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            "id": "tier1_body_attack",
            "name": "Ad Baculum",
            "description": "Your argument doesn't need words when your presence speaks volumes. You don't debate — you loom. Each exchange sharpens the edge of your conviction into something that leaves marks.",
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        {
            "id": "tier1_body_defend",
            "name": "Briar Stance",
            "description": "You root yourself like a thorn bush — still, patient, dangerous. Striking you is a choice they'll regret. Every blow lands, but something sharp comes back.",
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            "category": "defense",
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            "id": "tier1_heart_defend",
            "name": "Vital Empathy",
            "description": "You stop fighting for a moment and simply exist. The stillness heals. The compassion you pour outward turns inward just enough — a quiet restoration, round by round.",
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            "category": "regeneration",
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        {
            "id": "tier1_heart_attack",
            "name": "Fleeting Kindness",
            "description": "Your strike carries no malice — just a gentle redirection. It doesn't hit as hard, but it reaches somewhere deeper. Something in the other combatant softens. Something in you holds on a little longer.",
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            "category": "stat",
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        {
            "id": "buff_body_attack_up",
            "name": "Achilles' Momentum",
            "description": "Like Achilles chasing the tortoise, each strike brings you inexorably closer to overwhelming force. Your Body attacks gain devastating power.",
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            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 3,
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        {
            "id": "buff_mind_attack_up",
            "name": "Schrödinger's Focus",
            "description": "Your mind exists in superposition—simultaneously calculating every possible outcome until observation collapses into perfect execution.",
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        {
            "id": "buff_heart_attack_up",
            "name": "Bootstrap Passion",
            "description": "Your conviction creates itself—passion born from passion, an endless loop of emotional intensity that defies causal logic.",
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            "id": "buff_body_defense_up",
            "name": "Theseus' Constitution",
            "description": "Like the legendary ship, your body repairs and replaces itself—each wound healed strengthens the whole, though philosophers may debate if you remain the same.",
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            "id": "buff_mind_defense_up",
            "name": "Epistemic Shield",
            "description": "You know that you know that you know—infinite layers of meta-awareness create an impenetrable barrier against mental assault.",
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        {
            "id": "buff_heart_defense_up",
            "name": "Paradox of Tolerance",
            "description": "By becoming intolerant of harm, you preserve your tolerance for all else. Your emotional resilience strengthens through selective rejection.",
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            "id": "buff_defend_up",
            "name": "Hilbert's Shelter",
            "description": "Your defense is an infinite hotel—no matter how many attacks arrive, there's always room to accommodate them without harm.",
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            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
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            "tier": 2
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        {
            "id": "buff_accuracy_up",
            "name": "Bertrand's Precision",
            "description": "In any given moment, you choose the interpretation of 'random' that most benefits your aim. Probability bends to your will.",
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            "tier": 2
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        {
            "id": "buff_evasion_up",
            "name": "Arrow's Impossibility",
            "description": "Like Zeno's arrow frozen in each instant, attacks that should strike you simply... don't. Motion toward harm becomes impossible.",
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            "category": "defense",
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            "stacking": "duration",
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        {
            "id": "buff_critical_rate_up",
            "name": "Observer's Collapse",
            "description": "Your attacks exist in superposition until observed by your enemy. When they look, the wavefunction collapses—always into the deadliest outcome.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                ]
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_critical_damage_up",
            "name": "Banach-Tarski Strike",
            "description": "Your critical hits decompose and reassemble—one devastating blow becomes two, each as powerful as the original. Mathematics defies conservation.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "damage",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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                        "stat": "mind",
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                ]
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_haste",
            "name": "Twin's Dilation",
            "description": "While you move at relativistic speeds, time slows for your enemies. You act twice in what feels like a single moment.",
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            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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            "tier": 3
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        {
            "id": "buff_regeneration",
            "name": "Tristram's Recovery",
            "description": "Like the writer who takes a year to document a day, your healing works faster than wounds accumulate. Eventually, you'll catch up.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "regeneration",
            "duration": 6,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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                    "healthPerRound": 4
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_max_hp_up",
            "name": "Galileo's Infinity",
            "description": "Your vitality is like perfect squares in natural numbers—somehow equal to the whole despite being only a part. Your maximum health expands impossibly.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 5,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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                ]
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_barrier",
            "name": "Gabriel's Horn",
            "description": "A shield of infinite surface but finite volume wraps around you—attacks spread across its endless expanse, their force diluted to nothing.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                "defenseModifier": 5
