{ "name": "Central Division — Detective Bureau", "enter_text": "Rain on the window. Nineteen years of this room.", "music": 2, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 58, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 110, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 56, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 96, "y": 10, "w": 50, "h": 36, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 14, "w": 42, "h": 28, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 120, "y": 14, "w": 2, "h": 28, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 27, "w": 42, "h": 2, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 12, "w": 40, "h": 32, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 16, "w": 32, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 23, "w": 22, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 30, "w": 28, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 37, "w": 18, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 4, "h": 168, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [30, 146], "exits": [null, 1, null, null], "exit_flags": ["", "briefed", "", ""], "exit_blocked": ["", "The Captain is talking. You do not walk out on the Captain.", "", ""], "objects": [ { "name": "desk", "sprite": "desk", "x": 52, "y": 140, "look": "Your desk. Nineteen years at this desk. The drawer sticks.", "synonyms": "table drawer", "use_text": "You square the blotter and set the lamp straight. Everything on this desk has a place and everything on this desk is in it, which is a thing three separate commanding officers have written down about you." }, { "name": "casefile", "sprite": "casefile", "x": 66, "y": 130, "look": "ARDMORE ST. PAYROLL — ROBBERY / HOMICIDE. Forty-one thousand dollars taken from the Friday payroll between 11:40 PM and midnight. Night watchman Daniel Cassidy, fifty-eight, struck once from behind with a blunt instrument and died where he fell. The first responder's notes are attached. They are three pages, handwritten, in a young officer's hand, and they are very thorough.", "synonyms": "file folder case papers report notes", "takeable": true, "points": 5 }, { "name": "phone", "sprite": "phone", "x": 34, "y": 132, "look": "The bureau telephone. It rings for everybody and it is answered by whoever is nearest, which for nineteen years has been you, because you are always here first.", "synonyms": "telephone", "use_text": "You answer it and take a message for a detective who is not in yet, in block capitals, with the time, and you leave it where he will see it. You do this eleven or twelve times a day and you have never once mentioned doing it." }, { "name": "partner", "sprite": "partner", "x": 40, "y": 118, "look": "Officer Kowalczyk. Twenty-four. First responder on Ardmore Street. He has been a police officer for nine months and he wrote three pages of notes at a murder scene at two in the morning in the rain, and they are good notes.", "synonyms": "kowalczyk officer kid rookie young", "use_text": "You tell him the notes were good. He goes red to the ears. Nobody has told him anything he did was good since he came out of the academy.", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Kowalczyk: Sergeant Drebin. Sir. I was first on scene Friday — I wrote it all up, everything I could see, I didn't want to miss anything.", "choices": [ { "text": "You didn't. They're good notes.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Tell me what you saw.", "goto": 2 }, { "text": "What time did you get there?", "goto": 3 } ] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: ...Thank you, sir. He will remember this conversation for the rest of his career.", "choices": [{ "text": "Tell me what you saw.", "goto": 2 }] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: Strongbox forced, not blown. Whoever did it knew the box. Cassidy face down between the crates, one blow, no defensive marks. Kowalczyk: And sir — there were prints on the inside lip of the box. Clean ones. I didn't touch anything, I just wrote down where they were.", "choices": [ { "text": "That's exactly right, son.", "goto": 4 }, { "text": "No defensive marks.", "goto": 5 } ] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: Call came in 12:04, I was there 12:09. Sergeant — there was a car pulling out of the lot as I came in. Dark sedan. I didn't get the plate. I've been sick about it since Friday.", "choices": [{ "text": "You couldn't have got the plate.", "goto": 6 }] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: Sir. He straightens up about an inch.", "choices": [{ "text": "Get me the scene.", "goto": -1 }] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: No, sir. Cassidy never turned round. Whoever it was, he let them walk right up behind him. Kowalczyk: Sergeant — Cassidy worked that lot eleven years. He knew everybody who had any business being there.", "choices": [{ "text": "He knew everybody.", "goto": -1 }] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: No, sir? You explain that at that distance, in that rain, at that hour, nobody gets the plate, and that a man who invents one to look useful is worth less than a man who says he didn't get it. He writes that down. He writes down everything you say.", "choices": [{ "text": "Get me the scene.", "goto": -1 }] } ] }, { "name": "captain", "sprite": "captain", "x": 108, "y": 128, "look": "Captain Sturges. He has run this bureau for eleven years and he has one detective he never has to think about.", "synonyms": "sturges boss skipper", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Sturges: Frank. Ardmore Street. Payroll office, forty-one thousand, and a watchman in the morgue. Sturges: It's yours. It was always going to be yours.", "choices": [ { "text": "Why me, Captain?", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "What do we have?", "goto": 2 }, { "text": "I'll take it, Captain.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 } ] }, { "says": "Sturges: Nineteen years and I have never once had to check your work. Not once, Frank. You know what that's worth to a man in my chair? Sturges: Every file you've closed has closed clean. Every report you've filed, I've signed without reading, because in eleven years there has never been a reason to read one.", "choices": [{ "text": "That's the job, Captain.", "goto": 2 }] }, { "says": "Sturges: Forced strongbox, one dead watchman, no witnesses, and a set of prints the rookie says are on the inside lip of the box. Sturges: Prints, Frank. On the inside. Whoever went in that box went in it with his hands.", "choices": [{ "text": "I'll take it, Captain.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 }] }, { "says": "Sturges: I know you will. Sturges: Frank — the man had a wife. Thirty-one years. She's coming in this afternoon and she is going to ask me who did it and I would like very much to be able to tell her. You tell him you will work it the way you work everything. You will.", "choices": [] } ] } ] }