policesquadquest/cases/case-03-big-gulch/sprites.json
type-two 9bfd6ddb44 Cases Three, Four, Five and Nine — the campaign is complete
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>
2026-07-26 00:15:47 +10:00

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{
"_comment": "Act I, monochrome. Shared sprites copied from case-01.",
"keycutter": { "h": 18, "prompt": "A 1950s key cutting machine on a workbench with a rack of blank keys behind it, seen from the front, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"shopcounter": { "h": 20, "prompt": "A small locksmith shop counter with a till and a board of hanging keys behind it, seen from the front, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"customer": { "h": 24, "prompt": "An ordinary flustered 1950s housewife facing the viewer, headscarf and coat, holding a handbag open, apologetic expression, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"collector": { "h": 26, "prompt": "A slick 1950s protection racketeer facing the viewer, camelhair overcoat, hat tilted back, toothpick, one hand in pocket, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"grocer": { "h": 24, "prompt": "A worried 1950s shopkeeper in an apron facing the viewer, sleeves rolled, hands wringing a cloth, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"safe03": { "h": 22, "prompt": "A small 1950s wall safe with the door open and empty, set in a shop wall, seen from the front, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"shopfront": { "h": 30, "prompt": "A small 1950s corner shopfront with a striped awning and a hand painted sign, seen from the street, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"ledger03": { "h": 11, "prompt": "A shop accounts book lying open flat with columns of weekly figures, single object, black and white monochrome grayscale only" },
"cashbox": { "h": 11, "prompt": "A small metal shop cash box with the lid open, single object, black and white monochrome grayscale only" }
}