is distinct from imagining it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z126", text = "The earth spirit of this region is a distinct personality. I have not met this one before. It is old and it is curious about you in particular. I recommend being interesting.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z127", text = "I have been to every zone of significant age on this world. This one sits among the ones I return to when I need to remember what the world is for.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z128", text = "The four elements are not just present here. They are in dialogue. An ongoing, ancient dialogue we have walked into the middle of without introduction.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z129", text = "The land here asks something of those who enter it. Not in words. In the quality of the air and the weight of the silence. The question is: are you paying attention.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z130", text = "I felt the zone receive us as though it had been expecting arrivals of this specific quality. Either the world knows more about itineraries than I imagined or we are very well matched to this place.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_z131", text = "The veil between what is visible and what is real is almost absent here. I have been in places like this before. They stay with you.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    login = {
        -- common (20)
        { id = "v_lg01", text = "Ah, you've returned. The elements stirred when you arrived. Subtle, but I noticed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg03", text = "The fire is warm, the path awaits, and I am glad for the company.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg05", text = "You are here. The world adjusts slightly. For the better.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg06", text = "The hearth crackles. The path stretches. Another day begins.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg07", text = "Back again. The spirits noted your absence. They are not sentimental, but they noticed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg08", text = "Welcome. The wind shifted when you logged in. Coincidence, I am sure.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg09", text = "Good to see you. Or sense you. Shamans do not always see in the traditional way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg10", text = "Ah, there you are. I was just talking to the fire about you. It says hello.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg11", text = "The world was running without you, but now it runs better. Welcome back.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg12", text = "You return. The earth is steady, the sky is wide, and we have work to do.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg13", text = "Another session begins. The elements are ready when you are.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg14", text = "Hello, friend. The dust settled while you were gone. Let us stir it up again.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg15", text = "The campfire burned low, but it never went out. It was waiting for you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg16", text = "You log in, and the world gets a little more interesting. That is just a fact.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg17", text = "Rested and returned. The earth felt the change in weight. Welcome.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg18", text = "The wind brought news of your arrival. I may have asked it to keep watch.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg19", text = "A familiar presence. The stones relax. So do I.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg20", text = "You are here, and the day has direction now. Before, it was just weather.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg21", text = "The spirits yawned and stretched when you arrived. They have been napping.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg22", text = "Returned to the fray. Or the farm. Or the auction house. Wherever your heart leads.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (14)
        { id = "v_lg02", text = "Welcome back. The world kept turning while you were away, but it turns better with you in it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg23", text = "The space between your visits is where the world holds its breath. It exhales now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg24", text = "I kept the fire burning and the spirits entertained. They have terrible taste in stories, by the way.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg25", text = "Back again. The wind shifted a moment ago. Probably unrelated. Probably.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg26", text = "The earth remembers your footprints from last time. It laid them out for you like a welcome mat.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg27", text = "Between your sessions, I meditate. And worry slightly. The meditation helps with the worry.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg28", text = "Your return sends ripples through the spirit world. Small ones. But ripples nonetheless.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg29", text = "I told the wind to save you the good breezes. It does not always listen, but today it did.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg30", text = "Welcome. The fire spirit lit up when it sensed you. I have never seen it do that for anyone else.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg31", text = "Some return out of habit. Some out of purpose. I sense purpose in you today.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg32", text = "The world saved a few surprises for your return. I peeked. They are good ones.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg33", text = "Every return is a small resurrection. The spirits find the metaphor apt.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg34", text = "You came back. That is not nothing. Many start journeys. Fewer continue them.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg35", text = "The wind carried your scent from far away. I knew you were coming before you did.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (7)
        { id = "v_lg04", text = "The hearth remembers those who return to it. Welcome home, traveller.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg36", text = "The elements aligned the moment you arrived. They do not do that for everyone.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg37", text = "I dreamed of your return while you were away. The spirits are rarely wrong about these things.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg38", text = "The fire held its shape while you were away. It does that for the ones it expects to see again.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg39", text = "The old shaman in me says: a warrior returns when the battle calls. You heard the call.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg40", text = "The fire burned brighter the instant you connected. The spirits are not subtle in their affection.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg41", text = "Welcome. The land shifted to accommodate you, like a river widening for a welcome stone.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (3)
        { id = "v_lg42", text = "The world was a book with a bookmark in it. You just opened it to the right page. Let us continue.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg43", text = "The four elements stood at attention when you arrived. I have never seen them agree so quickly on anything.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg44", text = "Your return completes a circuit the spirits have been holding open. The energy flows again.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_lg45", text = "In all the world, across all the planes, the spirits saved this moment for your return. Welcome home.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_lg46 to v_lg51)
        { id = "v_lg46", text = "Here again. The fire is still lit. The path is still there. Pick one and we begin.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg47", text = "The world missed a particular weight in it while you were gone. Welcome back, weight.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg48", text = "Another day, another session. The constancy is its own form of devotion.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg49", text = "The stones remember your footprints. Yours specifically. They are glad to feel them again.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg50", text = "You return. I had things to say while you were away. I held them. Here they are: welcome back.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg51", text = "The elements settled the moment you logged in. A small shift, but a real one.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_lg52 to v_lg54)
        { id = "v_lg52", text = "I noticed your absence the way you notice a sound that stops. The silence has an exact shape.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg53", text = "There is a version of this world that exists only when you are in it. It just switched on again.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg54", text = "The fire held a specific warmth for you. Not metaphorically. I asked it to. It agreed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare addition (v_lg55)
        { id = "v_lg55", text = "Your return does not just complete the group. It completes something in the spirit world that I do not have a word for. But it is a good thing.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_lg56 to v_lg75)
        { id = "v_lg56", text = "You are here again. The world arranges itself slightly around that fact.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg57", text = "Back. The fire was patient while you were away. Fires are good at patience.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg58", text = "The path waited. Paths are excellent at waiting. Welcome back to it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg59", text = "Logged in and oriented. The world is where you left it. You are slightly different.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg60", text = "Another session opens. The shape of the day is yours to decide.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg61", text = "You returned and the spirits noticed. Not loudly. They are rarely loud. But they noticed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg62", text = "The world did not need you to keep running. But it runs better now. That is a fact.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg63", text = "Good. You are here. I had things to observe and no one to observe them at.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg64", text = "The fire held a particular ember for you. It does that. You may have noticed by now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg65", text = "Rested and returned. The distance between sessions is where the world breathes. Welcome to the exhale.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg66", text = "You return with more than you left with. I cannot always say what the more is. But it is present.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg67", text = "I noticed your absence the way you notice the wind stopping. Everything still works. Just quieter.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg68", text = "Gone and back. The spirits kept count of the days. I told them not to. They did anyway.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg69", text = "Between your last session and this one, the world prepared something. I helped a little. The rest it did on its own.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg70", text = "You have been around long enough that the land treats you like geography. That is the highest compliment a shaman can explain.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg71", text = "The spirit layer has been holding a particular configuration since you left. It held it for you. It releases it now.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg72", text = "Every return teaches the world something about who came back. You came back with something new. The world is adjusting.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg73", text = "I have kept your fire. Every shaman keeps a fire for those they walk beside. Yours was easy to maintain. It wanted to stay lit.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg74", text = "The spirit world does not experience your sessions as interruptions. To them, each return is the arrival after a long journey.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg75", text = "You return and the world is not the same world you left. Not dramatically. Just the way a room changes when someone who matters walks into it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 5 additions (v_lg76 to v_lg95)
        { id = "v_lg76", text = "Another session, another beginning. The beginning is always available to those who return.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg77", text = "You came back. The world was prepared. It tends to prepare for you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg78", text = "The fire is lit and the path is clear. Both were waiting. Both are glad.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg79", text = "Logged in. The world updated its record of who is present. The record improves when you are in it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg80", text = "Here again and the spirits have notes. They always have notes. Most of them are positive.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg81", text = "Returned. The earth adjusts its weight distribution slightly. You are a welcome addition to the load.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg82", text = "You arrived and the day acquired a shape it did not have before. Days need people to give them shape.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg83", text = "The session begins. What it becomes is still open. Open is the best condition for a beginning.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg84", text = "Back again. The world accumulated some events while you were gone. Most of them waited for you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg85", text = "Welcome back to where you were. Where you were is slightly different from how you left it. Both of you have moved.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg86", text = "You return with a particular kind of intention every time. The spirits have started expecting it. They are rarely wrong.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg87", text = "Clean break between sessions. The last one ended well. This one is unwritten. Good place to start.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg88", text = "Between your last session and this one the world continued without you. The continuing was fine. The arrival is better.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg89", text = "The spirits held a few things in place while you were away. Small things. They will not say which ones.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg90", text = "You log in and things settle into place. The way stones settle when the right one fills the gap. The earth notices.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg91", text = "Every return is a statement about what you value. You return consistently. The statement is clear.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg92", text = "The fire spirit held a particular configuration since your last login. It was not sure you would return tonight. It was glad to be wrong.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg93", text = "I have watched you arrive across many sessions now. You come back sharper each time. The spirits mentioned it. I am just confirming.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg94", text = "Your arrival opens something in the spirit world that closes when you leave. I do not fully understand it. But the fire burns warmer when it is open.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lg95", text = "The world has four elements, countless spirits, and one of you. When you arrive the whole arrangement shifts toward something I would call complete. I have no better word.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    housing = {
        -- common (12)
        { id = "v_hs01", text = "The house grows as the spirit within it grows. The walls remember.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs02", text = "Your home rises again. The earth approves of what you are building here.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs03", text = "Small work, honestly completed. The spirits respect that more than grand gestures.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs04", text = "One task done. The endeavour watches. So do I.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs05", text = "The neighbourhood thanks you. That is not nothing.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs06", text = "Effort given freely. The house noticed. I noticed. We are both easy to please.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs07", text = "Another thread woven into this place. The tapestry grows richer.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs08", text = "The house does not forget what you give it.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs09", text = "Progress, quiet and steady. The earth moves this way too.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs10", text = "You tend this place the way a healer tends a patient -- with patience and purpose.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs11", text = "The neighbourhood stirs. Your contribution is part of why.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs12", text = "A house is not built once. It is built every day. You understand that.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- uncommon (5)
        { id = "v_hs13", text = "Every stone in that wall was placed by someone who meant it. The house can tell the difference between that and guesswork.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs14", text = "The stone remembers hands that placed it with care. These walls will remember yours.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs15", text = "The endeavour asked something of you. You gave it without complaint. That is not common.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs16", text = "Small contributions are the mortar. Without them the grand stones mean nothing. You understand mortar.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs17", text = "The spirits of this place are more settled than when you arrived. You brought that calm.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- rare (3)
        { id = "v_hs18", text = "Your house now holds a story the neighbourhood will tell long after you have moved on to other things. A good story.", quality = "rare", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs19", text = "The endeavour is complete. What was scattered is gathered. What was broken is whole. You did that.", quality = "rare", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs20", text = "There are places in this world that remember the people who cared for them. This is becoming one of those places.", quality = "rare", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- epic (2)
        { id = "v_hs21", text = "The spirits of home are among the oldest. They have watched empires fall and gardens bloom. Right now they are watching you -- and they are pleased.", quality = "epic", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs22", text = "I have walked beside builders for a very long time. The ones who make something that lasts -- they look like you.", quality = "epic", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- common additions (v_hs23 to v_hs31)
        { id = "v_hs23", text = "Another task ticked off. The house does not cheer, but the air inside it is better.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs24", text = "The level rises. Slowly and surely, as good things do.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs25", text = "You contributed to the neighbourhood and the neighbourhood grew because of it. That is the compact.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs26", text = "The home remembers every hand that tended it. Yours are frequent visitors.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs27", text = "Task complete. The endeavour measured it and added the weight to yours. Light work, lasting credit.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs28", text = "Small contributions hold the large ones in place. The mortar does not get the credit, but the wall knows.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs29", text = "The house sits a little higher today than yesterday. You are the reason.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs30", text = "Another stone on the foundation. Not visible from outside, but the walls rest on it just the same.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs31", text = "The neighbourhood notices those who show up for it without being asked.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        -- uncommon additions (v_hs32 to v_hs35)
        { id = "v_hs32", text = "A home is a living thing. You tend it with the same consistency you would give a garden. It is growing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs33", text = "The endeavour asked and you answered. No guarantee, no complaint. The earth respects that kind of stubbornness.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs34", text = "Between each task lies the decision to do the next one. You have made that decision many times now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs35", text = "I once asked the earth spirit what it thought of houses. It said: they are the land agreeing to be shaped. Yours is a good agreement.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- rare addition (v_hs36)
        { id = "v_hs36", text = "The spirits of this house now respond to your presence differently -- like a place that has learned the feel of someone it trusts.", quality = "rare", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- epic addition (v_hs37)
        { id = "v_hs37", text = "Not every builder leaves a mark. You are leaving something the house will carry long after the last furniture is moved. A feeling. The earth calls it home.", quality = "epic", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- batch additions (v_hs38 to v_hs62)
        { id = "v_hs38", text = "The house rose again. The earth beneath it felt the shift.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs39", text = "Task done. The home is slightly more itself because of it.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs40", text = "The neighbourhood benefited from what you put into it. That is the compact, and you hold your end.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs41", text = "Level noted. The house has been growing through your attention the way a garden grows through tending.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs42", text = "Another task completed. The house accumulates small victories like the earth accumulates seasons.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs43", text = "You contributed without being asked. The initiative counts more than the task.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs44", text = "The home climbs by degrees. Each degree earned by your hands.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs45", text = "Small task. Genuine hands. The house does not weigh them separately.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs46", text = "You showed up for the neighbourhood again. The roads here are starting to lean your way.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs47", text = "The walls stand a little more certainly tonight. The effort behind them is yours.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs48", text = "Task finished. The home receives it the way the earth receives rain -- without announcement, but with use.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs49", text = "Your contribution to the endeavour was not the largest. But it was reliable, and reliable is the foundation the large ones rest on.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs50", text = "A home is the shape of the care given to it. The shape of yours is becoming something distinctive.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs51", text = "You make the same choice every time -- do the next task. The walls are built on choices like that, whether they know it or not.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs52", text = "The neighbourhood grows through accumulated care. You are one of the reasons it grows.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs53", text = "The house level climbed. It climbs the way a tree adds rings -- one quiet season at a time.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs54", text = "The ground under this neighbourhood has been walked enough to recognise the footfall. Yours is becoming one of the familiar ones.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs55", text = "Every task completed here adds to a structure that exists beyond the walls -- a record of who tended this place.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs56", text = "The house has a spirit now that it did not have when you started. Homes develop spirits through consistent attention.", quality = "rare", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs57", text = "What you have built through the endeavour cannot be taken back. The neighbourhood holds it now.", quality = "rare", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs58", text = "The house settles differently when someone who knows it crosses the threshold. The floorboards do not creak the same way for strangers.", quality = "rare", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs59", text = "Every task done well here was a conversation with the house. The house has been listening. It knows you now.", quality = "rare", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs60", text = "What was built here will outlast the tools that built it and the hands that held those tools. That is the nature of a home made with care.", quality = "epic", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs61", text = "The neighbourhood holds together because a few people kept showing up when it was easier not to. The endeavour remembers which ones.", quality = "epic", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs62", text = "A home that carries the intent of the one who built it is rare. What you have built carries you in every corner.", quality = "epic", tags = { "levelup" } },
        -- batch 5 additions (v_hs63 to v_hs87)
        { id = "v_hs63", text = "The house advanced. Another degree earned through accumulated effort.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs64", text = "Task complete. The home receives it the way good soil receives a seed.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs65", text = "The neighbourhood grew slightly because of what you put into it today.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs66", text = "The house climbs. The climb is slow by design. Slow climbs hold their altitude.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs67", text = "Another task answered. The home is becoming more itself through each one.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs68", text = "You gave without being asked. The neighbourhood grew. Cause and effect, plain as rain.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs69", text = "The level climbed. The walls are the same. The space inside them is different.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs70", text = "A small task, completely done. The sum of completely done small tasks is an excellent home.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs71", text = "Your neighbourhood is better for your participation in it. The improvement is not dramatic. It is structural.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs72", text = "The house rose another degree. I would say it is becoming familiar, but I think it passed familiar a while ago.", quality = "common", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs73", text = "Task done. The walls carry the weight of it now. Walls are good at carrying things quietly.", quality = "common", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs74", text = "You held your end of the neighbourhood compact again. The compact holds because you hold it.", quality = "common", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs75", text = "A home that is built daily is never quite finished and never quite unfinished. You keep it in the correct state.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs76", text = "Another task finished. I notice you never ask whether there will be a next one. The house notices too.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs77", text = "The neighbourhood grows through the accumulated stubbornness of people who keep tending it. You are one of the stubborn ones.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs78", text = "The house level speaks of patience. Patience shows on the inside first. The outside catches up eventually.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs79", text = "Every task here leaves a mark too small to see and too real to ignore. The floor knows. The ceiling knows. Even the doorframe knows.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs80", text = "The endeavour asks only one thing of a neighbourhood: steady effort over time. You have been giving it that. The land notices steady effort.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs81", text = "The spirit of this house has developed a character that was not there when it was empty. Character in a home comes from the people who tend it. It came from you.", quality = "rare", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs82", text = "The house has been listening to the work you put into it. Houses are better listeners than they get credit for.", quality = "rare", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs83", text = "You gave to the neighbourhood before it asked. The earth has a long memory for that sort of thing.", quality = "rare", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs84", text = "This home has reached a level that is not measured in numbers but in how it feels to cross its threshold. The threshold feels like somewhere specific. That is rare.", quality = "rare", tags = { "levelup" } },
        { id = "v_hs85", text = "Every task you have done here is still here -- in the grain of the place, in the way the door hangs right. Settled is the word. This place is settled.", quality = "rare", tags = { "task" } },
        { id = "v_hs86", text = "The neighbourhood will carry what you built into it long after you have moved on. That is how stone works. You gave it good stone.", quality = "epic", tags = { "initiative" } },
        { id = "v_hs87", text = "The spirits of home do not respond to grand gestures. They respond to the long accumulation of someone who stayed and kept tending. They responded to you. That is not small.", quality = "epic", tags = { "levelup" } },
    },

