Merge pull request #69 from Daren9m/claude/noncombat-engine-v2-pr2-challenges

feat(challenges): non-combat engine v2 — six challenge frameworks

Author: Daren9m

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+// ─── Non-Combat Challenge Cast Pools ──────────────────────────────
+// Content library for the social framework in src/lib/challenge-
+// frameworks/social.ts. PR 2's counterpart to noncombat-scenarios.ts.
+// Personas, wants, secrets, and leverage combine to build a principal
+// NPC; complications and interruptions add live pressure to the scene.
+//
+// Authoring rule: no dice expressions or DC numbers in these strings
+// — the engines attach the numbers. Keep prose vivid and table-ready,
+// D&D fantasy register, no anachronisms.
+
+export interface Persona { archetype: string; quirk: string; speech: string }
+export interface Leverage {
+  kind: 'coin' | 'flattery' | 'threat' | 'logic' | 'favor' | 'secret-for-secret';
+  approach: string;   // what moves them
+  counter: string;    // what backfires
+}
+
+// ─── Personas ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+export const PERSONAS: Persona[] = [
+  { archetype: 'a guild clerk drowning in ledgers', quirk: 'stacks and restacks papers when nervous', speech: 'answers questions with smaller questions' },
+  { archetype: 'a retired sell-sword turned innkeep', quirk: 'polishes the same tankard throughout', speech: 'short sentences, long pauses' },
+  { archetype: 'a temple acolyte assigned to watch the visitors', quirk: 'touches the holy symbol before every lie', speech: 'quotes scripture that never quite fits' },
+  { archetype: 'a caravan master counting losses', quirk: 'taps a tally stick against their palm', speech: 'talks in freight weights and travel days' },
+  { archetype: "a minor noble's steward doing the noble's real work", quirk: 'straightens whatever is nearest before speaking', speech: 'formal to the point of stiffness, until provoked' },
+  { archetype: 'a midwife who has delivered half the district', quirk: 'sizes up strangers like she is checking for a fever', speech: 'blunt, and unbothered by rank' },
+  { archetype: 'a river ferryman who has seen every kind of passenger', quirk: 'spits over the rail before naming a price', speech: 'trades in questions that are really answers' },
+  { archetype: 'a disgraced hedge-mage scraping by on charms', quirk: 'mutters the end of every sentence twice', speech: 'over-explains the harmless magic and dodges the rest' },
+  { archetype: 'a town crier who knows more than the news he shouts', quirk: 'clears his throat before anything true', speech: 'performs even private conversations' },
+  { archetype: 'a mercenary captain between contracts', quirk: 'counts exits in any room within a breath of entering', speech: 'names a price for everything, including advice' },
+  { archetype: 'a widowed innfolk running the family trade alone', quirk: 'wipes hands on an apron that is never actually dirty', speech: 'warm until money or the dead come up' },
+  { archetype: "a gatehouse sergeant tired of being no one's priority", quirk: 'rolls a shoulder that never quite healed right', speech: 'clipped orders even when making requests' },
+  { archetype: 'a traveling relic-appraiser with a magnifying loupe on a chain', quirk: 'squints at anything shiny, mid-sentence', speech: 'prices things aloud without meaning to' },
+  { archetype: 'a shrine keeper tending a god whose worship has thinned', quirk: 'lights a candle for every visitor, believer or not', speech: 'gentle, but circles back to the same worry' },
+];
+
+// ─── Wants ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+export const WANTS: string[] = [
+  'safe passage for a wagon that must not be inspected',
+  "a rival's letter retrieved before it is read aloud at council",
+  'proof that a debt was already paid, before the collectors arrive',
+  'someone trustworthy to carry a message no courier will touch',
+  'a missing relative found before the harvest festival',
+  'a rival merchant undercut without anyone tracing it back',
+  'an old promise called in, quietly, without witnesses',
+  'a stolen heirloom returned before its absence is noticed',
+  'a dangerous rumor about them stopped before it spreads further',
+  'an outsider to vouch for them at a hearing they cannot attend',
+  'safe escort past a watch post they would rather not explain',
+  'a poisoned business deal undone before the ink dries',
+  'someone willing to take the blame for a mistake that was not theirs',
+  'a family grudge settled without it turning into a feud',
+  'a shipment recovered before its owner learns it went missing',
