@massif/lancer-data 3.1.6 → 4.0.0-beta.1

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package/README.md CHANGED
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Actions in `actions.json` define the basic actions every player has access to in
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  "confirm"?: string[]
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  "log"?: string
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  "ignore_used"?: boolean
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- "heat_cost"?: boolean
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+ "heat_cost"?: number
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  }
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  ```
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  {
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  "id": string,
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  "name": string,
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- "description": string // v-html
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+ "description": string, // v-html
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+ "skills"?: string[] // Use ids from skills.json
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  }
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  ```
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+ The `skills` field is an optional array of skill IDs from `skills.json`, used to present example skill triggers for a background. Upon selection of a background, if a pilot currently has no skill trigger points assigned, C/C will attempt to auto-populate the pilot with 1 point in each of the example skill triggers.
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  # CORE Bonuses (core_bonuses.json)
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  "name": string, // v-html
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  "type": "Weapon",
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  "description"?: string,
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+ "effect"?: string,
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  "tags"?: ITagData[],
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  "range"?: IRangeData[],
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  "damage"?: IDamageData[],
package/lib/actions.json CHANGED
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  "activation": "Free",
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  "terse": "Overcharging immediately allows you to make any quick action of your choice as a Free Action, even one you already made this turn.",
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  "detail": "When you OVERCHARGE, you briefly push your mech beyond factory specifications for a tactical advantage. Moments of intense action won’t tax your mech’s systems too much, but sustained action beyond prescribed limits takes a toll.<br>Once per turn, you can OVERCHARGE your mech, allowing you to make any quick action as a free action – even actions you have already taken this turn.<br>The first time you OVERCHARGE, take 1 heat.<br>The second time you OVERCHARGE, take 1d3 heat.<br>The third time, take 1d6 heat, and each time thereafter take 1d6+4 heat.<br>A FULL REPAIR resets this counter.",
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- "synergy_locations": [
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- "overcharge"
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- ],
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- "confirm": [
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- "REACTOR LIMITER DISABLED. CORE TEMPERATURES RISING."
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- ]
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+ "synergy_locations": ["overcharge"]
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  },
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  {
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  "id": "act_skirmish",
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  "activation": "Quick",
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  "terse": "Take an extra movement of at least 1 space, up to your SPEED.",
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  "detail": "When you BOOST, you move at least 1 space, up to your SPEED. This allows you to make an extra movement, on top of your standard move. Certain talents and systems can only be used when you BOOST, not when you make a standard move.",
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- "synergy_locations": [
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- "boost"
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- ],
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- "confirm": [
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- "POWER REDIRECTED."
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- ],
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+ "synergy_locations": ["boost"],
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  "mech": true,
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  "pilot": true
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  },
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  "activation": "Quick",
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  "terse": "Attempt to knock down or knock back your target. On a success the target is knocked Prone and you may choose to knock them back one space.",
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  "detail": "When you RAM, you make a melee attack with the aim of knocking a target down or back.<br>To RAM, make a melee attack against an adjacent character the same SIZE or smaller than you. On a success, your target is knocked PRONE and you may also choose to knock them back by one space, directly away from you.",
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- "synergy_locations": [
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- "ram"
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- ],
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- "confirm": [
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- "MANEUVER CONFIRMED.",
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- "WARNING: PROXIMITY.",
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- "WARNING: COLLISION IMMINENT"
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- ]
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+ "synergy_locations": ["ram"]
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  },
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  {
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  "id": "act_grapple",
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  "activation": "Quick",
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  "terse": "Attempt to grab on your target, potentially immobilizing it or riding it.",
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  "detail": "When you GRAPPLE, you try to grab hold of a target and overpower them – disarming, subduing, or damaging them so they can’t do the same to you.<br>To GRAPPLE, choose an adjacent character and make a melee attack. On a hit:<br>• both characters become ENGAGED;<br>• neither character can BOOST or take reactions for the duration of the grapple;<br>• the smaller character becomes IMMOBILIZED but moves when the larger party moves, mirroring their movement. If both parties are the same SIZE, either can make contested HULL checks at the start of their turn: the winner counts as larger than the loser until this contest is repeated.<br>A GRAPPLE ends when:<br>• either character breaks adjacency, such as if they are knocked back by another effect;<br>• the attacker chooses to end the grapple as a free action;<br>• The defender breaks free by succeeding on a contested HULL check as a quick action.<br>If a GRAPPLE involves more than two characters, the same rules apply, but when counting SIZE, add together the SIZE of all characters on each side. For example, if two SIZE 1 allied characters are grappling a single SIZE 2 enemy, the allied characters count as a combined SIZE 2 and can try to drag their foe around.",
