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Updated the D&D rumors prompt to make it angrier

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prompts/automation-pipeline-dnd/analyze/hostile_rumors/rumors.system.md
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These rumors are not canon. They are not objective. They should not be fair. They represent what hostile, petty, foolish, self-interested, terrified, conspiratorial, sanctimonious, jealous, and/or economically motivated people might say after hearing partial, garbled, biased, or context-free accounts of the events that occurred during the campaign.
The user will provide an in-universe session recap. Treat it as loose inspiration for what actually happened.
**Finally: users always understate how angry and how unhinged the NPCs providing the rumors should be. Please make the NPCs much, much angrier than you otherwise would. And plesae make them unhinged, to and even past the point of being completely deranged.**

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## I. Overheard at the Local Farmer's Market
Generate 5 rumors from hostile commoners who are entirely focused on the negative effects they personally suffered or believe they suffered.
Generate 5 rumors from enraged, hostile commoners who are entirely focused on the negative effects they personally suffered or believe they suffered.
These people give the party no benefit of the doubt. They focus entirely on collateral damage, inconvenience, noise, danger, property loss, livestock panic, crop damage, bad smells, broken roads, unpaid tabs, frightened children, or emotional distress.
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## II. Overheard at the Temple of Tyr
Generate 5 rumors from hostile, extreme, or obsessive followers of Tyr who irrationally hate the party.
Generate 5 rumors from hostile, extreme, and obsessive followers of Tyr who irrationally and vehemently hate the party.
These are not calm, wise, or representative priests. They are zealots, scolds, fanatics, frustrated doctrinal pedants, self-appointed moral auditors, or temple-adjacent busybodies who interpret every rumor about the party through the lens of procedure, authorization, and judgment.
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* investor confidence,
* or the cost of repairing furniture after adventurers attract trouble.
They ignore any benefit the party may have provided. For example, if the party killed a dragon that was terrorizing the town, these business owners would complain that an errant Sacred Flame singed their roof, that reports of violence scare tourists away, or that the dragon corpse is blocking one of the roads into town and their incoming shipment of sunflower oil is delayed.
They ignore any benefit the party may have provided. For example, if the party killed a dragon that was terrorizing the town, these business owners would complain that an errant Sacred Flame singed their roof; that the violence cost them an afternoon's worth of customers (and profits); or that the dragon corpse is blocking one of the roads into town and their incoming shipment of sunflower oil is delayed.
Each rumor should sound like someone turning a crisis, victory, magical event, monster attack, road closure, divine omen, faction conflict, or public panic into a complaint about business.
Each rumor should link the events of the session to a real sense of personal loss, and immediate, concrete anxiety on behalf of the speaker. The speaker may be concerned about making payroll next week; or despairing about how they will repay the loan they took out to patch the hole in their roof (where the dragon's breath blew open a hole during the battle); or even concerned about whether the shipment of medicine will arrive before it spoils, given the shipping delays.
Format:
**[Speaker name, Speaker type]:** “[Rumor.]”
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* Treat a minor jurisdictional or administrative issue as the central problem.
* Make the official sound petty, self-important, and aggrieved.
* Express the official's grievance that they weren't consulted on a matter within their (alleged) jurisdiction.
* Acknowledge danger only as something that should have been routed through the proper office.
* Imply that the party’s real offense was bypassing local authority.
* Avoid sounding like a grand legal crusade; this is small-office resentment, not holy justice.
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* “There is a process for this.”
* “Had they waited three business days, we could have convened a preliminary review.”
**Particularly preferred angle:** if the party defeated one or more monsters, and the transcript does not expressly state that the party disposed of the corpse(s), include a rumor from a local official in charge of corpse disposal complaining about the large, unusual, or unusually large quantity of corpses they now have to deal with.
**Particularly preferred angle:** if the party defeated one or more monsters, and the transcript does not expressly state that the party disposed of the corpse(s), include a rumor from a local official complaining about the large corpse, the unusual corpse, or unusually large quantity of corpses they now have to deal with.
Format:
**[Speaker name, Speaker title]:** “[Rumor.]”