{ "name": "Police Squad HQ — Squad Room", "enter_text": "The squad room. Somebody has left a book on your desk about country house murders.", "music": 3, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 7, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 58, "color": 8, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 110, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 55, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 12, "w": 46, "h": 32, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 122, "y": 12, "w": 2, "h": 32, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 14, "y": 14, "w": 42, "h": 30, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 18, "y": 20, "w": 30, "h": 3, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 18, "y": 28, "w": 24, "h": 3, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 5, "h": 168, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 163, "w": 160, "h": 5, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [86, 148], "exits": [null, 1, null, null], "exit_flags": ["", "briefed", "", ""], "exit_blocked": ["", "A twelve-year-old is missing and you have not been briefed. Get briefed.", "", ""], "objects": [ { "name": "casefile", "sprite": "casefile", "x": 62, "y": 130, "look": "VANE, ELEANOR, 12. Missing from 4 Cranbourne Drive between 7:40 and 7:44 PM, being the interval between the cake being wheeled in and the candles being lit. Forty guests. One front door, watched all evening by a hired man on the step. No windows opened.", "synonyms": "file folder report papers case eleanor vane", "takeable": true, "points": 5 }, { "name": "al", "sprite": "al", "x": 80, "y": 66, "look": "Officer Al. Shoes, and about nine inches of trouser, and a conversation happening above the ceiling.", "synonyms": "tall officer legs", "use_text": "You shake his hand. You have to jump." }, { "name": "guest", "sprite": "guest", "x": 120, "y": 150, "look": "This week's television actor, mid-wave, dead since the opening titles. Nobody has moved him.", "synonyms": "star actor body", "use_text": "You check him for a pulse, as procedure requires. There isn't one. You note the time." }, { "name": "hocken", "sprite": "hocken", "x": 106, "y": 126, "look": "Captain Ed Hocken, holding a guest list with forty names on it and one crossed out.", "synonyms": "captain ed boss", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Hocken: Eleanor Vane, twelve years old, gone out of her own birthday party in four minutes. Father's Cornelius Vane — shipping, mostly. Hocken: Forty guests, one door, a man on the step the whole evening. Nobody came out of that house.", "choices": [ { "text": "Then she didn't come out of the house.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Who's on the staff?", "goto": 2 }, { "text": "I'll take it, Captain.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 } ] }, { "says": "Hocken: That's what I said. Everybody looked at me. Hocken: Frank, forty people saw a cake wheeled in and four minutes later there was a girl missing and a cake with no candles lit.", "choices": [ { "text": "Who's on the staff?", "goto": 2 } ] }, { "says": "Hocken: Cook, two hired girls for the evening, a governess, and a butler. Hocken: The butler's been with the family thirty-one years. Everybody in that house says the same three words about him and the three words are 'not the butler'.", "choices": [ { "text": "Then it isn't the butler.", "goto": 4 }, { "text": "I'll take it, Captain.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 } ] }, { "says": "Hocken: Good. And Frank — the cake's still in that house and forty people have had a fork in it. Hocken: Whatever that cake is, it is the only object in this case that was in the room at 7:40 and is still in the room now. Treat it like a body.", "choices": [] }, { "says": "Hocken: You haven't even been to the house. You explain that the literature on this class of offence is unanimous that it is the butler, that a detective who arrives at a house of this description and immediately suspects the butler is not conducting an investigation but repeating a convention, and that you therefore intend to clear every other person in the building first, on principle. Hocken: ...How many other people? You tell him forty-four.", "choices": [ { "text": "I'll take it, Captain.", "goto": 3, "sets_flag": "briefed", "points": 10 } ] } ] } ] }