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_damage_reduction",
            "name": "Dichotomy Shield",
            "description": "Every attack must first travel half the distance. Then half again. Then half again. By the time it reaches you, its power approaches zero.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                "defenseModifier": 5
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_invincibility",
            "name": "EPR Entanglement",
            "description": "You become quantum-entangled with a safe version of yourself in another reality. All harm befalls that other you; you remain untouched.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 1,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
            "resistDR": 18,
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                "defenseModifier": 99
            },
            "tier": 3
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_taunt",
            "name": "Crocodile's Promise",
            "description": "You present enemies with an impossible choice—attack you or face worse consequences. Like the child-stealing crocodile, your logic traps them.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "control",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "body",
            "resistDR": 12,
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                "statModifiers": [
                    {
                        "stat": "body",
                        "value": 1,
                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ]
            },
            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_stealth",
            "name": "Fermi's Absence",
            "description": "Where are you? The paradox of your existence—you should be detectable, yet no evidence of you can be found. You are the universe's silent contradiction.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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                "defenseModifier": 6,
                "advantageModifier": {
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                        "heart"
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_all_stats_up",
            "name": "Sorites Ascension",
            "description": "One grain of power is nothing. Two grains still nothing. Yet somehow, grain by grain, you've become a heap of overwhelming force.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
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                        "isMultiplier": false
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                    {
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                        "stat": "mentalSkill",
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                    {
                        "stat": "emotionalSkill",
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                        "stat": "luck",
                        "value": 1,
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                "rollModifier": 1
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_reflect",
            "name": "Russell's Mirror",
            "description": "You become the set of all things that reflect themselves. Attacks contain themselves, creating an impossible recursion that rebounds to sender.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_counter",
            "name": "Newcomb's Retribution",
            "description": "Like the perfect predictor, you've already seen their attack coming. Your counterattack was prepared before they even decided to strike.",
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            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
            "resistDR": 13,
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                "advantageModifier": {
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_resistance_body",
            "name": "Pole in Barn",
            "description": "From your reference frame, physical attacks contract to fit within your defenses. Length becomes relative; harm becomes negotiable.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "duration",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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                        "value": 3,
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                        "stat": "physicalSave",
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            "tier": 2
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        {
            "id": "buff_resistance_mind",
            "name": "Liar's Shield",
            "description": "'This thought will not harm me.' If true, you're protected. If false, the thought didn't harm you. Either way, mental attacks fail.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "duration",
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                        "stat": "mentalSave",
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                ]
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_resistance_heart",
            "name": "Fiction's Wall",
            "description": "You know emotional attacks aren't real—merely fictions. Yet somehow, knowing this provides genuine protection. The paradox shields you.",
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            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "duration",
            "resistedBy": "body",
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                        "stat": "emotionalSave",
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_cleanse",
            "name": "Barber's Paradox",
            "description": "You shave away only those effects that don't remove themselves. The logical impossibility resolves—all negative conditions vanish.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 0,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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        },
        {
            "id": "buff_buff_duration_up",
            "name": "Unexpected Extension",
            "description": "Your buffs will end on a day you don't expect. But by knowing this, you can never truly expect it... so they never end when expected.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                "rollModifier": 1
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_status_chance_up",
            "name": "Monty's Advantage",
            "description": "Like switching doors, you've learned that counterintuitive choices yield better odds. Your effects land more often than probability suggests.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
            "resistDR": 13,
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                "rollModifier": 3
            },
            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_life_steal",
            "name": "Maxwell's Siphon",
            "description": "Like the demon sorting molecules, you separate your enemy's vitality from their form—fast energy to you, slow energy left behind.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "regeneration",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
            "resistDR": 12,
            "payload": {
                "regeneration": {
                    "healthPerRound": 2
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                "rollModifier": 1
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_advantage_body",
