Conversation 464: KINEEMA / CALLING THE LIBRARY

Calling Jamrock Public Library to see if you can find out anything about the dead man found at the boardwalk. You'll get Working Class Woman's home address from here.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 You "I'm looking for any information that you can provide on Billie Méjean, a reader."
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3 Jamrock Public Library "Billie, Billie *Méjean*, you said? Give me a moment, I'll have to check our database." He puts down the receiver.
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4 Jamrock Public Library "Yes, hello, are you still there?" You can hear him fiddle with the printout. "I found Billie Méjean's home address, is that alright? No phone number unfortunately."
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5 Jamrock Public Library "..."
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6 Jamrock Public Library "..."
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7 Jamrock Public Library "..."
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8 You "Yes, home address is fine."
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9 Jamrock Public Library "Here we go, sir: Rue de Saint-Ghislaine 33B, apartment no 20. It's in Martinaise, I believe... Capeside Apartments, it says. That's all."
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10 You "I'm not really that good with addresses."
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11 Jamrock Public Library "Maybe you can write it down? It's Rue de Saint-Ghislaine 33B, apartment no 20. It's in Martinaise, I believe... Capeside Apartments, it says. That's all."
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12 None
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13 You "Do you have any other information on Billie Méjean?"
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14 You "Thank you. That's all from me, I have no other questions." (End call with the library.)
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15 Jamrock Public Library "It says here that they returned their last book just a few days ago, but I wasn't at work that day."
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16 Jamrock Public Library "Happy we could help. Good bye, officer." The librarian hangs up and the call gets redirected back to the station.
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17 Alice "Anything else you need from me?" Alice asks.
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18 None
External:
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19 You "Do you know someone who was?"
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20 Jamrock Public Library "Marie?" He covers the phone with his hand and yells out into the room behind him: "Marie! Do you remember a reader named Billie Méjean? They returned a Thibault book the other day..." You hear someone answer from afar.
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21 None
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22 None Variable["plaza.working_asked_about_loos_radio_city"]
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23 None (Variable["plaza.working_asked_about_loos_radio_city"]) == false
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24 Logic Loos, Radio City? That's the same book the working class woman was reading at the bookstand...
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25 Inland Empire Something unpleasant twitches in your stomach.
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26 Jamrock Public Library "Yes, it was my colleague Marie," the librarian is speaking into the phone again. "She said that it was Billie's *husband* who returned the book. He also asked for this new sci-fi release "Loos, Radio City '87", but we don't have it yet."
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27 None
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28 You "So Billie Méjean is a woman, not a man? How did your colleague know that it was her husband?"
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29 You "Can Marie describe to me what the husband looked like?"
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30 Jamrock Public Library "Marie knows Billie, she's been working here longer than me. Sometimes her husband returns some books for her."
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31 Jamrock Public Library "She said it was an older man... And that she's pretty sure he had had a drink or two the last time she saw him."
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32 You "Thank you. That's all from me, I have no other questions." (End call with the library.)
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33 Jamrock Public Library "Happy we could help. Good bye, officer." The librarian hangs up and the call gets redirected back to the station with a soft click...
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34 Alice "Anything else you need from me?"
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35 None
External:
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36 You "What was he wearing?"
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37 Jamrock Public Library "Uh, one second..." The librarian turns away from the phone again and relays the question.
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38 Jamrock Public Library "Sorry, Marie wasn't really paying any attention to that."
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39 None
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40 None
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41 You "Do you know the husband's name?"
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42 Jamrock Public Library "Sorry, no -- Marie only knows him by sight."
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43 Logic They're too poor to have a phone line.
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44 Perception (Hearing) "Maurice, what?!" a woman yells. Then: "Yes-yes, okay, if it was the police..." She starts explaining something.
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45 Logic Good. You have a name now.
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46 Empathy And then goes for a little drink later, on the lookout...
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47 Jamrock Public Library "Marie..." A moment passes.
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48 Shivers On Meroe drive in Central Jamrock -- in a darkened hall lit by orange desk lamps -- far away from the noise outside -- a middle-aged man taps commands into an old radiocomputer. A printout falls on the desk. Behind him, a lonely reader scours some dusty bookshelves, looking for a paperback...
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49 None
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50 None Variable["TASK.find_a_way_inside_apt_building_done"]
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51 None (Variable["TASK.find_a_way_inside_apt_building_done"]) == false
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52 Reaction Speed That's where the smoker on the balcony lives, isn't it?
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53 Reaction Speed By the pier, north of here. Those big apartment buildings there.
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