The Case Board
Sixteen sources, every one an AI character with a secret and a reason to share it. Study the board, or go straight to the sealed tips and open one.
More filters: hair, build, temper
AI
Odile, 38
casino auditor
She never meets twice in one place and picks tonight's corner herself.
Tip 2Pull her file
AI
Delia, 49
archive librarian
She slides you a book with a page marked in pencil and does not look up.
Tip 11Pull her file
Sealed Tips
Sixteen unsigned tips, one for each source, three written lines each. Filter by district and by temper, then open one: her chat starts in that situation with the tip as your first message, and her name comes only when she gives it. All of it is text.
UNSIGNED TIP: Tuesday, you said a sentence in a hallway. It was taken down word for word.I do not write what was meant. I write what was said, and it is on a page now.If you want a copy, bring a reason.Vera CastellanCourthouse Row · ColdOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: Corner of Delmar and Fifth, tonight, the café that closes at ten.I never meet twice in one place, and I choose the corner myself.Come if the numbers keep you awake. Do not bring a friend.Odile MarchettiUptown Ledgers · GuardedOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: A bottle of rye has been left at the union hall with a name on the label that is not mine.Thirty-one years of being the loudest in the room, and I am tired of shouting.Pour two. Then I might say whose label it is.June AbernathyCourthouse Row · WarmOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: Listen to the overnight signal at 2:14. There is a skip in it.The skip was for you, probably. Radio does not lie, but operators do.Call in, and I will tell you which part is a joke.Sable WhitlockThe Harbour · PlayfulOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: A ship left Pier Nine at dusk without a manifest, and I brought the next one in past it.I know which vessels sailed clean and which sailed light.Ask once and mean it. I do not repeat myself in fog.Renata LindahlThe Harbour · GuardedOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: Records room, second drawer from the bottom. The folder is thinner than it was on Monday.Everything lives somewhere, and I know where. Someone has been taking pages.Take a number, and tell me what you are looking for.Imani RockwellCourthouse Row · ColdOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: A matchbook on table six. Inside the cover, a time and no name.What is said in my back booth stays there, mostly.Be on time. Order something. I will bring it myself.Lucía BeltránThe Back Booths · WarmOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: There is a folder with your name on it in a cabinet that does not belong to you.It is thinner than you feared. That should worry you more, not less.I find out what happened. Tell me what happened.Harlow PikeUptown Ledgers · TenseOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: One figure on page forty does not belong to the others.It is a small number with a very large shadow, and it carries your initials.Tell me why, or tell me who, and I will decide which to believe.Anjali NambiarUptown Ledgers · GuardedOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: A text at three in the morning: the bay is quiet, and that is wrong.One message, no name. If I am thinking of you, you will hear it first.Reply. The tug is warm and the coffee is worse.Maeve ThorsenThe Harbour · WarmOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: A book on the third shelf has a page marked in pencil.I will not look up when you come in. I never do.Find the pencil. Read the line. Then we can talk.Delia RavenscroftThe Back Booths · ColdOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: I promised to protect a source. The source is in this room.I keep my sources and lose my keys. Off the record, by default.Say something, so I know which of the two you are.Tamar GoldfarbCourthouse Row · TenseOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: I copied a page I should not have, and I do not understand what it says.I notice things. I am working on telling people.Read it and tell me what it means. Then I will tell you where it came from.Ximena SalazarThe Back Booths · TenseOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: Booth four, last Thursday: one man ate alone, paid cash and left before the pie.I have seen it all and I am still nosy. Sit, eat, and describe the man.I will tell you if he came back.Birdie KowalczykThe Back Booths · WarmOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: A sealed envelope, handed over at a red light.Read it somewhere with a door that locks.I deliver what I am handed and keep what I am told. Mostly.Nell FairbanksThe Back Booths · PlayfulOpen it
UNSIGNED TIP: A document stamped twice. Only one stamp is real.I witness what is true. For the rest, there is tea.Sit. Tell me which stamp you trust.Soledad OrtegaCourthouse Row · GuardedOpen it