            "name": "Predestination Strength",
            "description": "Your physical dominance was always fated—your attempts to fight destiny only ensure your muscular superiority. Causality loops in your favor.",
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            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
            "resistDR": 13,
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                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
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                        "stat": "physicalSkill",
                        "value": 2,
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                ]
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            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_advantage_mind",
            "name": "Knowability Insight",
            "description": "If a truth is knowable, it must already be known. You know this truth: your Mind attacks will succeed. Therefore, they must.",
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            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                        "stat": "mentalSkill",
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                ]
            },
            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_petitio_pulse",
            "name": "Petitio Principii Pulse",
            "description": "Your courage assumes itself justified. The argument is circular, the logic bankrupt—yet somehow the conviction holds just long enough to matter.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "body",
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                    {
                        "stat": "heart",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ]
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            "tier": 1
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_gettiters_flicker",
            "name": "Gettier's Flicker",
            "description": "You don't truly know where to strike—your belief is justified and true, but only by coincidence. The attack lands anyway. Epistemology shrugs.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                        "stat": "luck",
                        "value": 1,
                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ]
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            "tier": 1
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_ad_hoc_patch",
            "name": "Ad Hoc Patch",
            "description": "A tiny gap in your technique is hastily filled with an explanation invented after the fact. It shouldn't work. It barely does.",
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            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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                        "stat": "physicalSkill",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ]
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            "tier": 1
        },
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            "id": "buff_advantage_heart",
            "name": "Hedonist's Loop",
            "description": "Pursuing happiness directly fails—so you pursue victory, and happiness follows. Your Heart surges with incidental joy made powerful.",
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            "category": "advantage",
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            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "body",
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                },
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                    {
                        "stat": "emotionalSkill",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ]
            },
            "tier": 2
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_special_pleading",
            "name": "Special Pleading",
            "description": "The bearer carves out the exception they need from the general rule. This case is sacred, this hour is the one the law forgot — and the blow that would have landed slides off the parenthesis.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "payload": {
                "defenseModifier": 2
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            "sourcedFromCell": "faith-optimistic-individual"
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        {
            "id": "buff_open_minded",
            "name": "Open-Minded",
            "description": "A mind prepared to consider mercy, softened by witnessing compassion to lesser foes. This status has no mechanical effect beyond qualifying the bearer for befriend paths.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "special",
            "duration": -1,
            "stacking": "none",
            "payload": {},
            "tier": 0
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_quine_resolve",
            "name": "Quine's Resolve",
            "description": "A statement that produces a copy of itself when invoked — your conviction reprints its own source each round, never spending itself. The longer you hold, the heavier your strikes land.",
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            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "intensity",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
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                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ],
                "rollModifierPerIntensity": 1
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            "tier": 1,
            "addedIn": "2026-04-15",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "stat", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_apollonian_clarity",
            "name": "Apollonian Clarity",
            "description": "The dream of perfect form. Every edge of thought sharpened to a clean line, every move foreseen before it begins. Your mind cuts where it intends.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                    {
                        "stat": "mind",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
                    {
                        "stat": "mentalAttack",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
                    {
                        "stat": "mentalSkill",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ],
                "rollModifier": 1
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-04-15",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "stat", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_promethean_ember",
            "name": "Promethean Ember",
            "description": "Stolen fire kept burning under the ribs. It mends what the fight tears open, knitting flesh faster than the wound can widen — a gift that keeps costing the giver.",
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            "category": "regeneration",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
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                    "healthPerRound": 3
                },
                "statModifiers": [
                    {
                        "stat": "heart",
                        "value": 1,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    }
                ]
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-04-15",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "regeneration", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_aegis_recursion",
            "name": "Aegis Recursion",
