{ "name": "— A CARTOON —", "enter_text": "The channel does not announce itself. There is a title card, a burst of orchestra, and the laws of physics resign.", "music": 4, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 15, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 58, "color": 15, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 56, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 60, "w": 160, "h": 108, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 28, "y": 14, "w": 26, "h": 34, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 32, "y": 18, "w": 18, "h": 26, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 106, "y": 14, "w": 26, "h": 34, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 110, "y": 18, "w": 18, "h": 26, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [ 20, 148 ], "exits": [ null, 6, null, 4 ], "objects": [ { "name": "cartoonmouse", "sprite": "cartoonmouse", "x": 108, "y": 128, "look": "A mouse. White gloves, enormous eyes, and a mallet held behind its back that is larger than the mouse, the room, and in one direction the building. It is delighted to see you. It has been delighted to see everybody for ninety years.", "synonyms": "mouse cartoon gloves rodent", "use_text": "You attempt to advise the mouse of its rights. It listens to all of it with its head tilted, and then hands you a small sign reading OH DEAR, and steps politely to one side. The sign is the only piece of evidence in this case that will survive to the property annex, and it is logged, and it is initialled, and it is still in the box." }, { "name": "anvil", "sprite": "anvil", "x": 62, "y": 138, "look": "An anvil. There is no reason for an anvil to be here and there is no reason for it to be above you and it is doing both, which in this channel is not a contradiction but a schedule.", "synonyms": "weight iron block acme", "kills": true, "use_text": "You look up at the anvil, as procedure requires when assessing an overhead hazard. Looking up is the trigger. Looking up has always been the trigger. There are four hundred cartoons about this and you have seen none of them, because you have never once had time for television." }, { "name": "grandpa", "sprite": "drebin58", "x": 40, "y": 126, "look": "Your grandfather in a cartoon, rendered in the same monochrome he has always been, which here reads as intentional and slightly classy. He has been hit by the anvil twice. He has folded flat twice. He has re-inflated twice, straightened his hat twice, and both times noted the time.", "synonyms": "grandfather sergeant fedora old", "points": 5, "sets_flag": "cartoon_done", "use_text": "He hands you his notebook. Under INJURIES SUSTAINED he has written: 'Compressed to a thickness of one-sixteenth of an inch by falling anvil, 12:41 AM. Recovered without treatment. Repeated 12:43 AM. Recovered without treatment.' Under CONCLUSION he has written one line, and it is the line that gets all three of you out of here, and eventually off the air: 'Nothing in this place can hurt a man who is willing to fill in the form afterwards.' (+10)" }, { "name": "dad", "sprite": "drebin82", "x": 136, "y": 142, "look": "Your father, in a cartoon, in colour, being the only object in frame with a shadow. He is holding the mouse. The mouse is entirely content about this. Nobody in ninety years has simply picked up the mouse.", "synonyms": "father lieutenant trench colour", "use_text": "He puts the mouse down gently and asks it, sincerely, whether it has anybody looking after it. The orchestra, which has underscored ninety years of blunt-force trauma without hesitating, does not know what to play, and stops." } ] }