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Eight cases playable, all lint clean, all verified end-to-end. John asked what 1950s bumbling criminals Drebin Sr could look good against. Clouseau is the wrong shape twice — 1963, and a bumbling detective rather than a criminal. The right seam is the Ealing comedies: The Ladykillers (1955) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). Done as archetype parody, never character import, which is exactly what ZAZ did to M Squad — take the form, not the people — and which lets the gang be tuned to make Sr's twist land. Five lodgers calling themselves a barbershop quartet, and in eleven weeks nobody in that house has raised the arithmetic. A mastermind who is nought for eleven and blames personnel every time. Muscle brought for the violence who offers you an aniseed ball. A driver who cannot drive and came with the goggles. A safecracker who is the best in the state and has been deaf since 1943, and has been asking about that since August. An inside man who works at a different company on a different street and has raised it four times. The twist: they tunnel eleven feet through Victorian brick for eleven weeks to reach a vault Frank Drebin Sr emptied five weeks earlier — legitimately, on his own written recommendation, signing the transfer manifest at both ends. Arrested inside an empty room. The paper calls it the finest detective work in the city in twenty years and every word of it is true. This is why he has never been caught: the visible criminals are loud and his own crimes are silent. The case is actually cracked by a seventy-nine-year-old landlady who took a bus to the police station to complain about the noise, and she never learns it. New lint rule, from a real 10-point loss here: two DIFFERENT objects awarding points for setting the same flag — points fire on the false->true flip, so whichever runs second silently pays nothing and max_score goes unreachable. Same object paying via `use` or its own dialogue is fine; those are alternatives. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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68 lines
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{
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"name": "Meridian Street Bonded Depository — Vault Floor",
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"enter_text": "Eleven feet of Victorian brick on the east wall, and on the other side of it, five men and a gramophone.",
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"music": 2,
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"strokes": [
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 168, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 0, "w": 160, "h": 66, "color": 0, "meaning": "Wall" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 64, "w": 160, "h": 3, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 67, "w": 160, "h": 101, "color": 8, "meaning": "Floor" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 6, "y": 10, "w": 46, "h": 52, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 14, "w": 38, "h": 44, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 24, "w": 38, "h": 2, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 36, "w": 38, "h": 2, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 10, "y": 48, "w": 38, "h": 2, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 118, "y": 10, "w": 36, "h": 54, "color": 15, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 122, "y": 14, "w": 28, "h": 46, "color": 0, "meaning": "None" } },
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{ "Rect": { "x": 0, "y": 104, "w": 160, "h": 1, "color": 0, "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": [18, 148],
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"exits": [null, 3, null, 1],
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"exit_flags": ["", "surveyed", "", ""],
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"exit_blocked": ["", "You do not set a trap in a building you have not surveyed.", "", ""],
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"objects": [
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{
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"name": "eastwall",
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"sprite": "crates",
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"x": 118,
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"y": 122,
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"look": "The east wall. Eleven feet three inches of Victorian brick, laid in 1888, and behind it the cellar of 14 Meridian Terrace. If you put your hand flat on the third course from the floor you can feel it going, very faintly, all evening, under eleven bars of barbershop.",
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"synonyms": "wall brick east bricks course",
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"use_text": "You put your hand on the brick and stand there for a minute and a half without moving. It is going. It has been going since August. On the other side of eleven inches of it, an elderly deaf man who cannot hear a tumbler is being handed a chisel by a man in driving goggles who cannot drive."
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},
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{
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"name": "vaultdoor",
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"sprite": "vaultdoor",
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"x": 60,
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"y": 112,
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"look": "The vault. Eighteen inches of hardened steel, a time lock, and a combination held by two officers of the company. You surveyed this building in September at the company's request, wrote nine pages on it, and made one recommendation.",
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"synonyms": "vault safe steel door wheel",
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"points": 15,
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"sets_flag": "vault_checked",
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"use_text": "You check the vault against your own survey, item by item, because a survey is worth nothing if the man who wrote it will not stand behind it. Your recommendation in September was that the east wall was the weak face of this building, that eleven feet of 1888 brick is not a wall, and that the bonded contents should be transferred to the Steelton facility pending remedial work. The company accepted it on the 3rd of October. The transfer went out on the 9th, under escort, and you signed the manifest as attending officer, because a bonded transfer requires a sworn officer to attend and you were the officer who wrote the survey. This vault has been empty for five weeks. (+15)"
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},
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{
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"name": "manifest",
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"sprite": "ledger1958",
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"x": 100,
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"y": 130,
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"look": "The transfer manifest, in the vault office, where it has been since the 9th of October. Four million dollars of bonded property, itemised, checked out of this building and into the Steelton facility, countersigned by two company officers and one attending police officer.",
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"synonyms": "transfer paper document record countersign",
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"requires_flag": "vault_checked",
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"points": 15,
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"sets_flag": "surveyed",
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"use_text": "You read it through. Everything on it is correct. Every item is where the manifest says it is, and the manifest says Steelton, and the Steelton facility's receiving log agrees with it to the item. You were the attending officer. You wrote the survey that caused the transfer, you recommended the date, and you signed for it at both ends, and all of that is on the paper in your own hand, and every word of it is true. Somebody looking at this in thirty years would need to hold the survey, the manifest, the Steelton log and your movements in the same head at the same time, and nobody has ever held two of your documents at once, because there has never been a reason. (+15)"
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},
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{
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"name": "clerk",
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"sprite": "insideman",
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"x": 34,
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"y": 126,
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"look": "The night clerk, who has worked this floor for six years and who is on his own from ten o'clock on a Saturday because the company reduced the watch after the contents went to Steelton.",
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"synonyms": "night watch employee staff",
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"use_text": "You tell him that on Saturday night he is to be at his sister's in Fullerton and not in this building under any circumstances, and you write it down and give it to him and make him read it back. He is going to be very glad of that piece of paper on Sunday, and he will keep it for forty years, and he will show it to people."
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}
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]
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}
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