Conversation 242: PLAZA / COIN-OPERATED VIEWER I

A coin-operated viewer on the plaza. It offers a view to the sunken sea-fort.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 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.
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3 You [Leave.]
4 Coin-Operated Viewer Your money disappears into the coin-slot. A clunk, the ring of metal...
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5 None
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6 Logic Why place a tourist attraction in the middle of such poverty?
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7 You Pull the handle and look inside.
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8 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.
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9 You Turn the knob to focus your vision.
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10 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.
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11 None
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12 None Variable["plaza.viewer_logic_wondered_why_is_it_here"]
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13 None (Variable["plaza.viewer_logic_wondered_why_is_it_here"]) == false
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14 None
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15 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.
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16 You "Hang in there, little one." Variable["plaza.viewer_empathy_birch"]
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17 You [Leave.]
18 Coin-Operated Viewer The little brave birch-tree seems to wave back in the wind.
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19 None
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20 You Insert a coin.
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21 You "What's a tourist attraction doing... here?" Variable["plaza.viewer_logic_wondered_why_is_it_here"] and IsKimHere()
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22 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."
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23 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."
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24 You "What happened?"
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25 Empathy Its leaves ripped from it by the winter wind...
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26 You "There are ruins of some kind of building there..." IsKimHere()
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27 None
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28 You Could the shot have come from there? Then entered the window upstairs the Whirling-in-Rags? Variable["TASK.check_seafort"]
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29 Kim Kitsuragi "Really? I don't have the eyesight to make it out..." The lieutenant takes off his glasses and cleans them.
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30 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...
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31 None
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32 None IsKimHere()
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33 None (IsKimHere()) == false
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34 Kim Kitsuragi "Can you tell? From this distance? I don't think it's possible."
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35 Coin-Operated Viewer It's not. The details are blurry, there's water vapour in the way and waves cut into the islet...
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36 None
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37 None
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38 You "Cool. I dig organized crime. It's the best."
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39 You "Can't we... do something about it?"
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40 You Say nothing.
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41 Kim Kitsuragi "We should have *done* something about the Union ten years ago. That ship has sailed, officer."
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42 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant adjusts his collar. It's frisky outside.
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43 Kim Kitsuragi "That's odd. I could swear you were a *police officer*..."
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