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The radiator has been making the noise since 1955.", "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": 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": [ "", "tipped_off", "", "" ], "exit_blocked": [ "", "You have not taken the complaint. Somebody walked in off the street and you take the complaint.", "", "" ], "objects": [ { "name": "desk", "sprite": "desk", "x": 52, "y": 140, "look": "Your desk. Everything on it has a place and everything on it is in it.", "synonyms": "table drawer blotter", "use_text": "You square the blotter and set the lamp straight." }, { "name": "complaint", "sprite": "casefile", "x": 66, "y": 130, "look": "A complaint sheet, filled in this morning by a Mrs. Enid Pargiter of 14 Meridian Terrace, who came in on the bus. COMPLAINT: Excessive noise from lodgers. Musical. ADDITIONAL: 'They are very nice boys but they are not a barbershop quartet.'", "synonyms": "sheet form paper report pargiter", "takeable": false, "points": 5, "sets_flag": "read_complaint", "use_text": "You take the complaint properly: name, address, time, and what she actually said, in her words, in your hand. Then you read it again." }, { "name": "partner", "sprite": "partner", "x": 38, "y": 120, "look": "Officer Kowalczyk. He has read the complaint four times and he has that look young officers get when they think they have found something and are afraid of being laughed at.", "synonyms": "kowalczyk officer kid rookie young", "use_text": "You tell him to say it. He says it.", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Kowalczyk: Sergeant — it's a noise complaint. Vice sent it up to us by mistake. But sir, I read it twice and I want to say something and I don't want you to laugh.", "choices": [ { "text": "I don't laugh, son. Say it.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Say it.", "goto": 1 } ] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: A barbershop quartet is four men. She's got five lodgers and she calls them the quartet. And she says they rehearse every night and it's the same eleven bars over and over and it isn't music, sir, it's a recording. She can hear the needle. Kowalczyk: Sergeant, that boarding house backs onto the Meridian Street Bonded Depository. The yard wall is the depository's east wall.", "choices": [ { "text": "Five men and a gramophone.", "goto": 2 } ] }, { "says": "Kowalczyk: Yes, sir. Five men, a gramophone, and eleven weeks of digging noises with music over the top of them. Kowalczyk: I'd never have looked at it twice if you hadn't told me the notes were the job.", "choices": [ { "text": "They are the job. Get your coat.", "goto": -1 } ] } ] }, { "name": "captain", "sprite": "captain", "x": 110, "y": 128, "look": "Captain Sturges, reading the noise complaint with the expression of a man who has been handed a noise complaint.", "synonyms": "sturges boss skipper", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Sturges: Frank, this is a noise complaint. You are a homicide detective. There is no body.", "choices": [ { "text": "There will be a body on Saturday, Captain.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "The boarding house backs onto the depository.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "I'd like to take it anyway.", "goto": 2, "sets_flag": "tipped_off", "points": 10, "requires_flag": "read_complaint" } ] }, { "says": "Sturges: ...The Meridian Street depository. He puts the sheet down. Sturges: Eleven weeks of digging and a gramophone. Frank, if you're right, that's the third biggest bonded house in the state and there is four million dollars of other people's property in it.", "choices": [ { "text": "I'd like to take it, Captain.", "goto": 2, "sets_flag": "tipped_off", "points": 10, "requires_flag": "read_complaint" } ] }, { "says": "Sturges: Take it. Take whatever you want. Sturges: And Frank — go carefully. Five men who dig for eleven weeks are five men who have thought about being interrupted. You tell him you will go and knock on the door and ask them about the noise. 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