{ "name": "Hapsburg Energy — Reception for Dr. Meinheimer", "enter_text": "Canapés, a string quartet, and the guest of honour in a wheelchair by the window being extremely charming to everybody.", "music": 5, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 6, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 58, "color": 15, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 12, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 56, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 60, "w": 160, "h": 108, "color": 6, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 14, "y": 60, "w": 132, "h": 96, "color": 4, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 18, "y": 64, "w": 124, "h": 2, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 104, "y": 18, "w": 48, "h": 34, "color": 1, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 108, "y": 22, "w": 40, "h": 26, "color": 9, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 126, "y": 18, "w": 2, "h": 34, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 20, "w": 34, "h": 30, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 14, "y": 24, "w": 26, "h": 22, "color": 2, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 20, "y": 30, "w": 14, "h": 8, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [20, 148], "exits": [null, 3, null, 1], "exit_flags": ["", "knows_fake", "", ""], "exit_blocked": ["", "Everything about that man is right. That is what is wrong with him. Find out what he can't do.", "", ""], "objects": [ { "name": "champagne", "sprite": "champagne", "x": 30, "y": 106, "look": "A tray of champagne going past at shoulder height, permanently, in a loop, all evening.", "synonyms": "tray drinks flutes glasses waiter", "use_text": "You are on duty. You take one anyway, because you are at a party for the oil industry and a man at a party for the oil industry holding nothing at all is the most conspicuous object in the room." }, { "name": "hapsburg", "sprite": "hapsburg", "x": 44, "y": 130, "look": "Quentin Hapsburg. Oil, gas, coal, and on Saturday, Jane. He has the handshake of a man who has never once been on the wrong end of anything.", "synonyms": "quentin oil man executive host", "use_text": "You shake his hand. He tells you he has heard a great deal about you. He has not.", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Hapsburg: Detective Drebin! Jane's told me all about you. All about you. Hapsburg: Terrible business at the institute. Six people. I've offered them my own building until they rebuild — whatever they need, for as long as they need it.", "choices": [ { "text": "That's very generous.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Where is Dr. Meinheimer staying?", "goto": 2 }, { "text": "You blew up that institute, Hapsburg.", "goto": 3 } ] }, { "says": "Hapsburg: It's the least we can do. We're all on the same side, Detective — everybody wants the lights to come on.", "choices": [{ "text": "Everybody does.", "goto": 0 }] }, { "says": "Hapsburg: With me. Since Tuesday. Poor Albert lost his home and his files in one morning — he's been under my roof ever since, and he will be until Thursday. Under his roof since Tuesday. The institute went up on Wednesday.", "choices": [{ "text": "Since Tuesday.", "goto": 0 }] }, { "says": "Hapsburg: ...I did. He smiles, and leans in, and says it quietly and pleasantly, three feet from a string quartet. Hapsburg: And there is not one thing in this room that says so, Detective, and you have just told me exactly how much you have got. Enjoy the champagne.", "choices": [{ "text": "I intend to.", "goto": 0 }] } ] }, { "name": "hacker", "sprite": "hacker", "x": 104, "y": 124, "look": "Dr. Albert Meinheimer, in his wheelchair by the window, delightful to everybody, correct about everything. He is the right height, the right age, the right beard, and the right bow tie, and you have been watching him for eleven minutes and there is something the matter with him that you cannot name.", "synonyms": "meinheimer albert doctor scientist wheelchair professor", "dialogue": [ { "says": "\"Meinheimer\": Detective! Jane has spoken of you often. Sit, sit — ask me anything. I am told I am a difficult man to interview.", "choices": [ { "text": "How long is the recommendation, Doctor?", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "You're not Albert Meinheimer.", "goto": 5, "kills": true }, { "text": "Enjoy your evening, Doctor.", "goto": -1 } ] }, { "says": "\"Meinheimer\": The recommendation? Oh — about four hundred pages. Give or take. Four hundred and twelve. You have it in a tube in the car. But that is not the thing. The thing is smaller than that and you have not got it yet.", "choices": [ { "text": "Give or take. And the first line, Doctor?", "goto": 2 } ] }, { "says": "\"Meinheimer\": The first line! Ha! Something about the sun, I believe — roughly, roughly. You must understand, Detective, I have written a great many things. He is warm, and modest, and he is doing it beautifully, and he has now said 'about', 'give or take', and 'roughly' in ninety seconds. Albert Meinheimer has an eidetic memory. It is the only interesting thing about him. It is in every profile ever written of him. It is why the President asked him and not somebody cheaper.", "choices": [ { "text": "A man who remembers everything never says 'roughly'.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "knows_fake", "points": 20 }, { "text": "Of course, Doctor. Forgive me.", "goto": 4 } ] }, { "says": "The warmth goes out of his face in stages, like a building being switched off floor by floor. \"Meinheimer\": ...I've had a very difficult week, Detective. Earl Hacker. Twenty years in regional theatre and four days in a wheelchair, and he has been word-perfect all evening on everything except the one thing that cannot be learned. Somewhere in this city the real Albert Meinheimer is in a room, because you do not keep a double and a corpse — a corpse is a murder and a murder is an investigation, and a man in a room is nothing at all until Thursday.", "choices": [{ "text": "Where is he?", "goto": 6 }] }, { "says": "\"Meinheimer\": Not at all, not at all! He is enormously relieved, and he shows it, which is the second mistake, and you make a note of it and let him have the evening.", "choices": [{ "text": "The first line, Doctor?", "goto": 2 }] }, { "says": "You accuse the guest of honour of impersonation, out loud, at his own reception, on the strength of a feeling. He is charming about it. Hapsburg is charming about it. Everybody is extremely charming about it, and Captain Hocken is charming about it on the telephone at seven the next morning, and by Thursday you are charming about it to a man who runs the property room, who has been expecting you." }, { "says": "Hacker: ...There's a bonded warehouse. Alameda and Sixth. I've never been. I only get the pages to learn. Hacker: Detective — he's a nice old man. He asked them for a chair.", "choices": [{ "text": "Alameda and Sixth.", "goto": -1 }] } ] } ] }