// CASE ARCHIVE · STORY MODE
CONTRACTS
A mystery told one job at a time. Every contract is a case file — and every case file is a question you didn't know to ask.
Hand-built chapters. Deterministic maps. A conspiracy that runs deeper than any one Mark. Pull a file to read the hook — the rest, you earn on the roof.
MORROW CITY · WESTVIEW DISTRICT · 1991
09 CONTRACTS · ONE MAP · ONE TEACHER
SIGNAL ACQUIRED · MANIFEST DECRYPTING
CHAPTER 2 IS COMING IN.
The next chapter's manifest is being pulled off the wire. Titles, targets, and the map are still encrypted. Wishlist to get the drop the moment it clears.
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CHAPTER 3 — [SEALED]
This file does not exist yet. When it does, you will not be told. You will simply find a new voice on the radio.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION · CONTRACTORS ONLY
▸ INFORMANT FILES
THE PEOPLE ON THE WIRE
MENTOR
THE TEACHER
Lives in a condemned movie theater full of wind-up clocks. Presses a dried flower for every kill. Teaches you everything and tells you nothing.
"I name my students for birds. You're a Sparrow. Small. Grey. Nobody remembers a sparrow."
NO IMAGE ON FILE
VOICE ONLY
PIRATE SIGNAL
VOICE ONLY
IRIS
Runs a pirate radio out of nowhere the city can find. Hijacks your scanner mid-job to tell you what the file left out.
"They gave you a frequency to obey. I'm the one you weren't supposed to hear."
[ CONNECTION — TEXT ONLY ]
SPEECH SYNTHESIS
BROKER · BBS
SPEECH SYNTHESIS
THE OPERATOR
Hands out contracts through a 1991 BBS terminal in a machine voice that never rises. Never asks how it went. The banality is the horror.
"CONTRACT ON FILE. REWARD ON COMPLETION. HAVE A PLEASANT EVENING."
▸ RECURRING · UNEXPLAINED
THE THINGS THAT KEEP SHOWING UP
You'll notice them before you understand them. That's the point.
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THE CLOCKS
Wound to the same minute. Nobody sets them.
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THE PRESSED FLOWER
One per kill. He never says whose.
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THE GOLD DISC
It keeps turning up in the wrong pockets.
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THE STATIC
Between stations. It almost forms a voice.
Every answer is two more questions.