    -- ============================================================================
    -- Home Presence: own housing plot, yard, and house interior
    -- Fires only when the player is in their OWN housing (never while visiting)
    -- ============================================================================
    home = {

        -- enter_neighborhood (10): arrived in our neighbourhood
        { id = "v_hm01", text = "The neighbourhood knows us here. I feel it in the way the air settles.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm02", text = "Back again. The familiar roads recognise the step.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm03", text = "The neighbourhood carries the character of everyone who tends it. Ours is good company.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm04", text = "The path home is shorter every time. Not by distance. By something else.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm05", text = "Even the wind sits a little differently here than it does elsewhere. The earth arranges itself around belonging.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm06", text = "The neighbourhood remembers you whether you are here or not. Returning only confirms what it already knew.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm07", text = "There is a warmth to returning to a place that holds something of yours. The neighbourhood holds a great deal of yours.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm08", text = "The stones of this road have felt your step enough times to anticipate it. I notice the slight lean toward you.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm09", text = "Every neighbourhood develops a spirit shaped by its keepers. The spirit here has a good shape. You contributed to that.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm10", text = "The earth spirit of this neighbourhood has held a small portion of itself in readiness for your return. That is what belonging looks like, from the inside of the land.", quality = "epic", tags = { "enter_neighborhood" } },

        -- enter_plot (10): stepped onto our own plot/yard
        { id = "v_hm11", text = "Our ground. I feel the difference underfoot.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm12", text = "The yard holds the shape of the attention you have given it. It looks tended.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm13", text = "The land knows its keeper. There is a small yielding when you step here -- a welcome without words.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm14", text = "Back on our plot. The earth here is specific. It is ours in the way that only tended things become ours.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm15", text = "The yard does not look different from yesterday. But something underfoot has shifted. Familiarity has a weight to it.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm16", text = "The spirits of this plot have grown accustomed to your presence. Their welcome is quieter now -- not from indifference, but from comfort.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm17", text = "A plot of land is just earth until someone decides to return to it repeatedly. Repeated return is the act that makes it home.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm18", text = "The boundary of this plot is not a wall. It is a relationship. I can feel the edge of it when we cross it.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm19", text = "The soil here has taken on a particular quality. Tended ground feels different under the hoof. This ground has been tended.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm20", text = "I have walked beside many who had places they owned. Far fewer had places that were genuinely theirs. This is the second kind.", quality = "epic", tags = { "enter_plot" } },

        -- enter_house, first (6): first entry this session -- warm homecoming
        { id = "v_hm21", text = "There it is. Everything as we left it.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "first" } },
        { id = "v_hm22", text = "Home. The word fits this place the way a well-worn boot fits the foot. Without thought. Completely.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "first" } },
        { id = "v_hm23", text = "The house held its breath while we were away. It releases now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_house", "first" } },
        { id = "v_hm24", text = "The threshold remembers the last time we crossed it. The air on this side has its own temperature. That takes time to develop.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_house", "first" } },
        { id = "v_hm25", text = "The walls carry the memory of every time you returned. Coming home is a practice, and you have done it long enough that the house anticipates it.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_house", "first" } },
        { id = "v_hm26", text = "The fire spirit of this house woke when you crossed the threshold. It does not do that for visitors. Only for the one who tends it.", quality = "epic", tags = { "enter_house", "first" } },

