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Thirteen cases, all playable, all lint clean, all verified end-to-end at 100/100 (Case One is 95 + 5 optional by design). Case Three — Rendezvous at Big Gulch. The racket only shakes down businesses that are doing well, so to get extorted you must run a genuinely excellent locksmith shop. Frank reads MODERN LOCKSMITHING cover to cover and retains all of it while understanding none of it, which for locksmithing is the correct ratio. The street won't talk because paper doesn't stand in your doorway on a Friday; Halloran opens up only after you offer to fix his door, and his extortion ledger has been lying open on a public counter for two and a half years because nobody ever asked to see his book. Case Four — Revenge and Remorse. Section 14 paragraph 9 was written in 1949 for a 1949 timer, and this bomber files his timing stub twice because he cannot leave a thing not-quite-square, which shortens the contact throw and energises the trigger first. Follow the manual and it completes. So Frank disarms it backwards — the one time in nineteen years he departs from a written instruction, because he can prove the instruction is wrong in four sentences. Carries PQ1's Captain loop and an explicit refusal of PQ3's centre-pixel bug. Case Five — The Butler Did It. Chain of custody on a birthday cake: photograph, weigh with a witness, seal all forty forks. Eleven pounds light in the tier nobody cuts, because she was inside it for four minutes while forty people looked at it. And Frank will not suspect the butler because the literature says it is always the butler, so suspecting him would be quoting rather than investigating. It is the butler. Case Nine — The Final Insult. The marriage is a gate, not a subplot: the finale is locked behind actually answering the counsellor's question, and Jane's terms are "before you go, not after". He doesn't disarm the envelope, he swaps it and writes in a winner by hand. He picks the one he liked. Two point budgets came in over (110, 115) and are trimmed to exactly 100. Sprite generation needed a kill-and-restart: two overlapping runs were competing for the farm and producing "Resource temporarily unavailable" — one clean pass at pool 2 completed all four sets with zero failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"name": "Dr. Eisendrath's Office — Couples Counselling, Thursday",
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"enter_text": "Eleven months retired. A sofa, a box of tissues, and a woman who has asked you one question and is waiting.",
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"music": 1,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 6, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 60, "color": 14, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 58, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 6, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 61, "w": 160, "h": 107, "color": 6, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 12, "y": 12, "w": 34, "h": 28, "color": 2, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 16, "y": 16, "w": 26, "h": 20, "color": 10, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 10, "w": 50, "h": 40, "color": 9, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 124, "y": 10, "w": 3, "h": 40, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 100, "y": 28, "w": 50, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 164, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } }
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],
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"spawn": [22, 148],
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"exits": [null, 1, null, null],
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"exit_flags": ["", "listened", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "You are in a fifty-minute session and there are thirty-one minutes left of it. You do not walk out of the session.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{ "name": "sofa", "sprite": "sofa", "x": 52, "y": 128,
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"look": "The sofa. Two cushions, a box of tissues on the arm, and a distance between you and Jane of about fourteen inches that has been the same distance for four sessions.",
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"synonyms": "couch seat cushions tissues",
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"use_text": "You sit down and you do not check your watch, which is a thing you have done in all four previous sessions and which she has counted every time." },
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{ "name": "counsellor", "sprite": "counsellor", "x": 118, "y": 126,
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"look": "Dr. Eisendrath, who has asked you the same question four weeks running and has all the time in the world.",
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"synonyms": "eisendrath doctor therapist woman",
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"use_text": "She asks it again: what do you miss? You could answer this in one word and the word would be true and it would end the marriage.",
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"dialogue": [
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{ "says": "Dr. Eisendrath: Frank. Same question as last week. What do you miss?",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "I don't miss anything.", "goto": 1 },
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{ "text": "The work.", "goto": 2 },
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{ "text": "I miss being useful to somebody at four in the morning.", "goto": 3 } ] },
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{ "says": "Dr. Eisendrath: Jane? Jane: He gets up at ten to four. Every night. He gets up at ten to four and he stands in the kitchen and he doesn't put the light on. You did not know she was awake for that. She has been awake for all of it.",
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"choices": [ { "text": "I miss being useful to somebody at four in the morning.", "goto": 3 } ] },
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{ "says": "Dr. Eisendrath: The work. Which part of the work? Jane, beside you, does not say anything, and the fourteen inches does not change, and you realise she is not angry that you miss it. She is waiting to find out whether you will say so.",
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"choices": [ { "text": "I miss being useful to somebody at four in the morning.", "goto": 3 } ] },
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{ "says": "You say it. It is the first true thing anybody has said in this room in four weeks and it costs you a great deal more than any of the untrue ones did. Jane closes the fourteen inches. Jane: Then go and be useful, Frank. Ed's been in the kitchen for an hour and neither of you thought I could hear you. Jane: But you come back, and you tell me where you're going before you go, and not after.",
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"choices": [
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{ "text": "Before I go. Not after.", "goto": 4, "sets_flag": "listened", "points": 20 } ] },
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{ "says": "Dr. Eisendrath: We have eleven minutes left. Would either of you like to use them? You both say no. You use them anyway. You do not say anything for eleven minutes and it is the best eleven minutes of the year.",
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"choices": [] } ] },
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{ "name": "jane", "sprite": "jane", "x": 82, "y": 134,
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"look": "Jane. Six years, and eleven months of a husband standing in a dark kitchen at ten to four, and she has not once asked him to stop.",
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"synonyms": "spencer wife woman blonde",
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"use_text": "You take her hand, in a counsellor's office, in front of a counsellor, which is the sort of thing you would ordinarily wait until the car to do." },
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{ "name": "hocken", "sprite": "hocken", "x": 26, "y": 140,
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"look": "Captain Ed Hocken, in the corridor, holding his hat, because he has been in your kitchen since eight and has now followed you to your marriage counselling.",
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"synonyms": "captain ed boss",
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"use_text": "He tells you it is Rocco Dillon, out of Statesville in March, and that there is a device going somewhere very public and very soon, and that the only man Dillon ever talked in front of was a cellmate. You tell him you will need to be a cellmate. He says he was rather hoping you would say that and that he has brought a file, and it turns out he has had the file in his hat the entire time, including in the session." }
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]
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}
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