Conversation 1195: WHIRLING F1 / SMOKER ON THE BALCONY

Smoker on the balcony, sitting in the bar.

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Smoker on the Balcony "Hi, gendarme. Another rendezvous." There he is again -- the smoker on the balcony! Right here in the Whirling-in-Rags.
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3 Smoker on the Balcony He takes another drag of his cigarette before knitting his brows. "What friend?"
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4 None
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5 Smoker on the Balcony "Sure. Anything else on your mind?" His lazy eyes stroll over your face.
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6 You "Hi."
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7 You "Your Sunday friend, the witness."
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8 You "Hello." CheckEquipped("neck_tie") == false
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9 Smoker on the Balcony "*Everything* will be constantly shifting and moving under our rule, the future will belong to a circus of identities, just spinning around, surreal and unreal... You won't even know who you are anymore."
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10 You "Hello." (Adjust your tie.) CheckEquipped("neck_tie") == true
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11 You [Leave.]
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12 Smoker on the Balcony "Muscular. Handsome." He shrugs nonchalantly. "Strong. Like one of those military types."
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13 Smoker on the Balcony "Oh, it's a *pleasure* group... a sub-rosa pleasure group congregating in cellars under the cover of night... Saturday night, sometimes even *Friday* night!"
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14 Smoker on the Balcony "Oh we're ambitious, we want to destroy the last vestiges of meaning, the last things people in Revachol have to hold on to, the true symbols of security -- the meaning of man and woman, mother and father, their marriage."
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15 Encyclopedia Just pointing it out, we're not talking about some kind of a cult with *members* here, you made it up.
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16 Smoker on the Balcony "Or Thursday night! Sometimes the congregating doesn't even end, it carries on into our daily life..." He lowers his voice conspiratorially and looks around.
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17 None
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18 You "Tell me again about that *muscular type* who came to investigate the crime." Variable["backyard.smoker_mentioned_muscular_types"] == true
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19 You I'm not bringing it up -- let it go.
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20 Smoker on the Balcony "No, I don't think it came up."
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21 Smoker on the Balcony
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22 Smoker on the Balcony Variable["whirling.smoker_whitecheck_composure"]
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23 Smoker on the Balcony (Variable["whirling.smoker_whitecheck_composure"]) == false
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24 Smoker on the Balcony "Oh, yes... let's see. He knocked on my door a few days after the lynching. I think he was going through the entire building, asking questions."
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25 You "Who is he?"
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26 None
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27 None
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28 You "But why do you convene, what do you *do*?"
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29 You "What did he look like?"
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30 None
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31 You "Was he alone?"
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32 You "What about Thursday night?"
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33 You "Besides *muscular*, did he have any other identifying traits?"
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34 You "Why was he staying at your place in the middle of night?"
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35 You "Thanks for the information."
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36 Smoker on the Balcony "The *homo-sexual underground*?" The smoker sits up immediately, his eyes wide with amused surprise; a honeyed smile lingers on his lips.
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37 Smoker on the Balcony "Yes, but he was speaking to someone on his earpiece."
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38 Electrochemistry This *sexual* thing seems interesting... Ask around, become involved.
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39 Smoker on the Balcony "Oh, let me think..." He turns his eyes upward in recollection. "He had an accent. He sounded like one of those mercenaries."
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40 You "Yes, I want to hear more about this *homo-sexual underground* you're part of."
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41 You "What was he saying?"
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42 You "What are you, you two?"
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43 You What is it about the way he carries himself?
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44 Smoker on the Balcony "Just reporting back whatever I was telling him."
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45 Physical Instrument Yes, this man is definitely one of the homos, I've seen them homos with my own eyes.
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46 Smoker on the Balcony "You did?" A small smile adorns his face. "And how did you like him?"
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47 Smoker on the Balcony "He sounded vaguely Oranjese." He closes his eyes. "No, not vaguely, scratch that. He sounded *definitely* Oranjese."
