text: [Themes: hollywood]
  
  > Look around
  This is your life. Funny job, when you think about it. One one hand you can see it as a shameless intrusion into people's private lives. You hide to take photos, always get second-hand information, spread some more information, spread the rumor. In the public field, your job is really not well perceived.
  
  But on the other hand, in the private field, it's very differently perceived. The moral instinct of every man and woman is to criticize gossip columns, but their social, gregarious instinct reads them with much interest. You understood quite quickly this duality. The celebrities themselves are subjected to the same duality: they openly say that they are against this press, the paparazzis and their incursions in their private life; but when you dig a little deeper, you find out that a substantial part of the information you're dealing with is provided by the celebrities themselves, and a lot of rumors were invented and spread by these little perfect smiling people. Gossip magazines are, for them, a way to harm a rival, to make people talk about them, to appear kind and sympathetic and closer to the average person because they go to the grocer just like them. You sometimes wonder if the journalists themselves aren't the most lucid people in this world.
  
  But, had "Tittle-Tattle Kettle" been a simple, tasteless gossip magazine, you'd never have taken the job. But one of this magazine's assets is Sammy: he's the man who gave this so peculiar tone to the magazine, and finally who gave his magazine bigger prospects than being just another gutter magazine. You respect him for that, and so do many people. Of course, the magazine can't avoid writing dull articles whose sole purpose is to fill the pages of the next issue; but the magazine is keen to show that it's different, by precisely, and in a clear-headed way, analyzing information, and explaining what it really means. Tracking a shameless rumor to reveal its creator, analyzing a sentence said by a star to show the true intent, showing symbols and ideologies used in an advertising campaign... TTK's style is sharp and powerful, and appears more as a shepherd than as a sheep following the flock.
  
  You're okay with that. At the beginning you took the job to pay the bills, but you gradually perceived the magazine's appeal, and what you could do in your articles. You discovered the complexity of social interactions between celebrities, in this world so elitist and yet so childish. You improved your understanding of communication campaigns. You learnt to be clear-headed. And slowly, year after year, you became one of the most competent reporters at the magazine; you witnessed your popularity rising, and your articles being more and more noticed, quoted, your arguments used elsewhere, and your influence as a journalist growing. You really like feeling that. You think about keeping this job another few years, and then changing your operating field to a more respectable press, where you'd make yourself noticed by everyone.
  
  For now, you have to go to the editorial office: Sammy left you a message saying to meet him there.
  
  This is your little flat with two rooms, downtown. Rather functional and bright, you really like it. In the sitting-room, there's a table, a few chairs, and a sofa: that's where you usually work. The kitchen is westwards, and your bedroom and the bathroom are eastwards.
  
  > go outside
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  Select a destination:
  
  > Flat
  Editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle"
  Downtown shops
  Back
  
  > Go north
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  > Editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle"
  Downtown shops
  Back
  In front of the paper's building
  In this building, to the north, there's the editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle", at the sixteenth floor, but you still can go somewhere else by heading to the south.
  
  In this building, to the north, there's the editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle", at the sixteenth floor, but you still can go somewhere else by heading to the south.
  
  > go north
  Editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle"
  "Tittle-Tattle Kettle, your teatime's long-brewed, boiling gossip!" You always thought this motto was a little bit silly, but it's quite original after all; it didn't stop this magazine to grow. In fact, sales are good, and the paper shows its difference from its rivals with a certain sense of ethics and reflexion - it still is a gossip magazine, but let's say that you take advantage of a higher status than your rivals. The editorial office is at the sixteenth floor of the building. Westwards, the window gives you a great view of the city; near it there's the coffee dispenser and metal tables. Eastwards, it's Sammy's office; your office is somewhere to the north, and if you want to leave there's an elevator at the south.
  
  Sammy is here.
  
  > talk to Sammy
  "What's going on, Sammy?"
  "Here you are!I just learned that a cocktail party is being organised tonight on Thunder Hill... a very select party, exclusively for celebrities..."
  "No journalists?"
  "Well, that's the moment where the magazine's reputation is useful. They called me a few minutes ago, and told me that only one journalist may come there: the one from TTK. You see, it seems that those people don't like gossip magazines, but they've got some things to say these days... Choosing our magazine appears as a lesser evil - I must say I'm glad..." he says with evident satisfaction.
  "Does that mean I'm going to this party?"
  "Precisely. Collect as much information as you can, I think that they've got things to say if they want a journalist at their party..."
  
