{ "name": "The Blue Note", "enter_text": "A bar. A piano. A man at the end of it who has been there since four in the afternoon and who is you.", "music": 2, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 60, "color": 4, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 22, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 6, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 61, "w": 160, "h": 107, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 26, "w": 34, "h": 26, "color": 6, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 30, "w": 26, "h": 18, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 22, "y": 36, "w": 14, "h": 6, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 108, "y": 26, "w": 40, "h": 26, "color": 6, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 112, "y": 30, "w": 32, "h": 18, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 116, "y": 34, "w": 6, "h": 10, "color": 10, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 126, "y": 34, "w": 6, "h": 10, "color": 12, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 136, "y": 34, "w": 6, "h": 10, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 96, "w": 160, "h": 1, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [ 24, 146 ], "exits": [ null, 1, null, null ], "exit_flags": [ "", "jane_warned", "", "" ], "exit_blocked": [ "", "She is standing right there and she is going to marry an oil man on Saturday. You can leave after you have said something.", "", "" ], "objects": [ { "name": "bartop", "sprite": "bartop", "x": 118, "y": 108, "look": "The bar. Nine hours of it. The bartender has stopped asking and started anticipating, which is the point at which a man ought to go home.", "synonyms": "bar counter bottles stools rail", "use_text": "You order another. It arrives before you finish ordering it." }, { "name": "piano", "sprite": "piano", "x": 40, "y": 116, "look": "An upright piano nobody is playing. On top of it: a candle, and a glass somebody left in 1987.", "synonyms": "keys upright instrument candle", "points": 5, "use_text": "You sit down and play. You have never had a lesson in your life and you play beautifully, for four minutes, and nobody in the bar looks up, because this is the Blue Note and a man playing beautifully at two in the morning is not news here. When you stop, the bartender says: 'That's the one she liked.' You had not mentioned her." }, { "name": "jane", "sprite": "jane", "x": 74, "y": 128, "look": "Jane Spencer. Six years, and she is marrying Quentin Hapsburg on Saturday, and she has come into a bar at two in the morning to tell you herself rather than let you read it, which is the single kindest thing anybody has done for you this decade.", "synonyms": "spencer woman blonde", "use_text": "You do not take her hand. You have thought about it for the entire conversation and you do not do it, because she is engaged on Saturday and because there is a way to behave.", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Jane: Frank. I heard about the institute. Six people. Jane: ...And I wanted you to hear the other thing from me.", "choices": [ { "text": "I heard. Saturday.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Tell me about the institute, Jane.", "goto": 2 }, { "text": "Congratulations. He seems like a fine man.", "goto": 1 } ] }, { "says": "Jane: Saturday. Neither of you says anything for a while. Somewhere behind you a man playing beautifully at two in the morning is not news.", "choices": [ { "text": "Tell me about the institute, Jane.", "goto": 2 } ] }, { "says": "Jane: I was there this morning. I do the press for Dr. Meinheimer's institute — I've done it for four years. Jane: Frank, a man came out of the building nine minutes before it went up. Thin. Leather jacket. He looked right at me and he did not hurry.", "choices": [ { "text": "A man who doesn't hurry has somewhere to be.", "goto": 3 }, { "text": "Did you tell anyone?", "goto": 4 } ] }, { "says": "Jane: That's what I thought. That's exactly what I thought, and then I thought: I've been thinking like Frank Drebin for six years and it is not a transferable skill.", "choices": [ { "text": "Jane. Who benefits?", "goto": 5 } ] }, { "says": "Jane: I told Quentin. She says it, and then she hears it, the way people in this game always hear it about half a second too late.", "choices": [ { "text": "Jane. Who benefits?", "goto": 5 } ] }, { "says": "Jane: ...Nobody benefits, Frank. It's a research institute. Albert makes a recommendation to the President on Thursday and then he goes back to his garden. Jane: Coal benefits. Oil benefits. Everybody who isn't the sun benefits.", "choices": [ { "text": "What does Quentin do again, Jane?", "goto": 6, "sets_flag": "jane_warned", "points": 10 } ] }, { "says": "Jane: ...He's in energy. She puts down the glass. She does not pick it up again. Jane: Frank. Be careful. And — the institute's still open. Nobody's been through Albert's office since the fire crew.", "choices": [ { "text": "Then I'll go through it.", "goto": -1 } ] } ] }, { "name": "cigarettes", "sprite": "cigarettes", "x": 34, "y": 118, "look": "A packet on the bar with two gone out of it. You gave up on Sunday.", "synonyms": "packet smokes cigarette pack habit", "use_text": "You have one. You picked the wrong week to quit drinking." }, { "name": "drink", "sprite": "champagne", "x": 140, "y": 122, "look": "The one in front of you. Nine hours of them. Your hand is not entirely steady and you have noticed, which is worse than not noticing.", "synonyms": "glass whiskey scotch tumbler", "use_text": "You raise the glass, and your hand goes past your mouth, and you pour a double scotch directly into your own face. You do this four times over the course of the evening. Nobody at the Blue Note mentions it. The bartender brings a towel and does not put it down, he simply holds it out, at the exact moment, without looking, because he has been doing this for nine hours." } ] }