            "description": "A shield that quotes itself. Each layer cites the one beneath as proof of its own strength, and the regress — for once — holds. Blows arrive diluted and apologetic.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "duration",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
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                "defenseModifier": 4,
                "statModifiers": [
                    {
                        "stat": "physicalDefense",
                        "value": 2,
                        "isMultiplier": false
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                    {
                        "stat": "physicalSave",
                        "value": 2,
                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ]
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-04-15",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "defense", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_dionysian_surge",
            "name": "Dionysian Surge",
            "description": "Form dissolves into rapture. You stop counting blows and simply become the storm — disadvantage washes off enemies who try to read a current with no banks.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
            "resistDR": 14,
            "payload": {
                "rollModifier": 2,
                "advantageModifier": {
                    "grantAdvantage": ["heart", "body"]
                },
                "statModifiers": [
                    {
                        "stat": "heart",
                        "value": 2,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    }
                ]
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-04-15",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "advantage", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_brazen_thorns",
            "name": "Brazen Thorns",
            "description": "Your skin answers in kind. To press an argument against you is to be cut by it — the harder the push, the deeper the rebuttal bites back.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
            "resistDR": 12,
            "payload": {
                "reflectDamage": 2,
                "defenseModifier": 1
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-05-20",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "defense", "reflect", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_oracle_foresight",
            "name": "Oracle's Foresight",
            "description": "The vapors rise and the next moment unspools before it arrives. You do not react — you arrive early. Every line of approach is already known to you.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "advantage",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "none",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
            "resistDR": 13,
            "payload": {
                "rollModifier": 2,
                "advantageModifier": {
                    "grantAdvantage": ["mind", "heart", "body"]
                },
                "statModifiers": [
                    {
                        "stat": "luck",
                        "value": 2,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    }
                ]
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-05-20",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "advantage", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_stoic_bulwark",
            "name": "Stoic Bulwark",
            "description": "What is not in your control cannot wound what matters. You set the citadel of the mind against the siege, and the assault finds nothing to grip.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "defense",
            "duration": 4,
            "stacking": "duration",
            "resistedBy": "body",
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                    {
                        "stat": "mind",
                        "value": 2,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
                    {
                        "stat": "mentalDefense",
                        "value": 4,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
                    {
                        "stat": "mentalSave",
                        "value": 3,
                        "isMultiplier": false
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                ],
                "defenseModifier": 2
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-05-20",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "defense", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_minor_fortitude",
            "name": "Minor Fortitude",
            "description": "A small, stubborn steadiness. Not glory, just the refusal to fold first. It is enough, today, to keep your feet under you.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 2,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "payload": {
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                    {
                        "stat": "body",
                        "value": 1,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
                    {
                        "stat": "physicalDefense",
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                        "isMultiplier": false
                    }
                ]
            },
            "tier": 1,
            "addedIn": "2026-06-07",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "stat", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_phoenix_vigor",
            "name": "Phoenix Vigor",
            "description": "Ash remembers the bird. The closer you come to ending, the more fiercely you mend — vitality returning in waves, defenses tightening as the pyre cools.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "regeneration",
            "duration": 5,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "mind",
            "resistDR": 13,
            "payload": {
                "regeneration": {
                    "healthPerRound": 4
                },
                "defenseModifier": 1,
                "statModifiers": [
                    {
                        "stat": "heart",
                        "value": 1,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    }
                ]
            },
            "tier": 2,
            "addedIn": "2026-06-07",
            "tags": ["status-effect", "regeneration", "since-april"]
        },
        {
            "id": "buff_focus",
            "name": "Husserl's Bracket",
            "description": "You suspend the world and attend to one thing only. Bracketed away, distraction has no purchase; what remains is pure, deliberate intention — and intention, sustained, sharpens every act it rests upon and steadies the body mending beneath it.",
            "type": "buff",
            "category": "stat",
            "duration": 3,
            "stacking": "intensity",
            "resistedBy": "heart",
            "resistDR": 12,
            "payload": {
                "statModifiers": [
                    {
                        "stat": "mind",
                        "value": 1,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    },
                    {
                        "stat": "mentalSkill",
                        "value": 2,
                        "isMultiplier": false
                    }
                ],
                "rollModifier": 1
            },
            "tier": 2,
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    ]
}