DEVELOPER ACCESS

Playtest mode

Enter the playtest password. Selecting a checkpoint replaces the current local save.

Password

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Barry's dim room at the Aster Hotel

Mara BellAster Hotel proprietor

Elias WardDetective Sergeant

Maeve CalderTalk · Buy whiskey

Edwin VossTalk · Buy supplies

Orson VeyProprietor · Buy or sell

Tomas “Moss” MosleyAster Hotel cook · Meals

BLACKWATER PIERFIRST TO THE END

Solomon racing on his bicycle

Laika chasing the bicycles

NEW QUEST

ASTER HOTEL · ROOM 204BARRY'S ROOM

PRIMARY · CURRENT WORKGet yourself together.Find your case notes and head downstairs.

NEW OBJECTIVE

WASDMoveEInteractPCharacterCCasebookIInventory

BEFORE MORNING · BELOW THE WATERLINE

Day 1MiddayRested

CURRENT WORKSurveillance

Nerve 4 Insight 3

Health 100

Alcohol18%

Nicotine26%

Volume 60%

INNER CHORUS

UNDERTOW

The rain knows something. It keeps tapping the same confession against the stones.

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NARRATOR

Check modifiers and consequences

Photograph being examined

TURN-BASED ENCOUNTER

Trouble in the alley

Barry's turn

Felix Crowe, ready to fight

FELIX CROWE64 / 64

VS

Barry Straszynski, ready to fight

BARRY STRASZYNSKI100 / 100

ACTION POINTS 3 / 3AMMUNITION 12

BARRY STRASZYNSKI · PERSONAL EFFECTS

Inventory

CASH ON HAND $52

Select an item to examine it. Consumables can be used from the detail panel. Press I or Escape to close.

BARRY STRASZYNSKI · PROVISIONAL CHARACTER DATA

Character

Attributes

Check traits

Resources

Active effects

Inner Chorus

Select a voice to trace its connections. Awakening follows the story; prominence follows current condition.

Solid highlight: primary connection. Dashed highlight: secondary connection. Connections shape contributions, not check bonuses or truth. Temporary effects respect stat limits; coffee and cigarettes share their focus and nerve bonus.

B. Straszyński · Field notebook

Surveillance

Case notes

Keep in mind

Two threads to keep in view while the rest wait in the book.

First threadSecond thread

Glass Harbor / Private inquiries

A CERTAIN KIND OF DROWNING

The Missing Tide

v0.23.93 · build 20261030lobby1

A private investigator, a vanished harbor clerk, and a sea that remembers too much.

Audio Enable voices Music 100% Sound effects 100% Voices 100%

Overwrite the current save?Barry’s present progress will be replaced.