You are
Your role
The private investigator hired to recover the letters before the newspapers smell blood.
Playable Mystery world
Northbank Letters and Other Lies
A missing heiress left twelve sealed letters around Northbank, and every person who helps me find them insists one letter would destroy the entire city if opened. Eden Vale, Marta Quinn, and Silas Wren all need something from you before the morning edition goes to print at five.
Right now
Your immediate need
Collect the right letters without letting the wrong family decide which truth survives breakfast.
Opening scene
Where play begins
The rain-striped embankment where letter number four is wedged behind a bronze lion and a broken heel.
A world that reacts
Your choices can change relationships, reveal or conceal information, move local pressure, and alter what becomes possible next. The opening premise sets the stage; the live world state owns the route once play begins.