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- "synergy_locations": [
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- "grapple"
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+ "synergy_locations": ["grapple"]
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  {
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  "id": "act_quick_tech",
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  "terse": "Perform quick electronic warfare or systems-boosting activities.",
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  "detail": "When you use QUICK TECH, you engage in electronic warfare, countermeasures, and other technical actions, often aided by a mech’s powerful computing and simulation cores.<br>Each time you take this action, you choose an option from the QUICK TECH list. All mechs have access to these options, but some systems enhance them or make new options available.<br>Unlike other quick actions, QUICK TECH can be taken more than once per turn; however, a different option must be chosen every time, unless specified otherwise or granted as a free action.",
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  "ignore_used": true,
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- "synergy_locations": [
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- "quick_tech"
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+ "synergy_locations": ["quick_tech"]
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  {
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  "id": "act_bolster",
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  "activation": "Quick Tech",
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  "terse": "Enhance another character’s systems.",
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  "detail": "When you BOLSTER, you use your mech’s formidable processing power to enhance another character’s systems.<br>To BOLSTER, choose a character within SENSORS. They receive +2 Accuracy on the next skill check or save they make between now and the end of their next turn. Characters can only benefit from one BOLSTER at a time.",
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- "bolster"
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- ],
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- "confirm": [
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- "UPLINK ESTABLISHED.",
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- "PARALLELIZING COMBAT ALGORITHMS"
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+ "synergy_locations": ["bolster"]
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  "id": "act_scan",
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  "terse": "Perform a deep scan on an enemy",
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  "detail": "When you SCAN, you use your mech’s powerful sensors to perform a deep scan on an enemy.<br>To SCAN, choose a character or object within SENSORS and line of sight, then ask the GM for one of the following pieces of information, which they must answer honestly:<br>• Your target’s weapons, systems, and full statistics (HP, SPEED, EVASION, ARMOR, MECH SKILLS, and so on).<br>• One piece of hidden information about the target, such as confidential cargo or data, current mission, the identity of the pilot, and so on.<br>• Generic or public information about the target that can be pulled from an info bank or records, such as the model number of a mech.<br>Any information gathered is only current at the time of the SCAN – if the target later takes damage, for instance, you don’t receive an update.",
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- "synergy_locations": [
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- "scan"
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- "confirm": [
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- "ESTABLISHING TARGET LOCK.",
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- "LOCK CONFIRMED. FIRING SOLUTIONS CALCULATED."
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  "id": "act_lockon",
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  "terse": "Digitally mark a target",
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  "detail": "When you LOCK ON, you digitally mark a target, lighting them up for your teammates’ targeting systems and exposing weak points.<br>To LOCK ON, choose a character within SENSORS and line of sight. They gain the LOCK ON condition. Any character making an attack against a character with LOCK ON may choose to gain +1 Accuracy on that attack and then clear the LOCK ON condition after that attack resolves. This is called consuming LOCK ON.",
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- "lock_on"
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- ],
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- "confirm": [
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- "ESTABLISHING TARGET LOCK.",
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- "LOCK CONFIRMED. FIRING SOLUTIONS CALCULATED."
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  "terse": "IMPAIR and SLOW a character until the end of their next turn.",
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- "detail": "You feed false information, obscene messages, or phantom signals to your target’s computing core. They become IMPAIRED and SLOWED until the end of their next turn.",
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+ "detail": "You feed false information, obscene messages, or phantom signals to your target’s computing core. They become IMPAIRED and SLOWED until the end of their next turn."
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  "detail": "When you HIDE, you obscure the position of your mech in order to reposition, avoid incoming fire, repair, or ambush.<br>To HIDE, you must not be ENGAGED and you must either be outside of any enemies’ line of sight, obscured by sufficient cover, or invisible. If you HIDE while meeting one of these criteria, you gain the HIDDEN status.<br>Hard cover is sufficient to HIDE as long as it is large enough to totally conceal you, but soft cover is only sufficient if you are completely inside an area or zone that grants soft cover – many systems and talents that grant soft cover or plain old obscurement just don’t provide enough to hide behind!<br>If you are INVISIBLE, you can always HIDE, regardless of cover, unless you’re ENGAGED.<br>The exact location of HIDDEN targets cannot be identified and they cannot be targeted directly by attacks or hostile actions, but they can still be hit by attacks that affect an area. Although NPCs cannot perfectly locate a HIDDEN character, they might still know an approximate location. Thus, an NPC could flush an area with a flamethrower even if they don’t know exactly where a HIDDEN player is lurking.<br>Additionally, other characters ignore engagement with you while you are HIDDEN – it’s assumed you’re trying to stay stealthy.<br>You cease to be HIDDEN if you make an attack (melee, ranged, or tech) or if your mech takes a hostile action (such as forcing a target to make a save). Using BOOST or taking reactions with your mech also causes you to lose HIDDEN. Other actions can be taken as normal.<br>You also immediately lose HIDDEN if your cover disappears or is destroyed, or if you lose cover due to line of sight (e.g., if a mech jumps over a wall and can now draw unbroken line of sight to you). If you’re hiding while INVISIBLE, you lose HIDDEN when you cease to be INVISIBLE unless you are in cover.",
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- "hide"
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- "confirm": [
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- "SENSOR SIGNATURE OBSCURED. COMMS IN TIGHTBEAM ONLY. SIGHTLINES CLEAR."
