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.
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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
