A Voss and Pike Casefile: The Early Days

Everything in Its Place

A sociology Noir file on social order, social control and social change. A canning-works owner is found dead at the foot of his own back stairs and the town has four explanations. None of them explains the stairs.

How to play

You are Dr Ada Voss, a few weeks into running your own agency, with a sharp eighteen-year-old called Jonah Pike a few weeks into his first proper job. This case sits after Problems, Problems and before Curtain Call at the Lantern. Each page is one numbered scene. Read it, then choose. Every choice takes you to a different page, and you never see what is on the pages you did not choose. Play honestly: the story only works if you follow your choices.

Begin at section 1