{
  "id": "main_act_i_003_following_dead",
  "title": "Following the Dead",
  "description": "A coyote-folk stranger named Fen Lacroix arrived in Millhaven the same day you did. He claims to be a merchant. The journal in your pack says otherwise — the people who killed your parents are checking their work, and Lacroix is here to confirm the job is done.",
  "hidden": false,
  "entry_step": "find_lacroix",

  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "find_lacroix",
      "title": "Confront Fen Lacroix",
      "description": "Lacroix is staying at the Millhaven inn. You'll need to find him there before he reports back to whoever sent him.",
      "waypoint": "role:millhaven.lacroix",
      "trigger_conditions": [
        { "kind": "flag_set", "flag": "lacroix_climax_resolved" }
      ],
      "outcomes": [
        { "next": "complete_with_kill",   "when": [ { "kind": "flag_set", "flag": "lacroix_killed" } ] },
        { "next": "complete_with_intel",  "when": [ { "kind": "flag_set", "flag": "lacroix_interrogated" } ] },
        { "next": "complete_with_let_go", "when": [ { "kind": "flag_set", "flag": "lacroix_let_go" } ] },
        { "next": "complete_with_kill" }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "complete_with_kill",
      "title": "Lacroix is dead",
      "description": "The Maw will know one of their operatives didn't come back. They will adjust. Take what you have and head east.",
      "on_enter": [
        { "kind": "give_xp", "xp": 100 }
      ],
      "completes_quest": true
    },
    {
      "id": "complete_with_intel",
      "title": "Lacroix talked",
      "description": "He gave up a name — Sable. He gave up a sigil — the Maw's. He gave up the trail east — Thornfield, Dr. Marisol Venn. The conspiracy has shape now.",
      "on_enter": [
        { "kind": "give_xp", "xp": 200 }
      ],
      "completes_quest": true
    },
    {
      "id": "complete_with_let_go",
      "title": "Lacroix walked away",
      "description": "He left the sigil and a warning. Whoever sent him will know you let him live. The Maw owes you nothing now, but they remember favours like a debt.",
      "on_enter": [
        { "kind": "give_xp", "xp": 50 },
        { "kind": "rep_event", "event": { "kind": "Misc", "magnitude": 8, "faction": "maw", "note": "let an operative walk" } }
      ],
      "completes_quest": true
    }
  ]
}