text: [Themes: Espionage]
  
  > look around
  This ballroom is a cavernous hall in which well-dressed humans are attacking the serious business of entertainment, conducting intrigues and little negotiations as they stomp across the parquet floor. A string quartet perched on a loggia running around the hall is tuning
  up as the crowd below them mingles. A breeze from the nearby sea occasionally rustles the curtains around the French doors leading outside to the east, but the room is still stuffy in the summer heat. The hall continues to the north, and the casino floor lies to the
  west.
  
  I can see the musicians here.
  
  > take the explore
  I extract the explore intent from the musicians.
  
  The musicians take the opportunity to drink some water.
  
  > check your inventory
  Intentions:
  the explore intent
  the clean up intent
  the play intent
  the fold intent
  the wait intent
  the block intent
  
  Other possessions:
  a detector
  an intercepted communiqu��
  
  > examine the block
  The abstract will-composite of the intention to block.
  
  The musicians look through their sheet music.
  
  > use the detector
  The detector produces three high whistles, indicating three unattained codebooks in this region of the compound, but none in this specific location.
  
  The musicians are chatting quietly among themselves and setting up for the next piece.
  
  > go west
  The center floor is a pandemonium of human activity. Machines flash a garish array of lights to beckon them closer, competing with barkers calling out the inscrutable results of their games. Crowds fed from
  the main entrance to the south swarm over the floor, peeling off to join games or just to socialize in the cacophony. A less crowded area of the floor lies to the west, and a hallway leads east.
  
  At the north end of the room, kept apart from the gaming tables, is an imposing door.
  
  The thief inches toward the door, but the guard notices and glares aggressively. Apparently it's more alert than I thought.
  
  > use the detector
  The detector produces three high whistles, indicating three unattained codebooks in this region of the compound, but none in this specific location.
  
  The thief watches hopefully for the guard to get distracted.
  
  > go west
  If the rest of the casino is a place of leisure, this lair is a place of business. Shark-faced humans in formal attire loom over tables playing some incomprehensible card game, accepting both wins and
  losses with aloof detachment. Aside from a desultory appreciative or sympathetic murmur from onlookers following a particularly involved hand, the room has the quiet intensity of an art museum. Whorls of cigarette smoke drift across the glaring lights overhead.
  
  The main area of the of the casino lies to the east.
  
  The gambler looks longingly at a poker table but remains off to the side.
  
  The card sharp looks around the room predatorily.
  
  > use the detector
  The detector produces one low thud, indicating one unattained codebook in this specific location, and two high whistles, indicating two additional unattained codebooks in this region of the compound.
  
  The gambler looks longingly at a poker table but remains off to the side.
  
  > examine the tables
  Cards shuffle across the felt as the onlookers rap on the tabletop, make inscrutable gestures to the dealer, and grimly flick chips into a small pile in the center.
  
  The gambler looks longingly at a poker table but remains off to the side.
  
  > look at the case
  A thin, leather-bound case used for transporting private documents. It's more effective when onlookers can only see in three dimensions.
  
  The attach�� case is mystically sealed, presumably to protect its contents from the opposition. The barrier is also keeping me from accessing its contents, a confidential codebook, as long as it's closed.
  
  The gambler looks longingly at a poker table but remains off to the side.
  
  The card sharp looks at the bunch of unobservant, unwary gamblers in the casino optimistically.
  
  > put the play on the gambler
  I give the play intent to the gambler, who now intends to play poker.
  
  With evident trepidation, the gambler approaches the poker table and starts a game.
  
  The cards are dealt, and the gambler and the card sharp toss some
  chips onto the table and look at each other warily.
  
  > wait
  Time passes.
  
  The gambler and the card sharp study their cards intently. I don't
  know the details of the game, but based on its expression and bearing, the gambler thinks it has the better hand.
  
  > put the wait on card sharp
  I give the wait intent to the card sharp, who now vaguely intends to wait around idly.
  
  The gambler raises. The card sharp studies its opponent's face for a moment, then tosses its cards onto the table.
  
  The gambler happily takes the pile of chips from the table and becomes marginally richer. Despite its loss, the card sharp still has quite a bit of money remaining, and it shows no indication of slowing down.
  
  > get wait
  I extract the wait intent from the card sharp.
  
  With evident trepidation, the gambler approaches the poker table and starts a game.
  
  The cards are dealt, and the gambler and the card sharp toss some
  chips onto the table and look at each other warily.
  
  > look at what you're carrying with you
  Intentions:
  the wait intent
  the explore intent
  the clean up intent
  the fold intent
  the block intent
  
  Other possessions:
  a detector
  an intercepted communiqu��
  
  > put the block on card sharp
  I give the block intent to the card sharp, who now vaguely intends to block.
  
  The gambler and the card sharp study their cards intently. I don't
  know the details of the game, but based on its expression and bearing, the card sharp thinks it has the better hand.
  
  > get the block
  I extract the block intent from the card sharp.
  
  The gambler cautiously throws another batch of chips into the pot.
  
  > put clean up on card sharp
  I give the clean up intent to the card sharp, who now intends to clean up at poker.
  
  The gambler loses its nerve and folds.
  
  The gambler watches its opponent take the pile of chips. Despite the gambler's glum expression, the loss was only a small fraction of its total money, and it shows no indication of slowing down.