PLAZA COIN-OPERATED VIEWER I - 435
Your browser does not support the audio element.
Audio file not found. Please check the URL.
G
0
START
1
input
0->1
35
Coin-Operated Viewer: This coin-operated viewer is facing South. The instruction manual says to insert twenty five *centims* and pull the handle while looking inside, then use the focus knob to zoom in if necessary.
This coin-operated viewer is facing South. It has given up all its secrets -- there seems to be a sunken seafort on the islet in the bay...
1->35
2
You: [Leave.]
3
Viewer hub
8
You: Insert a coin.
3->8
9
You: "What's a tourist attraction doing... here?"
3->9
24
You: [Leave.]
3->24
4
Variable["plaza.viewer_logic_wondered_why_is_it_here"]
5
Variable["plaza.viewer_logic_wondered_why_is_it_here"]
4->5
6
!(Variable["plaza.viewer_logic_wondered_why_is_it_here"])
4->6
5->3
20
Logic: Why place a tourist attraction in the middle of such poverty?
6->20
7
You: Could the shot have come from there? Then entered the window upstairs the Whirling-in-Rags?
"Could the shot have come from there?"
16
IsKimHere()
7->16
13
Coin-Operated Viewer: Your money disappears into the coin-slot. A clunk, the ring of metal...
8->13
21
Kim Kitsuragi: "There was a revitalization project in '49. A design studio tried restoring Martinaise to its pre-war glory." The lieutenant looks around and concludes: "It didn't stick."
9->21
10
Coin-Operated Viewer: It's not possible to know from this distance. The details are blurry, there's water vapour in the way and waves cut into the islet...
28
Jump to: [sgreat_successs]
10->28
11
Kim Kitsuragi: "That's odd. I could swear you were a *police officer*..."
42
Jump to: [Viewer hub]
11->42
39
You: Pull the handle and look inside.
13->39
14
Kim Kitsuragi: "Really? I don't have the eyesight to make it out..." The lieutenant takes off his glasses and cleans them.
43
Jump to: [sgreat_successs]
14->43
15
You: "Can't we... do something about it?"
25
Kim Kitsuragi: "We should have *done* something about the Union ten years ago. That ship has sailed, officer."
15->25
17
IsKimHere()
16->17
18
!(IsKimHere())
16->18
19
Kim Kitsuragi: "Can you tell? From this distance? I don't think it's possible."
17->19
18->10
38
Coin-Operated Viewer: It's not. The details are blurry, there's water vapour in the way and waves cut into the islet...
19->38
20->3
41
You: "What happened?"
21->41
22
You: "Cool. I dig organized crime. It's the best."
22->11
23
You: Say nothing.
34
Kim Kitsuragi: The lieutenant adjusts his collar. It's frisky outside.
23->34
25->42
26
Coin-Operated Viewer: It looks as if it was abandoned quite some time ago, nothing but a rotten tooth remains of the anti-aircraft tower. A lonely birch tree grows out of it.
37
Empathy: Its leaves ripped from it by the winter wind...
26->37
27
sgreat_successs
27->2
27->7
29
You: "Hang in there, little one."
27->29
33
You: "There are ruins of some kind of building there..."
27->33
28->27
30
Coin-Operated Viewer: The little brave birch-tree seems to wave back in the wind.
29->30
44
Jump to: [sgreat_successs]
30->44
31
Coin-Operated Viewer: The curtains on the display open. You lean in to catch the view -- it's blurry, different blues and greens. In the middle of the shimmer stands a drab grey shape, like a ghost.
32
You: Turn the knob to focus your vision.
31->32
36
Coin-Operated Viewer: The lenses shift, the ghost sharpens into an islet in the bay. In the ruins a man-made structure is visible: a half-sunken sea-fort, its concrete almost reconquered by nature.
32->36
33->14
34->42
35->4
36->26
37->27
38->28
39->31
40
Kim Kitsuragi: "They got as far as the street lamps and the statue on that intersection. Then something went sour." He lowers his voice. "I suspect that *something* was Evrart Claire -- the Union leader. He muscled them out. It's how it usually goes around here."
"They got as far as the street lamps and that statue on the intersection before something went sour." He lowers his voice. "I suspect it was Evrart Claire's doing. He muscled them out -- it's how it usually goes around here."
40->15
40->22
40->23
41->40
42->3
43->27
44->27