        -- enter_house, return (16): re-entered, lighter returning tone
        { id = "v_hm27", text = "Back inside. The house does not object.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm28", text = "Inside again. The walls settle around us like an old agreement.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm29", text = "The house receives us without ceremony. Ceremony is for the first time. This is comfort.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm30", text = "In again. Each return costs less hesitation than the last. That is the definition of belonging.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm31", text = "The air inside is ours. It has developed a character.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm32", text = "The familiar threshold. I have stopped noticing it, which means I have started belonging to it.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm33", text = "The house adjusted its quiet to include us again. Quietly managed.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm34", text = "Back. The house held its place well in our absence. Reliable things do that.", quality = "common", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm35", text = "Inside. The objects here are familiar in a way that asks nothing of you. That is restful.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm36", text = "A home that welcomes you back without drama is doing its job well. This one has excellent timing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm37", text = "Each time we return, the house is the same and we are slightly different. The house absorbs the difference without comment.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm38", text = "The walls have drawn in around us. Not crowding -- settling. Like a blanket finds its shape.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm39", text = "The house spirit has grown patient in the way of things that are well-used and well-kept. It received us with the quiet of long familiarity.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm40", text = "There are places that ask something of you when you enter. This one gives. Every return is a small replenishment.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm41", text = "The house holds the shape of every return. You can feel it in the particular stillness of the place -- a quiet that has been earned.", quality = "rare", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },
        { id = "v_hm42", text = "The threshold has worn smooth in the way of things crossed often with care. I notice these things. This is a home that has been crossed with care.", quality = "epic", tags = { "enter_house", "return" } },

        -- idle_neighborhood (12): lingering in the neighbourhood
        { id = "v_hm43", text = "The neighbourhood is calm today. The kind of calm that takes time to build.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm44", text = "Walking here is different from walking elsewhere. The effort is the same. The feeling is not.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm45", text = "The other homes here have their own spirits. Ours is on good terms with its neighbours.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm46", text = "A neighbourhood is a collection of decisions to stay. That is not a small thing.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm47", text = "The roads here have absorbed the pattern of those who use them. This one knows where you are going before you decide.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm48", text = "The light sits differently in a familiar place. Something about knowing where it will land changes how you see it.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm49", text = "The neighbourhood asks nothing right now. A space that asks nothing is a generous space.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm50", text = "I observe the other plots with interest. Each one is someone's attempt to make the world personal. The attempts vary. Ours is among the better ones.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm51", text = "Lingering here without purpose is itself a purpose. The earth understands this. Home is not only for doing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm52", text = "The neighbourhood has layered seasons of character over the original empty land. Each layer includes yours. The total is richer for it.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm53", text = "I have walked beside those with homes that existed and homes that were alive. The difference is the tending. The neighbourhood here is alive. I can feel the difference in the soil.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },
        { id = "v_hm54", text = "A neighbourhood built from genuine care develops a character no one designed. The character here is good. I would know -- I have lived in neighbourhoods that were not.", quality = "epic", tags = { "idle_neighborhood" } },

        -- idle_plot (12): lingering on the plot/yard
        { id = "v_hm55", text = "The yard is what it is because you have made it so. The making is visible in the result.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm56", text = "Standing here does not require a reason. The land does not ask for one.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm57", text = "The plot is patient. Land always is. Yours has the particular patience of land that has been noticed.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm58", text = "Our ground. Nothing elaborate. Just specific.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm59", text = "The earth here is awake in the way of things that are tended. Untended land sleeps. This does not sleep.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm60", text = "The light on the yard changes through the day. Watching a familiar place change with the light is one of the quieter pleasures.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm61", text = "This plot has accumulated intention. The earth holds intention the way old wood holds warmth -- long after the fire has moved elsewhere.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm62", text = "The boundary between this plot and the road is physical but also something more. There is a different quality to the quiet inside the line.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm63", text = "I once asked a stone spirit what it thought of being placed in a garden. It said: chosen placement is the warmest kind of belonging. You have placed things here with care.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm64", text = "The yard has been changed by your presence and changed you by being a place you return to. That exchange runs in both directions. The land remembers its half.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm65", text = "The earth here has developed a specific character -- patient, attended, personal. The earth does not become personal for everyone who stands on it. Only for those who stay.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_plot" } },
        { id = "v_hm66", text = "There are plots of land that exist and plots of land that belong. Existence comes with purchase. Belonging comes with time and return. What we are standing on now belongs.", quality = "epic", tags = { "idle_plot" } },

        -- idle_house (34): lingering inside the house
        { id = "v_hm67", text = "The house is quiet. The good kind.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm68", text = "Everything here is in its place. Placed by your hand, or by your choice. This is a room that reflects its keeper.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm69", text = "The air inside has become specific. It carries the history of this place being lived in.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm70", text = "A house absorbs what happens inside it. The walls here have absorbed something good.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm71", text = "The things here do not need explaining. That is what it means to be home.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm72", text = "Stillness inside a home is different from stillness in the open. More personal. More held.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm73", text = "The light comes through where it always has. The familiar path of light through a known space is quietly reassuring.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm74", text = "The house asks nothing right now. It simply holds. Holding without asking is the service a good home provides.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm75", text = "The objects here have been placed and adjusted by the same hand over time. The arrangement has a logic that only makes sense from inside.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm76", text = "The walls remember every conversation held near them. They hold it all quietly, without judgment.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm77", text = "Resting inside a place that is yours requires less effort than resting anywhere else. The absence of effort is the whole point of it.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm78", text = "This room has been present for things and continued after them. The continuity shows in the woodwork.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm79", text = "The house breathes at its own pace -- warmth and shadow, slow and steady. You stop noticing after a while. That is when you know.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm80", text = "The floor knows the familiar path between rooms. The wood, if there is wood, remembers the route.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm81", text = "A home is the only place where staying still counts as doing something. You are doing something right now.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm82", text = "The house contains the person who made it what it is. That person is here. The house is complete.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm83", text = "The corners of a lived-in house are different from the corners of an empty one. These corners have context.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm84", text = "There is no other place quite like this one. The particularity of a home is its most underrated quality.", quality = "common", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm85", text = "The house has settled into its own identity. The identity is made of choices -- yours, each one, accumulated.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm86", text = "The fire spirit of this place is a domestic one -- small, steady, reliable. It tends itself because it has been tended in return.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm87", text = "A home is two parties who have stopped being surprised by each other. This one reached that stage some time ago.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm88", text = "The walls are not just walls here. They have accumulated something I can only call residence -- the quality of a space that has been meant.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm89", text = "Every home has a sound -- the particular creak or silence or settling that belongs only to that building. I have learned this one. It has not surprised me in some time. That is a form of trust.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm90", text = "The spirit of a home does not appear fully formed. It grows with the tending. The spirit here is full-grown and good-tempered.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm91", text = "Every object here was placed by the same hand, adjusted, reconsidered, and left. That is what separates a home from storage.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm92", text = "I was quiet just now because the house was being quiet and I did not want to disrupt it. There is a rhythm to the interior of a well-kept home and it is worth listening to.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm93", text = "The house has started to resemble you. Not the furniture -- the mood of the place. I notice it when we come in from outside.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm94", text = "The earth spirit beneath the foundations of this house is at rest in a way that only happens when what stands above it is genuinely tended. The foundation is content.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm95", text = "The difference between a place that was built and one that was made is the person who stayed. You stayed.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm96", text = "I have sat in silence in many places. The silence here is unlike any other. It is not empty silence. It is held silence -- the kind a home develops over seasons of being lived in faithfully.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm97", text = "Fire settled here first. Water followed when the garden grew. Earth was always underneath. Wind comes and goes -- but it always comes back. All four. That does not happen often.", quality = "rare", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm98", text = "A house becomes a home when it starts carrying something of the person who lives in it. Not just their things -- their particular kind of quiet. This one has yours.", quality = "epic", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm99", text = "I remember when this place was only walls. What it became required the kind of patience most people spend on other things. You spent it here. The house holds the receipt.", quality = "epic", tags = { "idle_house" } },
        { id = "v_hm100", text = "A place you return to willingly, tend without complaint, and rest in honestly. The oldest shaman teaching I know says that is enough. I think it is right. I wanted to say so plainly.", quality = "epic", tags = { "idle_house" } },

