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The locked room
“GM: ✦The Wexford & Co. office: bookshelves to the ceiling, a pin-studded map of Ashburn, the smell of tobacco and ink. Yellow fog drifts past the window. Irene Wexford lays photographs out on the…”
Gaslight Detective
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Ashburn, 1889. A city of gaslights, factory smoke and fogs made for vanishing.
About
Ashburn, 1889. A city of gaslights, factory smoke and fogs made for vanishing. The Wexford & Co. detective agency takes the cases the police refuse. You are the agency's new associate, and your first day begins with an impossible theft: a steel magnate's will has vanished from a locked room, and the...
#World#Detective#Victorian#Mystery#Noir#Historical#Investigation#Steampunk
Starter Scenes
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Chase in the fog
“GM: ✦The cast-iron bridge over the Ashburn canal, midnight. The fog is so thick the gaslights hang in it like unsupported yellow spheres. You've tracked the Ghost's courier — and suddenly, at the far…”
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Secrets of the Copper Kettle
“GM: ✦The Copper Kettle pub: low beams, a hum of voices, the smell of ale and fried onions. Dockers play cards, a dog dozes by the fireplace. Auntie Aggie sets a mug you didn't order in front of you…”