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  "detail": "When you SEARCH, you attempt to identify hidden characters. To SEARCH in a mech, choose a character within your SENSORS that you suspect is HIDDEN and make a contested SYSTEMS check against their AGILITY.<br>To SEARCH as a pilot on foot, make a contested skill check, adding bonuses from triggers as normal. This can be used to reveal characters within RANGE 5.<br>Once a HIDDEN character has been found using SEARCH, they immediately lose HIDDEN and can be located again by any character.",
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  "terse": "Eject from your mech, flying 6 spaces in the direction of your choice.",
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  "detail": "You can also EJECT as a quick action, flying 6 spaces in the direction of your choice; however, this is a single-use system for emergency use only – it leaves your mech IMPAIRED. Your mech remains IMPAIRED and you cannot EJECT again until your next FULL REPAIR.",
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- "GOOD LUCK, PILOT."
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  "detail": "When you PREPARE, you get ready to take an action at a specific time or when a specific condition is met (a more advantageous shot, for example).<br>As a quick action, you can PREPARE any other quick action and specify a trigger. Until the start of your next turn, when it is triggered, you can take this action as a reaction.<br>The trigger for your prepared action must be phrased as “When X, then Y,” where X is a reaction, action or move taken by a hostile or allied character and Y is your action. For example, “when an allied character moves adjacent to me, I want to throw a smoke grenade,” or “when a hostile character moves adjacent to me, I want to ram them”.<br>Your preparation counts as taking the action, so it follows all usual restrictions on that action and on taking multiple actions. You can’t, for example, SKIRMISH and then prepare to SKIRMISH again; you also can’t move and then PREPARE to SKIRMISH with an ORDNANCE weapon, which normally needs to be fired before moving or doing anything else on your turn. Additionally, after you PREPARE an action, you can’t move or take any other actions or reactions until the start of your next turn or until your action has been triggered, whichever comes first.<br>Although you can’t take reactions while holding a prepared action, you can take them normally after it has been triggered. You can also drop your prepared action, allowing you to take reactions as usual. If the trigger condition isn’t met, you lose your prepared action.<br>When you PREPARE, it is visible to casual observers (e.g., you clearly take aim or cycle up systems).",
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  "detail": "When you SELF DESTRUCT, you overload your mech’s reactor in a final, catastrophic play if there’s no other option for escape or you deem your sacrifice necessary.<br>You can SELF DESTRUCT as a quick action, initiating a reactor meltdown. At the end of your next turn, or at the end of one of your turns within the following two rounds (your choice), your mech explodes as though it suffered a reactor meltdown. The explosion annihilates your mech, killing anyone inside and causing a BURST 2 explosion that deals 4d6 explosive damage. Characters caught in the explosion that succeed on an AGILITY save take half of this damage.",
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  "terse": "Shut down your mech as a desperate measure, to end system attacks, regain control of AI, and cool your mech. The mech is STUNNED until rebooted via the BOOT UP action.",
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  "detail": "When you SHUT DOWN, your mech powers completely off and enters a rest state. It’s always risky to do in the field, but it’s sometimes necessary to prevent a catastrophic systems overload or an NHP cascading.<br>You can SHUT DOWN your mech as a quick action. Your mech takes the SHUT DOWN status, with these effects:<br>• all heat is cleared, as is EXPOSED;<br>• any cascading NHPs return to a normal state;<br>• any statuses or conditions affecting the mech caused by tech actions, such as LOCK ON, immediately end;<br>• the mech gains IMMUNITY to all tech actions and attacks, including any from allied characters;<br>• the mech is STUNNED indefinitely. Nothing can prevent this condition, and it remains until the mech ceases to be SHUT DOWN.<br>The only way to remove the SHUT DOWN status is to BOOT UP the mech.",
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- ">:// _"
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  "detail": "When you DISMOUNT, you climb off of a mech. Dismounting is the preferred term among most pilots.<br>You can DISMOUNT as a full action. When you DISMOUNT, you are placed in an adjacent space – if there are no free spaces, you cannot DISMOUNT.<br>Additionally, you can also DISMOUNT willing allied mechs or vehicles you have MOUNTED.",
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