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48 Composure Could he be... a member of the *homo-sexual underground*?
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49 You "Are you... are you part of the *homo-sexual underground*?"
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50 You "What did you tell him?"
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51 You "I met your Sunday friend." Variable["apt.sponsor_greeting_done"] == true
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52 Smoker on the Balcony "Nothing. That I didn't see anything."
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53 None
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54 You "Did you tell him about your friend?"
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55 Smoker on the Balcony
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56 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")
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57 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")) == false
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58 Smoker on the Balcony
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59 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")
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60 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")) == false
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61 Smoker on the Balcony
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62 Smoker on the Balcony Variable["whirling.smoker_main_hub_reached"]
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63 Smoker on the Balcony (Variable["whirling.smoker_main_hub_reached"]) == false
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64 Smoker on the Balcony "I see you've found yourself a little something from my wardrobe." He scans you. "Not bad, not bad at all. What brings you here?"
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65 You "About this hat I'm wearing..." Variable["whirling.smoker_commented_on_clothing"] == true and CheckEquipped("hat_samaran") == true and CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe") == false
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66 You "About this robe I'm wearing..." Variable["whirling.smoker_commented_on_clothing"] == true and CheckEquipped("hat_samaran") == false and CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe") == true
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67 You "About the hat and the robe I'm wearing..." Variable["whirling.smoker_commented_on_clothing"] == true and CheckEquipped("hat_samaran") == true and CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe") == true
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68 Smoker on the Balcony "Hi again, gendarme."
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69 You [Leave.]
70 Smoker on the Balcony
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71 Smoker on the Balcony Variable["whirling.smoker_commented_on_clothing"]
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72 Smoker on the Balcony (Variable["whirling.smoker_commented_on_clothing"]) == false
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73 Smoker on the Balcony
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74 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")
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75 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")) == false
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76 Smoker on the Balcony
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77 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")
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78 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")) == false
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79 None
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80 None
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81 Smoker on the Balcony "Bye-bye, gendarme."
82 Smoker on the Balcony "You can keep it, I don't mind. I can appreciate beauty when I see it."
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83 Composure It's the sports, he's a sports guy, all about that physical prowess and athletic skill... Nothing else here.
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84 None
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85 Smoker on the Balcony "Hmm?" he hums honeyed.
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86 None
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87 Smoker on the Balcony "Why yes I am, officer. Why, do you want to *investigate*?"
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88 Drama He's assuming a role to mock you -- or to entertain himself with your ignorance. Don't fall for it!
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89 You "No, I just wanted to know whether you were one of them."
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90 Smoker on the Balcony "Well, I *am* one of them, one of this *sub-rosa pleasure group* congregating in cellars under the cover of night... Saturday night, sometimes even *Friday* night!"
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91 You "Let's just not talk about this anymore."
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92 Smoker on the Balcony "Why not? Don't you want to hear about how we want to destroy the last vestiges of meaning, the last things people in Revachol have to hold on to, the meaning of man and woman?"
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93 Smoker on the Balcony "Or the true symbols of security, mother and father and their everlasting marriage... *Everything* will be constantly shifting and moving under our rule, the future will belong to a *circus* of identities, just spinning around, surreal and unreal..."
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94 Smoker on the Balcony "You won't even know who you are anymore."
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95 None
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96 You "But I like knowing who I am."
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97 You "Does it have anything to do with disco?"
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98 You "Other questions, I had other questions, really!" (Try to back off.)
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99 Smoker on the Balcony The smoker starts laughing and leans back against the counter: "Sure thing, officer, what do you want to know next?"
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100 None
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101 Smoker on the Balcony "Yes, we listen to a lot of disco. Some say we *engineered* disco to spread our vision of a vertiginous, ever-changing society, where all there is a razzle-dazzle of gold!"
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102 Smoker on the Balcony "We are going to *change* the family unit with all this razzamatazz and finger-dancing," he wiggles his hands, "and with mysteries, of course, the mysteries are also of sexual nature, very esoteric."