+  'a confession pried from someone who owes them nothing',
+  'protection for a family member who has made dangerous enemies',
+  'a forged document quietly destroyed before it is used against them',
+  'an old rival humiliated in a way that cannot be traced back to them',
+  'the truth about a death that the authorities have already closed the book on',
+];
+
+// ─── Secrets ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+export const SECRETS: string[] = [
+  'the debt they owe is to someone who does not forgive in coin',
+  'they witnessed the crime everyone is asking about — from the wrong side',
+  'they are not who their papers say they are',
+  'they once took a bribe that got someone else killed',
+  'they are hiding a sibling the law wants for a crime long past',
+  'the object everyone assumes was stolen was theirs to give away',
+  'they have been forging a signature for years and no one has noticed',
+  'they know exactly where the missing person is, and why they left',
+  'they broke a vow to a temple that has not forgotten',
+  'the accident that maimed them was no accident at all',
+  'they are quietly buying up debts to seize the land beneath them',
+  'they have been feeding information to the very people they claim to fear',
+  "they buried a body and have told three different lies about the grave since",
+  'their claim to the family trade rests on a will that was never real',
+  'they let an innocent take the blame once, and would do it again',
+  'they are dying of something slow, and no one else knows yet',
+  'the ledger they keep so carefully is a second, false set of books',
+  'they once loved someone the party is now hunting',
+  'they arranged the very disaster they are now offering to help solve',
+  'they have been quietly stockpiling supplies for a war no one else believes is coming',
+];
+
+// ─── Leverage ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+export const LEVERAGE: Leverage[] = [
+  { kind: 'coin', approach: 'a fair price named plainly, half up front', counter: 'haggling insults them — the price rises' },
+  { kind: 'secret-for-secret', approach: 'trade a confidence of equal weight', counter: 'a hollow or invented secret ends all trust' },
+  { kind: 'flattery', approach: 'genuine praise for the one thing they are actually proud of', counter: 'flattery that misses the mark reads as mockery' },
+  { kind: 'threat', approach: 'a quiet, specific warning of a consequence they cannot afford', counter: 'an empty or exaggerated threat makes them call the bluff — and remember the insult' },
+  { kind: 'logic', approach: 'lay out the plain arithmetic of their own self-interest', counter: 'condescension in the explanation turns agreement into stubbornness' },
+  { kind: 'favor', approach: 'call on a debt they already owe, or offer one worth collecting later', counter: 'a favor that costs them more than it is worth breeds resentment, not gratitude' },
+];
+
+// ─── Social Complications ───────────────────────────────────────────
+export const SOCIAL_COMPLICATIONS: string[] = [
+  'a rival faction watches the conversation and will act on whatever is agreed',
+  'the persona is being watched by someone they are terrified of, and it shows',
+  'a mutual acquaintance arrives and expects to be included in the conversation',
+  'the persona has already promised the same thing to someone else',
+  'guards patrol close enough to overhear anything said too loudly',
+  'the persona is testing the party to see if they can be trusted with something larger',
+  'someone in earshot is taking notes for a person the party has not met yet',
+  'the persona is only half paying attention — a real crisis is unfolding elsewhere',
+  'the deal being struck would ruin a friend of the persona if it ever got out',
+  'a child or apprentice of the persona is present and old enough to understand everything',
+];
+
+// ─── Interruptions ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+export const INTERRUPTIONS: string[] = [
+  'a third party arrives mid-conversation with a competing offer',
+  'a messenger bursts in with news that changes the persona\'s priorities entirely',
+  'the persona is suddenly and visibly recognized by someone they hoped to avoid',
+  'a loud commotion outside draws everyone\'s attention for a crucial moment',
+  'someone the persona owes money to walks in and demands to be paid on the spot',
+  'a piece of evidence relevant to the secret is dropped, delivered, or overheard in the room',
+  'the persona receives a note that visibly unsettles them and changes their tone',
+  'an old enemy of the persona recognizes one of the party and says so, loudly',
+];