Conversation 712: CANAL / SAMARAN BUTTER SIGN VISCAL

You find tire tracks indicating that a car leapt over the canal.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Perception (Sight) A crumpled billboard reading "SAMARAN BUTTER" soaks in the canal. Two ugly lines mar the bright countenance of the blond boy depicted.
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3 None
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4 You What is Samaran Butter?
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5 Perception (Sight) Whatever it is, the boy on the billboard seems very happy about it.
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6 Samaran Butter
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7 Samaran Butter Variable["canal.samaran_encyc_butter"]
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8 Samaran Butter (Variable["canal.samaran_encyc_butter"]) == false
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9 Encyclopedia Goat milk butter. The Samaran terrain makes it easier to raise goats than cows, and the local goat farmers produce high-quality meat and dairy staples that add variety to other nations' diets.
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10 None
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11 Perception (Taste) It's an acquired taste.
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12 You Attempt to reconstruct what happened here.
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13 Samaran Butter
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14 Samaran Butter Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_white_check"]
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15 Samaran Butter (Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_white_check"]) == false
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16 Visual Calculus Just some tasteless advertising at the bottom of a canal. No use rubbernecking now.
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17 Visual Calculus Judging by the size of the impact and the parallel lines of burnt rubber, the cause was probably a motor vehicle.
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18 None
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19 None
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20 You Look at the crater.
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21 You Look at the roof of the shack.
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22 You Look at the broken posts.
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23 You Look at the sign.
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24 You Look at the opposite bank.
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25 You What was the model of this phantom vehicle? Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_crater"] == true and Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_roofing"] == true and Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_panel"] == true and Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_posts"] == true and Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_sign"] == true and Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_bank"] == true and Variable["village.sunken_encyclo_coupris_forty"] == false and Variable["village.sunken_model_coupris_40_established"] == false
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26 You Nothing more to see here. [Leave.]
27 Visual Calculus There are two good candidates: the Coupris 40 and the Linnea G22.
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28 None
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29 You Why the Coupris 40?
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30 You Why the Linnea G22?
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31 Visual Calculus It's about the right size, and the tyre marks look like they came from the skinny tyres frequently found on that motor carriage.
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32 Visual Calculus Very sturdy but light motor carriage. More likely than most to survive that jump.
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33 You Blink. [Leave.]
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34 You What now?
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35 None
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36 Conceptualization The SAMARAN BUTTER billboard still looks freshly painted, suggesting it took the plunge recently.
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37 You How recently?
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38 Conceptualization Within the past 72 hours.
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39 Visual Calculus The black marks on the roof indicate that the vehicle *vaulted* from the crater to the roof of the shack.
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40 Visual Calculus Side slip marks indicate that the vehicle was travelling up the crater at 35 km/h.
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41 Visual Calculus The vehicle soared through the air, hitting the billboard and upsetting the posts. Then it continued its flight, taking the billboard with it.
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42 Visual Calculus The sign broke the vehicle's fall into the canal.
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43 You Look at the sloping metal roof panel.
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44 Visual Calculus The panel served as a take-off ramp.
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45 Visual Calculus Still speeding, the vehicle made a loop and vanished into the fog along the coast.
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46 None
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47 Encyclopedia The Coupris 40 is a very popular model with bank clerks, topping-pie delivery drivers, secondary school teachers, cops, strippers dressed as cops, undressed strippers...
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48 Encyclopedia The Linnea G22 is not a particularly popular model due to its peculiar proportions, which the manufacturer's design team probably thought about for too long.
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49 None
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50 Samaran Butter
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51 Samaran Butter Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_concept_recent"]
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52 Samaran Butter (Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_concept_recent"]) == false
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53 Samaran Butter
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54 Samaran Butter Variable["plaza.tracks_viscal_wc_success_done"]
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55 Samaran Butter (Variable["plaza.tracks_viscal_wc_success_done"]) == false
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56 Visual Calculus These look like the same tyre tracks I saw earlier -- in front of the Whirling-in-Rags.
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57 Visual Calculus Now? You'd have to follow the tracks to be sure.
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58 Samaran Butter
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59 Samaran Butter Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_wc_success"]
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60 Samaran Butter (Variable["canal.samaran_vis_calc_wc_success"]) == false
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61 Perception (Sight) The crumpled SAMARAN BUTTER billboard still soaks in the canal, marked by tyre tracks.
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62 Kim Kitsuragi The lieutenant looks on, waiting for you to wrap up your analysis.
63 Samaran Butter
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64 Samaran Butter IsKimHere()
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65 Samaran Butter (IsKimHere()) == false
66 Samaran Butter
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67 Samaran Butter Variable["village.sunken_sadly_you_did"]
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68 Samaran Butter (Variable["village.sunken_sadly_you_did"]) == false
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69 Visual Calculus These match the tyre tracks you saw earlier -- *your* tyre tracks.
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70 None
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71 None
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72 Samaran Butter
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73 Samaran Butter Variable["village.sunken_sadly_you_did"]
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74 Samaran Butter (Variable["village.sunken_sadly_you_did"]) == false
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75 You "Yup -- *I* did this." Variable["village.sunken_sadly_you_did"] and IsKimHere()
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76 Samaran Butter
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77 Samaran Butter Variable["coast.sunken_dialogue_done"]
78 Samaran Butter (Variable["coast.sunken_dialogue_done"]) == false
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79 You "Yup -- *I* did this." Variable["village.sunken_sadly_you_did"] and IsKimHere() == false
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80 Visual Calculus Clearly. The motor carriage in question was a Coupris 40 -- mere minutes before it took a final voyage into the ocean.
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81 Kim Kitsuragi "Clearly, yes. Dwelling on it longer only makes it worse."
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82 None
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83 Interfacing The sign billboard has fallen on the water lock, keeping it open -- and thus out of order.
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