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103 None
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104 You "I do like disco, maybe I should get into it?"
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105 You "No, this is not me."
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106 Smoker on the Balcony "You can't just get into it, you have to be born into it -- one is either already *in* the homo-sexual movement or forever excluded from it."
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107 You "What if I can't remember whether I'm in or not? What if I can't remember anything about my life -- aside from the fact that I like disco?"
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108 You "Okay, then I'm definitely not in."
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109 Smoker on the Balcony "Beautiful!" The smoker crawls up to you like an animal preparing to jump. "Beautiful, that's exactly what we're looking for! Who knows, maybe you *were* homo-sexual in the past, maybe all of that has been *repressed*..." He circles his hands around you.
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110 Smoker on the Balcony "I have to say that you do look like someone who might be part of *the underground*. You have that very distinctive 'I-can't-understand-what's-going-on-here' look."
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111 None
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112 Smoker on the Balcony "But do you also like the *razzle-dazzle* of gold? Do you like parties and discos and having fun under the vibrant lights of Saturday night?"
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113 Smoker on the Balcony "Because instead of the traditional family unit we're going to have all this *razzamatazz*," he wiggles his hands, "and mysteries, of course, too -- mysteries of *sexual* nature, very esoteric. And disco music and drugs."
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114 You "That much fun should be illegal."
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115 You "You're here!"
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116 Smoker on the Balcony "Hi-hi. So what brings you here?"
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117 Smoker on the Balcony "Hello-hello. So what brings you here?"
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118 Smoker on the Balcony "I am. So are you. What brings you here?"
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119 You "What are you doing here?"
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120 Smoker on the Balcony
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121 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")
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122 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")) == false
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123 Smoker on the Balcony
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124 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")
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125 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")) == false
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126 None
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127 Smoker on the Balcony
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128 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")
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129 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("hat_samaran")) == false
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130 Smoker on the Balcony
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131 Smoker on the Balcony CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")
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132 Smoker on the Balcony (CheckEquipped("jacket_kimono_robe")) == false
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133 None
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134 Smoker on the Balcony "Ah... But for the better part of history it *has been* illegal."
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135 You "Okay..." (Blink.) "Okay, I have to think about it."
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136 Smoker on the Balcony "Absolutely *wonderful*."
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137 None
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138 You "But it isn't anymore?"
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139 Smoker on the Balcony "Admiring the atmosphere..." He smiles. "What about you, officer?"
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140 You "I live here, my room is right upstairs."
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141 You "I'm here to drink myself into oblivion." Variable["TASK.get_a_drink_done"] == true
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142 You "This is where I'm going to go down in history: I'm going to sing karaoke." IsTaskActive("TASK.sing_karaoke")--[[ Variable[ ]]
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143 You "I'm here to kick some ass and solve the case I'm working on."
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144 Smoker on the Balcony "Convenient," he nods. "But what are you doing *here*, talking to me?"
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145 You "Thanks. It's like carrying a piece of you with me at all times."
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146 You "I wasn't really planning on giving it back anyway."
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147 You "I took it to blend in. I'm undercover, you see?"
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148 Smoker on the Balcony "Is it now?" He starts laughing. "Well, enjoy it."
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149 Smoker on the Balcony "Blend in where?" He raises his brows. "A carneval?"
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150 You "You were right, he was magical. Magically bureaucratic."
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151 You "I didn't like him as much as I like you."
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152 You "I didn't. He's a government official. I don't trust governments."
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153 Smoker on the Balcony "Aw, shoot." He bursts out laughing. "Why not?"
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154 Smoker on the Balcony "I told you, he can be very useful. I guess that's the charm of powerful people."
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155 None
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156 You "I don't want to talk about other people, I want to talk about you."
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157 Smoker on the Balcony "Hmm?" He hums. "What about me, gendarme?"
