{ "name": "Drebin & Son, Locksmiths — 9 Gulch Street", "enter_text": "A bell over the door, a key rack, and a machine neither of you has switched on.", "music": 1, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 62, "color": 8, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 60, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 63, "w": 160, "h": 105, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 8, "y": 10, "w": 60, "h": 44, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 14, "w": 52, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 22, "w": 52, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 30, "w": 52, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 38, "w": 52, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 46, "w": 34, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 104, "y": 12, "w": 46, "h": 38, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 108, "y": 16, "w": 38, "h": 30, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [18, 146], "exits": [null, 2, null, 0], "exit_flags": ["", "shop_trading", "", ""], "exit_blocked": ["", "A shop with no customers is a shop nobody shakes down. Open up and do the work.", "", ""], "objects": [ { "name": "shopcounter", "sprite": "shopcounter", "x": 46, "y": 118, "look": "The counter, the till, and a board of blanks going back to 1931. The previous owner left the board alphabetised and you have not changed it.", "synonyms": "counter till board blanks shop", "use_text": "You stand behind it the way a man stands behind a counter he intends to keep." }, { "name": "keycutter", "sprite": "keycutter", "x": 116, "y": 116, "look": "The cutting machine. Belt-driven, 1931, and in perfect order because somebody looked after it for twenty-seven years.", "synonyms": "machine cutter blade wheel vice", "points": 25, "sets_flag": "shop_trading", "use_text": "You open at eight and you do the work. You cut two hundred and eleven keys in nine days. Every one of them turns. You do not cut a single one twice, because you read MODERN LOCKSMITHING, THIRD EDITION, and retained all of it. You re-pin a lock for the woman at forty-one and do not charge her because it took four minutes. You go out on a Sunday to a man locked out of his own bakery. You fit a mortice for the barber at cost and stay to make sure it closes true. By the second Friday there is a queue on the pavement at eight in the morning and Officer Nordberg is in the window with a cast on each arm, waving at people, and the shop is taking sixty dollars a week clear. You have, in nine days, entirely by accident, built the best small business on Gulch Street. (+25)" }, { "name": "customer", "sprite": "customer", "x": 78, "y": 132, "look": "Mrs. Ostrowski from forty-one, who has locked herself out three times this month and has stopped apologising for it, which you consider progress.", "synonyms": "woman lady mrs ostrowski", "use_text": "You cut her a spare and then a second spare, and you tell her to leave one with her sister, which is the only advice in MODERN LOCKSMITHING, THIRD EDITION that you fully understood.", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Mrs. Ostrowski: You're the new man. Number nine's been shut since old Bergman went.", "choices": [ { "text": "Drebin. What can I do for you?", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Do people on this street have trouble?", "goto": 2 } ] }, { "says": "Mrs. Ostrowski: Locked out. Again. She puts a key on the counter and does not apologise, and you decide you like this street.", "choices": [ { "text": "Do people on this street have trouble?", "goto": 2 } ] }, { "says": "Mrs. Ostrowski: ...You want to talk to Mr. Halloran at the grocer's. Mrs. Ostrowski: No. You don't. Forget I said it. It's a nice street. She takes her keys and goes, and at the door she stops and does not turn round and says: 'He's had it worst. That's all.'", "choices": [ { "text": "Thank you, Mrs. Ostrowski.", "goto": -1 } ] } ] }, { "name": "nordberg", "sprite": "nordberg", "x": 124, "y": 144, "look": "Officer Nordberg in the shop window with a cast on each arm, waving at passers-by. He has been doing this for nine days and takings are up.", "synonyms": "norberg partner officer apprentice", "use_text": "You ask him to stop waving. Takings drop eleven per cent. You ask him to start waving again." } ] }