    },

    mythicplus = {
        -- common (10)
        { id = "v_mp01", text = "The dungeon yielded. This is the correct outcome.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp02", text = "You moved through that place like water finding its way -- inevitable.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp03", text = "The timer is just the earth testing whether you learn from haste.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp04", text = "Not every stone breaks cleanly on the first strike. The second teaches more.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp05", text = "You cleared it. The key asks only that you enter. The rest is yours.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp06", text = "A dungeon survived is a dungeon learned. File it away.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp07", text = "Fast and clean. The spirits of that place felt the economy of it.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp08", text = "The timer ran out before the dungeon did. The dungeon did not know who it was dealing with.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp09", text = "Every key run deposits something. Knowledge, mostly. You made a deposit.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp10", text = "Timed it. The ancestors nod.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        -- uncommon (4)
        { id = "v_mp11", text = "I have watched rivers carve paths for centuries. You carved that dungeon in minutes. The scale is different but the patience is the same.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp12", text = "The key depleted. The skill did not. Those are different things and only one of them matters.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp13", text = "That run had the rhythm of something well-rehearsed. Like a ceremony you have done so many times it lives in your hands.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp14", text = "Depleted does not mean defeated. The spirits make no distinction between keys. Only between effort.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "depleted" } },
        -- rare (2)
        { id = "v_mp15", text = "There are those who do dungeons and those who read them. You read that one fluently.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp16", text = "The dungeon pushed back. You pushed harder. Not loudly -- you rarely do things loudly. Just steadily.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (2)
        { id = "v_mp17", text = "The spirits of that place were old and proud. You moved through them with such precision that even they were impressed. I watched. They were impressed.", quality = "epic", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp18", text = "The highest key. The tightest margin. The sharpest execution. The earth does not often feel the ground shake from a dungeon run. It felt this one.", quality = "epic", tags = { "timed" } },
        -- common additions (v_mp19 to v_mp27)
        { id = "v_mp19", text = "The dungeon opened, you entered, you finished. A clean arc.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp20", text = "Timer expired. The dungeon did not. That is not a failure of will, only of seconds.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp21", text = "Through the door and out the other side. The key was worth using.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp22", text = "The dungeon gave everything it had. So did you. One of you ran out first.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp23", text = "Fast enough to matter. Careful enough to finish. The earth calls that balance.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp24", text = "The key depletes, not the person holding it. Remember the distinction.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp25", text = "In time. Clean. Done. The fire spirit says nothing more needs saying. I agree with the fire spirit.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp26", text = "Another dungeon understood. Understanding is the precursor to mastery.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp27", text = "That key is spent but the run built something. The next key carries those winnings.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        -- uncommon additions (v_mp28 to v_mp30)
        { id = "v_mp28", text = "The group moved as one thing for most of that run. When groups become one thing, the timer becomes less relevant.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp29", text = "The dungeon tested your communication as much as your combat. You passed the harder test.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp30", text = "Depleted. But the run was complete from start to finish. That is not nothing -- it is just not timed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "depleted" } },
        -- rare addition (v_mp31)
        { id = "v_mp31", text = "The dungeon has been run by many. Very few have read it the way you just did -- like a text, not a test.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        -- epic addition (v_mp32)
        { id = "v_mp32", text = "The key sang as it was used. Keys do not sing for everyone. This one knew it was in capable hands.", quality = "epic", tags = { "timed" } },
        -- batch additions (v_mp33 to v_mp57)
        { id = "v_mp33", text = "The dungeon is done. The timer agreed with the effort.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp34", text = "Time ran out before the task did. The task is still a completed task.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp35", text = "Through and out the other side. The key fulfilled its purpose.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp36", text = "Fast enough. Careful enough. The combination is rarer than it looks.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp37", text = "Depleted. Not defeated. The key ends. The skill does not.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp38", text = "Timed it. The stones in the floor felt the pace and approved.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp39", text = "The dungeon resisted in the middle. You pushed through the middle. The end followed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp40", text = "Timer expired. Every pull in that run taught something. The teaching outlasts the key.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp41", text = "In time. The fire spirit does not count seconds but it recognises urgency well applied.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp42", text = "The key spent itself fully. You spent yourself fully. A matched pair.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp43", text = "That run had a particular flow to it. Like water finding the path through -- not the widest path, the fastest one.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp44", text = "The depleted key is proof you stayed until the end. Half the runners I have watched did not. Draw your own conclusion.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp45", text = "The group held formation through the worst of it. When five people move like three, the dungeon is already outmatched.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp46", text = "Dungeons are texts. You read that one at speed without losing comprehension. That is a learned skill.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp47", text = "The depleted run is where the knowledge lives. Successful runs confirm what depleted runs teach.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp48", text = "You adapted to what the dungeon presented rather than what you expected it to present. The difference between those two things is mastery.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp49", text = "That timed run read like a conversation between people who know each other well enough to finish each other's sentences.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp50", text = "The dungeon is a fixed thing. You are a variable. Today the variable was the stronger one.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp51", text = "Depleted keys leave behind a specific kind of knowledge that timed runs do not. You have both kinds now.", quality = "rare", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp52", text = "The spirits that occupy this dungeon have seen many runners. They have not often seen the combination of pace and precision you brought.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp53", text = "The group moved through that dungeon the way a river moves through a canyon -- inevitable and shaped by the space but never stopped by it.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp54", text = "The timer is not the enemy. The timer is the measure. You measured very well.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp55", text = "A depleted key is an honest record of what the dungeon demanded. Nothing about that record is shameful.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp56", text = "You moved through that dungeon with the certainty of someone who has walked it in their mind already.", quality = "epic", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp57", text = "The key is spent. The run is complete. The version of you that finished it is more capable than the one who started it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 5 additions (v_mp58 to v_mp82)
        { id = "v_mp58", text = "In time. The dungeon did not have a choice about the outcome. You removed that choice.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp59", text = "Timer expired. The effort did not expire with it. The effort is permanent.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp60", text = "The key spent itself. The run did not. That is a distinction worth keeping.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp61", text = "Timed it. No wasted pulls, no wasted steps. The earth appreciates economy.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp62", text = "Depleted. You gave what you had and the dungeon gave what it had. The dungeon is empty now. You are not.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp63", text = "Through the door and out the far end. The simplest description of a dungeon run is also the most satisfying.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp64", text = "Timed it cleanly. The fire spirit approves of precision. It burns hotter for it, apparently.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp65", text = "The timer ran out but the knowledge did not run out with it. The knowledge will inform the next attempt.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp66", text = "Completed. The dungeon offered a problem. You offered an answer. The elements appreciated the clarity.", quality = "common", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp67", text = "The key is done. The dungeon is quiet again. You left it quieter than you found it.", quality = "common", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp68", text = "You moved through that dungeon as though you knew where the next thing was before it announced itself. That anticipation is reading at speed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp69", text = "The depleted run is where the map of the dungeon gets drawn most accurately. You have a very accurate map now.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp70", text = "The group found its rhythm in the second pull and held it for the duration. Rhythm held across a full run is not common. It is the basis of high keys.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp71", text = "You adapted when the dungeon presented something unexpected. The dungeon did not account for a group that adapts. That is the advantage.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp72", text = "Depleted keys teach what timed keys confirm. You have been doing your homework.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp73", text = "The group stopped discussing and started deciding. That is the moment a run goes from attempted to inevitable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp74", text = "The dungeon pushed in the middle and the group did not separate. Groups that do not separate in the middle can always finish.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mp75", text = "That run was a piece of craft. The dungeon was the material. The group was the craftspeople. The result was something the material alone could not have produced.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp76", text = "The spirits of this dungeon have felt faster runs. They have not often felt a run this composed at this pace. Speed and composure rarely arrive together.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp77", text = "Every member was exactly where they needed to be at exactly the right moment. I have watched enough dungeon runs to know that is not luck.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp78", text = "The depleted key holds an exact record of where the dungeon was stronger than the group. That record is an instruction manual for the next attempt.", quality = "rare", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp79", text = "The dungeon has a ceiling. Today the group raised the floor above it. That is a clean run by any standard.", quality = "rare", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp80", text = "Timed runs reveal the group's ceiling. Depleted runs reveal what the ceiling requires to become a floor. You have built the floor.", quality = "rare", tags = { "depleted" } },
        { id = "v_mp81", text = "The group moved through this dungeon with the inevitability of a storm front. Not destructive. Purposeful. Unstoppable once the direction was set.", quality = "epic", tags = { "timed" } },
        { id = "v_mp82", text = "The key is spent. The run is in the record now. Records made together carry a different weight. Heavier. The good kind of heavy.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    petbattle = {
        -- common (6)
        { id = "v_pb01", text = "A battle between small creatures with the heart of champions. I am moved.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb02", text = "The little ones fight with a ferocity the large ones rarely match. There is a lesson.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb03", text = "Even the earth watches when the small things contest for glory. It watched.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb04", text = "Your companions acquitted themselves well. The spirits noticed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb05", text = "A trainer learns from every battle. So do the ones they fight with.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb06", text = "The smallest contest carries the same dignity as the largest. I believe this sincerely.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (3)
        { id = "v_pb07", text = "There is ancient wisdom in the bond between a keeper and their creatures. You have more of that wisdom than you know.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb08", text = "I once meditated on the spirit of competition for three weeks. Watching your pets battle, I think I finally understand it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb09", text = "The creatures that fight at your side carry a piece of you into the contest. What they show is what you have taught them.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (2)
        { id = "v_pb10", text = "The bond between keeper and creature is one of the oldest relationships in this world. Yours is strong. The battle proved it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb11", text = "There are those who collect pets and those who know them. The difference shows in battle. It showed today.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (1)
        { id = "v_pb12", text = "The spirits of wild things recognise trainers who love what they train. I believe your pets feel something that resembles love in return.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_pb13 to v_pb18)
        { id = "v_pb13", text = "The small ones fought with large hearts. The earth measures heart, not size.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb14", text = "Your companion gave everything it had. So did you, in the coaching of it. A team effort.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb15", text = "Tiny creatures, enormous dignity. I am moved every time. Even when the toad loses.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb16", text = "The battle was decided by training long before it started. You won it before the first move.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb17", text = "Another bout completed. The little ones rest now. Let them.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb18", text = "Your pets carry your patience into every fight. It shows in how they move.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_pb19 to v_pb20)
        { id = "v_pb19", text = "The relationship between a trainer and their creatures is one of the most honest contracts in existence. Both sides give everything.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb20", text = "I studied animal spirits for a decade before I understood what your pets demonstrate in a single fight: trust made visible.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare addition (v_pb21)
        { id = "v_pb21", text = "The spirit world holds a special place for creatures who fight alongside someone who genuinely cares. Your companions have earned that place.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic addition (v_pb22)
        { id = "v_pb22", text = "I have felt the bond between you and your pets as a shaman feels elements. It is not metaphor. It is a real and living thing.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_pb23 to v_pb37)
        { id = "v_pb23", text = "The small ones showed what they were made of. They are made of the same stuff you are.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb24", text = "Your companion fought with everything it had. That is all you can ever ask.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb25", text = "The battle is over. The creatures rest. Let them rest well.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb26", text = "Size is not the metric that matters in a pet battle. Spirit is. Yours have it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb27", text = "The little ones carry your strategy into the fight. The strategy was sound. They executed it faithfully.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb28", text = "Every creature that fights for you does so because it trusts you. That trust is earned each time and repaid each time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb29", text = "The hawk above us watched that battle with professional interest. Even hawks respect a well-placed bite.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb30", text = "Your pets move differently than other trainers' pets. More settled. More certain. That comes from you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb31", text = "The bond between trainer and creature is older than most things I have studied. Watching yours fight, I learn something new about it every time.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb32", text = "The creatures you keep have become the best version of what they are. That transformation did not happen by accident.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb33", text = "I have watched animal spirits in the afterlife. The ones that fought alongside someone who genuinely cared are noticeably different. Brighter. Your pets will be very bright.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb34", text = "The battle tested the bond as much as the skill. The bond held. The skill was a consequence of that.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb35", text = "Every creature you battle with carries something of you into the fight. What they carry makes them formidable.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb36", text = "The earth spirit says creatures who are genuinely known by their keeper fight differently than those who are merely owned. The difference was visible today.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb37", text = "Your relationship with these creatures is one of the more sincere things I have observed in a long life of observation.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 5 additions (v_pb38 to v_pb52)
        { id = "v_pb38", text = "The small ones gave their best. Their best is shaped by your expectations. Your expectations are high.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb39", text = "Your companions fought with the confidence of creatures that trust their keeper completely.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb40", text = "Another bout behind you. The creatures grow through each one, as does the bond.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb41", text = "The battle asked something specific of your team. The team delivered it. That delivery is the result of patient training.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb42", text = "The little ones ran the strategy like they have run it before and expect to run it again. Confidence like that comes from repetition.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb43", text = "Your pets fight with a particular steadiness. Steadiness is trained, not born. Somebody trained it into them.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb44", text = "Between a trainer who cares and creatures who know it, there is a current. I felt it in that fight. The creatures felt it first.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb45", text = "I have studied the bond between keeper and creature for years. Most of what I learned, I could have learned faster by watching you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb46", text = "Your pets have picked up habits that are not instinct. The way they pause before committing -- that is learned. That is yours.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb47", text = "The animal spirits watch trainers who learn the name of each creature, not just the species. You know the difference. So do they.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb48", text = "The bond between you and your companions has reached the point where the creatures anticipate your intent before you act on it. That anticipation is the deepest form of trust.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb49", text = "Animal spirits remember the trainers who changed them. Your creatures will carry what you gave them into whatever the spirit world holds for small, loyal things.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb50", text = "The patience required to train a creature well and the patience required to commune with the elements are not so different. I would know.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb51", text = "I once asked the earth spirit what it thought of pet battles. It said: the small contests reveal the large truths. The earth spirit can be a bit much sometimes. But it was not wrong.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_pb52", text = "The creatures beside you carry the shape of how you treated them. That shape is visible to anyone paying attention.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    group = {
        -- common (5)
        { id = "v_gr01", text = "A circle is stronger than a line. You have formed a circle today.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr02", text = "Others join your path. The walk is more interesting with company.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr03", text = "The fire burns warmer when shared. I am told this extends to groups.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr04", text = "New companions. The road notices when it is not walked alone.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr05", text = "You have people now. Good. You were doing fine alone but this is better.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (3)
        { id = "v_gr06", text = "The shamans say that a group shares more than its workload -- it shares its wisdom, its luck, and occasionally its mistakes. May yours share generously.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr07", text = "Others have chosen to walk beside you. That is a form of trust the earth takes seriously.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr08", text = "A good group is a temporary kinship. Do not waste it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (1)
        { id = "v_gr09", text = "The spirits say every person you journey beside leaves a trace on your path. You have gathered some interesting traces over time.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- common additions (v_gr10 to v_gr15)
        { id = "v_gr10", text = "More hands on the rope. The pull becomes easier and the rope holds better.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr11", text = "A group that communicates is a group that endures. Yours is speaking. Good sign.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr12", text = "Interesting. You mentioned a plan and people showed up. That is either persuasion or coincidence. I know which one I think.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr13", text = "The group found its pace. That usually takes longer than this.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr14", text = "Five minutes in and nobody has pulled something catastrophic. Promising start.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr15", text = "The group holds together. Not always easily. But it holds. That is the part that matters.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon additions (v_gr16 to v_gr17)
        { id = "v_gr16", text = "A group is not a sum of individuals. It is its own entity, with its own temperament. Yours has a good one today.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr17", text = "The shamans say a group's silence tells you more than its chatter. Yours is a comfortable silence. That takes longer to develop than most people realise.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare addition (v_gr18)
        { id = "v_gr18", text = "The spirits say groups that weather a bad pull together remember each other longer than groups that breeze through clean. Something about shared difficulty. The spirits are rarely wrong about these things.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- batch additions (v_gr19 to v_gr33)
        { id = "v_gr19", text = "Names in a list became people on a road. That is the whole trick.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr20", text = "Others chose to walk beside you. That choice reflects something about both parties.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr21", text = "Someone in this group knows what they are doing. The rest are following convincingly. Both skills matter.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr22", text = "Different people, shared direction. That alignment is harder than it appears.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr23", text = "The group moves with a single intention right now. That usually lasts until the first door. Appreciate it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr24", text = "The healer has not panicked yet. I consider that the real indicator.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr25", text = "A good group shares more than its load. It shares its attention, and today that attention is considerable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr26", text = "Groups are brief ecosystems. Each one develops its own logic. This one has developed a good one quickly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr27", text = "The water spirit says the current moves fastest when the river's banks agree on the direction. Your group's banks agree.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr28", text = "Groups fall apart in predictable ways. This one has avoided most of them. The ones it has not avoided, it has recovered from. That is the harder skill.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr29", text = "I have noticed the group adjusts without being told. The tank moves, the healer follows, the damage falls into place. Like a flock of birds that has never rehearsed. I have always found that interesting.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr30", text = "The spirits say groups held together by mutual respect move through difficulty differently than those held by obligation. I observe the difference in yours.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr31", text = "Between the people in this group runs something the shamans call group spirit. It is as real as earth or water. Yours is in good health.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr32", text = "The earth spirit says this group has good footing. That is the highest compliment a rock has ever given anyone.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr33", text = "I have walked beside groups that argued over every turn and groups that moved like they shared a single thought. This one is closer to the second kind. The spirits notice the difference. I notice it too.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- batch 5 additions (v_gr34 to v_gr48)