  This is good news, but you don't really have an evening gown ready for tonight...
  Sammy looks at you with a questioning look. "I'll do it, boss" you tell him. You'll find an evening gown before tonight...
  
  > Go south
  In this building, to the north, there's the editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle", at the sixteenth floor, but you still can go somewhere else by heading to the south.
  
  > go south
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  RETURN = read subject  Q = resume game
  
  Select a destination:
  
  > Flat
  Editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle"
  Downtown shops
  Thunder Hill
  Back
  
  > go north
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  Select a destination:
  
  > Editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle"
  Downtown shops
  Thunder Hill
  Back
  
  > go north
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  RETURN = read subject  Q = resume game
  
  Select a destination:
  
  Editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle"
  > Downtown shops
  Thunder Hill
  Back
  Downtown shops
  You admit that you like to go shopping. For clothes, you've got your favorite address: a shop that often sells things you like. You often come here; some of the sales assistants ended up knowing your name. In fact there's Samantha behind the desk, and she smiles at you. You can exit to the south.
  
  You admit that you like to go shopping. For clothes, you've got your favorite address: a shop that often sells things you like. You often come here; some of the sales assistants ended up knowing your name. In fact there's Samantha behind the desk, and she smiles at you. You can exit to the south.
  
  > talk to the sam
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  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > haute couture evening dress
  sexy evening dress
  black evening dress
  flower-printed dress
  (back)
  
  > Go north
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  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > sexy evening dress
  black evening dress
  flower-printed dress
  (back)
  
  > Go north
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  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > black evening dress
  flower-printed dress
  (back)
  You buy the black evening dress.
  
  [ Like every of the clothes you'll buy, this piece of clothing doesn't appear in your inventory, and will be in your cupboard next time you'll want to wear it. ]
  
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  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > haute couture evening dress
  sexy evening dress
  flower-printed dress
  (back)
  No, it's far too expensive ! You'd better choose a more affordable dress.
  
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  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > haute couture evening dress
  sexy evening dress
  flower-printed dress
  (back)
  
  > Go north
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  RETURN = read subject  Q = resume game
  
  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > sexy evening dress
  flower-printed dress
  (back)
  You buy the sexy evening dress.
  
  N = next subjectP = previous
  RETURN = read subject  Q = resume game
  
  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > haute couture evening dress
  flower-printed dress
  (back)
  
  > Go north
  N = next subjectP = previous
  RETURN = read subject  Q = resume game
  
  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > flower-printed dress
  (back)
  You buy the flower-printed dress.
  
  N = next subjectP = previous
  RETURN = read subject  Q = resume game
  
  Select clothes to buy them:
  
  > haute couture evening dress
  (back)
  
  > Go south
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  Select a destination:
  
  > Flat
  Editorial office of "Tittle-Tattle Kettle"
  Downtown shops
  Thunder Hill
  Back
  Your flat
  This is your little flat with two rooms, downtown. Rather functional and bright, you really like it. In the sitting-room, there's a table, a few chairs, and a sofa: that's where you usually work. The kitchen is westwards, and your bedroom and the bathroom are eastwards.
  
  This is your little flat with two rooms, downtown. Rather functional and bright, you really like it. In the sitting-room, there's a table, a few chairs, and a sofa: that's where you usually work. The kitchen is westwards, and your bedroom and the bathroom are eastwards.
  
  > Go east
  Your bedroom's furniture are essentially your king-size bed and your bedside table. In a corner of the room, near the window, there's a cupboard with your clothes. The bathroom is to the south, your sitting-room to the west.
  
  > press the space
  Among the clothes you own, there are a few you'd like to wear today...
  
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  What will you wear today?
  
  > flower-printed dress
  sexy evening dress
  black evening dress
  red checked shirt
  (back)
  
  > Go north
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  What will you wear today?
  
  > sexy evening dress
  black evening dress
  red checked shirt
  (back)
  
  > go north
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  What will you wear today?
  
  > black evening dress
  red checked shirt
  (back)
  You put on the black evening dress.
  
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  What will you wear today?
  
  > white blouse
  flower-printed dress
  sexy evening dress
  red checked shirt
  (back)
  
  > About yourself
  You're tall, red-headed, quite thin, and pretty, or so they say; you're a perfectly normal twenty-six-year old young woman. A reporter for the "Tittle-Tattle Kettle" for a few years now, you're known to be tenacious, frank and clear-headed. You'd agree with that.
  You're wearing a black evening dress. It's a simple yet elegant dress.