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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": "The Shrine Auditorium — Backstage, 11:04 PM",
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"enter_text": "Best Picture is the last award of the night and the last award of the night is in four minutes.",
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"music": 5,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 0, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 58, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 30, "y": 6, "w": 100, "h": 46, "color": 4, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 36, "y": 12, "w": 88, "h": 34, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 44, "y": 20, "w": 72, "h": 18, "color": 12, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 56, "w": 160, "h": 4, "color": 14, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 60, "w": 160, "h": 108, "color": 0, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 98, "w": 160, "h": 1, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 6, "y": 64, "w": 8, "h": 34, "color": 8, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 146, "y": 64, "w": 8, "h": 34, "color": 8, "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": [20, 150],
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"exits": [null, null, null, 2],
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"objects": [
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{ "name": "oscar", "sprite": "oscar", "x": 34, "y": 124,
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"look": "A rack of them on a trolley, waiting to go on, guarded by a man whose entire job for one night a year is this trolley.",
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"synonyms": "statuette award trophy rack trolley",
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"use_text": "You pick one up. It is much heavier than it looks, which everybody says, and which is true." },
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{ "name": "podium09", "sprite": "podium09", "x": 80, "y": 112,
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"look": "The lectern, lit, forty feet away through the wing. A hundred million people are looking at it and in four minutes somebody will open an envelope on it.",
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"synonyms": "lectern stage microphone stand",
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"use_text": "You look at it from the wing. Forty feet, a live broadcast, and no possible way to walk out there and explain anything to anybody in the time available." },
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{ "name": "envelope", "sprite": "envelope", "x": 108, "y": 122,
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"look": "On the stage manager's table under a light: the last envelope of the night, gold, sealed, resealed by somebody with very good hands, eleven ounces heavy. BEST PICTURE.",
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"synonyms": "gold card best picture seal",
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"requires_flag": "listened", "wins": true, "points": 30,
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"use_text": "You do not open it. Opening it is the trigger; that is the entire design. You take the envelope off the stage manager's table and you put a different envelope down in its place, which is one of Muriel Dillon's thirty-nine empties with a card in it that you have written on yourself, in block capitals, in the four minutes available, and the card says the name of a picture. You pick the one you liked. Then you walk out of the building with an armed device held perfectly level in both hands, past nine hundred people in evening dress, at a normal pace, because a man walking normally is invisible and a man running is a story, and you put it in a bomb-squad containment vessel in the car park at 11:07. On stage, forty feet behind you, somebody opens an empty gold envelope and reads out a picture that did not win, and it is announced as the greatest upset in the history of the ceremony, and it is never corrected, because by the time anybody works it out the producer has decided that correcting it would be worse. Rocco Dillon is taken at the stage door by Captain Hocken. Muriel is taken in the car park, still in the car, and gives a statement in which she describes her son as 'a good boy who cannot reverse'. You telephone Jane from the manager's office at twenty past eleven — before, not after, which is the entire arrangement — and you tell her where you are and what you did, and she says: 'You picked the one you liked?' And you say yes. And she says: 'Frank, that's the most honest thing you have ever done in your life.' Somewhere behind you Officer Nordberg falls off something. Everybody laughs. Everybody freezes, smiling, holding it. (+30)" },
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{ "name": "rocco", "sprite": "rocco", "x": 132, "y": 138,
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"look": "Rocco Dillon, in a borrowed dinner jacket at the stage door, forty feet from the only thing he has ever built that anybody was going to look at.",
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"synonyms": "dillon con man cellmate",
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"kills": true,
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"use_text": "You take Rocco Dillon at the stage door with four minutes on the clock and an armed device still sitting on the stage manager's table. He does not resist. He does not need to. He simply looks at his watch, and then at you, and says: 'McGurk. Four minutes.' Procedure is unambiguous about which of the two you deal with first, and you have known it for thirty years, and tonight, for four seconds, you wanted the arrest more." },
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{ "name": "hocken", "sprite": "hocken", "x": 56, "y": 142,
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"look": "Captain Ed Hocken in a dinner jacket that does not fit, at the stage door, waiting for a nod.",
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"synonyms": "captain ed boss",
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"use_text": "You give him the nod and he does not move, because the nod means wait, and Ed Hocken has been reading your nods since 1974." }
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]
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}
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