{ "name": "4 Cranbourne Drive — The Ballroom", "enter_text": "Forty guests, forty coats, and a cake that nobody has been allowed to move since a quarter to eight.", "music": 2, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 60, "color": 15, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 12, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 61, "w": 160, "h": 107, "color": 7, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 20, "w": 30, "h": 34, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 24, "w": 22, "h": 26, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 62, "y": 18, "w": 36, "h": 36, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 66, "y": 22, "w": 28, "h": 28, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 118, "y": 20, "w": 30, "h": 34, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 122, "y": 24, "w": 22, "h": 26, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [18, 146], "exits": [null, 2, null, 0], "exit_flags": ["", "cake_sealed", "", ""], "exit_blocked": ["", "There is one object in this room that was here at 7:40 and is here now, and you have not secured it.", "", ""], "objects": [ { "name": "cake", "sprite": "cake", "x": 78, "y": 122, "look": "Four tiers, on a trolley, wheeled in at 7:40 by a butler and never lit. Forty guests have had a fork in it in the two hours since, because nobody thought to stop them, because it is a cake.", "synonyms": "trolley tiers candles birthday", "points": 25, "sets_flag": "cake_sealed", "use_text": "You treat it as an exhibit, because Captain Hocken told you to treat it like a body and you do what you are told. You photograph it in situ. You measure the trolley. You take the weight of the cake on the kitchen scales with a witness, and you seal, label and initial every one of the forty forks. Forty-one people in this house watch a police detective weigh a birthday cake, and every one of them thinks less of him, and one of them thinks a great deal less of him and cannot entirely hide it. The cake weighs eleven pounds under what a cake of that size and construction should weigh, and it weighs it in the bottom tier, which nobody cut, because nobody cuts the bottom tier at a children's party. (+25)" }, { "name": "tycoon", "sprite": "tycoon", "x": 42, "y": 130, "look": "Cornelius Vane. Shipping, mostly. He has been on the telephone to three men since eight o'clock and none of them were police.", "synonyms": "cornelius vane father shipping man", "use_text": "You ask him who he has been calling. He tells you: his lawyer, his broker, and a man in Long Beach whose name he would rather not give, and he gives it, because you asked him plainly and he is too tired to do anything else." }, { "name": "governess", "sprite": "governess", "x": 116, "y": 128, "look": "Miss Aldritch, governess, four years in the house. She was in the ballroom at 7:40 in front of forty witnesses and has said so eleven times.", "synonyms": "aldritch miss woman teacher", "use_text": "You clear her in nine minutes, thoroughly, with three independent witnesses and a photograph. You then clear the cook, the two hired girls, the man on the step, and thirty-eight of the forty guests, in order, over five hours, while a butler stands in the corner of the room holding a tray." }, { "name": "butler", "sprite": "butler", "x": 138, "y": 144, "look": "Hobbs. Thirty-one years with the family. He wheeled the cake in at 7:40 and has been standing in the corner of this room ever since, holding a tray, waiting to be asked. You are not going to ask him, because the literature is unanimous, and a detective who arrives at a house like this and immediately suspects the butler is not investigating, he is quoting.", "synonyms": "hobbs servant manservant tray", "use_text": "You do not question the butler. You have now not questioned the butler for five hours. He has brought you a cup of tea twice. The second time he stood beside you for slightly longer than a man stands who is putting down a cup." } ] }