DEVELOPER ACCESS

Playtest mode

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

Password

Choose a coherent baseline checkpoint:

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 1Midday

CURRENT WORKSurveillance

v0.23.32 · build 20261007ad

Nerve 4 Insight 3

Health 100

Volume 60%

Alcohol18%

Nicotine26%

INNER CHORUS

UNDERTOW

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

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NARRATOR

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

Resources

Inner Chorus

Values and scales are placeholders until progression and balancing are defined.

CASEBOOK · CURRENT WORK

Surveillance

Find Barry's case notes in Room 204.

Track quests

Choose which objectives appear on screen. You can follow two quests at once.

Primary questSecondary quest

Notes

A CERTAIN KIND OF DROWNING

The Missing Tide

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

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