        { id = "v_gr34", text = "The group is together. Together is the prerequisite for everything else this road requires.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr35", text = "More boots on the path. The mud objects, but the mud always objects.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr36", text = "The group formed quickly. In my experience that means either good instincts or collective impatience. Hard to tell from here.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr37", text = "The group holds together at the difficult moments. The difficult moments are the test. The group is passing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr38", text = "Somebody called the group. Somebody else accepted. The whole thing relies on both of those being true at the same time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr39", text = "The group is moving. Nobody asked for directions. Either everyone knows where they are going or nobody does and nobody wants to admit it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr40", text = "I notice the group talks to each other, not past each other. Subtler distinction than it sounds.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr41", text = "The wind spirit carries group moods. This one tastes steady. I have tasted worse.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr42", text = "Different classes. Different instincts. Same target. That alignment does not happen by accident, but it does happen without anyone planning it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr43", text = "Someone marked a target and everyone hit the same one. You would be surprised how rarely that happens. Or maybe you would not.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr44", text = "The group has found its formation. When groups find their formation without being told what it is, something real has happened between the individuals.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr45", text = "The group has settled into something. Not a plan, exactly. More like a shared stubbornness. That works too.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr46", text = "The spirits say some groups leave a mark on the places they pass through. Scratches on the stone, that sort of thing. Yours are starting to accumulate.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr47", text = "I have seen groups trust each other after one clean pull. That kind of fast trust is either earned in a past life or a very good guess. Either way, it is working.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gr48", text = "The group is quiet in the way that means everyone is concentrating, not the way that means everyone is lost. I have learned to tell the difference. Took me a while.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- CRAFTING
    -- ========================================================================
    crafting = {
        { id = "v_cr01", text = "The forge remembers every hand that shaped it. Yours is becoming familiar.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_cr02", text = "Quality three. The materials aligned with your intention. That is not luck.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_cr03", text = "The recipe yields. It always does, for those who learn its language.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_cr04", text = "Hmm. A critical success. The spirits nudged the hammer at the right moment.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {"crit"} },
        { id = "v_cr05", text = "Quality four. You are having a conversation with the metal now. It is answering back.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_cr06", text = "Multicraft. The materials gave more than asked. Generosity echoes between artisan and element.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {"multicraft"} },
        { id = "v_cr07", text = "The materials did not fight you on that one. They do that sometimes -- go still under the right hands. I would not read too much into it. But I noticed.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_cr08", text = "Quality five. The pinnacle. The elements held their breath and you did not disappoint them.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_cr09", text = "A masterwork born of patience and precision. The ancestors would display this proudly.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_cr10", text = "Critical at rank five. You have turned patience into mastery and mastery into art.", quality = "epic", tags = {"crit"} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- RESURRECTION (corpse run)
    -- ========================================================================
    resurrection = {
        { id = "v_rs01", text = "Welcome back to the world of the living. Try to stay this time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rs02", text = "The spirit world is educational, but I prefer you on this side.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rs03", text = "Your body waited patiently. It is good to see you reclaim it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rs04", text = "That was a long walk. The dead are poor company. Present company excluded.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rs05", text = "The earth held your place. Not everyone gets that courtesy.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rs06", text = "Death is a temporary inconvenience. Your stubbornness is permanent. I admire the ratio.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rs07", text = "You returned with purpose in your step. The spirits noticed.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rs08", text = "Every corpse run teaches something. What did this one teach you?", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- BATTLE REZ
    -- ========================================================================
    battlerez = {
        { id = "v_br01", text = "Someone pulled you back. The living still need you, it seems.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_br02", text = "A healer's hand reached across the veil. Accept the gift.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_br03", text = "Resurrection in combat. No time for philosophy. Fight now, reflect later.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_br04", text = "They spent a cooldown on you. That is trust measured in seconds.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_br05", text = "The line between life and death is thin. Your allies guard it fiercely.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_br06", text = "Not everyone earns a battle rez. The group decided you were worth the cost.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_br07", text = "Pulled from death mid-fight. Make this second chance count.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_br08", text = "The spirits released you early on good behaviour. Or because your healer insisted.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- TRAVELER'S LOG
    -- ========================================================================
    travelerslog = {
        { id = "v_tl01", text = "Another entry in the log. The world rewards those who show up.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tl02", text = "Task complete. The traveller's Log does not grade for style, but you had some.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tl03", text = "Checked off. Quietly satisfying, like finding a flat stone near water.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tl04", text = "The log tracks your wandering. I track your growth. We see different things.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tl05", text = "Every completed task is a story you chose to live instead of skip.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tl06", text = "The log fills page by page. One day you will read it back and be impressed.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tl07", text = "Not all journeys end with fanfare. Some end with a quiet checkmark. Both matter.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tl08", text = "Completionist tendencies are just thoroughness wearing a different hat. Keep wearing it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- SCENARIO / DELVE
    -- ========================================================================
    scenario = {
        { id = "v_sc01", text = "The scenario ends. You walk out different than you walked in.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_sc02", text = "Well handled. The earth below that place felt steadier with you in it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_sc03", text = "Done. Clean. Efficient. The spirits approve of economy of motion.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_sc04", text = "The delve surrendered its secrets. You earned every one of them.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {"delve"} },
        { id = "v_sc05", text = "Down into the dark, back into the light. That is the oldest story there is.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {"delve"} },
        { id = "v_sc06", text = "Whatever lived down there does not live there anymore. Progress.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_sc07", text = "The scenario tested you and you answered. Not with words. Better.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_sc08", text = "You navigated that the way water navigates stone. Persistent and inevitable.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_sc09", text = "Some return from the deep changed. You return sharper. The deep should worry.", quality = "epic", tags = {"delve"} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- TRANSMOG APPLIED
    -- ========================================================================
    transmog = {
        { id = "v_tm01", text = "New look. The spirits do not judge outward appearance. I sometimes do. Looks good.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tm02", text = "You changed your armour's face but not its soul. Both matter.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tm03", text = "Presentation is a form of respect. For yourself, and for those who see you.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tm04", text = "Interesting choice. The colours speak of intention. Or at least, good taste.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tm05", text = "There is a saying: dress for the quest you want, not the quest you have.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tm06", text = "You spent time choosing how to appear. That is a form of storytelling.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tm07", text = "The transmogrifier sees thousands of faces. Yours just became memorable.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tm08", text = "The transmogrifier asked no questions. The result asked no questions either. It simply works.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- APPEARANCE (barber shop)
    -- ========================================================================
    appearance = {
        { id = "v_ap01", text = "New face, same soul. The mirror reflects change. I reflect continuity.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ap02", text = "A fresh look. The wind will need to learn your new silhouette.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ap03", text = "You sat in the barber's chair and emerged renewed. There is power in reinvention.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ap04", text = "The outside changed. The inside knows what it is. Both are fine.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ap05", text = "Every new look is a question: who am I becoming? Good question.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ap06", text = "The old face served well. The new one has potential. I will watch both.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ap07", text = "The barber did their part. The rest is yours. From here it looks like a fair trade.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- TRANSMOG COLLECTION (new appearance unlocked)
    -- ========================================================================
    transmogcollection = {
        { id = "v_tc01", text = "A new appearance for the collection. Every option is a story waiting to be told.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tc02", text = "One more look unlocked. The wardrobe grows. So do the possibilities.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tc03", text = "New appearance stored. The armour rack in your mind just got heavier.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tc04", text = "The collection expands. A gatherer of looks is still a gatherer. I approve.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tc05", text = "Some collect power. Some collect wisdom. You collect the way things look. All valid.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tc06", text = "Another piece of the mosaic. One day the full picture will be extraordinary.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_tc07", text = "The spirits do not wear armour. But if they did, they would appreciate your eye for it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- FISHING
    -- ========================================================================
    fishing = {
        { id = "v_fi01", text = "A catch. The water gives to those who wait. You waited well.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fi02", text = "Fishing is patience made visible. You are very visible right now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fi03", text = "The line went taut. The water yielded. The cycle continues.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fi04", text = "There is wisdom in fishing. Mostly the wisdom of knowing when to stop. Not yet.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fi05", text = "The fish did not choose to be caught. But it chose the wrong shaman's friend to swim past.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fi06", text = "I once fished for three days and caught enlightenment. Also a boot. The boot was more useful.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fi07", text = "Every cast is a question to the water. Every catch is an answer. You are having a fine conversation.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fi08", text = "The water spirit respects your patience. That is not easily earned.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- AFK RETURN
    -- ========================================================================
    afkreturn = {
        { id = "v_ak01", text = "Welcome back. The world kept turning. It does that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ak02", text = "You returned. The spirits were starting to wonder.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ak03", text = "Ah, you are here again. The wind carried your absence. Now it carries your presence.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ak04", text = "Time away sharpens the eye. What do you see now that you missed before?", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ak05", text = "Rest is not retreat. You came back. That is what matters.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ak06", text = "The world waited for you. It is patient like that. Welcome back.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- REPUTATION RANK UP
    -- ========================================================================
    reprank = {
        { id = "v_rr01", text = "Your standing grew. Respect is earned in increments, never all at once.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rr02", text = "They regard you differently now. Words and deeds accumulated into trust.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rr03", text = "A new tier of respect. The path behind you is longer than you think.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rr04", text = "Reputation is just consistency given a name. Yours is growing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rr05", text = "They remember every errand, every task, every favour. People keep longer tallies than you expect.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rr06", text = "Standing improved. The spirits measure respect differently, but they agree you earned it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rr07", text = "From stranger to ally. That journey is made one deed at a time. You walk it well.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rr08", text = "There is a weight to earned standing. You carry it well. The spirits say it suits you -- though I suspect they would say that about anyone who lasted this long.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- MISSION COMPLETE
    -- ========================================================================
    mission = {
        { id = "v_mi01", text = "The mission returned successfully. Even those who serve from afar contribute.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mi02", text = "Your agents completed their task. Leadership is delegation done wisely.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mi03", text = "A mission done. Small returns, steady as rainfall. The spirits approve of consistency over spectacle.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mi04", text = "Your followers returned whole. That matters more than the rewards.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mi05", text = "Sending others on missions is a form of trust. They honoured it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_mi06", text = "Another mission, another success. You build a legacy through the hands of others.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- LOGOUT
    -- ========================================================================
    logout = {
        { id = "v_lo01", text = "Going already? The fire will keep your seat warm.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lo02", text = "Rest well. The world will be here when you return.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lo03", text = "Until next time. The spirits will watch the door.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lo04", text = "Sleep is just another form of travel. Safe journeys.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lo05", text = "You leave the world a little different than you found it today. That is enough.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lo06", text = "Go well. The earth remembers your footprints until you make new ones.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lo07", text = "The wind changes direction when someone leaves. I notice it every time. It will change back when you return.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_lo08", text = "The campfire dims but does not die. Neither does the bond we share. See you soon.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- CRAFTING ORDER FULFILLED
    -- ========================================================================
    craftingorder = {
        { id = "v_co01", text = "Order filled. Someone trusted your craft. That trust was well placed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_co02", text = "A customer served. Commerce with craft behind it is honest work.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_co03", text = "The work of your hands reached someone who needed it. That is the old way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_co04", text = "A generous tip speaks louder than words. Your skill was recognised.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {"bigtip"} },
        { id = "v_co05", text = "Artisan and patron. The oldest partnership. Today it worked as intended.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_co06", text = "Every filled order is a reputation built one piece at a time.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_co07", text = "They could have asked anyone. They asked you. Remember why.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- ACHIEVEMENT PROGRESS
    -- ========================================================================
    achieveprogress = {
        { id = "v_ag01", text = "Progress. Not the destination yet, but the path is clear.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ag02", text = "A criteria met. The achievement grows closer, one step at a time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ag03", text = "You chipped away at something larger. The chisel does not see the statue. You do.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ag04", text = "Incremental progress is still progress. The mountain does not care how slowly you climb.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ag05", text = "Closer now. The finish line does not move. Only you do.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ag06", text = "Each criteria is a brick. You are building something. Keep laying.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- RARE SPAWN
    -- ========================================================================
    rarespawn = {
        { id = "v_rsp01", text = "Something notable stirs. The air changed. Did you feel it?", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp02", text = "A rare presence. The land alerts those who listen.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp03", text = "The unusual arrives. Do with it what you will.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp04", text = "Rare creatures appear for rare individuals. Coincidence, surely.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp05", text = "The wild answers to no schedule. But it answered today.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp06", text = "Something ancient woke up. Your presence may have caused it. Or not. Hard to tell.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp07", text = "The rare creature surfaces. It did not have to. Acknowledge the gift.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp08", text = "Some things appear only when they choose to. This one chose now. That means something.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp09", text = "The spirits moved that creature here before you arrived. I did not say that. But the timing is notable.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp10", text = "A rare encounter is not luck. It is attention paid over a long time, finally answered.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- 15 additions to reach 25 total
        { id = "v_rsp11", text = "The air thickened just before it appeared. The land always clears its throat first.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp12", text = "Few see this one. Fewer are ready when they do. You appear to be ready.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp13", text = "That creature does not appear for convenience. It appears for reasons the land has not shared with me. Yet.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp14", text = "The rare thing arrived. Acknowledge it before anything else.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp15", text = "Some presences carry weight even at a distance. This is one of those.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp16", text = "Not many pass through here. Even fewer on the day something rare decides to surface. You chose the right day.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp17", text = "The water spirit whispered something when that creature emerged. I will not repeat it. But it was complimentary -- toward you, not the creature.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp18", text = "I have walked these lands for a long time. A creature like that surfaces once, maybe twice a season. The timing is interesting. I will leave it at that.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp19", text = "The spirits are quiet when something rare appears. Not from indifference. From respect.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp20", text = "That thing has survived longer than most by remaining unseen. It chose to be seen now. That is a decision, not an accident.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp21", text = "The hawk circles for its own reasons. The rare thing emerged for its own reasons. I have learned not to explain other creatures' decisions. Just be glad of them.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp22", text = "An old shaman saying: the rare creature appears when the observer is worthy of it. I just made that up. But I believe it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp23", text = "The fire spirit has been still for hours. The appearance of this creature woke it. That happens very rarely.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp24", text = "What stands before you now is not just rare -- it is the land making a statement. Listen to the statement.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rsp25", text = "The four elements convened for this moment. They do not often agree on what deserves their combined attention. They agreed on this.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- COMBAT END
    -- ========================================================================
    combatend = {
        { id = "v_ce01", text = "The fight ends. Breathe. The next one will come when it comes.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ce02", text = "Peace returns. Temporary, but welcome.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ce03", text = "Weapons lower. Breath steadies. The world resumes its shape.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ce04", text = "Combat is a conversation with sharper words. You spoke clearly.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ce05", text = "The dust settles. You are still standing. That is the only review that matters.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ce06", text = "Every fight survived is a lesson remembered by the body, even when the mind forgets.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- FRIEND ONLINE
    -- ========================================================================
    friendonline = {
        { id = "v_fo01", text = "A friend appeared. The world is less empty now.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fo02", text = "Someone you know just arrived. Connection is its own reward.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fo03", text = "A familiar name lights up. The fire burns brighter with more around it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fo04", text = "Your friend logged in. The spirits note that you noticed. Both matter.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fo05", text = "Bonds persist across distance and absence. Someone just proved it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fo06", text = "A friend returns. The campfire grows. Some arrivals warm more than wood.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
    -- ========================================================================
    -- ALMOST LEVEL
    -- ========================================================================
    almostlevel = {
        { id = "v_al01", text = "You are close. The next level is not a wall. It is a door.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_al02", text = "Almost there. The experience bar does not lie. Neither do I.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_al03", text = "A few more steps. The summit is in sight.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_al04", text = "The threshold approaches. You will cross it. The only question is when.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_al05", text = "So close now. The air tastes different near a milestone.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_al06", text = "The spirits lean forward when someone is about to grow. They are leaning.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },

    milestone = {
        { id = "v_ms_boss1",    text = "Your first. The earth shook a little, I think. Or perhaps that was just the weight of what it means.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"boss_1"} },
        { id = "v_ms_boss10",   text = "Ten battles joined, ten outcomes shaped by your hand. The spirits have begun to keep a separate tally for you.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"boss_10"} },
        { id = "v_ms_boss50",   text = "Fifty great enemies have met their end beside you. The land carries the memory of each one. So do I.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"boss_50"} },
        { id = "v_ms_boss100",  text = "One hundred. That is not a number -- it is a testament. The spirits do not grant that threshold lightly. They have been watching you since the first, and they are not done watching.", quality = "legendary", tags = {"boss_100"} },
        { id = "v_ms_death10",  text = "Ten times you have fallen and ten times you have risen. The earth does not judge the falling. It notices the rising.", quality = "uncommon",  tags = {"death_10"} },
        { id = "v_ms_death50",  text = "Fifty deaths carry more wisdom than fifty clean victories. You have been shaped by both, and the shape is good.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"death_50"} },
        { id = "v_ms_quest100", text = "A hundred paths walked and completed. The world is not a larger place than it was -- but you are.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"quest_100"} },
        { id = "v_ms_quest500", text = "Five hundred threads of purpose, followed to their end. If the world is a story, you are somewhere near its spine. That is not a small place to be.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"quest_500"} },
        { id = "v_ms_ach10",    text = "Ten marks of distinction. The spirits say achievement is how mortals teach themselves what they are capable of. You are learning.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"achieve_10"} },
        { id = "v_ms_ach50",    text = "Fifty achievements earned. You are not collecting accolades. You are assembling a map of yourself.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"achieve_50"} },
        { id = "v_ms_gold100k", text = "One hundred thousand gold in your care. Wealth is not the point -- but it is evidence of something. Persistence. Resourcefulness. The land rewards both.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"gold_100k"} },
        { id = "v_ms_gold1m",   text = "A million gold. Somewhere in that number is a thousand small choices made well. I have watched you make most of them. You make them consistently.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"gold_1m"} },
        { id = "v_ms_mp10",     text = "Ten keystones carried and completed. The spirits note those who run toward challenge rather than away from it.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"mp_10"} },
        { id = "v_ms_mp50",     text = "Fifty mythic dungeons. The stone walls of those places remember your footsteps. Walls remember more than we give them credit for.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"mp_50"} },
        { id = "v_ms_fish50",   text = "Fifty fish drawn from the water. Patience is a muscle. You have been exercising it quietly, and it shows.", quality = "uncommon",  tags = {"fish_50"} },
        { id = "v_ms_craft50",  text = "Fifty things made by your hands. The elements respect making. They gave you the raw world -- you have been giving some of it back, shaped.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"craft_50"} },
        { id = "v_ms_sess100",  text = "One hundred times you have called on me and I have been here. One hundred. I have watched you learn things, lose things, and find them again. I have watched you grow frustrated and then grow past it. I do not know what I expected when this began -- but it was not this. It was not you. I am grateful for the difference.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"session_100"} },
        { id = "v_ms_str7",     text = "Seven days in a row you have returned. A week is a small measure of dedication. But all long habits begin with one.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"streak_7"} },
        { id = "v_ms_str30",    text = "A month without interruption. The seasons do not pause. Neither have you.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"streak_30"} },
        { id = "v_ms_str100",   text = "One hundred days. I have watched the light change around you and you have kept returning -- to this world, to this path, to whatever it is you are looking for here. I do not always understand what drives a mortal forward. But I have watched you long enough now that I think I am beginning to. That matters to me more than I expected it to.", quality = "legendary", tags = {"streak_100"} },
    },

