{ "name": "Meridian Street Bonded Depository — Vault Floor", "enter_text": "Eleven feet of Victorian brick on the east wall, and on the other side of it, five men and a gramophone.", "music": 2, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 66, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 64, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 67, "w": 160, "h": 101, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 6, "y": 10, "w": 46, "h": 52, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 14, "w": 38, "h": 44, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 24, "w": 38, "h": 2, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 36, "w": 38, "h": 2, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 48, "w": 38, "h": 2, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 118, "y": 10, "w": 36, "h": 54, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 122, "y": 14, "w": 28, "h": 46, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 104, "w": 160, "h": 1, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [18, 148], "exits": [null, 3, null, 1], "exit_flags": ["", "surveyed", "", ""], "exit_blocked": ["", "You do not set a trap in a building you have not surveyed.", "", ""], "objects": [ { "name": "eastwall", "sprite": "crates", "x": 118, "y": 122, "look": "The east wall. Eleven feet three inches of Victorian brick, laid in 1888, and behind it the cellar of 14 Meridian Terrace. If you put your hand flat on the third course from the floor you can feel it going, very faintly, all evening, under eleven bars of barbershop.", "synonyms": "wall brick east bricks course", "use_text": "You put your hand on the brick and stand there for a minute and a half without moving. It is going. It has been going since August. On the other side of eleven inches of it, an elderly deaf man who cannot hear a tumbler is being handed a chisel by a man in driving goggles who cannot drive." }, { "name": "vaultdoor", "sprite": "vaultdoor", "x": 60, "y": 112, "look": "The vault. Eighteen inches of hardened steel, a time lock, and a combination held by two officers of the company. You surveyed this building in September at the company's request, wrote nine pages on it, and made one recommendation.", "synonyms": "vault safe steel door wheel", "points": 15, "sets_flag": "vault_checked", "use_text": "You check the vault against your own survey, item by item, because a survey is worth nothing if the man who wrote it will not stand behind it. Your recommendation in September was that the east wall was the weak face of this building, that eleven feet of 1888 brick is not a wall, and that the bonded contents should be transferred to the Steelton facility pending remedial work. The company accepted it on the 3rd of October. The transfer went out on the 9th, under escort, and you signed the manifest as attending officer, because a bonded transfer requires a sworn officer to attend and you were the officer who wrote the survey. This vault has been empty for five weeks. (+15)" }, { "name": "manifest", "sprite": "ledger1958", "x": 100, "y": 130, "look": "The transfer manifest, in the vault office, where it has been since the 9th of October. Four million dollars of bonded property, itemised, checked out of this building and into the Steelton facility, countersigned by two company officers and one attending police officer.", "synonyms": "transfer paper document record countersign", "requires_flag": "vault_checked", "points": 15, "sets_flag": "surveyed", "use_text": "You read it through. Everything on it is correct. Every item is where the manifest says it is, and the manifest says Steelton, and the Steelton facility's receiving log agrees with it to the item. You were the attending officer. You wrote the survey that caused the transfer, you recommended the date, and you signed for it at both ends, and all of that is on the paper in your own hand, and every word of it is true. Somebody looking at this in thirty years would need to hold the survey, the manifest, the Steelton log and your movements in the same head at the same time, and nobody has ever held two of your documents at once, because there has never been a reason. (+15)" }, { "name": "clerk", "sprite": "insideman", "x": 34, "y": 126, "look": "The night clerk, who has worked this floor for six years and who is on his own from ten o'clock on a Saturday because the company reduced the watch after the contents went to Steelton.", "synonyms": "night watch employee staff", "use_text": "You tell him that on Saturday night he is to be at his sister's in Fullerton and not in this building under any circumstances, and you write it down and give it to him and make him read it back. He is going to be very glad of that piece of paper on Sunday, and he will keep it for forty years, and he will show it to people." } ] }