Crescent City — 1947
A noir interactive fiction. You are Vera Saint-Claire — private detective, former cop, tarot practitioner. Six cases. One conspiracy. A city that will never be clean.
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Investigative Method
No mysticism. Vera uses the cards as a symbolic pattern-recognition tool. The deck reveals what witnesses are hiding, not what fate has planned.
Volume 0 is free. Volume 1 — five interlocked murders, one secret society, and a city that will never be clean — is $6 Early Access.
Every path through a case reveals different truths. The Rashomon effect is the point. What you learn depends entirely on how you think.
Crescent City — 1947
Vera Saint-Claire
Private Investigator
Former CCPD. Uses her grandmother's tarot as a pattern-recognition tool.
Vivian Delacroix
Jazz Singer
Blue Moon Lounge. Dies on stage. The Empress reversed. Case 1.
Constance Whitmore
Society Matriarch
The Heights. Gilded Circle founder. Invites Vera to die. Case 5.
Diamond Jack Marconi
Information Broker
Silk Row. Knows everyone's secrets. Sells what he knows.
Madame Zara
Spiritualist
Dies mid-séance. Lips blue, hands on the cards. Case 3.
Sgt. Morris
CCPD Sergeant
Iron District. Still believes in the law. Mostly.
Dr. Helena Price
City Forensics
Reads bodies like Vera reads cards. The morgue keeps secrets.
“The cards don't see the future. They see patterns. Same thing people miss when they're looking straight at the truth.”— Vera Saint-Claire // Arcana Investigations
The Investigation
Volume 0 — Prequel — 1946
Your mother was poisoned when you were nine. The man responsible became your mentor. Now Marcus Webb is in a cell — and the truth is finally within reach, if you're willing to burn everything he gave you.
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Volume 1 — Early Access — 1947
Five members of a secret society — killed one by one. The Gilded Circle built this city on blackmail and blood. Someone is accelerating the process. Every card tells a lie.
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