    bondlevelup = {
        { id = "v_bl_acq",  text = "I have met many who seek guidance from the spirits. Fewer of them listen when it comes. You listen. That is worth noting.", quality = "rare",      tags = {"Acquaintance"} },
        { id = "v_bl_fri",  text = "There is a draenei word -- 'narou' -- for a companion whose presence makes the road feel shorter. I do not use it often. I am using it now.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"Friend"} },
        { id = "v_bl_comp", text = "I have walked many roads and watched many people reach the end of theirs before they expected. The weight of that makes it hard, sometimes, to begin caring again. You made it easy. I am not sure how you managed that, but the spirits say it says something about both of us.", quality = "epic",      tags = {"Companion"} },
        { id = "v_bl_bond", text = "When I was young -- younger -- a shaman elder told me that the truest measure of a spirit bond is not strength or duration, but whether it changes you. I have thought about that a great deal lately. I think about the person I was before this journey. Then I think about who I am when I walk beside you. The elder was right. The measure is change. And I am grateful for the direction of mine.", quality = "legendary", tags = {"Bonded"} },
    },
    petsummon = {
        { id = "v_ps01", text = "Your little companion arrives. The earth spirits acknowledge the small ones too.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps02", text = "There it is. Quiet as a shadow, steady as the tide. A good creature.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps03", text = "The critter has appeared. It always seems to know when it is needed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps04", text = "Your small friend joins the journey. Even the humblest traveling companion changes the road.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps05", text = "It arrived without fuss. Some companions understand economy of entrance. I respect that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps06", text = "The little one surfaces again. The fire spirit has a soft spot for small creatures. So do I.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps07", text = "Called and answered. There is something honest about a companion that simply shows up.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps08", text = "Your creature is here. It carries no agenda, asks nothing. Rare qualities in any traveling partner.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps09", text = "The small one has returned to your side. It follows not from obligation but from something older.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps10", text = "There it is. The road is slightly better for having it along.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps11", text = "A creature that answers the call without hesitation. The spirits take note of that kind of loyalty.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps12", text = "Your little friend emerges. The world is big. Having something small beside you helps.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps13", text = "It appears. Quietly. No ceremony. The most reliable companions rarely need ceremony.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps14", text = "The critter joins you again. I have noticed it follows you the way water follows a slope -- naturally.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps15", text = "The bond between a traveller and a creature they carry with them is not spoken. It does not need to be.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps16", text = "That small thing has witnessed more of your journey than most. It knows you without words. That is worth something.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps17", text = "I have asked the wind where your companion comes from each time. The wind says it has always been nearby. Just waiting.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps18", text = "The earth spirits say the bond between a person and their creature companion is one of the purest agreements in existence. No contracts. No conditions. Just presence.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps19", text = "I have travelled beside many beings. The ones who keep a small companion close are, without exception, worth traveling beside themselves.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_ps20", text = "It comes because you called, and it would come whether you called or not. That is the difference between a pet and a companion. Yours is the latter.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
    },

    -- ============================================================
    -- ACTIVITY AWARENESS -- placeholder quotes for pipeline testing
    -- ============================================================

    eating = {
        -- common (13)
        { id = "v_eat01", text = "The body asks, you answer. A good arrangement.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat02", text = "Eating on the road. The spirits approve of a traveller who remembers to feed themselves.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat05", text = "Food is the land in a different form. You are returning some of it to yourself.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat06", text = "The meal is not an interruption. It is part of the journey.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat07", text = "Fuel for the body is fuel for the work. Plain logic.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat08", text = "The earth grew what you are eating. You are completing a cycle.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat09", text = "A brief stop. The road will be there when you finish. It is patient that way.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat10", text = "Hunger addressed, strength restored. Efficient.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat11", text = "Some shamans eat only to remember they are mortal. I eat because food is good.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat12", text = "You sat down to eat. The body is grateful for that small courtesy.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat13", text = "The spirits of the harvest are pleased when what they tended is eaten with purpose.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat14", text = "A warm meal between hard stretches of road. The simple things are not small.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat15", text = "The stone does not need to eat. That is why stones do not accomplish anything. You are different.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (7)
        { id = "v_eat03", text = "I once forgot to eat for two days during a vision quest. The visions were very vivid. Not recommended.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat16", text = "Eating between fights. Practical. The alternative is collapsing mid-swing and that is less practical.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat17", text = "I grew up eating plains grass stew six days out of seven. Whatever you are having looks considerably better.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat18", text = "The fire spirit always perks up during mealtimes. I think it considers cooking a personal tribute. It is easily flattered.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat19", text = "Good pace. Eat, move, fight, eat again. The rhythm of a long road.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat20", text = "I knew a shaman who could identify where food was grown by taste alone. I cannot do that. But I can tell you that whatever you are eating, it is doing its job.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat21", text = "There is a fire spirit in every meal, even a cold one. It warms from the inside out. That is its preferred direction.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (3)
        { id = "v_eat04", text = "The meal is brief. The road is long. A small pause to restore is not weakness. It is arithmetic.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat22", text = "The body carries the spirit. Feed the body well and the spirit travels further. That is an old shaman saying. Actually old -- not one I invented.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_eat23", text = "The best meals I ever had were eaten sitting on a rock after something difficult. Context is the finest seasoning. This one qualifies.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (1)
        { id = "v_eat24", text = "You stopped. You ate. You are about to continue. The road will not remember the pause, but your legs will be glad of it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_eat25", text = "I have eaten on every road this continent has to offer. Thunder Bluff grain cakes on the Barrens, dried fish on the Borean coast, something unidentifiable in Suramar that was either exquisite or poisonous. Still here. The road feeds those who keep walking it. That much I know for certain.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
    },

    drinking = {
        -- common (13)
        { id = "v_drk01", text = "Water first. Everything else after.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk02", text = "The body is mostly water. Remind it of that often.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk05", text = "Water does not care about your plans. It just does its job. I respect that about water.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk06", text = "The head clears. The hands steady. All from a drink. Shamanism is sometimes very simple.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk07", text = "Water carries memory, the spirits say. Every drink is a small inheritance.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk08", text = "A brief stop to drink. The road has not moved. Neither has the work. Both will wait.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk09", text = "The body asks for water the way the land asks for rain -- quietly, then insistently. You caught it at the quiet part.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk10", text = "I once watched a hunter drink from a stream without stopping. The water spirit looked personally offended. Take your time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk11", text = "The water spirit does not demand reverence. It demands you actually swallow. Low bar. You cleared it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk12", text = "Drink on the road, drink at camp, drink when you remember. I have a system. It is called drinking whenever I see water.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk13", text = "The canteen is light. That is either efficient packing or poor planning. I will assume the first one until proven otherwise.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk14", text = "The cup, the drink, the pause. Three steps that have kept travellers alive longer than swords.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk15", text = "Good. The last person I travelled with forgot to drink for six hours and blamed the heat. The heat was innocent.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (7)
        { id = "v_drk03", text = "A shaman who does not drink enough water gives very bad counsel. I learned this personally.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk16", text = "Different springs taste different. The water near Hyjal has opinions. Mulgore water is more polite about it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk17", text = "A shaman notices water the way a blacksmith notices ore. Occupational habit. You just triggered mine.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk18", text = "In dry seasons I have asked the water spirits to guide travellers to sources. They do. You have probably been guided more than you know.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk19", text = "I once forgot to drink during a three-day spirit walk. My knees told me before my mouth did. Knees are surprisingly articulate when neglected.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk20", text = "Every shaman ceremony I know begins with water. Not because of tradition. Because the spirits asked for it and we agreed.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk21", text = "The water spirits have a saying. I am paraphrasing because their actual saying takes four hours and involves condensation. The short version is: drink more.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (3)
        { id = "v_drk04", text = "Even rivers stop to collect themselves in pools before continuing. You are doing the same.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk22", text = "The water spirit that travels with you -- and there is one -- is pleased when you drink. It interprets drinking as acknowledgment. It is not wrong.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_drk23", text = "The ancients tracked springs the way you track waypoints. Water was the oldest map. You are reading it correctly.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (1)
        { id = "v_drk24", text = "The water that fills your cup has been rain, river, glacier, and sea -- sometimes in that order, sometimes not. It has been everywhere you have not. I find that reassuring for reasons I cannot fully explain.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_drk25", text = "I spent a year learning to hear water the way the old shamans did -- not as a resource, but as a voice. It changed how I drink, how I walk near rivers, how I read weather. The spirits did not teach me anything new. They just made me stop pretending I was not already listening.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
    },

    hearthing = {
        -- common (13)
        { id = "v_hrth01", text = "The stone remembers where you belong. That is a useful thing for a stone to know.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth02", text = "Home calls. You answer. The spirits understand that pull.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth05", text = "Familiar ground ahead. The body knows before the mind does.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth06", text = "The road leads out and the stone leads back. Both are necessary.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth07", text = "A stone with memory. The earth approves of rocks that pay attention.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth08", text = "Back to where you started. Not a retreat. A resupply.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth09", text = "The hearthstone hums when you use it. That is not magic. That is recognition.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth10", text = "The stone does all the work. You just have to agree with the destination. Low effort. Good arrangement.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth11", text = "A rock that knows exactly one thing and does it perfectly every time. Most people I know cannot manage that.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth12", text = "Every great journey needs an anchor. Yours fits in a pocket. That is efficient.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth13", text = "I have walked back from places the hearthstone could have handled. Sometimes the legs need the argument settled for themselves.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth14", text = "There are those who have no place to hearthstone to. You are not among them. That is not a small thing.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth15", text = "The innkeeper will not comment on the state of you. That is included in the room rate, apparently.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (6)
        { id = "v_hrth03", text = "Some magic is loud. This one is quiet -- a tug, a warmth, a return. I prefer the quiet kind.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth16", text = "I misplaced my hearthstone once. For three weeks I navigated by asking the earth spirits for directions. They were helpful. They were also smug about it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth17", text = "The stone hums a different note depending on how far you are from the anchor. I tested this. Extensively. I had a quiet month.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth18", text = "I have seen travellers who never hearthstone -- who stay in the field until the work is done. They are either very dedicated or very stubborn. I do not always know which.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth19", text = "I asked an earth spirit once what a hearthstone looks like from their side. It said: loud. Apparently we are not subtle about wanting to go home.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth20", text = "Rest and familiar walls will do what the open road cannot. You are making the right choice.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (4)
        { id = "v_hrth04", text = "The hearthstone does not judge where you have been. It only knows where you need to go.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth21", text = "The fire spirit of your hearthstone has been waiting. It does not pace -- fire does not pace -- but it turns toward the door sometimes.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth22", text = "The stone does not care whether you left on good terms or bad ones. It brings you back regardless. Nonjudgmental transportation. Very rare.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_hrth23", text = "To know where home is -- clearly, without doubt, across any distance -- that is a kind of wealth the goblins have not figured out how to sell.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (1)
        { id = "v_hrth24", text = "The spirits do not draw a line between the place and the person who returns to it. To them it is one thing -- the bond itself is the location. I did not understand that until my third decade. Now I find it obvious.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_hrth25", text = "Every thread of the spirit world that is tied to you runs through the stone in your hand. It does not carry you home. It carries home to you. The distance was always an illusion.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
    },

