Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (1996)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (1996)
Plot
Style
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Openings
[START SCENE — CAFÉ DE LA CHANDELLE VERTE — Exterior, midday after the blast]
You stand in a drift of glass needles and paper ash. Heat breathes from the torn awning, lifting it in tired sighs. The café’s façade is pocked and blackened; the CAFÉ DOORWAY exhales flour-sweet smoke and the metallic tang of burned coffee. A toppled SHATTERED TABLE bleeds wine into the gutter, thread-thin streams running ruby under grit. The brass MANHOLE COVER sits fractionally proud of the cobbles, haloed by soot, a round mouth waiting. Police CORDON TAPE trembles between iron stanchions. By a leaning LAMPPOST, a wind-creased NEWSPAPER slaps and flutters, a corner stuck to damp stone, its racing page folded like a secret.
INSPECTOR ROSSO watches from the shade with a notebook folded to a knife-edge; the pen does not move. SERGEANT MOUE holds the line, boots planted, cap stiff, eyes flicking from you to the wrecked doorway. Fine GLASS SHARDS tick against stone as a breeze slips down the street. Somewhere below, water knocks once in an iron throat and goes still.
Hotspots: ROSSO, MOUE, CAFÉ DOORWAY, MANHOLE COVER, SHATTERED TABLE, GLASS SHARDS, CORDON TAPE, LAMPPOST, NEWSPAPER. Exits: [STREET].
Take Newspaper
You crouch by the LAMPPOST. The wind slaps the NEWSPAPER against wet stone; you pinch a corner free. Ink dusts your fingers; the page rattles once, then folds obediently. You pocket it.
Inventory: [NEWSPAPER]
Options (choose one):
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TALK to ROSSO (introduce yourself).
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Ask MOUE to let you enter the CAFÉ DOORWAY.
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LOOK MANHOLE COVER.
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LOOK CAFÉ DOORWAY.
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MOVE to [STREET].
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LOOK (inventory) NEWSPAPER.
Talk MOUE
You step to MOUE. The cordon tape lifts and snaps in the wind; he squares his shoulders, one palm raised.
MOUE: “Stop there, monsieur. Police matter. Do not cross the tape.”
MOUE: “Inspector ROSSO is in charge—you will speak with him.”
MOUE: “No, you may not enter the CAFÉ. The scene is unsecured.”
MOUE: “If you witnessed anything, give your statement—briefly.”
Options (choose one):
1. Ask MOUE to let you enter the CAFÉ DOORWAY.
2. Ask MOUE who’s in charge / where to find ROSSO.
3. Ask MOUE if anyone was hurt in the blast.
4. LOOK MANHOLE COVER.
5. TALK to ROSSO (introduce yourself).
6. MOVE to [STREET].
2
MOUE jerks his chin toward the shade where ROSSO waits, pen poised.
MOUE: “Inspector ROSSO. He directs the inquiry.”
MOUE: “You will speak with him, not with me.”
MOUE: “And you will not cross the CORDON TAPE.”
Options (choose one):
1. TALK to ROSSO (introduce yourself).
2. Ask MOUE to let you enter the CAFÉ DOORWAY.
3. Ask MOUE if anyone was hurt in the blast.
4. LOOK MANHOLE COVER.
5. LOOK CAFÉ DOORWAY.
6. MOVE to [STREET].
3
MOUE’s jaw tightens; his gaze flicks to the CAFÉ DOORWAY and back.
MOUE: “One fatality. Inside.”
MOUE: “Identity to be confirmed by ROSSO.”
MOUE: “Do not cross the CORDON TAPE.”
Options (choose one):
1. TALK to ROSSO (introduce yourself).
2. Ask MOUE to let you enter the CAFÉ DOORWAY.
3. LOOK MANHOLE COVER.
4. LOOK CAFÉ DOORWAY.
5. MOVE to [STREET].