{ "name": "Sullivan's Gym — Fighters' Locker Room", "enter_text": "One bulb, six lockers, and a twenty-four-year-old sitting on a stool with his gloves still tied.", "music": 2, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 64, "color": 8, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 62, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 65, "w": 160, "h": 103, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 6, "y": 10, "w": 22, "h": 48, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 30, "y": 10, "w": 22, "h": 48, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 54, "y": 10, "w": 22, "h": 48, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 6, "y": 10, "w": 70, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 28, "y": 10, "w": 2, "h": 48, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 52, "y": 10, "w": 2, "h": 48, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 14, "y": 30, "w": 5, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 38, "y": 30, "w": 5, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 62, "y": 30, "w": 5, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 108, "y": 14, "w": 40, "h": 34, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 112, "y": 18, "w": 32, "h": 26, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 118, "y": 24, "w": 20, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 118, "y": 32, "w": 14, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [ 16, 140 ], "exits": [ null, 3, null, 1 ], "exit_flags": [ "", "knows_kidnap", "", "" ], "exit_blocked": [ "", "The kid hasn't told you anything yet, and he is the only person in this building who wants to.", "", "" ], "objects": [ { "name": "gloves", "sprite": "gloves", "x": 40, "y": 120, "look": "A spare pair, laced and hanging. In thirty years this gym has never had a fighter sit for an hour with his gloves on and not hit anything.", "synonyms": "mitts leather pair", "use_text": "You check the laces on the spare pair, the way a manager does, because a manager checks laces and a police detective does not know that a manager checks laces. The trainer, across the room, stops watching you." }, { "name": "bucket", "sprite": "bucket", "x": 116, "y": 128, "look": "A corner bucket with a sponge in it. Beside it, on the bench, is a telephone that does not belong in a locker room and has a very long cord running out under the door.", "synonyms": "sponge pail towel water", "use_text": "You follow the cord. It goes out under the door, along the corridor, down the stairwell, and into the office at the far end of the gym. Somebody has run a private line into this room so that this room can be called." }, { "name": "cornerstool", "sprite": "cornerstool", "x": 70, "y": 138, "look": "A three-legged corner stool. He has been sitting on it for an hour and he has not moved it once.", "synonyms": "stool seat chair", "use_text": "You turn the stool around and sit on it backwards, facing him, the way a cornerman does between rounds. It is the correct way to sit in this room. He notices." }, { "name": "boxer", "sprite": "boxer", "x": 82, "y": 128, "look": "Buddy Kessler. Twenty-two and two, the best hands in the city, and he has been crying, which he will deny, and which you will not mention.", "synonyms": "buddy kessler kid fighter", "dialogue": [ { "says": "Kessler: Whatever you're selling, mister, I ain't buying and I ain't talking.", "choices": [ { "text": "Frank Deacon. I manage fighters.", "goto": 1 }, { "text": "Nobody sits an hour in gloves, son.", "goto": 2 }, { "text": "I'm a police officer, and I can help you.", "goto": 6, "kills": true } ] }, { "says": "Kessler: Then you're the only man in this building who does. He laughs. It is not a good laugh.", "choices": [ { "text": "Nobody sits an hour in gloves, son.", "goto": 2 } ] }, { "says": "Kessler: ...I'm going down in the fourth. He says it to the floor. It is the first time he has said it out loud and it costs him everything he has.", "choices": [ { "text": "You're four-to-one, Buddy. Why?", "goto": 3 }, { "text": "Then you're going down in the fourth.", "goto": 4 } ] }, { "says": "Kessler: Because they got Ellie. Kessler: Tuesday night. Two men, a car, and a phone in this room that rings when they feel like ringing it. I go down in the fourth and she comes home Saturday. I win, and she don't.", "choices": [ { "text": "Who called, Buddy?", "goto": 5, "sets_flag": "knows_kidnap", "points": 15 } ] }, { "says": "Kessler: ...What? It is not what anybody has said to him all week, and it is exactly enough of a shock to get the rest out of him.", "choices": [ { "text": "Unless you tell me why.", "goto": 3 } ] }, { "says": "Kessler: Tannenbaum. Office at the end of the gym. He didn't even use a middleman, mister — he called me himself, from forty feet away, because he don't think anybody's ever going to ask. Kessler: Are you going to ask?", "choices": [ { "text": "I'm going to ask.", "goto": -1 } ] }, { "says": "Kessler: ...Police. He is not angry. He is much worse than angry. He looks at the telephone with the long cord, and then at you, and he says: 'They're listening to this room, mister. They've been listening to this room since Tuesday.' It is eleven days before they find the car, and it is the same eleven days, and it is the same car." } ] } ] }