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158 Smoker on the Balcony "A visitor from the first world. He's not like you and me, gendarme." He smiles and his smile seems melancholic. "He can always return."
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159 Smoker on the Balcony "Friends, I told you. Sunday friends. Friends who like to get together from time to time."
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160 Smoker on the Balcony "He has keys. And he likes the view..." He waves gently with his cigarette-holding hand. "To the sea, I mean."
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161 Smoker on the Balcony "How cunning." He raises his brows and you're not sure whether he's mocking you or not. "I like men who take what they want."
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162 None
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163 Smoker on the Balcony "Really?" He straightens up, curious. "Well, I look forward to that!" He raises a glass to you.
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164 You "What does it mean -- a Sunday friend?"
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165 Smoker on the Balcony He sighs: "That he won't be there when times get tough, I guess."
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166 You "Is that even a friend?"
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167 Smoker on the Balcony "It is -- on Sundays." He smiles.
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168 None
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169 None
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170 None
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171 You "Return where?"
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172 Smoker on the Balcony "To his opportunities in Occident, Sur-la-Clef. Still..." He breathes in and keeps his lungs filled for a moment, before letting it out. "His coming and going brings some life to the village."
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173 Smoker on the Balcony "Or is it just money, I don't know..." He stares at the bar.
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174 None
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175 You "His earpiece?"
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176 Smoker on the Balcony "Yes, you know those tiny speaker-microphones that fancy security guards sometimes wear."
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177 You "And he believed you?"
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178 Smoker on the Balcony "Why shouldn't he?"
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179 Smoker on the Balcony "A bit too dramatic, don't you think?" He says it like it's an aesthetic question. "If you really must do it then I'd go with something else... some other substance."
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180 Smoker on the Balcony "Well, here's to you!" He raises a glass, before taking a sip of his drink, froth grazing his mouth.
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181 Smoker on the Balcony "But then again -- you're a cop, it definitely fits the genre." He looks at his hands folded on a table. "*I* fit the genre, we all do... moulded by fiction like we're characters in some bad novella."
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182 You "I don't know what I'm doing here. I just go wherever life takes me."
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183 None
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184 None
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185 None
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186 Smoker on the Balcony "Human psychology is definitely lazy, don't you think?"
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187 Smoker on the Balcony "Hmm... maybe you should figure it out, detective."
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188 Smoker on the Balcony "No." He studies you from across the table.
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189 You "This is gonna be, like, a twenty hour mind-project for me. Twenty hours at least."
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190 Smoker on the Balcony "Do think about it, officer." He starts laughing and leans back against the counter.
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191 Conceptualization A man like you can figure out his sexuality in a working day. It won't be twenty hours unless you want to enter the heightened realms of the *fantasme érotique* afterwards. Then it may be twenty hours *or more*! But that would be on your own time.
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192 You "I need to talk with your Sunday friend again, it's about committee business." Variable["apt.sponsor_greeting_done"] == true and IsTaskActive("TASK.ask_smoker_about_sunday_friend") and DayCount() > Variable["apt.smoker_second_departure"] and Variable["TASK.visit_the_smoker_on_the_balcony_done"]
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193 Smoker on the Balcony "Oh, a *committee*." He smiles. "How interesting..."
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194 Smoker on the Balcony
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195 Smoker on the Balcony Variable["apt.sunday_accused_friend"]
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196 Smoker on the Balcony (Variable["apt.sunday_accused_friend"]) == false
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197 Smoker on the Balcony "There's only one problem: I don't think he wants to talk with *you*."
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198 Smoker on the Balcony He takes a measured drag of his cigarette. "And if I may ask, gendarme, what is this *committee* about?"
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199 Volition There's only one way through this. You're going to have to apologise...
