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  "name": "The Blue Grotto — The Stage, Thursday",
  "enter_text": "Ninety people, one microphone, a stool, and six jokes you do not understand.",
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  "exits": [null, null, null, 3],
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    {
      "name": "micstand",
      "sprite": "micstand",
      "x": 80,
      "y": 100,
      "look": "The microphone. Three feet to the left of it is a stool, and on the stool, put there before you came on, by somebody, is a glass.",
      "synonyms": "microphone mike stand stage spot",
      "points": 10,
      "sets_flag": "killed_it",
      "use_text": "You go up.",
      "dialogue": [
        {
          "says": "Ninety people. A room that has not laughed since Tuesday.  You have six jokes. You have them exactly, word for word, in order, and you do not understand a single one of them.",
          "choices": [
            { "text": "Joke one. Word for word.", "goto": 1 },
            { "text": "Open with something about the room.", "goto": 6, "kills": true }
          ]
        },
        {
          "says": "You deliver it exactly as printed, in the flat, careful voice of a man reading a licence plate.  It gets a laugh. It gets a real one. You have no idea why and you do not stop to find out.",
          "choices": [
            { "text": "Joke two. Word for word.", "goto": 2 },
            { "text": "That went well. Try something of my own.", "goto": 6, "kills": true }
          ]
        },
        {
          "says": "Two. Then three. Then four.  Something is happening in the room that has not happened to you before and will not happen to you again: ninety people are entirely on your side, and it is because you are not trying, and if you understood why you would never be able to do it again.",
          "choices": [
            { "text": "Joke five. Word for word.", "goto": 3 },
            { "text": "Ride it. Improvise.", "goto": 6, "kills": true }
          ]
        },
        {
          "says": "Five lands. There is one left and you are three feet from a stool with a glass on it, and you have been on this stage for six minutes and you are thirsty in a way you have never been thirsty.  Grasso is at the back of the room with his arms folded, watching, not laughing, and he has not taken his eyes off the stool once.",
          "choices": [
            { "text": "Joke six. Word for word. Do not touch the glass.", "goto": 4, "sets_flag": "killed_it", "points": 10 },
            { "text": "A sip first. Six minutes is a long time.", "goto": 5, "kills": true }
          ]
        },
        {
          "says": "Six lands, and the room comes up, and you walk off to a standing ovation from ninety people at the Blue Grotto on a Thursday, which is the only unqualified professional success of your entire career and is going to be extremely difficult to put in the report.  Behind you, on the stool, is a full glass that you did not touch.  Vincent Grasso is looking at it. Vincent Grasso has been looking at it for six minutes, waiting, the way a man waits who knows exactly what is on the rim, because he put it there, the way he put it there on Tuesday, three feet from a microphone, for a comedian who had read his book.",
          "choices": []
        },
        {
          "says": "You take a sip, on stage, six minutes into the finest set of your life, from a glass that somebody put on a stool for you before you came on.  Cardiac glycoside. Plant extract. No taste at all in eighty proof. Enough to stop a horse.  You get most of the way through joke six. It gets a laugh."
        },
        {
          "says": "You improvise.  Ninety people watch a police detective attempt observational comedy about a room he entered forty minutes ago. It goes on for a very long time. Somewhere in the fourth minute the bartender stops polishing.  You do not get the second night. A comic nobody laughs at does not get invited through the back door, and by Monday the running order has one name crossed out and a new one written in over the top, in pencil, and it will be somebody else's turn to find the book."
        }
      ]
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      "name": "glass",
      "sprite": "shotglass",
      "x": 104,
      "y": 104,
      "look": "A glass on a stool, three feet from the microphone, filled before you came on by somebody who is not the bartender, because the bartender does not go backstage.  Danny Cavanaugh had one exactly like it.",
      "synonyms": "tumbler drink whiskey stool",
      "kills": true,
      "use_text": "You drink it.  Cardiac glycoside. Plant extract. No taste at all in eighty proof.  It is, at least, the same way Danny went, which the report will note, and which nobody will find as instructive as they ought to."
    },
    {
      "name": "evidence",
      "sprite": "evidence",
      "x": 128,
      "y": 112,
      "look": "The glass is still on the stool, still full, and nobody has touched it, and the whole case is on the rim of it.",
      "synonyms": "bag sample rim swab",
      "visible_flag": "killed_it",
      "points": 5,
      "sets_flag": "bagged",
      "use_text": "You bag the glass off the stool without breaking stride on your way to the dressing room, seal it, initial it, and note the time, because a case is not what you know, it is what you can hand to somebody else.  Chain of custody begins with you and ends with you."
    },
    {
      "name": "owner",
      "sprite": "owner",
      "x": 46,
      "y": 140,
      "look": "Vincent Grasso, at the back of the room, still watching the stool.",
      "synonyms": "vincent grasso boss man carnation",
      "requires_flag": "bagged",
      "wins": true,
      "points": 10,
      "use_text": "You arrest Vincent Grasso at the back of his own club, in front of ninety people who have just given you a standing ovation, and you advise him of his rights in the correct order and in full.  He does not say anything at all. In fifty-one years Vincent Grasso has never once said anything at all, and it has worked every time until a man came in with an envelope, drank a hundred and thirty-two whiskeys, read a book upside down, and then declined a drink.  Danny Cavanaugh had twenty-six years on the circuit and found something in that back room that was going to put him back on television. He was right. It was in every paper in the state by Friday and his name was at the top of all of them.  Captain Hocken says it is the finest undercover work Police Squad has ever done and that Accounts want a word. Somebody laughs. Everybody freezes, smiling, holding it — and on the Captain's desk, in the frozen frame, entirely still, is a chicken.  THE GREMLIN was never identified. No file was ever opened. It is happening again next Tuesday."
    }
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}