{
  "note": "Book Report grades and Book One endings. Player-facing copy. Voiced lazily through /api/tts (this file is in the TTS vocabulary).",
  "grades": [
    {"g": "A+", "min": 28, "tag": "Gold Star, Unfortunately", "ink": 2,
     "line": "A plus. There is nothing left of my chapter but the page numbers, and I suspect you've been at those too. Frankly, it's magnificent. Please never do it again."},
    {"g": "A", "min": 20, "tag": "Excellent Vandalism", "ink": 2,
     "line": "An A. You took a perfectly good chapter apart and put it back together with extra pieces. Somehow it still works. I've checked it for structural damage. Twice."},
    {"g": "B", "min": 13, "tag": "Promising Mischief", "ink": 1,
     "line": "A B. You broke enough of it to make a point and left enough of it standing to make it hurt. That's how I'd do it, if I did that sort of thing. Which I don't."},
    {"g": "C", "min": 7, "tag": "Light Tampering", "ink": 0,
     "line": "A C. A few edits, tastefully done. The chapter is mostly as I wrote it, with one or two dents. I've decided to call them character."},
    {"g": "D", "min": 3, "tag": "Barely Jacked", "ink": 0,
     "line": "A D. You hardly touched it. I should be thrilled. Instead I keep glancing over my shoulder, waiting for the goose."},
    {"g": "See Me After Class", "min": 0, "tag": "Suspiciously Well Behaved", "ink": 0,
     "line": "See me after class. You read the whole chapter and changed almost nothing. It was rather lovely. It was also deeply suspicious. Empty your pockets. Show me your cards."}
  ],
  "endings": {
    "written": {
      "title": "Epilogue: Exactly As Written",
      "scene": "s19_margins", "chars": ["ch_mortimer", "ch_george"], "mood": "night",
      "paras": [
        "Mortimer Quill handed his book to the Guild of Licensed Narrators on a Tuesday. The reviewer read it in one sitting, with a red pen she never once uncapped. Then she stamped the cover: Exactly As Written. First Class.",
        "Mortimer got the corner office in the Margins. It had a window, a kettle, and a lovely view of the footnotes. George came round for tea on Thursdays. It was very quiet. Mortimer kept the door open, just a crack, in case a reader came by with a card."
      ],
      "farewell": "First Class. Me. I'd like it noted that I did it by the book, and that the book was rather good. Thank you for leaving it mostly alone. If you ever get the urge to meddle, you know where I am. Page one. I'll put the kettle on."
    },
    "distinction": {
      "title": "Epilogue: Second Class, With Distinction",
      "scene": "s5_parade", "chars": ["ch_mortimer", "pip", "honk"], "mood": "whimsy",
      "paras": [
        "Mortimer Quill handed his book to the Guild of Licensed Narrators on a Tuesday. The reviewer read it twice. She laughed once, at the {pip_tool}, and then pretended it was a cough.",
        "She stamped the cover Second Class, With Distinction, and added a footnote in very small writing: Not the book he filed. Possibly better. Keep an eye on him. Mortimer had the footnote framed. He tells people it's a warning. Everybody knows it's a compliment."
      ],
      "farewell": "With Distinction. Do you know how rare a distinction is? Neither do I. They wouldn't tell me, which means it's extremely rare. Thank you for reading, and for only ruining it a medium amount."
    },
    "admiral": {
      "title": "Epilogue: The Admiral Files a Grievance",
      "scene": "s9_inn", "chars": ["ch_honk", "sidekick", "ch_mortimer"], "mood": "silly",
      "paras": [
        "On the morning of Mortimer's review, the real Admiral Honk came back. Nobody knows where recast actors go. Wherever it is, he had spent the whole book there, sharpening his beak and writing a grievance, in triplicate.",
        "The Guild read it out loud. Item one: the duck pond navy. Item two: back pay, in bread. Item three: the right to honk, once, very loudly and at close range, at {sidekick_l}. All three were granted. Admiral Honk now shares the navy with {sidekick_l}. Neither of them will say who is in charge, and the ducks have stopped asking."
      ],
      "farewell": "My review has been postponed, pending a goose. I've been called as a witness. I'd like it noted that I said, right at the very start, please leave the goose alone. Thank you for reading. Mind your ankles."
    },
    "plotjacked": {
      "title": "Epilogue: Plotjacked",
      "scene": "s21_throne", "chars": ["ch_mortimer", "pip", "clementine"], "mood": "triumphant",
      "paras": [
        "Mortimer Quill handed his book to the Guild of Licensed Narrators on a Tuesday. It was nothing like the book he had filed. The reviewer read it, put it down, took her shoes off, and read it again from the start.",
        "Then she snapped her rubber stamp in half and wrote a brand new grade by hand: First Class, Unlicensed. It means a narrator who reports what actually happened, however silly it turns out to be. There has only ever been one. He keeps {a_pip_tool} on his desk, so he never forgets how it started."
      ],
      "food": "He has not eaten it. He thinks about it most afternoons.",
      "farewell": "Unlicensed. It sounds dangerous. It's mostly paperwork. I'd like it noted that I hated nearly every one of your edits, at first. Then I didn't. Thank you, Plotjack. Same time next book?"
    }
  }
}