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200 Smoker on the Balcony
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201 Smoker on the Balcony Variable["whirling.smoker_volition_apologise"]
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202 Smoker on the Balcony (Variable["whirling.smoker_volition_apologise"]) == false
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203 Smoker on the Balcony
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204 Smoker on the Balcony IsTHCPresent("sorry_cop")
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205 Smoker on the Balcony (IsTHCPresent("sorry_cop")) == false
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206 Volition Fortunately, saying sorry is practically second-nature for you.
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207 Authority Never. You're no sorry cop. *He* should apologise to *you*.
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208 None
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209 You "Maybe you could intercede on my behalf?"
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210 You "Then I guess I should apologise for that little *misunderstanding* in the apartments."
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211 You "You can tell him I'm prepared to accept his apology anytime." Variable["whirling.smoker_authority_not_sorry"] == true
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212 Smoker on the Balcony "No." He exhales a grey trail of smoke. "I don't think I will. This is between the two of you, you see."
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213 Smoker on the Balcony "Yes." He nods. "I think that would be prudent..."
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214 Smoker on the Balcony A bemused expression. "Oh, I don't think *you* should be expecting an apology from *him*."
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215 Smoker on the Balcony "In any case, I would *love* to help, but the thing is, I don't know *where* he is. We don't talk about everything, you see..." He gently taps the end of his cigarette with his forefinger.
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216 Smoker on the Balcony "He might have mentioned something about making a tour of some historical sites up the coast... in an unofficial capacity, of course."
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217 None
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218 Smoker on the Balcony
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219 Smoker on the Balcony Variable["canal.know_water_lock_time"] == true and Variable["canal.know_water_lock_fixed"] == true
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220 Smoker on the Balcony (Variable["canal.know_water_lock_time"] == true and Variable["canal.know_water_lock_fixed"] == true) == false
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221 You "Do you know when he'll be back?"
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222 You "I guess I'll have to look for him along the coast."
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223 You "How did he get over the water lock? I thought it was impassable?"
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224 Smoker on the Balcony "Not a clue. I'm not his agenda keeper, you see."
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225 Smoker on the Balcony "I guess you will." He tips his head ever so slightly toward you.
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226 Smoker on the Balcony He shrugs. "He has his ways. I don't need to know every detail of his life."
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227 None
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228 Authority Then you have nothing more to say here.
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229 Empathy Don't be foolish. There's greater things at stake here than your pride.
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230 You "Okay, fine. *I'm* the one who should apologise."
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231 You "Then he and I have nothing more to discuss."
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232 Smoker on the Balcony "Oh, he'll be *devastated* to hear that, I'm sure..." He smiles.
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233 None
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234 Drama He doesn't care one way or another. For him, it's all one entertaining chamber play.
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235 Smoker on the Balcony
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236 Smoker on the Balcony IsKimHere()
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237 Smoker on the Balcony (IsKimHere()) == false
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238 Kim Kitsuragi "What, you're going to blow a lead, just like that?" The lieutenant gives you an incredulous look.
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239 Kim Kitsuragi "I'm not sure if you've noticed, but Martinaise isn't exactly crawling with Coalition representatives. You're going to have to look for someone else now."
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240 Empathy What are you doing, Harry? You better hope there's someone else around who can help you get in touch with the Coalition...
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241 Smoker on the Balcony "In any event, good luck with whatever it is you're up to."
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242 None
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243 Rhetoric He's all bemused skepticism. He doesn't *actually* care what you want with his friend.
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244 You "I'm not really sure, I'm just trying to reach a higher authority."
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245 You "It's about assigning la responsabilité."
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246 You "I'm really not at liberty to say."
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247 Smoker on the Balcony "Sounds like a bore, frankly." He takes a drag of his cigarette. "All the fun stuff's down here..."
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248 Smoker on the Balcony "God, of *course* it is. My friend is always trying to convince me I need a little more responsibility..."
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249 Smoker on the Balcony "Oh, a big *secret* committee. I understand perfectly..." His mouth forms a half smile.
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250 Smoker on the Balcony "As though I don't have enough going on already."
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251 None
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