{ "name": "Beirut — A Back Room, Some Weeks Earlier", "enter_text": "You are on vacation. You have been on vacation for four days and you have not yet left this building.", "music": 5, "strokes": [ { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 6, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 62, "color": 8, "meaning": "Wall" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 60, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 63, "w": 160, "h": 105, "color": 6, "meaning": "Floor" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 8, "y": 10, "w": 40, "h": 44, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 14, "w": 32, "h": 36, "color": 4, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 18, "y": 22, "w": 20, "h": 20, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 112, "y": 12, "w": 40, "h": 42, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 116, "y": 16, "w": 32, "h": 34, "color": 2, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 60, "y": 8, "w": 40, "h": 16, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 64, "y": 12, "w": 32, "h": 3, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 64, "y": 18, "w": 22, "h": 3, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 100, "w": 160, "h": 1, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } }, { "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } } ], "spawn": [ 20, 148 ], "exits": [ null, 0, null, null ], "exit_flags": [ "", "summit_ended", "", "" ], "exit_blocked": [ "", "There is a meeting going on in this room and you have not finished attending it.", "", "" ], "objects": [ { "name": "hookah", "sprite": "hookah", "x": 34, "y": 118, "look": "A hookah on a low table, going. Nobody in this room has offered you any of it and nobody has asked you to leave either, because for four days every man here has assumed you are somebody else's.", "synonyms": "pipe smoke water bowl", "use_text": "You take a polite pull on the hookah and hold it, because a man who declines in a room like this is a man who is not staying, and you intend to stay." }, { "name": "summittable", "sprite": "summittable", "x": 80, "y": 108, "look": "A long table, a map, and the six least popular men on the face of the earth, none of whom is speaking to any of the others, all of whom have flown a very long way to sit down together. You are on vacation. You came in on Tuesday for a glass of water.", "synonyms": "table map conference meeting chairs", "points": 20, "sets_flag": "heard_plan", "use_text": "You stand at the back of the room with a glass of water and you listen for four days. They are dividing up the year. Six men, one map, a list of cities, and a shipping arrangement that requires exactly one legitimate carrier of sufficient tonnage to move the cargo without anybody asking, and the name of that carrier is said out loud in this room on the third afternoon while you are refilling your glass. It is a Los Angeles company. It has two hundred and six ships. You write nothing down, because a man writing in this room is a dead man, and you have never once needed to write anything down. (+20)" }, { "name": "despot", "sprite": "despot", "x": 116, "y": 122, "look": "The one in the olive uniform with the sunglasses and the medals. He has more medals than the room has chairs. In fourteen years of continuous military rule he has not been in a military engagement.", "synonyms": "general uniform sunglasses medals dictator", "use_text": "You compliment him on the medals. He explains each one, at length, for eleven minutes, in a language you do not speak, and you nod at every one of them, and at the end of it he embraces you and calls you brother and asks whose delegation you are with. You tell him: Los Angeles. He says he has always wanted to go." }, { "name": "strongman", "sprite": "despot2", "x": 56, "y": 132, "look": "The one with the sash. He arrived with nine bodyguards and has spent four days making sure the other five know it.", "synonyms": "sash suit leader boss", "requires_flag": "heard_plan", "points": 20, "sets_flag": "summit_ended", "use_text": "On the fourth afternoon somebody finally asks who you are. What follows takes ninety seconds and is, by an enormous distance, the finest close-quarters work of your career, and there is nobody in the room to see it who will ever be in a position to describe it. Six men, nine bodyguards, one table and a hookah. You are on the street at twenty past four with a glass of water you have not put down and a shipping company's name you have not written anywhere, and behind you a summit that took two years to arrange comes apart in a way that will be attributed, in four different intelligence assessments, to four different governments. You go back to your hotel. You have three days of vacation left and you spend them at the pool. (+20)" }, { "name": "anchor", "sprite": "anchor", "x": 138, "y": 146, "look": "In the corner, on a portable set with the sound down, an American news anchor is reading the evening bulletin. He does not know he is on air. He has not known for some time. He is telling the floor manager, at length and in detail, what he thinks of the floor manager's shirt, and it is going out live to eleven million homes.", "synonyms": "television news set tv broadcast", "use_text": "You watch for a while. He finishes the shirt. He starts on the weekend. At no point does anybody in the gallery tell him, because everybody in the gallery has decided that somebody else will." } ] }