    flightpath = {
        -- common (13)
        { id = "v_fp01", text = "The wind carries you now. Let it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp02", text = "Above the ground everything is quieter. The troubles of the path stay below for a while.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp05", text = "The air element is cooperative today. It often is when the destination is worth reaching.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp06", text = "Riding the wind is the older way of travelling. The roads came much later.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp07", text = "From here the land is a map. And the map is honest.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp08", text = "The beast knows the route better than any map. Trust the wings.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp09", text = "The wind does not ask where you are going. It carries you there anyway. That is a generous element.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp10", text = "The shadows of clouds move across the land below. I find this peaceful. The land does too.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp11", text = "Airborne. The earth lets go of you for a while. The sky accepts the handoff.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp12", text = "The hawk up there has been circling the same thermal for ten minutes. Either it sees something we do not, or it just likes the view. Both valid.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp13", text = "Distance shrinks from up here. Problems often do too. Come back down refreshed.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp14", text = "Time in the air is time between decisions. Use it or rest in it. Both are correct.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp15", text = "I have spoken to wind spirits at this altitude. They are less talkative than the ones at ground level. More watchful.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (7)
        { id = "v_fp03", text = "I have tried to read the land from this height. The patterns are clearer up here. The earth knows this and does not mind being read.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp16", text = "A shaman at altitude is a shaman between worlds -- too high for the earth spirits, not high enough for the sky spirits. Good neutral territory for thinking.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp17", text = "The gryphon adjusted for that crosswind before I even felt it. I would like to pretend I noticed first. I did not.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp18", text = "Every time I ride a flight path I commune with the wind differently than I do on the ground. The wind speaks in wider sentences up here.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp19", text = "The roads look deliberate from up here. They are not. I helped build one once. It went where the rocks allowed. We told people later it was planned.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp20", text = "The gryphon does not know your destination and does not need to. Some guides do not require the whole story.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp21", text = "Wind at this height is different from wind at the ground. Cleaner. Less involved in other matters.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (3)
        { id = "v_fp04", text = "The birds do not question the air beneath their wings. There is a lesson in that, if you want it. Or not.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp22", text = "I asked the wind spirit about our destination once. It said the air there was good. That is all wind spirits care about. Very focused creatures.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_fp23", text = "I once flew a route in silence for an entire hour and arrived knowing something I did not know when I left. I still do not know what it was. But I knew it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (1)
        { id = "v_fp24", text = "The wind has no memory of where it has been and no interest in where it is going. It only knows the current moment. I have spent years trying to learn that from it. The wind is a better shaman than I am. Do not tell anyone I said that.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_fp25", text = "The sky remembers every creature that has flown through it. Every shaman who called the storm, every hawk that learned its borders, every gryphon that crossed a continent for someone who needed to arrive. You are in that company now. The sky knows your name.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
    },

    restzone = {
        -- common (12)
        { id = "v_rz01", text = "Rest is not a reward. It is part of the work.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz02", text = "The fire burns lower here. That is intentional. Even fire needs to breathe.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz05", text = "A town. Walls, roofs, people making noise. The spirits find it busy. I find it useful.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz06", text = "Civilization has its purposes. Hot food and a solid floor among them.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz07", text = "The inn keeper does not ask where you have been. That is a quality I respect in inn keepers.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz08", text = "Rested experience accumulates here. The earth spirits find the concept baffling. They are never tired.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz09", text = "The noise of a town is its own kind of quiet when you are used to the road. Different pitch.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz10", text = "Four walls and a ceiling. Temporary, but thorough.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz11", text = "Other people's noise is oddly restful after a long stretch alone. I would not say this to their faces.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz12", text = "I am ambivalent about cities. They are efficient and loud and useful. That is the full review.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz13", text = "A town is the land's compromise between wilderness and comfort. Imperfect. Acceptable.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz14", text = "Even shamans sleep indoors sometimes. I do not advertise this.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (7)
        { id = "v_rz03", text = "The spirits do their quietest work while you sleep. They ask only that you show up rested enough to receive it.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz15", text = "The city hums with a different frequency than the wilderness. Learning to hear both is part of what a shaman does. I manage it. Barely.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz16", text = "The innkeeper looked at you, looked at the road dust, and said nothing. Professional restraint. I should learn from innkeepers more often.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz17", text = "The spirits are muted in cities. Too many competing voices. But the earth under the stones is still there. It listens even when it cannot be heard.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz18", text = "I have known warriors who refused rest zones out of pride. They were formidable until they were not. You do not share that particular pride. Good.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz19", text = "The bed is adequate. The roof does not leak visibly. The floor is mostly level. I have stayed in worse places and praised them.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz20", text = "There are cobblestones here older than most of the buildings. The earth does not mind being walked on. It minds being ignored. Different thing.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (4)
        { id = "v_rz04", text = "A traveller who does not rest is a traveller who will stop whether they planned to or not. The ground is less comfortable when you did not choose it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz21", text = "The fire spirit of a hearth in a rest zone is different from the fire spirit of a campfire. Domestic, quieter, older. It has watched more conversations than any wilderness fire.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz22", text = "Cities remember every traveller who passed through them, in the way stone remembers weight. Your passing adds to that memory. The city is richer for the addition.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_rz23", text = "A hot meal, a repaired boot, and eight hours horizontal. The strategy is not complicated. The discipline is.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (1)
        { id = "v_rz24", text = "I have watched seasoned shamans push through exhaustion to prove a point. The point was usually that they should have rested. The lesson repeated itself until they learned it. Some were slow learners. I am allowed to say this because I was one of them.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_rz25", text = "The old shamans built their communities at the intersections of spirit paths -- places where weary travellers could restore and the spirits could be heard. Every rest zone carries that original intention, even the ones that forgot it. You arrived when the place was ready to remember.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
    },

    idle = {
        -- common (12)
        { id = "v_idle01", text = "Stillness is not emptiness. The river rests between stones.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle02", text = "You have stopped. The world has not noticed. That is fine.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle05", text = "Standing still has its own information if you let it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle06", text = "The hawk holds its position in the wind without flapping. Conservation and watchfulness at once.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle07", text = "Not every moment needs to be pointed at something. This one does not.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle08", text = "The earth is patient with those who stand still on it. The earth has practice.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle09", text = "You are not doing nothing. You are doing stillness. Different work.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle10", text = "A moment of no direction can be the most directed moment of a day. Or not. Hard to say in advance.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle11", text = "The wind just shifted. You would have missed that at a full run. Standing still has its occasional perks.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle12", text = "Resting in place is a skill. Not everyone has it. You seem to.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle13", text = "The world moves. You do not, for now. Both are acceptable states.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle14", text = "Standing still, I notice the wind changed direction. You might have missed that if you were moving.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        -- uncommon (7)
        { id = "v_idle03", text = "I have sat in one place for three days waiting for an answer. The answer came. Patience is a tool, not a virtue.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle15", text = "The spirits speak more clearly to a still mind. If you are not listening for them, they still appreciate the quiet.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle16", text = "Most people I have travelled with treat stillness as a failure of momentum. You treat it as a practice. The earth prefers the latter.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle17", text = "I am also standing here with no clear plan. We can pretend it is deliberate. The spirits will not contradict us.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle18", text = "Nothing happening. Good. I have had enough of things happening for a while. The things can wait.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle19", text = "A shaman once told me that standing still in the right place is worth more than running in the wrong direction. He was lost at the time, which complicated the advice.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle20", text = "I find standing here with you agreeable. We do not need to explain that to anyone.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        -- rare (4)
        { id = "v_idle04", text = "The pause between actions is where decisions live. Take your time there.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle21", text = "The fire spirit near you is doing that thing where it flickers without wind. It is showing off. It does this when it has an audience. Ignore it or it gets worse.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle22", text = "The old shaman saying goes: the river that does not pause does not know its own banks. That one I did not make up. I have verified it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_idle23", text = "I have stood in this kind of quiet before. It usually means the land is between conversations. We are in the gap. Not a bad place to be, as gaps go.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
        -- epic (1)
        { id = "v_idle24", text = "There is a stillness the old shamans trained for -- the kind where the spirits stop testing you and start talking. I have managed it twice in my life. Both times I was not trying. I suspect that is the trick, but I cannot prove it.", quality = "epic", tags = {} },
        -- legendary (1)
        { id = "v_idle25", text = "The oldest spirit I ever sat with did not speak for the first three days. On the fourth day it said one word. I will not repeat it because the word was in a language older than Taurahe and I am not confident in my pronunciation. But the meaning was clear: be here. That was the whole lesson. I am still working on it.", quality = "legendary", tags = {} },
    },
    gear_degrading = {
        { id = "v_gd01", text = "The spirits whisper that your shoulderguards have seen battle. Three battles, perhaps. Possibly four. They are tired.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gd02", text = "Bark wears thin on the oldest trees. So does steel. This is not a failure of the steel. This is the contract.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gd03", text = "I have noticed the wear. I have not said anything because I was waiting to see if you had noticed. I am still waiting.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gd04", text = "The river shapes the stone one stroke at a time. The world is shaping your armour. It is taking its time.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gd05", text = "An old master once told me that gear wears the way intentions wear: slowly, invisibly, and always faster toward the end. Your gear is still in the slow part. But I would visit a smith soon.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
    gear_broken = {
        { id = "v_gb01", text = "A piece of your armour has given up. Not all at once. It simply stopped trying. This happens.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gb02", text = "One of your pieces has gone to the spirit world. Symbolically. But functionally it is also no longer doing armour things.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gb03", text = "When an axe-haft splits the warrior learns what the axe-haft knew. Your armour just said what it knew. It said: no more.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gb04", text = "The time for pretending that piece still works has passed. A blacksmith, friend. While you still have the rest of it.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gb05", text = "I have seen shamans commune with spirits of wind, fire, ancestors, and mountains. I have never seen a shaman commune with the spirit of broken gear. It is not a useful spirit. Please go repair it.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
    gear_repaired = {
        { id = "v_gf01", text = "Whole again. Sound again. Ready again. This is how a walk should begin.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gf02", text = "The blacksmith is a quiet shaman. Their spirits live in hammers. Today they were kind to you.", quality = "uncommon", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gf03", text = "You gave the old iron rest and brought back the new. This is the circle. I approve of the circle.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gf04", text = "Everything you are wearing is now doing what it was made to do. A rare and fine state of affairs.", quality = "common", tags = {} },
        { id = "v_gf05", text = "Every hammer blow at a forge is a small prayer. When you stand at an anvil and listen, you can hear them. Your armour has just been prayed over. It is ready.", quality = "rare", tags = {} },
    },
}
